Two more quick cards

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Two more quick cards make with one of my card making magazines...

Cardmaking and Papercraft issue 162

What I like most about making these cards besides the fact that they were quick ot make!

Was the fold that I used...I used this tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers site

https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/sidefoldcard/

I really like this tutorial.  I like to make square cards, or I guess I should say I like the look of square cards but I don't make them too often, because of the extra postage.  This card fold makes it easy to make a square card and not have to worry about the postage.

My Images are colored images that came out of the magazine.  I just added some ribbon.

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Blessings,

Jill

Anniversary cards

Now that I know that the Anniversary cards that I mailed out were received.  I can post them.

As usual my cards went out late.  No matter how hard I try to keep up with birthday's Anniversary cards, etc.  I seem to always be late.  At least all my Christmas cards arrived before Christmas this year.  (That was a big accomplishment for me!)

I had three Anniversary cards I needed to send out the end of  December.  I totally forgot.!  I guess I was too busy making Christmas cards.  

Both cards were made using a stamp set that came with the Cardmaking and Papercraft Magazine #194.  My pink swan card pretty much followed the example of the card that they displayed in
the magazine.  I usually try not to copy cards exactly, but I liked the design so much, and as I said before I don't SELL my cards so I try not to worry too much about that.

I used copics where I needed to color, and added dimensionals to pop up the swan images.

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Blessings,
Jill

Christmas cards

I made all of the above cards using some free goodies that came with another Card making magazine.
Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine...Issue #188

It really did NOT feel like Christmas weather in our area these last few days, so I was hoping making Christmas cards would make me feel cooler.  

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Blessings,
Jill

Another tulip card

Yes, here I go again, another card made using The stamps from my card magazine.
I think I'm up to about 12 cards using this magazine.  I feel like I did get my Money's worth with this magazine.  I Colored my stamped image with copics.  My background paper is from Stampin' Up, added a doily and a ribbon...

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Blessings,
Jill

More cards made with supplies from my "Cardmaking and Papercraft Magaine"
I used the free papers for my backgrounds for my cards.

Second card was stamped with a stamp from Sweet NSassy 
The third card I used a die from Penny Black...
The fourth card I used a peel off for the sentiment and a sticker...

Still trying to use up some of my supplies...

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Blessings,
Jill

May today be a day of Happy memories

I'm still using my craft magazines to help motivate me to make cards.  I like the pretty background papers in the magazine, and, obviously, this was made from one  of the background papers in the magazine!


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Blessings,
Jill

Yes, Pink is my favorite color!

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Yes, More Stained Glass cards, or I guess I should say cards made with my Stained glass looking rubber stamps.
I think I am addicted to this stamp set.  I will add a sentiment to the cards when I mail them.

I mentioned when I did a previous post with the Orange Tiger lily images... that I forgot to take a photo of the Tiger lilies in our yard....but then I remembered that I did take a picture of the pink Lilies.

In the photo you may be able to tell that there are still a lot o buds there,  I should have tried taking another photo  one  or two later.    

Would you beleive that my husband counted how many flowers and buds were there?  Yes he did...He told me he counted about 200.

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Jill

Stained glass flower cards

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I'm still enjoying using the stamps I found in the magazine that I purchased...

The one that I posted about yesterday.

I colored my images with copics.

(I'm not that great with using copics, so these cards have been giving me

some much needed practice).

The images remind of how our yard looked a few weeks ago.,

The one side of our house was a profusion of orange tiger lilies.

I wish I had taken a photo so I could have posted it here...

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Blessings,

Jill

Twofer Card Challenge #18 gardens

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I made these two cards for this month's Twofer Card Challenge...
The link to the challenge can be found here

https://twofercardchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/07/twofer-card-challenge-18.html

You can also hit the Twofer Icon on my side bar...

I made by cards using a stamp that I found the "Cardmaking and Papercrat" magazine
I colored my images with copics...

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Blessings,
Jill

Made with inspiration from my magazine

More cards for my Stash!  Again I used some ideas from my Magazine "Cardmaking and Papercrafts"  The background paper came from a pack of paper that came with the magazine.  On some of the cards I used stickers made by KaiserCraft!  The snowman was made using a 3D sheet, and I also used some spellbinder dies and embossing folders!

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Blessings,
Jill

Going Down memory lane

I made this card using a template that was in the magazine I am using for my craft inspiration right now.
"Cardmaking and Papercrafts Magazine"  (May 2013)
After I Photocopied and cut out the template..I colored the image with copics.  


Remember I'm a grandmother so I am old enough to have used one of these on my jobs...smile.
I also still have one...(Don't use it anymore)  It was a gift from my father so I have a difficult time letting go of it.  I'm sure If some young people would look at my blog...they may not even know what this is...

I am fortunate to be able to get together with a small group of friends to craft.    The one crafter in the group is in her Twenties,  Last week she watched me make this card, and I asked her if she ever used a typewriter?  She surprised me by telling me, "Yes!"  and quite often because  she still uses one in her job. (she is a Librarian).  She likes to use it to make her labels.  It surprised me to know that people do still use these. 

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Blessings,
Jill

Another card for my Stash

I'm still working on trying to get together some cards for my stash...
To accomplish that...I again pulled out one of my purchased magazines to use for inspiration.  This card was inspired using "Cardmaking and Papercrafts magazine from May 2013.
They had a section on using White embossing powder or Kraft card stock.  I love the look of white embossing on Kraft card stock, but I always struggle making a card using this technique.  I finally made a card that I would actually send.  The others ended up in the trash...smile.  

I used rubber stamps from Penny Black, my Sentiment is also from Penny Black, and my Kraft card stock is from Stampin' Up.

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Blessings,
Jill

So cold outside

It is still so cold outside...so I'm just staying in and doing some crafting and sitting some extra time at my computer.  It's supposed to warmer this coming weekend.  I sure hope so.

Here's another Christmas card that I made and never managed to post...The materials and ideas for this card came from Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine.

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Blessings,
Jill

Anniversary card

The first card was made using a template I found in Cardmaking & Papercrafts magazine  Issue 166.

I cut out the template using a small scissors.  It would of looked so much nicer if I would have used an Exacto Knife!  (But I am a coward...after cutting myself very badly using one...I'm afraid to try again using one)
My heart was cut out using paper from Graphic 45, and embellished with flowers from KaiserCraft!

My second card was made using embellishments from Kaisercraft.  It was my "poor" try at a college card!  I think I need more practice.  My background paper was from Our Daily Bread Designs.

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Blessings,
Jill