Postcards from Paris ... City Crafter

Good morning ...

I am hosting today at City Crafter Challenge and you all know I love to dress things up and alter something simple to make it pretty ... so my challenge this week is 

"Dress It Up"

I want you to take something ordinary ... a book, a box a peg ... anything really ... and dress it up!

I had this simple box lid 

 Which I first covered in black (washi type) tape 

 Then I downloaded some pretty postcards from the French Sparrow ... (grateful thanks to Kerry) and also made some postcards myself using photos of my great Aunt and some digitals to create this ...

... Accordion album

It's made from folded black cardstock which is adhered into the box lid ... Each side has these lovely postcards plus a blank page to add your own photos or memorabilia ... 

Let me take you through Kerry's postcards

... and theses are the ones I made which I will add to Free Stuff at the top of this page in case you would like to use them

I love how an ordinary box lid can become something pretty ... 

... and I would love to see what you can dress up so please come and link up at City Crafter where the winner will have a Guest Design spot with us ...

This week's GD once again is Linda Breedlove ... I can't wait to see what beauties Linda and the rest of the team have created so I'm hopping over to the blog to take a look ... But not before I've linked up to

LESSology where the challenge is all about Packaging

Thanks so much for stopping by ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Cornwall

Hello ....

I've been on a little trip .... 

To Cornwall 

Chillin' with the locals

... dipping my toes in the sea ...

... seeing the weird and wonderful people

... with equally weird and wonderful stores

I've made some new friends ...

... and I've marvelled at the beauty of nature in every hedgerow

I've eaten plenty of fresh fruits

... and indulged in Cornish clotted cream ...

... I've marvelled at my surroundings, the peace and tranquility ...

where every corner reveals a new surprise

and I've photographed just about everything ...

At 5am I joined the birds to watch the sunrise on St Just

... and congregated with people from all around the globe to see the sun set at Land's End

I've caught up with my husbands "Cornwall family"who welcomed me with open hearts and open arms which meant more to me than they could ever know ... We forged new bonds ... and discovered our love of creativity in different styles ...

... and I've smiled ...

... a lot!

See you tomorrow for a new challenge at City Crafter and don't forget ... we would love to see your photos on Our Beautiful World blog where the theme this week is lace ...

Have a beautiful day ...

~ Ros ~

Lace ...

Hello ...

My post this morning is scheduled as I should be on my way back home today from Cornwall ... 

Hopefully I will have photos to share with you sometime but today it is week 3 at 

Our Beautiful World

Where our creator Kirsty has picked this week's prompt

 "Lace"

Like most of you I have lots of lace in my stash which I try to keep tidy but somehow I am never successful ... It always ends up a jumbled mess in my box ... Not a pretty photo ...
I love pretty lace lingerie ... but I'm not about to share that Lol!
So my photo this week?... Well, something precious to me

These are the little lace shoes worn by my son on his christening day ... which also happened to fall on Mother's Day in March 1983 ...

 They fit into the palm of my hand ... now he wears size 11's!

Something else I treasure ...

This beautiful lace top ... made in Paris for my Grandmother probably 60 or more years ago ...

I wore it many times until I could no longer squeeze into it ... It's tiny! What more can I say? Lol!

But it's beautiful ... and still in perfect condition ... things were made well in those days

What comes to your mind when you think of lace? At Our Beautiful World we love to see your photos so come and link up with us ....

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Packing my Bags

Hi there!

I hope you are having a good week so far ... Today starts a new photo inspiration challenge at Papercraft Star and here's the fabulous photo Jan has picked

I have a case exactly like that one on the top ... It belonged to my Grandmother so I dread to think how old it is - One day I am planning to get it out and paint it

 It's filled with memorabilia  I received both the day my son was born and on his first birthday ... I know ... He's 30 for goodness sake ...  I just can't help it ... the things I keep ... it's just that they are so special to me ...

So I pondered for about an hour with this photo ... I've seen some lovely suitcase cards on Pinterest but I wanted to go a little different and decided to make a passport cover

See ... I even got the suitcases on there

It has a plastic cover ... not that I had one so I improvised ...

I printed the Sage coloured (Pink Petticoat) digital paper onto white card stock to start  ... measured and cut the size needed to fold around my passport and added some stamping ... then using the paper above (DCWV World Traveller Collection) I cut and stitched various sayings and images onto the card.

This is the front

and this is the back ...

This gets tucked into a clear plastic cover that I made using the 2 clear CD covers you see in the above photo and then the passport gets tucked in too ... I hope I am explaining this properly

Here's the finished item - you can click to enlarge and you will see the clear cover

Phew! ... all that said ... I really hope you will come and play along with us this week at Papercraft Star ... We would LOVE to see your interpretation

As it happens I will be packing my bags today ... I'm off to cornwall tomorrow to visit with some of my husbands family ...

Don't forget to hop over to the blog to check out the projects from the rest of our design team ...

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

Fresh Strawberries

One of the delights of summer is the fresh fruit available like strawberries and my favourite ... raspberries ... Alas the latter are always quite expensive ...

This week at City Crafter the challenge theme is 

"Strawberry Farm"
picked for us by our lovely Kirsty 

Source

Kirsty is asking that we make a card or project that includes a strawberry

My project this week was really quick ... 

... A little basket of fresh strawberries ... A little treat to show my appreciation to my husband who has worked hard planting up the pots for the garden

The little basket was cut on my Cameo and I added a border edge and made a tiny banner from some gingham paper and twine

The tag was made using an image from the Graphics Fairy 

 This is the basket prior to adding the 

fruit - I just tucked in a little doily

A simple sweet little gift ...

This week at City Crafter we are fortunate to have the talented Linda Breedlove guesting for us ... Linda will be with us for another 2 weeks ... and I just know you will love her creations ... hop over to her blog and take a look ... She is seriously talented!

Our winner this week will also have a GD spot with us so come along and join us!

Thanks so much for stopping by ... Have a lovely day and stay safe

~ Ros ~

July

The prompt this week at Our Beautiful World is simply "July"

Now if I taken my photo in the last 3 days ... it would be totally different from the one I took on the 1st July ...

On the 1st July - mid summer in the UK - it was raining ... cool, windy  and not at all promising ... the flowers were blooming but taking a beating from the wind and rain ...

This is the shot I took that morning 

You can click to enlarge this and you will notice the raindrop trickling down the pansy leaves

How fresh and green those leaves look though ...

I know that July means something different to other countries around the globe and I'm looking forward to what it means to you ... 

Of course across the USA you have celebrations for Independence day ... Canada Day I think is celebrated on the 1st of the month too ... 

There are birthdays and weddings ... high days and holidays ...  somewhere it is winter ... somewhere there is raging heat ...

That's our beautiful world ...

So please link up your photos Here and share with us your view of July 

And I'll leave you with this shot of  one of our flowers that looks like a beautiful sun ... 

Enjoy your day!

~ Ros ~