Jingle Belles Card 21

Hello ...

Have you had a good day? ... I had a little ray of sunshine in the form of young Ross over to visit today ... he's such a live wire ... and loves nothing better than to sit on my knee having me tell him stories of when my brothers and I were children ... mind you he has a habit of twisting my hair in his fingers when he listens and right now my head is sore Lol!

So once he left to go stay at his grandparents house I decided to make a start on my card for this weeks challenge at Jingle belles Rock ... which has been chosen for us by Amanda Profumo  ... she has given us this wonderful inspiration board from Paper Doll Romance  to work with 

Beautiful isn't it? ... so much to choose from ... which makes my mind go into overdrive ... shall I use cream ... white ... tulle or lace ... crystals or flowers ... decisions decisions ...

I'm not one of those fortunate people who look at something and think immediately " I know exactly what I'll do......."

 No ... I'm more of a ... gather up your colours and let your heart and your hands guide you ... often walking away if it isn't quite coming together and taking a moment to clear my head ....

But I get there in the end ... and this is card 21 ....

A scrap of sparkly purple paper which I've had forever ... a fussy cut image from an old shop bought card ... some tulle ruffled and glued

The felt snowflakes are cut with my Sizzix and glittered and the sentiment is from WaltzingMouse ( Happy 2nd Birthday WaltzingMouse) ....

... and not exactly a sugar plum ... but a little purple bell tied to the gift ...

I know I say it every week but please go see the cards from the girls this week ... gorgeous! 

And you know because of this weekly challenge ... not only will I have a good stack of Christmas cards  come December ... but each and everyone will be different ... 

Have a lovely evening ...

~ Ros ~

Something a little different ...

Hello to you sweet friends ...

before I lead you into a little something different ... I want to say "Thank You" to my sweet blog friend Becks of Midnight Lullabies for this beautiful magazine ... 

A real treat to indulge myself in ...

and for the sweetest little card that came with it ...

I love them Becks!

My friends' husband is also celebrating his birthday next week the day before my brother ... so I needed to come up with another masculine card ... 

Ok ... so your thinking ... this is nothing special ... 

but what if I show you this ...

and a side view ...

Not that I'm sure he will want his face posted on the web ... but I transformed a picture of  my friends' hubby ...  cropped it ... changed it to black and white ... used a grain image feature from photoshop and then printed it onto a piece of canvas (white side) ... then I adhere it to a tiny canvas board ... I then overlaid the tiny canvas with a card frame that I covered in paper first ... and embellished ... this is the back just so you can see ...

and see there is a little magnet on the back? so that this gets attached to the front of the card 

By putting another magnet on the inside of the card itself ...

... the corresponding magnet is will be covered by the insert

... so in effect he has a card with a removable framed photo which can either be put on the wall or maybe a fridge door ...

I don't know what made me come up with this but I'm sure I will be doing more of these ... I just hope he likes it ...

Have yourselves a wonderful weekend ..

Till soon

~ Ros ~

2nd Post ... 2 challenges

I'm in a rush ... got my Thursday group to see to tonight ... but I quickly ... very quickly ... made a card for two challenges ...

WaltzingMouse based on this sketch ...

... not forgetting to use a WM stamp of course ...

And CR84FN based on this colour combination ...

So ok here is my card ... 

both papers are from my scrap pile ...

I also had a little bit of tulle and end piece of ribbon ... But the Prima flower is new ...

Now I don't own that many packs of WM stamps ... but there are quite a lot in one pack and this little one I hadn't used before ... 

It's from the Victorian Frippery set and I stamped it in a line first one way ... then reversed it the other way ... I'm not the most proficient of stampers so I was quite pleased at how this turned out ... more to do with the stamp being so clear than me being clever I think ...

Anyway there you have it ... my card

Got to rush now ... enjoy your evening ...

~ Ros ~

Birthday card and an Angel ...

Hi there

Are you well? I do hope so ... 

it's been a busy week and I don't know where the time goes ...

I have a card to share which I made for my Brothers upcoming birthday  

very blue doncha' think?

And I think I am having the same trouble that Heather had ... my pictures seem to be blurry when I upload them ... which never happened before Blogger went AWOL ...  Hmmm...

I used TH paper backed onto PTI  Ocean Breeze CS with some other striped  paper I had ... but not sure who makes this ....

and I am loving using this canvas I bought a few weeks ago ... the reverse side is printable and I am working on another card using the print side

The little envelope holding the tag ... I had in my stash and the tag ... well it's a tag from some clothing ... I just liked the colour ... and covered some of it in matching paper ... then added a sentiment done on my computer 

I think he likes blue ....

Before I go I want to say a Huge Thank you to a lady called Jak ... A scrapbooker who heard about the Thursday Club and sent me some of her old supplies for us to use ...

I am completely blown away by the amount of stuff she sent me and we are talking beautiful top of the range suppliers here too!  Look at this box ...

and some of the papers ...

Thank you Jak ... you are an Angel ... my group will be delighted!

So sweet blog friends ... if you get the chance to pop over to Jak's blog ... please leave her some love

Enjoy your day and keep safe

~ Ros ~

Stripes and Polka Dots ...

Hello to you ...

This weeks's challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog has been set by sweet Linda Robson

and she has chosen Stripes and Polka dots ... we are asked to use both on our project this week ...

Fabulous picture Linda

Our Guest designer is the very talented Viola Mahr all the way from Singapore who many of you already know ... as she designs wonderful blog headers including City Crafter's ... she also has her own blog and makes the most beautiful cards too ... you can visit her Here  ... and you really need to see the lovely cards she created for our challenge this week along with the creations from the rest of the DT ...

We are also lucky enough to be sponsored by the Ribbon Reel  ... so there is a gorgeous package of goodies on offer ... I have actually bought goods from here and they are lovely ...

On to my card ... my Uncle Terry is going to be 88 next week ... and I made this card for him ... he is the sweetest kindest Uncle in the world and recently he has had to go into a care home so my lovely Aunt has asked that we all send bright and cheerful cards ...

I think this fits the bill ...

I used my new SB banner die and papers from We R Memory Keepers 

... I fussy cut some little birds and a butterfly ... beautiful twine from June

a flower from my stash with a glittered up button and there we are ...

I hope you are going to join us this week .... 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Jingle Belles Card 20

Hi Everyone ...

I hope you have all had a good day ... it's wet and windy here and not too warm either ... I'm hoping things improve a little soon ...

Since we still have Blogger up and running I thought I'd post my card for this weeks challenge at Jingle Belles Rock ... This week we are asked to feature Jolly Old Saint Nicholas and this week there is also a Lucky Day ( Friday 13th) ... when one of the entrants will be chosen to be a guest star ... Lauren and Stef who constitute the 'Belles' in Jingle Belles Rock ... have made lovely cards for us to be inspired by ... just in case anyone is struggling to get into the Christmas mode ... so go have a look ... and if you have never stopped by Stef's blog ... or ... Lauren's blog  .. I highly recommend that you do ... they are so creative and each Thursday Stef has a link list to other blogs that are so inspiring ... well worth visiting ...

So on to my card ... I used another vintage image and framed it with some canvas ... which was actually the negative left from cutting a backing for a previous card Here ... waste not want not ...

The papers are MME (again!) and the twine is from my sweet blog friend June ... I love this stuff but it isn't something that I can get here ...

a couple of little 3D stickers and some pompom trim from my stash and card number 20 is done ...

See my Christmas card box is getting fuller

"Yay!"

Have a lovely evening ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~