M. M. DeZigns...

Pin It This month, I am one of the special guests over at One Scrappin Sista's blog. All this month, she has had her crafty friends stopping by to create beautiful projects using her favorite colors. I chose to create a Beautiful Butterfly Birthday card using turquoise, orange (my favorite color), and purple. For my project, I made - what else - a birthday card.  I recently picked up an American Girl border punch & a Cuttlebug embossing folder - from the  Cricut Companion Once Upon a Princess set -  that, both, featured butterflies. I was so anxious to use them on a project together. What better time to create than now?!?! I used turquoise Recollections metallic cardstock from Michael's along with purple & orange cardstock from their seasonal packs.  I used some of my VersaMagic chalk ink in Sea Breeze to ink the edges of the card base & layered pieces. I added some white ribbon from my stack & a few brads and viola!  ...

Well, it i time to announce the last winner (and a bonus winner!) Random.org chose Bunnyfreak! And I decided to give out one more prize, and it chose Babe as the winner of the bonus prize. Cathy chose Prize Y - the Designer's Calendar Cricut Cartridge Leaving Prize X for Bunnyfreak - American Girl Crafts "friends" border punch And Babe will be receiving a stamper's blog candy pack with stamps & inks - including this! Thank you all for continuing to drop in & check out my projects! I think the spirit of the season has come over me & I will be giving away many more goodies in the coming weeks - stay tuned. As promised in the title, there is a project too! I was in a swap over at Scraps of Color this month and the theme was Christmas. I chose to use some paper I picked up at Big Lots and a sentiment I got from PaperCrafts magazine with (my new favorite) kraft cardstock and here is what I came up with:

One of my co-workers just welcomed a beautiful baby girl into her life & wow was she showered! Her family and friends hosted a baby shower for her last month & I had the privilege of creating her invitations. This invite really simple with just a little matting & some super cute feet punches. I picked up the safety pin embellishments (from the party section) and the safety pin paper from Hobby Lobby . In the office, we decided to give her a small shower (we were just a little too late - she went into labor & missed our event). For that shower, I made two cards for our entire staff to sign to give to her & the new baby. Here is the first one: The second one was a little more creative: This one is a zig-zag card with two inner panels for people to sign. I had fun with this one & pulled out my Sizzix Texture Boutique and my favorite stickers - Silver Peel Off Stickers . I used the onesie, booties, & bow on pink cardstoc...

Random.org chose lucky #2... Cathy is our second winner. Cathy is picking her prize as we speak & whatever is left will go to someone who leaves a comment on this post - comments on the rest of this week's posts will give you more chances to win! Congratulations Cathy!

Our first winner chose PRIZE Z - Spellbinders Nestabilities Large Classic Inverted Scalloped Square (6 Dies) The next winner is lucky number 6 - KACEE! (MCVIC) (Kacee, please email me at mycraftz at aol dot com so you can choose your prize) Be sure to congratulate Kacee... because there is one more prize to be given! Once Kacee chooses her prize, I will head over to random.org one last time to find the winner of the last prize.

... lucky poster #3 - Rebecca Dunham! Rebecca is choosing her prize as we speak... stay tuned to see what great goody she has won! (Tell her congrats & there may be a goody bag in it for you too!)

... since I have posted. I have missed you all! My laptop had been stalling out on me for a few weeks & it just got to be too much! I took it in to Staples for the free PC Tuneup & they found that they needed to do a little more... $40 later, my baby is al(most) better LOL! Anywho, I won!!! Jazzy let me know that I won one of the 3-month memberships to the Cricut Circle ! I am so excited & can't wait to see what my membership entails! Thanks Jazmin! This weekend is the blog hop. Be sure to stop by to see what my crafty friends & I have in store for you! And a hop's no hop without a sweet treat or two along the way! Be sure to check us out to see what we have in our goodie bags :) (Oh & I got a great deal on some Cricut Lite cartridges & also picked up Picturesque ... stay tuned for new projects using these carts!)

