HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIRSTY!!!

Hi there!

Today is a Special Day for my sweet blog buddy Kirsty 

"Happy Birthday" my friend ... (betcha thought I'd forgotten) 

Kirsty you are one of the nicest people I know ... I hope you have a wonderful Birthday and enjoy visiting all the people who wanted to celebrate with you

much love sweet friend

~ Ros ~

Pixie Dust Paperie May sketch Challenge

Hi there ...

I hope you are well ... 

I haven't been ignoring you ... I've been having a little trouble with my computer today for some reason ... plus I've been busy trying to get things done for Thursday club tonight ...  

However, I have a LO which I did following Kirsty's sketch at Pixie Dust Paperie

This is a photo of my son when he was about 7 years old ... seems like only yesterday to me ... where does the time go?

How I adore that boy of mine ... just looking at this photo takes me back and my heart still swells with love ...

Of course as I always make a point of saying ... scrapbooking is still an ongoing learning process to me ... so it's wonderful to have a sketch to follow 

And a little peek at something we will be putting together tonight ...

A cork board hanger for a pad of sticky notes and a coaster 

I have punched over 200 butterflies ... cut out 25 circles from sticky back cork ... 25 paper circles

25 square cork boards .. 25 pieces of cardboard to stick the cork too .. and sorted an array of bits and pieces for them to decorate with ... not to mention gathering 25 CD' for them to make the coasters with ... now I need to find some animals for Andrew ... Ribbon for Nicki's hair, crackly acetate for Michelle ... and so on ... 

Have a lovely evening ...

~ Ros ~

A frame ... on a frame ... on a frame

Hi there ... 

I hope you all had a good weekend ... 

I was so sorry to hear of the tornado in Kansas and my thoughts and prayers are with those of you who may have been affected or have friends and families there ...

Today of course is a new challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog ... and we have Cheryl hosting for us ... she has come up with a brilliant challenge ... to alter or use a Frame ...

I've been playing a bit with frames lately ... but this week I decided to alter a frame I have had for so long ... nothing too fussy ... the frame is ornate as it is ... 

I gave the frame a wash of white acrylic first ... and behind the glass I inserted some pretty dottie paper from Prima's Botanical Collection ...

The canvas frame is then layered over the glass and on top of that a gorgeous butterfly frame ( a gift from Stella) ... was painted and glittered and adhered.

In the centre is a flower of delicate roses with one of my earring centres hot glued on ...

a few embellishments including ribbons, rubon, buttons, pearl and a diamante and my frame is done ...

So now it's over to you ... if you are in need of inspiration pop over to the blog and check out the DT work and that of our talented GD Colleen Dietrich ... and we have sweet June Lanum as our sponsor this week ... followers will know that June was on our DT and regrettably had to step back ... so we are thrilled to have her sponsor us again this week

Thank you so much for your continued support and your comments ... 

Keep safe

~ Ros ~

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 ~