One of those weeks

Hello my friends ... I haven't been ignoring you ... honestly ... it's just been a funny old week ... The work I am having done here is taking much longer than anticipated and is really getting me down ... the guy doing it is nice enough but takes more cigarette breaks than anyone I've ever known ... I don't want to complain to his boss in case the work suffers even more ... what's a girl to do?
After my posting to you on Wednesday I heard that a friend from Thursday Club had died suddenly ... It upset me so much ... This wonderful lady (and her husband) had for many years, volunteered their love and time to the running of the club and to the caring of the group ... Kind people who gave from their hearts ... Loss is something one never gets accustom to ...
I threw myself into creating ... not really knowing what to do ... but knowing I needed to put my hands to work and turn my thoughts towards beauty ... to ease my heavy heart ... I made one of my book boxes ... added a few little things to finish it off today with some beautiful gifts from my friend Stella ... Yep, I got Happy mail this morning ... a belated birthday gift of treasures ... so prettily wrapped and so heartwarming ...

Beautiful ribbons, the most adorable handmade pins, clear cut frames and a cute little album ... and of course a handmade card filled with love ... I just had to put some of that ribbon on my box and one of those little pins ...

 ... I was thinking that maybe I will enclose a matching handmade album ...

Somewhere for the group, the friends and helpers to put down their memories ... their unspoken words

to this 'Special' lady

A piece of comfort for the family to hold onto ... something to let them know just what a much loved

 lady Vi was ...

Till soon my friends ... keep safe

~ Ros ~

CR84FN15 Colour Challenge

Hey there ... 
It's a beautiful sunny day here and I am confined to my little room as we are having the en suite done so more mess ... hubby will be taking advantage of the sunshine and going to golf ... and me ... I will be catching up on some work ...
I have a card to share that I made for this weeks' challenge at CR84FN ... this is the lovely colour palette 

and here is my card 

That gorgeous teal and yellow paper is from We R Memory Keepers ... and the yellow background paper is from K & Co

I fussy cut the little fairy and butterfly from a book I had and mounted them with foam pads onto this green crackled chipboard which I had in my stash 

That beautiful flower is from Prima and the lace is from Kirsty ....

I recently bought some more crackle paint ... I have all these things in my head that I want to do and somehow I collect the goods and then time gets away from me and I don't seem to get them done ... Is it just me or are some of you like that?

Have a wonderful day whatever you are doing 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

City Crafter Colour Challenge

Good Morning ... did you all have a wonderful Valentine's evening? ... I appreciate that there many of you who have partners in the military or for one reason or another cannot be together ... but love is carried in the heart no matter what right?
So on to this weeks challenge at City Crafter ... where Kirsty is hosting for us  ... this week it is a colour challenge and as Kirsty likes to take us around the world .. our city is Tokyo ... though it doesn't mean that you have to make a card / project based on the city ... like me you can just follow the colours to enter ....

 I confess this weeks' photo did leave me a bit stumped ... sometime I just over think things ... but in the end the light bulb went on and this is what I came up with ...

My background paper is from Tim Holtz and the lovely image is a freebie from Cemerony ... 

I actually had this little umbrella embellishment in my stash ... can you see the little turquoise beads?

some little yellow buttons and some turquoise gems follow the colour scheme ... my sentiment is computer generated and the tag is SB ... 

Ok ... so not very Tokyo(ish) and I bet there are lots of you brilliant crafters out there who can combine the city with the colours ... (unlike me) ... so please come and join us ... we have the very talented Yvonne Yam as our guest designer and as ever ... there is a prize for the winner ... and if you need any inspiration hop on over to the blog and check out the rest of the DT's creations ... see 'ya there!

~ Ros ~

No Red ...

Absolutely ...  positively NO red ... says Lisa ... who picked the theme of this week's challenge at Jingle Belles Rock  ... we're up to Christmas card number 7 can you believe it? ... So not using red was fine for me ... I tend to use it mostly as an accent colour anyway ... though a lot of Christmas DP's and images do contain red ... seems to be traditional ... my card still looks 'Christmassy' and can even be a masculine card which I like ... what do you think?

I used MME paper again ... jeez this lasts forever! ... but I do love it ... added some lace from Kirsty

and a bauble from Stella ...  and dressed the bauble in some pretty seam binding and a glittery button

I used a burlap frame that I backed with a scrap of paper from my 'bits' box and mounted the bauble directly onto the frame ... the sentiment is computer generated and of course I added a bit of glitter to my paper for that frosty look ... so there we are ... number 7 all done and dusted! Are you doing the challenge too? 

Happy Valentines Day to you all ... I hope you all have a wonderful day ... I got a dozen red roses this morning ... how about you?

Till soon ... keep safe 

~ Ros ~

Play Date Challenge

Happy Sunday ... it's really wet and miserable here ... fortunately I have some time to spend in my little craft space ..
Yesterday was my husbands birthday and we were out all day ... so we didn't go out to dinner in the evening ... Instead I cooked us a nice meal and opened some wine ... it was cosy ...
So ...  I have a card that I did for the Play Date Cafe challenge based on this beautiful photo ...

The photo is a collection of exquisite goods from a shop owned by Polly Hood ... you can find her blog "Count your Blessings" and visit her shop by clicking Here ... This weeks' colours are soft and subtle and oh so shabby ... 

... Made me think of this sweet image I got from Iralamija's   Etsy shop ...  I paired it with some pretty digital papers

The heart is cut with my Sizzix ...  I used self adhesive glitter paper ... which I stuck to card before cutting ... everything else is from my stash ... 

I hope you are all having a wonderful lazy Sunday ... and that your weather is a bit better than mine!

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Quick and simple ...

Hello .. How are you all? ...  It's nearly the weekend and today we have lovely sunshine ... maybe Spring is finally on the way here ... I had to make a quick 'male' card today ... I love that I can always fall back on my digital collection ... this one is from Hero Arts (Bird Branch) printed onto digital paper from Jen Allyson ... Vintage Findings Ledger Paper ...

I used some lovely Tim Holtz paper to stitch it too and then mounted it onto Kraft CS ...

As you can see I added some gems and a couple of buttons and my sentiment is computer generated and printed straight onto my CS ... Quick and simple ... (and you can see my sewing machine is playing up again ... but it all adds to the look)

I spent all day yesterday preparing for my group ... Valentine's card making is always popular ... so I took lots of goods for them to play around with ... these are an example of what they made ...

I can't tell you how many hearts I cut and I bought lots of sparkly ones too ... I printed and cut tons of those tickets and papers ... folded and cut lots of blank cards for them ... sorted buttons, ribbons and the extra's that I take for certain people ... one girl likes crackly acetate which she sits playing contentedly with all evening ... one girl likes to draw and just stick things and loves a new ribbon in her hair each week ... and so on ... But no one told me that my class would not be a full one because the group were doing a show of Narnia in the town centre! So after all that I have a heap of stuff left over ... Ce la vie!

Have a wonderful weekend ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~