City Crafter Home Sweet Home

Good morning!

The weeks seem to be going awfully quickly ... It's Tuesday again and here we are with another challenge at City Crafter ... Thanks so much to everyone that took part in last weeks' challenge ... you really are a creative lot ... so many stunning entries once again. Today we are hosted by our creator the lovely  Kirsty and she has chosen the theme Home Sweet Home ... Such a fun challenge ... anything with a house or home image on your card or project is required or even an altered house ... 

We have Sandi Taloumis Guesting for us too and Pixie Dust Paperie is kindly sponsoring again ... 

 I love to make houses as you will know if you follow my blog ... but something caught my eye one day whilst looking around other blogs and it was This by Melissa Samuels ... I book marked it for a later date and with a little tweaking here and there ... it was my project for this week ...

Some dear friends are celebrating their 40th Wedding Anniversary this week and I wanted to make a little wall hanging to give them along with their main gift ... and this is the result ...

It's a lot larger than the keychain book made by Melissa and as I didn't have any of those little houses I had to improvise ... I did have a lot of these chipboard fames ...

and a lot of these blank mats

so I glued the frames together ...  

... painted them and distressed them a little and cut one of the mats in half diagonally to make a roof which was also painted ... 

I covered the roof and the 'house' with MF papers before adhering them together ... then covered another mat and adhered it to the back of the frames ... so a little house was made and then just the decor was needed ... I didn't have any wedding photos of them but they sent one as their invitation and I scanned it in ... cropped it and changed it to black and white ...

(Grateful thanks to Melissa Samuels) 

If you pop back tomorrow I will show you the box I made for it .... 

I hope you can join us this week at City Crafter ... look forward to seeing you there

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Jingle Belles Card 31 ...

"Blue ... blue ... Christmas ......."

Hi there! 

... Just completed my card for week 31 at Jingle Belles where the lovely June Houck is Guesting this week

and she has chosen Blue Christmas ... (the main colour of your card is to be blue) ... and I defy anyone who is joining in this challenge not to be humming that wonderful Elvis song ... speaking of which ... you really need to see Lauren's take on this challenge ... that girl definitely has a mind of her own ...  and June and Steph have created wonderful cards (I'm so missing Love Links this week Steph) ... so even if you don't join in ... go take a look ... 

Anyway on to my card ... 

I missed the reindeer challenge so I wanted to use this little guy ... I picked up  a box of PaperMania Christmas chipboard pieces in Salford yesterday and I thought he was so cute with those little baubles on his antlers .... The background is from a Cuttlebug folder ... just added some glitter ... and the 'frame' is made using the scalloped die from PTI ...

 the snowflake is rescued from an old shop bought card and I just did something a little different with the pale blue ribbon ... I know a lady who loves blue ... but she has already bagged 2 of my Christmas cards ... wonder if she will change her mind again ... Stella?

Enjoy your day and keep safe 

Thank you for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Pixie Dust .....

Hello ... 

I hope you are having a good day ... 

Thank you all so much for your sweet comments and your well wishes for my son ... our GP agrees with the hospital diagnosis ... a long word I cannot pronounce let alone spell ... but it means inflammation of the inner eyelids ... he still has to see an optician but he is a lot better thank God ...

A couple of days ago I received my Midsummer Nights Dream kit from Pixie Dust Paperie ... a beautiful kit full of gorgeous papers, embellishments and ribbons ... I couldn't wait to start creating with it ... there are a lot of photos here ... a journal / album ... I will be adding to this ... namely journalling ... notes and things ... but this is what I have done so far .... I added some bits from my scraps but nearly everything is from the kit ...

I just adore those beautiful charms ... they are quite heavy too and I've decided I am going to use one as a handbag charm ... 

Now this was sheer fluke! I was using the reverse side of the paper and when I turned this piece over I couldn't believe that I had cut a piece that actually said "Journal Des Ros" ... on the paper it is Journal des Rose ... but I had unknowingly cut away the 'e' ... Perfect!!

I used some of my quotes ... from the little book of enlightenment

This beautiful lady and I have gone through a lot together ... she is my angel

My boy ... some days he has a moustache ... some days not  ... but he is and always will be my greatest joy ....

The purple dragonfly is from my stash as is the heart frame ... but how beautiful is that paper and lace ... even the words are in the kit

Lots of butterflies in this kit ... sweet Kirsty even put a little packet of real tiny ones in ... so this sure qualifies for the competition at Pixie Dust Paperie

(burlap and heart from my stash) ... those pretty resin flowers are also part of the kit ...

