Forgive me, I’ve borrowed the line from the play, Little Shop of Horrors, and adapted it for a friend of ours.  Our friend loves to work in his yard, and has a beautiful selection of plants and flowers – and specializes in Hostas.  He has over 200 varieties in his yard.  His birthday was late last week, but, as usual, I didn’t get his card mailed in time.  I’m great at getting cards made – but bad in mailing them in time.

Isn’t this the cutest digi?  It comes from Rick St.Dennis, and is called Buddy and his Pet Plant.

I’ve colored it with Copic Markers, used a Spellbinder’s Die cut.  The flowers are Blushing Bouquet die from Memory Box.

Thanks for stopping by, have a healthy and creative week.  Check out my teammates cards on the Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge this week – they have some really great ideas.

Hugz and creativity,
Linda O

PS:  Happy Birthday, Spence – the card is in the mail!

Hi!  Thanks for stopping by.  This week’s Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge is to use a water or beach theme. Today’s card features one of the big-eyed gal digis from Lacy Sunshine.  This one is called Carla Cattails Water Whimzies.

Both dps are from Michaels, the die cuts are Spellbinders, and my design is colored with Copics (of course).  Be sure to check out the other cute cards my teamies have created this week at the Outlawz.

Thanks again for stopping by, have a fun and creative week.

Hugz,
Linda O

Unfortunately, every once in a while we need to express our love for someone through a sympathy card and this type of card is difficult to make when your emotions take over.  Since my card this week for the Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge was to feature the Lily Cross (3801) by Eureka! Stamps, I decided that I would use the design to create several sympathy cards.

This is the card I submitted for this week’s challenge:

My 5×7 card is a basic white-on-white.  The embossing card is by Lifestyle Crafts – I love this embossing folder and thought that the rays of sun would make the perfect background for my cross. The Spellbinders die came from the Romantic Rectangles set (S5-090).  I used my Copic markers on the cross and lilies, and the sentiment is from the set of 10 Sympathy Sentiments available through Squigglefly.

Here are three other cards I made using the same Lily Cross and two of the other sentiments from the same Squigglefly set:

Now that I have a few sympathy cards made up, I hope they get very dusty, and I never have to use them.  I’d be more than happy to store them for a long, long, while.

Don’t forget to check out the Outlawz challenge this week – it’s Anything Goes. Thank you for stopping by, and have a great week with lots of time to be creative!

Hugz and Creativity,

Linda Osterwise

Nothing is more exciting than the birth of a new baby in the family.  My nephew and his wife are due any day now, and I wanted to create a card worthy of sending to them.  Luckily, I had the advantage of a Rick St. Dennis design – Cat Nap (RSD) to use.

This week’s Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge is “Yes” – For The Embossible.  I heat embossed the sentiment as part of the challenge, and I had a great time coloring with my Copics and putting the card together.

Thanks for stopping by today, and be sure to check out the Outlawz Greeting Card challenge to see other great cards made for inspiration by our Design Team.

Have a great and creative week.  Hugz,
Linda Osterwise

Welcome to my card-loving friends.  I hope you are having a great week.  I had so much fun making Easter cards for my family, I just couldn’t stop.  This card was super easy and quick to make.

This beautiful cross is a digi stamp and called Lily Cross, by Eureka Rubber Stamps.  I colored it with Copic markers, my preferred method of coloring my digis.  I love to color flowers like this, it gives me an opportunity to practice my blending techniques.  I created the sentiment directly in Word – one of the quickest tools for me to create sentiments.

My photography, however, needs some work.  In reality, the blending of the yellow halo is much more subtle than the picture shows.  Someday, perhaps, my photography skills will improve so what you see on screen is what you would see in person.  Anyway, this card was a lot of fun to make.

Thanks again for stopping by today, I hope you have a fantastic Easter.  Don’t forget to check out other Easter cards on the Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge this week, because there are some fantastic cards created by our viewers as well as the Design Team.

Hugz and Creativity,
Linda O

Can you believe it – it’s Palm Sunday already, and next week is Easter.  I know Easter is later than usual this year, but so is Spring weather (at least in my part of the woods).  I wanted to make my Easter card extra colorful to help coax the weather to be more enjoyable.  Alex is hosting this week’s Outlaw Greeting Card challenge and the theme is Easter.  My digi is called Basket Bunny from Rick St Dennis (a.k.a. RSD).

The background and card-stock paper is from my stash – I wanted something colorful and this matched the way I colored my digi.  I wanted to be a little creative with the sentiment, so I created it in Word and just printed a few across the top of a piece of white card-stock.  Taking a piece of scrap paper, I hand drew an egg (pushing my artistic drawing talents to their very limit), and after a few tries, I had the shape that I wanted.  I traced lightly around the hand drawn egg onto my printed white paper and cut it out to shape.  Then I glued my egg onto my background card-stock and trimmed closely.  I’m somewhat of a perfectionist at most things, but this time, I settled for an “OK – it’s close” attempt.

I hope to post a second card this week – so check back later.  In the meantime, thank you for stopping by, and be sure to stop in on the Outlaw Greeting Card challenge to see the great cards my teamies have put together.

Have a creative and great week.

Hugz,
Linda O

Hello again, oh great and crafty peeps!  My challenge for today’s card was to take something ugly and turn it into something more appealing.  I tried and tried, but I couldn’t find anything I really thought was ugly, so I had to settle for some dp that I liked less than other dp.

I loved the digi I had to work with – it’s called Hooty Hoo and came from Creative Bug Digis.  I colored it with my Copics and colored a second copy of the Owl and the large mushroom and popped them up on the page.

This week’s Outlawz Greeting Card challenge is U-G-L-Y You don’t have an alibi – Use ugly (to you) paper and make it beautiful.  Join us to see what my Design Team Teammates have come up with.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fun and creative week.

Hugz and creativity,
Linda Osterwise

Isn’t it fantastic – my Mother-In-Law turns 97 today!  She’s a wonderful woman that has been an inspiration to me since I married her son almost 43 years ago.  She’s self sufficient, takes care of others, and loves to watch birds bathe and splash in the birdbath in her back yard.

I love making cards for Mom to share with others, but this time it’s for her!  Mom, I wish you a very happy birthday and a healthy year.

The digi on this card is from Limited Runs, and is known as Birdhouse #4.  Check out next Monday’s Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge to see this card and several others featuring cards with Texture.

Thanks everyone for stopping by today and have a very creative week.

Hugz and creativity.
Linda

Hi – thanks for stopping by.  My card today is for the Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge.  The theme this week is Coffee and Friends, the Perfect Blend.

My card is a hybrid, the digi in the forefront is called Breakfast and comes from our sponsor, Guylous Inimitability.  I created the background of the card in Photoshop Elements using digi paper I purchased quite some time ago.  (Sorry I cannot remember the name of the vendor – that was back in the day that my digi organization skills hadn’t been properly developed – a skill I’ve been working on ever since).

Thanks again for stopping by.  Please join us at the Outlawz this week to see what my fellow design team members have come up with for inspiration.  Have a great and creative week.

Hugz and creativity,
Linda