M. M. DeZigns...

This has been a craft filled month! For the third time this month, I am in a blog hop! This time to celebrate BIRTHDAYS! Since, I celebrated my own birthday last weekend, I thought this was a great hop to be a part of... and Angie, a friend from the Cricut Demo Army, is celebrating her 50th birthday, so I had to join in! Happy Birthday Angie! If you are here for Angie's Paper Passion's 50th Birthday Blog Hop and you have just come from visiting Janice at http://www.cricutconfessions.com/ , then you're in the right place! If you've just happened across my blog and would like to play along with our fun hop, you can go to http://angiespaperpassion.blogspot.com/ and start at the beginning. On to my project... For this hop, I created a card. I used my Cricut Expression & my Gypsy along with the Heritage (50th), New Arrival (card base), & Cake Basics (flowers and circle ring) cartridges. I went to my stash and found patterned paper by Mart...

My 20-11th birthday has come & gone and it was a great day! I am so thankful for all the calls, texts, tweets, Facebook messages, and more that I greceived and I am indeed in a Happy February type of mood. All that being said, February is not over! Stay tuned for more projects, swaps, and another blog hop - February 26, 2011!

... My Birthday!!! Happy February is still going strong! This card is for a great friend of mine who is celebrating tomorrow. I found the patterned paper at Michael's on clearance a few months ago. It is "Malibu" by me & my BiG ideas. The finished card measures 5" by 6.25". More to come!

This card is fairly simple & I love the way the colors flow together. I think I will give this one to my birthday buddy at work. I used the ColorBok stack from Walmart again for this one & my Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page punch to add a little something more to this simple card! And the Happy Birthday with the Star is cut from the Calligraphy Collection cartridge. Two down... many more to go! Stay tuned!

So, I am snowed in today :-D I am so happy! I am being very productive & having a good old fashioned laid back kind of day. So far I have tackled the laundry and... ... Started my birthday month celebration! And what better way to celebrate than to start making birthday cards! For February to be the shortest month, there sure are a lot of birthdays to celebrate this month. In line with my personal cricut cartridge challenge, I whipped out my Gypsy & cut a bunch of "Happy Birthdays" from all the different cartridges I have with those sentiments on them. I will be making & posting cards throughout the month & getting them to my February birthday buddies! And just because I always have so much free time LOL I am also in two Valentine's Day hops & an altered container/mini album swap - so stay tuned for many projects this month!