the countdown to valentine's day

XOXO- 2 by 2

My new Wild About You set from Stampin Up needed to be used this week. Here is what I came up with. Using my new Cuttlebug heart embossing folder as well. :)

Supplies- SU Cardstock- Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White.
Ink- SU Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip
Pen- Staedler yellow fineline
Ribbon-SU Chocolate chip RETIRED, and pink from my stash
Stamps- Giraffe SU Wild about you, Heart & Alphabet stamps- PSX, oval- amuse.
Flower- Bazzill by Imaginsce
Brad- Making Memories
Sticker- Rusty Pickle

Punch- SU Ticket corner, Large and Small Oval

Cuttlebug comes home.

Happy day after Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year's to me.

My new Cuttlebug and embossing folders that arrived this week. I ordered them the day after American Thanksgiving and am so glad they are here to stay!!

30th Birthday card

Supplies:
Cream cardstock, Soft Sky SU cardstock, Basic Grey Patterened Paper "Periphery", Flowers were a gift for Christmas, Making Memories Crystal brad, Cloud 9 Design stickers, Kelly Panacci for SandyLion crown stamp, Technique Tuesday word stamps, SU word stamps.

Word of the year for Jill

Last year I read Ali Edwards posts on choosing a word of the year and I even chose one, mindful. I didn't really do anything with it though. It was a sort of difficult word to follow through on. The year went by without me consciously living out being mindful.

This year I choose JOY. I choose joy because I have the Wordsworth stamp. Just kidding. I choose joy because at the end of the day I can look through all of the not so nice stuff and still find at least one thing that brings me joy. The choosing of joy has been inspired by the Mars Hill Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll who was doing a series on The Rebel's Guide to Joy from the book of Philippians. I have downloaded some of the pod casts of the sermons and have been watching them.

2008- I choose Joy!

And there you have it....

I told you so!

You Don't Have a Boyfriend Because You are Too Shy

When a guy gets to know you, he finds a great catch Problem is... you're too shy for most guys to get to know. From meeting someone to dating, you usually have your guard up. And while you're just holding back, it makes you seem like you've got something to hide.

Why Don't You Have a Boyfriend?

The Recipe For Jill

3 parts Fun 2 parts Wit 1 part Inspiration Splash of Playfulness Finish off with a squeeze of lime juice

What's" the Recipe for Your Personality?

This is what I sent out this year

for my Christmas cards.



I am late in posting them, but here they are nonetheless.

Stamp set Tags on Board SU, inner stamp- Great Impressions.

Cuttlebugged Whisper White SU Cardstock

Wild Wasabi and Soft Sky cardstock tags with the ticket corner punch and horizontal slot punch with ribbon and jeweled brad. Large oval punch, Purely Pomegranate ink.

Regal Rose cardstock

Winter Wonderland

Was able to go to Impress in U-Village Seattle with my friend before I flew home to Colorado. (Thanks A- you know I love that place!) Saw this stamp and this paper and fell in love. It had to come home with me. Mostly I love this Autumn Leaves paper because it reminded me of the big giant snowflake in the SU mini catalog that ended in November. I love this tree stamp because it is so geometric and yet soft.

Stamped it in Soft Sky classic ink. Mounted the patterned paper on Soft Sky as well. Had some photo corner punched out from Cindy and used brads to keep them together. The brad idea was from my SU demo Sarah. The ribbon is from my lss. I decided not to put a sentiment on this card yet, as I am not sure yet who or what I will use it for.

My first Christmas tree...

Well, on my own and in my own place that is. Yes I have been living on my own for a while now, but this is the first year that I put up a tree. It is artificial. And I love it. Also, the new tree skirt includes my favourite thing- paisley!! :0 )

Caedmon - my nephew dog -

This is Caedmon. He is my sister's new puppy. I got to see him when I was home. He is adorable. He is a Weimeramer. I am totally in love with him. Hence more pictures of puppies on this blog. I am such a sucker for puppies. :) But especially ones that are related to me now.

There and back again

Got to go home to see my family for American Thanksgiving. It was so good. Enjoyed every moment of it. I got to see almost everyone that I wanted to. It was good to be with family.

TTC2

This is my card for Nancy and Cindy's Try This Challenge #2. This week's challenge was to use punches in a creative way.

I used 2 Stampin Up punches, Snow blossom for the star of my tree which I made from the Paper Piecing (retired) punch.

The ornament stamps are from Stampendous and free hand cut. Cardstock is Wild Wasabi and Whisper White from SU, and Bazzill brown of some sort.

Patterned Paper is Basic Grey- Blitzen (I think, off the top of my head).
Direct to paper ink- Van Dyke Brown ink pad. Used stickles for the star to sparkle atop my tree.

figgy pudding

I am in love with three things on this card:

1. The new Figgy Pudding paper by Basic Grey- Double sided and delightful with each sheet.

2. My newest stamps from Stampin Up - True Friend- layered it, although you can't tell from the picture. It has Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel and Ruby Red layers with a big brad holding them together.