Sooooo... I didn't make it to 350 followers today {I know there is still more time, but for me to get 85 followers in less than an hour is pushing it, even for me LOL} So, it is time to announce the winner from the 250 follower quest. Let me tell you - it was a bunch of work just to tally up the entries & make sure everyone got credit for how much they helped me (Thanks Again Everyone!) After much cutting & pasting & visiting blogs to verify info, I came up with 266 total entries! That is so amazing! I got a chance to read & reread some of your posts & again I was floored by the support & response to help a fellow crafter out that I almost cried. However, you all are reading this post for one reason & one reason only {smile} and that's to see if you or a friend will become the new owner of the Freshly Picked or Designer Calendar Cricut cartridge. With 266 entries, my darling daughter got tired of waiting for me to get everything ready so she ...

One of my favorite bloggers has reached 1000 followers & is giving away some sweet blog candy! She is giving away the Cricut Nursery Rhymes cartridge to one lucky winner. She is giving you 10 CHANCES to enter - click here for details!

Thank you to BunnyFreak over at Everything Digital Scrapbooking and Diana at  Crazy for Cricut passed an award on to me! The requirements to accept this award are : 1. Thank the person who gave you the award. 2. Tell 7 things about yourself 3. Pass it on to 15 other bloggers & let them know Here are 7 things about me: I want to be a lawyer. I took a year off after undergrad & ended up falling into the nonprofit sector. That was almost 10 years ago. This year, I plan to take the LSAT and get back on track. I'm an organizer, even though you couldn't tell by glancing around my house... but if you look very closely, you can see the depth of organization in the areas where I have taken the time to get things in order. I love my church! I had been on a church strike for some years, but at the end of 2009 I found my "set place" and I am so thankful! I love bananas! I often find a way to work something metallic (usually cardstock) into my creations. T...

What a wonderful surprise that I came home to today... WE DID IT! Thank you all so much! With all your help, I have reached my 250 follower goal! All of the posts leading up to this point are closed for comments (entries for the first Cricut cartridge drawing). I will be preparing my big bowl and adding all those who have earned entries to the pot. My daughter is on Spring Break this week & she will enjoy the opportunity to pick the winner. I am still holding out for 350 followers & I believe you all can help me do it! If I reach 350 followers by 11:59pm on Sunday, April 24, a second winner will be announced who will receive the other Cricut cartridge - remember the winner from the quest to 250 gets first choice!     All the ways to enter still apply & are posted below. If you have a post on your blog about the candy, please be sure to update the link to this post (no new comments are being accepted on any posts since the quest was first announced). I...

Thank you so much for everyone who has helped to spread the word about my giveaway & for all those who have started following my blog in that last few weeks! You read right ~ there are only 8 more followers to go until I will be choosing a winner of the Cricut Cartridge! Please go here to see all the details. Remember, there are multiple ways to enter & if I reach 350 followers within a week of 250, I will have another drawing.   Get entries by: ~posting a comment on my original post ~posting about my quest on your blog (coming back here to let me know) ~being a fan of M.M. DeZigns on Facebook (coming back here to let me know) ~following MMDeZigns on Twitter (coming back here to let me know) ~sending you friends here to let me know that you sent them ~commenting on all this week's posts

Welcome to all my new followers! I am glad to have you all aboard & plan to get around to your blogs too (if I haven't done so already). In my mini-quest within a quest, I gained about 30 new followers! Yay! And, I have to say that the majority of those followers came from our first winner of the Christmas Village cartridge... drum roll please... Melissa at Disney Dreamer Designs ! A special thank you to Melissa for sending over our surprise blog candy pack winner... with comment #12 (chosen by Random.org)... drum roll... TANDKPARKER! Please send me an email at mycraftz (at) aol (dot) com with your mailing addresses and I will get your goodies in the mail to you. ~~~ Stay tuned for the Freezer Paper shirt instructions & for my first project with my new toy - the YuDu ! ~~~ 

I have a plan & I need your help to make it happen. I am on a journey to reach 250 followers. I promised that when I reached 250 followers, I would give away a Cricut cartridge. Well, I am holding to that promise & I am taking it up a notch. SO FAR , I have 2 cartridges to give away - brand new, in the package, reward points in tact, never synced to a Gypsy. So, the plan is this - when I reach 250 followers , I will use a giant bowl (easiest method with all the entries I hope to get) to pick the lucky winner who will get to choose which of the 2 cartridges they would like to have. If I reach 350 followers in that same week , I will pick another winner and they will get to have the other cartridge. Sounds fair enough right? So how do you win? 1. You must be a follower of my blog - that's the whole point of all of this right? 2. Leave a comment on this post to let me know that you are supporting me in my quest to 250 followers. But, I think these things ...

