Saturday, June 6, 2009

Hugs & Kisses Always

This card is for a PaperTrey Ink swap I am in. I love that company!!! I buy from them...often!!! This set is called Heart Prints. Love it that the two sizes of hearts are of the same design. Immediately I thought of red and black; hope it doesn't look too Valentiney. I used Pure poppy, Black and White for colors. I found the ribbon in my stash and thought it was perfect. One down, only five more to go!!


Pens play tonight -- my fingers are crossed for a victory!!!!!!!

Friday, June 5, 2009

I Miss You Kitty


I have some very sad news, we had to put down our precious kitty Fred on Monday. We are very sad and miss him terribly. We've already been to two shelters looking for another cat with no luck. Our other cat Moonstruck is absolutely lost without him. We have been giving her some extra TLC which is helping all of us heal. Even though Fred was 13 years old, I still called him my kitty because when I would say "Here Kitty Kitty" he would come running.
In his memory, I made a kitty card. I used two sets from Clear Dollar Stamps, Mama Kitty and Kitty Toys. The sentiment is by TAC. Mama Kitty and her bed were stamped, colored in with Copic markers, cut out, and popped up. I love the fish bones in the Kitty Toys set so I had to include them somewhere. The designer paper is Die Cuts With a View's "The Pets Stack." I used scraps of card stock, some wide brown organdy ribbon and the lovely pearls by Kaiser Crafts.
I have some stamping to do this weekend so hopefully I will be out of my funk and have some cards to show. Thanks for stopping by and another big WooHoo for the Pens!!!!!

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Love You With Owl My Hoot


How adorable these images are from High Hopes Rubber Stamps. I received this owl from a very generous Wish RAKer. I actually used my Prisma Color Pencils on this one. This is for a WRAK sketch challenge - nothing like waiting till the last day of the month to finish it. And nothing like filling every available inch with some kind of embellishment!!! Oh well, back to watching the Stanley Cup -- GO PENS!!

Saturday, May 30, 2009

God is our Refuge and Strength

A dual challenge card - good thing for all the inspiration, I'm running a little low. First is the monthly Bible verse challenge - I just made it for the month of May!! This also goes for the Wish RAK challenge of the color combo - Lovely lilac, Almost amethyst, White, and any shade of green (I used Old olive and Certainly celery). Of course I had to use my all-time favorite set, Blossoms Abound. It was a must with these colors! The Bible verse is what I received thru Wish RAK. It's cut out with one of my Nestabilities sets. I didn't trust myself to hand pierce all those holes, I was listening to the Pittsburgh Penguins game and was a little distracted. I used my sewing machine instead, with no thread. Can't say they're much straighter but they did go much faster! Had to use my Martha Stewart butterfly punch, absolutely love it! A few added pearls and it's complete.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Because You're Wonderful!

Another DRS Designs stamp that has never seen ink...until tonight!! This turtle is sooooo cute!!! I used my Copic markers on him and Crystal Effected his shell. I masked him off to stamp in the grass, also from DRS Designs, and sponged in green to fill in the white. Now those blobs of white and blue are my first attempt at clouds -- thanks for the inspiration Stacy, aka Twinshappy! I'll need more practice, that's for sure. The sentiment is from TAC, oval punched out and popped up on the scallop oval punch, which is also popped up. I used scraps of Basic Grey paper and added two lavender pearls. A definite step out of my comfort zone because purple is not a fave of mine at all, so I very rarely use it. Using it small doses is okay though.


I'm having a few ladies over on Sunday to stamp, so I'd better get everything ready. The Pens are on tomorrow in the Stanley Cup so not much stamping will be going on then!!! LET'S GO PENS!!!!!!!

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

It's All About the Fun!

I needed a birthday card to mail out tomorrow...I also needed to use some of my new DRS Designs stamps. This snail simply makes me smile! I stamped her then masked the image to put in the grass as well as fill in with some sponging of green and blue. The shell was stamped a second time on scrap paper, colored with Copics, covered in Versamark Dazzle (champagne), and popped up. Something else I had to break out and use for the first time were my pinking nestabilities. I LOVE 'EM!!! Some ribbon and pearls and my card is complete. It didn't take very long, hooray for me on that note!! LOL!!!

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

I Adore You

A day in the life of Linda Anderson just can't be simple anymore!!!!! I finished this card late last night and decided to wait till this morning to take a picture and post it. Well, only to find out this morning that my camera was broken. Off to Target I go but they are sold out of most of their cameras -- graduation gifts the clerk said. Where to next? Costco came to mind and I found the one I was looking for. Even had colors to choose from. Well as you know a camera doesn't work right out of the package, the battery needs to be charged!! That didn't take as long as I thought it would so I took pictures...only to find our internet wasn't working...again!!!!! After all these hoops I had to jump thru, here's my card!!!!!


This card is for a Wish RAK challenge on SCS to make a card for a child other than a birthday card. Since I have two boys I knew this image from Stamping Bella was for me; it's called Tyler the Jock. And I went with an "I love you" card, which again, because I have two boys, you can't say in public to them, it's too mushy!!!!! So I went with "adore." The sentiment is by Hero Arts. Brilliant blue, Real red, White, and some scrap yellow designer paper are the colors. Thanks for swinging by and listening to my tale of woe!