3. My new SU punch- ticket corner. I have been seeing it on cards everywhere lately and am just delighted that it came home to live with me.

Supplies- SU Cardstock- Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red. SU Ink- Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Ruby Red. SU punch- Ticket corner. Punch- corner Rounder EK Success, Ribbon- Walmart, Patterned Paper- Basic Grey (my favourite patterned paper company ever), Stamps- True Friend and Short and Sweet- SU, Brackets- Fontwerks, Swirled dots- Inque Boutique, Brads- unknown.

little christmas cards

Made these little Christmas cards quite a while ago one stamp night with Cindy. I hadn't really been into the Christmas mood enough to post them till now. Now I am in the Christmas mood!! I bought my first tree (artificial) and will be setting it up this year for me to enjoy!! I also had an egg-nog latte this weekend. whoo hoo!! :0) The Starbucks is all decked out in full Christmas gear, which always makes me happy. So happpppy!! Happy enough to post Christmas cards. Was thinking of using these for gift tags or on gift bags. They were super easy using scraps!

Also got an amazing jump start on my other Christmas cards, I just need to assemble them. It will be the earliest ever that I have had all my cards done for mailing out!! Yeah!!

Supplies:

SU-ink, cardstock -Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip,Not Quite Navy, Creamy Caramel, punches- ticket corner and horizontal slot, markers stamp sets- Festive Favourites, All Year Cheer 1 (retired), Cute Converse (retired), brad. Other Ribbon- unknown.

baby love

Sent this with a gift to my friend who had a baby girl earlier this fall.

Supplies:
Wordsworth-stick figures (love them, need them all!!)
Ink- Chocolate Chip- SU

Punches- scalloped oval and matching oval- Marvy, large and small oval- SU.
Scalloped cardstock-bazzill
patterned paper- my mind's eye
ribbon- walmart
safety pin and brads- making memories.
other-white marker

swirls opener

Woke up dreaming about a card again. Whoo hoo. Yep from the Kraft colored cardstock to the distressing ink to the squared pieces to the buckles. So here it is. It is beautiful. :0)

Supplies:

cardstock from my stash- kraft, lime.

Patterned Paper- Bo Bunny Shabby Princess.

SU- round tab punch, small oval punch.

Other- Corner rounder

Stamps- swirls Autumn Leaves, wish big- SU.

Ink- Van Dyke Brown.

other- copper cord- SU, Brads- unknown.

Go Rockies!!

The world series starts tonight with my hometown team the Colorado Rockies vs that team from Boston (boo-hiss).

In honour of the Rockies, here's the card I sent my dad.
Go Rockies, keep up the winning streak!!!


Supplies:
SU cardstock
SU Ink
word baseball and bat Stamps by Make an Impression, the Jersey is by Ann-ticipations, the stripe background stamp is by Printworks.
brads, quikkutz font, su dimensionals

Spoiled Rotten

My sister sent me this gorgeous Heidi Grace chipboard and flowers last month. I got her hooked too!! Tee-hee.

Then my friend bought me these new Heidi Grace stamps the other night!! I am spoiled rotten!!

Puppies!!

The dog upstairs had 4 puppies, 2 girls, 2 boys. They are gorgeous. This is them last weekend, and this weekend they were bigger and all over the place. I am in love!!!

Too cute!!

These are on the new must have list!! http://elzybellsna.typepad.com/my_weblog/
Seriously the cutest stamps out there, well for now. I really need a bigger stamp budget. Oh that's right stamping is my budget!!

Christmas card contest entries

Sarah my SU demo who is uber-talented had a card contest and she just posted the winner. The winning card is stunning.

These were my entries into her contest. I made them with my friend Cindy a few weeks ago in the midst of my car breaking down crisis. At least we were able to get some cards made in the middle of my car being in the repair shop. I used her SU Baroque Motifs stamp set. It actually is such a nice and versatile set. I mean hello- Christmas cards too!! Hmm, maybe I do need it before the new catalog comes out in January to tempt me.

Supplies- SU cardstock- Real Red, Handsome Hunter, Very Vanilla
SU- Ink- Handsome Hunter, Very vanilla- which I then embossed in gold as it didn't stand out as much as I had hoped it would.
Other- SU Brads
Stamps- SU- Baroque Motifs and All Year Cheer I (retired)



My 2nd entry. During the making of my first card I decided that the flowers definitely look like snowflakes as well, and so this card just totally came together.

Supplies:
SU- Ink and Cardstock- Bashful Blue and Very Vanilla
SU- Stamps- Baroque Motifs, Warm Words
Other- Ribbon- SU retired. Brads- SU, glitter- stickles, Paper piercer, Circle punch 1 1/4,

Snowflakes cut out by my dear friend Cindy who doesn't have scissor dyslexia :)