A really pretty award...

I think a lot of my blogging buddies have already got this award so I'm going to do this in a slightly different way...

I'm going to add links to 10 absolutely amazing blogs where I have found masses of inspiration over the past year (please don't take offence if you're not on the list - I could have gone on forever if I had time).

Rica's Heaven (heavenly cards too!!)

Irene (the queen of embossing and paper piercing)

Ann ( a true stamp artist with an amazing talent for creating scenes)

Jennifer's Sweet Designs (truly sweet designs and a new range of stamps out too)

Amazing Paper Grace (take your breadth away cards)

and my new friends at the Pink Elephant who are a very talented bunch - goodness knows how they got landed with me!!?

Lori Robin Tina Trudi Carol

If you have some time to spare take a look at all these blogs and leave them a comment about their work - they really deserve tons of praise. I'm not even going to tell them about this write up - leaving that to their visitors!

If you would like the cute award please feel free to take it for your blog and maybe do a posting like mine with 10 blogs on that have given you inspiration over the last year.

Boy and girl silhouette version 2...

I must admit I had intended to use a different image on this card, but when I actually got the intended stamp out it was too big! Not to worry this image deserves to be used more than once.

On this card I used the mask directly on to my base card (brave eh?) and stippled the background again with Adirondack inks before using my black Versefine to stamp the main image.

This time to frame the scene I used a gold peel off frame. I was sure that somewhere in my box I had a sheet of frames that was bought ages ago and never used. I couldn't believe my luck when the frame was just the right size for the image - not often that happens!!

The light is terrible here at the moment - my card is much more effective in real life - honest.

After the bravery of stippling and stamping directly on to my card I was really please to find that my card fits the challenge at the One Stop Craft Challenge. Wow how wonderful to be one of the first for a change.

Boy and girl silhouette...

I really love this silhouette image of a girl and a boy on a bike - it's a tiny stamp from Jessica Lynn Originals, but one I am really fond of. I need some tiny cards to send out 'just because' and this is my first one.

To create the background I stippled Adirondack ink through a circular cut out in various shades and then removed the mask and stamped the image using black Versefine ink (my all time favourite).

The challenge at Wednesday Stamper this week is silhouettes so my card is perfect for that challenge and I'm also going to enter it for Cynthia's challenge at the Rainbow Lady Challenge Blog where the theme is 'People'.

My people may be small ones, but I'm sure Cynthia won't mind once she gets over the shock of me getting my card done so early!!