Just listed in my Etsy shop!

I just listed a birthday card in my Etsy shop.  Photos and a link to the listing is below.  Enjoy!

 

Listing for Snowy Birthday Card on Etsy found here.

Credit: Photos taken by me.  Birthday card hand made by me as well.

Wintery Birthday Card – The Blue Version

Last week I made a snowman inspired birthday card.  I liked it so much that I decided to make a blue version to send my great uncle for his upcoming birthday.

Hope you like the blue version as much as the original!

I plan to make another version of this card for my Etsy shop, so keep an eye out for that too!

 

 

Credit:  Photos taken by me.  Birthday card hand made by me as well.

Just listed in my Etsy shop!

I just listed a birthday card in my Etsy shop.  Photos and a link to the listing is below.  Enjoy!

   

Listing for Typewriter Cake Birthday Card on Etsy found here.

Credit: Photos taken by me.  Birthday card hand made by me as well.

Wintery Birthday Card

I really enjoyed making this hand-made, hand-cut, and hand-glued snowman themed birthday card.  Hope you all like it!  And I hope it already made it to the birthday girl so I didn’t ruin the surprise.

All pieces were hand-drawn and hand-cut, and the snowflakes were added by hand using a silver marker.  The font used on both the front and inside of the card is “A Little Pot” (a free font that can be found on Dafont.com) that I traced onto cardstock with a thin-tip black marker.

 

Credit: All photos taken by me.  Birthday card made by me as well.

Just listed in my Etsy shop!

This Thinking of You Sympathy Card has just been listed in my Etsy shop.  Photos and a link to the listing is below.

  

Listing for Thinking of You Sympathy Card on Etsy found here.

Credit: Photos taken by me.  Sympathy card hand made by me as well.

Thanksgiving 2010

I figured before Thanksgiving was too far in the past (and it’s already been a week), I should post about it and the cooking I did for the holiday.  My love and I were lucky enough to be invited to our friends’ house to celebrate and we had a really wonderful time.  Thanksgiving is one of my very favorite holidays.  I mean, what’s not to like about a holiday centered around getting together with family, friends, football, and food?

What was really great too, was that I got assigned food to bring.  Yay!  Since I live so far away from my family, I long for the parties I miss and the food I don’t get to bring to them.  I get jealous when I hear of the cupcakes and dessert my cousin got to make.  :(

Back to Thanksgiving though…I got assigned dessert, but I kind of got carried away reading my recipe book and ended up making an appetizer and side too.  I’ll post recipes later, but here’s what I brought to the festivities: Deviled Eggs, Mini Cornbread Muffins, Peanut Butter Marshmallow Crunch Brownies (which are always a hit), Creamy Lemon Dessert, and I picked up a store-bought Pumpkin Pie.

Thanksgiving was wonderful and our hosts were beyond gracious.  There was so much yummy food (delicious crab dip, tasty turkey, succulent honey baked ham, yummy spiced cider, and so much other great stuff) that my tummy is still recovering from the over indulging.  I LOVE THANKSGIVING!!!

     

Credit: All food pictured make by me and all photos taken by me as well.

Vail Trip – Day One – November 2010

One of the reasons why I haven’t been blogging as much this month, is that we took a trip to Vail, Colorado a few weekends back.  I grew up with lots of snow in my life every winter, so I’m not one of those people easily amazed by season…but Colorado with all its beautiful mountains is a different story.  Even I can admit that the snow was really pretty covering the peaks of all the gorgeous mountains.

Me and my love snowboard…but keep in mind that this was only our 3rd time snowboarding ever.  The first and second time were both last winter, and the first time was a lesson.  So we are newbies at this sport for sure.  And I wouldn’t exactly say that Vail is for newbies.  It was a big departure from our usual mountains of Big Bear, California.

We spent the first day on the mountain just trying to get our bearings and re-learn the basics.  My love referred to it as our “training day.”  The first run we did on the mountain was not a good choice (and it certainly didn’t help that my love wasn’t feeling to well), but we found better runs later in the day and ended on a much better note than the day started.

Here are some photos from day one!

     

Credit: All photos taken by me in Vail, Colorado.

Big 3-Oh Birthday Card

I made this hand-made, hand-cut, and hand-glued 30th birthday card in mid-November.  Sorry for the late posting.

This card was my attempt to both (1) make a 30th birthday themed card and to (2) make a masculine card as well.  Cards for boys are tough!  Hope you like it!

The three and the zero were hand-drawn and hand-cut from black cardstock, then hand-glued, and finally hand-embellished with tiny silver polka dot studding using a silver marker.  The font in the interior of the card is “Honey Script” a free font that can be found on Dafont.com.

A matching version of this card may be available for purchase on my Etsy shop in the future…so keep an eye out for that.

Credit: Birthday card made by me and photos taken by me as well.

Custom Invitations – “You Are Invited to the Club…”

Back in September I was commissioned to make custom invitations for a party my friend Stephanie was throwing.  The party theme was “Playboy Pajama Party” and the invites I created were made to reflect that theme.

For the front I cut-out a vintage Playboy Club bunny’s silhouette from black cardstock paper flecked with lots of glittering silver specks.  A black linen border was added for an added accent.  I decorated the back of the invitation with Playboy bunny ears and a Hugh Hefner-esque pipe made from the same shimmery black cardstock.

You can see photos of my handiwork below.  I hope you like the invitations!

I wish I had some event photos to show you as well, but alas, the party was canceled.  Boo!

 

 

 

 

All invitations in the set were hand-made, hand-cut, and hand-glued.  The event details were printed onto the invitations using an inkjet printer.  Normally I would write the details by hand, but in this case the paper was a little too thick for me to transfer the chosen font (via dafont.com)

For more information you can see my previous post regarding these custom invitations here and here.  You can see the original Etsy listing here.

And please contact me via missjilliandesigns{at}gmail{dot}com or via my Etsy shop using the “contact” option in the left-hand column if you are interested in commissioning custom invitations for your own event.

Credit: All photos taken by me.  Invitations created and handmade by me as well.  Wording for invitations by event planner Stephanie Larson of Pink Parfait Events.  For more information about Stephanie Larson and Pink Parfait’s event planning services see my post here.

Birthday Card - Typewriter Cake

I made this hand-made, hand-cut, and hand-glued typewriter birthday card last week. The birthday cake “typed” onto the typewriter paper was created by me using computer key strokes. I think it turned out cute. Hope you like it!

A matching version of this card will be available on my Etsy shop. When that is listed for sale, I will post again to let you know.

UPDATE: For sale on Etsy here.

Credit: Photos taken by me. Birthday card made by me as well.

Merry Ditty Boo Boo Candy Cane

Now this may look like a holiday card…but I assure you it’s not. This is in fact a birthday card that I made for my love’s sister. The card was all his idea.

See that little saying on the front of the card? Well, that’s her family nickname. Does that make more sense now?

It sure was hard trying to take the holiday away from a candy cane and I don’t necessarily think I succeeded in that. But I still think the card turned out cute.

Maybe I’ll be reincarnating this design come the holidays. We’ll see.

Credit: All photos taken by me. Card by Miss Jillian Designs.