Happy Easter

Happy Easter

 After I took the photo above.. I remembered that I had something that I wanted to add to this picture.

The Ceramic Easter Basket had been made by birth Mother.  Her name and date are on the bottom.  I almost forgot that I had it.  My half sister gave it to me after my birth mother passed away.

The card was made using Iris folding. I got the pattern for the card out of book I purchased a long time ago.  "460 Iris Folded Cards to make." by Maruschan Gaasenboek & Tina Beauvester.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Blessings,

Jill

PS.  I looked this book up on line and it is still available through different sources.

 

Twisted Sister Challenge for MARCH

 I made these two cards for the twisted Sister Challenge at Split Coast Stampers for the March Challenge.

I just hope I got the challenge correct.. I understood it as I had to make my cards with the same materials. and make it a card that could be duplicated many times if you wanted to.

I don't think that is exactly what she said...but that is how I interpreted it.  As they say on the website there's no Challenge police.

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend...

Hubby and I just stayed inside today...didn't need to go anywhere, and I didn't feel like getting wet.  (And the way it was raining it may have been getting VERY wet!

Here's hoping for Sunny skies for everyone.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today.

Blessings,

Jill

Look at the nice gift I received toddy...

Aren't these little bunny baskets cute?

This was the gift that Carol...from 

https://ourlittleinspirations.blogspot.com/

gave to my hubby and me today.

One has Candy in it and the other has Cookies in it.

Carol, can you guess which one I chose?

The Candy one of course!

Thank you so much for the treats and the Lovely visit.

And thank you for letting me post these.

Thank you for visiting my blog today...

Blessings,

Jill

 

Happy St. Patrick's day

 Happy St. Patrick's day.  I'm late, as usual...

I just realized that I'm not even wearing green...

I usually try to wear green, especially (Thanks to my DNA test I took a few years ago).  I didn't realize that I was part Irish until the test. I am 17% IRISH.

My card is an Iris folded shamrock on a card folded as a gift card.

I found the cute paper at Joanne's store, and I added a charm.

Hope everyone is having a nice relaxing day.

Thank you for visiting my blog

Blessing's,

Jill

March Christmas card for Splitcoast.

 I needed to make a card for the Christmas challenge at Splitcoast stampers...     I was surprised when I checked my rubber stamps...That I couldn't find any stamps in my stash that were suitable for this challenge.  I found this image in my Graphic 45 designer papers.  It made for a quick card, I admit that basically all I did was glue and add a sticker.  The card is a little bit crooked but it honestly is not quite as crooked as this photo shows...smile.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

Blessings,

Jill

One of favorite foods...

 This the card I made for the January Christmas Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.  You probably guessed that the theme for January is cookies.   The stamp I used was from one of my Magazines.

Thank You for visiting my blog today.

Blessings,

jill

50th Anniversary card

 I made this card for a long time dear friend.  I hope to be able to give it to her next week. She doesn't look at my blog, so I feel safe posting it here.  

I took the right hand corner flower off the card after I photographed the card.  I think it made the card too busy, and I like the card better.

My other problem is that the numbers on this card look brown, but they are really gold.  I may have asked this before, and I think someone gave me a hint... but I forgot what it was...

Any hints on how to photograph Gold on a card!

My card was made using another embossing folder for the background.  I have lots of embossing folders but they were just sitting in my craft room gathering dust till I found some YouTube sites showing some different ways to use them.

Hope everyone is having a good day. ( I can't believe it's Friday already).  

Hope everyone has a good weekend and thank you for visiting me today.

Blessings,

Jill

I'm addicted

I'm addicted...

I'm addicted to making this kind of card.

(Blackout embossing)

I made one

 in yellow, this one is purple, and I have one in pink and I'm working on one in orange to get ready to post next.

March is just flying by, we did have one really nice day and finally got out to take a walk with my hubby...

But now it's been rainy and chilly.

but I am still looking forward to spring (my favorite season).

Hope everyone is having a good week

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

Blessings,

Jill

 

Feb Challenge at Splitocast stampers

This the card I posted at the February Challenge at Split Coast stampers for the Christmas Challenge.

The theme for February was Carolers.

This was the only image I could find to fit the theme.

It was made using a metal die that was made by Dreamweaver (no longer in business)  I miss that web site that they had. I entered quite a few of their challenges and won quite of few of the metal dies.  Most of the images I di with embossing paste...but, since, I haven't done that in a while.  I think most of my pastes are probably dried out by now...(I did have to get rid of quite a few the last time I cleaned out that drawer.

Thank you for stopping by blog today.

Hope you are having a great weekend.

Blessings,

Jill