Christmas Catch up P and Q

hello friends
Saturday again and its the 1st of December. I totally agree with everyone - this year has gone far too fast. Next thing we know it'll be Easter!! I cannot work out how its gone so fast and as usual I have done nothing for Christmas - I am usually the loony running around on Christmas Eve buying things from garages and corner shops!! LOL only joking. 
But seriously though I am out on Christmas Eve. I cannot see why people find that such a baffling concept that I am not set and organised for Christmas with everything done and sorted and wrapped in November. To me its like its a competition over who can be the first to be done and sorted. Kind of takes the festive feeling out of it - in my opinion. If its a competition I am gonna tell people I have been done and sorted since Boxing Day for next Christmas. Then I will win something!! LOL
 
Anyway - I have 2 cards to share with you today P and Q for the Docrafts A-Z Daily Challenge which is now finished but I am still continuing on with finishing the alphabet. 

So here is my card for P - poinsettia. 

This is a watercolour image I found and printed onto linen cardstock and matched the colour of the green border with the lettering. The font is called Black Chancery

 

I simply added a tiny touch of glamour dust to the centres as I didn't want to distract too much from the beautiful picture. 

The second card is Q - Christmas Quackers (sorry for the pun!)

I found this cute duck on my Forever Friends Triple CD and thought he looked so cute and Christmassy. I simply again printed him direct this time onto the base card itself and added the wording at the same time - this time in blue to match the background of the duck and in a different font.

I simply added glamour dust for some sparkle. Here is a close up of the duck!

Hope you like these simply cards today - I feel a bit bad cos they are not my colouring in but I do hope you like them

until next time. stay safe and warm

hugs 

Rosie xxx

Christmas Ornaments card

hello friends
am still playing catch up!! LOL
here is my card for the letter O - here I have chosen an embossing folder which can be classed as ornaments or baubles I think!!
anyway I chose ornaments - cause I have already done the letter B!!

Here is the card - I have matted it onto red cardstock and added red gems for sparkle.
The wording is done direct from the PC using a font called Splendid printed direct onto the linen card base.

Here is a close up of the card

 

I think it looks classy and elegant. What do you think?as always I appreciate any comments you may leave me.

until tomorrow 

Rosie xxx

 

Noel - Christmas catch up (again!)

hello friends
well I'm doing my best to catch up with the A-Z daily challenge over on Docrafts. I think the majority of other have finished!! I'm up to N today. 

Here again I have used the trusty Forever Friends bears. They are fab!!
I have printed each of them out separately to spell out NOEL.
I matted each one onto red cardstock and then stuck them all onto an 8" square card. I spent more time getting them straight!! but on the photograph it doesn't look it!!  

 
 
And then to top it all over I noticed the red cardstock on the O and the E is slightly wider on the top!! aarrgghh!!  calm down - deep breaths!! LOL

here is a close up of the bears which just makes my cutting more noticeable!! LOL

Hope you like what I did for the N card - any comments welcome!! whether good or in this case probably bad!!

Until tomorrow with the letter O card

hugs to you all
Rosie xxx

Christmas card L is for List

hello friends
wow what a chilly Saturday it is!! Brrrr.... its freezing cold. 
Well as promised here is today's catch up card for the Docrafts A-Z Daily challenge. I am up to the letter L.

Here is my card.

I found this image in my digi stash images and I loved the colours. You can't change the words on the list that is the only thing which would have been good but I like the words on it.

I added wording from the PC and matted onto gold mirri card. I didn't add anything else as I felt it needed nothing.

thanks for looking today and I hope to see you again very soon

Rosie xxx

Christmas Card Catch-up

hello everyone. well I hope you are all keeping well and warm. Today I am playing catch up once again with my A-Z Daily Challenge cards over on Docrafts. Here I have uploaded my letter K card today. 
 I have chosen K for Kiss-mas (sorry for the pun) just couldn't help myself!!
the image is one of the fabulous Christmas ones from Digistamp Boutique from last year. He is called Jasper and is available here.

I have coloured him with copics and added diamantes to the mistletoe and a red pearl to the robin's hat.

here is a close up of Jasper. I carefully blended his colours together to make his chin appear rounded.

I added glamour dust to the robins hat and used a little snow-tex under Jasper's feet with added glamour dust again.
The background paper was a freebie with magazine from last year and the image and sentiment were both matted onto green cardstock.

thanks for dropping by and I will see you all hopefully tomorrow with the card for L 

hugs 
Rosie xxx  

 

A-Z Daily Challenge -J is for jolly snowman

hello everyone
thanks for joining me again - I'm waving at you all!! LOL
hope you are all okay wherever you are in the world. 
Once again I am playing catch-up with the daily challenge so here albeit late my card for the letter J - this is a Jolly Snowman and Snow-lady.

