Notepad Holder Tutorial

Hello and welcome to another tutorial thursday here at the Simply Sassy Inspiration Blog!

When I was thinking about what to show today and looked at this wonderful stamp called

Winking Student

I thought how nice it would be to have her put up on my desk. I know, whenever I´ll look at her with this cute face she´d put a smile on my face. And so the idea of making a notepad holder to put up on your desk was born.

You´ll need:
cardstock
patterened paper
a pen to put on the notepad holder
a notepad
the usual stuff like bonefolder, scissors, a ruler, glue...
and of course one of the cute Simply Sassy stamps

Cut a piece of cardstock measuring 12" x 6 1/2" and score it at 2 7/8", 3 1/4", 5 13/16" and 6 3/16".

Cut a piece of the cardstock you´re using for matting measuring 6" x 5 5/8". Cut a 1" strip from the same cardstock. You need to be able to wrap it around the back of your notepad and there needs to be some of it left to glue it down to the base.
Wrap the strip around the back of the notepad, not too tight but also not too loose.

Slide the cardstock strip as close as possible to the spiral binding.

Place the notepad on the cardstock and mark where to glue down the cardstock strip.

Remove the note pad, add some glue and glue it to the marked area.


You can skip the steps with the paper strip by just glueing down the notepad to the cardstock but I like to be able to exchange it once it´s used up.

Cut another strip of cardstock and wrap it around the pen. Glue it together and cut off the excess.

Glue the paper roll to the cardstock base underneath the note pad and slide in the pen.

Glue the carstock to the card base.

Now you only need to decorate the front and your notepad holder is finished. Glue the decorated front of your notepad holder only to the lower part of the card front like you would for an easel card.

This is how my front turned out. I love the blue and red and white with this image...
To make her glasses look real I added some Glossy Accents to the area where the glas is.

And these are the markers I used for coloring:

Simply Flirting

Hello Sassy lovers.  I hope your day has gone well.  I'm using Winking Student, which you can find at Funky Kits.  Doesn't she look like she's being sassy and flirting with a cute boy in her class?  This is the first time I've colored her and she was so much fun to color.  I think she's adorable.  Don't you just love her pink shoes ... so girly!

I colored her with copics and shaded with colored pencils.  I used a little stickles on her hair wraps and the little hearts on her socks.  You can't really tell by looking at it, but I used Glossy Accents on the apple.  I added some lace, twine and one of my yo yo flowers and then I added a few buttons.

Did you check out Autumn's post from earlier today?  If not, be sure to scroll down because you won't want to miss it.  And be sure to stop by tomorrow as Kathrin will have one of her lovely tutorials to share with all of us.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Stamp:  Sugar Nellie Simply Sassy - Winking Student
Paper:  My Mind's Eye; Bazzill
Other:  Copics, Caran d'Ache and Prismacolor pencils, gamsol, MS border punch, lace, twine, StarDust stickles, Glossy Accents, buttons, yo yo flower

Simply Said...

 Hello Sassy Fans! Hope you are all off to a good week. It's bright and sunny in my neck of the woods and were supposed to have a great weekend, so I'm already looking forward to Friday! However, today is Wednesday, and I have a card to share with you. Here is...

'Call Me' available at Funky Kits here. I've kept this one pretty CAS and actually the charm was even an afterthought,lol.  This girl reminds me of myself the many times I was waiting by the phone for my husband to  call while he was away on a deployment or otherwise....perhaps this will stay in my stack until I or someone close to me needs just this card! 

The sentiment is mine(available for free here).... tho I'm thinking maybe it's a bit large, but I guess it gets the point acrossed, lol and the gorgeous papers are from BoBunny's Gabrielle collection and they've all been distressed and inked.

Here's a close-up of our girl. I've colored her with copics and the background is done in chalks. Sorry I don't have a copics list for you as she's been colored for some time. 

I guess that about does it for me today. Hope you are having a fantastic day! Thanks for stopping by and be sure to stop by later to see what wonderful creation Anita has come up with for you!

Have a great day!

xxAutumn

Tuesday Spotlight on..

