Splashes of Watercolor

My dear friend Tammy passed this blogging award on to me.  It was so much fun reading her answers and then trying to give my answers (only one word, ha!)  That sounds hard!  Let’s see how I do.

The Rules are:

1. You can only use ONE word!!!
2. Pass this along to 5 of your favorite bloggers!
3. Alert them that you have given them this award!
4. HAVE FUN!!!
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Just ONE word…let’s see if I can do it!

1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Your hair? shorter
3. Your mother? sweet
4. Your father? comedian
5. Your fave food? dessert
6. Your dream last night? none
7. Your fave drink? water
8. Your dream/goal? retirement
9. What room are you in? office
10. Your hobby? kayaking
11. Your fear? illness
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? beach
13. Where you were last night? home
14. Something that you aren’t? retired
15. Muffins? blueberry
16. Wish List Item? retirement
17. Where did you grow up? Florida
18. Last thing you did? work
19. What are you wearing? yellow
20. Your TV? small
21. Your Pets? ancient
22. Friends? many
23. Your Life? blessed
24. Your Mood? tired
25. Missing Someone? Dad
26. Vehicle? Pilot
27. Something your not wearing? necklace
28. Your fave store? Target
29. Your fave color? aqua
30. Last time you laughed? lunch
31. Last time you cried? Grey’s
32. Your best friend? daughter
33. One place that I go to over and over? work
34. One person who emails regularly? Karen
35. Fave place to eat? steakhouse
36. Facebook? nope

Hmmm.  There seems to be somewhat of a theme here.  I must be looking forward to retiring to the coast!!  Ya think??

I’m supposed to pass this on to five of my favorite bloggers.  I did a “close your eyes, point and click” in my blog list and here’s who I came up with:

1. Heidi

2. Joan

3. Elena

4. Christine

5. Susan

Have fun, ladies, and thanks again for choosing me, Tammy!

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Happy Halloween, y’all!

I’d like to thank Pam and all the super nice ladies at the new Just Us GirlS blog (don’t you love that acronym??) for awarding me the Chic of the Week #2 award for my Addy TUDE card!  Here’s the super cute award button that I’ll be adding to my sidebar.

If you haven’t checked out their new challenge blog you should really head over THERE!  It’s hip and cute and sassy!!  I love it!!  There’s a new challenge posted each Saturday!

Thanks so much again to Pam and all the great JUGS girls!!

I’m so honored to have been mentioned on Marianne Walker’s blog - I Like Markers - today!  She gave me (and some others, of course) this cool award just because I comment on her blog!  How would I not comment?  She’s so very talented and her blog is so informative!  I study it religiously and I appreciate all the time and effort she puts into educating us.

 And the best part…..you KNOW she designed and drew this award herself!!  How cool is that???!!!

Thank you so much, Marianne!!

So continuing in Marianne’s spirit of gratitude, I’d like to pass this award along to a few ladies who are so sweet and who regularly stop by here to leave such kind and uplifting comments.  I do appreciate each and every one of you! 

• Elena - The Redhaired Girl - She’s such a sweet and talented lady and ALWAYS leaves me a comment.
• Danielle - Wild Dragonfly Designs - A super talented lady who is also a fellow Color Throwdown hostess.
• Janet - Life Full of Sunflowers - A fellow Carolinian who is also ultra-talented!
• Rose Ann - Paper Delightz - We were on the DD together for only one month, but that’s all it took to find out how sweet and talented this lady is!  I’m sure you ALL already know this!
• Susan - Stampin’ Susan - We were in Marianne’s Copic class together in Charleston, SC last year.  What fun that was!  And she has a super fun blog!!
• Joan - Stamping With a Passion - What a gifted lady…not only is she a superb artist, she’s also so kind and giving.  And what a hoot!
• Norine - Crafty Sister - She’s always so sweet and generous with her comments and hugs!  And she’s tirelessly providing cards to our soldiers.
• Linda C - I don’t think Linda has a blog, but she’s always one of the first to leave a comment.  I wish I knew more about you, besides how sweet you are!

Thanks to all of you ladies and to all of you who visit me regularly.

Pass it on!

OMG!!!  I’ve been stalking the 2 Sketches 4 You blog for a while and finally
decided to try the sketch last week.  I was chosen as one of the week’s Fab 5!  Check it out here!

This is the card I entered.

Thank you for choosing my card, Kazan and Laura!!!

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Look at this beautiful award that I received from my sweet friend, Joan Ervin.  Thank you so much, Joan!!

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Here are the details…
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.

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I ‘d like to pass this award along to my fellow Color Throwdown designers:

• Cathy Indelicato
• Kisa Peters
  
• LeAnne Pugliese
• Tammy Hershberger

as well as to:

• Christine Okken
• Danielle Kennedy
• Dee Jackson
• Lila Holgate
• Michele Boyer
• Susan Moore

Thanks again, Joan!  And I’ll see you guys later!

Thanks so much to Etha and Kisa !  You sweet, talented ladies really made my day!  I appreciate so much that you think I deserve this award!!

There are SO MANY wonderful, creative people out there that I really can’t narrow it down to 5 stampers, as is required to pass this award along.  So I say you ALL deserve it!

Thank you again so much, ladies!

