Happy Easter

Happy Easter

 After I took the photo above.. I remembered that I had something that I wanted to add to this picture.

The Ceramic Easter Basket had been made by birth Mother.  Her name and date are on the bottom.  I almost forgot that I had it.  My half sister gave it to me after my birth mother passed away.

The card was made using Iris folding. I got the pattern for the card out of book I purchased a long time ago.  "460 Iris Folded Cards to make." by Maruschan Gaasenboek & Tina Beauvester.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Blessings,

Jill

PS.  I looked this book up on line and it is still available through different sources.

 

Thank You card!

 This is  a card that I actually made in JULY! I made it for a challenge at Split Coast Stampers.  The Challenge was to make a card in my favorite technique.  My favorite technique is Iris Folding.

I made this as a thank you card for a friend that lives in California.  She sent us a beautiful anniversary gift and I wanted to make a special card for her.

Besides the Irish folding, it has copic colored butterflies that I punched out, and I added sticker for my sentiment.

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

 I made this Iris Folding card to send to my grandson who is a very long way from home.   It hasn't been that long since he left and I miss him so much.  I'm not a great letter writer.  I never know what to say.  So I'm trying to make a stash of cards that I will be able to send to him.

The card was made using up some of my snippets.

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

And thanks for stopping by my blog.

Blessings,

Jill

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While I am thinking about it... I used some poetic license on this card.  My Husband informed me when I first made one of these cards that snails do not have eyes in there head...

Happy Easter

 Happy Easter!

Hope Everyone is haveing a wonderful Weekend!

Thank you for visiting my blog today!

Blessings,

Jill

Happy New Year 2022

 This is a very quick Iris folding card that I threw together so I could wish everyone who visits my blog....

A very Happy New Year!  Hope 2022 is a much better year.

One of my new year resolutions is to try and post more (we'll see how long that lasts.  smile.

I want to thank you all for the times you have visited me through

the years and all the wonderful comments you have left for me.

I so appriecate it...and I so appreciate all of you...

Hope you have the best year ever...

Blessings,

Jill

Iris folded Christmas Tree

 I lost count of how many times I have used this Iris folding pattern...

but it is, obviouly, one of my favorites.

My paper is from DCWV, added a star sticker and some Gems

from Mrs. Sparkle and company.

I was able to finish this card today, on my front porch  (yes we had nice weather again)  I don't rmember having these many nice days before in  this time of year... that it was warm enough to sit out on my front porch and craft.  (I know it's not going to last).  The leaves are falling off the trees and yesterday Jim and I raked up the leaves in front of our house.  Today you would never know it!

Thanks for visiting my blog today...

Blessing,s

Jill

My friend's Memory book

I mentioned on my blog before that I was doing some work on scrapbooks and Journals. I forget how much time these kind of projects take.

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I lost a very long time dear friend in January.  It hit me quite hard.  Even though I kew she had some serious health issues.  Her heart attack hit me really 0ff guard.

I wanted to do something in her memory (and something for my therapy in a way).

I came up with the idea of doing a memory book.  After I started the book and put family pictures and stories into the book...  The thought came to me that her daughter might like a copy of my book too.

so 120   6 X 6 pages later. (for both books)  I have her daughter's book finished and gave to her this past weekend.  I thought she might like it...but I never thought it would mean as much to her as it did.

I am so glad now, that I took the time to do this, (and Yes, these kind of books are time consuming).  But sometimes so worth it!

There's a lot I wouldn't be able to share, these's many personal pictures of her family and I did a lot of persoanl sharing on someof the pages...However, I am going to try and share what I can.

My friend and her husband went out one New Year's eve with us, and I put the pictures of us in the book.  I think it was the LAST New year's eve we ever went to again in a club.  smile.   It was a long time agao, but the one thing I remember was how noisy it was.  I had a terrible headach the next day.

(those things you tend to rmember) but it was not from too much drinking!  It was from the noise.

Anyway, I put the pics in the book and for my friend's daughter I also put some of my home made cards throughout the book, and this is one of them.  I made it that she could just take it out of the book and use it.

She could use it for a New Year's card,  50th Anniversary card, etc.

Thank you for visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day

 Happy St Patick's day! The above picture of my card is not the greatest,  I was in such a hurry to get my cards in the mail so they would be recieved in time....  That I forgot to take a picture of my card with my camera before I put my card in the mail.  I did send a picture of it by my phone to a friend, so I took a picture of a picture.  My phone does not take the greatest pictures... but I guess you get the idea of the card.   Another Iris Folding card.    It is a nice break from "Paper Blooms" cards.

I can't miss celebrating St Pat's day...especially since it's only been the last few years that I found out that I am Irish (DNA test showed that I am 17% Irish).  

All for today,

Thank you for visitng my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

I made a snow man

 I made a snow man...Not a real one of course, but recently we've had enough snow to make a real one.

I think that  making a real one would have been less trouble than making this card snowman.  I have made quite a few Iris folding cards through the years...   This one, I think, gave me more troulbe than any other Iris folding cards that I have made.  This will be a once and done pattern.

