Birthday Thank you's

Hello ...

How was your weekend?

I had family and friends here all yesterday and later Stella and I talked then a dear friend who I haven't seen in a long time rang too ... It was lovely

I was exhausted at the end of the evening ... I'm not used to talking so much! 

Given that it's my birthday today I will be going out to lunch with some girlfriends but before I get organised I just wanted to say a big Thank You to all of you for your kind wishes and I'd like to share a few things I received

This lovely selection of goodies including a fabulous apron arrived from the lovely Ira

together with this stunning card ... wouldn't you just love boots like that?

And my dear friend Stella sent these

A wonderful Tea chest and tea towels with a hanger plus a beautiful card

Did you notice that those tea towels match the apron Ira sent? How amazing is that! Those ladies really know what I love

I was positively doing the Happy Dance when these cards arrived from 2 of my blog friends ... They create totally different things but each is a masterpiece

This is from the lovely Asia

Beautifully layered and so very pretty ...

And this one came from the amazingly talented Tracy ... I saw it on her blog and was thrilled when it arrived here (as most cats do Lol)

The most adorable no mess no fuss kitty!

Thank you all so very much ... I am touched by your kindness and always amazed by your talent

I'm waaaay behind on my commenting but I promise I'll catch up as soon as I can...

Have a beautiful day ... It's very wet and wild here!

Hugs

~ Ros ~

Wintery

It's time for an new prompt at 

Our Beautiful World

Manuela has chosen the prompt for us this week and it's

Wintery

It's been very wet, cold and windy here in the UK ... I know lots of you are experiencing freezing temperatures and snow

We had our first snowfall on Boxing Day

It didn't last long...

Suddenly it warmed a little ... But we are used to unexpected weather here and we have clothes for every season ... I love my warm winter boots

... layering up with scarves and sweaters

Yesterday morning at 6am it was lashing with rain ... the windy was howling at the window and it felt  so cosy tucked under the duvet

And not for the first time I thought about all those people who don't have a warm bed, maybe sleeping on the streets... or fighting for freedom in some cold remote wintery place ... 

It makes me realise that we are blessed, no matter how much we complain about the wintery weather

Link up your Wintery photos with us at Our Beautiful World

and have a cosy blessed day

~ Ros ~

Thinking of you

Hello ...

We're having some wild weather here at the moment and yet I'm still finding Ladybirds everywhere in the house ... How weird

I've been spending time in my craft room making a few cards and keeping up with my DT work ... But yesterday I had to make a card for my husband's friend ... He lost his only brother this week

It's always hard to have to make a sympathy card 

I hope this lets him know that we care

I used the inlaid die technique and I always think these little birds can say so much

I got myself one of the 'wink of stella' pens and used it on the leaves ... What fabulous stuff that is...

I seem to be splattering my cards all the time at the moment ... I love that TH pewter paint ... sadly I've knocked the bottle over 3 times now so just had to order a new one

The card stock started as plain white and though it looks as though I sponged it, it is in fact a digital from Pink Petticoat ... Ombre Paper selection. I love these and if you don't happen to have the colour inks to sponge, your short on time or you're not too clever at blending, I would highly recommend these.

I hope you have a lovely weekend ... stay warm and safe

Till soon

~ Ros ~

January Birthdays

Hello...

I hope you are all well and having a good week ... 

It's been a busy one here and I got to meet up with the son of my dear blog friend Stella

Her lovely boy will be spending 6 months at Liverpool University and we found him a nice place to stay ... Here we are meeting up

In a few months time I will finally get to meet Stella and her husband too!

January is the start of another year of Birthdays and Anniversaries ... I celebrate both my anniversary and birthday this month and so does a sweet friend of mine ...

Here's a little birthday card I made for her

 I cut a lot of stars out for Christmas cards together with various other things and I bet like me there are things you cut and didn't use ... So I'm using up all those bits 

It's been a long time since I inked up that Happy Birthday stamp ... I've had it for years, in fact the only 'new' thing on this card is the lovely pink jewel scroll which I got from my friend Char

I like to cut them into different pieces and that way I get more use out of them

I do hope you enjoy your day and for those of you shivering in the arctic winter weather ... Be safe and stay warm

Till soon

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 243

Good morning!!

It's the first challenge of the year at City Crafter and this week Char is hosting for us with a theme of

Burlap Love

Make a card or project using burlap

source

It was my Wedding Anniversary on Sunday so the card I made was the one I gave to my husband

I used the negative space of a bird die ... That I have never used even though I've had it for some time... and put burlap ribbon in 2 shades behind it

Our Guest Designer this week is Larissa ... winner from week 238 ... Click on her name to be taken to her blog 

This week's winner will also be offered a GD spot with us here at City Crafter

My fello DT have some more inspirations for you up on the blog - hop over and take a look - I hope you'll be able to join us this week.

I'm also entering this at Darnell's challenge for  

Never used that die before...

Have a lovely day and take care

~ Ros ~

NBUS and Simon Says Stamp Challenge

Hello ...

Life is finally getting back to normal after Christmas and New Year ...

My inspiration took some time out and getting it back has been a struggle

I did however get around to making a card for the NBUS challenge run by the lovely Darnell at djkardkreations

So, I have quite a lot of paper pads one or two (or more) have never been used ... Especially those pages where there are little symbols or words ... Not doing much scrapping I generally use them for albums ... 

I also had a new word die "You" from Simon Says Stamp that I hadn't even opened ... 

So this is where my NBUS card came in

The dottie paper, the Hello and the red embellishments are all papers from a Teresa Collins pad "You are my happy"

I smothered the little heart and the circle fabulous with dimensional Mod Podge - cut the word die out a few times and stuck them together for more dimension and just added a few sequins

The Monday challenge over at Simon Says Stamp is all about pairing old with new so I think my card also qualifies ... Old paper pack - New Die

At least it got me creating once again

I hope you're having a good start to your week ... I'll be back tomorrow for the first challenge of the year at City Crafter

Thanks for stopping by - Enjoy your day

~ Ros ~