Blog Award........

We want to give a big THANK YOU to the Cricut Couple, Bobby and Jill, for this great blog award.  They have a wonderful blog you should visit.  Amazing creations.

 In accepting this award we must answer the following 12 questions, and pass the award on to 10 others:

Name your favorite color? Mine is Pink and Donna's is Red.
Name your favorite song?  Mine is Revelation Song.
Name your favorite dessert? Mine & Donna's is my niece's homemade chocolate cake.
What wizzes you off at the moment? People who complain all the time. 
Your favorite pet? Because of allergies, we don't have pets.
Black or white? Both
Your biggest fear? My biggest fear has already happened.  I lost my love and best friend to cancer.
Best feature?  Our love for each other.
Everyday attitude?  Lord, help me to be a blessing to someone along this journey.
What is perfection?  God's Grace
Guilty pleasure?  We like Bobby's answer. Pleasure is what you make of it... there is no reason to feel guilty for what makes you happy.  After all, that's all we have anymore.
When you're upset?  I pray.
This award is being passed on to:
Sweet Pea Cards
Create With TLC
Glenda's Cards
Handmade from the Heart
Amazing Grace
Purtty Paperz
Cricutmimi
Cross My Heart Papercrafts
Carolyn's Creative Corner

With Glittering Eyes 

I hope you will visit all of these blogs.  They are truly fantastic.  Thanks for stopping by today.  God Bless You!!!  Peggy

WOW! Another Award - We Are So Blessed

We are so blessed with so many blogging friends.  We actually received this award from 3 different blogs.  Thank you to Stacy at Love That Bug, Jill and Bobby at Cricut Couple, and Nana Donna at Nana Donna's Card Dreams for thinking of us.  We love you.

Here are the rules for the Cricut-tastic Award:

Your blog has been deemed Cricut-tastic. Wear this badge proudly on your blog and share it with your friends. Share this award with 10 people who you think have Cricut-tastic blogs. You also have to tell 5 Cricut related things about yourself.

Here are the 5 Cricut-tastic things about myself:

1. I just got the new E2 and I love it.
2. I think I must be the slowest card maker ever
3. I have OCD - Obsessive Crafter's Disorder
4. I have several cartridges I've never used - go figure.
5. I have the best blog partner there is who is also the best daughter there is!

I know we are all busy and sometimes it is hard to pass these awards
on and I understand.  I also realize that some may have already received it but I like these blogs. (no need to do it again) But here are some blogs that I would like to pass the award on to.
Grammie Judy's Spot  
Cardz TV  
Cricut Cardz Challenge 
Lena's Creations  
Cricut Diaries 
Amazing Grace  
Purty Paperz 
The Scrapping Cat  

Thank you again to our wonderful friends for this award.  We hope you will share in our joy.  Thanks for stopping by today.  God Bless You!!!!  Peggy

Versatile Blogger Award - WooHoo

Nana Donna of Nana Donna's Card Dreams  has awarded us the Versatile Blogger Award.  Thank you, Donna.  We feel so honored.

Well here are the rules for the award.  
1.  Thank the person who gave you this award 
2.  Tell 7 things about yourself 
3.  Pass this on to 15 of your blog friends

Now I understand that 15 bloggers are a lot, as I think we are mostly intertwined in our own little groups and most of the bloggers we know have probably gotten this already.  So if you can't make 15 that's OK, because I don't even think I can.

Seven things about us.  I'm going to put some things and let Donna finish.
Peggy - 
1.  I am trying to sell my house so I can move close to Donna
2.  I have OCD - Obsessive Crafting Disorder
3.  I take too long making a card.
4.  I own too much paper and crafting materials
Donna - 
5.  I can't wait for my Mom to move close to me.
6.  I would rather play in my scrap area than sleep.
7.  I have OCD just like my mom!!  I don't think there is a cure!

