Birthday card

 Hi Every one.  I can't believe that I finally made it to my blog.  There is so much going on right now...  I'm sure that a lot of you can relate to to that.

I made this card a couple of moths ago for a dear friend and I'm finally getting around to posting it.

The card was stamped with a stamp from Taylor expressions',,

and the flowers were colored with copics by my husband.

I have only made 3 cards in about the last six months.

and you would not believe the third card I made I forgot to take a picture of it before I gave it away.

I am really out of practice.

Some of the things that have kept me away are Dr. Appointments, and a lot of special things going on in my life right now.

My granddaughter is getting married next months.  The Bridle shower kept me busy (it went very well)  and now preparations' for the up coming  wedding.

  Another thing I am looking forward to is the fact that I am going to get to see my grandson for the first time in two and half years.  I miss him so much.  He's getting a leave from the military for two weeks.  (He is now over 8000 miles away from me.)

I have also been working on my house trying to get rid of a lot of stuff.  I going to have a realtor come to our house in a couple of weeks.

So needless to say it's been busy here.

Hope you are all doing fine...

Blessings,

jill

Rose card

 Card was made using stamps from KaiserCraft stamps. I colored the roses with copics, Popped them up with dimensionals,  used a die for the background. and added a ribbon.

It feels good to be back again...

Thank you for the nice comments I have recevied.

Blessings,

Jill

Two Months Later

 It's been so long since I posted a card...

That I almost forgot how to do it...

This is a birthday card that I sent (a while ago) to a blogging friend.  I think I stamped the image from a stamp in one of my magazines.  I used copics to color the image.

This is the longest break I have made in posting since 2009.

Hopefully, I will be able to post more.  Time just seems to fly away.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Blessings,

Jill

My friend's Birthday card!

 I made this card for a dear long time friend of mine.

It's a bit late because she was going to come to my house to visit...and we still haven't managed to get together  yet.

Many years ago, we were next door neighbors and we would see each other almost every day.  You can probably guess by this card that my friend is a quilter!  A very good one!  We sued to get together and craft together.  It was NOT making cards though.  It was for crocheting and knitting.  If fact she knitted me an afghan That I still have laying on top of one of my chairs.

As I am typing this post...it's reminding to give her another call and try again for another get together.

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill

Birthday card for my neighbor

 I made this birthday card for my neighbor.  This was my second try at making a card for her for her birthday.  My first card failed!  I think I'm losing my touch!

I thought this card might work because we have these yellow Daffodil's blooming in our yard right now.  Spring flowers are always my favorite.

Hubby colored the flower for me.  I stamped the flower using a stamp that came in the latest magazine that I purchased.  "Simply Cards & Papercrafts."  

Thank You for visiting my blog today,,,

Blessings,

Jill

Japanese Tea Garden Lady

Yes,!  Another card that my hubby colored for me!

The image is from one of my purchased magazines.

 Cardmaking & Papercraft.  Sadly, it's not in print any more.  I loved that magazine.

This Japanese lady was just put in the mail today and she is on her way to Japan.

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill

 

Pansy Petals Purple

 Another card using Pansy Petals...I die cut my sentiment using Elizabeth craft dies...

Thank you for visiting my blog

Blessings,

Jill

Pansy Petals Yellow card

 I have a friend at Splitcoast Stampers that will send me some goodies to use on my cards  (Ponygirl2  Joan) In turn I send her some goodies.  She sent me some Pansy petals goodies..  (makes me wish that I had ordered some of own papers...smile).

This card was inspired by a card on Pinterest..

Hope everyone is having a great weekend...

Blessings,

Jill

House Mouse Birthday card

 This is another card that my husband colored for me to use.   I think it's so cute...

I'm in need for some birthday cards to replenish my supply.  I thought this one would make a cute card for a birthday.

I finally managed to make some more cards...Now all I have to do is find time to post them.

Hope everyone is doing well...

And thank you for stopping by my blog today..

Blessings,

Jill

My Sisters cards

 My sister was finally able to come and make cards with me...

She liked all the sample cards that I made for her to choose from.  Her favorite was obviously the single rose card.  She gave me permission to post her cards.  I think she did a great job making her cards.  Keep in mind that this is someone that I have tried to get to come and make cards with me for a long time.  She told me she wouldn't be able to do it.  Wrong!  I think she did a great job on both cards.

The first card she colored with copics...

And the second card was made using a stampendous stamp!  It's for her granddaughter's 13the birthday.  I think I now have her hooked on card making.  She's already talking about coming next month to make a card for her daughter's birthday.

So much more fun when you have someone to make cards with you.  In fact my next door neighbor came over too to make a card.  

Hope everyone has a great week.

and thank you for stopping by my blog.

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

Another Center step card

 

This is  a card I made for my nephew's birthday!

It's a another center step card!  He is a carpenter by trade, and builds houses.  His own house is a farm house and has a rustic look.  

I used dies and an embossing folder from a magazine that I had "Simply Cards and papercrafts.  My dog die is from Impression Obsession. i colored my lamp die with copics.

added a brad for the doorknob, a tree sticker, and used paper from Su for the wood look (Wood Textures) I fussy cut some of the extra wood off to the side of the house.