This week we have the pleasure of having Sugar Bowl Sweetie 

Marlene 

in the Spotlight..

Marlene have lots of gorgeous Simply Sassy cards in her blog and this is what she made for us

 Gorgeous party invites using Bedtime Snuggles 

*Start by telling us a little about you:
OK, this is the bit I'm not very good at.. but here goes
 I'm from Holland originally, traveled the world in my late teens and met my
English hubby whilst working in Spain.
Settled in England, got married, have 3 gorgeous children and we run a Garden Centre in the Midlands.

*When did you start card making and what made you start?
Ever since I can remember I have been creative one way or another.. but when our kids were small I started
getting into scrapping the mountain of pictures I have of them, my love for paper craft was born!
I think the transition into cardmaking from scrapbooking is almost natural as to me cards are like small
scrapbook pages. So about 7 years ago I got into cardmaking on a bigger scale.. this really took off when I
discovered blogging just over 3 years ago now.

*What is your preferred coloring medium?
I'm always switching and changing as I love all sorts of mediums,
but at the moment I am using my Copics for all my colouring.

*What is your fav Simply Sassy stamp?
I could not possibly choose my favorite Sassy.. every time a new set comes out I have a new favorite!
But I still got a soft spot for 'Party Frills' She is just too cute!

*How did you notice the Simply Sassy stamps the first time?
As a past DT for Sugar Nellie I will always keep up with all their news.
I am lucky enough to have met Karen and have special memories of the CHA trip I was invited to a couple of years ago
Karen has got a real 'eye' for new sweetness that the Sugar Nellie fans would like to see in rubber,
and proved it again when the Sassy creations of Krista were launched.

*What is your favorite style (card making)?
I love the distressed and vintage style of card making, but after having tried some SAS I do like to change it up from time to time.

*And what would you love to see more of at the Simply Sassy blog?
I'm always looking for different techniques, card shapes and just general 'out of the box' thinking
But the Simply Sassy blog is already providing those things.. so all I can say is 

'I would like to see more of the same' :D
 

It's always such a treat visiting Marlene's blog and here are some of her Sassy treat's. Go visit her and I PROMISE you will find more :)

Using Delicious

 Using Spread your wings,

Go visit Marlene's blog here to see how she made this Triangle Joy fold card

Using Party Frills

 Using Little light of mine

Using I give you my heart 

Thank you so much Marlene for letting us spotlight you and sharing your gorgeous cards with us.

I know Marlene would love your sweet comments :) 

Altered Notebook

Hiya Peeps,

Can't believe it's Monday again but with this one being another bank holiday, I certainly don't mind. Yesterday set 7 of  the Simply Sassy's landed on my mat, and WOW, they are of a slightly different style to previous sets, but my oh my, they are absolutely fabulous, can't wait to show you, but we have to wait until all the girl's on the DT receive their stamps, so keep your eyes peeled. Today's project for the is something I have been meaning to do for sometime and finally got round to doing it spurred on by the "Winking Student" image available HERE at Funky Kits.

 

This notebook was red and black to start with.  I painted it with lilac acrylic paint first and then added some of my favourite papers by Websters and away I went.

 

I have to say she was a dream to colour and I've just noticed she got a splodge of white paint on her knee, lol.  A real proper student!

 

I love how it turned out.  This book holds all my little colour combo's and a few swatches and oh the instructions for the around the page punches, I guess you could say it's my crafting bible, lol.

 

A little pocket on the inside to hold my bits and pieces.

Ingredients:-

Simply Sassy Winking Student image available from Funky Kits HERE

Medium - Copics 

Making Memories Lilac, Purple, Green and white acrylic paint

Pink Tassel from Bizzy Becs 

Papers from Websters

Corrugated cardboard

Magnolia Doohickey Lace Die

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Stardust Stickles, Tape measure ribbon from stash 

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

Flowers from wild orchid craft

Lasercut Chipboard leaf flourish and butterfly from Make It Crafty HERE

Letters were cut by Quickutz, some purple paint added and then Glossy Accents added

Dream, Imagine, Love

Hey Sassy fans!! Thank you for stopping by today!! How has your weekend been so far? This is my VERY FIRST post EVER as a GDT member for Simply Sassy!! I’m SUPER excited.. so let’s get started – but please.. go easy on me, heehee. I am literally in LOVE with the Sassy images, and there are only a select few which I don’t own. I knew as soon as I seen set #6 demonstrated in the blog hop I had to have them all..

