A little of this & that

AWhiff of Joy Guest Design Team Call

Katharina is once more looking for Guest Designers for her wonderful WOJ stamps! If you are interested, you can read about it more here on her blog.

Sketch Saturday is looking to add to the Design Team. More info can be found here!

Awards

I am touched to have received all these awards in the past week. WOW! It really helps to keep me motivated when people are so kind! I am really bad at following through with all the rules associated with these, so I think I will just post them like this and say a big “THANK-YOU” to all these lovely girls!

From Lydia

From Annacarin

From Jo & Carole

From Merry

Have a great end of the day. I will be back with more fun cards tomorrow!

Still Waters

Here is another card using the SNSS set "Be Still". Such a soft and serene set. I colored my image with Copics and then masked it and airbrushed the background. I concentrated more at the bottom of the sky and left it softer towards the top. The sentiment is also from the same set and fit perfectly in my Spellbinder's Ribbon Trio.

Are you a Copic Junkie? Do you want to be? Korin is going to start a Copic Marker Club! What a great idea. To get more details, please visit the SNSS blog. She is starting a Yahoo group too and even if you're not sure about joining in the club, you can join the group. I imagine there will be amazing tips and sharing of ideas. The address to join the Yahoo group is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/snsscopicjunkies/ Hope to see you there!

I have again been spoiled with awards from some very talented crafters! What a great feeling! LOL!

Hanne

Moni

Benedicte

Debbie (who gave me the above plus these!)

Thanks so much girls! You made my day!

New Winner for Whimsy Candy & More Awards!

My original Whimsy Candy winner never contacted me. I did leave a comment on her blog but since she had no email address listed, I couldn't contact her directly. I think I have waited a fair amount of time, so Denise and I agreed that I should pick a new winner.

Here are your random numbers:76
Timestamp: 2009-01-18 13:55:42 UTC

Which means that my new winner is Beate!

"I wish you a happy new year.What a nice blog-candy!I linked you on my blog.Greetings from GermanyBeate"

Congratulations Beate! Please send me your address so I can send out your Whimsy candy.

I have been given more awards this week! WOW! What a great feeling to know others are enjoying what you are making! Keeps my MOJO alive even when it is freezing outside.

This one is from my sweet and super talented friend Anki:

This one is from Rachel whose ATS projects make me drool and also from my wonderful friend Heike who encourages me with her kind words and wonderful creations:

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. Please give more attention to these writers!"

The lovely and amazingly talented Michele gave me these 2:

Thank you my friends. They are all so pretty and I am honored that you chose me. I am again going to pass these along to all of you who visit and encourage me. I can't pick just a few of you...that is torture! I want you all to have them! Please visit their blogs to be inspired at their gorgeous creations!



I will hopefully be able to post a card later today! Enjoy your day wherever you are!

Awards

This morning I couldn't believe what I found. I had been given this very beautiful award by so many sweet and talented ladies! Thank you so much. I am so honored and you have no idea how uplifting this is. I am very, very grateful to each one of you!

The award has a special sentiment, which is…….

This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships. These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of the prizes are cut, even more friendships are propogated. Please give more attentions to these writers! Deliver this award to eight blogger’s who must choose eight more and include this clevery written text into the body of their award.

I received this award from Tanja, Michele, Jacqui, Amanda, Chrissie

I would like to give this back to the sweeties who gave it to me and also to all of you who stop by and take the extra time to leave such kind comments!

And this one from Jakki. Thank you so much, I love yours as well!

Award

It has been a really rainy, cold day but I also had time to do a little blog hopping and make a few cards so I am not complaining. It was one of those rare quiet days around here! I wasn't able to take any pictures of my Magnolia project or rather I did but they weren't very nice as it was so dark outside. Hopefully tomorrow!

I have been given this beautiful award by two really amazingly talented girls! Michele and Maria. It really is so nice to know that others appreciate my cards. It really makes my day!

EDIT: I have also received this from the incredible Heike. Wow! My head is spinning! Thank you so much!

I'd like to pass it along to:

Denise, Korin, Heather, Anki, Carole & Ruby.

Ruby also has an amazing set of blog candies. Yes, it is plural! So, head on over and enter!

Award and Blog Candy Alerts

So I am nowhere near catching up with my life! We are still doing renovations and today I had roofers, electricians and my general contractor drilling me with questions. My head is spinning! Never mind the huge pile of laundry that is undending! Sorry, needed to unload!

I was given this lovely award by Jakki. I am so honored as she is super talented and has such creative ideas! I am going to pass this along to all of you who visit my blog and leave such kind comments. You have no idea how much I appreciate and value you all! Please take this for your blog as well!

Lots of lovely candy out there!

Claudia (Amazingly talented) is celebrated her blog anniversary with gorgeous candy.

Fran is also celebrating her blogoversary and 55, 000 hits WOW!

WOJ Challenge & Cute Card Thursday

If you don't already know, there is a fabulous new challenge that has started: Whiff of Joy Challenge. They have an amazing Design team and Katharina herself has designed the first sketch and is sponsoring their first week!

I had a hard time with this sketch. I think it was because I had an idea in my head as to what I was going to do and then had a hard time to get it right. I love this DP but didn't have any others that matched well. In the end I used just the one DP but as it different tones throughout I hope it is not too boring. The reason I wanted to use it is that once cut into the circle it has the look of Earth from above! I did use two different metallic silver papers. One is matte and the other has lots of sparkle! I am going to enter this in the CCT challenge as well since this week it is to have sparkle on your card! Hope no one minds that I am combining!