Beautiful ribbon to match the flowers ... 2 different shades in this kit ...

The clock face and the buttons are from my stash ... but I added one of those tiny butterflies to the clock face too ... and there are a whole lot of stickers to use

I fussy cut this butterfly boy ... and I love those big felt flowers ... tulle from my stash 
... nearly done ...

Angels come in all forms ... and this beautiful shepherd really was an angel ... she came into my life at one of my lowest points ... I once told you that though I rescued her ... really, she rescued me 

And this is it so far ... and I have tons of stuff left ... so I will have to make some more of these ...
I hope you have enjoyed seeing this ...
Have a wonderful weekend 


Till soon


~ Ros ~

Dreams can come true

Hello sweet friends ...

I am soooo excited!! Just have to share with you that I have one of my sets ... card, notebook and bookmark ... showing on Melissa Frances blog!! ... 

... I have visited Melissa's blog everyday ... enveloped myself in the beautiful things shared there ... gained inspiration and been awed by the creativity ... Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think one day something of mine would be shared here ....

To you lovely ladies at Melissa Frances blog ... Thank you!! 

... And I would be so delighted if you would pop over and take a look too ... HERE

I also have another card to share ... I had these papers and on my desk ... a flower from my previous project ... and my SIL gave me some word stamps

I love the green and purple/ lavender hues together

I hope you have a lovely day ... I just can't stop smiling right now ...

Thank you for stopping by ... keep safe

~ Ros ~

Vintage Garden challenge at City Crafter

Good Morning to you ...

today I am hosting the challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog and I have chosen a Photo Inspiration challenge ... 

You are welcome to make any card or project you like based on the colours or design in the photos ... and there are lots to choose from don't you think?

I took the opportunity to make a card and notebook for my sweet friend Stella who celebrated her birthday yesterday ... Happy Birthday Stella!

... my interpretation of a Vintage Garden ...

Papers and letters here are mostly from PaperMania Rose Garden and some from Pink Petticoat's Vintage collection which I won from sweet blog friend  Terrie Bailey .... just perfect for this challenge

I'd love it if  YOU would come and join us this week ...  we have the amazingly talented Charlene Cundy  as our guest designer so please leave her some love ...

Leaving you with the links ... have a wonderful day ... thanks for stopping by and keep safe

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Kirsty 

Linda

Cheryl

Charlene

Paper houses

Hello ...

I hope you are enjoying your weekend ... we have had quite good weather which is nice and today my Brother and SIL came over to spend some time which was lovely ...

I have been busy catching up on laundry and the usual household chores and yesterday my son had to go to the hospital ... he has been experiencing pain in his eyes ... He went to the Walk In centre and when the usual blood test etc., showed nothing irregular - he was sent to the ER at the eye hospital where he had to wait for a few long hours to see a doctor ... Now when I am worried ... I always start to clean ... somehow it keeps me occupied ... so I sorted out a lot of things in my craft room ... Yes I did want to be with him but didn't push it ... him being 28 ... know what I mean? ... But thankfully he came home with a clean bill of health on his eyes ... now he has to see the GP this week ... so still a worrying time ... more cleaning to do me thinks ...

Aside from that I have a few photos of projects I have been fiddling with ... One things I love to do each week is visit Stef's blog to check out her Love Links ... a list she kindly compiles each week of the most amazing things ... I bookmark lots of them promising myself I WILL get around to doing them them ... but one I had to try straightaway was a birdhouse made from a book ... you can find the link HERE ... this is one talented lady I tell ya! ... so here are the first two I made ... 

Well I couldn't stop at one ... and anyway ... they are so very therapeutic ... and I couldn't stop at two either ... the idea was to make three different sizes like Korrie did (though I wish I had a table like hers ... sigh )so I started another smaller one ... but me being me ... I went a little off kilter and came up with a wall hanging ... 

I did a sort of 'half' house ... tore out the chunk of book I didn't use but left the cover on ... which I covered in papers and adhered to thick CS which I had also covered in paper ...

... those little pansies are real ... dried actually and oh so delicate ... I stuck the little lilac pearlie things in the centre ... they fell off from these ...

... pretty but again delicate ...

... and in case you're wondering ... the other half of the book I gave to my SIL ... who was merrily folding away as my Brother drove them home ...

You know what ... I'm still not sure about the door .... what do you think? ... maybe I should have gone with older books ... hmmm ... maybe next time ...

Enjoy the rest of your day and thanks for stopping by 

~ Ros ~