Thank you card

 I made this quick card for my brother-in-law who  surprised me with an early birthday present.  

The image is from a Hunky dory magazine that I have.

I thought this so represented him he is an avid gardener!  He actually goes each year to almost every plant he has, and gathers up the seeds for the next year. 

I also wanted to make a quick card for the Twisted sister challenge at Split Coast stampers.  The theme for this month is "Anything" Garden"

Thank you for stopping by,

Blessings,

Jill

Twisted Sister Challenge for MARCH

 I made these two cards for the twisted Sister Challenge at Split Coast Stampers for the March Challenge.

I just hope I got the challenge correct.. I understood it as I had to make my cards with the same materials. and make it a card that could be duplicated many times if you wanted to.

I don't think that is exactly what she said...but that is how I interpreted it.  As they say on the website there's no Challenge police.

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend...

Hubby and I just stayed inside today...didn't need to go anywhere, and I didn't feel like getting wet.  (And the way it was raining it may have been getting VERY wet!

Here's hoping for Sunny skies for everyone.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today.

Blessings,

Jill

Vintage card for the twisted Sister challenge

 The challenge for this month at the Twisted Sister Challenge at Split coast... was to make something for the theme "Vintage!"

The theme had me stuck and then I spotted some Designers Paper  That looked a little bit like fabric.  I got out my Apron die and used that paper.  Apron's are kind of vintage.  I still have one that I sewed many years ago.  (wouldn't know how to use my machine now)  But don't ask me how long it's been since I wore it.

Hubby took me out to breakfast as promised.. and then I came home and received a text from one of my neighbors she wanted to come and visit.  She is one of the neighbors who used to come and make cards with me a lot.  Today she had time to make a card.  I almost forgot how much fun it was crafting with her.  (I think  I got her interested and wants to try  again soon.

Thank you for visiting my blog

Blessings,

Jill

Twisted Sister Challenge

I'm a member of a group at Split Coast Stampers called the Twisted Sisters.

Each month someone issues a Challenge for the group to do.  This month the challenge was to put "Splatters" on our cards.

Splatters!  It was a first for me.  I came up with this idea for my Splatters card.  I took a piece of watercolor paper (first time using that paper, and my watercolors  (which I may have used once or twice) and I started flicking the colors on a piece of paper with my paint brush...when it dried I took my stamp and stamped it on the splatter paper and cut out pieces that I could Paper Piece her dress with the splatter paper.  

It was a fun project which I will try again.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today...

Blessings,

Jill
 

Twisted sister FEB challenge

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3_xbUj2hBc

Hopefully, I put in the right link on how I made the above card.

This card was done for a challenge at the Twisted Sister group at Splitcoast Stampers.  Ina issues us this challenge.

I used some very old Stampin' Up paper that had been a favorite of mine.  I like the colors and the pink roses on the paper.  I've been hanging on to some of my stuff for way too long.

I will add a sentiment on the front when I mail the card.

Thank you for stopping by my blot today.

Blessings,

Jill

My son-in-law's Birthday card!

I made this card for my son-in-law's birthday!

I made it using a theme that Is the theme for December at the Twisted sister challenge at Split Coast Stampers.

The theme was to make anything  "Disney"

I don't have any Disney stamps...  So I was kind of stuck until I saw that one of the talented ladies at Split coast used a star on her card.  "When you wish upon a star was always a favorite song of mine.  

I've been to Disney World a long time ago.  I was there for about a total of 6 hours.  (Anyone who has visited there would know that is not much time to see all that is there)  Even though, the visit was short I still have great memories of visiting there and the thing that would always stand out in my mind was the castle.  So that's why I wanted to use that on my card.  My son in law has been there twice so he would immediately get the castle theme.

My star was made using a die from Stampin' up.  My image was found on Pinterest!

 This is the inside of the card!  I added some scratch off lottery tickets to the inside of the card.  (He did win $5.00 But I paid more for the tickets than what he won).  Now I remember why I rarely buy lottery tickets anymore.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Blessings,

Jill

bookmark

This doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment to do a bookmark!

Bur to me it was,  I've been having a difficult time making anything these days...so I'm just happy when I have a small break through.

