(The RNG at) Creative Inspirations Paints liked Cheery Cherry Snowman!

I've been not terribly active in the whole reading-blogs-and-posting business lately, so I've only just now seen that Cheery Cherry Snowman came out of the hat as a Top 3 entry in Creative Inspirations Paint's "Case It!" challenge.

Random or not, it's always a thrill to see something I made show up in a winners post!

Southern Girls Challenge Likes Mod Cats!

My Mod Cats bookmark was chosen as one of the Top 5 in the Southern Girls Chsllenge "Color Me Pretty - Pink & Brown" challenge!

I'm awfully pleased they liked it!

The Crafty Pad likes Paisley Tea!

My Paisley Tea bookmark was chosen as one of the Top 5 in The Crafty Pad's "Distress It!" challenge!

I'm awfully pleased they liked it; it's nice to have the effort I put into that one rewarded!

(The RNG at) Robyn's Fetish Challenge likes Frog Princess!

RNG stands for Random Number Generator -- the top picks at Robyn's are picked randomly, you see, not by a person or people. And in Robyn's "Book Marks" challenge, it picked one of my bookmarks.

But the RNG did not pick Rainbow Pennants or Cold Outside, which I also submitted. It liked Frog Princess, possibly the pinkest thing I've ever done.

To be quite honest, and rather to my own surprise given the pinkness, Frog Princess is my favorite of those I submitted. So I'm glad the RNG chose it instead of one of the others.

It actually had to choose at least one -- there is one winner and three top picks, and I was three out of the seven entries. Look, the challenge was "Book Marks", okay, do you expect me not to max out my entry quota?

Emergency Crafters likes Rainbow Pennants!

My Rainbow Pennants bookmark won third place in Emergency Crafters' "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" challenge!

It took me a while to remember that the emergency number in Britain is 999, not 911 as it is in the States. Then the badge made sense. Unfortunately the type on the badge is a little small (especially once I shrunk the badge to fit in my sidebar), but it says "THIRD PLACE!!" and has the link to Emergency Crafters.

Loves Rubberstamps likes Circles Circles Circles!

Likelihood that I will be posting self-congratulatory posts all week: very low. But today I found something very sweet in my blog feed: because so few people participated in the Espresso, Pumpkin, & Aqua color challenge at Loves Rubberstamps, and they liked all our projects, Laura Love is very kindly giving a $5 gift certificate to each of us (all four of us!) who did not win the random draw. She posted all of our projects and declared every one of us to be favorites for the week.

See, my favorite project would have been the lovely card with snowmen on it, by Annie Rose, but over at Loves Rubberstamps they are more generous than that.

This week's challenge is a photo inspiration challenge, and you should check it out, because Loves Rubberstamps is good people.

Incy Wincy likes Wintergreen!

There was an awesome birthday present in my blog feed this morning: my Wintergreen bookmark is in the top three at Incy Wincy for their Monochromatic Green challenge!

I have no idea what the papercraft blog etiquette is regarding posting about things like this, but for now I don't care. It might not be the most beautiful badge in the world. There might have been only 16 contestants. But gosh darn it it's the first badge I've ever gotten.

Also, it's my birthday, and I can make self-congratulatory posts if I want to.