long time no posts

Sorry it has been so long in getting another post up here....Alot has been keeping me very busy. I still am making cards but not as often with everything else going on. This is just a quick post to let you know I have not forgotten everyone. I am going to be changing my blog name and doing some revamping. When I get the new name I will give you some warning so you dont loose the link.

Till then have a great day stamping.

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