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill

Birthday Card!

 I made the above card for my husband's birthday!

I was kind of stuck what card I could make for him.  In years past I would make something like a chef card (He likes to cook)  Or something nautical (because he was in the Navy!

Or something with tools on it...because in the past he did a lot of work on our house.  (He literary took half the roof off our house to build a dormer...mostly by himself).   And, NO, he is not a carpenter by trade.

My husband loves photography and he is pretty good at it too.

Me, not so much, but this is one of the pictures that I did take on one of our favorite vacations several years ago.

The photo was taken a vineyard in Napa Valley, California.  I thought he might enjoy a photo to remind him of that special time on his special day.

If you have the time...stop by his blog

https://irishdreamweaver.blogspot.com/

And wish him Happy Birthday today...

Thank you,

and Thank you for visiting my blog.

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

Birthday card for a friend

 I made a birthday card for a friend using a rubber stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs  (now known as Divinity Designs)

Again, my hubby colored the image for me.  I added a bow and a sticker for the Sentiment.

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I never did post a follow up about my grandson.  I can now breath more comfortably again.  He is fine.  The storm that they predicted was downsized when it came ashore.  

I have the feeling (considering where is base is)  that he may have to get used to storms.  They get a lot of them in the area where he is stationed.  (Grandmom may not get used to it!  Smile.  I am a big worrier!

Thank you for visiting my blog toddy.

Blessings,

Jill

Kathi's birthday card

 My dear crafting friend, Kathi, came to our house to visit us. This time she came along with her hubby.  (He had never been to our house before).  It's still hard for me to believe that she was at our house for about 4 hours and we never did any crafting.   Smile.  (But we did do some show and tell.

Kathi is cleaning out her craft room, and she brought a bunch of crafting supplies to my house.  (It felt like Christmas again)  (It's what I always ask for at Christmas...crafting supplies.)  I know that I have plenty of stuff...but us crafters know that New stuff..(new stuff to us anyway) Always inspires me.

Some of what she gifted me with was some Martha Stewart punches.  

I needed to make her a birthday card and I was stuck for an idea till I decided to try making a card with some of the punches she gave to me.  She also gave me the dragonfly rubber stamp that I used on the card.  This is one of the things that I love about making greeting cards...that you can personalize them.  She seemed to think it was a great idea.  I hope she liked it anyway.

Thank you for visiting my blog today..

Blessings,

Jill

Birthday Card

 I made this card two weeks ago and I thought that I had posted it to my blog...  but I didn't see it, so, obviously I didn't post it.

It's another Floating strips card.  I found the tutorial on Split coast stampers and I have made a couple of Christmas cards using this technique.  It's one of my favorites...because it's easy to make,  I also like the fact that you can use snippets of paper on your card.  It's made using acetate paper for the background (or you can use plastic from packaging that can be found on purchased store items.  etc.

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I looked at today's date and realized it August 10th.  It's a special date to me...  (not sure if my hubby even remembers what todays' date would mean to me).

On August 10th...many, many, years ago.  I met my hubby at a teenage dance.  I, for one, will never forget it...  because I will always remember how nervous I was when he asked me to dance.  Jill is NOT a good dancer.  So I am sure I stepped on his toes a lot.  Hubby is a good dancer.    Just don't ask me how long it's been since we have danced.    Smile...

Thank you for visiting my blog today..

Blessings,

Jill

PS.  I actually met my hubby for the first time when I was about 4 years old  (long story)

but I don't remember that meeting.  (my Mother-in-law was the one that had given me that information.)

My grandson's birthday card

 Finally, I made a card!  It's been a while!

I made this card using Stampin' Up's Symbols of Fortune designer paper.  I used a helpful technique posted on Split coast stampers...for helping me to put on my letters.  

Aligning Letter dies...

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

I used Dina's suggestion of using press and seal to help keep the letters nice and straight.    I would never of thought to use press and seal for this technique.

  I'm not sure where I orginally found the plane template that I used.  I actually made a card many years ago using the template and then I cased my old card.

I am going to try and catch up and start visiting blogs again...It may take me a little time to catch up...but I am going to try.

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.

Blessings,

Jill

Carrie's Card

 My husband colored  this image image for me to give to a very dear friend of ours.  He couldn't remember where he found the image but he did write down the copic colors.

G14, YG07, Rv10, Y12, RV12, RV13, BV34, BG000

My sentiment was stamped with a stamp from Stampendous.

We had a nice Easter,  My hubby cooked (and as always it was a delicious meal!)  We then visitited with our daughter and her family.  Something we couldn't do last year because of the pandemic...so it was a special treat this year.

  But we got some news that we didn't like to hear...so please add my family to your  good thoughts and prayers.  (I will give an update as we get one)

Thank you visiting my blog today

Blessings,

Jill

Birthday Card

 This is a card I made a while ago, and I'm pretty sure I never posted it... because I hadn't finished it.  I like the look of square cards but I don't send them too often because of the extra  postage and I'm never sure if I put the right postage on them.

Since I needed a card for tomorrow that I could hand deliver... It seemed like the perfect card to finish.

The flowers were stamps that came with a magazine.  I also fussy cut some of the flowers to decorate my card.

Thanks for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill