Going Down Memory Lane

 I have a couple of cards that I am working on...but they are not completed yet..so I thought in the meantime I would post some photos that I took back in 2013.

Wow!  I couldn't believe that these were taken so  many years ago.   

These are books that I made for my two crafty friends (who would come to my house almost every week to craft with me back then).  (Of course, now we can't get toether to craft)  My HOPE is that will change this year.  

Every year we would get together and discuss what word we picked for our word of the year, and how we HOPED to your our word.

We even made little gifts for each other using our words for the gift theme

My one friend, picked the word "STRENGH", and the other friend picked the word FOCUS!

The little books were made out of paper bags, and I left the last couple of pages blank so they could add their own thoughts, and pictures throughout the year.

One thing I Hope to do this year is repost some of the things that I have posted on my blog since 2009.  I can't believe that I have been blogging so long.

HOPE you enjoyed seeing my little trip down memory land...

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Keep safe,

Jill

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you! I'm starting off my New Year by making myself a new Journal.  I enjoy Journaling, and I love looking at the Art Journals that I see on Pinterest  (Yes, I am addicted to that site!)  While looking at the Art Journals...I found this link...

http://www.clips-n-cuts.com/2012/12/journal-resolutions/

 I really like the Art Journal pages she (Vicky) has created, and her wonderful UTube Channel...has many of them step by step...that even I can make one following her great instructions.

Of course, Mine isn't as creative as hers...but I was really inspired by her design that I was able to do my page...Her page was done with a lot of stamping and distress inks...I mostly did a lot of cut and paste...some punching and added stickers...but I still like the way it turned out..

My page includes the word that I have selected to be my motivational word for this year...JOY!

http://aliedwards.com/2013/12/one-little-word-2014.html

JOY is the feeling of grinning on the inside.  ~Melba Colgrove

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill

Dreamweaver Stencils Challenge for May

 I made the above gift book for my granddaughter as part of her graduation present.  She seldom looks at my blog, so I feel fairly safe in posting it. (I think my blog is too boring for her...smile)
This "Tiny" gift book is still a work in progress.  I still need to add photos and journaling in the inside pages.  I usually make 12 x 12 scrapbooks or 11 by 8 1/2.  This one is 6 x 6. 

 I paper pieced the butterfly on my front cover.  I added dimensions to pop it up off the page.  My paper is from Stampin' Up.  I used a micron pen to trace around the stencils on the Shrink it.  I then colored the images with copics, and cut them out.  Shrink it is something I really enjoy doing.  I think I'm in my second childhood...smile

In the above pic you can see the stencils I used for my "Tiny Treasures"  I used the butterfly, umbrella, and silhouette stencil for my charm embellishments which I will put in the inside of my book.  I enjoyed doing this so much that I am going to looking at the stencils differently.  I want to buy stencils that I think will work well with this technique.  I also paste embossed my "celebrate" title with white embossing paste.  I then sponged over it with Tim Holtz distress inks...the embossing paste works as a resist.  So I just used a tissue to wipe off the extra  paste.

I'm entering this in the May Dreamweaver Challenge...
http://dreamweaverstencils.blogspot.com/

For the month of May the theme is "Tiny Treats"  Party favors, Wedding favors, end of the school treats, Teacher appreciation gifts, baby shower favors, small tokens of appreciation.

There is still a few days open for the challenge, and someone who enters the challenge will win a free stencil.  I have been fortunate to win a few times this past year, and the umbrella, and celebrate stencils  were two of the stencils that I won in challenge.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Hope you have a great week end...
Blessings,
Jill

Second Paper Bag book

 Cover of Cherie's book

 The First two Pages of my book...The photograph is from scrapbook paper, and a dragon fly embellishment on the side...

Next two pages of my book...the page was made using a Darice Embossing folder, and Stampin' Up Designer paper for the background,   I die cut the leaves, and tucked in a tag in the pocket.

I also left some blank pages for Cherie to add her own quotes..  I tried to use Cherie's Motivational Word on my pages in the book, her word is"Strong"

The link for the paper bag book

I entered my project in The Word Art Wednesday Challenge...the link to the challenge can be found here

Thank you for visiting my blog today...
Blessings,
Jill

Paper bag book Made for a friend

 This is the front cover of the paper bag book that I made

 This is the first two pages of the book, the picture of the three ladies is supposed to represent my two crafting buddies and myself...Sure,  Well, we can hope can't we?  The two of them have been really good with their exercising and watching what they eat...so they have a good chance of looking like that...me, on the other hand...NOT!

 Both Kathi and I picked the same word this year as our Motivational word FOCUS!
So I had to make a page for her word.

The Third page in my paper bag book.

I also left a couple of  the pages blank for her to add her own quotes, etc.

I made the above book as a gift for my friend, Kathi, to thank her for the wonderful Christmas gifts she gave me this year. 

I found the instructions on how to make this book on Utube...It was done  Sweet digi Scraps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiQ72hS4fhU

National scrapbooking day...

I so hoped to make a page today for national scrap booking day...but I spent the day instead running errands, and getting some things to finish my craft room.  (almost done)

So instead, I doing another repost from a previous blog post of mine found here...

http://ribbonchallenged.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-mothers-book.html

This is the cover of a scrapbook I made for my Mother one year for Mother's day, of course,

the picture on the front is me with my Mom.  I put vellum over the picture, and added some

plastic tiles on the bottom for the title.  If you click on the above link you should be able to

see some more photos from the book.  

Two of my favorite scrapbooking sites are..

 

http://www.scrapbook.com/

 

http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/

I do like to scrapbook, but I do more with card making, I think it goes a bit faster.  (I'm a slow crafter...smile)  Do you scrapbook?

Hope everyone is having a great weekend....Blessings, Jill

Filoli Gardens page

Instead of a card today, I decided to post a scrapbook page, I made of Filoli Gardens. I'm not much of a scrapbooker, or much of a photographer...but I still hope you enjoy the page.

http://www.filoli.org/