I Love Paris ...

Good morning ...

My, it's cold here ... Spring seems to dip her toes in and then run off again!  But for the daffodils and primroses I could be forgiven for thinking that Spring was even on the horizon ...

At least I can create my own Spring with paper and card ... 

I am hosting the new challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog this week and I am challenging you to come up with a card or project 

"Inspired by a Song"and tell us what your song is 

If you are like me a song often pops into your head when creating ... you know like "Tie a yellow ribbon" when using yellow ribbon ... Lionel Richie's "Hello" when using my PTI die ... and so on ... Well it's easy to guess what I was humming when I made this ...

I Love Paris (in the Springtime)

Note I actually used blue card stock instead of my usual white (Gasp!)

The background paper is a digital I've had for the longest time and I added the words "I Love" to the text that is already on the paper

Flowers and butterflies in cheerful Spring colours ...

I am really looking forward to seeing what you all come up with ... and our winner will get a Guest Design spot here with us at City Crafter ... Just link up your creation and don't forget to tell us what song inspired you ...

I'm off to see what the rest of the lovely team has created this week ...

Have a beautiful day 

~ Ros ~

Using the Negative

Hi!

How are you?

I have a fun little card for the JUGS challenge which is to use a negative die cut

Moxie Fab World also has a challenge to use a negative die cut and I already entered This card but couldn't resist doing another ... more fun card

... using the lovely PTI 'hello' die 

I cut out the 'U' and the question mark using my cameo and computer generated the text somehow managing to line it up ... I backed the kraft coloured card with a piece of black paper and a small scrap of grey Core'dinations paper

The little mouse which I coloured with Promarkers is part of a digital by Tiffany Doodles ... this is the limit of my colouring skills I'm afraid ... (Keren take note)

Her little tail is just a piece of thin paper which I curled

I just think she's cute!

So how was your weekend? I had a lovely Mother's Day ... Mikey gave me these flowers

... and this sweet little card

... and do you remember my Valentine's flowers? Well I have to show you a photo taken today ... almost 4 weeks later 

Still perfect! A testament to my green fingers? No ... more a testament to how very cold it is in my conservatory!

Before I go I want to just say a Happy Birthday to my beautiful Aunt ... 86 today!

Love you!

I'll be back tomorrow with a new challenge at CCCB ... 

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

Going To Seed .....

No ... not me ... (well, maybe a little) ... 

No, Going to Seed is the name of a new stamp I bought - made by by Woodware and seeing as it's a cold wet dull day here and DH has gone to see his beloved football team play in a cup match ... Well what's a girl to do but play with paper?

I love this stamp ... and probably you can't see it ... but I embossed this so it has a lovely shine

It really speaks for itself ... not much embellishment needed and those you see are from some old 3D stickers that I cut up and just used some little bits

I've been listening to the football match whilst working ... I know by the score what mood to expect my husband in when he gets home ... Alas his team are losing ... BADLY!!

Still tomorrow here is Mother's Day ... hopefully he will put on a smile just for me ...

To all of my sweet friends who are celebrating Mother's Day tomorrow ... Happy Day!

I wish you all a beautiful weekend

~ Ros ~

Stick Pin Tutorial

Hi there ...

Just to let you know that on the first friday each month our lovely Anitra  at Papercraft Star will be posting video tutorials on the blog ...

This month the tutorial is how to make decorative stick pins ... Anitra takes you through the steps and shows you some lovely pins including felt flower pins and even pinwheel pins!

Click the link Here to take a look and say "Hi"

Till soon

~ Ros~

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 ~