Ros Davidson, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, Melbourne, Australia

Bits & pieces

Just a random bits and pieces update since I haven’t done one for a few days.

- Bella is now bum shuffaling around the room (since Saturday). Need to work on tummy time with her a little more as I want her to crawl (as opposed to the bum shuffle) and when she does have tummy time she swims like a frog (or something...)

- Just found 1kg of apples I brought from Aldi in my craft cupboard. I knew they were missing but as always I don’t look for something that is missing as I never find it. Obviously one of the kids thought they might help me put them away.

- I made a Christmas tree for our house seeing as we won’t be putting the fake one up. (I spend enough time picking up toys so I don’t need to pick up Christmas decorations from one end of the house to another.) It is a wooden Kaiser tree that I picked up recently and I made it double sided just so I can have a change. The kids are looking forward to changing the numbers tomorrow. Have used Stampin up, cool caribeen ink and cardstock, weathered background stamp, Making Memories Christmas paper, SEI velvet paper, Heidi Swapp bling, Love Elsie Christmas paper, Stickles glitter, Kaiser gems, Heidi Swapp lettering and I think that nearly covers all of it.

- My latest Stampin Up stuff. Materials list below each photo.

A CD hanger for the Christmas tree
Materials used -
Cardstock: kraft
Inks: cranberry crisp ink, old olive
Accesories: holiday thyme patterned paper, linen thread
Other misc. products: button, cd and chipboard bird.

Bud Basics
My cards for our Stampin Up summer card swap. Bud Basics is one of the new sets available in the new mini catalogue from December first. I have also used the matching jumbo wheel.

Materials used -
Stamps: It’s your birthday, Bud Basics, Basic Outline (wheel)
Cardstock: Marigold Morning, Regal Rose, Certainly Celery
Inks: Basic Black, Marigold Morning, Regal Rose, Certainly Celery
Accessories: White gel pen, chipboard, ½ circle punch, slit punch

French Flair
Yet another new stamp from the new summer mini catalogue. A huge background stamp full of all yummy swirls (and birds!!!)

Materials used -
Stamps: French Flair, Warmest Regards
Cardstock: Ballet Blue, Whisper White, Boarding Blue
Inks: Basic Black, Going Grey, Ballet Blue, Gold

- Stampin Up spring mini catalogue ends on Friday as does the “All in the Family” promotion.

- I got my certificate from Stampin Up today in regards to my promotion. I didn’t actually know I got a certificate and a pin so a pleasant surprise!

- Bella has a rash and a fever so got picked up from childcare early today. I got all the kids at the same time as Nat is working tonight and I didn’t want to have to go back down with Bella on my own.

Enough from me, this is a huge post as it is.
Ros.

P.S. Totally forgot the picture I promised Fiona I would blog... Either Nat or Fiona took it of me and Boo at the beach last Monday. Other photos to come of the beach (some awesome ones of Nikki and funny ones of my reluctant swimmer, Drew and even some family ones too) I initially deleted this pic of me and Boo as I hate it but after being urged to keep it especially since Boo and I have the same look I am hanging to scrap it. Even have the title sussed out... Familiar faces...

Labels: cards, Izzy info, Izzy photos, Stampin Up

Card and a layout and a special stamp set

It was Nat's birthday on Sunday so guess what I was up and doing at 6am that morning. Making his card of course! Nothing like leaving it till the last minute.

Materials used -

Stamps: It's your birthday

Cardstock: cranberry crisp, true thyme, more mustard, whisper white

Ink: cranberry crisp, chocolate chip, true thyme

Accessories: Treehouse pp, navy organza ribbon, on board accents, horizontal slot punch, markers

And here is a layout I made using the special "All in the family set" that I have mentioned previously.

Materials used -

Stamps: All in the family, big deal alphabet

Cardstock: kraft, real red, glossy white

Ink: real red, black staz on

Accessories: Hodge podge hardware

and other misc. H.S. products for the lettering

The "all in the family set" has been pre-released for November only. All the proceeds from the sales of the "all in the family set" worldwide with be donated to Dave Abbott's family. Dave Abbott was the General Manager of Stampin Up in Australia who passed away last month from a rare blood disease.

The "All in the family" stamp set is avaliable till the end of November and won't be available till the new catalogue is released in April. (The proceeds won't go to Dave Abbott's family then though.) Come one, I urge you to help a young family dealing with the tragic loss of a family member and get a new stamp set at the same time.

All from me, I am off to see what my own family are screaming about in the longue room.

