Pop up Book Card

The above card is my first try at doing at pop up Book card.  I found the tutorial to make this card  here
   

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

I LOVE to read... In four years I have read over 300 books.  I buy most of my books at used book stores.  I am on a first name basis with one of  the book store owners, and a friend on Facebook with her.

So I wanted to make her a special card which I hope to give her tomorrow at her book store.

I don't think she has the link to my blog, so I don't think she will see this ahead of time.

I wanted to make her a card with  a BOOK theme, and use a book that is one of my favorite Christmas books.  The book was a gift to me from my sister-in-law, and it is author signed.

I wasn't quite sure how I was going to do the cover and I was running out of time to get my card done (so I could give it to her before Christmas) so I just scanned part of the front cover of the book.  Since it's NOT a card I'm going to sell, I hope I did not break any copyrite rules.  I'm always so aware of that...

Hope everyone is pretty much ready for Christmas...I'm almost there...

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Blessings,

Jill

Kaiser Craft card

To take a break from making Christmas cards...I grabbed one of my favorite papers...Kaiser Craft and made a needed Birthday card.  My Christmas cards are mostly finished and mostly in the mail.  (Still need some addresses).  This year it was a record for me to get my cards done so early and have them in the mail so early.  However, My tree is not up yet...  (which takes me about an hour at the very most to put up)  It's just a tiny tree which already has the lights on it,  and NO Christmas shopping done yet.  Since my family is kind of small and I mostly give gift cards it won't take too long to finish my shopping.   Hope everything is going smoothly for the rest of you.  

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Blessings,
Jill

New House Card

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My cousin and his wife are in the process of moving into their brand new house.
They invited Jim and I up to their place to see it before they moved in...
It's Just adorable, and we felt honored that they called us and asked if they could come and get us and take us to their brand new house.  They had just made settlement.  It was great sharing in their excitement .  I wanted to make a card for them for this big occasion.

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Blessings
Jill

My designer paper is unknown...(I just one small piece left of it with no name on it.  The die that I used for the house is from Impression Obsession.

Yes, Another Bridge card

Yes, I'm still making Bridge cards.  I really like this fold.   The one thing I don't like about it is that It's difficult getting a good picture of the cards.  Then again It's probably me again.  I would not win any photography awards for my taking pictures.  

The card was made using an image from House Mouse.  It was colored by my hubby for me.  He used 21 different colors.  I knew I wouldn't do this image justice and I wanted the card to look nice for my neighbor.  I thought the image would make a perfect card for a librarian.  She did seem to like the card, and the bridge fold.  In fact, when she came over to my house for craft night.  She started making a card using the bridge fold..

Sorry, that I have not been around too much lately.  I've been busy trying to finish up making my Christmas cards.  Every year I have this hope of getting my cards done and addressed and in the mail by Thanksgiving.  I have yet to achieve that goal.  Many times my cards have arrived AFTER Christmas.  So far, I'm doing better.  My Christmas cards are made, now I just have to address them.
Maybe...Just maybe, I will get them in the mail on time this year.

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Blessings,
Jill

I'm finding the bridge fold to be addictive!  I made this card using designer paper from Graphic 45, The dies that I used are from Heartfelt Creations, and Impression Obsession 

I forgot to put a link to the bridge card tutorial at Split Coast Stampers...
https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/bridgefoldcard/
I made mine a bit different using a card that I found on Pinterest for my inspiration.

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Blessings,
Jill

Bridge card

This is my first try at making a bridge card.  My card looks crooked but I beleive in real life it's straight.  I took a crooked picture of my card!  (sure isn't the first time that I have done that!)

I used a die from Impression Obsession for the trees.  My designer paper is from Kaisercraft.

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Blessings,
Jill

Christmas card

I've been busy working on my Christmas cards.  I made this card using Stampin' Up Designer paper... (Brightly Gleaming) and Stampin' Up Cut and emboss frames.  My sentiment which is also from Stampin' Up was heat embossed with white embossing powder...

