Aug 2, 2011 | Cards, My Digital Studio, UDI Color Challenge |
Hi! Well the first day of school is behind us – at least Ryan’s first day. Our county public schools started today! So summer is over for Ryan. Tyler and Kyle are still home – their college schedules give them a little bit more time before they have to be back. Until then we will be cleaning out their rooms, shopping and packing up to move them in to their dorms.
And now for the Tuesday Utah Diva’s Color Challenge.
I see lots of purple in this weeks colors – which reminds me of my friend Laree! Concord Crush, Perfect Plum and Night of Navy and I decided to add Whisper White to the mix. I went with a My Digital Studio Hybrid card this week. Combining the digital elements with traditional elements is just one more option with paper crafting. Here is my creation for this week…..
The digital element is the main panel that was printed on Whisper White card stock. Using My Digital Studio I created a card – I added Perfect Plum Soft Flowers Designer Series paper as the background. On top of that I added the print digital stamp from the First Edition stamp brush set in Concord Crush and the flowers in Night of Navy. For the flowers I added a drop shadow that gives in a sponged look inside the flower. At the bottom of the panel I added two punches – the square punch stretched to a rectangle to fill the bottom of the card front and the Scallop Trim Border punch – both filled with Perfect Plum. On top of that I added an overlay from the Vintage Overlays – it is hard to see in this picture because it is pretty light. Using a text box I added the Happy Birthday choosing a font that I have on my computer. After printing this out I cut it to fit on my card front.
The traditional elements include adding the Taffeta Ribbon around the printed panel. Then attach that to a piece of Whisper White and then on the Concord Crush card base. Finally I added some of the tiny basic pearls – in the center of each flower and also for the dot on the “i” in Birthday.
I hope you like this quick hybrid card.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Concord Crush, Whisper White
- Ink: from my printer
- Stamp sets: First Edition Digital Stamp Brush Set, Vintage Overlays Digital Stamp Brush Set
- Accessories: My Digital Studio, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon, Basic Pearls
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Jul 8, 2011 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
We went to the beach about 2 weeks ago and my SIL arranged for a photographer to come and take family photos. I took the one of us and put it on a My Digital Studio scrapbook page. The layout for this page was from one that Heather Summers did – she is most definitely the queen of MDS. I used the Elegant Soiree Designer Paper Digital Download for mine. It was one of my favorite papers from the last catalog but I can still use all the designs in My Digital Studio and even print them out for cards or other projects if I want to.
This page also uses the Stitching download, Baker’s Twine, various buttons and the antique brads. Each piece of paper is a filled punch shape. And you can adjust your papers inside your punch – you can move them around or zoom in – I did both when creating this page.
Other exciting news for My Digital Studio –
New Products
The 2011-2012 Stampin’ Up! Catalog has made its debut, and with it came 26 NEW My Digital Studio downloads! Take a look at June’s downloads and all of the My Digital Studio catalog products here. You can purchase all of the catalog content as individual downloads or as four large DVD collections, priced at over a 10 percent discount from the individual download prices.
Order and download* in minutes and be on your way to capturing and sharing your favorite memories!
Free Color Palette Update with 2011-2013 In Colors
You can update your My Digital Studio color palette by downloading the latest 1.0.7 update to the software by going to “Check for Updates” in the Help menu of your My Digital Studio software or by installing from the Updates section of MyDigitalStudio.net. Once installed, the color palette in your software will be updated with this year’s In Colors: Calypso Coral, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, and Wisteria Wonder. And be sure to check out the July 5 downloads for additional In Color downloads for purchase!
Free Designer Template
We’re offering you a FREE greeting card designer template! Download this adorable Fruit & Flowers 5-1/2” x 4-1/4” template for a quick glance at some mixing and matching of the new catalog content and the new 2011-2013 In Colors! (The free download will be available immediately if you already have an online ordering account. If you don’t have an account, it may take up to 24 hours to appear after creating it. If you’re a demonstrator, order for free in OEX with item 127547.
Have a great day – thanks for stopping by!
I’m busy with my Hands-on Class and Stamper’s Club today – I had to combine them because I have too many trips planned this month and I’m short on Fridays. Next week is convention!!
