by Susan Itell | Feb 13, 2016 | Simple Saturday, Uncategorized |
Welcome to Simple Saturday and I have a tip for you that will make you do the “happy dance” when using detailed dies. This bundle, Rose Wonder has been a SUPER popular bundle with many.
I know that it is a $$$$ bundle but when you see the detail of the framelits and also see the beauty of the stamps and amazing sentiments that is in the stamp set it eases your pain a bit. Today I am using a sentiment from another stamp set, Timeless Love as I needed a Happy Anniversary card for John’s Mom and Dad’s 62nd Anniversary.
There are so many fabulous ideas out there using this bundle and you can easily make it as simple as you want or make it more detailed! You will have to pop back tomorrow to see how I made some changes and then I will share with you which one went to my In Laws!
The base of the card is in Very Vanilla and it is an A-2 card and then I cut another piece of Very Vanilla 1/4″ smaller – 5 1/4″ X 4″ to build my card! (Darn, I wish that they would come out with the Very Vanilla in the heavy weight, once you get used to that….this seems so thin so I do like to add another layer to give it some support!
Cutting out these framelits can be a bit frustrating as they are so delicate but I have found a product that is not Stampin’ Up! but one that I have found to be a lifesaver with a project like this. It is called Stick It and you can click here to see it on Amazon (darn, I adore Amazon)
I did use the green glue and yep it worked but I admit it was a bit messy as the area is soooooo thin but then when I tried the Stick It – wowzers, a lifesaver. One thing that I love about the product is that you can expose the backing and adhere it down and if you do not like the placement…..you can move it and then when you have it “just right”, you can use your bone folder to give it a good push!
The other day I used the Timeless Love Stamp Set and it is still out on my work area as I am going to do a video for you next week and when I saw that Happy Anniversary Sentiment….BINGO – I wanted it on my card! These fonts are so elegant and special!
I wasn’t quite sure what to do with the envelope and then I thought…and embossed a piece of very vanilla and then adhered it to the back flap…The Elegant Dots Textured Folder was a perfect accent for the envelope back!
I honesty have forgotten to do an envelope like this….and there are times that when you are working with very vanilla paper, it can be a challenge to find a matching/coordinating paper as many of our papers are geared to white…not vanilla! Please do not get me wrong, I adore vanilla as I feel there is a softness and comfort to it and today’s card is a great example of it!
Just think….with this bundle you are soooooo close to getting a FREEBIE item from Sale-a-bration. It is hard to believe that we are 1/2 way through Sale-a-bration – the BEST time of the year with Stampin’ Up!
Can you believe that tomorrow is Valentines Day? Tomorrow John’s parents will be celebrating their 62nd Wedding Anniversary….is that beautiful or what. John’s Dad is not in the best of heath but he is such an inspiration to me as he never complains…he sees the joys in life. His Mom is such a saint, very determined to be there with him and keep him comfortable at home
You will see the products that I used below, shopping from home is great….(another reason that I love Amazon) – you can think of Stampin’ Up! as your on line friend and if you need help….email or call me! I would love to help you!
Enjoy the day and I hope that you can pop back tomorrow to see the stepped up version of our 2 day post! You all are THE BEST……
by Susan Itell | Feb 12, 2016 | Birthday |
As promised…it is a “Mr. Frog” day…or should I say today it is a “Mrs. Frog” as she is all ready for to wish a girlfriend Happy Birthday. You know I adore Mr. Frog and he from the You’re Sublime and Mr. Frog’s hat is from the FREEBIE Sale-a-bration, “Hello” and remember – this stamp set is only available thru MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15th!
I know that some of you thought that all items were available thru the end of March, but look at the catalog and you will see that there are several items that I going bye-bye in Monday but the great news is….Tuesday, there will be some new additions, and you will smile!
You know that I adore “Mr. Frog” and this hat is PERFECT for him to strut his stuff wishing someone Happy Birthday! I really should have showcased this stamp more and I do hope that you can see that this is a fabulous stamp set that is practical all year around! (Darn, it is so cute….it should be in the big catalog)
Enjoy the parade of pictures and I hope that you can see that not only is it “HIP TO BE SQUARE” and also know that simple cuts of paper can make a WOW card in a very short period of time. (Remember, my motto….when you are making a card….it really is just as easy to make several so you have a stash)
I like to use masking tape to do a simple mask of the sentiment and of course…I use the stamp-a-ma-jig for perfect placement each and every time! I did use the THICK white card stock and just a dab of the melon mambo with the aqua painter…true you could use the marker straight on but I think it is too dark…and this is super easy!
This is just one FUN…CLEAN….and SIMPLE card that I think you will agree…..will make anyone smile! I also loved the top of his hat as it reminded me of the DSP…did you notice that? This truly is a fun and special pack of paper.
