I Got An Award!

My SBS sister Roz has given me the above award! Thanks Roz... your the sweetest!

"With great power, comes great responsibility" and here are my responsibilities for accepting this award.

The rules...
(1) The winner can put the "I :heart: your blog" logo on their blog. Isn't it cute! :))
(2) Link the person you received your award from.
(3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
(4) Put links of those on yours.
(5) Leave a message on the blogs of the girls or boys you’ve nominated.

I am nominating the following people:

1. Becca Feeken - Becca's blog is amazing. Her creations are stunning!

2. Suzanne Dean - I just started following her blog after finding her through the Magnolia-Licious Yahoo Group. Check out her beautiful cards and she's even started some Copic Tutorials!

3. Theresa - Theresa is one of my fellow Stampin Gals from Stamping Links To Love. She creates beautiful cards and papercrafts and goes into a lot of detail with her posts.

4. Lainy- another one of my SBS sisters. I always enjoy her posts.

5. Geeta - one of my fellow A Muse Addicts! I love A Muse stamps and Geeta is such a fabulous cardmaker! Love her stuff!

6. Cheryl- Her cards are just so inspiring. I love her style and find myself wanting to CASE all of the cards she posts!

7. Kimmmie - Another fellow Magnolia Lover! Check out her blog! Love it!

New Color Challenge!!

Suzanne is hosting this weeks challenge over at Stamping Links To Love. I haven't made my card yet...but will tomorrow night! I've got my stamping buddies coming over to stamp tomorrow night!

Edwin

I made this card for my Magnolia-Licious "It's Raining Cards" swap. I really enjoyed making this card. I colored Edwin with copic markers but the stone wall is colored with Primsacolor pencils and OMS.

I sponged the sky and the grass. Edwin is cut out and placed on pop dots for dimension. I really like how it turned out. Can't wait to play some more this weekend!

Thanks for stopping by!

Where has the time gone??

Well, Tropical Storm Fay has finally left the state of Florida! I think that's a record...having a storm linger for 7 days! Our state is totally saturated and I honestly can't wait to see the sun shine again.

We did get some wind and rain but nothing like my SBS sister Roz. Her area received over 20 inches of rain in 24 hours.

I have been making cards the past 10 days since I've blogged. I got my first order of Magnolia stamps and gosh have I had fun playing with them! I finished my cards for my "raining cards" swap today and will get them in the mail tomorrow.

The card below was made for my best friend Kelli. I gave it to her on Friday and she loved it. I'm so glad she did!

The image was colored with Prisma Color Pencils and OMS. I used my Martha Stewart decorative border punch and added a plain white ribbon.

I'll be posting more frequently.. I promise! thanks for visiting!

My First Time Hosting A Challenge!

Check out the Challenge I am hosting over at Stamping Links to Love..

I would love for you to participate and show me what you've created!

Here's my card:

Wylde Woman Award

My SBS-15 sister Sammi awarded me with this Wylde Woman Award. Thanks so much Sammi!!

It's called the WYLDE WOMEN award and the purpose of it is "to send love and acknowledgment to women who brighten your day, teach you new things and live their lives fully with generosity and joy". Isn't that lovely?

The rules are:

1. You can give it to one or one hundred or any number in between - it's up to you.
2. Make sure you link to their site in your post.
3. Link back to Tammy's blog so that she can go to visit all these wonderful women, and
4. Remember the Purpose of the Award.

There are so many people I'd like to send this to.... so here goes:

All of my SBS-15 sisters! You all inspire me everyday and I am so blessed to have such great friends!

Emma, Kelly, Lainy, Terri,Kim, Pammy, Lisa, Yesi, Jessica, Joana, Lisa , and Nany.

Next My Stamping Gals:

Allison
Anna
Theresa
Jackie
Zarna
Suzy

Last but not least.. a few of my favorite Stampers who I admire and read their blogs faithfully!

Cheryl - She is a fabulous cardmaker and I love seeing her creations. Very inspiring and such a sweet person. I would love to meet her in person someday!

Becca- Talk about awe. Drop dead gorgeous creations on her blog! Please go check out her work if you haven't already!

Cindy Haffner - Nothing less than spectacular creativity here.

Awsome Blog Candy from Katharina!!

Katharina is offering an awesome giveway Blog Candy to celebrate 100,000 hits!

The winner gets the entire collection of the Whiff of Joy Guardian Angel collection by Elisabeth Bell.

Visit Katharina's blog for more details!

Happy Saturday!! Lot's to Talk About!!

Sorry I've been MIA the past few days. It's a busy month for me! Lots of family birthdays in the past two weeks. First me on the 21st of July, then my Dad on July 29 and Mom's birthday was August 6th. Needless to say, lots going on!

