Hearts

Hello there...

Today is a new word prompt at

Our Beautiful World

and it will be our last one for this year as we are taking a break for the Christmas period

This week's prompt has been chosen for us by Kirsty and the prompt is

"Hearts"

There are hearts just about everywhere in my home ... like the tiles on my pretty Christmas  tray

There are hearts in the pot pourri

Metal hanging hearts...

Burlap hearts 

...and felt hearts

Not to mention a handmade heart that hangs on my front door full of handmade flowers and trinkets that I made some years ago

I have a "thing" for hearts and I'm running out of places to put them

These are just a few of the many I have ... 

We love it if you shared your photos of hearts with us at 

Our Beautiful World this week

Maybe you have a story to go with them?

Thanks so much for looking in ... Have a lovely Sunday

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Bling It On

Hello there!

We're having crazy weather here ... We've just had a hail storm followed by blue skies ... It's been like that all morning...

Yesterday I decorated the house for Christmas and tomorrow,weather permitting, I'm hoping to travel to Lincoln to see my Aunt... She had to have her little kitty put to sleep last week so you can imagine how sad she is...

I've still got lots of cards to share ... some got sent before I remembered to photograph them Lol!

This one features the new dies I got from Simon Says Stamp again except I did something different with the tree die

Those little swirls should pop out so the tree looks like this

But I left them in and used foam dots to pop them up and then added pearls

You can see from this next photo how they are raised

I love it when you can use your dies different ways

... And use the left over pieces like those dots to add a little more interest

I'm linking this up to The Wednesday Challenge at Simon Says Stamp which is 

"Bling It On"

Thanks to all of you who responded to the blogger problem ... You are quite right ... there is no need to fill in the verification number - your comment publishes without it ... Who knew?

I hope you have a lovely day and that the season isn't stressing you too much

Keep safe

~ Ros ~

Glittery snowflakes and Blogger problems

Hello!

I don't know what's happening with Blogger ... Every blog I visited yesterday and today has had word verification on ... I'm told that mine did too even though it's switched off ... 

I hope it gets fixed soon - if it's still showing it's a Blogger problem 

Glittering snowflakes it the theme at City Crafter this week and I have 2 more cards to share ... One with gold accents and one with silver

This is the subtle gold I used a couple of days ago and the embossing folder is one I've had for the longest time... you can see the gold better in this photo

I used the inlaid die technique and both the word dies and the snowflake are from Simon Says Stamp

This is the silver version

and this time I used a grey card stock as my base

The shading on my BG is not sponged by the way ... I used a digital paper from Pink Petticoat's Ombre range ... 

I've a friend coming to visit this morning so I'd better say goodbye for now

Enjoy your day

Hugs

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 241

Hi there ...

It's time for a new challenge at City Crafter and this week the lovely Kirsty is hosting for us with a 

"Glittering Snowflake" 

challenge

Source

The colours and the simplicity of the inspiration photo inspired this card - not as overly ornate as some of my recent ones

The snowflake is a wooden one that I sprayed silver and then dipped into glitter

I used my long forgotten about glue pad to stamp some more snowflakes and then sprinkled glitter on them

Our GD this week is Mariken - Winner of week 236 Click on her name to go visit her lovely blog

We are also offering a GD spot to this week's winner so get out your sparkle and come join us this week! Remember there will only be one more challenge before we wrap up for the Christmas break

Don't forget to visit the City Crafter Blog to see what Mariken and the rest of our team have come up with

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

Sparkle

Hello from a very cold UK

We've had hailstones, rain and wind for the past few days and it's very gloomy here

Yesterday was spent in my little room making more cards.

Just Us Girls have a challenge this week for Sparkle

Well I've made so many cards that fit the bill this past week, Birthday cards, sparkly Christmas cards even cards with the word Sparkle on them ... what to post...

I'm settling for a sparkly snowflake one today

I don't work well with the rich bright golds but I do love the muted softer shade of gold and I had some of this colour self adhesive glitter paper which I used for my snowflakes and the word Joy

I always adhere the glitter paper to odd bits of CS before I die cut and I also used a piece of the self adhesive silver for the little snowflake too ... The BG paper is by Teresa Collins

It needed a little ink splattering but the mists and sprays I had were too gold against this glitter paper so I used some gold drawing ink.

I can assure you this is very sparkly!

News on the cat front ... I put her picture on the FB page of a 5star Cattery know as the Cat's Mansion ... Anyway cutting a long story short ... I've been inundated with messages of people sharing her photo etc., and both an offer of someone coming here with a scanner to check for a microchip and another kind person saying they will take her and re-home her. I'm overwhelmed with the response. 

Now the down side of all this is that every single time I've arranged to take her to the vet, who you may remember offered to keep her until a home is found ... She has done a runner! She comes to be fed but won't even come in the house ... in the evening when the vet is closed ... Oh yes, she comes in the house! 

I think the saga may continue for a while yet Lol!

I hope your day is going well 

Be safe

~ Ros ~

Markets

Hi there!

It's time for a new prompt at Our Beautiful World and this week Robyn has chosen the prompt

"Markets"

I love markets ... We don't have as many as we used to where I live and they are not the same as they used to be when I was young

Whenever I'm abroad I love to go and browse if there is a market and here's a photo taken years ago in Spain

You kind of buy things then you're back home the following week and you never get to wear what you bought!

But it's fun to see what they have and just how cheap things are

Then there are the Christmas markets that seem to be springing up just about everywhere ... They are so expensive and I wonder if they ever sell anything

The food is so tempting though...

We'd love it if you'd share your Market photo with us at 

Our Beautiful World

Hop over to the Blog and see what my friends are sharing this week 

Have a beautiful Sunday

~ Ros ~