Here are our friends we want to pass this award on to:
Handmade From The Heart
Amazing Grace
Grace Notes For Today
Creating With Chrissy
Stephanie's Stamping Spot
Simply Beautiful
Melissa Made
Feline Creative
Love That Bug
Glitter, Stamps and Ink
Flutterby Trina
Little Works of Art
Shell's Space

Thank you again, Nana Donna, for this honor.  We will continue to strive to be worthy.  God Bless You!!!  Peggy and Donna

Card Sets/Another Blog Award

My hairdresser asked me to make her 25 Thank You cards.  She must have a lot of people to thank.  I decided to make them in sets. All the cards are A2 size.

 Supplies Used:
     DCWV  Mango Frost Paper Stack and Cardstock
     Labels cut from the Preserves Cricut Cartridge
     Martha Stewart Punches
     Ribbon
     Bling
     Small Flowers
     Thank You Stamp

This set was made using:
     DCWV Black Currant Paper Stack
     Thank Yous, Shadows and borders cut from Paper Lace Cricut
           Cartridge
     Ribbon
     Bling

 This set was made using:
     DCWV Mariposa Paper Stack and Cardstock
     Labels cut from Stamping Cricut cartridge
     Butterflies from KayandCo. Wild Saffron Embellishments
     Ribbon
     Martha Stewart Punches

 

This set can be used for a man as well.  I used the following:

     DCWV Denim Paper Stack

     Brads

     Corner punches 

Now for another Blog Award.

ScrapCrazyyyy  awarded us the Liebster Blog Award. Thank you, ScrapCrazyyyy.  I wish I knew her real name.  I don't like calling anyone crazy.  LOL

The Liebster Award is given to people with talent you admire but you feel they do not get the recognition they deserve.  The requirements are to award it to 3 more bloggers.  Here they are (in no particular order). Please check out these talented ladies and follow their blogs.

 Larelyn at Handmade from My Heart
Ruby at Ruby's Impressions
 Shelly at Shell's Space

Thank you for stopping by for a visit today.  I hope you can find something you can use in your crafting.  God Bless You !! Peggy

OUR WINNER and An Award

Thank you all for your sweet comments on our projects.  We had fun making them.  You are so encouraging.  We wish we could give everyone of you a prize.  However, since we only have one to give......., 

Love That Bug said...

Peggy, What a great card, I love all the glitter Hugs Stacy

Stacy if you will email your address to us we will get your Cindy Loo cartridge in the mail to you.  Congratulations on winning.

Also, we would like to show you a new award that Grace of Gracenotes For Today has created.   She so graciously sent us this award.   Isn't it lovely?

Rules of Award Acceptance 

1. Right-click on the award and save it to your desktop for use when you add it to your blog.
2. Choose FIVE (5) worthy recipients and list them. Next to their blog name, give ONE reason why you think their blog is special. What catches your eye about them? What do you love?
3. On your blog page, list 5 things about yourself. Include at least one thing you enjoy about your craft.

One small request. It's not a rule, but Grace would very much appreciate a link back to her blog attached to the award badge when you display it on your site (after choosing all five of your faves). Thanks so much!

Grace has kept the requirements few and simple so that people will not feel it is a chore to accept the award. It is meant to be fun and encouraging! But since there are only five recipients each time, select them thoughtfully and carefully.

A Thing of Beauty ~ Award

And now, here is my list of FIVE recipients for this special award. In no particular order, they are:

1. Purtty Papers Joy always has a delightful colour scheme and beautiful cards.
2. She's A Sassy Lady Sheila always has something exciting going on at her site.  She's so informative.
3. Paper Blossoms A very clean and attractive looking blog.
4. Glenda's Cards Glenda makes beautiful cards.
5. Amazing Grace Gorgeous layouts and other lovely paper crafts.

It was hard to make just one comment about each of the above blogs. Please take a few minutes to visit each of these recipients' blogs. You'll find inspiration there, for sure!

 Five Things About Me

1. I love Spring time.  I love to see the landscape take on new life.
2. I enjoy gardening and watching flowers grow.
3. I used to sing in a trio with my husband and my son.
4. I would like to see more research done to find a cure for the rare forms of cancer.
5. What I love about cardmaking is that my mind can wander into another world where there are no worries. 

