Blog Awards...

This is my very first blog award and I am so honored to be thought of in this way!!! I was nominated by: Marie and you can check out her blog site by clicking on her name. Thank you Marie for thinking of me! I am truly blessed!
So now it's my turn to pass this special award on to some wonderful, creative and talented women...

I am nominating:

Michelle

Teri

Jen

Jodi


I received my first award from Lisa, and I am passing this on to some wonderful blogging ladies!Lisa has a great spirit and a true friend. She constantly shows her support by visiting me on my blog and cafemom.com. She has excellent creativity and you need to check out her blog! Thanks for the award Lisa, sorry this took forever for me to figure out! Lol!


RULES:
1. Only 5 people allowed.
2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog
3. one has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. you must link back to whoever gave you the award.

I am nominating:
Joy
Julia
Jessica
Teri
Matrix

I received this blog award from Stephenie, and I am passing this on to some wonderful blogging ladies! Stephanie is involved with TAC and has a wonderful blog spot involving her work, recipes, and interesting read. Go check her out! Thanks for the award Stephanie.

RULES:
I have to pick 7 of my favorite blogs and…
1. The winner can put the logo on their blog
2. Link the person you received your award from
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls or boys you’ve nominated.

I am nominating:
Angela
Heather
Julia
Lisa
Yosha
Ivy
JeNN

thanks for stopping by!

post-it-note coasters...

so I decided to make little gifts for the girls at work...

so I decided to make something easy and simple.

I took a 4"x4" coaster and covered it with designer paper that I had in my scrap bin. I got colored post-it-notes and stamped it with the image from "create in me" stamp...the bear. I also used the same bear for the big paper clip. I used dimensionals to pop them off the big paper clip and used the white gel pen to dot the scallop punch from SU. I covered the clip on the top and put a flower with a bling in the middle. I think they are so cute! thanks for stopping by today...have a great, long weekend!

Friendship Card...

so...on Saturday at the NBC...they had their rubber stamp expo...I met my BFF Michelle there and we went to check things out...so many different things to look at...I saw these cute cling stamps and thought it was a must have for the both of us. This is my friendship card from Michelle...isn't it so cute?! I totally love it. The dog and kitty are too cute for words. Thanks Michelle...for you support and friendship!

Wedding Card...

whipped up this wedding card for my mom. Her friend's son just got married and she wanted me to make something...I love that stamp from create in me aka juju's treasures. I embossed the card with Cuttlebug stylized flowers. Used so saffron and pink pirouette cardstock from SU and I used floral embellishments with bling in the middle. Have a great day!

Pearls Before Swine...

Thought this was pretty funny...as we all (mostly women)

feel this way at one time or another...

I just thought it was cute... and to have "real" friends to tell you the truth...lol!
(Teri...you know this is for you and your friend)

Designer Bags...

I'm B...A...C...K...sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I need to get inspired and try new things and I finally found something to make...designer bags...so I made some for my co-workers and friends and they are so easy to make. I filled my co-workers ones with candy...my friends got items that they could use to craft with. Enjoy!

So, I saw this fun tutorial on "Stamp a Little Love Baby"...she's on my blog link. I thought this look like fun to make and guess what...it is! You can go to her website and get the instructions on how to make this...I used all different SU designer papers, bazzill blossoms and doodlebug designs jewels for the middle of the flowers. I had so much fun making all of these bags! Thanks for stopping by...there are more pictures of individual ones below =)

...this is the first one I made...

...here's one I made for my BFF Michelle...

...here's another one...

I used my cute create in me"aka juju's treasures" stamps...I just love them! I bought a couple from Jen's "Little C's" and decided to bling their collars with crystal elements "bling" from J's KnickKnacks. Go and check Cliff's store out...they have so many new things! he's on my blog sites I love to visit...have a wonderful 08-08-08 (FRIDAY)!

Oh what fun it is to make designer bags!

A card for my BFF Michelle...

So I decided to make a card for my BFF Michelle...just because...so I wanted to use the Whipper Snapper mouse stamp and put it in a shaker box...I also used the Darcie's Country Folk printable shrink plastic to make the dragonfly...also from Whipper Snapper and so is the best friend stamp (bought at Creations Unlimited). I used regal rose and so saffron for the cardstock...I used paper flower floral embellishments from Creations Unlimited. I used printed paper and Cuttlebug perfectly paisley for the background on the so saffron. I love this card...I had so much fun making it! Enjoy!

Gifts for Taelyn's Teacher...

Goodness...I swear my BFF Michelle and I have must have been separated at birth...I was doing the same project...she did one for her grandma and I did one for Taelyn's teacher. I made a four things...shaker checkbook cover, coaster post-it-notes, calendar coaster and a favor box. We may have differed on a couple of things but we still thought the same! here are my pictures of the individual things...

... shaker checkbook cover...

... Coaster Calendar...

... Coaster Post-it-notes...

...side view......inside...

Thanks for stopping by today =)

Penguins Notes Cards...

I designed these penguin note cards because we were having a neighborhood watch dinner and we were doing grab bags...so I made this for that reason...but I love the penguins! I used regal rose, so saffron, wild wasabi and chocolate chip cardstock...I stamped the images and cut them out and put dimensionals on them and put them on the note cards. I made the pizza box which I got the directions from Teri's blog..."big ideas from a little girl" (she's on my side bar) I stamped them too and there you go! Aren't the penguins so cute!

Sending you a little "hog"...

Jen has her own website "pieces of me" (on my side bar) but she also has an online store and so I bought some cute stamps from her...so to say Thank You...I wanted to make her a cute card...It's called sending you a little "hog"! I had fun making it. Used the new colors from SU...pink pirouette and baja breeze for the cardstock...the flower is made with wild wasabi, pixie pink and chocolate chip paper with a doodlebug jewel color "bon bon". the stamp is from Penny Black called "Piggy Love". I hope you like it as much as I do...have a great day!