Recipe Book

Hi there ... How's your week going?

It's challenge time at City Crafter once again and this week we have Anna hosting for us 

Anna is asking that we make a project related to the kitchen

(e.g.apron, cupcakes, kitchen utensils, recipes)

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I don't know about you but I tend to keep pieces of paper with my favourite recipes all over the place ... promising to file them somewhere...sometime

Well this challenge pushed me to make a book to finally store these recipes ... 

I used an inexpensive flip photo album to make this ... took me a long time to print all my recipes onto blank postcards but it was worth it ... In fact I've started another book as I filled this so quickly - blame Pinterest!

I made a pocket inside the front cover to hold conversion charts which I printed and laminated to keep them clean - I guess I'm hoping that there'll be no excuse for my DH not to cook once and a while

All the papers and embellishments came from my stash - those stickers I've had for a long time

of course I needed somewhere to put the books ... and I found the perfect container

A vintage radio tin which I picked up for £1.25 in the post Christmas sales ... it was filled with creamy toffees which were delicious 

I love this tin and it looks so good in my kitchen and now all my recipes are to hand

our Guest Designer this week is a very talented lady -

Maciejkowe Zacisze

Hop over to the blog to see her lovely creation and those from the rest of our team

I'm still on holiday so forgive me for not visiting your blogs for a while - I hope to catch up with you soon ... 

Have a lovely week 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Splish Splash

Hello!

Our Word prompt this week at 

Our Beautiful World

has been chosen for us by the lovely Kirsty ...

The word is 

Bath

Well, whilst I was in Lincoln recently I caught these guys taking a bath ...

(Click photos to enlarge)

I can't believe how quickly those little ducklings can swim

Mum was quite happy to stand and watch once she'd had a little bathe

And as for me ... well, as you are reading this (scheduled) post ... I hope to be taking a bath too ... somewhere like this

or maybe dipping my toes in the cool blue waters 

around the sunny Isle of Majorca ...

Have a beautiful day and link up your photos for our prompt word this week at 

Our Beautiful World

Catch you when I'm home ... be good!

~ Ros ~

Ahoy!

Hello ...

I just had to do a card for CAS.ology before I left ...

 I saw the cue card 'Splash'

and having recently bought the Dockside stamps by Wplus9 from Make the Day Special I thought it was just perfect for what I had in mind ...

Here's what I came up with

My 'sea splash' is quite glossy ...

I inked up my paint splat stamp from Inkylicious with some distress stains ... stamped and dried it and then went over it again using Versamark and clear embossing powder ... you don't need to line up the stamp exactly ... in fact it's more effective if you don't 

I'm pleased with how it turned out ... what do you think? 

The little anchor is from my stash ...

Have a great day and take care

~ Ros ~

Birthday Boy

Hi there! 

I wonder if your week has been as busy as mine ... I don't seem to have stopped!

Yesterday my lovely friend Pat came for coffee and a little advice about an album she is making for her granddaughter who is off to Camp America shortly ... Pat is a novice crafter and whilst I am by no means an expert I am happy to offer advice and show her a few things I've learned ... Suffice to say we were still working 6 hours later having sorted a project for the club and having helped Pat to put together a couple of cards.

Last Saturday my DH asked me to make a birthday card for his friend of over 50 years ... he was turning 70 ... Funny thing is, though they have been close friends for all those years, neither of them know when the other's birthday is ... My DH was told by someone else ... It's got to be a man thing - all they seem to talk about is golf and football! 

So here's my card

I used the colours of the football team they support and my card is virtually all stamping ... I won a gift certificate for Gina K Designs at the Mod Squad Challenge and I ordered the Dots stamps which came so quickly ... wonderful service!

So you can see a mix of stamps here, PTI, Gina K, Basic Grey and Inkylicious

When I stamped the PTI "Yay! it's your birthday" I didn't ink the word 'birthday' - instead I digitally added 70TH to my card ... That was my starting point 

You can see that I stamped a row of those dots inside the card too and to finish I decorated a handmade envelope

I have 2 more sleeps till I'm off for a well earned break in the sun ... I've lots to do till then including my packing!

So I hope the rest of your week goes well

Be safe and thanks for looking in on me

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 211

Hello and Good morning!

It's time for a new challenge over at City Crafter ... This is our 211th challenge!

To think that we have come up with so many challenges and that you lovely people have risen to each and every challenge with your amazing talent and creativity is just wonderful!

This week we have the awesome Char hosting and her challenge to us is to 

use a clothes pin/s on your project

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Our Guest Designer this week is Maggie from Bulgaria our winner of week 204 ... Click on the link to visit her blog and see her beautiful creations

Once again one lucky winner this week will also have a GD spot with us

On to my card ... I had fun with this ... using bits and pieces of left over paper and embellishments

You can probably see a scrap of left over paper there which I stamped and sponged to use on This card

My little clothes pin is holding the word 'hello' which I cut on my Cameo - I stuck a little butterfly that was reclaimed from a shop bought card onto my clothes pin and added a little gem

There's something so satisfying about making a card you like using up your scraps

Hop on over to the CCCB blog to see what my fellow DT members have come up with this week and please link up your creations this week ... you know we love to see what you make

Wishing you a wonderful day from another wet and windy day in the UK!

Keep safe

~ Ros ~

Clouds

Good morning!

Time for a new prompt word at 

Our Beautiful World

And this week our lovely Australian friend Robyn has picked the word

Clouds

We rarely have a cloudless sky ... I love spotting shapes in clouds ... I look for shapes everywhere and see them in the most unusual things ... do you ever do that?

I love wispy clouds in a bright blue sky ... or clouds that puff up like cotton wool

But this past week we've had  a lot of big fat heavy black clouds ... so full of rain

...Even in Lincoln those old rain clouds began to roll in over the fields - good for the newly planted crops - This is the view from my Aunts back garden

And it's worth showing again a photo I took one evening last year... A stunning sunset that made it look like the sky was on fire

Just look at those fiery clouds

We'd love to see your photos this week over at 

Our Beautiful World

Come and link up and mingle with us 

Have a lovely Sunday

~ Ros ~