Blog Awards!

It is such an honor to receive a blog award, and I recently have been blessed with two! The first is from my friend Silvia Mabie. I am so thrilled to be given this particular award, and I hope that I can continue to live in the Light of the life it calls me to live! Thank you so much Silvie! You have given me an enormous compliment! You are such an inspiration to me!

The second award is from my friend and Color Dare design team mate, Stephanie Castro. Steph is a huge blessing to me and is such an encourager! She always makes me feel so special...I just love the interaction we have online, and the phone conversations we share ever so often. Steph, your compliments are a treasure to me, and I'm so grateful for our friendship!

Since I'm leaving tomorrow to go home to Louisiana to help my mom take care of my dad who was just released from the hospital this morning after a total knee surgery, I hope you won't be disappointed if I delay following the rules and passing these along! Actually, I am happy to have some time to ponder, because there are so many wonderful stampers out there and I'm blessed that many of my stamping friends are Christian women of great character! I do hope to have internet access from my parents' computer, so hopefully you won't even miss me and I can come back to finish this post within a day or two! I just know that right now I've got to finish packing! The worst part of the job is trying to figure out exactly what stamping supplies I just cannot live without! Especially now that many of the airlines are charging by the suitcase for checked luggage!

Hope to see you soon! Blessings!

News!

I have been working on cards for some up-coming design team requirements, so nothing to show you YET! I do have some news though, that I'm very excited to share!

First, I have been blessed with a beautiful blog award from Cassie! Thank you so much! It is a privilege and an honor! I am humbled, and am so very grateful! There are sooo many awesome blogs out there that it is nearly impossible for me to choose among them to pass this along!

AND my other news!!!!---I have been chosen for the Spellbinders' Top 24! I am so *beyond* excited to have been selected to compete in the final phase of selection for their 2009 design team.

I prayed long and hard before submitting for this team because it is a big commitment. Finally I got to the point where I felt I should submit my best and let God take care of the rest. I submitted my projects with two hours left until the deadline.

Today, after receiving the news, my prayer is the same! If I make it, so be it. If not, Amen to that too! Please whisper a prayer for me! I believe that all creativity comes from God and I pray that He'll use me for His glory, come what may!

To make it even sweeter...my friends Karen and Kelly both made the top 24 also! I'm so excited that we could all end up on a team together!

A Blog Award!

I am very humbled and flattered to be told that my blog is one that someone might find lovely and inspirational, so to receive this award is an honor indeed! Thank you so much Barb! I am very grateful!

Day 10 at PCP

Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps is sponsoring today's 12 Days of Christmas challenge over at Paper Craft Planet. The theme is 10 Lords a Leaping, and we were challenged to use a boy stamp on our cards. This fun fella is the scientist from Korin's set, You're a Genius. I stamped him in Palette Noir ink, then colored him with prisma pencils and baby oil. I wanted him to be neon bright and wacky fun! Most of what I used is from deep in the dark recesses of my stash...I have had those dingbrads for over a year! Do you do that? Buy something you just *HAVE* to have and then hoard it forever!?

I am delighted to tell you that I have been given another award! My friend and fellow challenge stalker, Jackie, has blessed me with the Kreativ Blogger Award! I hope, Jackie, that you and Riley (see yesterday's post) understand how honored I am to be given awards by stampers whose work I love and admire and whose friendships I treasure!

I will have the pleasure of nominating 5 of my friends for this award, but right now I am dashing off to take Matthew to meet the church youth for a benefit concert. Please whisper a prayer for a young man named Jacob who was injured in a freak accident several weeks ago. He is a foster child with no medical insurance, and suffered a cervical fracture...he currently has no motion in his lower extremities and also has limited sensation. He needs a miracle...

Nine Ladies Dancing!

Today's card is for PCP's 12 Days of Christmas challenge...I've had this idea in my head all week, and was surprised to see that it sorta fits today's SCS Inspiration Challenge too. I have other girl stamps that I could have used, but really wanted to have the chance to use this particular image again...it is one of my favorite Halloween stamps and I thought it would be fun to use it for something other than Halloween. I stamped it on shrink plastic, colored it with markers and a white gel pen, then hit it with the heat gun. No matter how old you get, shrink plastic is still fascinating to watch!

I am so excited to tell you that I have received an award! My friend Riley gave me this beautiful Butterfly Award! I am thrilled that she would think my blog is a cool blog, because I think hers is wonderful!

I, in turn, have the privilege of passing the award on to the creators of 10 more cool blogs...most of these bloggers are friends and fellow challenge s/talkers. Some are new friends that I've met in the short time since I've started blogging. The list is in reverse alphabetical order because Wendy just *had* to be first...she's all about butterflies!

• Wendy
• Vicki
• Silvia
• Shelly
• Lorraine
• Juliana
• Judy
• Jami
• Debi
• Angel

Have fun visiting all these fabulous stampers' websites! Thanks for visiting mine!