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

Most of the country (and from what I’m hearing, other parts of the world as well), has been going through a very cold and messy winter.  I thought it might be time to think some warm thoughts.  I found the cutest digi from Inky Impressions, called Summer Fun – Owl.  Doesn’t he make you want to run outside and play with a beach ball?  If only we could!

I colored my digi with Copic Markers, and I used Glossy Accents for the sun, the beach ball, his eyes, and the tip of his beak.  I thought those little accents would finish the design.  The sentiment is also from Inky Impressions, and I like the feeling that it portrays, don’t you?

This card is part of Monday’s Greeting Card Challenge with the Outlawz (scheduled for Monday, Feb 4th).  Be sure to check out the other fantastic cards you will see there featuring designs from Inky Impressions and Fred She Said.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a very creative and great week.  If you don’t need to think warm thoughts for yourself, think warm thoughts for others!  lol

Hugs and Creativity,

Linda O