Jul 6, 2011 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
Putt Putt Fun! That’s what the kids like to do when we are at the beach. I think they played three different times this year. I put the pictures on a My Digital Studio scrapbook page. This is actually a template that comes with the Forest Friends stamp set. The template is an 8×8 template but this page is actually a 12×12. I have figured out something that you can do in the My Digital Studio software that will let you get doubles out of some of your templates. Do you want to know how?
You will need to use two features that come with the software – one is under the EDIT menu and it is called CHANGE PROJECT SIZE/TYPE. With this option you can change your 8×8 templates to 12×12 (or 5×5), change your 12×12 templates to 8×8 (or 5×5), and also change your 5×5 templates. Then to use them in another project you use this other feature that is under the INSERT menu and it is called IMPORT FROM MY PROJECTS (you can also import from the designer templates but it only lets you pick from those that are the same dimensions).
If you follow these steps you’ll be able to pull in templates that were originally different dimensions. So this is what I did for my 8×8 designer templates –
– create an 8×8 album – call it 8×8 designer templates
– add all of your 8×8 designer templates to the album (or which ever ones you want to convert)
– Select from the Edit menu – CHANGE PROJECT SIZE/TYPE – select photo album and then 12×12 – you can either replace the album or save as new
– once the conversion is complete you will have all the 8×8 templates in a 12×12 format. Now to use them in an album you do this –
– in your exsisting 12×12 album you select from the Insert menu – IMPORT FROM MY PROJECTS.
– then find the album that you created above that contains the 12×12 templates
– select the one you want and insert it into your album
I created multiple albums like this so I could convert the 12×12’s to 8×8’s also – and I seperated them into types of layouts – generic, Holiday, baby, etc. I also included in the front page of the album a paragraph that said what it was – “these are 8×8 designer templates that I converted to 12×12” – I listed all the template original names that I converted – and added a note that said to use Import from my projects option to use them in a 12×12 album. That was just in case I forgot what I did it for….
I hope you find that trick helpful! Have a great day.
May 25, 2011 | Create with Connie & Mary, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
In between getting ready for my Card Maker’s Class tonight and creating a project for the Create with Connie & Mary Summer Edition class I spent a little time making a My Digital Studio scrapbook page. I just love this picture that I took of Aspen. I find it hard to take pictures of the dogs – either they are moving too much or their eyes get weird – and the red eye fixer doesn’t work because the dogs eyes don’t get the red glow they get a blue/gray glow – and I haven’t figured out how to correct it. So when I got this picture and he was still and his eyes were black I was happy. I came across it yesterday and decided to make this page.
I started with a sketch idea from a scrapbook magazine. I added lots of stitching to this page – it comes from one of the new downloads from last week called – Simple Stitches & Corners. There are also two stitched rectangles – the one on the photo and the one on the label – those are actually from the Rock-a-Bye Designer Kit Elements – there are some stitched squares and I just stretched them to fit the shapes I needed. The stitching isn’t equal on all four sides because I did stretch it but I just wanted it to look like stitching and it worked. I really like the stitching added around the edge of the photo. The label that says “A loyal friend is PRICELESS” is a stamp that I enlarged – but I made sure to keep the proportions the same so it didn’t look awkward. I also played around with the EDIT OBJECT options for both my paper pieces and my stitching lines – you can adjust the size to be exactly what you want – the blue grid DSP in the center I wanted it to be a perfect square so I set the width and height to be 10.5 inches – remove the keep proportions option to do this and change the size (this is a square punch by the way) before filling it with paper. I did the same with the other two pieces of DSP making sure they were 12 inches long. I also edited the length of my stitching – I wanted the zigzag to be 10.5 inches like my paper so it wouldn’t hang over – so I used EDIT OBJECT to change it.
I’m really happy with how the whole page turned out. And have discovered that EDIT OBJECT is super helpful now that we can edit by inches instead of just pixels – if you don’t have the choice to look at your measurements by the inch that means you don’t have the most current updates – and you need to go get them – they have added and improved some of the wonderful features of My Digital Studio.
Have a great day!
May 22, 2011 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
Tonight I decided to play around and make one more page in My Digital Studio. Remember the one I showed earlier in the week – it had one picture with my three boys and one of our dogs. Well this page shows all the pictures I had to take to get to that one.
