Jingle Belles Card 26 ...

Hello to you ... 

It is a beautiful hot ... yes hot! Sunday here and I intend to spend time in my craft room ... 

I am going away in a couple of weeks for a very much needed break ... so I have a lot to do before then ...

right now I have just finished my card for Jingle Belles Rock week 26 ... this week the theme is "Lonely This Christmas ... " which basically means that we are to make something to go with our card ... so it won't be lonely ... this can be a tag ... a gift bag ... a box ... anything really ... and Jingle Belles has also teamed up with Order of the Opus Gluei  for this challenge so if you are doing the challenge ... don't forget to link up to both blogs 

Here's my card .....

Quite simple really ... and I made a couple of tags to go with it ...

The paper is digital from DHD and though it doesn't look it ... it is a lovely soft aqua .. and I used it on card number 9 Here ... but I guess the lighting today is making it difficult to photograph ...

Now I really need to get some DT work done ... have a lovely day sweet friends and thank you for stopping by and leaving such lovely comments ... I am very grateful

Till soon 

~ Ros ~

Play Date Challenge

Hi everyone ...

How is your Friday? ... I confess I am really tired ... and glad that this week is over ... 

I needed to create something today ... it always makes me feel better when I do ...

So I did a card for the challenge over at The Play Date Cafe ... it has been so long since I had time to enter one of their challenges ... though I look in every week ... This week the lovely Stef is Guest Designer and the photo inspiration is gorgeous ... I love it ...

I particularly like the worn look to the slate blue oars ... (I think that's what they are) this was my inspiration and my card is a little different from my usual ones ... 

see what I mean ... I wanted something clean but with a bit of texture ... and I searched my whole supplies to find the slate blue ... and ended up cutting a strip from a patterned paper to adhere to the grey ... it was just the right shade ... I had a little distressed piece of slate blue string and netting too

... then I found the button and the tiny envelope ... so I cut a heart from corrugated card and distressed that ... but the little seagull was the star ... he came from an old picture frame that I bought on holiday once ...

what do you think? 

Now I'm going to relax for the rest of the evening ... Have a lovely weekend and thanks for stopping 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Another gift ...

Hi there

Ok ... so assuming Blogger will behave and allow me to upload ... I have one more notebook to share with you ... this time made for a dear friend who loves her garden and celebrated her birthday this week ...

I paired it to go with this card ...

How I love making these ... I don't plan how it is going to look ... I just play around with colours and bits and bobs ... I love these Bella Narratives with the butterfly ... they were a gift from sweet Lynnda  on our first swap at CCCB ...

The flower is from my stash and I cut some felt hearts .. punched some leaves and added some of my canvas cut with SB ...

Inside I used a Maya Road envelope ... just added some white ink and a few gardening related scraps ... and a stamp 

Popped a few seed packets in there too ...

No ribbons or bows needed for this one ... and just a peek at the back ...

Thank you Blogger! ... I had a feeling I would be struggling with this post ... my day started rather badly 

... 4am the cat began to cry  (did I tell you her family took off on holiday last week ... so she seems to be a permanent fixture here?) ... I came down to see if she wanted to go out ... no! ... back to bed ... meowing again ... ok ... maybe some food will settle her ... feed her ... back to bed again ... meowing starts again .. even louder ... this time no asking her ... just tell her she IS going out ... back to bed ... but all this running up and down stairs ... I need to go to the bathroom ... it's dark ... crash bang ... toilet seat falls off!!**!! leave it ... leave it ... go back to bed ... trying to ignore the dawn chorus ... fall back to sleep maybe an hour later ... wake up to phone ringing ... Now yesterday I was doing some online banking and it took almost 2 hours and a long phone call due to 'improvements in security" ... to finally transfer funds ... and the phone call this morning was an automated call to see if I was indeed the person who transferred these funds!!**!! I had to key in all sorts of answers ... heck I could barely remember my own name by this time ... and what was that in the background? ... the cat meowing outside my window. So I give in ... get up and make a nice cup of tea ... let the cat in ... See,  I am not a morning person at all ... I like peace and quiet .. no questions ... no noise no fuss ... and tea ...  followed by a coffee before I am totally able to take on the world ... and then the phone rings again ... before I have even had my tea ... ARGH!! someone wanting to speak to my hubby ... who is in blissful slumber ... I say I will take their number and he can call them back ... no pen ... fumble around .. phone falls to the floor ... caller is rather disgruntled at all this ... Duh! ... and you guessed it ... the cat continued to meow ... but the "lets play" kind of meow ... No my day didn't start too well at all ... 

Hope yours is better 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Blog Award

Hi there ... 

I don't know about you ... but Blogger will not let me uploads any pictures right now ... I am hoping this will be fixed soon ... so in the mean time I promised I would get back following the  Blog Award I received from my lovely friend Linda  ... which you can see in This post ... 

The rules are that I have to give 7 random facts about myself and pass this on to 8 other blog buddies ... so here goes ...

1. I once won a scholarship to a drama school ... my dream was to be an actress

2. In my younger days I was sporty ... captain of both the Hockey and Netball teams

3. I love solitude ... and I am quite happy with my own company

4. I am on a quest for knowledge .... about myself and the universe

5. I practice stillness (of the mind) a few times a day

6. I'm good with technology (for a woman of my age Lol!) 

7. I'm pretty intuitive

The people I would like to pass this on to are ...

Terrie  ................. Terriebaileys blogspot

Joanne .......creativestampingideas blogspot

Keren ..................   Kerenbaker wordpress

Jacira ...................... Jacirascrap blogspot

Sue....aviewofthewroldfrom here blogspot

Deb .............aworldofimagination blogspot

Stef ............... sweetcraf-teachick blogspot

Jak................ ............... thatslife blogspot

A big Thank you to you Linda 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

City Crafter Challenge ...

Hello sweet friends ...

I seem to be posting a lot lately and today I am back for the challenge at City Crafters hosted this week by our Birthday girl ... Cheryl

Cheryl has challenged us to us the word or number ONE on our card or project this week ... in honour of you lovely people out there! So here's what I came up with ...

My image is a digital from HA and my sentiment was done on the computer

This week we have as our Guest Designer Heidi ... a super talented lady ... please hop over and see her beautiful work together with that of the rest of the DT ....

Last week you lovely talented ladies created some beautiful ATC's ... what a choice the DT have to make!

 Thank you to all who entered the challenge and the "swap" and to those of you who constantly support us at CCCB ... 

Have a Wonderful Day

~ Ros ~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHERYL!!!

Today my sweet friend and fellow DT at CCCB

 Cheryl

 ... is celebrating her Birthday ... 

"Happy Birthday my dear friend ... it is a pleasure to know you and to see your amazing talent week after week ...

I hope you have a wonderful day! ... 

 This card will be winging it's way across the Atlantic to you ...

... with love and hugs ...

..  I know there will be a lot of you out there who would also like to wish Cheryl a Happy Birthday ... and Kirsty has set a link up at City Crafter Challenge especially for you ... hop over and check out the details ... don't forget you still have plenty of time to enter this weeks' challenge too ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~