Come sail with me ....

Hi there!

I am getting back into the old routine here and no longer swaying! 

I promised you a couple of photos and thought I would post some every now and then ... 

When I came home, waiting for me was my book of my 2nd year of blogging ... so I thought ... but there was so much I got 2 books sent to me! I had no idea just how much I had done AND I deleted a few small posts ...

I am so thrilled with them ...

Ok ... Norway .... This is my Aunt and I boarding the ship

and a few of our trip ...

Oh yeh ... there were Vikings too ... waiting as we left the ship 

You can click on to enlarge the pictures ... and just because I've never been a cover girl ... I have to show you this ... which was a surprise to me even as photos were being taken all the time ...

Lol!! Be kind ... next birthday I am officially a pensioner!

I'll be back with you tomorrow for the City Crafter challenge ... if I didn't get around to leaving you a comment last week ... please forgive me ... I had no internet connection

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Paper Pockets

Hello... Are you well?

 I am back from my cruise to Norway... What a beautiful country ... I am still in awe of the beauty ...  
My Aunt and I had a wonderful time and though I was not sea sick at all ... since I arrived on land yesterday evening - I am Land sick!! Honestly ... everything is swaying and it is the most peculiar feeling ever!
I had no internet connection at all for the whole time and I missed you all ... wished I could have taken you with me ... I missed seeing your creations yet probably it did me good to step away for a while and just enjoy the break ... the splendour of the fjords took my breath away ... We had the opportunity to disembark at a few locations and take train rides and tours ... On the second day I threw away my crutch and this trip healed me in many ways ... 


I have to say that the house was spotless when I returned ... my husband had everything looking wonderful ... even flowers in the vase for my return ... I got up early this morning and fed the cats (yes we have a stray that has adopted us too) and I opened the bread cupboard looking forward to the simplicity of wholemeal toast and honey with coffee after the gourmet food that was on offer everyday on the ship and what did I find? The same loaf of bread that I had left last week ... only now it was a funny kind of green with grey fur growing on it ... Can you believe it? Welcome home Ros!


I hope to share some photos with you later in the week we but for now I have a little something I made before I left ... 

I've been seeing these pretty pockets a lot lately and used up some of my scraps to make one too

My pocket has 3 tags inside

I love using up scraps to make something pretty ...

... quite a jumble of all sorts of things... bits of lace, buttons, a sweet yoyo from Jeanneke, and a mish mash of papers and textures ... but such fun to make

I notice that Blogger has also made some changes so I am trying to navigate my way around things ... (ha! sea talk)...  sheesh ... just when you get used to something - it changes 

Before I go I want to say a big Thank you to the lovely ladies at Papercraft Star for my Comet award ... I am delighted you liked my card

Now I have lots of catching up to do ... thanks so much for visiting me and your lovely comments

Sending hugs 

~ Ros ~

Using Burlap ....

... That's our challenge this week at City Crafter ... hosted for us by lovely Cheryl ...

I just know you all love to use burlap ... I've seen so many beautiful projects when visiting your blogs and I certainly love to use it ... 

I decided to go a little "Ooh La La" with this card ... making my own background paper from a mix of digital images and papers I have on my computer ... (I used the same background for some bookmarks I did Here) ...  I layered my digital creation onto some script paper by Grace Taylor

I cut a heart from some burlap... and I discovered that  rubons do stick to burlap as you can see...

The gentleman's hat is also a rubon and I glued a flower to it ... I like to think the Parisian gentleman - my real life Grand father - had been to the theatre then taken a stroll where he purchased a flower from a street seller and popped it onto his hat...

I had 2 French Grandfathers ... but sadly never knew either of them but I can imagine both of them would wear a hat like this whilst strolling along the streets of Paris

I hope you'll check out all the projects on the blog - we have the immensely talented Michelle Bala as our Guest Designer this week - if you have never visited her ... please do so ... she creates the most wonderful cards! 

It would be lovely to have you join us this week ... I'm looking forward to seeing all your creations (laptop permitting)  because whilst you are reading this I will be sailing the Fjords of Norway 

Many thanks for stopping by

Keep safe

~ Ros ~

Melissa Frances wall Hanging

I have lots to do and I have club night tonight ... 
Sadly we lost another one of our lovely group this week ... it always hurts ... Pat was a lovely lady ... she couldn't talk ... but we understood each other and we had lots of hugs ....


Creating helps to take my mind off things so I made a wall hanging today ... 

My new Attic Treasures paper pad by Melissa Frances arrived yesterday together with my new SB dies by Nina Bracket ... I saw these on Mona's blog and just adored them  and as I already got the new C'est la Vie papers last week ... well, creating came easy ... 


You know I love to mix and match my papers but one of the best things about Melissa Frances papers is that there are always sheets that have a mix of patterns on them ... put together perfectly ... so you don't have to think even!

Then again all MF sets co-ordinate with each other so well too ... so this was created using papers from both sets ...

(The bluish paper is from C'est la Vie and the creamy kraft ones are from Attic Treasures) 

... and the new SB dies ...

Isn't that house die just the cutest? and that little piece of trim on the right was from my lovely friend Jacira ... I used the rest on another project but kept this little piece

A closer look ... those sparkly wings are from the Nina Bracket SB set too - as is the heart

In case you are wondering ... the sentiment is computer generated ... the pearls are MF, the rose is Prima ... lace, ribbon, fabric and trinkets are from my supplies ...

Got to dash ... Thanks so much for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Papercraft Star - France

I'm still playing with the colours of City Crafter's challenge this week ... 

Black, white or grey ... with a hint of pink ... 

But today's card is for the challenge over at Papercraft Star ... where the theme is France ... The wonderful DT have made some amazing projects ... please stop by and take a look ... I went right in to my new papers from PaperMania ... mixed with some paper scraps on my desk ... 

That little frame is from a set I picked up at the £1 store ... they are actually fridge magnets ... but I just took the back off ... some of them I have painted too and they work well

My sentiment stamp is from WaltzingMouse and the key is a sticker 

This also fits into the new challenge over at Pixie Dust Paperie ..."Fly Away With me" ... go check it out

Of course as I am on the DT for Pixie Dust and CCCB I can't enter this ... Shame ... it would have been probably the first time I made a project that fitted 3 challenges, Ah well, C'est La Vie!

I have lots of packing to do but I want to visit your blogs first so have a lovely day

Till soon

~ Ros ~

A hint of Pink

Sweet Linda Robinson is hosting this week at City Crafter and she has set a fabulous challenge for us ...

Create a project using Black, White or Grey with a Hint of Pink

I love this kind of challenge ... and isn't that photo inspiration just adorable?

So here's my card ...

I got my paints out for this one and splattered black paint onto white card stock for the backgound

then layered it onto black card stock

I stamped this image first and let it dry a little before using water colours to paint over it ... I liked that the water picked up some of the ink from the image and turned it a shade of grey along with the hint of pink

You probably can't see it in this photo ... but I covered the image in acetate before framing it and using some perfect pearls to adorn both the frame and the image ...

This is something different from me .. I don't use paints as much as I probably should ... but I did enjoy this and I quite like the result ...

Hopefully I have inspired you to join in the fun ... Check out the rest of the DT projects and that of our GD this week ... Sheila Burns ... then link up your creation up so we can be wowed by you!

Have a wonderful day and thanks for visiting and leaving your lovely comments ... I really do appreciate it

~ Ros ~