With the house glass starting to turn for getting this stamp set free…..remember, for every $50.00 order you can pick a Sale-a-bration item…and if I were you – I would pick this gem….you will use it over and over for cards throughout the year!
For some reason I have a TON of Birthdays this month….and I think that I am going to play some more with this stamp set. I am thankful that the weekend is here…John is starting to get super busy and I was truly pooped yesterday. Busy day…..please feel free to email me and I will get back with you….I did not check my mail last night….I just typed this up and HIT THE HAY!
See you tomorrow….it’s Simple Saturday!
by Susan Itell | Feb 11, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Here you go…a “Susan Card” – what does that mean??? EASY – this is right up my alley…I love the simplicity of it and true I have blogged about this before…you just cannot go wrong with the classics! You all loved it before so I thought, WHY NOT show this style again but change up the paper and sentiment!
This card IS a card for many reasons….WHY??? – just change up the sentiments and PRESTO –
a totally different feel!
Today is a Pals Paper At Challenge and this week it is a color challenge! See the FUN mix of colors that Katy McGloin came up with. I knew that the Sale-a-bration paper would work perfectly but I also figured that everyone else had the same idea so I just used it in “bits” to be the POP on the vases! Please do not forget to pop by the Pals Paper Art site and see what’s happening!
Let’s get into this card as I do hope that it brings a smile to your face and also that you CASE away with it! Just think of all of the differnt sentiments that you can use. Small prints of paper work great when “decorating” your vases.
It is super simple, just use the stamp and stamp the image right on the DSP and then do a super easy fussy cut and then adhere them with green glue – PRESTO – BINGO!
Today I did use the watercolor paper and the Aqua Painter. I have been having GREAT success with the Thick White Card Stock…it will work fine, just be careful that you do not over saturate the paper. The best tip I can give you is to have a paper towel handy to dab off excess water if you need to. I do hope that you try to watercolor more…it is really fun, relaxing and rewarding.
You can see the colors in the supplies below that I used but I adore using the Sahara sane around the edges of the vases…it really makes them pop and look special (Darn, I wish that you could see it in person and it truly is a great card….sometimes it’s hard to capture it in a picture)
The over all size of the card is a 4 1/4″ square card and the great thing about his size is that you can use one of our regular envelopes but you know me, I like to make my own….that envelope punch board makes like super easy!
After I did the coloring and adhered the vases, I took the image and flipped it over and used the simply scored and sores 1 notch on all the say around. Adhering that to a piece of Sahara Sand (a smidge larger) helps make it POP!
To me, it is amazing with how much mileage you can get form a single stamp. Please do not get me wrong, I love the sentiment that is on this stamp…but to me the ease of masking it off and the using many different options is the icing on the cake! The stamp is in the annual catalog, Vivid Vases.
The sentiment is from the New Occasions Catalog…Greatest Greetings and I adore the font and there are some fun, unique and festive sentiments. Remember, when in doubt…buy the sentiments….they always come in handy for many of your card projects!
Do you agree??? This is a very doable card and one that would be a great one to use up scraps. You could also easily use a blender pen if you are more comfortable – remember, do what works for YOU!
I hope that YOU are catching my smiles that I am sending to YOU! Today I am going to Baltimore for a Check Up on my Ankle….It feels so much better to be where I am this year verses last year at this time.
GREAT NEWS….Eddie has been a Chow Hound…I call him my Rocky Balboa….he is PUMPING up and his energy is sooooo much better! Me heart is happy.
Please feel free to email me, I will be gone all day but will check tomorrow night! Remember, we are over 1/2 way thru Sale-a-Bration…this is the best time of the year to stock up on goodies…. (staples that you use over and over) and then for each $50.00 you get to pick a FREEBIE….a great deal!
Tomorrow’s post will make you giggle….Mr. Frog is back!!!!
by Susan Itell | Feb 10, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for February 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes. This month we are CASE-ing a project shown in a current Stampin’ Up! catalog. After all, with the Annual, Occasions and Sale-a-Bration catalogs available right now, there is much inspiration to choose from. We hope you enjoy our creations.
You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from the Line-up on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below. The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you may see all the projects.
Today’s inspiration for me came from the annual catalog…page 19 more specifically! I made it mine by making a few changes and I hope that you not only enjoy it but I hope you CASE it – to me, a fun and classic card!
I know that you have bunch of posts to go through today so I am going to share with you a PARADE of pictures and then I will follow up next week with a video on how simple this card is to make….
I know that you are super busy with hopping as there is soooooo much talent out there….please take it all in and please try to find some “me time” to take all of these great posts in.
