VSN

 I made this card for two challenges at Split Coast Stampers.  This weekend is VSN.  I have only done one of these card making events before.  Now I realize why..  I am two slow.  (actually I already knew that).  You have to make your card in under an hour.  I did make the card in under an hour.  (But Just barely within my hour limit.  It should have taken me 10 minutes.

You had to your embossing paste and a stencil.  I used to make Many of my cards using that technique all the time.  But it has been a while...  Most of my pastes seem dried up  (another thing for me to go through in my craft room)  I did find a gel and then it wasn't the color I wanted so I added some reinker to get the color I needed.  

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Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Blessings,

Jill

Tea Pot Challenge card

 I made this card for this week's tea pot challenge at Split coast stampers.

I usd to do this challenge every week for a while and somewhere along the way I stopped.  You know how it is ...life seemed to get busy...  But I hope to get back on a regular basis it is such a worth while challenge.

This card is going to a fellow in Rhode Island.  I'm making it a thinking of you card.    I have never been to this state but my hubby has been.  He was stationed there when he was in the military.

I made this card using Stamps and dies from a Magazine.  I sponged the background with Distress Inks and also colored with copics.  

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Blessings,

Jill

Another Hunkydory card

 Here is another card that I made using that pretty Hunkydory paper that my hubby ordered for me at Christmas as part of his Christmas present to me.

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Jill

Layered retiform Card

 This is a card that I made for this week's Technique Lover's Challenge at Splitcoast stampers .  

I have to honest ...I didn't do a great job with the technique...after 3 tries...(that didn't work)  I used my background paper as a frame for my card.  Your over supposed to layer your colors over each other.  I didn't do something right.  They all kind of turned out the same ...looking like mud.

So I did my own thing...smile

My stamped image is from SweetnSassy (Morning Glory)  I heat embossed it and colored it with copics.  and Used a die cut from Spell Binders to frame my picture.

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Blessings,

Jill

Card for the free for All Challenge

 I made this card for the Free for All challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

I can't even begin to remember how long it's been since I enetered a card for that challenge.

This one popped out at me because we were to make a card that said "spring" to us.

My first thought was about the brand new nest being built under the eaves of our porch.  I didn't see it till yesterday morning.  A robin built a nest there last year.  (Makes me wonder if it's the same one)  To me, this was a really big reminder that spring is on it's way.

I stamped the bird with a stamp that came with a magazine that I have.  The magazine is Simply Cards and Papercrafts.  I tried my best to make the bird look like a robin.  I stamped it using memento ink.  I then colored some of it with copics. I added a gem for the eye,   My background paper is from BoBunny.

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Hope you are having a great weekend

Blessings,

Jill

Birthday card

 I made this card for a blogging friend who is also a fellow Split Coast Stamper.

Now that she has told me that she recieved her card...I can post it.

The card was made using some more of the Hunkydory papers that I had.

I learned a lesson with this card.  Connie's card that she received would look a bit different because I had to try and cut down the top of the card abit.  It would NOT fit in my envelope, and I could not find any envelopes that I had that I could put it in.  The card was already going in the mail late.  So I did not want to take the time to try and make an envelope that it might fit in.

So now I know that I have to make sure I have an envelope that the card will fit it.  (Or modify my card from the get go).  smile

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Blessings,

Jill

Every Chapter

I made this card by paper piecing the images...

I stamped this image and then gave it to my hubby to color for me. He colored it with copics. I definitely like the way he did his card better than mine.  I'm going to be a copy cat and color some more of this image using his for inspiration.  All I had to do with this card ...is stamp the image, and thenn put it on a card base.

My two favorite things to do is...

1. Making greeting cards.  (no surprise there)

2. Reading

 I'm doing a disclaimer here...I am in no way getting anything for suggesting  this book (s)

This is one of my favorite authors...Irene Hannon.  

The above series is, Christian fiction, Light Romance

I have read this series 2 times now...So far there is 7 books...Book Number 8 is coming out in April.  (and you know I will be buying it.)

The series is called Hope Harbor.   I like them so much because they live up to the series name...so Up lifting...   That's why I enjoyed them so much.  This author also writes Mystery/suspense books.

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Blessing,

Jill

SC897 sketch challengle

 I made the above card for this week's sketch challenge at Split Coast Stampers.

As I said before, sketch challenges always made me nervous....so I have NOT done too many of them.  This one now makes the 4th one that I have done there in 15 years...Pierced blooms die

They say practice makes perfect...so I think I have a bit more practice to do...

I used Stampin' Up's Pierced Blooms die to make the flowers. and A cuttle bus embossing folder for the background (Tiny Mosaic)

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Blessings,

Jill

https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/3076529?&cat=all&what=keywords&si=SC897

The above link should be the link to the pic of the sketch challenge

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