Ruby Wedding

In a few days time my high school friend will be celebrating her Ruby Wedding anniversary ...

It's a date I never forget because I lost my Dad on the same day -

Forty years ... Where does the time go? I can still remember the night my friend met her husband ... She'd recently split from her high school sweetheart and was "down in the dumps" as we say in the UK ... Naturally her friends and family were worried about her so I took her into the city one evening ... to a nightclub.

Whilst she was in the ladies (the restroom) a sweet guy sat next to me and we started chatting ... when my friend came back I introduced them and they immediately hit it off!

The rest as they say is history! They were married within a year and now have a beautiful family including grandchildren. I couldn't be happier for them!

Here's the card I made for them

I used a stamp from Inkylicious and added some liquid pearls ... then made a rolled rose from some really luscious red card stock to use as my centrepiece

I added some punched leaves and couldn't resist using a pair of die cut clock hands again ...

Because the flower stands quite proud of the card and I needed to put this in the post ... I came up with the idea of using some packaging like this to place over the front of my card

... then wrapped tissue paper around the whole card and popped it into a bubble envelope... It worked a treat!

I'm entering this into the challenge at Shopping Our Stash ... where as it happens the challenge for this week is Graduation or Celebration .. Perfect!

Wishing you a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

Paper Flowers

Hi there!

It's a new challenge at  Papercraft Star today and over the past few weeks each one of the designers has been asked to set the challenge ... This week it's my turn and I'm asking that you create a card or project that features a Handmade Flower(s)

Photo credit Martha Stewart

I just love to see the variety of handmade flowers out there and I've tried many of them yet funnily enough one of my all time favourites is the simplest of all ... 

I call them punched and scrunched ... just punch a bunch of them and scrunch them up ...

The colour scheme for this card started with that little piece of ribbon would you believe! I'm just loving the peachy colours as you can tell

I used a Woodware 5 petal punch on scraps of digital papers to create my flowers and just some lightweight white card for one of them...

I love the definition these flowers give

If you've been following Anitra's tutorials on Papercraft Star you will see she showed us how to make some beautiful tattered flowers ... Here

We are really looking forward to seeing your creations this week do please come and join us..

Don't forget to stop by the Blog to check our the lovely projects from the team too!

have a beautiful day and keep safe

~ Ros ~

City Crafter and HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIRSTY!!!!

Hello ...
Before I get onto my City Crafter project - I want to say 
Happy Birthday Kirsty!!!
Yes our lovely Kirsty creator of CCCB is celebrating her birthday today!
Kirsty you are AMAZING!!!
You are a kind, caring, considerate beautiful lady and a wonderful friend 
 I wish you every happiness today and always ... I am blessed to have you in my life

Here's the card I made for Kirsty

The lady loves Paris

... and she likes it when I use pink

Have a beautiful day my dear friend

Hop over to the CCCB blog later today to check out the rest of the tributes to Kirsty and please leave her a comment

~~~~~

City Craft Challenge

The lovely Charlene is hosting for us this week and her theme is 

"For The Love Of Burlap"

Source

The challenge is simply to use burlap somewhere on your project ...

Our Guest Designer this week is Dora from the Netherlands ... click the link to visit her lovely blog

And don't forget to visit the CCCB blog to check out the lovely projects from the other designers ...

My iPod is my best friend ... It travels everywhere with me and for the longest time I have been promising myself I'd make a little cover for it ... this was the perfect opportunity

This started life as a pouch for my sunglasses

I just cut it to the size I needed and stitched it and then set about decorating it

Now I can slip it in my bag and it's safe and pretty too!

I will also be entering this in the challenge at Lessology ... For The Love Of Fabric

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Have a beautiful Day

~ Ros ~

Be Amazing

I've been busy making more masculine cards

Another one of our male friends has a birthday tomorrow and on Wednesday my brother celebrates his birthday too! I'll share the card I made for him later in the week

Making masculine cards is not always easy but fortunately the lovely MME Be Amazing papers have kept me inspired ... I just love this set ... 

It's not easy to get new releases here in the UK - by time we get them ... The USA is onto another set

... but I'm making use of every last bit of these papers

and I'm loving stars at the moment too ... Can you tell?

We've had lovely weather this weekend and now it has turned cold again ... 

The Battle of The Atlantic commemorations have been very well attended and I have a couple of photos taken by my brother to show you

You can see our museum in the background and if you look closely you can just make out a guy being winched out of that helicopter on a mock rescue ... My brother took these shots from way across the bay (click to enlarge)

A Spitfire over the tower

And I just had to share a cute photo he took awhile ago

How sweet!

Enjoy your day my friends ... I'll be back tomorrow

Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

60th Birthday

Hello ...

My best wishes to all my friends across the pond who are commemorating Memorial Weekend ... 

Here in Liverpool we are remembering the Battle of The Atlantic and the port is full of ships ... There are many stories and memories being told  and of course there will be wreaths laid for the fallen ... My father served in the Royal Navy during this period - he was only a youngster really ...

How I wish we could all live in peace ...

One of our male friends is celebrating his 60th Birthday in a couple of days ... Here is a card I made for him

Over at Shopping Our Stash there is a challenge to use a tool in our stash ... either never used or long forgotten ...

I have a Crop A Dile big bite and whilst I regularly use it to punch holes ... I have never been sure just how to use it for eyelets etc., I bought it second hand so the full instructions were not with it ... However, I discovered I could download them from the web (why didn't I think of that before) and gave it a go to attach the brad you see on the star

One problem though ... I didn't manage to squash the back flat without damaging the front slightly hence the gem stone lol!

I guess I'm missing something ...

Why is it that instructions these days seem to be in the tiniest of writing? Have you noticed that? Try holding a magnifying glass and punching a brad at the same time ... Heck I can't even see the little numbers on the tool! I guess you could say it's old age 

Have a wonderful weekend 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Recycled Rooster

This morning I was going through my some of my cards ...

 I send a lot of them ... give lots away and yet still I am overflowing with them ...

I came across a card I made a long time ago which you can see Here  ... It was something I did on a whim and today I decided to recycle it ...

Lessology has a challenge - For The Love Of Fabric

It requires something recycled and of course some fabric ... Perfect!

At the Play Date Cafe ... the colour choice is stunning

... And my finished project has these colours ... but maybe a little more

So anyway, here is my recycled card ... now framed 

I removed the glass for photo purposes ... 

As you can see I added some fabric trim to the top and also to the bottom right along with some rose trim ... There is also some burlap under the nest

The little nest was a left over from Easter and I actually cut it and the eggs in half to fit in the frame ... It sits on some yellow threads and is decorated with leaves rescued from artificial flowers displays and some flowers from my supplies

The little watch was hiding away ... something I salvaged from somewhere ... I gave it a new face courtesy of Tim Holtz junkyard Findings ...

And there you have it ... a recycled rooster!

I hope you are having a lovely day ...

Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~