Liebster Blog Award

I'm sending a thank you shout-out to my friend Diane! She awarded me the Liebster Award :-)

What is the Liebster award? Liebster means "favourite" in German, and the award is given by peers to fellow bloggers who have been able to inspire despite their small following. Once accepted, an award recipient must "pay it forward" by completing the following steps:

1) Post the award to your blog. 
2) Link back to the person's blog who gave it to you and thank them. 
3) Give the award to five bloggers with less than 200 followers that you appreciate and value. 
4) Leave a comment on the five blogs you chose to let them know that they have been given the Liebster award.

Here are five blogs that I feel deserve to receive the Liebster award:


1.  Regan - Charmed Stamping
I 'met' Regan through Sassy Studios Designs - they have some fabulously sassy images!  I think we are long lost sisters LOL  Love her style and creative thinking when it comes to making cards and being crafty.

2. Elizabeth - Softpencil Studios
 Elizabeth, the owner and designer of Softpencil Studios, makes adorable stamps! She started with digis, and then moved on to have rubber and clear stamps of her digis, and now has a whole line of products from stickers to rub-ons to decals.  (oh, she's having a blog hop coming up soon! Watch her site for details!)

3. Kelly - Finding Time to Create
Want to check out some really cool ideas for using your Silhouette (or Cameo) cutting machine? This is THE place to look!  Kelly has such fantastic ideas, and she often has tutorials so you can create your own masterpieces!  Thank you Kelly for all your inspiring ideas! :-)

4. Chris - Visual Designs by Chris
More Silhouette (and other cutters) designs!  Chris does a great job creating new files all the time! Plus she's got a slew of other creators at her shop, so you can find any design you're looking for!

5. Diane - My Useless Crafts and Such
Ok, so technically, Diane can't really get this award from me since she's the one who gave it to me, but she'd be the top of my list if I had received the award first!  Diane and I have been friends forever!  We have very similar likes/dislikes when it comes to crafting, although I'm way less OCD! (right Di?? lol)  Love ya!

Share the Memories ~ Freebie

Following  last week's freebie, this week's is also a paper/background.  If you missed how to create your own paper, please read last week's post.

Please note that all of these are .png files only, not MyMemories Suite Templates. They are usable in any software and are for everyone!! This freebie includes all of the papers and elements used in creating the above. The elements are.png and the papers are .jpg format. These  will not autoinstall into the software itself, but are used by adding to your project as you would a photo, and then layering your photo behind the open box. From there you can add journaling, embellishments and more to truly personalize!! 

Have fun with your freebie! If you post about your creation, please leave a link to your post in the comments section so I can check it out.  Happy scrapping!

p.s. If you're having fun creating these pages, why not check out the software package that mymemories offers?  Use my code for a great discount: STMMMS72517 - you can click the link on my sidebar.

Share the Memories ~ Freebie

This week's freebie is a paper/background freebie.  Creating your own background papers is easy in My Memories software! Whatever you create can be saved as a jpg which means you can use it time and time again! All you have to do is export to jpg format and voila! you've created a background paper!  How fun and easy is that?!  Here are the steps, in case you need them:

STEPS:  Open MyMemories Suite software and choose your album size.  Add the papers and elements you wish to use to create your own digital paper, and when you are finished, click: SHARE ALBUM ====> EXPORT PAGES and save as a .jpg!  The new .jpg papers you created are now usable as stand alone papers to use and reuse anytime!  The freebie below is just a sample of digital papers that you, too, can make!  All of the elements used to create these two papers are included in this week's freebie - use them any way to want and create your own!

Please note that all of these are .png files only, not MyMemories Suite Templates. They are usable in any software and are for everyone!! This freebie includes  all of the papers and elements used in creating the above. The elements are.png and the papers are .jpg format. These Quick Pages will not autoinstall into the software itself, but are used by adding to your project as you would a photo, and then layering your photo behind the open box. From there you can add journaling, embellishments and more to truly personalize!! 

Have fun with your freebie! If you post about your creation, please leave a link to your post in the comments section so I can check it out.  Happy scrapping!

p.s. If you're having fun creating these pages, why not check out the software package that mymemories offers?  Use my code for a great discount: STMMMS72517 - you can click the link on my sidebar.