Sweet Blog Award

This morning Pam sent me this very sweet Sunshine Award.  Then this afternoon my mom Geri gave me the same award.  Thank you Pam and mom for my wonderfully sweet blog award.

I am happy to pass this Sunshine Award on to some outstanding fellow bloggers that I have come to know and love since I started blogging two years ago.

Linda

Tina

Jennie

Natalie

Deb

Jessica

Here are the "rules" girls - but rules or not - enjoy your blog award - you are some of the sunshine in my life and you all make me smile!!

• Pass it on to 6 bloggers
• Put a link to your nominees within your post
• Let your nominees know that you are passing this award along to them by leaving by leaving a comment on their blog
• Link to the blog of the person who nominated your for this award

Thank you Mary Anne

A few days ago a stamping friend from StampTV, Mary Anne gave me this sweet award.  Thank you Mary Anne.  Mary Anne is a wonderfully talented stamper if you are not familiar with her work head over to her blog and check it out, you will not be disappointed.

 

One of the rules for this award is to tell you 10 things about myself.  So here goes.

1. I am very shy.
2. I love to sing while driving.
3. I don't care much for coffee.  Except for the occasional Starbucks.
4. I met my husband when I was eleven, though we didn't date until after I was eighteen, we have been married for twenty years.
5. We have one son who just started college.
6. I love camping in our RV. And yes I take some stamps with me.
7. I am a food service director and a asst.computer tech for a small school district.
8. I love to laugh and have fun. I try not to take things too seriously, life is too short.
9. I am OCD about germs.
10. I am very grateful for all of the wonderful supportive friends that I have made since I started blogging almost two years ago and all of the sweet comments that you have left for me.

That is harder than you would think.  I am now suppossed to pick ten friends to pass this on to.  For me that is hard as I don't know who all has already been awarded.  So I will take the high road and please feel free to take this if you have not already received it.  If you are here and still reading I know that you are one of my cherished online friends and I would love to learn more about you.
I hope to have a card to show you tomorrow, but if I don't get it done I will for sure have one Tuesday night.  Thank you for stopping by.

Catching up

So a few weeks ago I got this award from Geri (my mom for those of you who don't already know).  I have been a bad daughter and haven't post it until now, sorry mom.  Thank you mom for this wonderful award.

My next sweet award comes from Mary Anne, thank you so much Mary Anne how awesome of you to think of me.

The neat thing about this award is that we get to share a little bit about ourselves that many of you may not know.

1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Your hair? straight
3. Your mother? wonderful
4. Your father? strong
5. Your fave food?  dark chocolate
6. Your dream last night? none
7. Your fave drink? ice tea
8. Your dream/goal? health and happiness forever
9. What room are you in? stamp room
10. Your hobby? stamping
11. Your fear? tight spaces
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? right here
13. Where you were last night? home
14. Something that you aren’t? skinny
15. Muffins? banana nut
16. Wish List Item? stamps and more copics
17. Where did you grow up? northern califorina
18. Last thing you did? went to Michaels
19. What are you wearing? jammies
20. Your TV? off
21. Your Pets? beagle "Belle"
22. Friends? awesome
23. Your Life? happy
24. Your Mood? sleepy
25. Missing Someone? my mom
26. Vehicle? chevy pickup
27. Something your not wearing? perfume
28. Your fave store? Gina K Designs
29. Your fave color? blue
30. Last time you laughed? a few minutes ago
31. Last time you cried? can't remember
32. Your best friend? My husband
33. One place that I go to over and over? work
34. One person who emails regularly? again work
35. Fave place to eat? Mazotti's
36. Facebook?  yes

Now here is where I am a bad blogger again, I am suppose to pass each of these onto five people.  The problem is I keep up with nearly 300 blogs and I would not be able to pick only five, so I am going to pass this along to all of my fabulous readers with out you all I wouldn't be doing this, Thank you.

Blog Award

I received this wonderful award from Selma. Selma does such fabulous cards and has amazing talent.

The rules for this award are...
*comment on this blog
*cut and paste the award logo and use it on your own blog
*nominate 5 to 10 blogs you feel show great attitude and gratitude
*link to your nominees within your blog post
*comment on their blogs to let them know they received the award
*link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation.

I would like to nominate these wonderful ladies.
Cat
Lee
Deb
Joanne
Patti J
Donna

Over the weekend Erika gave me this award. I am speechless, and trust me that doesn't happen much. Thank you so much Erika, you rock girl.

So the rules for this award:

1) Post the award’s logo on your blog

2) Add the link to the person who nominated you

3) Nominate at least 6 others and no more than 10 blogs & post their links.

Here are the blogs I nominate

1. Theresa at Crafting The Web for those of you who don't know she is my sister and I love her cards and find myself inspired by her everyday.

2. Joanne at ...Just a Little Something I love her work and she has been posting some rockin' good challenges.

3. Jessica at iEmbellish she makes beautiful cards and is very inspiring.

4. Jamie at Stamp This! Jamie has a very pretty blog and lovely cards.

5. Erin at Cards By Fishlips Erin has a wonder style, I love her cards.

6. Cat at Catdidit Cat is an amazing card maker and papercrafter.

So if you have a moment and would like to see some awesome blogs click on the links and leave this wonderful ladies some love.

A couple of challenge cards and an award

I made this card for the challenge Melanie Muenchinger posted last week on Paper Craft Planet. For this challenge you needed to make a card using a stamp from Little Tee's or Just So Sporty. I love Little tees and do not use it enough so out it came and this is what I came up with. I made it a 4 x 4 note card. Diva was stamped with versamark ink and heat embossed with some sparkle silver embossing powder I bought years ago. I wish it showed better in the picture.
My second card was for the other challenge to use one of Melanie's stamps. This was easy for me because I have several of her stamps and my new favorite set of Melanie's is A year of flowers, it is a beautiful set. For the poinsettia I stamped it twice and colored the first one with my bic markers, the second one I colored only the smaller petals on the inside then I cut them both out and heat embossed them with three layers of powder. Last I popped the middle up with a dimensional.



Lastly I have been tagged with this wonderful award by Deena. Thank you Deena!!! I would like to tag Theresa with this award she has a fabulous blog and is the person I have to give credit to for getting me started in the blogging world. Thank you Theresa. (For those of you who don't already know she is my very talented sister.) Second I would like to tag Erin. for those of you who don't know Erin she is a wonderful paper crafter and has a beautiful blog. Erin is very supportive to, so head over and leave both of these wonderful ladies some love.

Thank you for stopping by.
Brenda

P.S. I will not be able to post anything for at least a few days as I am having knee surgery tomorrow. I will post as soon as I am feeling up to it.