Hello ....

Hi there ...

I'm just popping in with a quick card I made using my new PTI die and some scrap paper from Pink Petticoat ...

It's a very dull day here so I apologise if my photo is not too good ... but you get the idea... I used both the positive and the negative of that lovely "hello" die and that black dottie washi tape is a new buy too 

I stuck some onto a similar shade of paper to the Pink Petticoat one and punched out a flower shape to back my little rose ... The little bee is already on the patterned paper from Pink Petticoat .. he just makes me smile on this dull wet day ...

I'm off to Thursday club in while so got to dash ...

Enjoy the rest of your day

~ Ros ~

Challenges ............ I would like to enter this card into the Moxie Fab World challenge 

"Emphasize the Negative"

My Colours ...

Hi there ... 

Today at Papercraft Star the new challenge is to use your Kichen Colours

This is the inspiration photo

A lovely photo and not unlike my colours which are

are light cream units, dark cream tiles and duck egg blue walls with silver fitments and blinds ... the work tops are woodgrain ... All lovely colours for me to work with ...

I took an old jam jar and swirled duck egg paint into it ... let it dry and then the fun part was decorating it ...

I ran cord around the neck of the jar and hot glued it in place ... added some cream burlap - stamped and embossed some calico with silver ink and a text stamp then cut out some flowers from it 

The little burlap flowers represent my work top ... a crochet flower and a silver brad just complete it

My card uses some digital paper by Jen Allyson .. again some silver embossing and the other embellishments follow those on my jar ... You can click the photos to enlarge

The little jar sits prettily on my kitchen windowsill and I'm sure I will make more of these

Please come and join us this week and show us your kitchen colours ... I'm off to see what the rest of the lovely design team have to share ... Here's the link if you care to follow me ...

Enjoy your day and Thanks for stoping by ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Shades of Pink

Good morning to you!

It's time for another challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog where we have sweet Linda Robinson hosting for us .. This will be her last challenge ... sadly we will be saying farewell to Linda in a few weeks ... I'm really going to miss her ... and I know you will too

The challenge this week is Shades of Pink

Linda wants us to make a project using this lovely colour palette

I am embarrassed to tell you how long it took me to make my card ... For some reason I just could not get it together ... I decided that Pink was just not my colour ... Funny thing is that after I made my card I went on to make quite a few in pink with no trouble at all! 

So here's my card 

This is on it's way to my sister for her birthday

I think I got every shade of pink in there eventually lol! And a couple of punched leaves for the green

I'm sure you guys will have no problem with this challenge unlike me ... 

Our Guest Designer for the next 4 weeks is the lovely Wendy from Apple & Apricot blog

Be sure to visit CCCB and check out all the creations from the lovely DT

I'll be back with you tomorrow ... till then

Keep safe and have a beautiful day

Just Because ...

Hey there ...

How was your weekend? 

Mine was good ... I really enjoyed the Sing Live concert on Saturday night ... It was a really uplifting evening with some of the best songs ever written from the musicals ...

You just couldn't help joining in at times ...

This morning I saw that I had an Honorable Mention over at the Shabby Tea Room for my little pink pooch card! Thank You!! I really didn't expect that ...

This is a card I made ... "just because"  I got a new stamp set from inkylicious and really wanted to try it out

I just love these stamps ... nearly as much as my postage one!

Isn't the script lovely ...

I'm working on a project for my Thursday group ... this week we will be doing some cards for Mother's day with popup hearts

 but as a lot of my group don't have a Mum to send a card too ... we will also be doing popup cupcake cards

Ashley Cannon Newell made a sweet popup card Here which really gave me the idea ... And last night I hand cut over 70 cupcake images! ... Thank goodness for my Cameo ... I designed all the inserts on my computer in the Silhouette Studio and cut out over 20 of them plus over 100 hearts and butterflies

Of course I will have lots of gems and things for them to decorate with as well ... 

Have a beautiful day and thanks for visiting me today 

~ Ros ~

You're A Star!

Hello ...

I woke up this morning to the sound of a woodpecker hammering away ... I had totally forgotten about him ... he frequented my garden all last year ... From Springtime onwards ... So I was happy to hear him telling me that Spring is definitely close by ... The daffodils have just started to open too ... Such pretty cheerful flowers ... in Lincoln there were hundred of snowdrops everywhere ... I never fail to be amazed at how such delicate flowers can force their way through the hardest of ground ...

I made a little card for a blog friend who has be so kind ... My card may be made of scraps but it holds a whole lot of love and thanks

The only 'new' thing on here was the blingy key and the pearls ... the resin rose had been used before on something and I took it off because it just didn't look right on the card I was doing at the time ...

I like it here ... It started life as an earring ... and the silver 'petals' were part of a swap gift sent to me years ago by Lynnda Hosni... 

It's a beautiful sunny day ... but chilly! DH is going to the football match and I get time to play ... 

This evening we are going to a concert at the Philharmonic ... one of my friends sings in a choir and they are performing 'Songs from the Musicals" I'm looking forward to it ...

Enjoy your weekend and keep safe

Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Pink Pooch

Hello ...

I'm not feeling my best today ...  Tired and bleary eyed. Gipsy had me up since 4am ... She wanted to go out and despite the fact that we had a beautiful sunny day yesterday ... the temperature dropped last night and there was a frost ... Obviously she wasn't happy about that so she growled and she hissed and spat ... I've cared for dozens of cats over the years ... even feral ones ... but Gipsy is a one off ! I've never known a cat to be so angry about the weather ... Thankfully the sun is shining again and she is has gone out

I've been playing with my scraps again ... This is not my usual colour .. or style 

But everything was from my bits box ... when I cut all the fishtail banners for my group to make Valentine cards ... I was left with those little "V" shaped banners ... shame not to use them ... and the smaller scraps of paper I glued together which is the top half of my card

The little dog I stamped ages ago but never used it ... She reminds me of Mona Pendleton's little Gretchen ...

The Shabby Tea Room are having a pink party ...

... So I'm going to link this up there just for fun ... Well, she does look like she's going to a party with her pretty coat doncha think?

Have a lovely day ...

~ Ros ~