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

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

 

Late again

 This is a jointly made card.  My granddaughter wanted to make a card for our neighbor.  She gave my granddaughter free fire wood for her fireplace.  

This makes me feel OLD when I say that my granddaughter has purchased her first home.  She likes her house but she thinks it's too small.  I think it's just a perfect size, and it's not much different than the size of our house.    (Hope she doesn't read this...smile.   I really love her!  Don't want her to get upset with me for saying that)

She used  a Stampin' Up set that I have to make the card.  It's called the great outdoors!  She colored the stamp.  I helped her with the design and she put the card together.  I love it when we make cards together.

AGAIN, I have to apologize for being missing in action here.

I do have an excuse for part of the time.  Hubby and I were really sick with that latest Flue?  or whatever that was.  We tested negative for Covid.  We had what felt like a terrible cold, coughing and major migraine headache.  I had a two day headache which brought my vertigo back again.  I had that 4 years and and was in the hospital for 5 days with it.  I was sure hoping that I would not have to go to the hospital again for that.   so far, NOT!  But I still have it...but I think it's getting a little bit better.  If anyone sees me walking  these days they will probably think I had to much to drink...smile

I didn't finish answering all the lovely comments I received while I was away from blog I hope to get to finish responding to the rest tomorrow.  Thank you, and Thank you for visiting  my blog.

Blessings, Jill

Yes, Another Christmas card

 I made this card for the Christmas Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.  We were to make January's Christmas card showing "berries" on the card.  I put a few berries on my wreath.

The card is a center step card.  My die cut wreath and my dry embossed door were made with materials from one of my magazines. (Simply cards and paper craft)

It seems like all I do anymore is apologize for not being on line as much.  I have such good intensions...and then a week like last week happens.  I was so sick!  Too sick to even sit at the computer.  (so you Know I was not feeling well.

Hubby told me I should take a covid test because I had so many different symptoms.  Fortunately the test was negative.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Blessings,

Jill

Holly's Christmas card

 I made another card out of fabric.  For a fiend named Holly.

The sentiment I used was from Stampin' Up...More Merry Messages.

Hope everyone had a nice Christmas.  Ours was very quiet...Just Hubby and me...  But we did get to visit our daughter on Christmas eve and she cooked for us!

I hope to better with my blog this coming year!  (It's one of my new Year's resolutions.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Blessings,

Jill

Let It Snow (not really)

 This card was made for the Christmas card challenge at Split Coast Stampers.

We were to have snowmen on our cards.

I made this card using fabric.  I added buttons to the front of him, and added a bird in his hand.

I used a sticker for my sentiment.

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

jill

The heart of Christmas

 I hope this looks like a Christmas card and not a Valentine's card!

I made this card using  Rubber stamps Tapestry...

If you haven't heard of them before...it's wood peg stamps.  You stamp each leaf, each flower, each vine, etc.   with a small round rubber stamp.  I actually like using them because each card you make will be little bit  different. 

I added a heart stamped and cut out with a die (sweetNsassy)

added some red and green gems to the wreath, and used dimensionals to pop up my cut out heart and sentiment.

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill

Hunkydory Christmas Village

 This was a super easy card to make...Just needed my paper trimmer and some dimensionals.

I thought if I put anything else with this pretty paper.  I would take away the beauty of the paper. 

Thank you for visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

Hunkydory Christmas Blessings

 Another Hunkydory card...  This card was just assembling, adding brads, and using dimensionals to pop up the layers.

I think my hubby liked the fact that I'm using the paper he purchased for me and is buying some more to put under the Christmas tree for me...  (something to really look forward to)

Hunkydory Card

 Last Christmas my hubby asked me for some ideas as to what he could buy me for Christmas.

I saw lots of beautiful Hunkydory papers on line, and asked him to buy me some of the papers and put them under tree, and I could make cards for next Christmas...

Well, I did use the paper he gave me and, so far, I have come up with 17 cards using that pretty paper. 

On this card I just added some dimensionals, a star and a gem. 

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill

Another Christmas card

 I managed to make another Christmas card for a challenge at Split Coast Stameprs.!  This is for the monthly Christmas card challenge that I joined this year.  Never knew that it  was available until this year.  Wish I would have realized that sooner.  It has been a big help with me getting my cards ready for Christmas ahead of time.  I think this makes card #26,

The challenge is to add sparkle to your card.

My Sparkle was made using gold embossing powder to heat set the top of the card using a rubber stamp from a magazine I purchased.  Cardmaking and & Papercraft!  Sadly, the magazine is no longer being published.  It was one of my favorite crafting magazines.

I just added a ribbon (that was a gift from my daughter, and flower sticker.

I think my husband enjoyed his birthday.  We ate lunch at a favorite restaurant of ours that is about a 45+ minutes from our home.  But it is worth the drive.  You can get a free meal on your birthday.  I made the mistake of eating too much!  I hope I don't do that again.

