Jan 26, 2012 | Big Shot, Cards, My Digital Studio, Occasions Mini 2012, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Events |
here are the pictures from the rest of the Make&Takes –
Dreams to Plans Decor
This one is a printed page that was created in My Digital Studio and then we embellished with card stock, ribbon and flowers and some distressing ink. It belongs in an 8×10 frame so that you can hang it on your wall. I don’t have a frame for it yet.
Jar o Cards
This is the Jar o Cards – we did not get jars at the leadership conference but I happened to have a wide mouth mason jar at home. The jar is supposed to have cards inside – here is the card –
Stick the cards and envelopes inside the jar and give as a gift to a hostess. Pretty cute idea don’t you think?
Thanks box
This one was a fun idea – it is the Fancy Favor box on it’s side and then you make a slightly smaller box to slide inside of it. Then a belly band to wrap around it. Tuck a little treat inside and this could also be a hostess gift.
Wonderful You Scrapbook
This one is and 8×8 scrapbook page. So imagine a picture in the middle of it. I thought I would print a picture of myself – maybe one from Leadership if I can find a good one and put it on there. The little tag on the right side is a place to write the date and/or place. We had several projects that used skewers this time for little pennant flags.
I think that was it for the Leadership Make&Takes – as you can see there were a lot and it wasn’t meant for you to finish them all there. Since I was a helper I had to make mine ahead and that means they are all finished – yeah!
Have a nice day – it is rainy here – a pretty yucky kind of day. I’m finishing up scrapbook layouts for my class on Friday, then my downline meeting on Saturday night and I have workshops on Sunday night and Tuesday night. Lots going on! So if I don’t post don’t worry – I just ran out of time. But I will try to get something up every day. And if I don’t these last two posts had lots to look at and provide inspiration for you. Bye for now.
Jan 13, 2012 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
I have My Digital Studio page to share with you today –
This is my niece, Ally. She was singing for us one night over the holidays while we were at the beach. The song she is singing is called Aurora – some of the words are journaled around the edge of the page. The song is from another girl – middle school age – that is a family friend of my brother and she created the song as a science project for school and has it on itunes. My niece loves this song and the little girl. I was trying to find the song on the internet and came across this – http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/local_news/Student-Sings-for-School-Science-Project-20120109-gda-sd – the local news did a story on the girl this week.
I did take some video of my niece singing the song – while it isn’t very good and she is only 4 – it is still really cute -one problem is that I took the video sideways and I can’t figure out how to turn it. The first video is Ally singing by herself all happy and silly and the second one has the itunes version playing with Ally singing but then she gets real quiet and hides – well it turns out she gets sad when she hears the song because she wants to see the girl that sings it.
Ok – well that didn’t work – I thought I could attach the videos here for you to see but it isn’t working. sorry.
I’m working on leadership swaps and some blog posts so that I can start showing you my cards and have stuff to post next week while I am in Texas. I can’t wait to see all my friends and have some girl time.
Dec 31, 2011 | Cards, My Digital Studio, Punch Art |
I made this cute Happy New Year card that I wanted to share with you. These photos are not the best because I don’t have my originals with me and I had to basically do screen prints of a ghost image in my editing software – not ideal but you’ll get the idea. This is a My Digital Studio Hybrid card – so part of the card was created in My Digital Studio and printed on my home printer and then I added traditional elements to it to finish the card. Here is the finished card –
The card base is Crumb Cake card stock and then there is a layer that was created in My Digital Studio and printed on Very Vanilla card stock – I printed four per page and printed them on my home printer and then cut them out. The My Digital Studio portion looks like this all by itself –
(the actual print doesn’t have my watermark on it).
To finish the card I punched a strip of Early Espresso card stock with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon punch (I think that is the name – I used to be so good with the punch names until we switched to the new body style and now I just can’t see to remember the correct names anymore). This was attached to the bottom of the MDS panel. I also stamped “Happy New Year” in Early Espresso on the card in the gap between the stitching. The stamp is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set. If you don’t have that stamp set it is really a must have set – I use it more than any other greeting set that I have – and I didn’t think I would when I first saw it.
At first I stopped there with this card but I just didn’t like it. After looking at it for a few days I finally decided to add a punched snowman to it. And that did the trick – it was exactly what it needed. My snow man is Very Vanilla with Early Espresso parts. 
