Happy Saturday

Made a few cards recently.  A few with the new Lawn Fawn Stamps.  OMG.  These stamps are fabulous.  They stamp so crisp!!!!  I'll share these cards over the next few days or so.

Oct/Nov 2010 issue - Lawn Fawn stamps review

The dictionary page and fairy card are from the lovely Diana's etsy shop Design By Diana.   

I misted the dress form stamp with both a green and a pink.  I love how it came out.  The image is stamped on a file folder so it accepted the mist well without warping.  I just discovered the Autumn Leaves Stampology ink made for clear stamps and I have to say it works very nicely.  I'd been having problems with inconsistent saturation of color when using both StazOn and Stampin' Up! ink on clear stamps. 

Details:  Sew Lovely stamp by Lawn Fawn Stamps, Autumn Leaves Stampology ink, ephemera from Design By Diana etsy shop, Cosmo Cricket tiny alpha, Prima pearl, Maya & Glimmer Mists, Stampin' Up! cardstock, file folder, thread, unknown velvet ribbon.

And since it's Saturday and Saturdays are for most people happy, feel-good days, I'm going to acknowledge two blog awards I received just recently.  Amazingly they both came in on the same day!  Talk about a feel-good day!  I'm so honored to have touched and been touched by these two amazing women:

Kandi from Krafty Kandi Krafts gave me the Beautiful Blogger Award. 

And can you believe, THIS is what she said:  "...I have scrappers envy when it comes to Heidi's awesome scrapbook pages. She does things I'd never dare to do, let alone even think of! She is sassy and spunky and it totally shows on her pages. If I could aspire to be a better scrapbooker I would start with trying to scraplift some of her totally rad pages."

I am BLOWN AWAY by this.  Humbled.  WOW.  Kandi just validated every creative thing I've ever dared to share.  Thank you SO MUCH Kandi. 

OK, for this award, I'm supposed to share 10 things you may not know about me and then pass this along to 10 bloggers who have inspired me.  Well, I've got a room full of cleaning and organizing to get to today so I'm going to leave this little bit until later, maybe tomorrow.  ;oD

As mentioned, on the SAME day (wow!), the beautiful Miss Ally left me the Sunshine Award.  Poor Miss Ally.  I stalk her.  She has just the sweetest spirit, makes the most rad stuff, and has the most beautiful (and photogenic) family, including their newest addition the Hankster, who is just so sweet you want to eat him up!   Again, I'll pass along the award later when I'm more organized.  (OK, I'll do it later...You know it.  I know it.  I'm never going to be more organized!) 

Moving right along...a little more business to attend to. 

Today is the last day to submit an entry for the Sketchy Thursdays April Guest Design Team Member!  And wouldn't you know it, the winner will get the  Ninja Addicts' Three Little Birds kit designed by both the beautiful Miss Ally and one of Sketchy's newest Design Team Members the amazing Miss Nely!!!!!

Also, today is Jenn's birthday so she's offering a 30% discount on all order at the Torendi shop over $30 for her big 3-oh!  Hop on over and check it out.   (And don't forget to leave her some birthday love!)

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Oh, I'm soooo using this image for my bday in a couple weeks, LOL!

OK, I think that's it for today.  Whew!

Hope your Saturday is shaping up as lovely as mine. 

Heidi

Circle of Friends Award

Happy Sunday everyone!

I have a feeling I'm different from everyone else in that I have a harder time creating and posting on weekends than during the week. So, while I don't have any projects to post for you today, I do have some blog awards to pass along.


I have been lucky enough in the last couple weeks to receive the Circle of Friends Blog Award from two wonderfully talented, awesome women: Diana and Vanessa.






Diana is the uber-talented force behind Sketchy Thursday on her blog Design by Diana. Not only can the woman rock a sketch, but she's an amazing scrapbooker AND card-maker, more often than not mutually exclusive talents. I see this girly going FAR!!! Check out her blog and play along with us every Thursday!!

I also received the same award from another online friend I have come to love and admire. She and her layouts are gorgeous!! She's a fellow Memories Always-Forever design team member and I always look forward to seeing her creations. They're so full of life and color and so beautifully done!!! Check out her gallery on MAF!! And, check out her blog.

OK, so here are the rules for this award: To pick up the Circle of Friends Blog Award cut and paste the award logo and use it on your own blog. Nominate 5 other bloggers you feel have become part of your circle of friends. Link to your nominees within your blog post. Include these instructions on how to pick up the award in your blog post. Link back to the person who gave you the award in your blog post, to show your appreciation. Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award. So, while it may be hard for me to only pick ten (5 for each award) I will give this award to...

Theresa - Sunshine Memories

Nicole - Pink Nickels

Lailani - Studio Lailani

Monica - Memories Always-Forever blog

Kim - Kim's Kreative Korner

Heather - Stamping the Details

Susan - Imagine. Create. Express.

