not forgotten...

No I have not fogotten everyone. I am just needing to take a break right now from doing alot of cards etc. My kids are on holiday for the summer and our life is really busy. Keep up with what is happenning by wathing our other blog. Be back soon.

Happy Stampin.

baby card

Here is a slide card I made for a friend who had a little boy. I made one for a little girl that turned out quite lovely but silly me forgot to take a photo of it before I gave it to them so guess you will have to just guess what it looked like from this one. arrg hate it when I do that.

I love the way this one turned out. The saying is from SU but the little boys outfit is from our local shop here in Barlick that I just love. It is called WhichCraft? (http://www.whichcrafts.co.uk/) Go have a look at the web sight. :) They have such lovely things in it. I stamped three different outfits then colored them all in with SU markers and then layered then with gluedots to add a little height to them.

I love the way this one turned out. :)

Hope you enjoy.

Ive been tagged..

Ive been tagged by Chrissy one of my stamping sisters.

So I have to come up with seven facts about myself. hmm this will be interesting.

1. By the time I was 20 my family had moved 52 times. and No neither of my parents are in the military.

2. I get very very sick in my pregnancies to the point I have ended up in the hospital on IVS. I have to take 2 different meds for nausea and being sick. I love my four children and plan on having more someday. :)

3. I am a trained Doula. I hope to someday get my practice up and running over here in the UK again. I hope to take a lactation consultant training soon.

4. I am a parent governor at my children's school.

5. I am terrified of heights. once when I was younger my brother in law to be took my family up in a tower where he worked and when we got off the elevator I literally had wobbly knees I could not let go of the wall by the elevator for fear. Yet I don't have a problem in planes. :)

6. My oldest son had cancer when he was 2. Had surgery to remove one of his kidneys. It will be 5 years this June. yippee!

7. My family knows when I am stressed because I start baking! I love to bake and when I get stressed I will bake and bake and bake. it is my relaxing thing to do!

okay so there are seven things about me. so now I have to tag seven others. hmmmm lets see

Caz
Jenny
Fiona
Tina
Rachel
Michelle B
Monica

Lets see what they have to say...

10 minute card/Challenge time

Sometime ago I was browsing around some of the blogs I love to read and when I came to Fionaś blog she had done this 10 minute card challenge. I thought what a neat idea to do. Thought well someday when I have a minute I will have a go to see what I can come up with. Well that day never came until my daughters birthday the beginning of March and I literally only had 10 minutes to make her card before I had to go pick her up from school. I thought hey what a great time to try this. I set the timer and wala this is what I came up with in 10 minutes! What a great challenge thanks Fiona!


Well I think I am going to set my own challenge on here. Lets see what you can come up with! Have ago at making a card in ten minutes leave me a comment with a link to your blog then I can have a look and see what you came up with. I will give it till next tues then have a judging of the cards. There will be a prize in the end. :)

Have fun ladies.

Birthday Card

Okay this card is one I made for a dear friend up north in Scotland a couple of months ago. Well the post never delivered it to her. :( So somewhere between here and there lies this card. I was waiting to post it till I new she had gotten it but after her not getting it I thought at least I would post the pictures and then she could see what I had sent her. Sorry Rach it did not get to you.

I got this inspiration off of Jennys wonderful blog. I just love the creations she comes up with. I love flowers but had never really tried cutting them and layering them as I have done lately. Then to make a card that has two ways of opening I thought was really neat idea so I had a go.

It is all SU products. I just love the way it turned out. Thanks Jen for your inspirations. :)

Simpathy card..

Here is a sympathy card I made for my DHs great aunt who passed away this past autumn we sent it to my MIL cousin.

I used the stampin pastels again. Can you tell I just love using them. :) Again I used SU products. I dont have a special sympathy stamp so I used a generic thinking of you stamp.

I versa marked the flowers on the side of the card.

Another one....

This is another card I made for the swap. Again it is all SU products. I love how everything goes together so well. I tore the pink paper after I stamped the flowers on. Then added the pearl accents to each flower to give them a little bling.

Card for swap...

I did this card for a swap awhile ago. And of course just getting it up here. I used the stampin´ pastels with these. I attached the cut out flowers with stampin´ dimentionals. I followed a card in the UK caddy but changed a little of the lay out. Hope you like it.

Birthday card

A friend at the childrens school had a birthday right before the holidays so I made her this one.

