City Crafter "You've Got Mail"

Hey there sweet friends ... 

Thanks so much for your kindness and concern ... I'm feeling in a better mood and the hospital have finally given me a pair of crutches to help... See, it's the simple things that make a gal happy!

So here we are with another new challenge at City Crafter ... hosted for us by the lovely Cheryl ... 

This week Cheryl wants us to create a project that includes an envelope ... hence the title You've Got Mail

...And I am thrilled to tell you that our Guest Designer this week is my sweet friend Jacira ... Please hop over and give her a big welcome ... Also our generous sponsor this week is Pixie Dust Paperie...

So on to my card .... I made this for a friends' birthday

Those papers I have had for the longest time ... so I am not sure where they are from I think they may be K&Co .... and the lovely envelope was cut on my Silhouette Cameo ... can you tell I am loving this machine?

Flowers are from my stash and the beautiful vellum butterfly is from the set Ira sent me ... how I love these ...

Such a lovely ... easy challenge ... Take a minute to check out the rest of the creations from the team and then why not come and join us ... We love to see your creations and you are what it's all about!

Have a wonderful day 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Jingle belles week 3

Hi ... How are you?

I'm having a bad day today ... Just struggling with the pain in my foot ... I hate to complain .. hey there are people so much worse off than me ... I just think lack of sleep and 4 months of constant pain is getting to me today ... I will at least have some news on the 15th Feb ... but 17days seems such a long time away right now ... 

I'm not even happy with my card for this weeks challenge at Jingle Belles ... Am I miserable or what?

This week's challenge is to take our inspiration from the Jingle Belles blog header ... so beautifully designed by the clever and talented Miss Lauren ... So here's my card

glittered coated

 You can see I chose to go with the pretty bells ....

Now before I go off and pop some pills in the vain hope that they may help... I just want to say a big Thank You to the gals over at Papercraft Star for picking my book clock Here as the Super Nova winner ... Thanks to Jan of The House Across the Bay  for the beautiful images ... and if you've never visited her Etsy store .. click on the link ... there are some lovely images here.

Have yourselves a lovely Sunday 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Altered Diary

Hello...

Are you one of those people who tend to get diaries given to you for gifts? I don't know why ... but I always seem to get a few... and between you and me ... I never use them ... Unlike my Mum who would write in her diary everyday ... 

I try to keep a note of all I need to do etc., on my computer and on those big wall calendars ...

Well, last year my sweet SIL gave me a lovely diary from M&S ... it is so pretty that I didn't want to throw it away ... so I altered it ... I should have photographed it first I know ... 

I took the 'innards' out and cut the bottom half off ... that part had the year on ... 

This is the actual cover ... all I added to this was the trim 

I made a little box base to fit and put in some dividers and Voila!

Now I have a little sewing kit ...

All I needed to add was some paper, lace a pretty doily and some ribbon to hold it shut

Cute huh? 

I also got some happy mail yesterday - a birthday present from my lovely friend Kirsty ... 

Look how lovely this is wrapped! And inside is her beautiful card and this cute little purse

Beautiful!

And the sweetest kitty! Surrounded by tiny little butterflies ...

Thank You Kirsty!

And I can tell you that I saw a consultant last night about my swollen sore foot ... He seems to think I do have a fracture even though it does not show on the x ray ... so I am having an MRI scan next week ... Yipee! Finally something is getting done .. I wont have any results until the 15th Feb ... but I've waited 4 months now so I think I can cope for another 2 weeks ... 

Now I have to get my project for Thursday club organised ... I can't let them down ... sore foot or not!

Have a wonderful day

~ Ros ~

City Crafter Sketch Challenge

I can't believe how quick Tuesday comes around ... But here we are with a brand new challenge at City Crafter ... chosen and hosted for us by our lovely Linda  ...  this week is a sketch challenge and Linda has given us a great sketch to work with ...

Once again we are fortunate to have Lizzie Droege as our Guest Designer and Pixie Dust Paperie as our wonderful sponsors ...

It's my hubby birthday in a couple of weeks so I made this card for him ... he doesn't check my blog so it won't spoil the surprise 

I used the new Portobello Road papers from PaperMania ... not too girly ... and that lovely heart peg came from Stella ... My DH loves aeroplanes ... so I added this little charm ... This is the first time I managed to machine stitch around a circle without making a mess ...

 ... and just so you can see that I kept to the sketch ... here's the card without the 'Love You' tag on ...

Don't forget to pop over to the blog to check out the rest of the DT projects this week ... and if you have the time ... we'd love for you to play along with us ...

Till soon ... keep safe

~ Ros ~

Quick card

Hi there ...

I hope you all had a lovely weekend ... and a good start to the week ...

Normally I would be at Pilates on Monday mornings but I haven't been for ages due to my foot problem ... which is no better ... But I caught up with my Pilates buddies for lunch today ... My friend Joyce has a birthday on Wednesday so that was the excuse to meet up ... I can't show you her card yet ... (it's also for one of my DT projects) ... but it suddenly dawned on me that her wedding anniversary is the very same day as her birthday so I had to make a quick card last night ... Thank goodness for my Silhouette! 

This came together quite quickly

The card was cut on the Silhouette ... a burst of hearts ... all I needed to do was add some backing paper and embellish it ... Her favourite colour is blue so I used Eline's Huis paper ... one of the last pieces of a pad sent to me last year by my sweet friend Stella ... and then some ribbon and lots of liquid pearls

The stamp is from one of my favourite sets by WaltzingMouse

I know the pin looks a little dangerous ... but don't worry ... I always add an end to them ... I find those little earring backs work perfectly and the pin can then be taken off the card and used.

That's all for today ... 

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments ... I'll be back tomorrow for the new challenge at CCCB  ... I hope you can join me ...

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

Just my imagination.....

It's cold and windy here and the last few days we've been having our radiators replaced ... So what's a girl to do to keep warm but turn her thoughts to Spring time and let her imagination run wild ... If you have time to spare, come with me ... into my imagination and see what transpired

A Spring time clock ... made from an old book 

Guess it fits the Anything Goes challenge ...

.. And Crop Stop  challenge is looking for something vintage, distressed or Shabby Chic ...

I used my Spell Binders to cut those frames and distressed one with Antique linen stain

So it also fits the challenge at Papercrafts Star 

But it just started out as a folded book to take along to my forthcoming talk at the WI ... and took a slight diversion ... I did half the book and adhered it to cardboard ... sprinkled it with glitter and for some reason a clock popped into my head ... So using a broken chain and some redundant Christmas ornaments as pendulums ...

It just developed from there ... adding flowers and leaves

and a gorgeous butterfly from Ira ... the clock face I found on the web and added a brad to the centre ... 

I know there are lots of photos ... I thought I would have trouble taking them because this is quite big ... but I found this beautiful over the door hanger yesterday which really helped ... see how pretty it is 

I hope you are having a warm and lovely weekend ... 

Thanks for joining me today ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~