Beautiful day

It was a beautiful day here...and we took  advantage of it by taking in the beautiful sights at Longwood Gardens...Here are just a few of the pics I took...

 The above picture was my favorite pic of the day...The fountains are so beautiful and I just like how the blues and greens just pop out in this pic.  To the right of the pic is my daughter taking in the beautiful sight...

 This is a picture of the pond located near the fountains...

My daughter standing in the tulip gardens...Just about every color of tulip was there...some I have never seen before.

It was a perfect day to visit the gardens.  The weather was just right...not too hot...not too cool.  and the beautiful spring flowers in bloom.  The tulips, the dogwood trees, etc.   and just spending the day with our daughter is a treat.  She's so busy with her job that days like this with her are rare.  We really enjoyed our time together.

Hope everyone had a great weekend too.

Thanks for visiting my blog today...

Blessings,
Jill

Birthday Card

 Birthday Card, I made for my Mother's friend...

 I tried using the following page for the background for a folding card, but they looked too busy
for my card when folded up, so Instead I'm going to keep them as a background for a scrapbook page.

 I wasn't feeling well yesterday, so my hubby brought me a flower picked from our garden.
It was proof to me that spring is finally here.  Don't you like the fancy container he put it in?

Carol, (known as GingerBeary) her website is here...

http://www.chocolatecraftsandbearsohmy.blogspot.com/

Did a tutorial at Split coast stampers for the Napkin gold card which can be found here...

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

I also had made two of these cards using a Tutorial found at Stampartic

which can be found at the following link...

 

http://stampartic.blogspot.com/2010/11/folding-card-tutorial.html

 I had made two of these cards before which can be found here...

http://ribbonchallenged.blogspot.com/2010/11/teapot-tuesday-challenge-mmtpt122.html

The part of I find the most difficult about these cards is figuring out what papers/patterns

I'm going to use...they turn out to be two busy or too plain...

that's why I thought the one set I did would work better for a scrapbook page background. 

In one of previous posts I mentioned using a hammer to make my card  (for the eyelets)

On this card I had to use an IRON!  Don't ask me how long it's been since I got out my iron...

I could not tell you.  But my flower on the front of the card, was actually bought a few years

ago when I went to a quilt show with my daughter.  It's actually an Iron on for fabric.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Blessings, and Happy Spring

Jill

Spring photos

Spring in my Neighborhood

It's rainy and cold here today, so I'm glad I took the time this past weekend to walk around my neighborhood and take these pictures for spring.

"Tho April showers come your way, they bring flowers that bloom in May."