Oct 3, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Events, SU Pillow Gifts, Uncategorized, Wildlife |
Thank You Stampin’ Up! for a wonderfully relaxing Getaway Trip to Hilton Head Island, SC. Greg and I really enjoyed the trip and the time away on no particular schedule. I posted a few quick posts with some pictures why were there but I wanted to wrap it up with another post and a look at what we did during our few days away.
This post has some pictures and what we did on Thursday after we arrived.
This post has some pictures from Friday.
This was our pillow gift on the last night – Stampin’ supplies in a plastic case –
Here is what we got inside –
The Postage Due clear stamp set, Fan Fair Designer Series paper, Riding Hood Red and Pink Pirouette ink pads, Island Indigo Baker’s Twine and Ruffled Ribbon, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake Seam Binding, and a package of the Designer Vintage Faceted buttons. Everything this weekend has had the Polka Dot Fabric and cute beach themed tags tied around it.
I put together a couple of two-page spreads in My Digital Studio showing some of the pictures that I took over the weekend.
Here are pictures taken at the Westin Resort where we stayed – views looking out to the beach and ocean, views of the pools and statues through the resort.
And this last layout were pictures from two of the places we went to visit – on Saturday we drove down to Sea Pines Plantation and stopped at South Beach and then went to Harbour Town. We climbed to the top of the Lighthouse, walked around the Marina and ate lunch at the Crazy Crab. Then we stopped at the Baynard Plantation Ruins. On Sunday as we left Hilton Head Island we stopped at the National Wildlife Refuge at Pinckey Island – I took pictures of the wildlife and scenery as we walked around – we probably did about a 2 mile walk.
And look at these birds that we saw in South Beach – Macaws – the blues ones are Kiwi and Cherokee, the scarlet one is Captain.
It was a nice weekend and I’m slowing getting back in the groove here at home. I’m working on prepping for a vendor table at an all day scrapbook crop on Saturday and then a scrapbook and stamping consignment sale next week.
Alright – time to get off the computer…..
Oct 2, 2012 | Holiday catalog 2012, My Digital Studio |
Stampin’ Up! had a bunch of news yesterday and hopefully you’ll find it as exciting as I thought it was. So where to begin.
First for the month of October we have an early Christmas present from Stampin’ Claus! You can get the Festive Paper Piercing Pack for Free. Here is the link for the flyer with the details – Flyer_HolidayGift_Oct0112_US
Second Stampin’ Up! is trying something new and going to offer you the chance to buy single pieces from select stamp sets! Sometimes there is a set and you don’t want everything in it but just one of two of the pieces. This trial will be going on now through January 2, 2013. The single stamps will be clear mount (so you will need a clear block to mount them on) and come packaged in a cello bag (you can purchase clear cases separately). You’ll be able to purchase individual pieces from the following stamp sets (click on the image to see a larger version and I’ll also add a link for the full size flyer –
Word Play – SSF_Word_Play
Perfectly Penned – SSF_Perfectly_Penned
Seasonal Sayings – SSF_Seasonal_Sayings
And Finally the third bit of exciting news is that Stampin’ Up! has LOWERED the My Digital Studio Professional Print Pricing! Every print item has a new lower price and some have been cut as much as 50%. You can get all the details for that HERE. And remember that today is Tuesday so there are new digital downloads too – see those HERE. Including what looks to be a fun one called Quick Wit Costumes Template – print out on an iron on transfer and iron on to a t-shirt – super quick Halloween Costume. Be sure to check it out.
Gotta go……
Sep 18, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Wildlife |
I posted this My Digital Studio scrapbook page on MyDigitalStudio.net today. It is an older page that I made quite some time ago. I’m posting it again because Stampin’ Up! now has a weekly contest and this weeks challenge was to create a project that used 10 or more photos – and guess what this one fits the challenge! So I’m asking you to do me a favor – go visit the site and LIKE my page – http://mydigitalstudio.net/photo/tufted-titmouse – and if you want leave me a comment too.
This is the story of the Tufted Titmouse that raised their family in my backyard. I thought it would be neat to do this page as a calendar and insert the pictures that I took on the days that I took them so it would show the progress from choosing a bird house, building a nest, laying the eggs, feeding and raising the babies and then when the finally fledged. I wish I had been there on that last day to take a picture but its hard to be there right on the exact day.
So vote for me and if I win I get a free My Digital Studio digital download next week. Every Tuesday Stampin’ Up! has new downloads available. And the My Digital Studio 2 is awesome – I love all the new features. If you live locally to me – Cindy and I are having My Digital Studio Digi Crop nights on Tuesdays starting next week on Sept. 25th. Visit my Facebook business page for the event details – you can rsvp there and while you are at LIKE my page – I just hit 100 likes today!
Thanks!!
Sep 17, 2012 | Big Shot, Demonstrator, Halloween, Holiday catalog 2012, My Digital Studio |
Every other month I have a demonstrator meeting at my house – my PAWS team meeting. It is a ton of fun to get together with these wonderful ladies each time. At the meeting we usually start with sharing some business topics and other Stampin’ Up! news and then we have snacks, Make&Takes and we do a swap. I came to realize that after the meeting I don’t always get a chance to take pictures of everything. So this last month I decided to take pictures at the meeting and I think that will be better – and now that I’m writing this – I think next month I’ll even try to get pictures of the M&Ts with the person that created it. Hopefully this will make it easier to share the wonderful creations that everyone brings.
