Wowsers

I have received a couple of awards over the last few days, which has blown me away. From Lin Mei I received:

And the rules that go with it are:

1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award, creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogger community, no matter of language.
2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4) Award winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y pico" blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5) To show these rules.

And now my 5 picks are:

~*~ Claire Daly. I'm in awe of her scrapping, and her cards aren't half bad either
~*~ Marelle Taylor. Marelle has such a beautiful clean style, and she uses purple quite often
~*~ Alisa Tilsner. The watercolouring wonder, Alisa also has a great style
~*~ Jayne Mercer. My fab upline and stamper extraordinaire
~*~ Yvonne Campbell. Quite simply... gob-smacking talent

And Brooke (who's blog I stumbled across from Kristina's colour challenges and we've been bouncing back so many comments I think we should start up a mutual admiration society!) nominated me for this:

The rules that accompany this award are:

1) Put the logo on your blog.
2) Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4) Add links to those blogs on yours.
5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.

Here are my 7 nominations. It's getting late so I am going to be real lazy and just say that for all of these, I look forward to Google Reader telling me they have made a new post on their blogs:

~*~ Alana Gallagher
~*~ Madonna Dunn
~*~ Petronella Hardy
~*~ Tracey Eaton
~*~ Kerri Hunter
~*~ Jenni Oliver
~*~ Michelle Frost-Stevenson

I know a few of these ladies have already received these awards so you guys probably don't need to worry about doing it all again.

And to cap it all off, Susanna graced me with this: