Mar 1, 2012 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
More My Digital Studio for you today. This was the Day 3 layout for Heather’s MDS class.
I titled it “son of a son of a sailor” – and in the picture is my brother, my nephew and my dad. My nephew started learning how to sail this past summer so they officially fit the title now. We grew up sailing and listening to Jimmy Buffet and his songs. My brother and I started sailing when we were about 9 years old – I mean on a boat by ourselves – we were on a boat much earlier than that. In fact my mom was on the boat with my dad when she was pregnant with me. So I’ve been sailing since a very young age! But around 9 was when we got our own little boats and went to junior sailing camp to learn how to sail by ourselves.
My brother stuck with it – me not so much – it was mostly boys that sailed and I was around them all the time. Maybe that’s why God gave me 3 boys he figured I was already used to being with boys all the time. So now my dad still sails, my brother sails and my nephew is just learning – but he started at 6 a little bit younger than we did.
What did you do when you were growing up and did you stick with it into adulthood? Just curious……
Feb 29, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
Here is my day 2 layout for Heather’s MDS online class.
This is My GUY – its Greg in December when we were on vacation. He has on his sporty red sunglasses when we were on the roof by the pool. We stayed in a house where the pool was on the roof – that was a first for us.
These papers are from Noteworthy Designer paper. Colors – So Saffron, Pool Party, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler. The colors worked out since Greg had on a yellow shirt and his red glasses.
Just a quick post for you.
Feb 28, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Sale-A-Bration 2012, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Events, Wildlife |
Hey! I have been busy playing with My Digital Studio. Cindy and I held our first My Digital Studio Club meeting this month and it was so much fun. We are planning a demo retreat for my next downline meeting in March – we have some fun new projects planned for that. And then I decided to take Heather Summer’s Online class to try to learn some of the tips and tricks she uses to create her awesome projects. I also thought I would challenge myself to create each day using the project that was shared in the class. So far so good – it’s been 8 days now and I have 8 layouts done and I’m happy with each and every one. I have a link to Heather’s blog on the right side bar of my blog.
So far I’m pretty much using the layouts as they were designed for the class but usually changing up the colors, designer papers, stamp sets because I don’t always have the same downloads that she uses.
Day 1 – this is the Leadership March this year at the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference. That’s me on stage – I’m not sue what I was doing with my arms out like that but one of my friends got a picture. I guess it was a “hey look at me I’m on stage”. Its always exciting to get to be on my stage for something and since I haven’t done it very often I don’t quite know what to do. My first walk across stage was at convention last summer.
The designer paper I used here comes from the Sale-A-Bration My Digital Studio CD. I stuck with the Pool Party, Poppy Parade and Soft Suede colors because the pictures showed the blue and red of the stage decorations. I also added brads from the same CD – I love that little butterfly brad.
Soon it will be time for the bird to build nests in the yard. The last two days I’ve seen bluebirds checking out the houses – we’ll see which house they pick this year – they seem two go back and forth between two and the chick-a-dees usually take the one they don’t. I’ve also had a red-bellied woodpecker spending a lot of time looking in the woodpecker house we mounted more than a year ago. Oh and the Cedar Waxwings came through this weekend – they always come in a big flock and pass through – I happened to see them as they made a brief stop in the yard (seemed like most just stopped to rest and “relieve themselves” – big mess). I tried to take some pictures but they were way up in the tops of the trees – I’ll download them soon they are on my big camera. So I’ve rambled enough – time to move on. Have a great day!
Feb 23, 2012 | family, My Digital Studio, Occasions Mini 2012, Scrapbook Pages |
I wanted to make a photo project for my niece for her birthday. Since she was turning 5 today (Happy Birthday Ally!). I wanted it to be something that was durable enough for her to handle and play with. So I decided to create a My Digital Studio swatchbook because it comes with the plastic covers on the front and back and the pages are a sturdy weight.
In the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini catalog there is a Designer Template called Twitterpated (#125615) and I decided that would make the project quick and easy. The hard part was getting all the pictures together.
The template is 26 pages or 13 front and back. It included photo boxes on the fronts and some journaling lines on all the backs. I decided to fill the photo boxes on the front using them just like they were in the template. I opted to delete the journaling lines and leave the backs with just the designer paper and embellishments.
On the very last page I did include a note that said it was made with love by Aunt Monika.
On the cover I added punched letters to spell her name and then played around with filling them with different designer papers but I ultimately decided to use part of a photo instead. Can you see what I filled the letters with? I used the same photo of Ally on the cover and then for each letter positioned it over her dress – so its like patterned paper that matches my picture exactly!
The swatch book is an assortment 
of pictures from her whole life – from the day she was born up to our trip in December. Then for each page I added some little quote or saying to go along with the pictures – so were already part of the template and others I either pulled from stamp sets that I have in My Digital Studio or I added as text boxes.
Throughout the book she can find her cousins, her grandparents, her parents and brother, the new puppy, and of course Aunt Monika had to be included too.
I also added the month and year of the pictures on each page so that we knew when they were from. She changed a lot in 5 years.
One important thing when you create a swatchbook – turn the bleed guides on! Then you can see where the hole will be for the rivet and also where the book will be trimmed around the edges. I made sure the quotes and dates and important parts of the pictures were inside my bleed areas.
I hope you like this little My Digital Studio Project. If you would like to try the software out for Free you can go to my website and download a free 30 day trial from my online store. Have fun creating!
Feb 20, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, Designer Series Paper, My Digital Studio, Sale-A-Bration 2012 |
Many people like to have a small calendar on their desk so they can see the month at a quick glance. You don’t want it to be too small that you can’t see the days but you don’t want it too large either because then it takes up lots of space on your desk. This years 2012 calendar is just that. Now that we have the latest Calendar update in My Digital Studio the calendar part is easy to create and you can change the colors of the month, days, lines, numbers to match the rest of the calendar project – the card stock and designer paper. This year I used the new Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper from Sale-A-Bration – the colors in the paper are Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Peach Parfait, Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade and Soft Suede.
2012 Jan - Mar Calendar
The base of the calendar is Soft Suede. It is basically like a card with three months of the year on each of the four sides of the card. For each side I added a strip of the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series paper at the top. On the bottom are the three monthly calendars layered on a coordinating piece of card stock. Since the calendars were created using My Digital Studio I was able to match my colors to my project. Notice on Jan – Mar I was able to use Pool Party for the months and numbers which matches the paper.
2012 Apr - June Calendar
I used the Beautiful Wings Embosslit and the Fashionable Hearts Embosslit to cut butterflies and hearts to decorate the tops of each side.
To finish I tied some of the Organdy Ribbon in the Everyday Enchantment Sale-A-Bration pack around each side – Lucky Limeade on one side and the Calypso Coral on the other. Tie so that you have a bow on one side, then cut another smaller piece of ribbon and use it to add a bow to the other side – then you have a bow for each season.
2012 Jul - Sep Calendar
The hearts and butterflies are on dimensionals and you can dress up the butterfiles with brads or pearls or rhinestones.
2012 Oct - Dec Calendar
When assembling each side leave a gap at the bottom of the center month. Then cut a strip of card stock that will be used as the stand to keep the card from sliding apart and falling. My strip was maybe 1″ wide and 5 or so long and then scored twice to create a ‘U’ shape. Stick the ends inside those gaps between the card stock layers and it will hold your calendar up.
Have a nice day! After a rainy weekend we have sunshine today.
Feb 4, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Sale-A-Bration 2012 |
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I’m working on a project now for my niece who has a birthday this month. I need to finish it up soon so I can get it printed and back.
And I have a My Digital Studio Club planned to start this month – there are limited seats available for each club class. If you want more details please let me know. My signature below was created using My Digital Studio – I used embellishments from the Convention 2011 Designer Template digital download, and Lucky Limeade Ribbon & a brad from the One Big Sale-A-Bration CD.
More My Digital Studio for you today. This was the Day 3 layout for Heather’s MDS class.