Thank you for visiting my blog today...

Blessings,

Jill

Christmas card Number 6

 Christmas card number 6.   I did manage to get my goal of making 7 cards completed this week.

Just didn't get them all posted yet.  This was one of my favorites and, again, hubby did most of the work,    He colored this beautiful image for me with copics and  wink of stella pens.  It is so beautiful in real life.  The shimmer from the shimmery pens is awesome.

Hubby and I had a wonderful day today.  We don't eat out that much anymore...due to $$$$

If we do it's usually breakfast, but today we went for a late lunch at a very nice restaurant.  The food was awesome!  I even had desert which is something I don't usually do when we eat out.

Then he surprised me by taking me to craft store.   And yes, I shopped a bit.  I try to avoid them more these days because I still have a lot of supplies on hand, and a very dear friend is cleaning out her craft room and gifted me with some wonderful craft supplies.

We came home and received a call from two dear friends who asked if we were going to be home.

We had a nice, long visit.  It just made our day because is two friends that we really like and don't get to see too often.

We heard from our grandson.  so far, the typhoon has not hit where he is...they expect it to hit about Saturday to Monday.  Still on pins and needles with this...I'm hoping his base does every thing they can to keep all the soldiers safe.

Thank you for the kind Anniversary wishes and for the prayers for the safety of our grandson. They are much appreciated.

Thank you, for visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

Twisted sister challenge

 I made this card for this month's twisted sister challenge at  Split Coast Stampers.  We were supposed to make a Christmas card using last week's sketch.  Sketch SC917.  I hope I did the challenge correctly.  I'm always afraid that I will have the challenge police come after me.  I just die cut an oval...added a tree sticker to it and put stickles on my tree to look like snow.

Thank you for visiting my blog today...

Blessings,

Jill

Another Christmas card for my stash

 Another Christmas card for my stash.  And again Iris folding...

I'm doing better than I thought I would.  Last year I had 0 cards done at this time of year.

This year I think I have about 10 cards made so far.

Thank you for visiting my blog today...

Blessings,

Jill

Christmas challenge card

You probably don't want to see a Christmas card in May..

But this is another card for the Christmas Challenge at Split Coast Stampers.

So happy I found that challenge which I didn't know was even there till this year.  (thanks to a fellow Blogger letting me know)

Last year at this time...I did not have any Christmas cards done...I now have 8 cards ready for next Christmas!  Which is a good feeling.

thank you for stopping by my blog today.

Blessings,

Jill

 

Yes, Another Christmas card

 I hope starting tomorrow to make a card that isn't a Christmas card.

But as I said before...It's such a good feeling to know I am getting some cards done for my stash.

I made this card using a stamp from  Sweet n Sassy. (Baked for you)

I colored the images with copics, added some stickles to hopefully look like sugar sprinkles.  Then fussy cut them out.  My sentiment was made using a Penny Black Die.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Blessings,

Jill

Ginger bread cookies

 

I know you may not be ready to see more Christmas cards...

But I am so happy that Diane...of Diane's Country cards

http://ahlers5.blogspot.com/ 

 told me about the On going challenge at Splitcoast stampers to make Christmas cards all year long.  (Then I won't panic as much at Christmas when all my cards aren't done)

This Month's challenge is to make Christmas cards with food and/or sweets on the card! 

I  made my card using images from Paperwishes.com.

I fussy cut the images and put them on a side step card. I used some Glossy accents on some of them.  Stamped a sentiment using Sweet and Sassy stamp.

Thank you for visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

Pinwheel Quilt card

 I made the above Pinwheel quilt card fot two challenges at Split Coast Stampers.  The one was the Technique Lover's challenge.  I have used many different techniques on my cards through the years.  I had not done this technique before.  I have been a member of Split Coast since 2007 and I was surprised to realize recently that I had only done two sketch challenges, and now I realize that I only entered the technique Lovers challenge 7 times.

The challenge I had entered the most was the Teapot challenges.  I have entered over 60 of those...  but I had stopped even doing those challenges.  I need to get back to all of those so I can be inspired to finally start using up more of my many years of stash that I have in my craft room.

Thank you for visiting my blog today...

Blessings,

Jill

Splitcoasst Christmas Challenge

 I made this card for the Christmas card challenge at Split Coast stampers.  For our February card...The challenge is to make a Christmas card with a candle (s) on the card.

It was a challenge for me...because, even though, I feel like I havea oodles of stamps...I could not find one stamp that would fit the challenge.  

This candle die is from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I used paper behind the window from Stampin' Up...My sentiment was cut using a die from Penny Black,  my Designer paper background was from American crafts, and my Windows shutters are from Kaisercraft...I used stickles for my candle flame.

Thank you for visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill