Blog Awards

I'm not very good about receiving/posting/passing on blog awards but I'm going to try to be better.  I've received the "Top Ten" and "Top Five" awards from the heart 2 heart blog in the past but never posted. There's been others that I haven't been able to figure out how to post. Over the past week I've received this award twice:

The goal of the award is to spotlight up and coming bloggers who currently have less than 200 followers. The rules of the award are:
1. Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you.
2. Reveal your top 5 picks and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.
3. Copy and paste the award on your blog.
4. Have faith that your followers will spread the love to other bloggers.
5. And most of all - have fun!

So here goes.  I received the blog award from Vicki Price at The Price Of Paper and Angie at Make And Take Time. Thanks, ladies!  Since I received it twice, I guess I can pass it on to TEN bloggers :) 
 1. Andrea at The Art of the Matter
2. My sweet blogging friend Jane at Scrappy-Gram's Designs 
3. Erin at Crafty Texan's Tidbits 
4. Tammy at Creating From My Home in My Spare Time 
5. Shari at Shari's Paper Trail 
6. Caron at Scraphappy Corner 
7. Connie at Paper Pleats and Ribbon Roses 
8. Michelle at Paper, Projects and Pizzas 
9. Jody/Barbara :) at Cre8n' Memories 
10. Sonia at Scramping Tita  
Whew...that was A LOT harder than I thought - so many great blogs out there!


Thanks for stopping by,
Marie with a :)

Blog Awards

I am really exhausted (I sooooo hate shopping...though I often love the results of shopping. Tonight my husband and I shopped for some new furniture and it completely wore me out.) I have to be up early so I won't complete the blog award "rules" tonight but did want to say that I have felt very honored and privileged to receive two awards from Lisa . There are some folks that you meet in the blogosphere that you just know if you lived near each other you would be the best of friends. Lisa is one of those people. Thanks, Lisa! I will post the awards along with my picks in the very near future...for now it's bedtime for me.

Finally...Blog Awards!

Jamie was kind enough to explain to me how to post the blog awards. So here goes!

Since I received two from Jamie and one from Samantha, (both would be on my list to GIVE awards to...what an honor to receive them!) I thought I'd just pick 10 people and send the two to each of them (it's about all this tiny brain can figure out!) The instructions read:

"These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated" It also says: "Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award." (Friendship)

and:

Nominate 5 to 10 blogs you feel show great attitude and gratitude. Link to your nominees within your blog post.- Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award. Link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation. (Lemonade Stand)

So with no further ado, here are my picks:

To the following people I want to say that I feel like we are friends even though we have never met. I love perusing your blogs!

1. Carla: http://harrahshangout.blogspot.com/

2. Christi: http://www.blessingsonpaper.com/ (I have enjoyed the e-mails!)

3. Carla: http://www.paperpastorale.blogspot.com/

4. Jane: http://www.scrappy-gram.blogspot.com/

5. Beth: http://www.plumslife.blogspot.com/ (thanks for the cards for the troops!)

6. Gloria: http://www.gmgcreations.blogspot.com/

This next one is for my greatest cheerleader, my sister and my friend (as well as wonderful papercrafter!)

7. Samantha: http://www.samiesentiments.blogspot.com/

The next couple are the blogs of two young people who aren't showing any of their papercrafts (Ross, it might be a good thing...Sarah - you've got work worthy of posting!), but display godly character and a great way with words:

8. Sarah: http://www.newthingsideclare.blogspot.com/

9. Ross: http://www.logandspeck.blogspot.com/

And last, but certainly not least, here's to my precious 13 year old daughter who is an author in the works!

10. Michelle: http://www.shellymusings.blogspot.com/

This what Jamie told me to do: click on the image and save it to your desktop. Then post it just like you do a regular photo. (How easy is that? Why couldn't I figure that out???)

Marie with a :-)

Mojo 87 and some blog award fun!

Yes, this was another lunch break, 40 minute card. For those of you who have commented on the fact that I create cards quickly I have two things to note. 1) My cards lean towards the super simple. No elaborate stitching and such. Usually just pretty paper and a stamped image or two, and perhaps a die cut flower or image (or punched flower.) and 2) Now that I have been selling my cards (over 200 sold with another large order looming...yay!) it doesn't make sense to spend an hour on a card that I will sell for $4.00. And a funny thing...I can produce a card in a very short amount of time but it takes forever for me to figure out anything technological! I am embarassed to admit that I spent an hour trying to figure out the sweet awards from one of my blogging idols, Jamie Harder ( http://ahappyscrappyplace.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-award-fun.html.) Still can't figure out how to cut and paste them! Anyway, Jamie does some incredible scrapbook layouts but sometimes she also enthralls us with one of her beautiful cards. Then I received one from Samantha (http://mymemorycorner.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-award.html) whose work I also greatly admire. I'm glad that I recieved it from her because it made me realize that even though I am a "follower" of hers, I haven't been getting her recent posts. I need to figure out why. Anyway, before I ramble too much longer, I just want to say that I WILL pass these awards along once I figure out how :-) My computer doesn't allow me to "cut and paste" and my favorite geek just left for California...
Click the link to participate in the MOJO 87 Challenge (or check out the REALLY fabulous cards :-) )