Papercraft Star Special!

Hello and good morning!

Now I warn you ... This is a long post and full of photos ... so grab yourself a cup of tea or coffee and hopefully you will enjoy ...

I'm really excited to share not only my project but that today, here at

Papercraft Star 

we have an amazing Guest Designer who is also generously sponsoring a fabulous prize for our winner!

This lady needs no introduction to most of you ... When I say she is not only a sweet and kind lady but an immensely talented artist it is an understatement ... Our Guest is non other than 

Miss Mona Pendleton of Cupcake Creations!

Mona has designed for many companies and her versatility is amazing ... so much so that she has now designed an exclusive range of stamps, dies and stencils for 

My Favorite Things

If there are any of you have not yet visited Mona's blog ... or her Mixed Media Challenge blog - I urge you to do so ... you will be in awe! You will also find tips tricks and tutorials to get the most from your supplies and learn everything from Card Making to 3D projects to Mixed Media ... 

This is Papercraft Star's Photo Inspiration for this week ...

 Mona generously sent each of our designers the exclusive Timeless Stamps and Time Piece Dies designed by her for us to use this week ... 

(I will leave links at the end of my post for you)

 

I was so thrilled to receive these goods ... You all know how much I love anything to do with clocks and as little Miss Sophia has graduated from nursery to 'proper' school ... It gave me the opportunity to make a fat little album ready for some photos and journalling ...

The papers are a mix of Dear Lizzy and Crate Paper but all stamps and dies used are from 

Timeless Stamps and Time Pieces

I made this in the shape of a little school house  ... Isn't the clock just beautiful! I've never used MFT goods before being in the UK and I am amazed at how much is in these sets and just how easy the dies cut!

You can see some of the cogs from the set next to my felt owl and I've used the clock hands as holders for the photo as well as a piece of the die cut clock to decorate the top of the page together with rhinestones

More cogs and I stamped the clock hands onto my paper where the photo mount is ... also a different clock face here

I stamped and embossed onto black card here to give a chalkboard effect and cut a couple of pencils up to stick onto a burlap frame ... the other themed buttons you can see came from my sweet friend Lynnda

I did use Rub-ons for the "best buddies" but again the cogs, clock hands and pretty black 'flowers' are from the sets

Feel free to click on all the photos to enlarge

Here on the left I cut the cogs from DP and the clock was done by leaving in the sections of the outer face in and stamping directly onto it

With all that embellishing I left the back just plain

I have loved playing with these sets and it's going to be hard for me to part with this little album ... but I'm giving it to Sophia's Grandma my SIL who will keep it safe 

A great big THANK YOU to Mona for her generosity

Please hop over to the Papercraft Star blog to check out Mona's creation together with the that of the rest of the team and link up your entry to be in with a chance of winning this awesome Stamp and Die set 

Thanks so much for stopping by - 

Can I just also say that my thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by 9/11 as we remember today

Till soon

~ Ros ~

     

          Die-namics MPD Time Pieces      

                       

MPD Timeless Stamp Set

Bicycles ...

Hello and good morning ...

It's slowly turning to Autumn here ... some days are bright and sunny ... but the coolness is definitely creeping in ...

Today at City Crafter we have our lovely Kirsty hosting for us with a fabulous challenge called

Daisy Daisy ... ( ... a bicycle made for two)

Are you humming the song? I bet you are!

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The challenge is to make a card or project that includes a bicycle ... 

I wanted to create something that looks like those painted walls you often see on buildings so I used a background paper for the wall and digitally added the window frames and the French bicycle image

I pulled out some old rub-ons for the vines and flowers

This week we have our winner from Week 165 Raluca Vezeteu  Guesting for us ... I'm sure she would love it if you visited her blog and said "Hello"

And Kirsty is also offering a prize for the winner of this weeks' challenge ...

So we would love for you to join us and link up your entries ... 

Take a look at the projects from the rest of the Design Team Here 

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Bubbles .....

Hello there!

Sunday mornings are for taking things easy huh? Maybe stay a little longer in bed ... maybe eating breakfast out ... or relaxing with a coffee ...

At Our Beautiful World ... the prompt this week is 

Bubbles 

Boy I struggled with this one ... 