So the winners of my 125 Follower wonderful happy time didn't come forward to claim their prizes :( So, back to the drawing board I went and now... drumroll please... the new winning # is Translation ~ Congratulations to PinkBlingCrafter & Charvonna Stackhouse !!! (If you are confused as to why there are two winners, click here to read the previous winner announcement post) Please send me an email at mycraftz (at) aol (dot) com with your name & mailing address along with your favorite color & favorite craft (scrapbooking, cardmaking, crochet, knit, quilting, etc.) by 11:59pm on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. If I don't hear from you, I will choose yet another winner. I can't wait until the winner gets to claim their prize when I reach 250 followers & give away a Cricut cartridge - I'm so excited!!!

I reached 125 followers! Thank you all so much for following my blog. I am so excited & inspired even more to share my work with you. As I move into reaching my goal of 250 followers, I will be sharing more of my inspiration with you - the videos I watch, tutorials I try out, blogs I follow, etc. So definitely stay tuned to see what is to come. As I mentioned before, on my quest to 250 followers , the winner of the Cricut cartridge will be an active follower - so make sure that you are commenting on my posts at least once a week so that you can have a chance at this sweet blog candy. And now, for the moment you have all been waiting for... drum roll please... The winner of the special blog candy is... Follower #66 - who is that??? I figured out after I did the Random.org number-picking that I had no way of knowing who my 66th follower was (or, I should say that if there is a way, I don't know how to do it). After much searching, I did find that I could print a l...

I only need two more followers to reach my 125 follower goal... who will they be??? When I reach my goal, I will use random.org to choose the lucky follower who will win a bit of special blog candy!!! I will begin my drive for 250 followers immediately after I hit that milestone - and one of my faithful followers will win a Cricut cartridge! Thank you all for your support! AND I just shipped off my altered canister & mini album for a swap over on the Cricut messageboard (love those ladies & gent). I am proud of myself - I am not a scrapper, so this was interesting for me - for getting it done & getting it out on time. I hope that my swap partner loves it... and all the goodies that come with it!! Here's a peek at it ~ Mini Album - click HERE for the tutorial Stay tuned for more pictures!

If you're here for the Fabulous & 50 Blog Hop, this is the right place (scroll down to the next post), but I wanted to take a minute to let you all know about my goal & the candy associated with it. When I reach 125 followers, I will send one lucky follower some special blog candy... when I reach 250 followers, I will send one lucky follower (who has commentd on my blog within that week) a Cricut cartridge! Thank you for all of those who have followed so far, please spread the word & stay tuned!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I pray that this day & everyday is filled with love! I am celebrating the day at my desk and reflecting on those I love & who love/have loved me... Thank you to all of those who stopped by over the weekend for the two blog hops I participated in! If you haven't had a chance to check out the postings from the hop, please take time to do so - these ladies rocked out their projects and created a lot of inspiration for you to scraplift. A special welcome to the 20 new followers I picked up along the way!!! I am that much closer to my goal of 125 followers, but I am not quite there... I'm guessing my blog candy wasn't sweet enough LOL! (Guess, I'll have to do something about that - stay tuned!) Without further ado... the winner of the sweet blog candy prize pack of acrylic stamps, a Cuttlebug embossing folder, dimensional stickers, a chipboard book, a card kit, metal embellishments, rub-ons, and more is... JAZMIN JAZMIN s...

    Welcome to the Sistas Scrap Too! second blog hop! We had so much fun with our first hop that we decided to do a hop once a quarter. This is the hop for the first quarter of 2011 and we are glad you decided to join us! We have 13 designers working on our theme for this hop, which is none other than Valentine's Day. We've put a twist on it, asking the designers to use the colors red, black, and white in their designs. We can't wait to show you what we've come up with! Some of the Sistas went the traditional route and used traditional colors for their projects. What would craftin' be without creativity and diversity?! We know you'll enjoy what lies ahead on the hop route!! Remember, start at the beginning of the hop and work your way through each blog. Please leave blog love (comments) along the way and become a follower of the blogs so that you can see the beautiful creations year round and not just when we have a hop! There are Sistas who are offering blog...