If you haven't already, please stop by the Stamping Links To Love blog and check out our first challenge! I haven't had a moment to play yet, but I plan on participating and posting my card in the next couple of days.

I am totally in love with Magnolia stamps and just placed my first order with Diana Crick. Diana is the creator of the Scor-Pal and she is opening an online shop sometime this month to sell the Magnolia stamps here in the US and Canada. If you love Magnolias too, come join our Yahoo Group! There are so many insanely talented stampers in our group. I am in awe of the creativity in this group! If you want to place an order with Diana, you can reach her via email at: magnolia.us@shaw.ca

I am also hosting my first image swap over at SplitCoastStampers for Magnolia images! Come join us here!

Claudia is giving away some awesome blog candy. Check it out here and take a look at her Magnolia cards. She is simply amazing!!


Here is a card I made a couple of weeks ago that I haven't posted yet. I used the adorable cupcake stamps from My Favorite Things. Love this set!
The Designer Paper is from the Nursery paperpack from DCWV. I used my cuttlebug embossing folder, Nesties and colored with my SU markers. I added stickles to give it a little bling.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! I have relatives visiting from Germany, so I'll be busy today and tomorrow and don't know if I'll get any stamping time in or not!

Talk to you soon!

Hugs,

My First A Muse.....and Cards For Heros

For my birthday I splurged and bought quite a few A Muse stamps. I fell in love with this little bird and bee. Isn't it cute? I've been busy stamping and coloring images so I can get some cards put together.

I've got some neat cards I'm finishing up and hope to get them posted this week.

Many of you out there may have already heard of the Cards For Heros organization. If you've been a follower of my blog, you know that I have several very dear people in my life who serve in the US Marines. Kevin, my daughter's high school boyfriend is deploying to Iraq sometime in the next few days.

If you have cards sitting around collecting dust, or card fronts you would like to donate, I would love to take them off your hands and send them over to Kevin's unit. Several of my stamping buds and I are getting together to create cards for the troops.

My goal is to send over a box each month, so the troops will have cards to send home to loved ones. I'm going to focus the next couple of weeks on Christmas Cards.

If you'd like to help out... check out the link above. They post weekly on what kinds of cards they are in need of and how many cards they've sent out that week. It's really amazing how much it boosts their morale!

Happy Stamping!

It's Raining Cards!!!

A few weeks ago I joined a new yahoo group called Magnolia-Licious for Magnolia stamp lovers. This is an awesome group of amazingly talented stampers!

We formed a "It's Raining Cards" group and each month 4 people get showered with cards from the others who chose to participate.

I was lucky to have gotten chosen to be rained on for the month of August. I've already received several cards and I have been so thrilled each day when I open my mailbox! I wanted to share the cards with you.

The first card, below was created by Christina: I just love the scene and the colors! the Tilda is colored beautifully and has glittery wings.. so cute!


Georgia made this adorable card below: The wings on this are also glittery. It doesn't show up well in the picture.. Love Georgia's coloring!


This card below was created by Krista. Very elegant card.. I love it! Cathi created this adorable card. It is so bright and cheery! The bow on her head looks like it has crystal affects applied. Love the nesties used and the color scheme.
The card below came all the way from the UK! Shell sent me this butterfly card.. I love butterflies!

Last but not least.. Cheryl created this gorgeous Edwin card! Her coloring is amazing!
I hope that someday I get as good as these ladies with my coloring skills and creativity!
Thanks again to each of you! I love each of these cards!!

More Birthday RAKS!!

WOW! I am still receiving cards in the mail. It's so fun to open them and see how creative everyone is! Thank you to everyone who has sent Birthday cards to me!! I am so blessed!!

This card above is from Susan Nakata from AMuseAddicts. Isn't it adorable?

This card is from one of my local scrapping budding Kimberly Violett! Kim put some cardmaking goodies inside the envelope too :-)

My friend Wendy sent me this cute Bella Card. She's also in my local scrapping group! She also sent me some cute Studio G stamps inside!
Annapurna made me this beautiful card and sent me some goodies inside!
Sammi, my SBS-15 sister sent me this beautiful card and stamped images which include Magnolias and one of her own! My great friend Amanda made the card above for me. Love this!

Another of my local scrapping buds, Jenn, made me this card.
Last but not least, Kim Linley, another AMuseAddict sent me this cute card!

Hysterical!!!

You have got to check out this card by one of my Stampin Gal sisters!!

Allison issued a challenge on her blog to create a funny card. Theresa came up with this.


Check it out! Leave her some love if you like it!! Tell her I sent you!

Monica

Exciting News!

