Ciào!

Hello!

Gosh it's getting cold ... here in Lincolnshire the wind is always very strong and it a cold wind that blows!

Still I'm enjoying the break and some girlie time with my Aunt

Today starts a new photo inspiration challenge at 

Papercraft Star

And this is your photo

Once again there is quite a bit to go on in this photo and you'll always find suggestions along with inspiration on the Papercraft Star blog 

The photo reminded me of The Cafe Rouge ... not sure if you know what that is but we have a few of them in the UK ... Here's a shot of one in Manchester

As you can see this one is right next to the Italian restaurant and my card this week has an Italian theme with the French colours

I overlaid a digital image of the "Ciào" which I bought at Etsy onto my paper - the BG paper is a large A4 picture so I scanned it into my computer to make it smaller for my card and to add the overlay

Can you see I used a couple of cogs from the MPD Time Pieces set too ... They are just so versatile and add a little something to a masculine card ... And this card is for a male friend of my husband

I'd love to see your interpretation of the photo so I hope you'll join us this week ...

Ciào for now!

~ Ros ~

CCCB Colour Challenge

Hello!

It's my turn to host at City Crafter this week and I thought we'd go with a colour challenge based on this lovely photo

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Aqua, White, Silver, Green are your colours

And here's my card ...

These papers have been hiding away for a long time and they were just perfect for this colour challenge ... whenever it's my turn to come up with a challenge - I never have anything in my head about what I will create ... sometimes I am struggling and think "Ros why did you pick that!" Lol! Fortunately it always comes together in the end

The die is by PTI

... and the flower was cut on my Cameo ... which I can no longer use as the power cable is broken! I see from the internet that I am not the only one who has experienced this and so far I have had no luck in finding a replacement ...sigh

This week we have the very talented Macarena guesting for us ... Macarena won our challenge in week 166 ... I'm sure she would love you to stop by her blog and say hello ... she makes such beautiful things ... and don't forget to visit the City Crafter Blog to check out the inspiration from the team this week ...

I'll be back with you tomorrow ... till then have a beautiful day!

~ Ros ~

Yellow

Happy Sunday!

I hope you are all well ... I'm in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire ... enjoying the peacefulness and my Aunts company ... 

Thanks so much for your well wishes ... I'm happy to say that finally today my face is no longer swollen and I am not in much pain with my mouth ...

At Our Beautiful World this week ... the prompt has been chosen for us by Wendy and it is simply

Yellow

This is a photo of the leaves on a shrub outside my front door ... some leaves are yellow, some green and some variegated ... I took it just after it had rained and looking at it - it would have been a good shot for last weeks prompt of Bubbles!

I hope you aren't fed up of seeing my flowers ... because here are some Yellow ones in and around my garden

Can you see the bee to the right just about to land on this flower?

I wonder what you will come up with this week for Yellow ... 

Our Beautiful World would LOVE to see your photos so please link up with us

Have a lovely day

Till soon 

~ Ros ~

Graduation

Hi there!

This is just a quick post ... I had to have a tooth extracted yesterday and it wasn't an easy extraction ... I looked like I had been punched ... several times! And I feel it!

So I'm taking it easy today as I have club to do tonight ...

After posting the school album yesterday for my great niece Sophia ... I received a gorgeous photo in the post that I wanted to share with you ...

This is Sophia's "Graduation from Nursery" photo

That certainly cheered me up!

I'm leaving for Lincoln again on Saturday but I'll keep in touch ...

Till soon - Stay safe

~ Ros ~

Papercraft Star Special!

Hello and good morning!

Now I warn you ... This is a long post and full of photos ... so grab yourself a cup of tea or coffee and hopefully you will enjoy ...

I'm really excited to share not only my project but that today, here at

Papercraft Star 

we have an amazing Guest Designer who is also generously sponsoring a fabulous prize for our winner!

This lady needs no introduction to most of you ... When I say she is not only a sweet and kind lady but an immensely talented artist it is an understatement ... Our Guest is non other than 

Miss Mona Pendleton of Cupcake Creations!

Mona has designed for many companies and her versatility is amazing ... so much so that she has now designed an exclusive range of stamps, dies and stencils for 

My Favorite Things

If there are any of you have not yet visited Mona's blog ... or her Mixed Media Challenge blog - I urge you to do so ... you will be in awe! You will also find tips tricks and tutorials to get the most from your supplies and learn everything from Card Making to 3D projects to Mixed Media ... 

This is Papercraft Star's Photo Inspiration for this week ...

 Mona generously sent each of our designers the exclusive Timeless Stamps and Time Piece Dies designed by her for us to use this week ... 

(I will leave links at the end of my post for you)

 

I was so thrilled to receive these goods ... You all know how much I love anything to do with clocks and as little Miss Sophia has graduated from nursery to 'proper' school ... It gave me the opportunity to make a fat little album ready for some photos and journalling ...

The papers are a mix of Dear Lizzy and Crate Paper but all stamps and dies used are from 

Timeless Stamps and Time Pieces

I made this in the shape of a little school house  ... Isn't the clock just beautiful! I've never used MFT goods before being in the UK and I am amazed at how much is in these sets and just how easy the dies cut!

You can see some of the cogs from the set next to my felt owl and I've used the clock hands as holders for the photo as well as a piece of the die cut clock to decorate the top of the page together with rhinestones

More cogs and I stamped the clock hands onto my paper where the photo mount is ... also a different clock face here

I stamped and embossed onto black card here to give a chalkboard effect and cut a couple of pencils up to stick onto a burlap frame ... the other themed buttons you can see came from my sweet friend Lynnda

I did use Rub-ons for the "best buddies" but again the cogs, clock hands and pretty black 'flowers' are from the sets

Feel free to click on all the photos to enlarge

Here on the left I cut the cogs from DP and the clock was done by leaving in the sections of the outer face in and stamping directly onto it

With all that embellishing I left the back just plain

I have loved playing with these sets and it's going to be hard for me to part with this little album ... but I'm giving it to Sophia's Grandma my SIL who will keep it safe 

A great big THANK YOU to Mona for her generosity

Please hop over to the Papercraft Star blog to check out Mona's creation together with the that of the rest of the team and link up your entry to be in with a chance of winning this awesome Stamp and Die set 

Thanks so much for stopping by - 

Can I just also say that my thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by 9/11 as we remember today

Till soon

~ Ros ~

     

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MPD Timeless Stamp Set

Bicycles ...

Hello and good morning ...

It's slowly turning to Autumn here ... some days are bright and sunny ... but the coolness is definitely creeping in ...

Today at City Crafter we have our lovely Kirsty hosting for us with a fabulous challenge called

Daisy Daisy ... ( ... a bicycle made for two)

Are you humming the song? I bet you are!

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The challenge is to make a card or project that includes a bicycle ... 

I wanted to create something that looks like those painted walls you often see on buildings so I used a background paper for the wall and digitally added the window frames and the French bicycle image

I pulled out some old rub-ons for the vines and flowers

This week we have our winner from Week 165 Raluca Vezeteu  Guesting for us ... I'm sure she would love it if you visited her blog and said "Hello"

And Kirsty is also offering a prize for the winner of this weeks' challenge ...

So we would love for you to join us and link up your entries ... 

Take a look at the projects from the rest of the Design Team Here 

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Till soon

~ Ros ~