Ingenious Inkling

Paint-By-Number Blooms

My card for this week's SCS Inspiration Challenge was inspired by this cool Paint-By-Number Dessert Platefrom Anthropologie.  I loved the contrast between the outlined background and the bright pops of circle color. 

I have been thinking all week about something creative to make for the Paper Tearing Challenge at the Hero Arts blog, so I decided to create blooms from torn strips of paper for the pops of color in my design.

I started by stamping the Hero Arts Outline Flowers background in black and clear embossing.

To make the torn paper flowers I tore strips of paper about 1/2 inch wide; folded them back and forth; attached the ends together; and then attached the folded circle to the card using a thick glue dot.

The final touches were punched circles for the centers and an oval punched sentiment from the Hero Arts Friends set.

Also a I let out a big woot woot when I saw I made the top five at Get Sketchy! with my Artistic Outpost design.

I hope you find Inspiration.
 

Thank You

Thanks to the fabulous Amy of Tsuruta Designs for bestowing the Proximity Award which states:

"This award is given to a blog that invests and believes in PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind of bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated."

How cool is that.

And another big thank you to the wonderful Anne of Everlasting Ink for the Butterfly Award.

Thanks ladies for the wonderful awards.  If you're reading this post, consider yourself tagged.  Thanks to everyone who stops by.

 

Awards and Cool Sites

While I was traveling, I received another Brilliante Weblog award from JoLynn at Carpe Diem & an I 'heart' your blog award from Krista at the Rusty Red Rooster. 

Since I've been tagged before, I thought I would share a few of the non-crafting blogs I have in my reader:

• Unclutterer
• PostSecret
• Simply Recipes
• Orange You Lucky
• Jezebel: Fine Lines Friday Feature
• 37 Days
• Slashfood
• Smitten Kitchen
• Cool Tools

Thanks ladies.

I 'heart' your blog

A big thank you to  Ashley at Heart Hugs who gave me this award last week.

Check out my blog lists on my sidebar for some of my favorite blogs (with a special shout out to Julie of The Write Stuff who just started blogging). 

Worlds of Fun and Runner-Up

My sister and I truly did have worlds of fun at Worlds of Fun today ... the weather was perfect and the crowds were small ... we rode roller coasters until we couldn't ride them any more ... a very fun day indeed.  I'll have pictures when I return (no editing ability on this computer).

I was also thrilled to see that my Vintage Children's Cards were the Runner-Up on Card of the Week ... woo hoo.

Another Award

A big thanks to Susan from Random on Purpose who nominated me for this award.  Since I just tagged some of my favorite bloggers yesterday, you can check them out here.

BFF Gold Card

I rec'd this wonderful award from Shelly of Stamp with Shelly.  The rules are:

• 1. Only 5 people are allowed to receive this award.
• 2. Four dedicated followers of your blog.
• 3. One has to be new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
• 4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award.

I would like to pass this honor on to the following five whose creations you may not have discovered yet:

• Biggan from Sweden (SCS Gallery)
• Angela from An Ink and a Smile (SCS Gallery)
• Melody from Lilacs and Butterflies (SCS Gallery)
• Michele from Thoughts of a Cardmaking Scrapbooker (SCS Gallery)
• Angelnorth from Ambrosia and Iron (SCS Gallery)

Page Plans Winner

I was excited to see that my Life is a Daring Adventure card won the sketch challenge at Page Plans.  They've got another great sketch for this week ... check it out.

Shout Out on Scrapbook of the Week

My Color Me Happy hanging ribbon spool scrapbook got a Shout Out on the Card of the Week blog in the Scrapbook of the Week category!

Woo-Hoo

I got two fun e-mails this morning.

First - I won this very fabulous-looking book in a random drawing on Jennifer McGuire's blog (love her stuff).  I often use layout and design ideas from scrapbooking books as inspiration for making cards.

Second, my Rockin' Birthday card was this week's sketch winner on Page Plans. 

I am so excited that some fun things will be coming my way in the mail.

Now I'm off to the gym ... have a great Sunday.