So I already shared my Make&Take from the meeting – that was the Core’dinations card and technique book. And today I’ll share with you Leishman’s Halloween Make&Take.
PAWS meeting – Leishman Williams Make & Take project
She really had two projects for us. One was the little cello bag filled with candy corn. The bottom of the bag is stamped with StazOn ink. The top is tied with the new black/gray satin ribbon and we added a little punched tag to the front. Leishman used My Digital Studio 2 to create the different images from the Spooky Bingo Bits stamp brush set. In MDS2 it is easy to recolor portions of the stamp images – she had a variety of images for us to choose from. I guess I should have taken a picture of that too.
Then we made a little box using the Scallop Circle die – we trimmed them and glued them to the sides of a box – and embossed with the Spider Web folder. Then use the Simply Scored and a strip of Designer Paper – these were printed on a home printer through MDS. It’s the Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP – either use the real designer paper or use the digital paper and print it at home. Create a medallion – use some hot glue on the new silicone craft sheet – it really holds the medallians well. Stamped image is from the Mixed Melody hostess stamp set and Tiny Tags for the Boo.
Two fun Halloween ideas – I hope you like them. Thank you Leishman for sharing these with us.
Sep 6, 2012 | Create with Connie & Mary, Holiday catalog 2012, My Digital Studio |
We went apple picking on Labor Day and had a fun family day together. All the boys were with us and we drove north to Blue Ridge, GA and went to Merceir Orchard. They take you by tractor out to the middle of the orchard and turn you loose to pick whatever kind of apples that you want. You have to buy a bag and then you fill it up with all of your apples and while your out there you can eat the apples too. So my project today was inspired by the apples!
This week’s Create with Connie & Mary Thursday challenge is a Sketch Challenge. I love to have a sketch to start with and I like to take a card sketch and use it for other things – and turning it is fun too. I like to do something different – be unique. And this time I decided to take the sketch and create a gift bag instead of a card – but it would make a cute card too. We picked some apples on Monday for my mother-in-law and so I thought wouldn’t it be fun to put them in a cute little bag, and since I needed to create something for this weeks sketch I figured I would use that for inspiration. One big problem though – I don’t have any current apple stamps right now – ugh! I’m trying really hard not to buy everything in the Holiday catalog and every couple of days I think – I wish I had the Perfectly Preserved stamp set – and here we go again – it has apples in it! I really needed it for this project. But do you know what you can do instead? It’s My Digital Studio to the rescue! Yep – I did buy the Digital Download for Perfectly Preserved – yeah! So not only did I not make a card, and I turned the sketch, but I also made a My Digital Studio Hybrid project – how do you like them apples!
This bag turned out so CUTE! And while I gave it to my Mother-in-law it would be an awesome teacher gift too! Or a welcome gift for a new neighbor. This is a small paper bag and there are about 5 small apples inside of it. I used the sketch to create the front panel. Here is the sketch –
So I started by creating the white panel in My Digital Studio 2 – have you tried it yet? OMG – the new feature where you can color the stamp images is so awesome! Here is that piece –
The apple is one stamp and I used the color feature to recolor the seeds to Early Espresso. The stem/leaf is another image and I used the recolor feature to change the stem to Early Espresso. And the “just for you” banner was also colored – so the letters were Cherry Cobbler. Love it!! So I printed that out on Very Vanilla card stock and then cut it to fit my project.
I added the Ribbon Border strip – that’s Gumball Green. Tied some Cherry Cobbler ribbon around my Early Espresso piece and then attached the apple piece over it. I added that to a Cherry Cobbler piece and put in three little brads from the vintage trinkets. Then glued the whole piece to the front of my bag. Its’ really cute! I hope it inspires you to try something different with a sketch! Play along with us this week! And for more fun crafting ideas the Holiday edition class is going on too. You can see last weeks preview projects but if you want the class projects you have to join the class. Do it today – I’m a guest designer and have a fun project planned for later this month.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Stamps: Perfectly Preserved Digital Stamp Brush Set
- Ink: digital colors – Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso
- Card Stock: Early Espresso, Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla
- Accessories: My Digital Studio2, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, Vintage Trinkets, Paper piercer, Scalloped Ribbon Border punch, brown paper bag, printer
Visit Create with Connie & Mary and submit your creation for this weeks challenge – each week 3 top creations are selected. Each challenge is open for a week. And then a new challenge will be issued. I hope you’ll play along with us!
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Monika Davis
Aug 29, 2012 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
I can’t believe my sweet Tyler is 19 years old today!
Happy Birthday Tyler!
The Postage Due clear stamp set, Fan Fair Designer Series paper, Riding Hood Red and Pink Pirouette ink pads, Island Indigo Baker’s Twine and Ruffled Ribbon, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake Seam Binding, and a package of the Designer Vintage Faceted buttons. Everything this weekend has had the Polka Dot Fabric and cute beach themed tags tied around it.
