A Sweet TSG Card

This week's challenge on the There She Goes blog was "Love is in the Air", so TSG's "Puppy Love" stamp set was the perfect choice! (Of course, I think "Puppy Love" is just about the perfect choice for everything because I love dogs and I love Torico's designs!)

And, speaking of Puppy Love, here's my "puppy love", Dixie. Isn't she the cutest dog in the world? My kids will warn you that you may as well shake your head and say "Why, yes, she IS the cutest dog in the world." because I would refuse to admit otherwise. ;-) She's my baby!

From Dixie and me - Have a wonderful week! See you soon.
Lisa

A face you just can't resist....

I haven't posted any pet pictures in a while, so here's one of our current foster dog, Whitman. He's a beagle/basset mix. Very cute and very sweet!

He does get a bit noisy if you don't give him the attention he thinks he deserves. Fortunately, he's so cute you can't help but spoil him. :)
Lisa

SNOWED IN!

For the second week in a row, we've been hit by a winter storm. Between holidays and snow days, I've lost track of what day it is. I realized when I woke up this morning that I never posted Wednesday with Wings card yesterday. Oops!!

I'd love to say I spent the day in my craft room today having fun, but I didn't. However, I finally put all of my Christmas decorations away (YAY!!) and did some more sorting/purging in my craft room -- and I did finally manage to make a card this afternoon (double YAY!!).

Today's card is a two-fer. I recently discovered the 365 Cards blog. It's awesome - there is a new challenge each and every day, so there's sure to be one you like. I knew as soon as I saw Wednesday's Bliss challenge that I wanted to make a card with this image TAC's Good Dog set. And, while bloghopping this afternoon I stumbled across Mischelle Smith's card for Heather Scott's Sketch Challenge #135. It's been a long time since I played along with one of Heather's sketches, so I decided to try this one out and combine it with the 365 Bliss challenge. Fun!

Supplies: Good Dog-T3296, Kraft and Ivory cardstocks (TAC), Lilly Anna SWIC and coordinating cs (TAC), Palette Noir ink (TAC), Petunia Pink Versamark Ink, distressing tool, brown and pink ribbon, pink rhinestones, Copic markers.

Copics used: Collar: R83, R85, R59; Dog: Y21, YR20, E35, E31 and R83 (inside ears); Shadow/ground: W1, W3.


Now, that's one blissed out dog! :) She reminds of me my dog, Dixie, when she lays on her back and gets her belly rubbed. (I tried to color the dog image to look like Dixie, who is a yellow lab.)

A White Christmas

Yes, Virginia, there is a blogger! ;-) It has been such a long time since I've had a chance to post anything! Whew, the holidays are nice but they are exhausting!
 

As you can see, we are indeed having a white Christmas. Fortunately, the snow mostly came Thursday night into Friday morning, so by now the roads are clear for driving. That is perhaps the best present of all. :)

Here's a picture of the fam:

 

And the furry family members as well.... our dog Dixie, the in-laws' dog Sparky and our foster dog Yasmine

 

This is the card I made for Jessica. I wasn't thrilled with how it came out at first, but it was 1 AM and I needed to go to bed. I liked it better this morning (funny how that works that way so often). She really liked it a lot and declared it was going up on the display board in her room, so that made my day. :)

Well, we're off to spend the day with the rest of the Thompson clan. More food and more presents! :)

Have a wonderful day!

Wintry Weekend Wrap Up

Baby, it's cold outside!!

We got our first batch of snow this year, thanks to some Arctic air. (It's currently a frosty 12 degrees.) Fortunately, we went out Saturday morning to get our Christmas tree before the snow and the worst of the cold temps hit. Here's DH cutting down the tree as the girls watch. (Poor Dad! He does all the work.)

All this cold and Christmas-y happenings put me in the mood for another holiday project for this week's DSB project. These clothes pins were decorated using Nestabilities dies and Christmas Doodles digital stamps from DigiStamp Boutique. The images were colored in with Copic markers and I used double stick "red tape" to adhere the decorative fronts to the clothes pins.

My inspiration was a great little project I saw while blog hopping from The Cats Pajamas blog. Unfortunately, I can't find the link but the project started with a Christmas card display kit from the dollar store - some twine and a few plain clothes pins. The crafter embellished the clothes pins with TCP stamps and Nesties and used them to clip cards to the twine. (If anyone has seen the project, please send me the link and I'll post it here.)