As most of you know, I'm one of The Stampin Gals headed up by the awesome Allison over at Stampin When I Can. We spend countless hours each day blurfing thousands of blogs to share different blog posts with all of you. Things we share are Blog Candy, Tutorials, Sketch Designs, Favorites and Blog Challanges.

We've decided to start our own weekly challanges! Read more about it here!

A Beautiful Card From A Beautiful Person

Sometimes, people come into our lives and when you meet them you just know they are special and that you will form a special friendship with that person. When I met Lynn back in January, I had just returned to my old job where I had worked for 12 years prior to taking a 4 year hiatus to be a SAHM. Lynn works in my department and I just loved her the moment I met her.. just like everyone else does. She's truly an Angel and I am so blessed to call her my friend.

Anyway, Lynn made me this card for my birthday! When we were in Mt. Dora on Saturday, we were in this really neat gift store. I came across this wall hanging that has my favorite quote on it. It reads " Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away". Well... I had already done my damage to my wallet at the Stamping Station so I didn't buy it. Guess who did?? I don't know how she snuck getting away with that! I came to work this morning and opening a gift bag with this beautiful card and the plaque. I'll have to take a picture of it, it's still at work hanging in my cubical. Lynn... Thank you... I love you Girl!!

Look What I Got For My Birthday!

As I told you on Friday, I went to Mt. Dora on Saturday with two dear friends of mine and we had a total blast at the Stamping Station. The picture above is all of the stamping stuff I got for my birthday. The pictures below will give a better close up so you can see what I got. I went a little crazy buying A Muse stamps! It was my first time being able to choose from such a wide variety of A Muse and I think I bought almost all of the new Christmas line!
I got two new sets of Nesties, a new cuttlebug folder ( hearts) and two small Hero Arts stamp sets.
I'd been looking for the male penguin to go with my Hula Girl Penguin and luckily found it. I bought my first Copic Markers, Twinkling H20's and several packs of A Muse note cards.

My BFF Kelli bought me three acrylic stamps sets.
I had a really great birthday! Thanks to all of my SBS-15 sisters who sent greetings my way and posted Happy Birthday notes on their blogs for me. You all are the best!

More BRAK Cards...

More cards from my awesome Stamping buddies at the Amuseaddicts Message Boards. The card above is from Connie Heitner!

This card is from Lori Barnett

And last but not least Jo Ann Fannon sent me the card above! I really enjoyed receiving these cards.. everyone is so creative and the cards are just beautiful! Stay tuned.. my next post I'm showing all the wonderful things I got for my birthday!

Sharing my BRAK Cards!

Well my birthday is officially tomorrow..but all last week I received a steady stream of mail from lots of great stampers!! I truly love the stamping community! Everyday I was given a reason to smile! Thanks to everyone who sent cards!

This first card is from Kat Green- A Muse Addict


This card is from Pamela Frederickson- Another A Muse Addict

Card below is from Adelina- A Muse Addict


This Elzybell card is from Dawn Stein-
Another A Muse card from Janice Spry:
My good friend Shelley made this card for me....

My SBS-15 Sister Emma made this card for me! I love the butterflies stamped on the transparency.
I love each and every one of the cards I received... Thanks again to all of you for making my birthday special!

Hugs!!

Happy Friday!!

Won't have much time to post today but wanted to share a couple more cards!

Thanks for looking.

It's Almost Friday!!

Just sharing a couple more cards made last weekend.

The top card was made with a stamp from My Favorite Things. I'm loving cupcakes right now.
I used my Cuttlebug embossing folder for more embellishment and used stickles on the sprinkles of the cupcake to give it a little bling.

The second card is using Stampin Up's "She's All That" stamp set. Love this image! Just a simple card.

I'm so excited.. on Saturday, me and a couple of friends are going to Mt. Dora to this wonderful stamp shop. I hear they have an incredible inventory and since it's my birthday on Monday, I'm going to treat myself to my first few Copic Markers! Oh.. and a few new stamps too!

Tomorrow night, six of my girlfriends, my daughter and I are going to see Mama Mia! I can't wait! I've hear this movie is great.. I'll be sure to report back this weekend on how it was.

I have received several BRAK cards ( Birthday Random Act of Kindness) and plan to take photos of them this weekend to share with you all. One of my SBS-15 sisters, Emma made me the most gorgeous card! Thank you Emma!!

Loving my Bellas and Fellas!

Thought I'd share a couple more cards tonight. I love my Bellas!

The top card is just a simple Happy Birthday Card. The second card is stamped with a very funny sentiment inside which says " We've been through alot together and most of it was your fault." Love this... so funny. I think it's the perfect card to give to my best friend Kelli!

Will be back again tomorrow! Have a great day!