Cars and Critters

 It's a cold Thursday here ... Yesterday we had warm sunshine (with showers) but today it is a lot colder (with showers) ...

I have a new little friend ... a cute squirrel ... who for the past 2 weeks has been  hurrying here and there collecting the falling nuts. He comes right up to my window about 10 times a day ... and stops to look in ... like he's saying hello - But every time I grab the camera ... he off like a bullet!
He's not the only one on the hunt for food ... the last few evenings the cat has been bringing home field mice ... It's quite funny really ... see my son like me cannot bear to see an animal hurt ... so he frees the mouse from the cat and then tries to catch it to make sure it is ok ... Guess you can't stop nature

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A few weeks ago my blog friend Jak contacted me and asked if I would make a birthday card for her Husband's upcoming 50th ... She said he liked vintage cars, bikes and radio's ... 
Jak was so kind to send me a whole heap of goodies for my Thursday group a few years ago so it was a pleasure to be able to do something in return for her kindness

This is what I came up with

It'd kinda difficult when you don't know a person ... but I know that Jak really like the card

All papers are from DCWV and though you probably can't see it ... the car is raised and glossy against the mat paper ... 

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Did you see the latest releases from PTI? I do love their goods but we have to pay huge import duty here in the UK ... so that with the postage means it is far too expensive for me to order stuff but I love to see the samples and I was particularly taken with Nicole's lovely bead bracelet ... It's been on my "to do" list for ages ... so I used my cameo to cut a few strips of paper and 'voila!' ... my bead bracelet

I am nowhere near as dexterous as Nicole (who makes everything look so simple) and though I did get to finish this to my satisfaction .. it was hard going with those fiddly little crimp beads ... BUT practice makes perfect ... and I intend to make some more of these ...

Finally can I just thank Steph and Lauren at Jingle Belles for featuring one of my Christmas cards this week ... I loved the postal prompt ... Thank you girls!

Have a beautiful day and thanks to you for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Wish upon a star

Hello there ...

This morning starts a new challenge over at Papercraft Star and the theme this week is 

Stars

Don't you just love stars? They can be used on so many projects from Christmas cards to birthday cards ... 

One of my lovely ladies at Thursday club celebrated her birthday last week and I made my card especially for her ... 

I just know that she loves this image ( The Graphics Fairy) and anything girlie and soft ... 

I did a little distressing on this image and though you probably can't see it ... she is layered onto muslin which has a generous coating of glitter ... the background paper is by Grace Taylor 

I added some glittery puffy stars a sheer double bow with a metal star and a computer generated sentiment.

Our "Designer of the week" using digitals from our Sponsor The House Across The Bay is Steph ... Please hop over to the blog and check out all the samples from the DT .. I hope they will inspire you to join us this week ...

Thanks so much for stopping by today ... Keep safe

~ Ros ~

Inchies

Good Morning ...

I'm hosting the challenge at City Crafter this week and I have chosen Inchies as your quest

What we want to see is either 1' or 2' squares on your projects 

Photo Credit 

Free Quilt Ideas.com

Our Guest designer this week is our winner from week 122 ... Lisette Baker ... and this week we are offering another GD spot to our winner ... Hop over to the blog to see full details and to check out all the samples from the DT 

Ok ... so on to my card 

Background paper is from Astrid ... and I then cut four 2" squares from some paper by Grace Taylor which I stamped over using  2 different stamps from Kaisercraft

I made a little tag and cut a small butterfly from the same Grace Taylor paper and a used bird stamp (don't remember where from) together with a stamp from WaltzingMouse Fancy Phrases ...

I confess that this is one of my favourite cards ... It's already with my friend who lives in Scotland and celebrated her birthday this week ...

I hope you will be inspired to join our challenge at City Crafter ... we were blown away with all your entries last week!

Just have fun and enjoy your day ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Denim ...

Hi there ...

I hope you are having a good start to the week ... Thanks so much for your well wishes ... I'm still not feeling 100% but I'm no worse so that's a good thing .. I think it's a just head cold

So I have a card that I did for 2 different challenges ... I used the Sketch from this week's challenge at 

WaltzingMouse

... And I used the colours from the new challenge at 

CR84FN

The DT at both these challenge blogs have terrific samples ... definitely worth a visit

I did a masculine card ... 

Everything I used I have had for the longest time ...

The BG paper is from a Hot Of The Press Pad ... The wooden frame paper is from the Paper Boutique

and I used one of the WaltzingMouse stamps "Text It" to stamp a background behind those pockets

The pockets are from a digital file I got years ago by Gina Jane ... they are so cool ... they really look like fabric!

I cut some stars from the denim paper and attached them with some star brads ... those little brown metal dots that you find on the corner of your jean pockets (bet you're looking now) I replicated using sequins

I also added some stitching to the pocket tops and on my card ... and used a another WaltzingMouse stamp, a sentiment from "Fancy Phrases"

Hopefully I have also kept within the colours for CR84FN too

Ok ... I will be back in the morning - I'm hosting this weeks challenge at CCCB ... See you then

Have a lovely evening / Day

~ Ros ~

Next Card ...

Hello again ... I have 2 posts this morning ... 
This is my 3rd Christmas card for the Jingle Belles "Postal" challenge ... please scroll down to see the others ...
These last two are using freebies from Astrid's Artistic Efforts ... perfect for this week's prompt

I just used part of one of the postcard freebies for this (the little boy) ... together with a scrap of MME paper that I've been holding onto for the longest time

I just love MME paper and this little reindeer is delighted to share the sparkle

Kinda looks like the reindeer just sprang right across the path of the little boy huh?

So there we go ... 3 cards for Jingle Belles this week ... and not on the last minute either ... Can you tell I loved this prompt? 

I now have 24 cards in my box and I just know I will use these postcards to make a lot more ...

Have a wonderful weekend ...

~ Ros ~

More Christmas Cards

Hi there ... I hope you are having a great start to the weekend ...

I'm still feeling rough but the sun is shining so that always helps

After making my card for the Jingle Belles challenge ... I saw that sweet Astrid had posted some more beautiful freebies on her blog ... I didn't need any more encouragement to create another 2 cards with the postal theme ...

So I can link them both up to Jingle Belles I will do them in 2 separate posts ...

First up is this one using one of Astrid's freebies

The postcard is the freebie and I backed it onto some pretty MF paper

Love this postcard ... it's just so pretty

It's just a simple card ... I added a small piece of lace from The Ribbon Girl  a glittery tree from Hobbycraft  and a little bit of sewing ... I reckon I could make quite a few of this design

Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~