Graduation card

Graduation card I made for a friend's daughter...

Her school colors are purple and gold...

Thank you for visiting my blog today...

Blessings,

Jill

I'm Thankful for "Stickers!"

I needed to make a Graduation card for my grandson who recently graduated from College.

Frankly, I was stuck as what to make for him.  (As I said before, I'm a bit out of practice...I have not made too many cards lately.  Stickers to the rescue.  LOL!  I think these were "Jolee" stickers that I used.  I know I wanted to make a card with the colors red and blue (His school colors)  and went from there...

One of my new years resolutions is to get back into making cards again.  Sure hope I can stick to that resolution...  smile.

Hope everyone visiting today...has a wonderful New Year's day and the best year ever...

Blessings,
Jill

Graduation Card...

 I made this card for my granddaughter for her graduation.  I can't believe that she is so grown up.  Oh, where did the time go?  It seems like it was just yesterday when I held her in my arms as a tiny baby just a few minutes after she was born.

I'm frustrated with myself right now, because I can't find what I did with my granddaughter's baby pictures.  No, they never did make it to a photo album.  My grandson's pictures have, but I'm a procrastinator, and I kept thinking I'll do it later.  So this is one that I could find right now. This  may have been taken at her first Christmas.  Yes, I do have some recent pics, but I forgot to ask for her permission to post them.  I don't post any pics on my blog unless I get permission.  Whoops!  That's not correct, because I didn't ask her if I could post the above pic, but I don't think she would mind this one.

I wanted to make a scrapbook for my granddaughter as a graduation gift, but It's not going to get done, at least not this week! Especially since I can't find all my photos. Looking through the pics that I did find, has really taken me back memory lane.

Another thing that has done that for me this week, is Mary Anne's blog...look at her cute first Grandchild.  http://lakesidestamping.blogspot.com/2013/06/my-first-grandchild.html

I had the honor of meeting Mary Anne, a couple of times at stamping get together's and I am so happy for her.  She's such a lovely person.


I was fortunate enough to be in the delivery room when my granddaughter was born.  It's a moment you never forget.  My daughter had asked us to be with her when my grandson was born too,  But they wouldn't let us. The reason being that  there were too many Mother's giving birth at the same time.

I was really surprised that she even asked me.  My daughter is brave!!!

Why, because when she was a teenager, I took her to the oral surgeon to have some of her teeth pulled to make room for her braces.

My daughter did great...  No problems at all.

Me, Not so much!

I passed out!

They had to spend more time fussing with me, than my daughter!  smile.

Needless to say, I will NEVER live this down...

Thank you for visiting my blog today,
Hope everyone is having a good week...

Blessings,
Jill

Almost forgot, My card  was made from an iris folding pattern from a book that I purchased.
Iris folding 2
My background was made using a Stampin' Up embossing folder, (lattice)
I added a brad, and a tassel that I made...(because I couldn't find the one that I purchased!)
my sentiment was stamped with Stampin' Up ink and I used a stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs

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