Jan 28, 2013 | Birthday, Cards, My Digital Studio |
You can use My Digital Studio to create a digital card to post on your friends Facebook pages on their birthday. That was what I did this weekend. I made two cards – a “girl” card and a “boy” card.
Boy birthday card
girl birthday card
And I’ve already used them since Facebook tells you whose birthday it is – assuming you check Facebook each day – when you see the notice then you can click over to their page and post a photo message. I created the cards in My Digital Studio and then exported them to a .jpg file so that I could use it anywhere I want. I may even get a couple of these printed.
Both were actually from templates. The boy one was easy – all I really added was the Happy Birthday stamp underneath. The girl one was a bit harder – I found a quote that I wanted to use – then I searched for stamps of the key words and added those in different colors ( I replaced the quote that was in the template) and then added the rest in text boxes. I did have one tricky word – smiles – the word was actually smile and I needed to add an ‘s’ – well thank goodness we have the new CROP a stamp feature in MDS2 – I was able to find another word in that stamp set with an ‘s’ and crop the rest of the letters away and tack the ‘s’ onto the word smile – I bet you didn’t even notice! Here is a photo so you can see what I mean
And one more thing on the girl card – the template was actually a 11 x 8-1/2″ scrapbook page and I converted it to the card and removed the photo box replacing it with the birthday cake stamps.
Oh the things you can do in MDS2!!! Hey that rhymes!
On Tuesday nights a group of us get together here near my house at the Panera restaurant and work on our MDS projectst together – we usually have a new trick or idea to share too. Come join us.
Jan 25, 2013 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Sale-A-Bration 2013 |
This is a really fun bright birthday card! And rather easy and fun to make – fun if you like the color spritzer tool – which I do!
I did a lot of spritzing on this card which makes each one unique. This was my GoDiva Sale-A-Bration swap card that I made to showcase some of our fun new Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration products that you can earn free through March 22, 2013. Here is a look at how I made this fun card –
- first I stamped the happy Birthday from Bring on the Cake stamp set on the Whisper White panel
- then emboss the Whisper White panel with the Honeycomb embossing folder and the Big Shot
- then pull out the Color Spritzer Tool and some Stampin’ Write Markers and have fun spritzing – I used the colors to match the designer paper – Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango, Summer Starfruit, Pool Party and Sahara Sand
- Cut various strips of the designer paper – Sycamore Street – a Sale-A-Bration freebie choice, snip points into the ends to make flags and staple them to the white panel
- Tie a piece of Island Indigo ribbon – Sycamore Street Ribbon & Button Bundle – another Sale-A-Bration freebie choice – around the panel
- add the panel to the Tangerine Tango card base
- finish with a Tangerine Tango button – Sycamore Street Ribbon & Button Bundle – a Sale-A-Bration freebie – tied with some Whisper White Baker’s Twine.
A super fun birthday card that you could give to anyone! It’s just bright and cheery.
Stay warm – we are anticipating sleet and freezing rain for today (Friday) – yikes! That may cause issue for my scrapbook class today – I’ll be posting on my FB page if I need to postpone or cancel it.
Jan 18, 2013 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Masculine, Spring Catalog 2013 |
Henry Says, Pinwheels, and Parker’s Patterns make for a fun birthday card. I created this fun card for the GoDiva Spring Catalog Swap.
I used lots of fun products from the Stampin’ Up! Spring Catalog –
- Henry Says stamp set (my favorite!)
- Parker’s Patterns Designer Series Paper
- Cloudy Day Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
- Pinwheel Sizzlets Die
- Hearts A Flutter Framelit Dies
I love the little pinwheel coming out of Henry’s trunk – I even tilted him back a bit so it looks like he is really blowing out some air to get that pinwheel going. What a fun little guy!
