Puppy Thanks

 I created today's card as a thank-you to Liyah's Doctor and her staff.  They have been incredibly sweet and I would highly recommend their office to anyone in the Clermont Florida area. If you are not up to date on what happened to our dog, click here for our dreadful Pet Smart experience.

 To create the puppy, I used my Gypsy and Expression along with the cart called Ultimate Creative Series Sampler.  This is a major cart since it comes with 6 overlays! I personalized the pup by adding the pink bandages.  cuteness.

Here's a happier looking Liyah now that they end is drawing near for to finally stop visiting the Vets every week for a new bandage.  She went today, and will have x-rays done next week to see how her toe is healing.  Please cross your fingers (and toes) that everything is healing correctly.

Todays card meets the challenge requirements for
Fantabulous Cricut: Create make a project using a gentle animal
Card Patterns

Hello Kitty Get Well

Today's post highlights another one of those Cricut cartridges that I just had to have. Hello Kitty Greetings. Now what do I do with it!  The opportunity came up with Challenge me Monday on the blog Fantabulous Cricut.   This weeks challenge was to use some kind of cat using your Cricut.  Yay!  Plus my poor baby girl has been sick all night and day.  I'm thinking she can use a bit of a pick me up and I know this will put a smile on her face.  I used the Cricut Design Studio to create the card.  I think I need a bit more practice using it since the cuts didn't line up quite right.  I have a Gypsy that I wanted to use to create the card, but sadly I had linked my cartridge to my friend's Gypsy (yes you Kellee) before I had even considered getting one.  Or maybe I should just bite the bullet and use The Cricut Craft Room.  I'm just not liking the idea of  not being able to use my own cuts.

For those of you who were concerned about my pup and her 'Don't go to Pet Smart!' broken toe.  She had her bandage changed yesterday and is doing a lot better. Here she is playing with her favorite toy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W43gWz3LtBk&feature=colike

Bonjour

 Bonjour Sunday!  Today's card is in honor of my little pup.  First I'll tell you about the card, then on to my looong story about Liyah.  You  know when you purchase a Cricut cartridge because you love all the images then you get it home and wonder what you are going to do with them. Summer in Paris was one of those cartridges for me.  I love all those intricate images.  But what the heck do I do with them!  well Yay!  I figured out something to make.  Isn't this little poodle adorable?  She is cut out in gray and shadowed with black.  I created a bow for her tail using a Martha Stewart bow punch.  And of course she needed a pearl necklace.

I created the Bonjour banner using a Michael's $1 alphabet set and popped it up a bit in the middle for dimension.  The back ground layers are black, SU Regal Rose and SU Pretty in Pink.  Pretty in Pink was run through my Big Shot with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dot folder.  I think she came out darling.  You?

 

Speaking of darling...look at this poor baby. This is my pup, Liyah, and she is not a very happy puppy. The story goes like this...Little Liyah needed her nails trimmed so we took a trip to Pet Smart.  It's only $9 and they keep her while you run to Michael's.  Sounds great, right?  Well, I did exactly that.  It took me less than 10 minutes and I was back to Pet Smart to pick her up.  When she was brought out to me, she was limping a bit.  Liyah is 10 years old and has some arthritis in her rear hips, so limping was not that unusual.  Except this time it was her front leg that she was favoring....fast forward.  Pet Smart has a vet service called Banfield right in their building.  So the deal was that they would check her out and if they find that she was hurt while in Pet Smarts care, Pet Smart would fit the bill...x-rays, blood work, pain meds, doctor...oh...I brought her to get her nails done at 10:30.  We finally saw the doctor at 5:00!!!  Crazy!  Even crazier is that she said that Liyah had a fracture of her toe and it was about a month old so Pet Smart was not at fault, that will be $460.   Nope, no way give me my dog back.  We finally got out of there at 6:30!!!  Eight hours at Pet Smart   ARGH! 

The next day I brought her to our regular vet who said yes indeed her toe is fractured and it's brand new fracture (surprise!) We were out of there in less that 2 hours with pain meds, doc visit and a nice St. Paddy bandage all for the low price of $260 ~ which will be forwarded on to Pet Smart.  Thank you very much.  Anybody else out there have issues with Pet Smart?  Any suggestions on what I should do ... pain and suffering for the dog and me!

It's been 3 days and Liyah is still not feeling very well.  I think it's time for another pain pill.
For both of us.