I made this bookmark using a tutorial from Splitcoast stampers... You can find the link here.

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

This was the first challenge that I did for the year for the twisted Sister group.  (Yes. I certainly belong in that group...smile)

 The above medal was a Christmas present from my husband.   I think it's the first medal that I have ever received.  And Yes, I am a bookworm.  I had made the comment to him a while back that in the 6 years since I started writing down the titles of all the books I have read... It was over 500 books.  

Since He gave me this for Christmas I recounted and at the end of this year My total is now  600 books.  Not all the books I read are like 400 pages...some are kind of short.

The book I am reading at the present time Is "Winter Garden" by Kristin Hannah. (This book is 394 pages)

My Favorite Author is Irene Hannon.

I'm a member of Good Reads.  That's where I log the books that I read.

Thank You for visiting my blog tody..

Blessings,

Jill

Pumpkin card

 Hello from Jill...

Sorry, I know it's been a while.  I almost forgot how to post...

I made this card for the Twisted Sister Challenge at Split Coast stampers.

This month's theme was to put pumpkins on our card.

I didn't have any pumpkin stamps, or pumpkin dies...so I used some of my Graphic 45 paper to make my card.  Just added a ribbon and some dimensionals.  

Hope to catch up with my commenting.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today.

Blessings,

Jill

Squirrel birthday card

 This is another image that my hubby colored for me to use.

I needed a birthday card and a card for the Twisted sister Challenge at Split coast Stampers.,

The challenge this month is to make a card with a fall theme..

The stamp that was used is from Blue Knight.

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

Bridge card for Twisted Sister Challenge

 I made this card for the Twisted sister challenge at Split Coast Stampers...

The challenge was to make a Bridge card and it had to have Blue on it.

I made this card using some more of my Paper Blooms dies and paper from Stampin' Up.

I was working on this card while my neighbor was working on her paper Blooms card for a card to give to her sister.  Again, she did a great job.

My sentiment is a design from Elizabeth craft designs, and my girl image is a stamp from Rubber Necker designs colored with copics.  Also the background was cute out with a Spellbinder die, Shapabilities (Criscross)

At the moment my grandson is on his way to going overseas for Three LONG years.  He left yesterday for his first flight.  He has three more plane trips to make in two days.  Obviously, I am a nervous GrandMom right now.  Please pray for safe travels for him.   (and for this grandmom to keep calm...smile.

Thank you for visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

TWister Sister Challenge

 I made this card for the Twisted Sister Challenge at Split coast stampers.

Pansy issued a challenge for us to do a fancy fold that she did.  I struggled a bit the one she posted so I looked for a link on Google for that style card.  I found one where a lady did a variation of her fold and I did that one.

I wanted to use some of my Daffodil Afternoon paper that has been mainly just sitting in a drawer in my craft room.  Spring will be over before I get my spring cards in the mail.

I fussy cut my dafodil and added a ribbon, I forgot to add a sentiment but will do that when I mail my card.

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill

Card for spring

 I made this card for the Twisted Sister Challenge at Split coast stampers.

The theme for this month's card was to make a card that would make you think of spring.

I am so ready for spring...(and some warmer weather)  so I was glad to see this challenge theme  that Jan asked us to do for March.

My card is a center fold card...and I used papers from Hunkydory to make the card  (Using Fancy Florals paper)

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Blessings,

Jill

Twisted Sister challenge

 I made this card for the "Twisted Sisters" Challenge at Split Coast Stampers.

For the challenge we were to make a card using the Standing pop up card fold.

I used Graphic 45 paper for my background on the card.  I fussy cut the roses from Graphic 45 paper.  I added a sticker for the sentiment (Anna Griffin) and added some lace.

Thank you for visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

Twisted Sister challenge... Corner bookmark

 The challenge this week for the twisted Sisters  was given by Sylvia. We were to make a corner bookmark. I like this idea for a bookmark.  I made some before and had to make one for me. I like the way that they really do stay put on the page.  The other bookmarks sometimes slip out of the book these don't!
I used the tutorial that I found at Split Coast stampers.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/cornerbookmark/

The above card was made for me by the wonderfully talented crafter, Darnell.
Darnell did NOT send me a crooked card...LOL!  It's my terrible photography!
After I took this card my batteries in my camera died and I would have had to wait till my
rechargeable batteries were ready again for me to use.  I didn't feel like waiting.
That's my story and I am sticking to it!  (but it really is the truth!  smile...

