60th Birthday

Hello ...

My best wishes to all my friends across the pond who are commemorating Memorial Weekend ... 

Here in Liverpool we are remembering the Battle of The Atlantic and the port is full of ships ... There are many stories and memories being told  and of course there will be wreaths laid for the fallen ... My father served in the Royal Navy during this period - he was only a youngster really ...

How I wish we could all live in peace ...

One of our male friends is celebrating his 60th Birthday in a couple of days ... Here is a card I made for him

Over at Shopping Our Stash there is a challenge to use a tool in our stash ... either never used or long forgotten ...

I have a Crop A Dile big bite and whilst I regularly use it to punch holes ... I have never been sure just how to use it for eyelets etc., I bought it second hand so the full instructions were not with it ... However, I discovered I could download them from the web (why didn't I think of that before) and gave it a go to attach the brad you see on the star

One problem though ... I didn't manage to squash the back flat without damaging the front slightly hence the gem stone lol!

I guess I'm missing something ...

Why is it that instructions these days seem to be in the tiniest of writing? Have you noticed that? Try holding a magnifying glass and punching a brad at the same time ... Heck I can't even see the little numbers on the tool! I guess you could say it's old age 

Have a wonderful weekend 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Recycled Rooster

This morning I was going through my some of my cards ...

 I send a lot of them ... give lots away and yet still I am overflowing with them ...

I came across a card I made a long time ago which you can see Here  ... It was something I did on a whim and today I decided to recycle it ...

Lessology has a challenge - For The Love Of Fabric

It requires something recycled and of course some fabric ... Perfect!

At the Play Date Cafe ... the colour choice is stunning

... And my finished project has these colours ... but maybe a little more

So anyway, here is my recycled card ... now framed 

I removed the glass for photo purposes ... 

As you can see I added some fabric trim to the top and also to the bottom right along with some rose trim ... There is also some burlap under the nest

The little nest was a left over from Easter and I actually cut it and the eggs in half to fit in the frame ... It sits on some yellow threads and is decorated with leaves rescued from artificial flowers displays and some flowers from my supplies

The little watch was hiding away ... something I salvaged from somewhere ... I gave it a new face courtesy of Tim Holtz junkyard Findings ...

And there you have it ... a recycled rooster!

I hope you are having a lovely day ...

Thanks for stopping by

~ Ros ~

Papercraft Star Beauty

Hi there ...

I hope you are all well ...

Can I just say how very sorry I am to hear about the devastation in Oklahoma ... my thoughts are with all of you who have been affected ... I cannot imagine what you are going through. I know we Brits have a 'thing' about the weather ... mostly we complain that it's cold, wet and dull ... but in lots of ways we have to be thankful when we see what mother nature can do.

Today at Papercraft Star Deanne has chosen our challenge ... 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
"What do you find beautiful"

I have to say that I skipped around this challenge ... I just kept putting it off ... After all everyday that I visit your blogs I see beauty ... whenever I go over to Pinterest I see beauty ... I started to panic thinking that I am not going to get this challenge done ... But as always .. it finally fell into place

And using a shadow box frame, sponging and stamps and some bits and bobs ... this is my 'beauty'

I find beauty in the unconditional love between a mother and child which I am blessed to have ...

In being at one with nature ... feeling the warmth of the sun ... listening to the sea as it laps upon the shore ... hearing the gulls cry ... marvelling at the wonder of our planet and enjoying the little things that money cannot buy

I love the beautiful memories I have of my son being a child ... His little hand in mine ... And most of all, beauty for me is in peace ... I think my picture reflects this

I used colours that to me are tranquil and a silhouette stamp from my free set from Creative Stamping magazine together with a lovely verse stamp from Inkylicious

Of all the things I've made I have to say that this gives me the most pleasure every time I look at it

It evokes so much to me ...

Thank you Deanne for pushing me to do this!

So what do you find beautiful? We at Papercraft Star would love to know ... 