Here is the image.

The image is printed onto linen cardstock same as the base.  The wording is done direct from the PC using a font called Brock Script in red.

 I matted the image onto red cardstock and then gold mirri card.  I added a touch of glamour dust to the folds in her scarf and diamantes to the poinsettia on his hat and red gems to the holly berries on her hat.

this is the insert that goes with the image.

 
 hope you like this card and I would appreciate any comments 

until next time
Rosie xxx 

  

A-Z Daily Challenge.

hello
wow its been a week since I posted anything. I don't know where the time or the days have gone. It doesn't seem 2 minutes ago that someone mentioned it was 12 weeks or so to Christmas and now its about 7 weeks or so. I'm hopeless at trying to work out the weeks!! LOL

anyway I am waffling on and not getting to the task in hand.  The cards!! I am trying to keep up with the A-Z daily challenge on Docrafts and failing miserably. Partly to do with work and partly cos I am hopeless at coming up with different ideas for the different letters. I think I'm thinking too much about it and being too focused on the christmas theme!!

Anyway here it letter G - here I have chosen Gifts.
Again for quickness its another Forever Friends image. I have printed him out onto linen cardstock and added gems for sparkle.

The background paper was also a FF digi paper and the wording I did direct from the PC using a font called Ziptydo.

Here is a close up of the image.

This next card is for the letter H - here I have chosen Holly.
For this I have picked an image from the popular Penny Black stamp collection called A Thorny Affair.

 
I have coloured him in with copics and added red glitter to the berries of the holly. 

I used a background paper from with the colour in I have used on the image. The paper is  called Winter Gifts from the very talented Summertime Driggs.

 The wording is printed onto linen cardstock using a font called Petra script and then matted onto red cardstock.

thanks for dropping by today and I hope to have more cards to show you very soon 

hugs to you all
Rosie xxx

 
 
 

Christmas Fairy (kind of)

hello friends
well I was trying hard to do my daily challenge cards every single day but as usual work gets kind of in the way so I am a day late (again) posting my next letter of the alphabet - yesterday was F. So I chose this cute Forever Friends bear as a Fairy.

 

I have printed the bear out onto linen cardstock. matted onto silver mirri card and added lots of glamour dust as the snow.
the wording was done direct onto the linen card base using a font called BaaBook - which is supposed to be similar to the actual Forever Friends font.

here is a close up of the fairy

  
thanks for stopping by today. I hope to get the letter G card uploaded later on today 

until later on 
hugs to you all 
Rosie x

Seasons Eatings (A-Z daily challenge)

hello again - now don't worry you are not seeing things!! Yes I am posting twice in one day (LOL) - I have caught up with the daily challenge over on Docrafts.
Here is my card for the letter E - Season's Eatings!! Sorry for the pun.

Again for quickness I have used a digistamp boutique image from last year. He is called Jasper and here he is with a Christmas pudding!!

I have coloured him in with copics and the backing paper was a freebie left over from last year's Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine. They were called Berry Merry by Jennifer Ellory.

I simply stuck the paper onto a scalloped edge 6" card and matted the image onto red cardstock and the wording was done from the PC using a font called Ziptydo.

I added red gems to be the holly berries on the pudding and glamour dust to the edge of his coat.

Thanks again for dropping by and I will see you all tomorrow with another card.

take care
Rosie xxx

D is for Decorating the Tree (A-Z daily challenge)

hello everyone
I have another card for you all today. I do hope you like it. I'm trying hard to catch up with the A-Z daily challenge on Docrafts. Yesterday was the letter D - here I decided on Decorating the Tree.

The image is another Forever Friends image from the Triple CD. The backing paper is also from the CD.

I added glamour dust to the baubles on the tree for some sparkle. The dome gems are from my stash and the corner was cut with a die using my cuttlebug. Wording done from the PC using a font called Ziptydo.

thanks for dropping by and I should have another card to show you later on today - then I am fully caught up!!

hugs until next time
Rosie xxx  

Merry Christmas ABC challenge

hello friends and followers.
I am another bad blogger - crikey I didn't realise it had been a week since I posted a card. So I have 2 to show you today.
These are my creations (LOL) for the Docrafts ABC Daily Challenge run by Ginny. You have to make a card every day with a letter of the alphabet.

