Awards galore and a Speckled Ugg

I have so many wonderful inspiring blogging friends and have been honored with the following awards from several of them!!

This one from Terri and Kay

1. I am to tell everyone 7 random/weird facts about myself

2. "tag" 7 more people.

3. Put a link to the giver on my blog.

4. Leave a message on the blogs of people that I tag

And this one from Joan and Amber

Here are the *official* rules for this one:
1. The winner may put the logo on their blog.
2. Put a link to the person who sent you the award.
3. Nominate 5 blogs.
4. Put links to their blogs
5. Leave a message for your nominees.

I am so appreciative of these awards but have been honored with so many of them! So I'm just going to tag 7 people and please take the award you would like from above!!

These are all blogging friends that I have found inspiration from - please take a minute to visit with them!

1. Michele Kovack

2. Heather Rolin

3. Jenn Muraoka

4. Beth Thomas

5. Deanna Woodland

6. Julie Lacey

7. Carolina Buchting

So here are 7 random facts about me:

1. I used to bite my fingernails down to the quick and just stopped about 10 years ago.

2. I wear a mouth guard at night because I apparently 'clench' my jaws so my teeth have deep wells in them - I don't grind - just clench!

3. I make lists - I would never remember anything if it wasn't for my 'lists'!

4. As a child I always wanted glasses because my sister and parents all wore them and I would tell my mother I couldn't see well just to try and get them!

5. I love to read.

6. I love to stamp more than read lately (well - probably all of you already know this fact and are in with me!!!)

7. I actually reduced my stamping time for a couple of weeks so that I could read the 4 Twilight novels!

And now onto some stamping!

What a fun new technique challenge today on Split Coast - speckled background made by spritzing Simple Green on glossy card stock that has been sponged with ink! DH had diluted our Simple Green with water and it didn't seem to work so I used an Orange cleaner we had.

Anne (itsapassion) had challenged us to use an Ugg boot as inspiration for the Double Dare Challenge I do each week with some SCS friends so I combined the two challenges. Here is the Ugg boot I used for inspiration . We had to use a brown background and the colors on the boot.

And here is my card with the speckled brown background and the colors from the boot!

I thought the speckled background came out sort of looking like the brushed leather on the boot. And I love the flowers in the Stampin Up Eastern Blooms set that I used here.

You can see the other Ugg inspired cards here.

Thank you so much for stopping by tonight - I just made 50,000 hits today thanks to you!! (Woo Hoo!!!) so there will be blog candy coming up soon as soon as I get my act together!

Stamps: Eastern Blooms: SU, Sentiiment from Heart Felt Thanks: PTI
Paper: wild wasabi, choc chip, close to cocoa, glossy white: SU, white: PTI
Ink: creamy caramel SU, dark chocolate: PTI, eggplant, cloudy blue, sunset orange: Adirondacks Accessories: sponge, foam dimensionals, spellbinders tag trio, sizzix die leaf and stem, cuttlebug, orange cleaner degreaser, yellow stickles,