Here's a photo of our current foster dog, Yasmine. Isn't she adorable? She has kennel cough (although a mild case, fortunately) and recently had 6 puppies. She's a good dog and I just know she'll get a good "fur-ever home" as soon as she's all better.

Have a good week! Hope your weather is a little warmer wherever you are! :)

The Duke

It's been a while, but here's our latest foster dog, Duke:

Here's a "profile" picture:

And here he is, pooped out from his walk:

Poor Duke has kennel cough. Wish him a speedy recovery! Hopefully since they put him on meds and got him out of the shelter right away, he won't get too sick. He's not coughing too badly now and he doesn't seem like he feels badly.

DareU2Digistamp Challenge #31

This week's challenge on the DareU2Digistamp blog was to use punches in creating your card. I was still in the Valentines Day mood when I created this card, which includes 3 heart punch outs.


I used some of my favorite elements in this card - TAC's Scarlet cardstock, a scrap of Basic Grey Bittersweet dp, dark brown ribbon and the adorable Alfie from Digistamp Boutique. Alfie was one my first purchases from Sally-Ann's shop. He's just such a cool guy! :)

Speaking of adorable little guys, here's my foster dog, Lenny:

Isn't he cute? He's such a sweetie.

Another Midnight Madness Sketch

This card is based on Sketch #MMSC11 from the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge site. I have to admit I had a little bit of trouble getting started with this sketch. The whole "hanging picture" effect kind of threw me and it took a while to find an image that was the correct size. But, once I picked my floral paper and this Fluffles stamp, it came together pretty quickly. I used a large scallop decorative edge scissor (left over from the decorative scissor scrapbooking craze) for the bottom edge. The scroll at the top is a diecut that a coworker gave me - it was just the perfect color and size for the card. Gotta love when that happens!


Poor Fluffles! He seems a bit unsure about those grasshoppers! Fluffles does seem to get himself in some predicaments... kind of reminds me of a certain curious kitty I know:


There's Tiggy thinking "Oh! That's where the humans keep all the guinea pig stuff!". He likes to eat the guinea pig's hay. Seriously. The cat is weird! We were just waiting for him to fall head first into the chest! (He managed not to.)

Here is being held by "Grandpa". (Since Jessica is his "Mommy" we are prematurely grandparents. As long as this the only kind of grandchild I see any time soon, that's OK by me!) Somehow, Tiger doesn't look too happy about this.... (tee hee).

Friday Sketchers

Here's my entry for this week's sketch on the Friday Sketchers challenge blog:


Here is my cat, Tiger. (See him in the banner up top, too?) Apparently, he thinks all this cardmaking and blogging stuff is quite boring! :-)


My poor Angel Company stamps have been neglected lately, so I used a stamp from the Fall '08 Supplement. Except for the Prima flowers and the rhinestones, all supplies are from TAC, as well. I used my favorite paper pad - Rustic Chic - and one of my favorite cardstocks - TAC's Brown cs. Instead of my trusty Palette ink, I used Versamagic in Jumbo Java. For solid image stamps, I find pigment based inks make a more solid, darker image. Because my Versamagic inks are the Dew Drop size, I can manage to use the slower-drying pigment ink without somehow getting it all over my fingers and my card. ;-)

YAY CMHS!

I am late in announcing this big news... the Central Missouri Humane Society has won the nationwide ZooToo Shelter Makeover contest! It was announced in the Lifestyle section of USAToday last Sunday and become "official" on the ZooToo site on Monday. We are very excited and happy for the shelter!

If you'd like to know more about CMHS and why they are so deserving, check out this YouTube video.

Happy Birthday, Katie!

Today is my niece Katie's birthday. Katie has two dogs, Clyde and Riley, who are her "babies". Here's a picture of Katie and Riley from last Christmas:

He's a big baby who loves to be held. He usually finds plenty of people at family gatherings to oblige. :)

I wanted to use a dog image on her birthday card and knew this image of a dog in a gift box would be perfect!


I have resisted the current trend to decorate the inside of my card. These days I'm lucky to have time to make the outside pretty! ;-) Since this cardstock is rather dark, though, I gave in. It's nothing fancy, but here's the inside of my card:


Supplies: Fudge and Friends digital stamps (Grab A Doodle Do), birthday sentiment (Hero Arts), printed paper from Bo Bunny, swirl embossing folder (Cuttlebug), Raspberry Fizz cs from Papertrey Ink, Copic markers.