The Sassy girl I have used today is ‘Carnival Balloon’ and she is a newbie (like me!) from set #6 available HERE at Funky Kits. I LOVE her dress and the flowers in her hair; she is so versatile and could be used for a number of occasions. She is perfect for summer, with a ‘Carnival’ scene behind her; she’s a gorgeous image for girly birthdays as well as inspiring cards – which is the theme I have gone with today.

I have used Basic Grey Max and Whiskers collection to add bright colours to the card. My flower embellishments are a mixture of Prima and Wild Orchid Crafts. I have used a few rub ons from the Max and Whiskers collection along with some brown waxed twine and lemon organza ribbon. I have stamped ‘DREAM’ using a Studio G alpha stamp set and the ‘IMAGINE’ tag is from a Tim Holtz Philosophy Tag pack. I’ve used an orange grommet along with a brad from the Max and Whiskers collection and a spacer from The Ribbon Girl.

Here is a close up of the Sassy girl, I have coloured her using ProMarkers and paper pieced part of her dress and balloon. Such a neat technique – I should do it more.

Supplies:

Stamps: Simply Sassy – Carnival Balloon; Studio G Alpha; SU! Music Notes standard wheel Ink: SU! Soft Suede; Memento – Tuxedo Black Paper: Bazzill – Kraft cardstock; Basic Grey – Max and Whiskers PP Embellishments: 5mm gemstones; Prima flowers; Wild Orchid Craft rose, Max and Whiskers rub ons and brad ; TH Philosophy Tag; orange grommet; silver spacer; brown waxed twine; linen thread; lemon organza ribbon Tools: WRMK – Corner Chomper; Fiskars – Apron Lace border punch; pinking scissors; 1” circle punch ProMarkers: Skin: Ivory, Blush, Saffron, Baby Pink Eyes: Cornflower, Midnight Blue Hair: Vanilla, Cocoa Flowers in her hair: Pastel Blue, Duck Egg, Mango, Mandarin Clothes and Shoes: Pastel Blue, Duck Egg, Denim Blue, Tulip Yellow, Mustard, Pastel Yellow Mango, Mandarin Balloon: Pastel Blue, Duck Egg, Denim Blue, Mango, Mandarin

If you have any questions – please don’t hesitate to leave a comment! Enjoy what is left of the weekend. xo Lou.

Simply Yummy ;D

Hi Sassy fans, can you believe another week has gone by and I'm back again?! No, me neither ;o), but the faster the weeks go, the faster summer gets here right :D! Anyway, I have a little yummy inspiration for you today, you won't believe how hard it was not to eat the chocolate bar before the box was finished and I took the picture...it was yummalicious! ;o)


I made a little birthday box which can hold a small present and some chocolate, or a gift card and some chocolate, or...well, you get the idea, it's a chocolate box ;o)

The little cutie on the front is stirring a big pot of extra-special chocolate mix, which tastes soooo delicious you want to eat the whole lot!

Some space on the inside to write a message for the birthday girl :D. It felt weird to not use any flowers, but somehow they just didn't look right...maybe witches don't like flowers?

Materials I used:

Stamps: Simply Sassy stamp "Witches' Cauldron"; sentiments by Papertrey Ink
Paper: Bazzill Basics cardstock; Jillibean Soup design paper "Dutch Mustard Soup"
Embellishments: Papertrey Ink ribbon; Kars adhesive pearls; charm
Tools: Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Ovals and Scalloped Ovals large
Copics: Sorry, I forgot to write down which ones I used...

That's all from me for now, don't forget to check back later today for Lou's very first post! Have a lovely Sunday, hope to see you all next week :D!

Also, don't forget about the challenge Maria has set you, you can still play along for the next five days! Details can be found under the 23 April posting on page two (sorry, I can't make a link, don't know why...)

Hugs,
Erica