Blog Schtuff

Over the last few months I have recieved a number of blog awards and tags and I have been rather slack in not responding to them... mostly because I have come online to post a creation and don't want to do two posts one straight after the other, and I just don't think to schedule it!

Back in August Sephi gave me the "I love your blog" award. The rules of this award are: (1) The winner can put the logo on their 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 of the girls or boys you’ve nominated.

In November Brooke tagged me as an inspiration. No rules with this one but list some inspiration.

In December Brooke gave me the Butterfly Award. The rules on this one are:

1. Post the award logo on your blog.

2. Add the link to the person who nominated you.

3. Nominate 10 other blogs and add post their links as well.

4. Let those people know that they received the award.

Ramona also gave me this award in December, so I am just going to nominate one batch of 10. In fact this list of 10 is for all the above :)

Jayne - completely different style and colour preferences to me, which I need
Marelle - what's not to love?
Teneale - love her style, and such skill!
Claire - I wish I could scrap like her! Gorgeous cards too, talent all-round!
Yvonne - more fabulous skills... and she's got me using Crystal Effects again
Lin Mei - she's a riot!
Makeesha - she comes up with some amazing stuff, even the left-field colour challenges are not to be ignored
Karen - I love seeing the ingenious things Karen comes up with, like this
Kristina - Of course Kristina has to be in here... her colour challenges are a highlight of my week! While these colours are always an option for me everyday, she provides the impetus to use them, combine them and come up with something surprisingly gorgeous (hopefully)
Laura - Someone else who produces gorgeous stuff, but I seriously love it when she uses a bunch of sketches with the same product

Blogging Friends Award

I have recieved this award from both Julia and Brooke, thanks so much for the honour ladies! The Rules that come with this award are :
1. Only 5 people allowed.
2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog
3. one has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. you must link back to whoever gave you the award.

1. Right back at ya Brooke I've really enjoyed getting to know Brooke and she always leaves me such lovely comments.
2. Tracey Eaton. It seems like we have been friends forever, but it's really only been a few years we just seem to have clicked. Total goofball, but that's why we luvs ya
3. Dani Fender. Dani's another one who always seems to be leaving me lovely comments, even if she's only just getting into all the right scifi shows and is a notorious inkpad theif
4. Kari Hughes. Kari's always got nice stuff to say about my cards, but the next time she sets a colour challenge I might just play deaf
5. Sephi. The Stamping Queen design team member and Button Queen herself Sephi is just as lovely as her work

I love sharing my online time with these ladies, even happier when it is offline. Long may it continue!

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:

You Make My Day Award

The lovely Sephi from Nightowl Designs has nominated me for a You Make My Day award. With this award you nominate another 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel happy about blog land. Don't forget to let them know they have been nominated! So without further ado, I bestow this award on Jayne, Angela, Tracey, Claire, Alisa, Marelle, Yvonne, Cheryl, Karen and Sandie