Thank you, Grace, for this special award.  God Bless You All!! Peggy

Such A Sweet Award!!!!!!

What a wonderful way to start our day. We had a message in our comment section from Theresa at Scrappers Anonymous giving us this award.

I feel so blessed because Theresa is such a very talented lady. She is one of my favorite card makers. I have never seen anything she made that I didn't like. Be sure to visit her blog. You won't be disappointed. Thank you so much, Theresa.

Of course every award has a few rules. This one is no exception. So let's get on to them.

1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded it to you.
2. Share 8 things about yourself.

1. I am the mother of two wonderful children, a son, Brian and a daughter, Donna.
2. Donna and I co-host this blog.
3. I have 3 special grandsons, Christopher, Nathaniel and Jacob.
4. I LOVE to make cards.  Statement # 8 applies to me, too.
   
   Hi Everyone - Mom said I had to answer four of the questions, so here goes
5. I've been married for almost 24 years. We were married for 14 years before we had our son.
6. I have a son named Jacob who's smile lights up my day.
7. I have an obsession with all things paper and love to make cards and gifts for my friends and family.
8. I'm pretty sure I'm obsessive compulsive because I stress so over my cards when I start to make them. I can spend hours just trying to decide on the paper. LOL (this one applies to both of us)

3. Pay it forward to 8 bloggers you have discovered. This was the hard part. There are so many. The ladies I have chosen are very talented. Please visit their blogs. You will love their creations.

1. Tatiana at Created By Tatiana.
2. Linda at All Scrapped Out
3. Heather at Houses Built of Cards
4. Sandy at Sandy From Ukia
5. Brenda at Bren's Designs
6. Penny at Light Whimsy
7. Margie at Bella Bug Creations
8. Sandi at Sandi's Added Touch

4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about the award.

Thanks again Theresa at Scrappers Anonymous! We really appreciate the award. We especially love your visit and comment.

Thanks to everyone who visits. We hope you'll come back soon. God Bless You!!!! Peggy and Donna

Do You Think We Have Attitude??????

Stacy at Love That Bug thinks we do. She passed this award on to us. Thanks so much, Stacy. We feel honored.
 Stacy has the cutest blog. She's been invaded by monkeys. She has great tutorials and ideas. Be sure to visit her blog and get to know her. Just click on her blog name above. She is a generous individual and always ready to help if you have a question. She created our blog button for us when we first started in July. Thanks again, Stacy.

To accept this award we have to list 3 things that make us/our blog different, and to pass it on to 5 additional bloggers.

Hmmmm let me think..........

1. First off, we are a Mother/Daughter team who love working together even though we're over 200 miles apart.

2. We have our own Guardian Angel who watches over us and our blog.

3. We feel the name of our blog is special because we do experience God's grace new everyday. It's only by His Grace that we can do anything.

Now the hard part, we must pass this on to 5 other blogs. We wish we could give it to everyone but there are "RULES". LOL

1. Samantha @ SamanthaJDesigns

2. Brenda @ BrensDesigns
3. Grace @ GraceNotes4Today
4. Giselle@ CrossMyHeartPapercrafts
5. ScrapCrazzy @ TYTYExplores
Please be sure and visit these ladies and look at their blogs. I'm sure you will find inspiration.

Thank you again Stacy, you are so sweet! Thank you everyone for your visits. God Bless You. Peggy and Donna.

I'm so proud of you, Mom!!

CONGRATULATIONS, MOM!!!! Hi Everyone, I just have to take this moment to brag on my mom just a little!! She won't brag on herself - being the Southern lady that she is, she says that you aren't supposed to brag on yourself - that it's bad manners!! So I'll do it for her!! My mom was the winner of the Project of the Week at BBTB2 for the card she submitted using the sewing machine on the Heritage cartridge. YIPPPEEEEE!! I know my Daddy is looking down from Heaven with a big smile on his face!! He was our biggest fan and it was his encouragement that made us start this blog!! Mom has worked really hard on her creations and this recognition (along with being highlighted in the Cricut Chirp) are confirmation of her talent!! Way to go, Mom!! I love you!!