He is small the 1-1/4″ and 1″ circle punch for the body and 3/4″ circle punch for the head. These are sponged with Crumb Cake ink to add some depth with shadows. The snowflake punch was trimmed to create arms. The hat is the end of the Modern Label punch and a half strip of the Dotted Scallop Ribbon border punch. The eyes are from the Owl punch and the nose is a tip of one of the flowers on the Boho Blossom punch. Use a Stampin’ Write marker to add buttons and a smile. And a white gel pen to add highlights to the eyes. I tied a knot with the Marina Mist ribbon and added that with a glue dot to the snowman.
One final touch was a Rhinestone brad on the 2 in the 2012. I hope you like it. Happy New Year to you!
Be safe everyone!
Dec 29, 2011 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
Hi all – just sharing a quick MDS page using the Downtown Grunge Digital Kit. I just used one of the pages in the album – added my pictures and some journaling and then it was done. It takes longer to decided on the pictures and crop them than anything else when you use a template from one of the kits.
Dec 23, 2011 | class, My Digital Studio |
2012 Calendar Class
My Hands-on class for January 2012 is going to be a special 2012 Calendar Class. The calendar is a My Digital Studio professional printed calendar on an easel stand so it sits on your desk. At the class you will be adding hybrid elements to your calendar – pearls, rhinestones, punches, buttons, brads and ribbon.
Class is on January 13th at 10:00 am and 7:00 pm.
The class fee is $25.
This is a pre-registration class and pre-payment is preferred. I need all RSVPs by Dec. 31st. And I will place the print order for the calendars on Jan. 1st.
If I order you a calendar you must pay for it even if you can’t attend the class. If you cannot attend the class you will receive all the supplies as a kit with instructions on which elements are added to each month.
Mini Glue Dots are the best adhesive for this project.
Here are a few pictures of the calendar:
RSVP on my website – go to my January events calendar HERE.
Happy Stamping!
Your Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator
Dec 22, 2011 | Cards, Christmas, family, My Digital Studio |
I wanted to share with you the 2011 Christmas Card that I made to send to our family. I created this in My Digital Studio after seeing a blog post on Mydigitalstudio.net about the Tri-Fold cards. I really liked how it was all laid out with both a spot for a family photo and then a page for photos of the kids and then on the back a place to write. In past years I would write a letter, print it out, fold it up and stick it inside our Christmas cards. But with My Digital Studio the letter part can become part of the card instead of being an insert. So that is what I decided to do for our family – I printed 35 of these – mailed out 34 and kept 1.
This is the card folded it up and it doesn’t look like much. This is the smaller size of the the tri-fold choices – I have to go back and look for sure but I think the other one was either bigger or it was just turned to be portrait orientation. It looks like a really small card but then when you unfold it you get this….
In the center panel I had a picture of our whole family and then the third panel has individual pictures of the boys plus a little note from us.
But there is more – turn it over to the back and you get this –
That is where my “letter” came in. I used two panels to write all of our 2011 memorable moments.
I sent hand-stamped cards to everyone else on my list. I still have a few more to get out. But so far I have used 80 stamps! I bought 2 packs of the Christmas stamps and used all those. Went to the store to get more this morning and they were out of Christmas ones so the rest of my card have regular stamps. I’ll finish up tomorrow with everyone on my list.
I hope everyone likes the MDS card and the hand-stamped cards.
Here is today’s Christmas activity –
Dec. 22 – Attend a Christmas Concert – I knew I had this one in the bunch. We already did this earlier though – I should have planned my days out better when making the countdown project. We went to the Etowah High School Band Concert. Ryan is in the percussion section – his section of the band played three songs – he played crash cymbals on one song, the wooden block on one and jingle bells on one.
IMPORTANT NOTE: we got word from Stampin’ Up! that the Stocking builder punch that is in the Holiday Mini catalog will be discontinued – so if you had your eye on that punch you better order it now. The Holiday Mini catalog end on Jan. 3rd but I don’t know how much stock they have left and there will not be any more once they run out. And remember the Clearance Rack sale – there are some great deals on other punches – current shapes but the older body style. And a steal on the GoGo Boots Alphabet Sizzlets die set – I use this a lot for scrapbooking titles.
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Have a productive day!
Stick the cards and envelopes inside the jar and give as a gift to a hostess. Pretty cute idea don’t you think?