Emily - http://emilymyplace.blogspot.com/

Danielle - Scrappy-Arts-n-Thoughts

Emily - Through Emily's Eyes

Every one of these women is super talented and inspires me over and over again! Please check out their blogs!

Thank you again, Diana and Vanessa!!

Heidi

Blog Award from xoxo, Ally!!!

I am so ridiculously thrilled and humbled to have been given this blog award from the fabulously brilliant Miss Ally from xoxo, Ally .

You may also know here from The Pink Ninjas. This woman R-O-C-K-S!!!

Head on over to both her sites to bathe in the glow of her talent.

Check back in later to see who I pass this AWESOME award on to!!

Thank you again ever so much Miss Ally!

Having a great Thursday...hope you are, too!

Heidi

Blog Awards

As mentioned earlier in the week, I was the lucky recipient of two blog awards. Jeannine over on Just Doin' What I LOVE gave me the Honest Scrap award and MissBliss gave me the Kreativ Blogger award. Thank you so much!!

Let's start with the Honest Scrap award.

My 10 honest facts:

1. I live 12 miles from where I grew up. My mom still lives next door to my childhood home.

2. I've been with my husband for 19 years.

3. I have 2 good friends that I've know since FIRST grade. (That's 32 years, people!!)

4. I've only been to 4 other states in my life. (OK, I'm starting to sound like a fuddy duddy here...)

5. I have a degree in finance. I've never had a job in finance.

6. I would love to be a writer - a published, PAID writer, that is.

7. I have more papercrafting supplies than any one person should ever have. I don't think it's possible to ever use it all.

8. My favorite color is green. Always has been, ever since I was very little. Never waivered.

9. I wear mostly black and pink.

10. I've never had a speeding ticket. (Didn't say I'd never been pulled over...)

I'd like to nominate the following wonderful people and blogs for the Honest Scrap award:

Blooming Pink

Jeannie at A Place for My Cards

Bonnie Rose at A Life Unrehearsed Vol. 2

Candace at My Creative Life

Next is the Kreativ Blogger award:

My 7 things people might find interesting:

1. In 11th grade my hair was shaved on the sides, about 2 inches on the top all crimped and wild (it was the 80s, afterall), and blue-black in color. I played Blanche Neige for our school for the inter-school French competition. (Snow White for you non-French-speaking folks.) (My teacher thought he was punishing and humiliating the freaky-looking girl. Little did he know I love to act. Ha!)

2. I strongly dislike dolls. I think they come to life at night and do bad things. I tolerate my girly-girl daughter's "babies".

3. I almost skipped #3. Caught it when I went back to reread my post. I'm a fanatical proofreader.

4. I love reptiles and rodents. I can't wait until my kids are old enough to get me (I mean them) some cool pets. I strongly dislike fish and birds as pets. Birds are dirty little animals. Fish are nothing more than the stiff weight felt when lifting their little bellied-up bodies out of the tank with that green net.

5. I made sure my kids' names weren't in the top 200 names on the Social Security list of baby names.

6. My Captain Underpants name is Cheeseball Bananafanny. My stripper name is Binki Harris. (No, I'm not a stripper - it's the name of your first pet and the name of the street you grew up on.)

7. I have multi-personality handwriting. I was even accused by a high school teacher of turning in someone else's work once. It just depends on my mood, what I'm writing, how much I care, etc. It runs the gamut from all caps, slanty, super small, loopy, chickenscratchish, and many more. It's never accidental. I can reproduce anything I write. I often wonder what a handwriting test would say about me. I wonder if it would give different results depending on the different styles.

For the Kreativ Blogger award, I'd like to nominate the following super creative people and blogs:

Elisa at Hybrid Alien

Diana at Design by Diana

Beth at Dirty Laundry

Patty on Patty's Stamping Spot

Mo at Stamping with Mo

Jessica on Euphoria

Sam at Scrapmaster's Paradise

The rules of the Kreativ Blogger award are:

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs, letting them know they have been nominated.

Thank you so much Jeannine and MissBliss!!! I love both your blogs and your work.

Hugs!

Heidi

Blog Awards!

I feel so honored - two people left me blog awards yesterday!! Wow!! WOW!!

Jeannine over on Just Doin' What I LOVE gave me the Honest Scrap award:




And MissBliss gave me the Kreativ Blogger award:

OK, so let's see...here's what I need to do: For the Honest Scrap award I'm to list 10 honest facts about myself and then pass the award along.

And for the Kreativ Blogger award:

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting.
5. Nominate 7 Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs, letting them know they have been nominated.

As it's reeeeaaaalllly late, I wanted to make sure I gave the shout out that I received these awards...I'll try to answer the questions and nominate other people tomorrow.

Please be sure to head on over to MissBliss and Jeannine's blogs and give them so love. They both have amazing blogs that will be well worth your time to visit!

I feel so lucky that there are so many sweet people out there that enjoy my blog. I have really enjoyed creating it so far and hope I can continue to keep you all interested!

Thank you!!

Heidi