Coughs Colds and Cats

Hello ... 

No, I'm not better ... well maybe a little better than I was ... I just couldn't keep away ... I discharged myself from bed yesterday afternoon and came into my room to create something ...

Just a little card for Jingle Belles where the prompt is a Creature Feature

I love these little cats ... I cut them on the Cameo ...  they're supposed to be eyeing up that jingle bell hanging from the holly (Papermania Urban Stamps)

Some not so 'perfect pearls' ... I managed to smudge them

... but I'm happy with the end result

I also got some 'Happy Mail' yesterday ... It couldn't have come at a better time ... made me feel good to know someone was thinking about me

This came from the lovely Jacqueline ... Isn't that card just the sweetest? 

"Thank You" so much Jacqueline ... they're beautiful and your kindness is appreciated

This next envelope came from my sweet friend Cindy ... 

My first Christmas card/gift ... look at the sticker

Thank you so much Cindy!! 

I can hardly wait to see what is inside ... but it's the thought that really makes me smile

Thanks to you all for your well wishes ... Have a lovely Sunday

~ Ros ~

Melissa Frances

Hi there ...

I am really feeling rough ... and may be MIA for a while .... But I have some lovely news to share which has brightened me up no end ...

This little wall hanging, I made way back when, is being featured on the Melissa Frances Blog today!!

I am so thrilled!

The original post is Here if you want to check it out ...

As it happens I had planned for my Thursday group make a wall hanging last night using those lovely dies from Nina Brackett ... I cut out 25 of those houses, 25 sets of wings ... 25 hearts... not to mention countless butterflies, backgrounds, flowers and clouds ... Alas I was too sick to make it 

Have a lovely day and thanks for stopping by 

~ Ros ~

Halloween Pumkin

Hello sweet blog friends

Whoa it's been cold and wet here ... more winter now than autumn!

It's not far off Halloween and this week at Papercraft Star our challenge is to create a card or project with a Halloween Pumpkin on  

We had some fantastic entries last week ... so I have no doubt that this week you will once again excel yourselves ...

I created a wall hanging ... which is already winging it's way to a blog friend who is none too well at the moment ...

I so loved making this ... using papers from Eline Huis and Basic Grey to cover my canvas first

... Put on a pretty gingham ribbon and then I took an unwanted CD ... I printed a free vintage halloween image (took out the background first using Photoshop) ... onto a free clock image from Here and glued the finished image to the CD

Some perfect pearls ... a bunch of leaves and glittery flower and some punched insects complete the look

I was going for cute rather than scary!

I hope you will visit the blog to check out the creations from the rest of our lovely Design Team ...

I am linking this up to the following challenges 

Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge #58 

&

My Sheri Crafts Challenge #96

Keep safe and thanks for stopping by 

~ Ros ~

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 ~