Hope you like it.



ps I will come back tomorrow and give the recipe on how I did this. It has gotten to late tonight to put it up and my brain is not working right. :)

not been on in awhile...

I have not been on in awhile do to lots of reasons. I have loads of pics to post but that will have to wait till another day. Take a look at my other blog as to what is happening over the last few weeks. ouruk-familyblog.blogspot.com sorry about this.

Hope to be back posting soon.

hugs

Patti

Flu/No Electricity

Well I had been telling myself all week that Friday was the day I was going to sit down and post these pictures of what I have made over the last week. hmmm. This week has been so busy with one thing or another. Friday was my down day or so I thought. :) My son woke up sick in the night with a high fever and being sick. So he is home in bed sleeping....oh quiet.....my youngest is sleeping too.....maybe I can get some things done.....Not!!! Took my other two to school today to find out the juniors did not have any electricity or heating. :( So she is home too....Only one child at school today. I also have a neighbor girl here as well as her mum is at work so with four still here today I just cant get them up...oh well maybe soon. I am so pleased with how the cards have turned out I really want to get them up for you all to see. lets hope that no one else goes down with this virus.....

hugs everyone till next time. :)

Sorry no pictures...

I have had my head burried in papers and books today. I have four papers due for school on Wed and have gotten 2 done now so working in the other 2. So I am sorry for not posting the pictures of the cards that I have managed to make. I have quite a few. Hopefully I will get them up soon. A few of them will have to hold off for a few days as they are for people who read my blogs so dont want them to see them till they get to them. :)

Off to make some tea so I can get these little ones to bed at a decent time tonight.

I just had to share!!

Oooh I just had to post again today! And share what I got in the mail today! Last week I signed up to get the magazine Craft Beautiful and LOOK! what came from them today as a thankyou for signing up!!!! I was so shocked! I cant wait to play with them. They are so fabulous! The colors are gorgeous! They even sent markers and chalks! Ohh can you tell I am excited! :)



Well I have to go now and get my papers ready for school tonight and get tea ready for the family. OHh I wish I could have a play but that will have to wait for tomorrow....Oh well.

Cheers

Simply Said

This is a Thankyou card I made. Not for anyone inparticular just thought I would make it. As you can see from the cards I have made I love the 3D effect and using glitter. lol I also versa marked the card with the smaller flower from the Simply said stamp set. I love the way the background comes out when you versa mark it. :)



Recipe:

Simply Said stamp set SU
Year after Year stamp set SU
Almost Amethyst card stock
Barely Banana card stock
Creamy Caramel card stock
Black stamp pad
Stampin Pastels
Glue pen
Glitter
Butterfly punch
White Grosgrain ribbon

Hope you enjoy!
Thanks for looking.

DCM Challenge/Anniversary Card

I thought I would post this now in responce to DCM challenge they have running at the moment. This is a great web sight you all need to have a look. Thanks Rachel and all you have such good ideas!

Here is my card I made for my DH. Our Anniversary was Sat. I used glitter around the hearts. And gave it a 3D effect with Stampin dementional. I also used Mixed bouquet stamp set and versa marked the center flower stamp on the card.



Recipe:

Happy Hearts stamps SU
Cheers and Wishes stamps SU
Mixed Bouquet stamp set SU (center flower stamp)
Certainly Celery card stock
Brocade Blue card stock
Garden Green card stock
Lovely Lilac card stock
Stampin Dementionals
Glitter
Versa mark
Gold embelishments.

Thats it for tonight...

I have more to post but I am going to stop there as I need to get to bed. Hopefully I can get some more up in the next few days. I have some more cards that are needing to be made as two friends have had babies in the last few weeks I have one done just need to get the other ones done plus some birthdays coming up to.

So will say goodnight for now. (or for some of my blogging sisters good afternoon lol)

oh thought I would just mention that some of the cards insparations came from our current SU UK catalogue! If you like what you see and want to order anything I would be happy to help.

Mixed Bouquet/Two step stampin

This card I used the Mixed Bouquet two step stamping set.



Supplies

Almost Amethyst card stock
Barely Banana card stock
Certainly Celery card stock
Real Red card stock
White ribbon
Stampin write markers
Real Red stamp pad
Versa mark

Hope you enjoy

Simply Said

Here is a card using the Simply Said stamp set.




