Involving Color

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Roeshel

I’ve “known” Jena from Involving Color for quite awhile and I not only love her creativity and beautiful home, I love her site. She has some new features and really helpful tools so I asked her to share a little about it today. It’s a site you’re going to want to pin or bookmark for when you’re trying to choose a paint color. See paint colors in “real” rooms. Here’s Jena:

Hi, I’m Jena from Involving Color, and I’m so excited to be guest posting here on The DIY Show Off! I’ve been a long time reader of Roeshel’s blog, so when she asked me to come share a little about my site with you guys, I was beyond excited.

Involving Color is a blog all about paint color. I have hundreds (and growing!) reader submitted rooms organized in galleries by paint color and room type. I even have a section just for painted furniture. I recently added a lot of functionality with an improved search and image tags, which I’ll talk about below.

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I'm SO excited!

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Roeshel

I’m so excited I can’t stop myself from making an announcement to share the exciting news with you! Last week I shared that I was in the “Top 12 2012 1st Projects Contest” at WhisperWood Cottage (x2). I really was all ready to be happy for one of the other talented ladies – so many amazing and inspiring projects. (See the Top 12 HERE.) (all entries here…a collection of some really creative projects.) I entered my faux fireplace/pallet shelf project and my stairwell landing makeover:

Tonight, I started getting a couple of emails from friends (thanks, ladies!) AND…

My heart stopped! Now it’s racing. I can’t believe it! WoOoOoOo HoOoOoOo!!!! Oh my gosh! I’m speechless! Thank you so SO much to

and

Now I need to go let that sink in. I’m NEVER going to be able to sleep tonight. I feel like I’m already dreaming! 🙂

Lucky Link Follower Giveaway ~ Week 2 AND a LINKY BLOG HOP!

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Roeshel

Are you feeling LUCKY?

WEEK 2

I hope you do! Cheri (It’s So Very Cheri) and I both worked with Brent the creator of the new LINKY FOLLOWER tool (he also has Linky Tools–the linky party guy). We were both a little panicked over the Google Friend Connect going away. We pleaded on bended knee for him to create something new. I guess he likes us or maybe he just thought it was a great idea because he got to work on it. We tested it and made some suggestions. Then we rounded up some friends to join our test group and we all helped to work on the best new follow tool which we announced last week.

One question that keeps coming up–‘I am still on blogspot so it won’t go away for me–why do I need a different follower tool?’ My reply–Why not get started now in the event Google Friends Connect goes away for you in the future too?

We worked really hard to make it the VERY BEST for you. We thought it would be SUPER FUN to have a SUPER COOL– MONTH LONG give-a-way to celebrate the SUPER COOL new tool.

1 WINNER WILL RECEIVED A CASH PRIZE OF $50 {via Paypal} at the end of February!

sponsored by Linky Followers & Linky Tools

(The PRIZE MONEY is open to world wide followers with a Paypal account)

In addition to our monthly prize our featured give-a-way for WEEK 2 is:

$50 in stencils

You can pick any selection that you would like.

Cutting Edge Videos

MANDATORY: Follow our NEW LINKY TOOL FOLLOWER (not the Google Friend Connect) located on our side bars. Signing up to Linky Followers is very simple and FREE! Yes – FREE!!!

FOLLOW Cheri from Its So Very Cheri —1 entry ( on the side bar)
FOLLOW Roeshel from The DIY ShowOff —1 entry (located on her side bar)
FOLLOW THE DIY CLUB —1 entry (located on the DIY Club side bar)

You MUST follow the NEW LINKY TOOL on all three (above) to be qualified for the give-a-way.

Then each week you can come over and follow the instructions to enter for that week.

This week 2/10/2012 through 2/17/2012 – EXTRA ENTRIES:

Leave us a comment for each entry.

Like Cutting Edge Stencils on Facebook
Follow Cutting Edge Stencils on Pinterest
Follow Cutting Edge Stencils on Twitter

THAT’S 6 CHANCES TO WIN HERE AND 6 CHANCES AT IT’S SO VERY CHERI! A huge thank you to Brent for his generous gift to bloggers! ::cue applause:: (Can you feel all the virtual hugs Brent?)