So for the letter A - I did Across the Miles - here I found an image from my digi stash. not sure at all where it came from but I simply printed it out and matted onto black then holographic mirri card.

I thought it looked simple and elegant - what do you think? 

Here is my card for the letter B - this is Bearing Gifts. A total play on words with it being a Forever Friends Bear LOL

This image is from the  Forever Friends Triple CD that I always find so useful. Here again I have simply printed out the bear. Added tiny red gems to the holly berries and snow underneath for sparkle.

The background paper is again from the Triple CD.  I matted into onto dark green cardstock and the wording was printed from the PC using a font called Bradley Hand.

here is a close up of the bear 

 

Thanks for dropping by today and I would love to hear your comments good or bad. Until tomorrow take care of yourselves

love and hugs
Rosie xxx

Happy 7th Birthday

hello and a very happy Halloween to you all.
hope you are all okay and enjoying the Halloween events of the day.

Here is today's card - this one should have been posted before now. Its another card for Eva who was 7 years old and loves not only Scooby Doo but gymnastics too.

Here I have simply printed out a gymnastic image and matted onto some pink and then purple cardstock. The wording was done direct onto the cardbase itself.

I added some glossy accent to her ribbon but you can't quite see it.

thanks for stopping by - hope to see you again tomorrow with another card.

until then take care

Rosie xxx  

Happy Birthday Sister

hello again
hope you are all well and warm wherever you are in the world. its absolutely freezing here in Northumberland. We had snow flurries most of yesterday and although the sun is shining today it is still bitterly cold.

here is today's card. Another one for Adelle (my niece) this time from her sister Suranne.
Here I have used a Clipart Fairy image - I printed her out, did a little decoupage on her hat and added lots of gems around the edge of the scalloped border.

The sentiments are printed direct onto the base card using 2 different fonts. One called LainieDay and the other called Freehand591.

here is a close up of the image  - 
 

thanks for dropping by today. hope to see you all again very soon.

take care
Rosie xxx

Happy 13th Birthday

hello friends and new followers! Wow I can't believe have 100 followers! Thank you all x
 
Well yet another week that's flying past us all. I can't believe its Friday again.
Here is today's card - this one was for my niece as requested by my brother.
Here I have used an image from the brilliant Sugar Nellie range called Sweet n Sassy.  I have coloured her in with my copics and added some glossy accent to the flowers.

 
I edged around the card base itself with pink chalk - I saw someone do it on a demo but not sure if I have done it right!!
the large background paper was printed from my digi paper stash. I have used a section of paper from the Dovecraft Back to Basics III paper pack. I added my Whimsy corner dies to the opposite corners for effect.

I matted the image onto cerise cardstock and added chalks around her for effect. The circle date sentiment was a kind donation from Pickle and using Pageplus I changed the date to pink and added the month and year.

here is another close up of the image itself - I added a diamante to the necklace on the image.

thanks for dropping by today. I will be back tomorrow with another card for you to see.

hugs until next time
Rosie xxx

Happy 3rd Anniversary

hello friends.
well once again its Tuesday - seem like only yesterday it was Saturday!! Or did I fall asleep and miss the weekend? LOL
I do hope you are all well and enjoying yourselves - whatever you are doing.
Here is today's card - another personalised one. I am being asked for a lot of these so I hope you don't mind me sharing them with you all.

This one was just a cute one for an anniversary. So once again the trusty Forever Friends bear CD came out and I love this image as I think its very versatile and suitable for this request.

 

I printed the image out twice and slightly decoupage the lady bear at the front. I matted onto pink cardstock and the background is printed directly onto the base card in a lower transparency to fade out. Wording printed at the same time using a font called BaaHmk font.

Here is a close up of the slight decoupage bit.

  

  You might just be able to make out her head, body and arm are slightly forward of the rest of the image.

Thanks once again for all your comments - I read and reply to each and everyone of them. 

until tomorrow - take care

hugs

Rosie xxx 

Happy Birthday Mum (commission)

hello everyone!! Hope you are all enjoying a very chilly but sunny Saturday. Well it is here in Northumberland!! A very Autumnal day - my fave time of year.

Thanks for all the previous comments and hello to any new followers who have recently joined my blog. 
Here is today's card. I hope you like it!!
This request was for anything cute. So I opted for a fave of lots of people Forever Friends bear. 
Here I have printed out the image from the triple CD that was on sale about 2 years ago. 
I have used one of the background papers and printed it directly on the base card itself using a lower transparency. the font was printed at the same time direct from the PC using a font called Starbabe Hmk. Its pretty similar to the one on the CD.

