Thank you Shar!!

My fabulous friend Shar generously gifted me with this blog award!! Isn't it beautiful? Go check out Shar's blog when you get a minute - she has got great art and a really helpful listing of various links including a TON of cool stamp companies on her sidebar.

I would love to draw your attention to the following stamping bloggers ~ beautiful art but more beautiful people, in no particular order :o)

Lisa

Jackie

Judy

Beth

Manna

Tera

Ret

Faye

A special award

I feel so honored to have been given this award by Shar and Shirley this past week. It is called the Arte Y Pico. Thank you both - you made my day! :o)

I believe the origin of this award is a lady named Eseya from Uruguay, South America, and the title is something like "Art and a little of other things too". This is Eseya's site which is supposed to be posted each time the award is given by the person receiving it.


The idea is that you then pick five blogs that you believe deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and contribution to the blogging community. List the names of the people you chose to receive the award on your blog and link to their blogs. Then let your award winners know by posting a comment on their blog. Each award winner is to show the award and put the name of the person who gave them the award with a link to her/his blog. You also need to show the link to the Arte Y Pico blog to honor the origin of this award.



I love and appreciate SO MANY of the blog owners and all their hard work to entertain and educate the rest of us, so it's been hard to narrow it down to just five you'll love to visit. But here's a go at - enjoy!!

Debi

Gerrie

Lisa

Dina

Kathy

So Much News!!!

I am feeling so honored to have been given this award by my great friend and fellow stamper Manna Go check out her blog if you've never been there, and enjoy it some more if you already have! :o)

It would be impossible to narrow down the bloggers I love, but here are a few you may have missed and need to see! To them I pass on this award...

Debbie at Thinking Inking , who posts nearly every day and has a perfect eye for color! Her use of Copic markers is legendary, and her range of themes and techniques is wide-ranging.

Shelly at Stamping With Shelly , whose link was sent to me by Linda, knowing I would love her multilayered works of art immensely! Her work is unique and you can look at a card five minutes straight and not see it all, but you won't miss anything with her great descriptions and sources given.

Kimm at Kimm's Daily Grace , who offers beautiful and varied artwork, tutorials on aspects of card making, and mini challenges for color combos, etc. Her artwork will inspire you to try all kinds of new and interesting things!

Please check out my sidebar for more awesome blogger's work, and more coming soon!!!

My second happy news is this fabulous custom rating sign made by Erin Grotegut of Stamper Storage. You can also click on her link under the item in my sidebar anytime if you'd like to contact her. This particular image is a custom order and design so no borrowing allowed :o)

My third, but no less happy, piece of news is that this card below that I shared with you earlier (see post index, it's under animals) is appearing in the brand new RubberStampMadness magazine! It is included in an article on one of my favorite stamp companies, I Brake For Stamps!

Thanks for sharing my joy!