Thank you Darnell, your card is beautiful, and the candle buttons are adorable,
but when I showed them to my hubby...his comment was...."There's not enough candles"!!!
Can you imagine!!!!  I wouldn't want to start a fire anyway if they put all of the needed
candles on my cake!  Yikes.

Danell's blog and her beautiful cards can be found here...

http://www.djkardkreations.com/

Thank you for visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

Twisted Sister Lighthouse Challenge and Word Art Wednesday #180

I made the above card for two challenges.  The twisted Sister Challenge at Split Coast Stampers where Lesley issued this week's challenge to have a lighthouse on our card. 

The light house on my card was colored with copics by my hubby
And he did his best to come close to the colors of the actual lighthouse...

The light house is located at Cape Hatteras North Carolina...
Here is a link to that lighthouse 

http://www.outerbanks.com/cape-hatteras-lighthouse.html

Jim and I were very briefly in North Carolina...but never had the privilege of seeing this light house in real life...It would be nice to do that someday...well, at least I can dream about it...smile.

The image Jim colored had Stampendous stamp written on the back and it was colored many years ago, so I hope that I have that correctly that is their stamp...

My sentiment was stamped with a stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs...

The card is a Twisted Easel fold.

The link to the Word Art Wednesday challenge can be found here

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2015/04/challenge-180-anything-goesfamily.html

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill

Birthday Cake card for this week's Twisted Sister Challenge

I made this card for this week's Twisted Sister Challenge at Split Coast stampers...TSC0220!
 
Notice, that it is NOT a side step card...smile.   Okay,  A center step card is kind of close to one,
but it is different...

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

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/

The card was made using images from paper wishes.  I used stickles on the candle.

"Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength."Betty Friedan

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill

Another Side Step card for Two challenges...

 Click pic to enlarge

I made this card for two challenges...The twisted Sister Challenge at Split coast Stampers

and for the Butterfly Challenge...

It's my turn this week for the Twisted Sister Challenge to give the challenge, and my challenge this time is to learn a new technique. (TSC0206)

 I enjoy seeing so many neat cards done with this technique on Split coast.  My Stampin' Up Demo, Stacie,  showed how to do this in a class one week...Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend that class, but I did see the card that my crafting friend, Cherie made.  I tried to do one on my own but it was a total failure, so I just put that card in the trash and forgot about it for awhile.  Since this year one of my resolutions is to try new things...I tried it again.   Now I am hooked on this fold, so far I have made three cards using it.

Here is the link for the tutorial for Side Step card At Spring Coast Stampers...

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/sidestepcard/

 

Again, I used some "freebie" papers from Paper Wishes

http://www.paperwishes.com/

I make a lot cards with Butterflies on it...and I thought maybe this would fit in the Butterfly challenge...so I went to check it out and this time it's a butterfly and a valentine theme.

So My Valentine card should fit the challenge...Thank you for the great challenge..I so enjoy seeing all those pretty butterflies on the cards. 

http://butterflyspotchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/01/23-butterflies-v-is-for-valentine.html

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
~Morrie Schwartz

Thank you for visiting my blog today,
Blessings,
Jill

Twisted Sister Challenge TSC1219

It was my turn this week to give the Twisted Sister challenge at Split coast.  The Challenge that I gave was to make a card using plaids or stripes, and this is what I came up with.
Quick card just using my square punches and scrap designer paper, along with a sticker.

Thanks for Visiting my blog today
Blessings,
Jill

May peace be your gift at Christmas
and Blessing all year through!

To everything there is a season...

I made this card for this month's Serendipity Challenge.  The link to the Challenge can be found here

http://serendipitystampschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/sscb35-summers-last-hurrah.html

I'm putting in a very late entry...For one thing I was kind of stumped as to what I could use for this month's theme  "Summer's last Hurrah"  and then it hit me about the Season change, and realized that my Scripture stamp from Serendipity would work...