Thanks everyone for visiting our blog!! Please congratulate my mom along with me!! Until another day, God Bless! Donna

I'm so PROUD of you, MOM!!!

Hello Everyone!! I just want to share how very proud I am of my Mom!! She has made the Cricut Chirp for the second time since starting this blog just two months ago! As we have said before, we started this blog because my dad always encouraged us to do so! He was our biggest fan and after his death, we decided this was our way of honoring him and all that he meant to us!

My mom has put hours and hours of work into this blog to make it something that my Dad would be proud of. All of you our followers prove that her hard work has not been in vain. You bless our lives daily with your encouraging words and visits to our site. I know my Dad is looking down from Heaven with the biggest smile on his face as he watches my mom receive honors such as being included on the Chirp!! I, myself, think he might have a little something to do with it because in my Daddy's eyes there was no one like my Mom and he wants her to know that he's still watching over her.

Congratulations, Mom, on receiving this honor once again!! You deserve it and I'm so very proud!! Love you bunches!! Love and miss you bunches, Daddy!!

Thanks everyone for visiting and following our blog. You'll never know how much it means to us!! Until another day, God Bless! Donna

Thanks, Nana Donna

Today we got a message from Donna at CardDreams by Nana Donna that she was awarding us the Cherry on Top Blog Award.  We are so honored.  The rules of this award are these:

1.Thank the person who sent it to you

Thank you, Donna.  We appreciate this honor.

2. Copy award to your blog.

3. List 3 things you love about yourself.

A. I love my desire to grow in God's grace.

B. I love to make cards that I think people enjoy.

C. I love that I have the most wonderful family a mother could ask for.

4. Post a picture you love.

My Late Husband and Grandson #3, Jacob.

5. Send the award to 5 blogs you love.

The hardest part is picking just 5.

Scrap Crazyyyy's Blog

The Wonderful Insanity of Life

Paperscissors

Cricut Crazy Lisa

Kazzy's Creations

Please visit these blogs and see all these talented ladies creations.  You'll be glad you did.  Thanks again NanaDonna.  Peggy & Donna

Another Blog Award - We're So Blessed

A Great Big THANK YOU to Cathy's Passion For Scrappin for the Cherry On Top blog award. We are so honored and excited to receive it. You are so kind.


The rules for accepting this award are:
1.  You must thank the person who passed it on to you - Thank you again Cathy's Passion For Scrappin.  We are so thankful.

2.  Copy award to your blog.

3.  List three things you love about yourself:

• I love my 3 wonderful grandchildren very much
• I love my ability to organize.
• I love the closeness of my family.  They have been my strength and support.

4.  Post a picture that you love on your blog:

My Precious husband and my 3 grandsons

5.  Pass award on to five (5) others.  Please check out these super talented ladies and leave them some love.  We all love comments.
  
http://stkittsscrapper.blogspot.com
http://www.scrapbookinggrandmacrafts.com
http://thescrappingcat.blogspot.com
http://karen-createdbykaren.blogspot.com/
http://nanadonnascarddreams.blogspot.com/

I wish I could have passed this on to all the wonderful blogs out there.  I hope you all receive this award.
 We are so touched to receive this award.  Thanks again Cathy..   God Bless.   Peggy and Donna

New Blog Awards

What a wonderful surprise.  We just received two wonderful blog awards from Luv That Bug.  This is a great blog and you will enjoy all of her creations.  Now I must reciprocate the honor to 10 people.  Thank you Stacy for the awards.  We are honored.

1. Gracie May's Creations
2. Never A Dull Moment
3. Paper Blossoms
4. Cricut Mimi
5. Melissa Made
6. Purtty Paperz
7. My Place To Blog in Wyoming
8. A Scraphappy Southern Belle
9. Paper Creations By Nilda
10. Going Buggy

Please visit all these blogs and leave them a note.  

Peggy and Donna