I Heart Hearts Easel Valentine

Hi everyone

Firstly, to all of you who put Trish on your prayer list – thank you!  They worked!  Trish sent me an email today to let me know that she was back home and was on her way to recovery.  Which is such wonderful news.  Even though her recovery will take a little while, we are so glad to have her back with her crafting buddies.  So, thank you everyone!

Tonight's card is another card I made for the troop card drive.  It uses the I {Heart} Hearts set.  You know I love this easel layout – fall to layout I can hear you all say! :-)  This time I did something a little different.  I decided to decorate only the bottom of the front. You'll see what I mean.  Don't forget – the I {Heart} Heart set is a special set… for every purchase SU is donating $2.00 to the Haitian Relief efforts – more details here.

I wanted a very femine card with lots of hearts (mmmm… maybe that's why I used the I {Heart} Hearts stamp set :-)!!!  Don't forget, this set is available in both clear mount and wood mount… and is also available in French and Spanish! 

So here's what I used:

• Melon Mambo and Whisper White card stock
• Melon Mambo ink
• Pretty in Pink Ribbon (117289)
• I {Heart} Hearts (118571 clear mount, 117010 wood mount) and Well Scripted (118601 clear mount, 117072 (wood mount)
• I stamped the hearts and cut around them with my paper snips ( 103579)
• I snailed the outer hearts into place and then used my dimensionals for the middle heart.  I stamped two of the smaller hearts – punched them out with the Heart to Heart punch (113694) and glued them to the base of the easel.
• To create the easel, I used a piece of 4 1/4" x 11" Melon Mambo and I scored at the 5 1/2" and 1 1/4" positions.  I folded over the top piece at the 8 1/4" position and decorated only the bottom of the top half… I hope that makes sense.  
• For the middle of the card, I used Whisper White card base and cut it slightly smaller than the base.  I stamped the "love you much" sentiment and then snailed two of the hearts that I had punched out.  I adhered the Whisper White to the base of the card and then wrapped the ribbon and tied a bow.

Here's the side view

I hope you like the slightly modified take on the easel card.

Well… for those of you who have followed my husband's travels… and know that he was stuck for 48 hours+ trying to get home just before Christmas… well, Lou left yesterday morning for Argentina.  His plane left Minneapolis, but then turned around after about 30 minutes because the landing gear wouldn't come up.  So.. instead of going to Atlanta and then to Argentina, he went back to Minneapolis and caught a shuttle back home.  He spent last night at home instead of on the plane.  He left AGAIN this morning to repeat the process…. not realizing just how much of his trip he was going to repeat……. His flight to Minneapolis left without a hitch.  However, that's when things went haywire.  AGAIN….  His flight to Atlanta was delayed with Mechanical problems… get this… a flat battery!  How can a plane have a flat battery?  I mean, seriously!  So… they sat around and waited.  Eventually they cancelled that flight and he rushed to the next one.  He called me from the plane and left a message ….. I'm not the next flight and should make my connection.   Errrrrr… not so fast, honey.  About 30 minutes later he called me back.  Guess what?  Mechanical problems!  You are kidding me! 

So, his plane left 1 hour and 45 minutes late and he just called me from Atlanta – he completely missed his flight to Argentina.  So.. they knew he was going to miss it – as were several people who had been booked on the flight the previous day… but they wouldn't let them off!   So, the question is… what is Delta doing that they can have three aircraft – to the same destination – have mechanical problems ….. doesn't that make you worried about flying?  Now I know why DELTA was nicknamed, Doesn't Ever Leave The Airport!  So, what happens now?  Heaven only knows… Lou is on his way to the ticket counter to try to work out what is happening.  I'm beginning to think that someone is trying to tell Lou that he needs to stop flying!

I hope you are all having a better day than Lou!  :-)  Thank you for spending time in my little area of the stamping blogosphere… and again… Trish, welcome back! 🙂

Hugs

Jaydee