Day 6 - I'm in Shock, Are You, You Should Be...

I'm having so much fun... I'm learning so much... and can you believe it I'm still with it!

While all my Christmas goodies are out - all over the place!!  I'm enjoying getting caught up with layouts that need to be scrapped for the family scrapbooks of Christmas's past.

Today was a challenge, however I really enjoyed learning the technique of stamping an image onto the embossing folder then transferring it to an image...super fun.  I love the way that it appears behind the raised image.

Thank you for stopping in to check on my life adventure, hope you will return tomorrow to see if I'm still here...lol

~Jill

Day 5 of the 12 Tags of Christmas

Well, here we go, Day 5....  I think I had more fun doing this tag than any so far.  I'm in love with using the white paint as a resist, it makes the tag look like it's embossed to me!  Plus, of course, all the other techniques were also fun as well as a challenge to come up with ways to "get the look" without having the product.
Thank you for stopping in to check out Jill's Life Adventure.  Have a safe and scrappy week.
~Jill

Day 4 (can you believe I'm still doing it??)

I am having so much fun - playing!!  Tonight was the monthly virtual crop at "The Beach" it was fun talking to my crafty sisters, I've been so out of it lately we hadn't had much "together" time and it was a very enjoyable evening.
Todays tag was a walk outside of what I thought I knew and understood.  It even included an email to T!m in the middle of the day... I couldn't get the blue to layer on the fragment, so I went to the master for advise.  I'm still not entirely sure that I get it, but I do believe that practice make better art... lol
It was also fun to create my own "baubles" and with the help of an on-line friend and a YouTube link I think I did okay.
Thanks for stopping by to see whats up with my adventure, til tomorrow!
Hope you too are enjoying your weekend.

~Jill

Day 3 - DONE -

Well, can you believe it???  I'm still chugging along...and enjoying every minute.  I will tell you that my biggest challenge today was the color of "red" on my cardinal bird.  The closest I could come was Wild Plum and Cranberry alcohol ink - both with undertones of pink and purple.  It altered the choices I had with the trim for both the bottom of the tag as well as the tie for the top, I wimped out on the top and went safe & boring.  I guess the range of colors of the supplies I do have is what has been the most restricting in my opinion,  but once again, I am extremely grateful for the goodies that I do own.
I hope you are also playing along with T!m on his 12 Tags of Christmas adventure for 2010, it is challenging, educational, & down-right FUN.
Thank you for stopping by to check on my life adventure.
Til 2morrow -
~Jill

Day 2 - DONE -

It's 9:15pm here and I proudly display my day #2 tag following along with, T!m Holtz and his 12 tags of Christmas.
Last year I had all of the best intentions of playing along, well, I got all the way thru 3/4 of the day #1 tag!!  WooHoo, Party!!  As I was getting out my Christmas crafty boxes last weekend I was greeted with a pathetic looking partially completed tag. - So Sad -
So, at this point I have already doubled my accomplishment of last year and Christmas with T!m!!
There are a lot of items that I gratefully do have, however it is fun and challenging to figure out what to do for items that I don't have.
The next 3 days will be interesting as my husband has the days off, we will see how much crafty time I can steal each day, wish me luck.
Thank you for stopping by Jill's life adventure,
Have a good weekend.
~Jill

Tag #1 of 2010

Well, I'm officially 5 minutes late...But, so is T!m... LOL
Here is my take on Tag #1, I didn't have the rickety house die so I substituted with the cricut and the Jolly Holidays cartridge.  There were bunches of other substitutions as well, but that's the challenge and lots of fun.

Thank you for stopping in on Jill's life adventure...til tomorrow (or actually later today).
~Jill

Let the Season Begin...

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, it was Vince and I by ourselves...included a very big bird and a day filled with football.

We even partook in Black Friday, which actually started on Thanksgiving day this year.  Did you know that Michaels had their JetMax Cubes on sale for 55% off?  When you stack them on top of each other they make the perfect height for a small table to place my laptop on...what I was using had been glued and nailed and screwed to the point of no longer able to repair -- I was grateful that I had it for the years that I did but it was time to move on.  Having the 4 cubes at my fingertips is wonderful all that extra storage is amazing.

With Thanksgiving behind us it is time to "officially" start the Christmas/Holiday season.  You see, I know this by one thing and one thing only.  Last night at midnight Mountain U.S. time the season began with the first posting on Tim Holtz blog with the 1st Tag of Christmas.

I am off to the loft for the next 12 days to play and experiment and create - Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by my adventure.

~Jill