"To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaver." Ecclesiastes 3:1

The scripture above is my very favorite scripture verse.

Besides using the Serendipity stamp, my  card was made using a Martha Stewart Punch around the Page punch.  (Deco fan).  I also used a The Crop-o-dile Corner Chopper to round my corners.   I used my bow easy to make my bow (the ribbon was from Pure Color).  and I added dimensionals.  (and, when and if I find what I did with my sequins...I might add a few of those too...smile)

My card made weekly Favorites
Yesterday was a very special day.  It was one of those perfect Autumn days.  A day that was just a delight to meet up with friends for breakfast.  Hubby and I met with Kathi and Cherie for breakfast to help celebrate Cherie's birthday!

We had hoped to go to a different place for breakfast (so Cherie could get a free breakfast, but we ended up getting a late start. (Breakfast would have been over at that restaurant.  So I suggested maybe we go to A different restaurant.  I couldn't remember the exact name but I thought it was called Squirrel Something.  We had only been there twice before, but I remembered that they had breakfast till maybe 2:00.  Kathi and Cheri had trouble finding the place I mentioned so Kathi called me on the phone and said did you mean Squires?  Until then I didn't realize I had the name wrong!

Okay, now you can laugh!  They sure did.  What is wrong with me?  Who would name their restaurant Squirrel something...   There probably would be people thinking they served squirrel on their menu.   BELIEVE ME, I WILL NOT LIVE THIS ONE DOWN FOR A LONG TIME!  If Ever.!  But we sure had a few good laughs over this one.

 I have a pic of us eating at the restaurant, but I couldn't get a hold of the ladies in the pic to ask permission to post the pic.  (I try not to post anything on my blog unless I have permission)
So you will probably miss the pic and won't see that my shirt almost matches the wallpaper in the background!  Again, what was I thinking?...and maybe you won't get to see the pic even with their permission.  smile.  The food was great and they even had entertainment as the sign below reads.

  This was not a fast food restaurant  (but the service was still good!)

 A another funny post script...Jim and I left their company early.  They still wanted to do some shopping.  I found out that after we left.  Cherie received a call from her daughter, telling her that there was a squirrel in their house.  What should she do? At first Cherie thought this was some kind of Joke that Kathi or I had told her about the "Squirrel" restaurant!  Not!  Of course, her daughter wanted her Mom to come right home...but they were too far away.  So Cherie told her to take the cat crate and put some peanuts in it to see if she can catch the squirrel and take it outside.  It did not work.  Cherie has this potted tree in one of her rooms, and the squirrel climbed up her potted tree and stayed there.  So her daughter ended up taking that the potted plant (with the squirrel still on it...outside.   
It took me a while to stop laughing after this phone call. 

I'm sure it's a birthday we will all remember!  If you have an extra moment please stop by and wish some belated birthday wishes to Cherie...The link to her blog is here

http://paperinspirationsandcreations.blogspot.com/

Also Happy belated birthday wishes to another dear friend, Carol    (Carol, your card will be late...but you know how busy it's been around here lately...so I'm sure you'll understand!

My Autumn card above is my birthday card for Cherie, and you know that I am going to put a picture of a squirrel inside the card.   the Squirrel image above came from

http://digitaltuesday.blogspot.com/search/label/animals

I'm also entering this card in the Twisted Sister challenge 

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/

for this week's theme fall.  and to make a card that makes you think of fall.  The first thing that always comes to mind to me...if the beautiful colors of the changing leaves.  (at the restaurant we did not stay to watch the leaves changing colors...LOL)

Edited to add...I just realized that this card would also fit...this week's Word Art Wednesday.  I like that challenge, but I often forget about adding my cards, because on  many of my cards I don't add a sentiment.  This card would fit the requirements.
The link to the challenge is here

 http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2014/09/challenge-151-anything-goes.html
Thank you for the great challenge....

Thank you for visiting by blog today,

and I hope you  have a great weekend...

Blessings,

Jill

And PS.  We have some company coming to visit that we have not seen in years...so you know what that means...Lots of cleaning...So when the company leaves I will try and catch up on my commenting.