I am happy, though, that I finally have a Christmas card done for this year, 

Hope everyone is having a good week.

Thank you for visiting my blog today..

Blessings,

Jill

Happy New Year

 This is NOT a new card that I just made.  I actually made this card 3 years ago and posted it on my blog then, but never sent it out.  Today I received 8 Christmas cards in the mail, and two of them were from Family members that I had forgotten to send a card to.  I looked for  this card design, so I could maybe case my own card to make a Christmas/New Year card for them.

I don't think I will be posting till after New Year's eve.  So I thought I would add this card now.

The card is obviously Iris folding, My Sentiment and Stickers  were from Kaisercraft.  I added some peel offs to the wine glass.

My Iris folding pattern for the wine glass came from a book I purchased "460 Iris Folded Cards to make"  By Maruscha Gaasenbeek and Tine Beauveser.

Hoping that 2021 will be a much better year...Take care, and keep safe...Blessings, Jill

Merry Christmas

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I know that I have posted this card at Split Coast Stampers but I hadn't posted this on my blog yet because I was waiting for the dear blogging friend that I mailed it to receive it.

This is an Iris folding card made with my favorite Christmas paper this year.  Stampin' Up's Brightly Gleaming paper.  I added some stickers and peel offs.

This will probably be my last post till after Christmas.  So I want to wish all of you a Very Merry Christmas!  And thank you for all the kind comments and loving thoughts sent my way throughout the year!

Blessings,

Jill

Iris folded Sailboat

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I posted an Iris folding card to my blog yesterday!  I had mentioned that it was a card I made about Eleven years ago.  I have been making Iris folding cards even longer than that.  In fact, I think it was one of the first card techniques I tried.  I have made dozens of cards using this technique.

I found out this weekend how rusty I am at some of my card making.  This card took me way too long to make.  I definitely need more practice again. 

 The card was made using a pattern from a book I purchased... "460 Iris folded Cards to make.  The complete Iris folding Compendium."  (so far, I think I've only about 20 card patterns that are in that book...smile)

I used Kaisercraft paper, and a die from Elizabeth crafts designs for my sentiment!

Thank you for visiting my blog today
Blessings,
Jill

Still going down memory lane

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This is more or less an experiment!  I was trying to see if I could post a card 
directly again...that I had posted 11 years ago on my blog.

This is one of the first Iris folding cards that I had posted on my blog.

And yes, Carol, of Our little Inspirations.  I remember the fun times we had doing Iris folding together.

I'm posting this card to inspire me to try and do another Iris folding card tonight.

Thank you for visiting my blog today...
and following me down memory land
Blessings,
Jill

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

Iris folding card

 The above card was made using a free pattern that I had found at the card forum "Circle of Crafters"  sadly that forum no longer exists.  I was on that forum for a number of years and that is where I learned how to do Iris Folding, Tea bag folding, and 3D cards.  
Those are the card techniques that I used when I first started making cards.  I still enjoy all those techniques...but don't use them as much anymore.

I used the last of the scrapbook designer paper that I purchased at Paper wishes  (the Hot of the press 12 pack called "Charming"  I managed to make 21 cards using it. (Down to tiny scraps of paper)

It was a good decision on my part to challenge myself that way.  Or I would never have made that
many cards to fill my almost empty stash box.

The pic below is some of the cards grouped together.  They are not all shown because some of them have been given out already.

Thank you for visiting my blog today
Blessings,
Jill

Merry Monday Glasses

I made this card for this week's Merry Monday Challenge.  This week's challenge is "glasses"

You can find the link to the challenge here...
http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2018/01/merry-monday-272-glasses.html


I just managed to finish this card and hopefully I am in time to post it.  (Nothing like the last
minute...smile)  Anyone who does Iris folding cards knows it is a bit easier than it looks to make
but...It is TIME Consuming.  The gold in the photo does not show up very well...but I didn't have the time to keep trying to photograph.  After several attempts I gave Up...and My photography skill is not  that great to begin with...smile!  My pattern for the wine glass came from a book that I purchased.  "460 Iris folded Cards to Make"..by Maruscha Gaasenbeek and Tine Beauveser.  The book was purchased years ago, and I forgot to check to see if it is still available.  The sentiment is a 
tag from Kaisercraft.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Blessings,
Jill

Squirrel with Measles

Yes, it's that time of year again.  Time for me to celebrate a friend's birthday using another Squirrel theme.  This time I made her an Iris folding card.  To me it looks like a squirrel with measles.
I wanted my squirrel to have a whimsical look, but I think I went a bit over board on that theme.

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

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Thank you for visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

Iris folded leaf

I found the pattern for the above card here...

http://www.circleofcrafters.com/irisfolding/irisfoldingmapleleaf.html

I'm still struggling with computer problems...sorry I haven't been around commenting as much.  Sometimes I can log into my computer...sometimes NOT!
I still have my hubby stumped as to what is wrong...

"Autumn is a second spring When every leaf is a flower." ~Albert Camus

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