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Blessings,
Jill

I made this card using an old 3d image I had made ages ago.  Not sure where I found the image sheet to make the flower...
But I thought it would work on this card where I used a lovely die that was given to me as a gift...
thank you Em for your thoughtfulness.
You can find Em's very creative blog here...
https://www.creative-em.com/

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Blessings,
Jill

Birthday Card for a friend

Every year I make a "Squirrel" card for a special friend.  It's a long story (which I have put on my blog many times...so I won't bore you with it again).  I think this makes the Fourth Squirrel birthday card that I have made for her.  This one is probably the quickest one I have made for her.  
Just copic colored an image for this card from a stamp made by Creative Vision, and the sentiment is from Art Impressions rubber stamp called Girlfriends.

Hope everyone has a great week
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Blessings,
Jill

Hubby's birthday card

I made a quick card for hubby's birthday!  It's a 3d card.  I made it using a 3d (Tole) sheet I purchased at craft store.  I made the plaid background using a stamp from Sweet'NSassy Stamps.

When My husband pulled the card out of the envelope he said!  "Oh a Jaguar!"  I had no idea what kind of card that was...   I told him to tell everyone if they asked what I gave him for his birthday is to say a Jaguar car!!!!

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Blessings,
Jill

TLC417 Technique challenge using washi tape

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I made this card for this weeks Technique challenge at Split Coast Stampers.
I enjoyed doing the challenge last week so I thought I would try it again...
This week the challenge was to use Wahi tape on our cards.
I have several different Washi tapes that were just sitting in my drawer...Never think to use them on my cards.

My card was made using a stamp from Sweet  'N Sassy cards . I paper pieced the dress using some Unknow (to me) designer paper.  I added the "ruler" washi tape, and the sentiment was computer generated.  I also added a charm to my card.

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Blessings,
Jill

TLC757 Recessed Panel card

This is for this week's technique challenge at Split Coast stampers.

I can't begin to tell you how long it's been since I did a techniue challenge there.
I'm glad I stopped by because this is a technique that I always wanted to try.  I know I will be using this technique more.

I used stampin' Up paper for my background and my sentiment is from Stampin' Up'
"Perfect Pennants"  I added some peel offs and used some dimensionals.


Oh before I forget.  If anyone read my last post...I FOUND MY MISSING STAMP!
It was a small sentiment stamp,    When I went to use my Versamark to heat emboss my sentiment for this card.....I found my stamp stuck to the top of my Versamark stamp pad!

I hope everyone has a great weekend.   For Jim and I we will be celebrating our Anniversary by
(hopefully) going out to dinner at a restuarant that we have never tried before.

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Blessings,
Jill

Sympathy card

I needed to make a sympathy card.  I grabbed a stamp that I have from Our Daily Bread Designs to make the background.  I covered over the image with velum.  I heat embossed a sentiment on top of the velum.  Would you believe that after I made this card I could not find the stamp?  It walked off my table.  I looked everywhere for it.  Places I often find lost stamps are like under my score Pal, or stuck to cardstock, or somewhere on the floor, etc.  Hopefully it will walk back to my table sometime.  I definitely like using the acrylic and vinyl stamp the best.  Easier to store the stamps, etc.
But I have to say, it was rare when I lost a wood block stamp.  smile.

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Blessings,
Jill

Christmas cards

I made all of the above cards using some free goodies that came with another Card making magazine.
Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine...Issue #188

It really did NOT feel like Christmas weather in our area these last few days, so I was hoping making Christmas cards would make me feel cooler.  

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Blessings,
Jill

Pink Sympathy Card

My husband colored this image for me with copics.
I know that I have mentioned before how much he likes coloring with copics.
I have a folder full of images that he has colored.  I think that there are over 100+ images
in that folder.  I am way behind in making cards using them.  

I don't like to make sympathy cards but I needed to have some for my stash and I thought his colored flowers would work for a sympathy card.  He has no idea where he found the image.
I added some design paper that came with a crat magazine, and used a Elizabeth craft designs die to cut out my sentiment.