I took 5 pictures before getting one that was OK and before they were all ready to leave again. Mostly it was Ryan that wasn’t cooperating – he had his eyes closed every time and the last picture they are just barely open – but that’s as good as it gets.
To make this page I wanted it to be quick and I knew I wanted to include all of these photos – I decided to browse through all the 12×12 designer templates that I had on My Digital Studio. I found this one in the Rock-a-bye Boy album. I made a few changes to it – switching around the picture and the punch on the bottom row. Adding the text along the outside and the arrows. Replacing the boat with a heart. And adding my title and journaling. But starting with a template makes things go very quickly so this didn’t take long to create.
Today is Sunday and I’m having a My Digital Studio class at my house. I will be showing the ladies about Hybrid projects and some things they can do with punches. I’m also trying out using my son’s TV as the screen to show what I am doing on my laptop – we’ll see how that works. We tried it at my downline meeting last weekend and it seems to work great – but we had everyone standing up near the TV on my kitchen counter. This time I’m planning to still have it on the kitchen counter but on the other side so the ladies can sit at the table with their laptops and copy what I’m doing. I hope it goes well. These classes have been good so far and always full – I think I’m going to have to add another session maybe during the day.
Enjoy the day!
May 19, 2011 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
Tyler, my middle son, is graduating this year – in about a week actually. He has been in the high school band for all four years and each year the Band Boosters give the seniors a gift. I suggested that we give them photo books for their senior gifts and the committee agreed. We spent the next few weeks gathering pictures of all the band seniors – we had 20 this year. For the past couple of months I have been working on their books using My Digital Studio.
I started by creating a book for Tyler – I designed all the pages – creating pages for each of their four years of high school. I used a combination of individual and group/full band photos. Luckily we have had other band parents taking photographs each year and the band has a website where we have many of them loaded. Then to make the rest of the books I started with Tyler’s completed book and then did SAVE AS (important to remember this part before you make all your changes or you’ll lose the original – ask me how I know). I saved a copy with the next students name and then switched out the pictures of Tyler for that student. In some cases where I didn’t have as many pictures – I added in other group or section photos or made changes to some of the layouts. As long as I had pictures I was good. I had a few students that needed a bit more editing – one that wasn’t there during the freshman year – so I deleted those pages and added pages in other places, two that were Color Guard so they didn’t have concert season photos, and one that wasn’t in marching band for the senior year (and that was the biggest section of the book).
I was excited that Stampin’ Up! was having the sale this month on print products – I was able to print all 20 books at 30% off! I ordered on the 1st so they would be here in time for the banquet which was this week. I showed the band booster committee a few days early and they were so excited. We presented the kids their books at the banquet and they loved them – the band director played a special good-bye song for them and I felt bad because I don’t think they were even paying attention to the song because they were looking at their books and at each other’s books. I hope they will be cherished memories for them – if not the mom’s will love them!
Here are a few pages from Tyler’s book – and the matching tag that I made to go on them after I wrapped them up – I used the new swatchbook option for the tags.
For each book the first page was their Senior Night Photo with their parents. I listed their name, the instruments they played during their four years, leadership positions, and special honors. While Tyler didn’t actually play flute at any time in the band, he participated in a student led Flute Choir last year and they played as part of the concert that year.
This page was from their senior year and Tyler played a solo at the beginning of their show. He was also the brass captain so the lower photo is all the leadership at one of their competitions.
This is the back cover of the book. I wasn’t originally sure what to do with the back but I when I saw these photos that some one took from the back of all the students marching in formation to the football field. And I thought the quote from the Word Play stamp set was perfect for this – and coincidentally was the same quote they used on the banquet program too.
And here is that tag – you can see it matches the page from the Senior year I posted above.
This is a page from the swatch book and I just exported them to .jpeg and printed them at home on my computer.
I think I have rambled on enough today. Have a good one!
I see lots of purple in this weeks colors – which reminds me of my friend Laree! Concord Crush, Perfect Plum and Night of Navy and I decided to add Whisper White to the mix. I went with a My Digital Studio Hybrid card this week. Combining the digital elements with traditional elements is just one more option with paper crafting. Here is my creation for this week…..
