City Crafter 282

Good morning friends!

It's time for a new challenge at City Crafter where we have Kirsty hosting for us this week

The challenge theme is 

Scribble Doodle

Source

"Make a card or project that includes scribble or doodling" Hop on over to the blog for full details

I scribbled some wonky lines to frame my shaker

For my shaker I sponged a background, adding some gold splats and stamped the grass. I made the shaker adding beads and sequins and the bird and branch (cut on my Cameo) was adhered on top of the acetate.

 The sentiment stamp is from the Doodle Buds stamp set by Wplus 9 and it was just perfect for this challenge

 Guest Designer this week is our winner from week 276 Theresa! Click the link on her name to go visit her lovely blog

Thanks so much for your visit - I hope you'll be inspired to join us at CCCB this week

 Before I go I just want to wish my dear friend Pat a very Happy Birthday! I know she often pops in to my blog

Have a great day!

Edit ... I've just seen that the latest challenge from Colour Me is Pumpkin Pie! 

So I'm going to enter this card there ... Well, it is kinda pumpkin coloured

~ Ros ~

Colours of October

Good morning!

It's time for a new word prompt at

Our Beautiful World

This week the prompt has been chosen by Kirsty and it's

 Colours of October

I do hope you are not fed up with my garden shots... it's all I have for now

This time of year we usually associate with the colours of reds, golds and copper and I guess Halloween colours, black, orange, purple

Here in my part of the UK Autumn has been a tad late in arriving and surprisingly we still have a lot of flowers and greenery but some of the plants and trees are changing

They make for a beautiful display ... Even the dark ones

But one thing that isn't turning is last year's Christmas tree which I left in it's little pot

Fresh new green branches are appearing ... If we're lucky we'll be using it again this year - I wonder how long we'll be able to keep using this tree? 

Link up your Colours of October with us at

Our Beautiful World 

And go visit the blog to see what everyone is sharing

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

World Card Making Day

Hello!

Ok, so it's world card making day and I wanted to participate and actually I did make a card but I can't share it yet because I'm worried my friend will see it here before her birthday ... plus it's too dark now to get a decent photo... I know I'm late!

Sooo... not sure if it counts but I can share a little peek at the project that I've been working on for my special needs group

It's a wall hanging, 3D plant pot sort of thing

They like to stick things, well, that's easy for them and for the support workers that come along with some of them...

There's lots for them to stick here ... it's taken me over 2 days so far to make enough pieces for 20+ people

I hope you are having a wonderful day or evening depending on where you are ...

Big hugs for now

~ Ros ~

I ♥ October

Good morning!

October is upon us and we've had the typical chilly and foggy mornings which have surprisingly turned into warm sunny days....

I like October ... It's kind of the lull before the storm when I can savour the last of the flowers, see the colours changing on the trees and take a breath before the Christmas rush starts....

Talking of rush, it was very busy at club last night and now I'm in the middle of a project for this week.  I did sneak some time out to make a little shaker box

Sometimes you just have to stop what you're doing and move on to something else

Use up some more of the little bits that accumulate everywhere

Have a peaceful day and enjoy this beautiful month

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Just Because

Hello friends

I think I've almost caught up with everything and even got my project for Thursday club sorted phew!

I spent a lovely afternoon with my friend Pat on Monday and we chatted, drank coffee and ate some of my homemade buns and of course did some card making...

Having seen These lovely cards on Danielle Flanders blog I was inspired to try out this technique and here's what I came up with

The flower stamp I used is an old one by American Crafts - and I used the umbrella die from Impression Obsessions

I'm loving the Label Maker Sentiments from MFT ... There are so many combinations you can come up with

You can just see that I put some black CS behind the front of the card and slightly offset the umbrellas just to give a little more definition and shadow

I hope your having a good day ... We had wonderful weather and it's set to last for a few more days yet

Thanks so much for stopping by

Till soon

~ Ros ~

City Crafter Challenge 281

Hello and good morning!

Can you believe this is the last challenge of September at City Crafter? Here we are already heading to October and the weather here has been so nice I'm still hanging on to the last of summer!

This week we have the talented Marina hosting our challenge with the theme 

Geek Chic

Collage by Marina

The challenge is to create a card or project using the theme sci fi, science, technology or be inspired by the collage

I have to say that this did give me a bit of a headache, but hey it's a challenge right? I tried one idea first and wasn't keen on that so in the end this is what I came up with

Does it look like a cell phone? Well that's what it's supposed to be with a photo of Autumn colours

The photo was from my printshop program and I made the phone on my silhouette

Our Guest Designer this week is Padoriaa winner of challenge 273, She creates the most lovely shabby chic projects - click the link to be taken to her blog and see for yourself her lovely cards
As always we are offering a GD spot to our winner so come along and join us ... I'm dying to see what you clever crafters come up with.

I'm off to see what the rest of our team have to inspire you this week at City Crafter - Care to join me?

Have a beautiful day my friends

~ Ros ~