Supplies
Pretty in Pink Card stock
Certainly Celery card stock
Brocade Blue card stock
Year after Year stamp set SU
Simply Said stamp set SU
Stampin' write ink pens
glitter
versa mark
pearl embelishments

Enjoy!

Birthday Cheer

Sorry about the quality of this photo. This was taken before my DH got the camera sorted. (its faily new and I am not 100% sure how to work it.) I made this for a friend whos birthday was a few weeks ago. But thought you would like to see it.




Supplies used

Black card stock
Lovely lilac card stock
White Card stock
Very vanilla card stock
Butterfly punch
Glitter
Cheers and Wishes stamp set SU
FLowers are from Hero Arts
stampin pastels

Flower card

Finally have gotten it so I think the photos are better. Also got the watermark figured out. :) I am posting some cards I have done over the last week. I will see how many I get up tonight.

This card is using the Simply Said and Welcoming Words stamp sets. All from Stampin' Up. I used versa mark on the background of the card. I love using versa mark on my backgrounds as you will probably notice lol. :) I put a little glue and glitter in the middle of the flowers. I also used gold glue embelishments in the corners and on the tag. Sorry dont have su emblishments yet.



Supplies for this card:

Simply Said stamp set
Welcoming Words stamp set
Rose Red card stock
Certainly Celery card stock
White card stock
gold glue embelishments
Glitter.

Hope you enjoy this card off to try and get another one posted tonight!

Sorry for not posting

I am having trouble getting my photos up here clearer then they are. DH is going to give me a hand tonight and hopefully will get them so you can see them better. Then I have a few to put up. Working on two baby ones at the moment. Will put those up as well when ready.

I am also working on some cards for a card swap. Only have to do 6 of them eek they have to be to the lady by the 20th! yikes Think I better get moving!

Sorry for being so long in getting more up. It is frustrating when my pics are doing this. Not sure what the problem is. The photos I put up on my other blog are fine, just not of the cards. :(

Trying to come up with some ideas for little boxes? Any ideas? My daughters birthday is in a couple of weeks and she is wanting to take some little cakes into school but I thought it would be really cute to put them into little boxes. Got any suggestions?

Okay going to work on the cards more. Be back soon..I hope :)

Thinking of you card.

This is a card I did for a friend who had surgery mid Dec and is still in the hosp. I thought it might cheer her up. She has had it ruff lately. She is raising three children herself and she has had to have this surgery so they are with her parents at the moment.

I punched the flowers out. Layers them and then in the middle of the flowers I used a gold embelishement. Raised the flowers with 3D foam squares. The flower stamp also has the embelishment.

I stamped a little flower in the corner of the envelope with an embelishment as well. I thought it added a little character to it.


Supplies.

Seeing Spots stamp set SU
Lovely Lilac card stock SU
Pixie Pink ink SU
Flower Punch
Thinking of you stamp
3D foam squares.

DH Birthday Card

Here is the birthday card I made for my DH this past week. I only had about 20 minutes to throw this together while he was out one night. Its not the greatest but with only having a limited supply at the moment I think it turned out pretty good.

Supplies I used:

Year After Year SU stamp set
Cheers and Wishes SU stamp set
Real Red card stock SU
Tempting Turquoise card stock SU
Wisper white ribbon SU
Real Red Ink SU
Silver mirrored paper was some I had on hand.

ps He did not like the color scheme. What do you all think?

Page Change....

Okay what do you all think? As much as I link pink it just was to bright for me. Not sure if I will stick to this one or not but wondered what you all thought. I am trying to get a better header. My DH has a really nice photo I am going to put on it but that takes a little more time then what I have at the moment.

Yes I will be posting more cards up here. Have lots of design in my head just to get them churned out takes time. :) And trying to find a wee corner in my aboad to have all my supplies together, at the moment they are all in a box so it is a pain to bring them out all the time to do one card. DH is working on getting our front room sorted and once that is done he has promised me a corner for me to have! :) exciting! With still redecorating the house everything is in a bit of a tip. Everything will eventually come together.

Trying to come up with some more ideas on how to promote my stamp classes. I have ladies that are interested but of how to get the word out to others. It is different here then the states in that aspect it was much eaiser to get the word out. I have thought about a flyers, posting up flyers places etc. I have a few catalogues at some stores in town on the counters and of course telling lots of people, but any more ideas girls?


