Embossing folders

 I made this card for the Technique Lover's challenge at Split Coast Stampers.

The challenge was that you were to use two embossing folders on the same card.  It wasn't quite as easy as I thought it would be...but I finally did come up with a card using Distressed stripes, and Stylized flowers embossing folders made by Cuttlebug.

I have so many embossing folders that I have not even used...

so I am glad for this challenge... it made me get out the box that I had them in, and see if I could come up with something.  I am going to try to see if I can use some of the others later on.

It's going to be either use it...or lose it!  Smile.

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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.

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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.

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Blessings,

Jill

Yes another Christmas card

Yes, Another Christmas card, and another Penguin card.  I may have said it before...

but at first, I wasn't sure if I would like this set.  I have now made 6 cards using it and I must admit I am having fun using all the things is this set Penguin Place.  My trees in the back were made with a die from Penny black.  I used velum for the bottom of my card hoping it would look like ice.

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Blessings,

Jill

 

Military Card

I had trouble taking a photo of this card...because. I put plastic over top of the letters because they didn't want to stick on the card.and I did not want them to fall off. ..I could not rid of the glare...

This is a scan of the same card...

 This is the inside of this card...

I was in a hurry to get this card in the mail...and it didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it to...

I hope I get an A for effort anyway!

I have a confession to make..  I am a Pack Rat!  I save way too many sentimental things.

The above card was cased from a card that I sent to my hubby when he was in boot camp...

Only his said...  "In the Navy?  I saved the card all these years...

The airplane is a stamp from Penny Black.  I colored it with copics and A Micron pen

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Blessings,

Jill

CCEE2111 Trees

 I made the above card For the CCEE stampers blog...the challenge can be found here...

https://cceestampers.blogspot.com/

The challenge is for International Day of Forests on March 21    CCEE2111

I again, made my card using some of my Paper Blooms Designer Paper, and a Tree die from Penny Black and Sentiment die from Elizabeth Designs.  I made an Easel Card.

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Blessings,

Jill

Paper Blooms Pleated skirt fold

 Another card made with Paper Blooms Stampin' Up Designer paper.  This is a Pleated skirt fold.

The tutorial for this fold  found can be found here...

https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/pleatedskirtfold/

I really like this fold  for one thing, It's very easy to do...I used my Pierced Blooms die set for my flower, and used some dimensionals to pop up my flower and leaves, and added some ribbon.

 My sentiment was stamped with a stamp from Penny Black.

Every day seems to bring new challenges.  Yesterday, in our town, we had a main water break, so we now have to boil our water for several days till it's fixed and limit our water usage.  But I guess it could be worse...

Hope everyone has a good day,

Thank you for visiting my blog

Blessings,

Jill

Christmas cards!

 I spent my weekend working on Christmas cards!  

The top card was made using a die by Cottage Cutz  called Winterland Village! and Stampin Up paper "Feels like Frost"  and an added sticker for the sentiment.

The second card I also used the "feels like Frost Designer paer, and a Die by Penny Black for the Sentiment and for the snowflakes a die from Spellbinders 2012 Snowflake Pendant!

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Blessings,

Jill

Prize peony bridge card

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I'm still trying to use my new Stampin Up goodies.  

I know that this card seems a bit strange, a flower in the front and a tree  that looks like it has snow.  I showed to my hubby and he said,  "Well, sometimes we get a late snow when flowers are blooming..."   Ok, I'll take that as my story...for this card.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today...

Keep safe,

Blessings,

Jill

More cards made with supplies from my "Cardmaking and Papercraft Magaine"
I used the free papers for my backgrounds for my cards.

Second card was stamped with a stamp from Sweet NSassy 
The third card I used a die from Penny Black...
The fourth card I used a peel off for the sentiment and a sticker...

Still trying to use up some of my supplies...

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Blessings,
Jill

More Christmas cards using oxide ink

Click on Pictures to enlarge

I have the link for the tutorial that I used for these cards in my previous post.  These were fun to make and I want to try this technique again...making something other than Christmas cards...  I added a sentiment to all of my cards before I mailed them out.  I just realized that I forgot to retake the pics.

Besides using ranger's oxide ink...I used dies from Impression Obsession, Penny Black, and Memory Box for the frames...

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Blessings,
Jill

Easel Card

Not sure how I feel about this card...I like Easel Cards...so I wanted to give this card fold another try...And it's done in my favorite color combo... and I'm still using up my designer paper that I purchased from Paper wishes...(Hot of the press, Charming paper pack)
I'm finally getting down to end of the paper...I only have three more cards to post.

I'm so glad I tried using it for inspiration.  After weeks of not being able to make a card...It, obviously, inspired me.

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Blessings,
Jill

Center Step card

I made the above center step card using directions I found here

https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/centerstepcard/

I again used the double sided designer paper that I purchased at Paper wishes...
It's called Charming.

The rose that I added was from KaiserCraft
I die cut the lace panel using a die from Our Daily Bread designs (Beautiful Borders)
My sentiment was stamped using a stamp from Penny Black

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Blessings, Jill

Anniversary card

I made this card for my sister-in-law and brother-in-law for their Anniversary.