• Stamps: Whiff of Joy, Sentiment is by Verve
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Paper: SU! Navy, DP by Sandylion, Misc Metallic Paper
• Coloring: Gamsol & Prismacolors
• Embellies: May Arts Ribbon
  

Sandra has given my a lovely award. She is one of my fellow DT members for Sketch Saturdays and is amazingly talented! Thank you so much for thinking of me! As I have seen this popping up on the blogs is admire, I won' t pass it along but appreciate it very much!

That is it for today. Please stop by here &/or Sketch Saturday Challenge. The sketch is awesome!

Have a great week-end!

Awards and I've been Tagged

Hi to you all. I hope you all enjoyed the First Day of Fall. We had such a gorgeous day - the air was crisp but it was very sunny! I have been so lucky to receive this award from both Tanja and Scrap Didi. Thank you so much girls. I am so honored and I have to say that I feel the same way about your lovely blogs!

I would like to pass it along to Clotilde, Kelly Christine & Aija.

I also was tagged by Christine. I wasn't really sure what this message was but I was happy to discover it didn't involve running around. I do enough of that with my three imps here at home!

Here's how it works.
1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

So here it goes:

1. I became a full-time SAHM after the birth of my third child. Before that I held a position at a university-affiliated teaching hospital.
2. I am double-jointed and a tremendous klutz. Not always a good combo!
3. I love to sing. I have always been in some type of choir since the age of 12.
4. This may sound trite, but when my husband and I met, it was love at first sight. I might add that it was at a Hallowe'en party where I was dressed as a witch and he was dressed as garbage! Go figure!
5. I love to travel. Before we settled down to start our family, my husband and I travelled to Greece and many different countries in Europe.
6. Statistically, if there is a 0.1% chance something will happen - it will happen to me. It is uncanny!
7. I am bilingual. I speak and write both French & English.

Instead of 7 people, I will "tag" the same 3 ladies that I gave the reward to as well as Tanja!

Goodmorning!

Goodmorning to all (perhaps afternoon to some). I sadly do not have a new card to show you. We spent the week-end trying to empty our basement for our upcoming renovation. How did we manage to accumulate all this STUFF! My husband also wanted to do a garage sale at the same time so I am just EXHAUSTED and going into withdrawal because I havent't done any stamping! I hope to get something done today. I also will try to visit all your blogs. Sorry I wasn't able to get to you all this week-end!

Justed wanted to thank two very sweet people for passing along awards to me! It just makes me feel so good inside to know that others like my cards! So please go have a look at their blogs because they are very talented and I know you will enjoy their creations!

Thank you to Mariska and Didi for passing along the Javablu award. I have (blush) received it a few times already!

Mariska is also having a great blog candy! Congratulations on your number of hits!

Javablu award

On my goodness. What a crazy few days I have had. It has been like to whirlwind around here. We had friends visiting and then my neighbour and I "did the tomatoes" for the coming year. It was long and messy but we now both have our tomato sauce canned for the next year. Thank goodness it is only once a year! My older son helped us out and worked so hard. I was very proud of him! Yesterday was my sweet nephews birthday and we went over to celebrate. So I've been busy and I am trying to visit everyone's blog and catch up but I'm a little behind!

Lisa so kindly gave me this award and it was such a nice surprise. She is very talented and I am so honored. It is called the Javablu award and I am going to pass it along to my new friends at the Sketch Saturday Challenge. I am so amazed and so lucky to be part of this team which is so incredibly talented!

This is for you! I am so looking forward to working with you all!

Another Award!

I was given this award by lovely Bev whose amazing blog: All The Things I Love, is one I visit daily. Thank you so much Bev for your kind words. They are a great source of encouragement to me!

The award rules state that you must in turn give this to seven others but I think I will be a little bit of a rule breaker because I'd like to pass it on to all of you who stop by and leave such kind comments. I try to visit your blogs in turn and I always find such amazing talent there. So this goes to you all! Thanks!

I also would like to mention that Claudia is giving away some awesome candy if you'd like to stop by!

I'll have a new card posted tomorrow morning! Have a great evening!

The Wylde Woman Award

I was given this award by Elizabeth Bell. To say I was astonished and incredibly delighted would be a huge understatement. I, along with so many others admire and are inspired by her beautiful illustrations.

Thank you Elizabeth, I am very grateful.

The purpose of this award is:

To send love and acknowledgment to women who brighten your day, teach you new things and live their lives fully with generosity and joy.

The rules of this award are:
1. You can give it to one or one hundred or any number in between - it's up to you. Make sure you link to their site in your post.

2. Link back to this blogsite http://www.tammyvitale.com/ so Tammy can go visit all these wonderful women.

I would like to pass thisin particular to:
Katharina
Inge
Nikki
Claudia

but also to all of your who stop by and leave such kind comments. Thank you!

An Award!

Tomorrow is Canada's birthday and we went out with the kiddies to see the fireworks. We tucked them into bed when we got back and I went to check for comments and LOOK AT WHAT I FOUND! Bev gave me this award. I am absolutely thrilled. It was such a lovely surprise. Thank you so much Bev. I love you work, your coloring is phenomenal, and so it is an honor that you chose me.

Now I get to pass this along. Here are the rules for this award:

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you've nominated.

The talented ladies I'd like to nominate are:
Claudia
Katharina
Inge
Camilla
Nikki
Marlene
Kimmie

it was hard to pick just 7 because there are so many gifted ladies out there and I don't know if some already have been awarded...I guess they'll just have 2!