Let's Hear It For The Girls!

Not those girls... although, let's face it, they're pretty spectacular. I'm talking about these girls:

Next week, on January 20th, Amber Ink. will reach a significant milestone. We'll have been open for business for six months! WOOOOOT Can you say party?
I can.

The hands-down best part has been our marvelous (th)INK Tank, Amber Ink.'s version of a Design Team. Last year, pam and I sat down with a list of nominees she had compiled. From that list we chose five women to run the first Amber Ink. torches. Every time I have praise for one of our inaugural torchbearers, mom reminds me "i found her"! Hehe.

Our first torchbearers hit the ground running on July 20th, 2010. At the end of their month long sprint they passed their torch! Now as we reach the half way point in our first year of business, we've grown a brilliant family of women who make our lives so creative and full. Our girls keep that fire burning bright.

After a lot of planning and some programming you can finally keep tabs on the course of their marathon. We are thrilled to finally have a place to remind you how brilliant they really are, we're reminded every freakin' day. You can see our family tree here, or get to it by clicking the "girls on fire" tab at the top of our homepage, http://www.amberink.com/

Hip. Hip. Hip.

WOYWW - Torchbearers!

Our torchbearers are always on my mind.



Today they're on my desk. I'm designing and programming a long awaited (for me and mom, aka.pam, aka incredimobo) new (th)INK tank page! We love our girls. And for those looking for Queen Julia, she's there, with a pretty pink frame surrounding her suhWEET self.

Every month there is a new queue of nominated torch bearers ready to run out of the gates with their flaming torches held aloft. This next month you'll see another WOyWWer placed ever so preciously on the graph.

Mom uses their help and her brilliant brain to write their bios, so that we can show you what total babes they are. We show off their brilliant command of their craft on our current (th)INK tank page. They run like the dickens, creating with Amber Ink throughout their one month stint.

Sometimes they run so fast we can't catch up! This is one of those cases. Finally, finally you'll be able to see our family tree of torch passing lineage. It will be up on our homepage under the Girls on Fire tab. We get to keep in touch with them in a thrilling online forum (one of my favorite things) where we get to hear all the nitty gritty. Now you can keep tabs on them too, through this easy to navigate web of their blogs and brilliance. Watch them go!

Oh! and please stop by the super, speedy Julia Dunnit's daring blog to show off your workdesk!
Good luck catching her, you see, she runs that torch too!

Let's hear it for the boys!

Let's hear it for Julie too!

(yeah...and check out that fish hook - so clever!)

And while we're at it,

Let's hear it for Wendy who won the challenge

so that she could co art direct with Willem

and come up with the ideas using Amber's artwork.

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Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb

It takes a licking and keeps on ticking...

As Dhubs would say, "someone got paid for coming up with a slogan like that?"

What fun.

It seems so retro.

A lot like the theme of the stamp set that Karin is designing with Amber.

All because she won the challenge.

Which is why that clock is ticking.

That's how much time you have left to enter.

Do you want a peek at something

that is about ready to pop out of  the oven?

And there's going to be lot's more where this came from!

It's Aloha Friday...

No work till Monday ...doo dee doo doo dee doo dee doo dee doo dee doo dee doo.

Christmas has to be down by Epiphany (Jan.6) in my house.  Don't know why, just that ole' tradition stuff kicking in again.  Now that everything is cleared out it sure looks nekid around here!  Got me thinking about the simple things and lately when my mind wanders on Thursday, that is the direction I head off to on Aloha Friday!

So....

#1.  Spotlight a simple joy

#2. What are you doing (or going to do) to beat the post holiday melt down?

#3. What resolution image best meets your new resolve?

(pick one of the free images from some talented designers in the #3 link above

 or chose one of your own. 

These were created as iphone wallpaper,

 to serve as a daily reminder of your new big ideas!

Check it out...they are awesome!)

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It's best to right click and save an image to your computer file first.

Link to a URL, not your blog!

Make sure you put the category # (1,2,3) and your name.

(No need to put your email addy.)

That's it! See...easy peasy.

Enter once, twice or thrice.

Keep your fingers crossed and Amber may reward a random winner,

otherwise just chalk it up to a fun start to your weekend.

See you on Monday!

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Wanna feel all fuzzy inside?

Remember those  Bunny Bunny Kiss Kiss  rascals from our Tuesday post? 

They're at it again, or I should say our torchbearers are at it again.

Lindsey made it pretty in pink.

If you gave your sweetie a card like that

along with some sweets like this...

I'll just bet all your dreams would come true!

WOYWW - Itemized

Tonight just as I was in the middle of 100 things, mom called. Our conversation was like this:

Mom (AKA Pam) OOPS! I thought I was going to text you, but I guess I called you! Are you doing What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?
Me: Oh NO! I forgot!
Her: Ohhhhhhhhhhhh...... trail off in disappointment
Me: OK. I'm on it.
Her: Yayyyyy! OK bye.

I leaned to my right, snatched up my Cannon and Snap! Now because that was too simple and I always turn WOYWW into a big to-do, I'm going to tell you all about everything! FUN (for me) Hopefully not too boring for you ;)

Not planning for Julia's WOYWW - has magically made one of my favorite workdesks ever. I will tell you all about it (incase you want to recreate it to fill your own cup of bliss). Hahaha. Good things happen on Wednesdays, and on Wednesday my desk is a good thing.

Are bunnies just for Easter?

Not when they are LOVE BUNNIES!!!

Hopefully your Christmas is put away so that you can concentrate!

 Are you getting organized???

(you have TWO weeks left!) 

Focus now.

Alyssa just took this:

and this:

and this:

And by some miracle...(and talent and skill)

she made this:

then open it up and :

and a little left over ipaper to make:

Yo ...

Knock Knock...

Who's there?

Justin.

Justin who?

Justin time for Valentine's Day.