Do you ever see those "What's wrong with this picture" pictures in magazines? You know, the ones that they change something just ever so slightly and you look and look and try to figure it out? Well,over the weekend I made a few cards including this one.
Now, I had seen this card idea on a blog that I was browsing and of course forgot which one but I liked the simple look of this card and knew I could make it in just a few minutes. I got the card all put together and snapped the picture and then while posting it on an email, I noticed something wrong....very wrong....can you see it??? Yep - my heart paper is upside down!!! Real quick I was able to - very carefully - peel off the paper and reassemble it correctly so the hearts were all headed the right direction :)
Any way. Cute, easy valentine card that you can send in the mail with no bulk and will put a smile and anyones face.
Thanks for looking today!
Gail S.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Happy Wednesday!
We are now in the middle of the week - Happy Wednesday! I used some more of my precious new SU! DSP paper to put together this butterfly card!
I embossed the butterfly to give it more texture and used the new SU! framelits. I also added some of SU!'s pearls on the butterfly.
The embossing looks silver in this photo but it is SU! iredescent ice. To complete the card - I added some tiny tags to some twine love to use these little bits of sunshine :)
I finished the inside real simple with some of my scraps.
Now that the card is finished, I look at it and think I should have pierced the soft suede frame that I cut out behind the butterfly or maybe ran it through one of SU!'s embossing folders..oh well maybe next time.
Thanks for stopping by!
Gail S.
I embossed the butterfly to give it more texture and used the new SU! framelits. I also added some of SU!'s pearls on the butterfly.
The embossing looks silver in this photo but it is SU! iredescent ice. To complete the card - I added some tiny tags to some twine love to use these little bits of sunshine :)
I finished the inside real simple with some of my scraps.
Now that the card is finished, I look at it and think I should have pierced the soft suede frame that I cut out behind the butterfly or maybe ran it through one of SU!'s embossing folders..oh well maybe next time.
Thanks for stopping by!
Gail S.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Sharing In Your Sorrow...
A fellow stamping friend of mine, Debbie Fisher lost her husband's Grandma this past week and I wanted to send her and her family a sympathy card. I used some of the new SU! DSP paper that you can get during SU! sale-a-bration. I love this paper so much!
I also used my go to stamp set Thoughts and Prayers. I used crumb cake, pool party, calypso coral, and very vanilla cardstock. The image was stamped in soft suede. I added some SU! pearls to the center of the boho blossom flowers that I punched out.
I also like to finish the inside of my cards:
To get that cute scallop edge, I use SU! Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch. I love SU!'s punches!!
Thanks for stopping by - I love it when you leave comments.
Gail S.
I also used my go to stamp set Thoughts and Prayers. I used crumb cake, pool party, calypso coral, and very vanilla cardstock. The image was stamped in soft suede. I added some SU! pearls to the center of the boho blossom flowers that I punched out.
I also like to finish the inside of my cards:
To get that cute scallop edge, I use SU! Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch. I love SU!'s punches!!
Thanks for stopping by - I love it when you leave comments.
Gail S.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Happy Birthday Rikki and Rayven!
I have twin nieces that will be having a birthday and needed to whip up some birthday cards for them. I used some retired Christmas DSP paper from last year, real red and baha breeze cardstock and ink and some cute, fluffy ribbon that I purchase in a box of craft supplies from a garage sale. I used the Happy Birthday sentiment to stamp on the front from the set Curly Cute and cute it is!!
I also used the ***NEW*** Edgelits and the coordinating embossing folders on the whisper white cardstock....toooooo cute!!
Stampin Up! has some wonderful new products coming out and it has been fun playing with them. Check back soon for some more peeks! They have come out with a paper pack that you can only get during Sale-a-bration. It is the kind of paper I L*O*V*E!!! Beautiful :)
On a personal note - I love living out in the country but sometimes UGH!! We woke up this morning with NO WATER!! My husband went outside and checked the well and it had some issues. I was in need of a cup of coffee!! Our son lives just a few miles away so I called him and he saved the day by bringing a cooler down with water in it. Got the coffee made and the well is fixed so we are good to go. Makes you appreciate something so simple as water when you don't have it!!
Have a great day!!
Gail S.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Christmas around the Slagle house!
I really enjoy decorating for Christmas and have hoarded collected many pretties for the holiday. Today I would like to share the house when it was all ready for Christmas. This was my big tree this year. I actually have four trees in the house, one big tree and three little ones scattered in the kitchen, dining room and family room:
I took this picture during the daytime so you don't see the lights twinkling. This year I put multi colored lights on the tree. Sometimes I put all white one and other years we go for the different colors. At night, I would turn off all the lights except the ones on the tree and the lighted garland I had going down the stairs and it was so pretty. The next pictures I am not going to write anything about them, I am just going to print them for you to enjoy.
I hope you enjoyed the little tour of my Christmas decorations! Blessings to all of you in the new year!
Gail S.
I took this picture during the daytime so you don't see the lights twinkling. This year I put multi colored lights on the tree. Sometimes I put all white one and other years we go for the different colors. At night, I would turn off all the lights except the ones on the tree and the lighted garland I had going down the stairs and it was so pretty. The next pictures I am not going to write anything about them, I am just going to print them for you to enjoy.
I hope you enjoyed the little tour of my Christmas decorations! Blessings to all of you in the new year!
Gail S.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Christmas at our home.
Happy New Year and 2012!!!
I know that Christmas was a week ago but with working and getting things put back to "normal" I haven't had much time to get much else done. But today I do have some pictures of our Christmas holiday. What a great time we had!
Abbey, my daugher acted as Santa Claus handing out the gifts for our family. After opening gifts we had a breakfast egg casserole and homemade Kolaches for breakfast that a neighbor had delivered the day before. They were yummy!!
Here are a few candid shots of the kids opening gifts.
I know that Christmas was a week ago but with working and getting things put back to "normal" I haven't had much time to get much else done. But today I do have some pictures of our Christmas holiday. What a great time we had!
Abbey, my daugher acted as Santa Claus handing out the gifts for our family. After opening gifts we had a breakfast egg casserole and homemade Kolaches for breakfast that a neighbor had delivered the day before. They were yummy!!
Here are a few candid shots of the kids opening gifts.
John and Jeff are above and my son-in-law, Bart is on the left. We bought the little one that Abbey and Bart are expecting in July a Nebraska Husker "onesie"
Below is my husband John and my daughter Abbey. Even Bart and Abbey's dog, Paxton got some gifts - squeeky toys and bones.
In the afternoon - we had 15 people over for food and more fun! We had prime rib and all of the fixings to go with it. It was so good and when we got done - no one was hungry! For dessert we had carrot cake and chocolate cheesecake. One of my neice's twins sure thought the cheesecake was good!!
Tommorrow I will share some of the decorations I had around the house. I really like decorating for Christmas and get sad when I have to pack them away for another year. Thanks for stopping by! Come back tomorrow!
Gail S.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all of my blog friends!! I am soooo sorry that I haven't posted in so long - life just gets away sometimes. We have been busy working, shopping, wrapping, sending cards, going to parties, meetings, visiting, baking....you get the idea! Hopefully when the new year rolls around, things will slow down.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2012! I hope this next year is good to all of us and peace in the world. God Bless all of you!

Remember the real reason for the season.
Gail S.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2012! I hope this next year is good to all of us and peace in the world. God Bless all of you!

Remember the real reason for the season.
Gail S.
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