Fanciful Pinwheels

Hello there ... 

I hope all is well in your world ... 

This week at City Crafter Challenge ... we have Charlene hosting for us 

Char has chosen "Fanciful Pinwheels" You must use pinwheels and Halloween colours

photo credit

Haley

I made a halloween banner ... which is quite hard to photograph in one go ... so there are lots of pictures of the details

I started off with some plain cream scalloped banners from Hobbycraft

... decorated each one with some free digitals from both Here and Here

 cut some pinwheels and rosettes and mixed them up

Adding bits of tulle here and there and sparkly rhinestones

The papers are from various designers ... all from my supplies

I cut out circles to put the faces on and used rubons for the cats faces

My letters were cut on the cameo

Finally I punched holes and threaded some black ribbon through ... all ready to hang up! 

Our Guest Designer this week is the very talented Lizzie Droege our winner for week 123 ...

Lizzie has the most romantic and pretty blog ... I'm sure you would enjoy a visit ...

I can't wait to see what Lizzie and the rest of the team have come up with so I'm off to the blog ... 

I hope you can join us this week ... remember to use Pinwheels and Halloween colours ... I just know you will Wow us as always ...

I'm also linking this to The Hybrid Chick Challenge

Have a beautiful day!

~ Ros ~

Butterfly Wishes

Hello ... I hope you are having a good start to the weekend ... 

We have sunshine today ... it's a crisps autumn day 

A couple of my friends have been suffering with one thing or another ... so I made a card and gift for each of them to help cheer them up a little or at least let them know I am thinking of them ... One of them I can't show you yet ... It will be one of my DT projects in the upcoming weeks ... but this one I can ...

Butterfly Wishes

This is the card made with the lovely freebies again from Astrid ... that lady is so kind and talented

And can you see that little necklace? I have been wanting to make some of these for the longest time ... I used the same paper and as the butterflies are digital I was able to make a tiny one ... even if the cutting out was fiddly! I'm still trying to master how much glossy accent to use not to get bubbles between the glass but as this is only an inch in size you don't see them with the naked eye

I made a little something to put that necklace in ... A matching little bag using some of the aida fabric I used on the card

The ribbon unties to open the bag

I get so much out of making gifts for people ... I'll show you a couple more soon

I'm linking these up to the following challenges 

Bloggers Challenge

Happy Campers Challenge

The Stamp Man

Have a beautiful weekend ... Thanks so much for stopping by

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Special Wishes

Today is the birthday of my lovely City Crafter teammate and friend 

Linda Robinson

Happy Birthday Linda!!

City Crafter are doing a special post today ... I hope you hop on over and leave some wishes for Linda ... I just know she will be thrilled!

I also hope that she got my card and gifts ....

I put a few things in the package for her ... but I'll just show you this one 

I made the beads with the same paper as the card

"Linda I hope you have a wonderful day ... Thinking of you and sending love and hugs your way!"

~ Ros ~

Pink Christmas

Christmas is drawing ever nearer ... And at Jingle Belles this week the prompt is 

Pink Christmas ... Being that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month

For this challenge I re-aquainted myself with some old friends that have long been neglected... my embossing powder and heat tool ... to make a clean and simple card

I stamped the baubles from an Urban Stamps kit onto pink MME paper and then embossed with silver embossing powder

That centre heart was a scrap from another project ... waste not want not ... 

Just a little lace, a few pearls, pink bows and silver thread ... and all done!

Now I have the hang of embossing again ... I may just do more 

I hope you are having a good day ... 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Beautiful Autumn ...

This has to be one of the most prettiest times of the year don't you think? 

When the trees are an abundance of yellows, reds, coppers and gold 

Like this weeks' inspiration photo at Papercraft Star

I still have the most pretty yellow roses in bloom too ... I guess nature is having a hard time deciding what season it is with our unpredictable weather.

The challenge this week at Papercraft Star is "Fall Colours"

If you hop over to the blog ... you will notice that we have changed things up a bit too ... We like to keep up with things and hope that you will be encouraged to join us each week regardless of your style...

So on to my card this week ....

Pretty autumnal leaves with a glittered Prima flower

That lovely leaf ribbon came from my friend Lauren

... and the gorgeous postcard is a freebie from Lilac & Lavender 

Don't forget to check out the projects from the rest of our team ... and note that you also have an extra day to link up your projects ...

Have a beautiful Autumn / Fall day 

~ Ros ~

Inspire

Hello there ...

Sometimes I think we all need to be inspired in our lives ... not just for creativity ... for our well being, for the future and for the earth we live on ...

As I am the host this week at City Crafter the challenge I have set for you to is to "Be Inspired"

Create a card or project that has an inspiring quote or verse 

This can be a Bible verse, an uplifting quote or even a thought provoking verse to inspire us

I love this quote ... it is a stamp that my lovely friend Keren gave me ...

That lovely paper with the roses on is a beautiful free digital from Lilac and Lavender ... in fact all the papers are digital ... even the butterflies

This week we have the talented Violet Cloudlet  guest designing for us ... Violet won our challenge week 126 ... and her blog is well worth a visit.

I hope you will take a moment to visit the City Crafter blog and be inspired by the work from the rest of the team ... Our winner this week will also have a Guest Design spot with us ...

I'm keeping this post short as I have a lunch date ... I hope you have a beautiful day whatever you have planned

Keep safe and thanks so much for your visit

~ Ros ~