   

The pink matt was also one the backing papers from the CD but I printed it out onto cardstock. 

I added glue and lots of glamour dust to the nets in the window for extra sparkle and tiny gems to the flowers in the window box. I then added glossy accents to the flowers to add a bit of dimension.

here is a close up of the image itself -

 

and another one so you can see the glitter on the window nets.

hope you like today's card. Do you think the nets look okay?

any comments good or bad are more than welcome

take care until next time we meet

Rosie xxx 

   

Happy Birthday Eva

hello friends!!
well who would believe that its Friday yet again. I definitely think someone is fast forwarding the weeks past just to annoy me.

Here is today's card - another personalised card. I am doing quite a lot of these at the moment so I hope you are not getting too bored with them!!

This request was for a little girl who loves Scooby Doo and Daphne. I found this image on and printed it out then matted onto pink cardstock. 

  
I added glossy accents to the hearts for effect. The wording is done direct onto the base card using a font called Starbabe Hmk.

 

Here is a close up of the image.  

that's all for today - hope to see you again tomorrow with another new card.

I am off now to leave comments on those of you kind enough to leave comments before.

hugs to you all

Rosie xxx 

Happy Birthday Tottenham Hotspur fan

hello friends
hope you are all well and enjoying the middle of the week. Its pouring with rain at the moment but the sun will no doubt pop his head out again soon - just as he has done all day here!!

This is today's card. here this one is for a Spurs fan
The request was plain and simple ideally with the badge or logo on. This time I had 2 requests for a birthday card for the same man so did 2 versions of the badge/logo.

Here is the first one 

This was printed out and matted onto silver mirri card. The wording was done in a font called Splendid.

Here is a close up of the image of the badge - it has a shadow behind it.

Here is the other card again using a Spurs logo. 
Here I printed it out and matted onto matching blue card then onto gold mirri card to pick out the yellow in the image.
The font on this card is called Nuptial.

Here is a close up of the badge.

 

thanks again for all the fab comments on my previous postings. hope you like these ones today. I shall be back tomorrow with some more cards
Until then take care
love and hugs
Rosie xxx 

   

 

Happy Birthday

Hello everyone. hope you all had a fab weekend. 

thanks for all the comments on my latest cards and thanks to those of you who have recently joined me as a new follower. I hope to keep you updated regularly and  that you will continue to follow me and like what I do. Means such a lot to me x


Anyway here is today's card. This is another commision card - I have been asked for several of these at the moment and I am doing as is requested by the buyer. This one is for a young lady who loves walking her dog.

Here I have simply printed out an image I found and matted onto black card and silver mirri board to give it a classy look.
The font is called Swan Song. 


I hope you like it and hope to see you all again tomorrow with another new card

take care and hugs to you all
Rosie xxx  

Happy 1st Birthday Grandson (commission)

hello everyone
well its Saturday again, crikey hasn't this week flown by? Or is it just me getting old? LOL
hope you are all well and having a fab weekend so far.

here is today's card. This was for a Grandson's first birthday. I was given free reign on this design and all the lady said was he was her little star. So I thought this Tatty Teddy image was perfect!

I have printed him out directly onto cardstock. Matted onto silver mirri card. Added glossy accents to make the star more shiny. 

 

The background was printed directly on the card base using a lower transparency to make it fade out and the wording is done in a kind of font similar to the actual Tatty Teddy one this is printed in blue as I thought it looked less harsh than the standard black font. Especially with it being for a little one's card.

hope you like this and I will have another one to show you very soon.

take care and enjoy your weekend - whatever you are doing!!

hugs to you all until next time

Rosie xxx

 

 

Snoozeville Man (Clip Art Fairy)

hello friends
wow its Friday yet again. its flying past even quicker now. Hope you are all well.

Here is today's card. Another quick one. This time for a male.
This image is one of the Ready to Print sets from the fabulous Clip Art Fairy range.
He is called Snoozeville and is available here to buy and print out.

All I have done is print him out but I changed the background paper shape to fit an 8" square card. I just thought it would look better for the card I was making.
I have used the decoupage section to do his socks , his shirt and the hammock too.

Its not very clear but you might be able to make it out. The sentiment was already printed out and I think its perfect!!

quick simple yet so effective. you should pop along to the Clip Art Fairy website to see what other fab stuff they have on there.

until tomorrow.
hugs to you all
Rosie xxx