I don't do bubble baths ... I have no young ones to have them blow bubbles for me to photograph ... I didn't think the kitchen sink full of soapy bubbles looked very good on camera .... 

Sooooo, I decided to abandon it for awhile and grab a cup of my favourite Kenco Latte ... stared at the cup for a moment and there they were! BUBBLES!!

Frothy coffee bubbles!!

...  Later I am going out to treat myself to one of my favourites

More frothy coffee bubbles ...

Yep, coffee can be a life saver ... doncha think?

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone else's photos this week and I am really REALLY thrilled with all of you who link up to 

Our Beautiful World

Oh! to see your part of the globe, your beaches, your gardens your beautiful countries and memories ... I feel like I have been everywhere! 

Thank You!

If you hop over to the blog you will see that we also have a Guest Star this week ...

Have a beautiful day

~ Ros ~

My Home Town

Hello ...

It's a cold and wet September day here today and I thought I'd share some photos with you that my brother has taken of our Liverpool Water Front

... As it happens I live on the Liverpool side of the river Mersey whilst my brother lives on the other side (The Wirral) ... so these first two shots were taken looking across from his side of the river

(Click to enlarge)

I just love our waterfront when it's lit up like that ... The building with the clock is the Liver Building (pronounced Lie ... ver) with the 2 liver birds on top

And you know the Beatles song ... Ferry across the Mersey? This is it 

Everything looks a lot differently from when the Beatles wrote that song ... but the ferry still remains ...

See that tall kind of layered building far right? That's where I worked for many years until I had my son ...

It was opened by Princess Alexandra in 1976 - I presented her with a bouquet and we had a little chat too!

These shots are the Liverpool Eye ... the land mark ferris wheel 

In the background is the old dockland ... all refurbished and now beautiful apartments

To the left is the new Echo Arena where stars from all over the world hold concerts

I hope you enjoyed seeing a little of my home city ...

My crafting is taking a back seat for awhile as I still have a trapped nerve in my shoulder and just to add to that ... I have a painful infected tooth that will be coming out next week after the course of antibiotics and my eyes have decided to join the party - Blepharitis!

Oh the joys of being 60!

Enjoy your day!

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Edit ... 

As I have quite rightly been reminded ... It was Gerry and The Pacemakers who sang "Ferry Across The Mersey"!!! ...... Seems my brain is also ill .....

Ahoy There!

Good morning!

It's time for a new photo inspiration challenge at Papercraft Star and this is the photo

All those blues and circles somehow made me think 'nautical' - yes that's how my mind works lol!

And anyway I'm trying to lose a few pounds so I dare not think "Cake"

I think I got the colours in there though ... 

I wonder what your interpretation will be?

Pink Petticoat was my life saver here ... Ombre Papers and Tiny Seashore sentiments with a little Beach Cottage thrown in ... plus my Sizzix circle dies

The Design Team at Papercraft Star have some more inspiration for you ... click on the link and take a look ...

I hope you'll come and join in the challenge this week 

Thanks so much for stopping by ... Have a lovely day!

~ Ros ~

Blue birds

Hello ...

How's your week going?

I'm just popping in with my DT project for this weeks challenge at  

City Crafter  

The challenge this week has been picked by our lovely Wendy ...  But you may have noticed her absence lately - unfortunately her computer is broken and we are really missing her... 

Fingers crossed she will be back online soon ... 

Wendy has asked that this week we 

create a project that includes birds or a bird and you must use the colour blue

How gorgeous is this little guy?

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I am thrilled to say that we have the Uber talented Tracy MacDonald guesting for us this week ... this lady's talent leaves me in awe! If you haven't already visited her blog ... you really need to! Her colouring skills and her eye for detail never cease to amaze me. Tracy was our Winner in week 163 with This amazing card

So here's my card for this week 

A lot of digital going on here this week ... I  printed my CS using Pink Petticoat Ombre range first ... then printed another digital paper which was overlaid with a lovely French image

If you are interested this lovely image came from Etsy Here  

I hope you will pull out your blues and birds this week and come and join us ...

Like Tracy the winner will receive a GuestDesign spot with us here at 

City Crafter

Don't forget to visit the blog to see the projects from the rest of the team ...

Wishing you a lovely day ...

 I'll be back tomorrow with another "blue" creation

Till then keep safe

~ Ros ~