I blog everyday and I promise that next week I will do a video of this card with the measurements and FUN…..so I hope to see you back!
Now….you need to HOP AWAY….but if you like this card, I adore your comments…so please feel free to leave me a comment and let me know how you like my interpretation of the amazing picture in the Annual Catalog.
Thanks for visiting. To continue with the hop, please refer to the Blog Hop Line-up below. We hope to see you on next month’s Pals Blog Hop!
- Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
- Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
- Debbie Mageed at Secret Stamper
- Jennifer Michalski at Stamping Serenity
- Kelly DeTommaso at Kelly’s Creative Corner
- Denise Hoepfner at The Mountain Magpie
- Debbie Crowley at expressively deb…
- Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
- Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
- Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo.com
- Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
- Susan Itell at Simple Stampin’
- Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
- Jane Knudsen at see jane stamp
- Peggy Noe at prettypapercards
- Julie DiMatteo at The Paper Pixie
- Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space
- Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
- Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
- Kim Jolley at Stampin’ Artfully
- Rae Harper at Wild West Paper Arts
- Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
- Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stampin’ Habit!
by Susan Itell | Feb 9, 2016 | Super Easy |
This card came together while I was at a traffic light. Seriously…..I was taking Eddie to the V_TS (remember, he dislikes that word) so we try to say let’s go see Tracey…I had a super busy day yesterday and at the end I will fill you in with Eddie but we need to get to this card!
I knew that I adored the sketch below and was thinking while waiting…..what could I do in a jif – PRESTO….my vision came together perfectly!
It is a card right up my alley….I saw the sketch on the Global Design Project and I had a HUGE smile – this is a FABULOUS sketch and one that you all should keep. I hope that you pop over to the site and see what the amazing design team came up with! FUN challenge1
Easy-peasy is the word for this post! Letting the scored lines be the FUN FACTOR and then the 2″ Circle Punch did the trick with the sentiment from the Perfect Pennants Stamp Set. This card is a great example of how “key speed tools” – like the Simply Scored and the Punches make a card like this come together in a cinch!
We all have that “TIME” issue…and you can see that this great sketch lends itself to clean and simple. I say…look at what you have and then GO FOR IT – do not try to recreate the wheel to make it super hard…have FUN!
The sweet little flower with a white perfect accent in the middle….seemed to do the trick perfectly. A super quick stitch around the stamped image helped set it off from the scored layer, fun simple DONE!
Well….not so fast – the envelope – how could we not finish a fun card without the envelope liner! This is from the Brights Designer Series Pack and I have shared with you before that I like to cut mine to a 6″ X 6″ squares as it is easier fro me in storing etc….but I was easily able to do this nice wide (2″) wide piece and also have plenty to line the envelope!
There you go…do you like the simplicity of this card? I know that for many they might be tempted to add on etc...(and trust me, I was going to do that but I stood back and said – DONE)!!! Sometimes you need to just BE DONE…walk away and guess what, you will smile! The sentiment on this card has it all summed up….
LIFE doesn’t have to be perfect to be WONDERFUL
Now to Eddie (real quick)….that little man…those Jack Russell’s are sooooooo smart and fun. We received his blood work results and they were not the best…but they obvious could be worse. Over the weekend he did not eat much at all. He is still drinking out of his horse bucket but he does not have much of an appetite. On Friday he had an antibiotic shot and they wanted to give him another yesterday and also hydrate him with some electrolytes….
When we went to the V_TS, I walked in with the prince all wrapped up and the receptionist called, EDDIE ITELL is here for his antibiotic. The receptionist then told me that the 3 Vet Techs that were working yesterday all wanted Eddie and so it was just going to be the luck of the draw!
His calcium levels are off the chart which makes him feel icky…..but once we can get him to eat something he can start an oral med to help reduce those levels and he should be feeling better. They suggested to just let him have anything….(at this point) to get the orals meds in so he will not get a tummy ache – HE WAS IN CHICKEN HEAVEN…..to the grocery store we went and a Rotisserie Chicken did the trick….he ate little bits of chicken in his glory while the others were eating their dog food.
As the saying goes…one day at a time. He found Mr. Happy (one of his favorite squeak toys) and when we heard the squeak, John and I said….he’s feeling better!
Enough about dear sweet little Eddie….how about some weekly deals! Click Here to see the goodies this week! I think that you will know my pick….I guess that you will have to continue to POP back to see! Remember, I blog everyday so please subscribe to my Blog so you do not miss a thing! If you follow my blog, you know that I love to blog about all sorts of stuff!!!!
Don’t forget….the limited Edition Sale-a-bration items are coming to a close…..do not miss the chance to snatch up some goodies!!! As always, feel free to email me if I can be of help. Enjoy the day and let’s all hope Eddie eats!
