More Christmas Cards

Hello... How are you?

I'm sharing another set of cards using the cut out rectangle left over from These cards

The little house and the snowflake are by Simon Says Stamp and I used the cut out bits from those snowflakes ... they come out like tiny hearts

The lovely leaf die is by Paper smooches and the papers I used are from Me and My Big Ideas (Mambi) - I picked up this 12x12 pad at TK Max for £7.99

Here's a few of the cards together

I'm still not too well and have a course of tablets to take before I can have the bloods done ... I'm getting really fed up of feeling like this, hopefully things will improve soon...

Thanks for looking in on me

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 286

Good morning!

It may only be the beginning of November but Kirsty has us 

"Getting Ready For Christmas"

For this week's challenge at City Crafter

Photo credit

We also have special Guest Designer for the whole month of November, the very talented Marcia Hill

Please click the link to go visit her blog where you will find the most loveliest of cards!

Here's my card for the challenge

The BG was done by sponging with my ink pads and spraying with water ... It reminds me of the Northern Lights

The sloped hill is from Lawn Fawn, the image from WPlus9 and the Merry Christmas die is by Simonsays Stamp... where the Wednesday challenge is "Anything Goes" so I'll be entering this card there too

Please hop on over to CCCB to check out the creations from the rest of the team and link up your creations with us this week...

Have a lovely day!

~ Ros ~

SimonSays Stamp & Lawn Fawn

Hello there...

I have to take DH to the eye specialist soon and I've been working on my special needs group project all day so this is just a quick post for the SimonSays Stamp Wednesday Challenge  which is an "Anything Goes" and they are featuring Lawn Fawn products 

It just so happens that I made a whole batch of Christmas cards yesterday - One design, but using both the Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle dies and the Tree and Snowflake from SimonSays Stamp

I even used the cut out bits from the trees ... The paper is a sheet from an old scrapbook pad by My Minds Eye

Those gorgeous sequins were a gift from my dear friend Stella ... They go perfectly with this paper

Here's a look at the whole lots of cards

Once everything was cut out, putting them together was so easy and quick... Of course I had the rectangle inserts left over and I made a batch of cards with them too which I'll share later in the week.

I hope you are having a good day ... I must dash 

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Travel

Hello and welcome November!

I've chosen the prompt for this week at 

Our Beautiful World

The word is Travel

Maybe it will be by air

...To far away places

Maybe it will be in vintage style...

Sitting pretty in pink...

Perhaps this is more your style

How about a bus ride to Palma City?

A relaxing cruise somewhere

...Or a Saturday morning walk around the roman city of Chester

You could of course just share some of your travel destinations with us at 

Our Beautiful World

We'd love to see them...

Have a lovely day

~ Ros ~

Oh Deer

Hello! Happy Halloween!

Can you believe it's the last day of October already? Christmas is getting ever closer and I have another card to share

I made this a few weeks ago ... playing with embossing paste ... it makes for good snow when randomly applied

I love those deer ... It's a Penny Black stamp and I coloured it with distress inks

Are you trick or treating this evening? It never used to be such a big thing here in the UK but it's catching on fast... We will get a steady flow of children calling shortly for their sweets

Personally I preferred how it was when I was a kid ... Duck apple night we called it ... We had fun, no scary costumes and no way would our parents allow us to knock on strangers doors for sweets... I confess I do love to see the little children dressed up though

Whatever you are doing have fun and be safe

Till soon 

~ Ros ~

Foxy Christmas and More Than an Itch

Hello and good morning ...

I hope you are well

It's a weird title to my post I know but I'll start with my card - A Foxy Christmas card

I haven't been able to craft much lately due to illness and it felt good to finally come up with something yesterday evening... I even got to try my new paints (Gansai Tambi) which I love

The cut out on the card was done on my Cameo and I did a little painting behind it ... The fox is from the Wplus9 set winter pals ... he was coloured using Promarkers and then covered in glossy accents

More than an itch

Those of you who read my blog know that I was diagnosed with eczema early this year and it's an autoimmune disease... It's more than just the awful itch and the problem skin which is bad enough!

There are times when the immune system works so much overtime deciding it doesn't like this or that so eventually it just burns out...

It leaves me with no energy at all ... just taking a shower is a huge effort and I feel so ill with it. That is how it's been for the last 3 weeks until I started to take some anti inflammatory tablets. For some reason they calm everything and make me feel so much better, though I can't take them long term.

I have to go for more tests in a week or so just to be sure there is nothing else underlying but right now I feel so much more in the land of the living and hopefully on the road to recovery.

Thanks so much for your well wishes and I'll get around to visiting your blogs soon

Have a good day and take care

Hugs

~ Ros ~