Thank you to Kisa of Kisa’s Paper Cuts for passing this award on to me!

Kisa is just a doll and so very talented!! I love her blog too!!!

I have such a long list of blogs that I LOVE and visit almost daily, but I won’t list them all (they’re already in my blogroll list!). But I will pass this along to a few people who continue to inspire me on a daily basis:

Sherry Cheever - Walking on the Bad Side

Leslie Miller - Running with Scissors

Michele Boyer - Paper Cuts

Lindsey Botkin - Embellished

Rose Ann Reynolds - Paper Delightz

Kittie Caracciolo - Kittie Kraft

Thank you ladies for all your inspiration and thanks again, Kisa!!!

Rubbernecker Stamp Co. is having a 25% sale on the new Adirondack pigment ink pads and reinkers today through next Wednesday, August 6!!! If you’ve wanted to try them, but haven’t yet, now is definitely the time to do it!

And speaking of Rubbernecker…..how about these new Cartoon images? They are so cute and hilarious and SO MUCH FUN to color! I just loved this one and made this card for my niece who is a hairdresser! She loved it and has it sitting at her station!

The sentiment is computer generated, then I stamped the image in Palette Hybrid Noir and colored it with my Copic markers. The cape was then covered with Star Dust Stickles! I really should have colored her hair purple, because Jaime actually has purple streaks in her hair!

When I finished with this card, I had some scraps of white and the patterned paper left over, so I thought I’d try Julia’s Ways To Use It challenge this week to use scraps. I also combined it with Jeanne’s Limited Supply challenge to make a card that would make someone smile. I guess both of these cards would qualify for that one!

I just hate it when I’m late getting a birthday card out in the mail to someone or if I just forget a birthday totally! After all, I make cards, for goodness sakes! You’d think I’d have bunch just sitting around waiting to be mailed! NOT! They just seem to disappear (or get taken by my daughters, or get sent to Dave, or just walk off on their own)! So when I saw this darling little snail by Inkadinkado that Lindsey had, I knew I would probably get a lot of use out of it!

I used the scraps of patterned paper as you can see, and the snail was stamped on a scrap of white paper and cut out and embossed with a Nestabilities scallop circle die. I also stamped the little guy directly on the front of the card before attaching the scraps so I could line the snail and his trail up exactly where I wanted it and be able to add the stickles to his entire trail.

It really is a simple card, but I think it’s so cute!

Thanks for taking time out to stop by. I’m headed off to my grandson’s birthday party. That should be wild and fun! Enjoy your weekend!

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Card #1:

Stamps: Wow I Love It - Rubbernecker Cartoon section

Paper: white, elegant eggplant, DCWV Pocket Full of Posies mat stack

Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir

Accessories: Copic markers, Hodgepodge hardware - stylized silver, piercing tool, mat, template, ribbon, horizontal slot punch, silver liquid pearls, Star Dust stickles

All items in pink are from Rubbernecker Stamp Co.

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Card #2:

Stamps: Happy Belated Birthday - Inkadinkado from Jacksonbelle Embellishments

Paper: white, bashful blue, DCWV Pocket Full of Posies mat stack

Ink: Palette Hybrid Noir

Accessories: Copic markers, Nestabilities, Cuttlebug, Star Dust stickles, Ranger Glossy Accents

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Oh, and look what that sweet, darling Danielle Kennedy at Wild Dragonfly Designs gave me:

Thank you so much, Danielle! I’ll have to think about who I’ll pass this one along to!

I’ve been awarded the Arte Y Pico (Art & More) Award by Etha of MoreGreenWool.  Thank you so much, Etha!  I am truly so honored.

This award is given to bloggers who share their art and creativity making their contribution to the blogging world.  Here are the rules:

1. You pick five blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contribute to the blogging community, no matter what 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 the 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. Show these rules.

I really hate having to choose only 5 blogs when there are so many excellent ones out there.  I currently have 148 in my Google reader and I think they all deserve this award.  So if I’ve left a comment on your blog recently and/or you are listed in my blogroll in the left column, you know that I believe you to be deserving of this award.  Feel free to copy and paste from this post onto your own blog and consider yourself awarded!

And thanks again to Etha!!

My buddy, Tosha, has rated my blog as excellent!!! 

Thanks so much, Tosh!  Right back at ya!  I love visiting your blog to see what new eye candy you’ve created!  And you’re so much fun!!

So the deal is I’m supposed to forward this award to 10 excellent bloggers.  Now there are so many, it’s really tough to make a choice!  I’d like to pass on the award to these ladies who provide me with awesome inspiration (and quite a few laughs!) on a daily basis:

Michele Boyer - Paper Cuts

Janine Tinklenberg - Stamps, Paper, Scissors

Tracy Harp - Inky Doodles

Jami Sibley - More is More

Beth Silaika - Freckled Fun

Angie Zublionis - Quacking Creations

Dawn Lusk - Dawn…a new day

Cambria Turnbow - Stamp a Little Love, Baby!

Kelly Lunceford - Flutter by Atomicbutterfly

and last, but most certainly not least:

Sharon Johnson - No Time To Stamp?

Thanks for my daily dose of stamping inspiration, ladies!  You’re all so awesome!