Please come and join us and don't forget to take a look at the projects from the other designers on the Blog ...

Till soon my friends

~ Ros ~

Colour Challenge CCCB

Hello ...

It's my turn to host at City Crafter this week and I am giving you all a colour challenge 

Source

When I saw this beautiful photo on Pinterest I just loved it ... 

I love the shades of peach with the green and greys ... 

This is my interpretation

I used all digital papers here ... Even the sentiment is a digital 

I cut the little umbrella on the Cameo and gave it a 3D look and added some flowers, twine and liquid pearls

The grey paper are from Pink Petticoat and the others including the sentiment are from various sets courtesy of Design House Digital ... 

Our Guest designer this week is Elma from Germany ... her blog is well worth a visit ... just click the link and check out all her beautiful creations ...

And if you want to win a GD spot with us we'd love to have you ... Just link up your entry - If you're looking for more inspiration hop over to the blog and check out Elma and the other designers projects.

On another note ... Thank you for all your comments and your response to our new Library here in Liverpool ... the thing is ... the original building from around 1860 has just had an inner renovation and both an extension to the rear and a dome added to the top ... the outer building is still remains gloriously untouched being a listed building of historic interest ... 

Can you believe that this is the outside

I think the saying ... "Never judge a book by it cover" is so appropriate here Lol!

Have a beautiful day and thanks for visiting

~ Ros ~

Stamping and Sponging

Hi there ...

How's your week been?

Mine's been quite busy with family stuff etc., but today 

I spent time in the city with my SIL ... It's been far too long since we were able to have some girlie time ... a little shopping, lunch and a chat over a coffee or two ... It would have been nice if we could have left off the coats and not had to carry umbrellas ... but at least we had fun ...

The world's biggest ocean liner the Queen Mary 2 was in dock and our brand new city library opened today too ... here are a couple of photos of the new library 

You wouldn't get me on those stairs ... I'm scared of heights and the glass sides make it even more daunting for me!

I have a little card to share ... 

The challenge over at CCCB is about using a stamp 2 different ways ... Where is everyone? I don't see any entries yet ... The DT have shown various methods to use your stamps and here is another way ... Stamping and sponging with ink pads

This is a stamp from Inkylicious and I used various ink pads to sponge this ... I'm still trying to perfect the technique but it's fun mixing colours and seeing the results

I used a couple of 3D stickers and added the lamp post (a memory box die) which was just sitting in my  bits box

Well I have to say that all that walking today has worn me out ... I'm going to cook dinner and have a relaxing evening ...

Enjoy your weekend my friends and thanks so much for popping in ...

Keep safe

~ Ros ~

Pastel Album

Good morning ...

I hope you are having a good week so far ...

Todays challenge at Papercraft Star has been set by Anitra ... Have you been following her brilliant monthly tutorials on the blog? I'm really enjoying them

This week Anitra is asking us to use Pastels ....

Isn't this pretty!

My post contains quite a few photos as I decided to make a little album using papers from Tilda's card background pad which I picked up at Hobbycraft ... These are really ready folded cards but I like to just use them as papers and cut them up

I used thick acetate from a package box to cover the front and back so there is some reflection on this photo ... the next photos are taken with the cover off so you can see clearer

The stamps on the front came free with 'Creative Stamping' magazine ... there are lots in the set and they are really sweet ... As you can see I paper pieced the little hut in soft pastel patterned paper from the Tilda pad and added it to another of the papers ... together with some plain and some hand painted shells, pearls and trims and a strip of washi tape

A closer shot shows some liquid pearls too

The pages inside were stamped with 2 different stamps by Inkylicious before I adhered some of my favourite photos from Majorca ... here's a peek

This last page is paper from the World Traveller stack by DCWV

Because I used ring binders I can just keep adding more pages to this little album

I really had fun with this and love the pastel shades on the front ... Don't forget to visit the blog for more inspiration and link up your Pastel creations

Till soon

~ Ros ~