Cats Birthdays and Bargains

Hello!

How are you all? good I hope ...

Yesterday we ventured out for a coffee and visited Dunhelm which is a store that sells kitchen ware, bedding and home goods ... though I wasn't looking for anything other than a warm bed for the stray cat that is still here, despite every effort to find her owners ... Anyway, I ended up with a couple of bargains ... I got a beautiful Dorma bed throw reduced from £90 to £26!! PLUS I got the matching curtains reduced from £60 to £13! Now that's my kind of bargain ... I did get a bed for the cat too by the way...

Here's a photo I took a few days ago ... Isn't she lovely? 

Today is a very special birthday .. It's Mikey's 32nd birthday 

My goodness, where do the years go?? One minute I was struggling as a single parent to my child, running a home and holding down a job and then suddenly here I am ... My little boy is a man and every treasured memory is etched so deep in my heart that it feels like only yesterday

Here's the card I made for him

Yep, sequins and silver Lol!

I like them with the grunge stamps

A little tip for you ... You know that foam stuff that you find in packaging... It's about 5mm thick and similar to a sponge (Not the polystyrene kind) - It looks like this

Well, it's fabulous for using in shaker cards and to pop up dies cuts ... It goes through the Big Shot so easily and just springs back up ... I used it  as a backing for the "Birthday" word die

I would recommend using a wet adhesive though like an all purpose glue

I do hope you have a lovely week 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

White Christmas

Hi there!

I hope your Christmas was a good one...

I had a card ready for the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop but then forgot to post it yesterday ... I didn't realise it was a one day hop and our time difference kinda threw me - never mind 

This was the card

I've loved playing with the subtle gold and silver this christmas and this card would have been perfect for the blog hop with the PTI Sparkle die

 and yesterday we had some snowflakes of our own

It's pretty cold here right now 

I hope you are all cosy and warm where you are ...

Be safe

Hugs

~ Ros ~

Merry Christmas

To all my dear blog friends

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Wishing you Peace Joy and Love

Hugs

~ Ros ~

One more Birthday

Hello there ...

I'm just popping in with another Male birthday card

Last week my nephew Alan - daddy to Sophia - celebrated his 40th Birthday ... We've always been close, often disagreed and if I think he's wrong I tell him he's wrong, but I love him dearly.
 It's been a tough year for him and I guess for the family ...  I hope that the New Year brings him and Sophia much joy

The camera never co operates with anything shiny and I've given up trying to reason with it

The majority of this card was made from left overs ... How I love it when I can pull them together

My goal for the new year is to have a big clear out of craft stuff that I have hoarded and will never use ... When I started out ... like most of you I guess ... I collected things I thought I'd use ... gave most things a try before I found my own little niche ... what suited me and what I was comfortable with. I have a ton of things I collected for the Thursday club too ...

Pat said she's first in the queue for throw out stuff Lol!! She's already taken a lots of my old cards

Wishing you a wonderful day my friends

~ Ros ~

Shadow Box Cards

Hello ...

My this week has flown by! I can't believe it's Christmas in 5 days!

I have 3 shadow box cards to show you which I made ... I used the Silhouette Cameo so they were very simple to do and came together very quickly

I apologise for the poor quality photos but you can see how they turned out...

They really look pretty 

This one was for my husband ... He loves planes so I had to put a die cut one in there 

And this last one I made for my friend Pat

Aren't they sweet?

They even fold flat for posting ...

Are you all ready for the big day? I think I'm almost done ... In any event I intend to have a relaxing day tomorrow ... maybe do some baking.

Have a lovely weekend

Hugs

~ Ros ~

Non Shaker

Hi there!

I have another card to share and you could be forgiven for thinking this is another shaker ... Actually it's a non shaker ... the sequins are all stuck down

I have completely lost count of all the Christmas cards I've made ... I've still some to show you but there have been some where I've actually made a dozen of the same design

I vowed I wouldn't do it this year ... make all my own cards ... The shop bought cards are pretty and inexpensive and the postage is a lot less than it is for my cards

Somehow I still ended up making tons

I'm bushed ... feeling very exhausted today and I still have the Thursday club disco to attend this evening ...

Ce la vie!

Have a lovely day/evening

~ Ros ~