Creative Every Day, Illustration Friday, and me being technically confused!

I feel a bit bad because Creative Every Day and Illustration Friday have been really helping me and I want to add the badge/link things onto my blog but can't seem to get them to work!  I've followed the instructions for both but nothing appears on my blog page.  If anyone has any suggestion as to what I might be doing wrong I'd really appreciate it.  I'm new to all this Blogger business, plus brain is muddled with pregnancy!!