Blog Awards!

I wanted to thank some crafty friends for sharing me some awesome awards!! 


Recently Pam and Crystal shared the "A thing of beauty" Award with me! I also received "The Irresistably Sweet Blog" Award from Pam, Crystal and Karen. Thank you so much for these awards ladies!! If you would like to see the guidelines for accepting these awards you can click  here. 


Please visit these talented ladies here:
Crystal Crystal's Hoppy Place 
Karen Crafted With Love by Karen
Pam at Crafty Cards 4 U 2


I also received a new one called the Cricut-tastic award from Amy! Please visit her at Red Headed Crafter. Thanks Amy!!

The rules for this award are:

*Your Blog has been deemed Cricut-tastic!

* Wear this Badge proudly on your Blog

share it with friends! Since Cricut is 5 years old and they

have an E2 out share this award with 10 people

that you think have Cricut-tastic Blogs!



You also have to tell 5 Cricut Related things about yourself:


Here are 5 Cricut related things about me:

1. I have wanted a Cricut for 5 years! I was late to my class all the time because I would be watching the infomercial in the morning! My professors were not happy!

2. I got my expression this past December, it's the blue one from Walmart.

3.  I am wearing out my mats way to quickly!

4. My collection now consists of 75 carts.  The majority were bought at a huge discount :) 

5. I am obsessed with my Gypsy, even though it doesn't work perfectly, I cannot design without it.


It was so hard choosing just 10 people...but here they are in no particular order.  Please stop by and visit them because they are amazing Cricut crafters! 

1.  Jennifer at Just Dahling- Not only is she my BFF but she is sooo talented!
2. Cindy at Card Crazee Me 53
3. Cely at Hawaii Paper Party
4. Amber at My 3 E scrapbooking
5. Shen at My Curious Crafts
6. Cyndy at Arcy Scraps
7. Crystal at Crystal's Hoppy Place
8. Pam at Crafty Cards 4 U 2
9. Amy at Amy's Crafting Space
10. Linda at Crafting With Nana

Thank you so much again to you wonderful ladies for sharing these awards with me!!

My First Awards!

I am so excited!  I have received some awards and I hope I am posting them right.  If I did something wrong, or weird, please let me know:)

The first one is The Irresistibly Sweet Award and it was from two wonderful ladies Cindy from cardcrazeeme53 and Amber from my3escrapbooking.  They are both incredibly talented and I am so honored that they choose to pass their awards on to me!  They have helped me so much with their inspirational comments and technical help. I'm new to blogging and need all the help I can get! LOL!

The rules for the award are the following:

1.) Send a thank you to the person who nominated you and include their link.

2.) To accept this award, answer 7 random facts about yourself.

3.) Pass the award to at least 8 other blog buddies.

The next three awards came from the very talented Amber at my3escrapbooking.  Please stop by and check out her blog!

Here are the rules for the BFB Award:

1.  Post about this award on my blog and link to the person that gave it to me

2.  Pass along to those that visit and leave comments on your blog regularly

Here are the rules for the A Thing of Beauty Award: 

1. I must share 5 things about myself ( 1 of the listed items must be something about crafting)

2.  Pass the award to 5 other blogs.

The "rules" of this award:

1. Thank the person who sent it to you 

2. Tell 7 things about yourself

3. Send this to 5 fellow versatile bloggers

7 Random facts:

1. Penguins are my favorite animal!  They are so cute, smart and interesting.

2. I have been teaching second grade for four years now.

3. I'm the first college grad in my family. Go Sundevils!

4. I built up about 85% of my Cricut collection at the Michaels $10 cartridge sale and ebay, and I found my Gypsy at Michaels for $50.  I'm proud of this because I never have any awesome finds like these. 

5. I love craft store coupons! If there is a sale, I will be there!

6. I have lots of pattern paper, but I think it's so pretty that I'm scared to use it.  Something that has got to change...

7. I often don't feel like my cards are any good, so it's been so great for me to get positive feedback from blogging friends:)

I am passing these awards onto several people, some of you already have some of these, so please accept  the double nominations ;)

1. Cindy from cardcrazeeme53 

2. Vivi from vivienpapel 

3. Cely from hawaiipaperparty

4. Doris from mybugandmecreate

5. Maria of mariasmerrymakings

6. Cyndy of arcyscraps

Please visit everyone here and take a look at their work.  You will be glad you did :)