If you would like to buy any of these products you can shop at my online store on my website – www.monika.stampinup.net
Jan 9, 2013 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Punch Art, Spring Catalog 2013 |
Look at this cute thing we made at stamp club last week! I had a punch art Lion card from another Stampin’ Up! event – I think convention probably. It was a swap I received and had posted on my card tree that was up during my classes. Everyone always thought it was cute and Cari wanted to make it at stamp club. Finally I designed a card to go with the punch art lion.
A few new products from the Spring Mini are on here – including the Parker’s Patterns Designer Paper and the Honeycomb Embossing Folder. I’ll come back later and add in all the punches and dies.
Have a great day!
Nov 15, 2012 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, Masculine |
Are you ready?
This week’s Thursday challenge at Create with Connie & Mary is a 2 week double challenge! First it’s a sketch challenge and second we have been challenged to create a shaped card using one of Stampin’ Up!’s Big Shot dies or framelits.
So with that in mind – what was I going to make? That took me a while to figure out. I finally found some inspiration on Pinterest and here is my card for the 2 week double challenge –
It’s not a very big card – we have a 3-1/2″ circle die and a 3″ circle die and that’s what I used. I think I need to make an envelope for it but I haven’t done that yet. The card base is Basic Black and I started by cutting a regular sized card and scored it in half. Then I put that on the 3-1/2″ circle die so that on the side with the fold it was inside the cutting blade – that keeps the front and back connected. Cut Whisper White with the 3″ circle die – cut two so one can go on the inside. The one on the front is then run through with the dots embossing folder. I actually sponged a little bit across the dots and around the edge of the front circle.
The Itty Bitty Banner fit perfectly on this card since it was pretty small. I cut an extra banner in black and layered it behind to create a shadow. I tied two golf tees together with the Basic Black ribbon and then put them on the card front with mini glue dots.
I hope you can see the sketch in this card – the two tees are the two strips going down the left side of the card. The bitty banner is the greeting. The bow around the tees is the “flower” on the card.
So who is going to get this card – I was planning to give it to Greg for his birthday which is quickly approaching but we were just invited over to celebrate his golfing-buddies birthday on Friday – so it just might go to him instead. I guess that means I better make another one.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Stamps: Itty Bitty Banners
- Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Crumb Cake
- Card Stock: Basic Black, Whisper White
- Accessories: Big Shot die-cut machine, 3-1/2″ circle die, 3″ circle die, Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Bitty Banner Framelits, Basic Black 1/8″ Taffeta ribbon, Stampin’ Sponge, Mini Glue Dots, Stampin’ Dimensionals
Visit the Create with Connie & Mary site to see the creations from the rest of the design team and to submit your own creation for this new challenge. This is a two week challenge – so we’ll see you again after Thanksgiving – I hope you have a nice one with your family and friends! Be safe if you are traveling.
Did you check out Connie & Mary’s new online mini class? It’s called Card “Create”-ions – we just used one of Mary’s cards from the preview in my downline meeting – everyone loved it! Here are some of the details about the class for you – just a couple more days of new card ideas.
JOIN US for a BRAND NEW venture with creative card ideas
using holiday and winter stamp sets from the Main and Holiday Mini catalogs!
* Over 45 EXCLUSIVE cards with 15 stamp sets featured!
* 3 week mini edition
* October 28 thru November 17
* Printable supply lists & measurements
* 24/7 access
* Perfect for classes or personal cards!
* Designers Elizabeth Price, Debbie Henderson and Deb Currier are joining us!
Nov 7, 2012 | Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Holiday catalog 2012 |
I don’t think that I shared this card on here yet. It was one of the cards we made last month in my Ornament Keepsakes class. I was showing some different ways to use this stamp set and I found this idea.
For this card the circular ornaments are turned upside down and they become hot air balloons. How cute is that!
Now you can use this stamp set all year long – this is one way to use it for a fun birthday card – choose your colors for the balloons. Ink the stamp – then I wiped off the tip (which in this case becomes the basket) and use a marker to ink it back up. Stamp on Whisper White and then cut out with the matching set of framelits. The clouds are from the cupcake punch. Enjoy!