My hubby colored the image for me.  He was going to give me the copic list...
however, he used 27 copic colors to color this!  It would have been a long list!

The image was stamped using a stamp from Penny Black  (Jack and Ginger)
Hope my in laws like this card...(They are younger than we are  LOL)

I also used some Graphic 45 designer paper for the background, a SweetNSassy stamp
for the sentiment!

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Blessings,
Jill

Another card for my Stash

I'm still working on trying to get together some cards for my stash...
To accomplish that...I again pulled out one of my purchased magazines to use for inspiration.  This card was inspired using "Cardmaking and Papercrafts magazine from May 2013.
They had a section on using White embossing powder or Kraft card stock.  I love the look of white embossing on Kraft card stock, but I always struggle making a card using this technique.  I finally made a card that I would actually send.  The others ended up in the trash...smile.  

I used rubber stamps from Penny Black, my Sentiment is also from Penny Black, and my Kraft card stock is from Stampin' Up.

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

Merry Monday Let It Snow

I made the above card for this week's Merry Monday Challenge.  This week's challenge is to create a card with snow.  You can find the challenge here...

http://merrymondaychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2018/01/merry-monday-274-let-it-snow.html

I made my card using a die from Penny Black.   My Sentiment was stamped using a stamp from Stampin' Up, and I stamped the Snowman using a stamp from Hunkydory.

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

I'm on a roll now...

I'm so glad that I picked up that magazine to use for inspiration to get me back into card making...
Obviously, It worked.  These are some more cards that were inspired by that same magazine.
Some of the cards look pretty much the way they made them in the magazine...others I added my own ideas...  Especially the last card...It was inspired by a card in the magazine...but does NOT look anything like the card in the magazine.  I used a Penny Black stamp and embossed the flowers in both white and gold embossing powder.  Added a bow and a butterfly  
 from Kaiser-craft!

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Blessings,
Jill

Card made for a friend...

I can't believe that another month has zipped by...

I made this card for a friend of mine named, Iris...

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 The card was made using a Penny Black (Slapstick/Cling) stamp
I stamped the image with Versamark, and then Heat embossed with white embossing powder
And since I stamped white on white...(kind of hard to see...)
I then used a magnifier 
To color the image with copics...
I added gold embossing powder for the center of the flower.
added a ribbon, and used Stamping Up designer paper for the background!

Today is my grandson's birthday...

 I can't believe that it has been more than 20 years or so since I took the above picture of him.
It's my all time favorite pic...and he is still a big baseball fan!  Smile

I found the above shirt in my cedar chest, and I want to show it to my grandson
I'm not sure if he ever saw this or not...

But this is how my daughter and son-in-law chose to tell me about that big upcoming
event in my life.  If you look at the date...you will see that my grandson arrived a bit early...

My daughter used fabric paint to make this...and put it in a box for me to
open on Christmas eve.   And yes, I wore the shirt!!!!   
(It certainly would NOT fit me anymore...smile...

Children are the rainbow of life...
Grandchildren are the POT of GOLD!

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Blessings,
Jill

A Day of Delight

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A Quick post today.  I made this card this past Saturday.  I must say that last Saturday was a Day of Delight.  It was a wonderful, almost perfect, spring day.  Hubby and I took a nice leisurely drive, and then stopped at a restaurant before going home.  The food was wonderful.  The place we stopped to eat is surrounded by a couple of acres of pretty woods and stream to walk by.  So after we were finished eating, we took a half hour or so walk around the restaurant.  Doesn't sound too exciting, but it was so relaxing and felt so good to be out in the sun, after the rough winter.  I treasure that wonderful day,
Wish I could say his week was filled with  "Days of Delight"...smile....they were NOT!  But that is life as they say.

The image was colored with copics by my husband (surprise, surprise)  The Stamp is from Penny Black, I forget the name...it's Garden something?  The sentiment is also from Penny Black.

Thank you visiting by blog today,
Blessings,
Jill

I wish you a Day of Delight!

More Penny Black Sticker cards

All of the above cards were made using Penny Black stickers.

  My first card Uses the sticker as the focal point, and Stampin' Up Designer paper for my background with a Martha Stewart punched border, and I added a ribbon.

The second card with the sticker again as a focal point, has an embossed background done with using a Stampin' Up embossing folder...(fancy fan) I added  stick on butterfly, a row of lace, and the sentiment Oval was cut out using spellbinder dies (Classic Scalloped Ovals large, and Classic Ovals large) The sentiment was stamped with a stamp from Stampin' Up (Elementary Elegance) and stamped with Stampin' Up  (Marina Mist)  My bookmark is also a Penny Black sticker.

My third card uses a Penny Black sticker for the focal point, and an added sticker for the word Hi (unknown) my background was made using a friends die, and I added a stick on butterfly.

"Friends and Flowers make life a garden"

Thank you for stopping by my blog today.

Blessings,

Jill