Okay going to finish cleaning before i have to go get the little ones from school

Happy Stampin'

My first order!

I have recieved my First order of cards to make! It is only a few but hey it is a start! Every little bit helps! And many more SU orders are starting to come in!

For anyone interested in the month of Jan on your first order I am offering free shipping. Now if you have not ordered from me but you have ordered SU before I will still consider you a first order! We have many wonderful stamps in this time around! Take a look at the catologue which is linked at your right. :)

I am back..

Its time to finally get this up. A good motivation is Fiona's Blog Candy that she is offereing!

I guess I better let you all know why I have been MIA for awhile. My DH ended up taking me to A&E last weekend in pain but on a heavy dose of anti now so doing loads better. So after a stint in the hosp I am back up and running.

Few got the cards all stamped and made to realize we were 5 short! urrrr! So had to make 5 more. Then on wed my DCh inform me they want to take choc back to their teachers! Okay me being me cant just send a bar of choc off with out it being decorated! Hey every little advertisement for Stampin Up! helps! So off to the shop to get 6 bars of choc to decorated and get ready for them by 7 in the morning! After a bit of fiddling I managed to get them done (with a few hours of sleep :) ) And the teachers loved them! They were all asking me were I had gotten them from so hopefully something good will come out of all this stamping snowman etc! :)

so here are the cards and choc! I tried to make them simple for the kids to esemble together. :) Sorry they are somewhat blurry my camera is acting up again. uggg!

You will need:

Happy Winter stamps from SU
Angel Policy stamps SU
Brilliant Blue card Paper
Lovely Lilac card Paper
Green Galore card Paper
White card paper
Love notes whisper cards
Silver mirror paper.
Blue/Purple/Green stampin pads
Silver Paint pen
3 glue dots per card


Front view of blue card. I make them in green and purple as well. First stamp the inside of the cards with a greeting of Happy New year. (the photos I got were very blury am going to try and get another one done then will post that.) Then the Angel policy stamp on the back.
Then cut the Silver mirror card stock too be 2 1/4 "x 2". The blue (or what ever color you are using) cards stock to be cut in 2" x 1 3/4 " The white card stock in 1 3/4" x 1". But you need double the amount of white as you have cards you are using two pieces for every card. Then stamp the snowman in the top portion of half of your little white cards. Then take the snow stamp and stamp around the edges of the rest of the little white cards leaving the middle open. Then write 2008 (or what ever you want to write :) ) Then take the two white cards and Affix them together with the snow stamped card laying sideways on top of the bottom of the snowman stamped card in an upside down T shape. Affix the blue (or what ever color you are using) to the silver mirrored card stock. Affix these to the top half of the card. Now take glue dots put one on the top of the upside down T and one on either side. Affix these part way down the center middle of the card so part is on the blue and part is on the white.



Now for the choc!

You will need:

White card stock
Brilliant Blue card stock
Happy Winter SU stamp set
Angel Policy stamp set
White Ribbon
Hole puch


First take the white card stock and depends on how big a bar it is. wrap the choc in the white paper so it covers all four sides so just the two short sides are sticking out fasten this. Then cut a blue piece just a little smaller then the white top piece. I did it to where the top showed the white but the sides had blue all the way to the edges fasten this. Now cut a white peice of card stock so that there is just a 1/4 " of blue showing on all four sides. Take your stamp set and stamp and you are going to do shadowing. First stamp snow all over the bottom of the white card stock. then stamp one tree on the edge and emmediatly with out reinking stamping another tree partly on top. Then another tree this time reinking partly on top again and then stamping again a tree with out inking. Then another tree. Then on the far end of the card stock stamp another tree. Now you can stamp the snowman. Affix this to the middle of the blue on your bar. Now take and cut a small blue oblong for your tags. Then cut a smaller white oblong affix this to the blue one placing it on the right hand side of the tag so that there is more blue showing on the left then the right. Puch a hole in the blue part of the tag on the left hand side. Stamp your "Happy Winter" wording on the cards AFTER you have affixed them onto the blue. Now tie ribbon around the choc bar inbetween the tree and snowman. Slip the tag on before you tie the ribbon then slide it up under the knot.



And there you have your fancy choc bars! I have had so many people asking me were I got them. I already have someone asking me to make them some new year cards for this year! Yipee keep em comin!