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Blessings,
Jill

Another tulip card

Yes, here I go again, another card made using The stamps from my card magazine.
I think I'm up to about 12 cards using this magazine.  I feel like I did get my Money's worth with this magazine.  I Colored my stamped image with copics.  My background paper is from Stampin' Up, added a doily and a ribbon...

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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

May today be a day of Happy memories

I'm still using my craft magazines to help motivate me to make cards.  I like the pretty background papers in the magazine, and, obviously, this was made from one  of the background papers in the magazine!


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Blessings,
Jill

Birthday card for Chris

Just a quick card I made for my grandson for his birthday.  I used the rubber stamps that were found in the "Stamping creative Stamping Magaine.

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Blessings,
Jill

Yes, Pink is my favorite color!

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Yes, More Stained Glass cards, or I guess I should say cards made with my Stained glass looking rubber stamps.
I think I am addicted to this stamp set.  I will add a sentiment to the cards when I mail them.

I mentioned when I did a previous post with the Orange Tiger lily images... that I forgot to take a photo of the Tiger lilies in our yard....but then I remembered that I did take a picture of the pink Lilies.

In the photo you may be able to tell that there are still a lot o buds there,  I should have tried taking another photo  one  or two later.    

Would you beleive that my husband counted how many flowers and buds were there?  Yes he did...He told me he counted about 200.

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Blessings,
Jill

Stained glass flower cards

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I'm still enjoying using the stamps I found in the magazine that I purchased...

The one that I posted about yesterday.

I colored my images with copics.

(I'm not that great with using copics, so these cards have been giving me

some much needed practice).

The images remind of how our yard looked a few weeks ago.,

The one side of our house was a profusion of orange tiger lilies.

I wish I had taken a photo so I could have posted it here...

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Blessings,

Jill

Twofer Card Challenge #18 gardens

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I made these two cards for this month's Twofer Card Challenge...
The link to the challenge can be found here

https://twofercardchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/07/twofer-card-challenge-18.html

You can also hit the Twofer Icon on my side bar...

I made by cards using a stamp that I found the "Cardmaking and Papercrat" magazine
I colored my images with copics...

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Blessings,
Jill

Two more card for my stash.

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I made two more cards for my stash pile (which was really getting low).

The first card is a center fold...(One of my favorite folds) and the second card is Box card.  (Untie the ribbon and it opens into a box to put a gift card, etc, inside.

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Blessings,

Jill

Using more free goodies from my magazine purchase

I mentioned in my last post that I had purchased a Magazine called "Papercraft Essentials" and it came with lots of free goodies inside.  These are some more of the cards that I made using that magazine....


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Blessings,
Jill

I love craft magazines!

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Easel card...

 Tent card

 Quick tent card made with some of the paper I had left over from

Making my other cards

The cards and book mark I made above were pretty much like the cards they showed to make in the magazine for inspiration.

I made more cards using this magazine issue...Hope to post the rest tomorrow.

I have to make a confession.  I have three addictions (not counting my addiction to peanut butter and chocolate)  I love collecting craft supplies, books and magazines..

The cards I have posted here I made from  a craft magazine I purchased recently.  "Papercraft essentials"  The cards were made with the free goodies that came in the magazine  (issue 169)

I enjoy looking at these magazines and when I find myself  having a difficult time creating a card...I reach for a magazine for inspiration to get me started...

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Blessings,
Jill

Ruby Anniversary

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I made the above card for my crafting buddy, Kathi and her hubby John.  They are celabrating their 40th Wedding Anniversary this week.

I used a die made by Impression Obsession to make by card.  I added the dots on the flowers using a white gel pen, and  added a peel off sticker.

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Blessings,

Jill

Graphic 45 tag card

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I made this card using Graphic 45 Designer paper...  added Lace and a ribbon...

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Blessings,
Jill

Birthday Card

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This card, obviously, did not photograph well.  (smile)

and I admit, It's different!  Don't know what else to say about it...I tried to do something different with this card...Did a lot of fussy cutting with the designer paper and this was the result!

Hope you are having a great day!

Blessings,

Jill

Bloom

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I made this card using the rose stamps and dies from the Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine...issue 191

My Designer paper is from Kaisercraft

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Blessings,
Jill