Happy April!!

Hope everyone has been enjoying their spring so far! The flowers outside my window are blooming and everything is green and gorgeous! (As it should be since it has rained almost every day for the past year here!) Anyway...

Yesterday I got the nicest surprise and it has inspired this months challenge. My mom who is the most thoughtful, selfless, sweetest person I have ever known came by my office and dropped this off:

(Please excuse the picture it was taken with my cell phone.)

It is the Heather Bailey lunch bag that I have been wanting her to make me and I am in LOVE with it. I am always grabbing my lunch at the last minute heading for work and dropping stuff everywhere, but no longer will I have that problem will I? Isn't it adorable? She is always doing nice things for me and my sisters. It is the little things that always make me smile and appreciate everything she does. Which brings me to this months challenge.

I challenge you to make a card, gift, or mini scrapbook for someone who is always going out of their way for someone else. It could be something small just to put a smile on their face. We definitly need more people in the world like them. Don't you think?

I will be posting my surprise for my mom later this week on my blog! I can't wait to see all of yours. You are all so talented and amaze me everytime I stop by your blogs to drool over your creations!

More Badges

Mel has created two additional badges that are a little smaller and may fit on your blog better.  Feel free to use these instead of the original, larger one.

To add the above badge to your blog, copy the following code and paste it into the HTML/Java script widget:

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INKer's March Challenge

Your Discovery of Papertrey Ink?

With Papertrey Ink not being in any store, it is not as if we found it on the shelf at our local LSS. There is a story behind our discovery of it's existence. Granted some of us may have been PTI fans for four years, but still there is a story to tell. And I think each is worth telling. So what opened your eyes to Papertrey Ink? With all the products out there, something drove you to search them out. What was it?          

For me it was this card on the Two Peas and a Bucket website Forum that drove me to search out Papertrey Ink. I loved the clouds and the sentiments, and just about everything about it. So my first order at PTI included the stamps and dies for "Up Up and away" and I was hooked.... oh yeah and I had to run out and buy a Big Shot to boot.

This challenge has several layers to answer throughout the month of March:

 1)Tell your story of how you discovered Papertrey Ink (the trigger).

2) Using (the trigger) make a project for each of the March Make it Mondays.

3) Now that you've fallen back in love with your first love of PTI, use (the trigger) to showcasing the PTI Blog Hop Challenge this March.

I hope I have you thinking of all the different things you can do with your first PTI Love.

As I've mentioned before my (trigger) was "Up Up and away" Dies. So here are a few cards I made a couple of months ago (before copics).

Here is the card I made yesterday, playing with my new Copics and a few other PTI goodies ;)

Hope you enjoy the Challenge!

Post yours Here:

Adding the INKers badge to your blog

To add the INKers badge to your blog, do the following:

1. Add a HTML/Java script widget to your blog (skip this step if you already have one).

2. Copy the following code and paste it into that widget:

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3.  Save it.

If you want to add the INKers badge to your signature line on the Papertrey Forum, just edit your signature and add the following code:

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Made a button for the Inkers what do you think?

Now I've just got to figure out how to make it into a button... any suggestions? I need code...

INKers Challenge #1 - February

Hi INKers!  This is Linda, your challenge hostess for February.

We have been having an awesome February so far in Northern California!  So sorry to rub it in for those of you in the East or Midwest or anywhere else in the throes of winter!  But usually we are having cold and rainy weather this time of year so having this warm, sunny weather right now is so nice.  Our trees are flowering, the daffodils and paperwhites are blooming and the camellia bush outside my front door has the most gorgeous bright pink flowers.  

For our first challenge, I will start simple: Create a project using the color(s) of your favorite flower.  Oh, and by the way, no flowers can appear on your project.  When you post your project, tell us what your favorite flower is and why it’s your favorite.

It’s as simple as that.  Use the color any way you want - paper, ink, coloring, etc. 

Have fun!!

INKers Challenge Rules

Before I post our first challenge, I thought it would be helpful to post some basic rules:

1. You must use at least one Papertrey product on your project.
2. Post a photo of your project on your personal blog.  Descriptive information is encouraged but not required.  
3. Add a comment to the challenge post here with a link to the post on your blog.  We will look into replacing this with a linky tool.
4. Visit your blog sisters' posts and leave some love.
5. Challenges will be posted the first of every month and you have until the end of the month to submit your project.
6. You may submit more than one project.

Feel free to combine this challenge with others, especially Papertrey’s Make It Monday weekly challenges. 

Linda