Winter Blues

Good morning to you all 

I hope you are having a good week so far ...

We've had a little snow - not enough to stick and it's been quite cold and dull ... 

It's this time of year after Christmas and New Year have gone, that I long for Spring to come .. I call it The Winter Blues which is the challenge I have come up with for City Crafter this week where I am hosting.

This week we want to see a winter project that must include the colour Blue

Here is your inspiration photo

Courtesy of Printshop For Mac

I saw a tutorial by Nancy Riley on a sponging project which I wanted to try ... although my version is not as good as hers I really like the result ...

I incorporated a die cut by Memory Box in my little winter scene and lots of glitter for the glistening snow

There is only one ink pad used for this ... just a little blue one I had by versa mark and I found that little tree stamp hidden in my box of wooden stamps ...

Our Guest designer this week at City Crafter is our winner from Week 134 Malgorzata Dudzinska ( Margot) ... A very talented lady ... her blog is well worth a visit. This week's winner will also be offered a Guest spot at CCCB ... so please come and join us ... I'd love to see your interpretation of Winter Blues ...

Have a lovely day and stay warm

~ Ros ~

Wonderful!

... That's how my evening was last night 

I had a wonderful birthday shared with old friends and family ...We laughed over old times ... Ate delicious food ... Drank a little too much and I didn't want the evening to end.

Today I managed to get some craft time in and have a little card to share with you ... I promised myself that from now on I need to use something from my "bits" box on everything I create ... you know the box I mean ... the one that holds all your bits of unused paper ... the dies cuts you didn't use ... the stamping you were trying out etc., 

So the cards that I will be sharing in the future will have  should have ... something from that ever full box ...

This is a card I made for a friends hubby who I discovered has his birthday on the same day as me ... Ok, so it will be late ... but it will also be a surprise as he certainly wont be expecting it

Everything I used here ... (with the exception of that sweet metal butterfly - a gift from my friend Linda) was from my "bits" box ...

Now I have quite a lot of  "Thank You" cards to make ... my family and friends have been so generous with their cards and gifts

I'll be back with you soon ...

Have a beautiful day/evening and thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Flowers and Gifts

Hello sweet friends!

This is just a short post ... I wanted to pop in and thank you all for your lovely emails, cards and gifts  for my birthday!

I've had some beautiful flowers delivered this morning

... and tonight my family and a few friends will be going out to dinner

I am truly blessed to have such kind and thoughtful friends ... Thank You!

~ Ros ~

Papercraft Star 127

Here I am back again ...

Today starts a new challenge at Papercraft Star where we have a photo inspiration challenge for you 

Strangely I knew exactly what I wanted to do for this challenge and that never happens! 

And ... I did something I don't usually so ... sponging with inks ... I surprised myself at the result

I used two inks and then popped my paper into my printer and used a HA digital stamp on top

The sentiment is also a digital from Pink Petticoat

I made a felt rose using a Sizzix die and cut some leaves on the Cameo

I wonder how this photo will speak to you? I'd love to see what you come up with ... Hop on over to the Blog to see what the rest of the team have come up with and be inspired to join us this week.

Till soon ... be safe

~ Ros ~

City Crafter Week 141

Good Morning!

I hope you are having a good week so far ... 

Today at City Crafter Linda is our host and she has chosen a lovely inspiration photo for the theme of Book Paper ... 

Source

For the challenge you need to use book paper somewhere on your project ...

Last week we had such beautiful entries to our challenge ... We have a very fair system when it comes to choosing a winner ... But more and more I am finding it so very hard to pick from all your gorgeous entries...

So here's what I came up with for this challenge

I loved the colours in the inspiration photo so I stamped straight onto a piece of book paper and added some long forgotten glitter stickers as well and covered a chipboard frame with paper and glitter

I sent this to my sweet blog friend Cindy who celebrated her birthday last week ... I hope she got it

Our Guest Designer this week is the talented and lovely Linda B ... I am looking forward to seeing her beautiful creation along with those from the rest of the team.

This weeks winner will also have a Guest Design spot here at CCCB so why not join us? We'd love to see what you come up with ...

I hope your day is wonderful ... Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Happy Days Beach Hut

Hello there!

Just popping in with a little project I am preparing for this week's Thursday club ... 

I always like to start the year off making notebooks or calendars for the year ahead ... well it's something they love and usually quite simple ... just a lot of prep for me.

This is what I have planned for this week

As I have a few men in the class I thought this was quite unisex ...

Of course some of the things ... the banners and flags are too fiddly for my group so I am busy sticking these together ready for them ... 

Did I tell you that one of our Christmas gifts was a hamper from Fortnum and Mason no less! 

Well they delivered 2 by mistake and when we told the person that sent it to us ... we were told to keep the 2!!! Honestly these are so expensive! But the point is that the huge cardboard boxes they came in are proving so useful  ... one belongs to the cat ... she just loves to play in it and the other one is what I am using to cut out these little beach huts

ok so I'd better get on ... got a lot of cutting and sticking to do ... I'll be back tomorrow with my DT project for CCCB ... so I'll see you then 

Have a great day!

~ Ros ~