Happy Birthday Friend

Hello there ...

Today 11/11/11 is of course Armistice Day ...

My thoughts are with all those people who have lost loved ones ... be them military or civilian 

Today is also my friend's birthday and paid her a visit ...

This is the card I made for her

It's a very dark and dull day here so I am struggling with photographs ... 

Those lovely images are from the Graphic Fairy 

and of course I had to give her a little handmade something with her gift so I made her a little sticky note holder

... and a little mini album made from one piece of 12x12 scrapbook paper ... for her to decorate and add pictures of her grandchildren ...

as you can see there are 3 pockets with tags in too ...

If you click to enlarge you can see the little charm on the notebook ... a sweet little bird and birdcage ... Can you believe this was an earring? 

My friend was thrilled with her gifts and it was good to catch up ...

I would also like to say a big Thank You to sweet generous Cindy Adkins not only for this lovely Blog Award

But for picking me as a winner in her give away ... I can hardly wait to receive the beautiful book she created ... Many Thanks Cindy

I hope you are having a lovely day ...

Till soon keep safe

~ Ros ~

Papercraft Star Winner

Hello how are you? 

I went to see a chiropractor yesterday ... my body is a train wreck lol! But hopefully with about 8 more sessions and gentle exercise ... I will improve ... no full on Pilates for me for a while though!

I want to thank the lovely girls over at Papercrafts Star for picking my card as a winner this week ... I am delighted! ... Thank you! 

And I have a card to share that I made for my husband brother using the lovely TH embossing folder again ... love this folder 

Now I'm off to prepare for Thursday club ... this week they are going to make Christmas ornaments and make a start on their Christmas cards too ... 

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

City Crafter **Thanks** giving

Good morning friends ...

Our hostess this week at City Crafter is sweet Cheryl and she has asked that we make a Thank you card or a handmade gift ... I kinda chose to go with both

... and made a set ... a card, notebook and a decorated lunch bag to put them in ...

This is the card

Very girlie don't you think? 

... and the notebook

... and the bag (thanks to Kirsty for sending me a whole lot of these)

Now how would you like a chance to be a Guest Designer at City Crafter? 

Well you can ... that's the prize up for grabs this week ... and it's an easy peasy challenge

Hop on over to the blog and be inspired by the rest of the DT's projects and this weeks' fabulous Guest Designer Laurie Schmidlin ... I'm sure many of you are familiar with Laurie's work ... if not you really need to pay her a visit ... she is incredibly talented!

Have I convinced you to play along? I hope so ...

Thanks ever so much for visiting me this morning ... have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

Jingle Belles card 45 ...

Hello!

Thanks ever so much for your sweet comments on my mixed media in the previous post ... I really appreciate and welcome your comments ... 

It's a cold and frosty morning here in Liverpool ... people have been scrapping the ice from their cars and in the bright sunlight ... the white ground looked quite pretty ... I'm sorry I didn't take any pictures but I know there will be plenty more mornings like this... Brrrrrr! 


I have my 45th card for the Jingle Belles Rock challenge to share ... This week the theme is "Clear" ... use at least one see through element ... I chose to use a beautiful scene from the Graphics Fairy ... added some flower soft for snow and some acetate ...

MME paper again, a little sentiment from Melissa Frances Deck the Halls everything else is from my stash

I have to show that image again ... just love it ... are you seeing the 'snow'?

I'll be back tomorrow with the new challenge at CCCB ... have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

A first attempt ...

 I know that at times the worldwide web can be a nuisance ... But I wonder where I would be without it 

I have always loved creativity of one sort or another ... but the technology just didn't exist when I was a child ... I learnt to sew, to knit and I loved to draw ... though I wasn't that brilliant at it ... but good enough to get an O level pass in art at high school ... 
Painting though was never my forte and I could ruin a perfectly decent drawing by adding paint ... 

Now a whole new world has opened up and each day I can not only see beautiful creations ... I can learn techniques ... things I'd never heard of are there in front of my eyes for me to feast on and to challenge me ...

I'm not saying that I love everything I see ... but I appreciate the talent, the effort and the expertise ...

I have a whole list of things I want to do ... one day ... 

And now I can tick one thing off my list ... Mixed Media ... many of my sweet blog friends are so very good at this ... Linda ... Kirsty and Mona to name a few ... and when I saw a link yesterday on Mona's blog  (Thanks Mona) ... I followed it and that got me started ... 

To make this 5"x 7" canvas

and this tiny 2"x 2.75" canvas

And looking at them ... though they are not perfect ... I have a wonderful sense of achievement

... and I'll definitely be doing this again ...

Thanks for stopping by 

~ Ros ~

Birthday gift .....

Good Morning ... 

It's chilly here even though the sun is shining ... and the trees are quickly shedding their leaves ... A few more weeks and they will have all gone ...

Yesterday I shared a card with you that I made for my friend's birthday ... well I noticed that she had posted a photo on her Facebook page - I know this is a treasured picture ... taken with her father and her little sister ... it got me to thinking that I could make a little gift for her ... something she could look at whenever she wanted ... 

... to reminds her of those special moments ...

... and bring a smile to her face ...

Isn't this a beautiful picture ... 

So this wall hanging is on it's way ... I know she will love it ...

I'm off to visit my girlfriends tonight ... every so often we have a 'get together' so I'm looking forward to it

  

Have a wonderful weekend and keep safe

~ Ros ~