Ros

Labels: cards, layouts, Stampin Up

WSC28

I finally got around to doing Beate Johns weekend sketch challenge (WSC28) this weekend. I have been wanting to do it for ages but haven't had the time. So today, I MADE the time. I needed to, with being home alone with the kids all weekend whilst Nat is drinking it up at the bucks weekend.Used all Stampin Up products Stamps: Loads of Love Paper: Holiday thyme pp, old olive, cranberry crisp, very vanilla Ink: Chocolate Chip, old olive Accessories: Dazzling diamonds, two way glue, 5/8 very vanilla grosgrain ribbon (available in summer mini catalogue, beginning December 2007)

The patterned paper I used for this card is a special Stampin Up has brought out for purchase from November 1st - December 15th. Yes, I am slow letting you all know about it. Slack really. Will update with the MAJOR special for November next post (need to finish my sample).

Best get the kids off to bed (well Nikki is already asleep on the couch... it is what happens when she doesn't have a nap!) and eat dinner.

Cheers,

Ros

Labels: cards, Stampin Up

Final card

So I finally finished the card. Obviously my order arrived and I managed to squeeze the time in to get it done... In between all my running around today grocery shopping, running errands for Nat who has a bucks party all weekend and is currently after doing O/T at work..., walked the kids to childcare and I have to drive Nat to Portsea (grrr)...

Now back to the cards, they are not my designs (I'll be honest!) I got the inspiration of Splitcoaststampers and tweaked them to make them more mine.

All Stampin Up products used for all the cards, if you want further info, more than happy to list it for you.

Now for my update, my little "no fear" boy did this to himself on Cup Day. 2nd photo taken on the Thursday (8th). He put a chair on top of the outdoor table and fell (somehow).

With it splurting blood like no tomorrow (and Nat not being very calm) we rang the ambulance. They came out and cleaned Drewie up and suggested to us to take him to The Valley Hospital (as we have private health insurance). We were at The Valley for less than an hour and Drew was so good. They used "glue" to stick his forehead back together. Mind you it was $260 later (we got $190 back from Medicare) but honestly I would have paid whatever seeing as it was a public holiday and we weren't waiting forever at Frankston Hospital.

Bella is nearly 7 months old now! Yup my little bubba is getting bigger!

I call her Boo (as in Bella Boo and this is some journaling I typed up and saved as I was "in the moment".

Boo you are nearly 7 months old now and sit up so confidently. You will sit and play with toys for a long time (half an hour or more) as long as they are close enough for you to reach. You pull your dummy in and out of your mouth often. You love to be wrapped up (angel wrap) for bed and settled down for sleep straight away. You aren’t crawling yet and are happy to have more tummy time than last month when you would grizzle and carry on. You don’t have any teeth yet, love to eat fruit and vegetables with yogurt and custard being your favourites. When someone familiar comes into the room, you wiggle and wave your arms with around as if to say “Hello” as you aren’t saying any words yet.

I had a Stampin Up course on Saturday, was great fun and I learnt lots of new stuff (samples and more classes coming up soon). I did have to leave early though as Alan (may as well be my step dad) had a car accident in my mum's car (and mum is overseas with my sister). Nat helped Alan out but I couldn't be creative once I knew there had been an accident. I guess I was super worried as mum was away and I knew there was nothing she could do (nor could I really but you know...)

I brought Alan home from the hospital on Monday night as he had to go in for a check up. I had Josh and Nikki with me (and they were calling Alan, Bummer read Bammar, as that is what they call him) and 2 people thought that Alan was Josh and Nikki's dad. So if Alan was supposed to be Josh and Nikki's dad, what does that make me? LOL... Of course the 2 of us corrected the people quickly saying Daddy was at home and that he was Grandad.

Have been busy checking up on Alan and answering queries for mum with a little creating in between. Sent out card swaps for the Christmas Card swap I was hosting on Bon's Scraps (awesome cards by everyone). Have my Summer mini catalogue swap for Stampin Up to do now. Made a start on it last night and got a bit done and I didn't procrasinate like I usually do so it was definete progress.

Off to go and do more of it now.

Ros.

P.S. When taking photos with your camera, remember to put the memory card back in after downloading pics! LOL that is what I did before and took 2, yes TWO photos of my Mr and Mrs card before I clicked what the No CF card message was! Huge blonde moment happening here. LOL!!!!

P.P.S Miss Nikki's latest funny (going to do a layout about it especially with my All in the Family stamp set (more about that next post))

Grandmas cat is called “Castle” said Nikki

The cat is really called Tassle! LOL

Labels: classes, Drew info, Drew photos, Izzy info, Nikki quotes, Stampin Up

Card Class

I am running card classes from home (first one is November 21st, during the day) and these are 3 of the 4 cards I will be teaching. (I am waiting on a stock order to finish the 4th card.) They all feature the Crab & Company stamp set, available from the Spring Mini catalogue (which ends November 30th).

You will make 4 cards with envelopes for a cost of $20 ($15 if you place a Stampin Up order).

I will be back soon with the 4th card and an update.

Ros

Labels: classes, Stampin Up