Today was my birthday and a wonderful birthday it was! It's always wonderful when you have your loved ones around no matter what day it is! We have a lot of birthdays within about two months of one another to celebrate!

My granddaughter came to help me celebrate!

The one on the far left is my son Rick! The one in the middle background is my brother Tim. The one in the grey shirt is my grandson! This is my husband Joe and my little mother!

We had a wonderful day cooking out, enjoying each others company and eating way too much! WOW! Happy Birthday to me!

Thanks so much Liz (allee) for nominating me for this award! Wow! I am so honored!
 Liz's Blog

After accepting this award, I had to complete the following list!

 *Thank the person who nominated me for this award!
 *Copy the logo and place it on my blog!
 *Link the person who nominated me for this award!
 *Name seven things about me that people might find interesting!
  *Nominate seven Kreativ Bloggers
 *Post a link to the seven blogs!
 *Leave comments on the seven blogs letting them know I have nominated them!
    
    The seven things about me:

I am a native Floridian!
The American Indian name for the little town where I was born is *Grassy Waters!*
We moved to Miami, FL. when I was 10
I have a brother that is 10 months older than my son!
I used to play local competitive team tennis!
My stamp room is in the basement!
The first stamping party I attended I was so overwhelmed when my order arrived I shoved it all into a closet! I didn't use it until the following year when I attended another party and was really bitten by the stamping bug!

The seven people I am nominating!

Charlene
Anne
Joanne
Julie
Joan
Joanne
Stacy

Lovely Gerbera Daisies!

This is for two challenges! Anne (Itsapassion) hosted the Inspiration Challenge! This is also for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge! We were to use red, olive and black! You could also use one neutral!

The Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge can be found here:Flourishes

The beautiful image is from Flourishes *Gerbera Daisies* set! It was stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black and colored using Flourishes Copic Collection Dusty Rose and Poppy! These copic set are awesome! It takes all the guess work out of the coloring! I used SU cert. celery and old olive for the stems! The red panel was embossed using a Sizzix embossing folder! The corners are cuttlebug die cuts!

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a wonderful blessed weekend!

This brings back warm and fuzzy memories of my childhood! I remember visiting my great aunts farm in north Florida. Have you ever heard of Lulu Florida? If you blink you will surely miss it! Anyhoo, I would visit for a few weeks in the summer! I thought all those chores were fun things to do! Of course, my cousins that had to do them everyday thought I was nuts!

The card measures 4 by 4 1/4! All images are by *Clear Stamps*! Stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black. Colored using copics and reinkers with an aqua brush! I added *Flower Soft*. The background was embossed using Cuttlebug and a Sizzix embossing folder!

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Nova Scotia Bound!

This is for Cindy's (Mothermarks) Teapot Tuesday Challenge! We are headed for Nova Scotia Somethin" about there are no facilities except a lighthouse! The rent is 42,000 pounds of fish! We've got a husband coming to teach us how to fish, a mermaid to show us where the fish are, Barbie and Spider Man fishing poles so how can we miss!
The image was stamped using Mememto Tuxedo Black and colored using copic markers and reinkers! The water was colored using bashful blue and an aqua pen! For the sand I used copics E31 and E33! The flowers are copics R20, R24,and R27! The railing is copic E27 and then lightened using colorless blender! The bricks are a combo of copics C00 and C3! The piling under railing is copic E40! The sailboat is copic R24. The sky is a template (Mothermark) and SU soft sky sponged! The tabs are SU punches! The charm is from an old purse! TFL!

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Speaking of stopping by! My soon to be 21 year old grandson stopped by unexpectedly this morning! That always warms my heart! Wow, 21 and takes the time to visit his grandparents! Awesome!

Northwoods Pines!

Good morning! This is for today's Clean and Simple Challenge! Today we were to create a masculine card!

The lovely image (Northwoods) was stamped using Versamark, sprinkled with black embossing power and heated with a heating tool! I colored the image using copics E27 and E09 for the pine boughs and YG03 for the pine needles! The border was made using an EK Success border punch! The inside was layered and an embossed pine bough was glued in place! All card stock is from GinaK's fabulous Pure Luxury Collection!

This is for our neighbor that has been housing one of my DH's toys. He has now sold it so it will no longer be cluttering up Bill's garage! Anyhoo, it was really nice that he could do that and it saved us having to rent a space!

Big boys and their big toys!

Thanks for stopping by! Hope your have a wonderful blessed day!

Nothwoods Beauty!

This Lovely image is from Northwoods! It's another
new toy I purchased when I attended the Stampaway USA convention!

I stamped the image using Memento Tuxedo Black! In my opinion this is the best ink to use when coloring with copics! It does not bleed! The image was colored using SU reinkers, copics and pastels! The clouds were sponged in using a cloud template and SU Soft Sky! To color the bird I used Flourishes Flesh Tones Copic Collection 1. E00, E11, E31 and E33. The decorative corners are die cuts from Cuttlebug!

I read a tip by Kurtis, in GinaK's Stamp TV Stamping Lifestyle on line magazine, if your photo has a lot of white or soft colors play around by using a darker background to bring out the colors! I changed my white background to black and I think it enhances the soft colors!

This is a Featured Stamper Challenge! Today's featured stamper was *Stamp Muse*!

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a blessed and marvelous day!