Melissa Frances and Papermania

Hello from a sunny Liverpool ...

I finally received my lovely new Melissa Frances C'est la Vie paper pack and the new Bookprint Pack from PapermMania ... they are totally different and yet I wanted to play with them both as soon as I could ... so I created a birthday card for a friend .. using papers from both packs ... 

That's the lovely thing about MF papers ... they blend in with virtually everything ...

The hard part was picking which one of the lovely papers to use ... 

I settled on the Hydrangeas ... which seemed to go perfectly with my card stock

and the print paper from PaperMania

... I also used some of the MF Green Honeycombe paper to cut some leaves for my resin flower and for the banner

Yep, I'm going to enjoy playing with these papers for a long while

It's a big day for the our city - our two Merseyside football teams ... Liverpool and Everton ... are meeting at Wembley for the FA cup semi final ... the things is ... my Hubby and my Son are Everton supporters (Blues) whilst I am a Liverpool supporter (Reds) ... It could be fun here today!

The world famous Grand National race is also on today ... as always it's a sell out ... As was yesterday's Ladies Day ... I enjoyed seeing photos of the girls in their finery and was delighted when a local lady won the 'Best Dressed' wearing a beautiful simple black 1950's vintage dress from her Grandmother! 

 I'm off to make a pizza for the boys and we can all settle down to watch the match ... 

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Candle Tin

Hi there ...

Well we've certainly been having the April showers ... mixed with hailstones, wind and bursts of sunshine ... today is lovely so far.
Kinda prompted me to change my blog colours to something a little brighter ... not sure I will stick with this ... it may be a little plain for me ...

Anyway ... All I have to share today is an altered tin which I did a while ago but never posted ... I made it into a candle tin ... here are a few photos 

Book pages pasted on the lid and the base is covered with TH papers

Some ribbon and tulle and a flower (which I didn't make ... it was salvaged from a hairband)

Some bits of lace and a co-ordinating candle inside

I got to go into the city yesterday (Liverpool) ... it's only 30 mins away but I don't go often and as the children are still on their Easter break ... the city was heaving! that's why I don't go much. 

It is fabulous though ... any tourist would just love the buildings, the restaurants, the shopping and the sights. There is a lot to see and do and if you're into Designer .. well we have that too!

Today is the start of the Grand National so this evening the city will be even more busy - I'm looking forward to Ladies Day tomorrow .. not that I go ... I just love to see the pictures of the ladies all dressed up 


Before I go I just want to thank the ladies at The Play Date Cafe for picking This card as one of their  Fab 4 ... I am thrilled! 

Wishing you a lovely day

~ Ros ~

City Crafter Birthday Week

Can you believe that this week the City Crafter Challenge will be celebrating their 2nd birthday! 

It's only fitting that our creator Kirsty is hosting this week with another fabulous challenge ... 

 Case a card or project from one of our current DT (any week from 1 - 103) ... 

You need to show the card or project that you chose to case with your new creation

We are so lucky to have the fabulous Lauren Bergold of "All The Good Blog Names Were Taken" as our Guest Designer this week ... and Pixie Dust Paperie as our fabulous sponsor ... 

I took ages to decide which project to case ... in the end I kept going back to this card made by Kirsty in week 73 ... 

This is my take on Kirsty's beautiful card

... The original challenge was a recipe ... 1 ribbon, 2 or more words and 3 or more butterflies

Fabric butterflies mixed with butterfly stickers just bring this to life with those pretty Webster Pages papers

Please take a moment to check out the creations from both our DT and our GD this week ... I'm sure you'll be inspired to join us ... 

YOU make this challenge successful and exciting ... 

Many thanks to all of you who have supported us over these last 2 years 

Happy Birthday City Crafter!

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Jingle Belles ...Sketch challenge

This week's challenge at Jingle Belles is to use a sketch by Amy Tsuruta ... 

This sketch

Well I made my card ... sort of based on the sketch ... and then realised that I'd put the sentiment in the wrong place ... Duh! I didn't look properly ... So I made another card that does resemble the sketch ... 

Nothing too fancy ... just layered papers and a pretty snowflake

This is the one that I did first ... not quite a representation of the sketch though ...

... but at least I have an extra card in my box

Thing is ... I was looking at my Easter egg ... and now it's all eaten (I know!) well maybe there will be no more distractions ... 

Hope you had a lovely day ... I did! 

See you tomorrow for the City Crafter challenge

Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Pixie Dust Paperie April Challenge

HAPPY EASTER!!

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend ... 

The new challenge at Pixie Dust Paperie has begun ... and this month Kirsty has picked a fabulous  challenge -   
Create a project related to a city  (e.g. London, Rome, Paris,  New york ... Any city in the world!)

The challenge title is "Fly Away With Me!!"

Everyday this week you will be able to see the projects from our design team ...

For me I chose London ... the place I spent a lot of my childhood ... a place full of happy memories for me ..... and what do you think of when you think of travel? A suitcase or a trunk maybe? 

Here's my 'well travelled' and 'shabby' little trunk...

I used papers from PaperMania's  Portobello Road and some travel stamps from Crafty Individuals and Elin's Huis

I started by making to boxes exactly the same size from card stock - covered them inside and out with paper and added an extra piece at the back to hinge them together (using brads) ...

... used a little more CS with a key hole for the front and some velcro to fasten ... The corners are made from circles cut in  pewter mirri board (score the circle into 4 and remove 1/4 of the circle to get the fold) ... All it needed then was a handle made again from card stock

Take a peek inside

Some English Afternoon Tea and a shabby heart

I scanned into my computer some of the Portobello Road paper and printed it on to fabric to make the heart

Just a few embellishments ... red white and blue and a little crown too ... As our Queen celebrates her Diamond Jubilee this year

... and there we have it ... my little London gift set!

Well I'm off to find some chocolate ... seeing as how it's Easter (like I need an excuse..Lol!)

I do hope you will be inspired to play along at Pixie  this month ... and I MUST mention that there are some FANTASTIC offers on at the moment ... hop over to the blog to see all the details ... I'd really hate for you to miss out!

Have a wonderful day ... Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Play Date Cafe Challenge

Hi there ... 

I saw the beautiful colour combination for this week's challenge at The Play Date Cafe

... and it just so happened that I had been playing around with these colours this week for some upcoming DT projects and on my work table were some of the scraps ... I also needed to make a "Thank You" card ... So this challenge was the perfect opportunity to use up my scraps to make this card

I love to mix papers from different suppliers and this is definitely a mix ...

The background paper is from PaperMania ... an old range really ... called Rose Garden ...

The grey is from Echo Park and the blue mist coloured paper is from Grace Taylor

I love this colour palette and yet if it hadn't been for the challenge I probably wouldn't have put them all together ... Thanks Playdate!

May you have a blessed Easter weekend ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Also linking this up to 52 Card Pickup