Ingenious Inkling

Top 3 at Unscripted Sketches

Excited to see my Polar Penguin Festive Fun card made the Top 3 at Unscripted Sketches ... have you made your Polar Animal card yet?

Tuesday News

Always a great way to start the day ... my DeLovely Moxie Fab card was indeed declared to be a Trigger Target at the Moxie Fab World Blog, as well as being in the Super Six at Card Patterns.

  Hope your day is Moxie Fab too.

Facebook Friday Fan on CPS

So very excited to be featured as today's Facebook Friday Fan on the CPS Blog for my Live in the Sunshine card for this week's sketch.

Saturday Ramblings

I'm heading off for a quick Madison, Wisconsin road trip with a friend.  Unfortunately, no stamping store stops ... just groceries at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's and a quick return (sorry I won't be able to visit any blog readers on this trip).

I was excited that I won free tape at Love My Tapes ... check out those awesome Japanese masking tapes ... I'm going to have to add some of those to my collection.

Also, please go vote for the cover of Stampers Sampler magazine ... you know I'm a huge fan of Artistic Outpost, so you can guess which cover I voted for (also, since it is a stamping magazine, I prefer a card that features stamping).

My True Love card for Jacksonbelle is also featured at the Cards Blog... woot woot.  The next challenge is to create something with transparencies.

Enjoy the day!

Ginger Gem

I was excited to see that my Settle for More card was chosen as a Ginger Gem in the Resolutions Challenge at the Gingersnap Creations Blog. 

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.