Masculine Birthday card

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I think I actually made this card this past June...and I'm finally getting around to posting it.
Yikes!  Where does the time go???????

I made the card using a stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs...Artistic Outpost...The stamp name is Gatsby.  I made the inside of the card using a technique from Jennifer macQuire's blog   I like how the inside reminds you of a book.   So I stamped "The Great Gatsby on the side of the card.

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Blessings,
Jill    <---who busy="" cards="" christmas="" font="" is="" make="" to="" trying="">

Birthday card for my Daughter...

Today is my daughter's birthday...and this is the card that I made for her...
She loves to bake and cook...(Probably got the "cooking" gene from her father...
(not me)  smile...

The stamps that I used were from "Sweet N Sassy" stamps.  I colored the images with copics.
My sentiment was computer generated.

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving.  I did...My daughter cooked for us!  It was great, as always.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Blessings,
Jill

Poppy card from craft night

 Card Inside

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Front of card

I realized especially this past week...

How much I have missed my crafting buddies...

They really help to get me inspired to try making cards again.

It's been for a variety of reasons that we haven't been able to get together as much.  When we are able to get together I really appreciate how special the time is and, of course, how special they are.

This past week I called it project poppy, because three of us were coloring the poppy images.   I had these stamps with the matching dies for at least two years and they have just been  sitting in a drawer in my craft room.  I thought it was way past time they got used.

I colored my poppies with copics.

YG61, YG63, 100, N4, R22, R21, B91

My stamps are from Stampendous!

(Cling Pretty Poppies  CRS5096

I used an embossing folder that I borrowed from one of crafting buddies (forgot to write down the name) to mount my poppies to the front of the card.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Blessings,

Jill

Birthday Card for my neighbor

 Here it is a month again since I last posted 

Yikes!  Where does the time go?

I made the above card for someone who moved into my 

Neighborhood last year, and to add to my joy...

She has become one of our weekly crafting buddies.

I've been a bit under the weather...so I have not

done too much crafting, but I knew I had to try

and make a card for her.

This card was quick and easy and at least it has

gotten me back into card making again.

The stamp is from Julie Nutting,

I paper pieced it, and did some simple coloring

with copics.

Hubby bought me these lovely "Get Well" flowers...

and yes they did help to brighten my spirits.

Thank You for stopping by my blog...

Blessings,

Jill

Birthday Card!

I made the above card for Carol of...
http://ourlittleinspirations.blogspot.com/

Since she kindly let me know that she received her card...
I can post it now.  This is another card that my hubby colored for me using copics.  (Not sure where he found the image)

Carol, you may be about the only one who received one of my cards on or before their actual birthday.  I did not do well this year.  Most of my cards have been late or never even made it to the mailbox.  Hopefully, I'll do better from here on in...
How did life get so busy?

If you have the chance stop by and wish Carol, a Happy Birthday!

Thanks for stopping by my blog...
Blessings,
Jill

At Last I'm posting again...

Oh where does the time go...

I can't believe that it's been almost a month since I last  posted...

Anyway...below is the card that I made for my husband's birthday!

Which is today...

I know it's kind of a strange card...

But my hubby seemed to like it.

I got the inspiration for the card design from a magazine

(no longer in print)  Card maker magazine.

I think my Iris folding got a little wonky in this card.

If you have a chance could you please stop by his blog and wish him a Happy Birthday.

https://irishdreamweaver.blogspot.com/

I know that his birthday is almost over...

but we were away for the day and this is the first chance I had to post his card.

We managed to go to a restaurant that will give you a free meal on your birthday.  It is usually about a 45 minute drive from our home.  Today we could add about another 30 minutes to our drive due to all the detours that we had to take getting there.  Lots of bridges and roads out...some being repaired others may be because of all the rain that we have had this summer.

When I think about the inconvenience of that...I also think about about all the hardships the people are experiencing in the Carolinas right now due to the weather.  My heart and prayers go out to them.

This was one of the walk ways at the restaurant.

It just looked so pretty to me today...walking under all those trees.

Thank you for visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

PS.  I will try and play catch up tomorrow with my

commenting on blogs.

Card made for this week's Featured stamper Challenge

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I made this card in honor of this week's featured stamper at Split coast Stampers.."NerdyBeth"

This is the card that I cased

https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2367720?&cat=500&ppuser=157841

I like how Beth used her Designer paper in the background

 ( I used Graphic 45 on my background.  Beth mentioned in the comments that the image she used on her card was the very first Stampin' Up image that she had purchased.

  It made me think back to which stamp was my very first stamp that I purchased through Stampin' Up and it was the "Chef" stamp.  I purchased it to make cards for my hubby (who is a great Chef) (In my kitchen) 

  I showed this card to my husband and he said "It looks like he's wearing Fish net Stockings!"  I guess he does, now that I took another look on the card.  Oh well, I hope I get an A for effort.

I made this caard with Graphic 45 paper for my background, and paper pieced my stamped image...

Thank you for visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

Card made for This week's Feature Stamper Challenge

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I made this card for this week's feature Stamper Challenge at Split Coast Stampers..
Dani D is this week's featured Stamper.  She has a lot of wonderful cards in her gallery.
This is her card that I chose to case...

https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2799541?&cat=500&ppuser=155555

If you looked at Dani's card...You will see that my card does not really look anything like her lovely card.    But her card, sure did inspire me to take out this stamp set (from TPC Studio) 
The stamp set has occupied space in my craft room for quite some time.  Until last night,
the stamp set had not touched ink.

After my long dry spell where I could not seem to  get inspiration to make even one card.
I challenged myself to get back into crafting by using a 12 X 12 pack of designer paper (Used it down to snippets of paper left)   That Challenge worked for me.

My new challenge for this month is to use rubber stamps that have yet to see ink.
Well now there is one less stamp set in my craft room that has NOT seen ink...
Hopefully, I can follow through with challenging myself to use more UNUSED stamps.
And as Darnell would say NBUS stamps.

Thank you for visiting my blog today
Blessings,
Jill

Card for this week's Featured Stamper

I made this card to case this week's featured stamper at Split Coast Stampers.

Here is the card that I cased from Jenny's gallery..
https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2873679?&cat=500&ppuser=430631

I liked Jenny's card layout...It's one that I will definitely use again...

My card was made using Boo Bunny Designer paper.  I fussy cut out a flower from the designer paper.  I stamped my sentiment using a stamp from SweetNSassy.

I needed to make a sympathy card and I knew Jenny's layout would work for my card.
I also made a matching memory bracelet to go along with the card.

Hope Jenny enjoys her week as featured stamper.  I know that I did last week...I think I still feel like I'm 6 feet off the ground.

Thank you for visiting my blog
Blessings,
Jill

Okay, Carol, thank you for the nice comment on this card... and I tried to enlarge this picture so you could see it better..

I always thought that if people clicked on my photos they would get larger for them...am I wrong?