M. M. DeZigns...

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!

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...

I saw a YouTube video where the crafter was using her Cricut & Reynolds Freezer Paper to make a t-shirt. I had heard about this, but hadn't tried it. So, with a few days off ahead of us, I got with my daughter and picked out a sentiment from my new Rock Princess Cricut cartridge . She chose "Too Hot 2 Handle" and if you know her, you know that this sentiment is too true LOL! We looked at the video one more time to make sure we knew what we were doing & headed upstairs to the ironing board. Once the outer ouline was in place on the shirt, I used the actual sentiment cut out to help line up all the little pieces (the inner pieces of the Os, space s in the flames, etc.) but made sure not to iron it on. My daughter was ready to paint before we even had the design on good. She first painted the entire sentiment in orange and went back after it dried to add the red accents. This one came out so well, we will be making a few more for friends & family. I'll ...

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!

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...