May 18, 2011 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
I was working on a page in My Digital Studio and I had most of it down but something was missing from it so I left it alone for a couple of days. Well today I was checking in on Heather’s blog (yes I check hers almost every day) and her blog post said RUN …. the BEST MDS download ever is here. So what do you think I had to go do – run right over to the Stampin’ Up! website to see the new downloads – almost every Tuesday they are releasing new downloads for My Digital Studio and the one Heather was talking about is called Simple Stitching and Corners – it has lots of different stitching including corners and circles – in White and Chocolate Chip – but there is a trick in My Digital Studio that you can do to get them in other colors – I’ll be trying that out soon. Anyway I bought the download and loaded it to my laptop and guess what – I added stitching to my page and that was exactly what it needed.
It’s a picture that I took on Mother’s Day. Prior to that weekend I saw a page that someone created about her boys. At their age my boys really don’t like me to take their pictures. So I decided for Mother’s Day what I wanted was to take pictures of them. And for them to cooperate until I got as many pictures as I wanted. This was the best one of the three of them (and Aspen is in there too). They are all up on the play set in the back yard so there was a very natural back drop that I like. And I like that they are at different heights.
To make my page I actually started with a 12×12 template from the Hip & Handsome Overlays stamp brush set. It is another download that you can add to your My Digital Studio. I made some changes once I got the template – first I changed some of the colors to match better with my photo – I used browns, blues and greens. I also widen the vanilla strip through the center because I needed some more space for my journaling. I switched around some of the overlays and added another one called Textured stamp brush set – it comes with the My Digital Studio disks. I added my photo – with a drop shadow, the journaling (font is called CK Wood House and it was a free download), added the tree stamp from Forest Friends stamp brush set – both with drop shadows.
Then with my new Simple Stitches and Corners download I was able to add all the stitching – the two corners and then between all the different color panels – so it looks like they are all stitched together in the background.
Those are my boys – Kyle is 19 and a student at Ga Tech, Tyler is 17 and about to graduate high school in about 10 days, Ryan is 14 and finishing his freshman year – and there’s Aspen one of my JRTs – and he is actually 5 years old already – he still seems like a puppy to me. That means Magnolia is 6 – she is a year older. I also tried to get some pictures of the dogs so I’ll have to create a page with them too.
Have a great day – and get some scrapbooking done – its National Scrapbook Month!
May 12, 2011 | class, Masculine, My Digital Studio, Newsletter, Summer Mini 2011 |
I have a bad feeling that my May Newsletter and Class Reminder emails are not getting to my email list. Why – I do not know. But several people this week have commented to me if I was having a class and I said yes – I sent out the newsletter the first of the month and a reminder the first of this week – my hands-on class is TOMORROW. Hopefully many of my email listers are also blog subscribers or Facebook friends and will see this post. I am going to put my May newsletter here in this blog post – we’ll see how that works – I’m not sure all my pictures will stay in tact and I’ll probably have to figure out how to add those back in the right place and I know the fonts and probably colors won’t stay – oh well. And by the way my hands-on class is supposed to be tomorrow – but perhaps I need to reschedule – we are making masculine projects and here is a look at some of what we are doing –
I need to know TODAY if you want to attend at either 10:00 am or 7:00 pm so I can cut your class materials. I’ll look at my calendar for next week and may hold another session due to this problem with my emails going out. I may have to look into another method for sending out newsletters. Anyway here is my May newsletter –
May 2011
Last month I showed you the eggs in the nests in my yard – now we have babies!
Chickadee babies on 4-23
Tufted Titmouse babies 4-23
The chickadees actually fledged (left the nest) in the last day or so – they are pictured on the left. The tufted titmouse babies are almost ready to fledge too – but the picture above is earlier in April – I think they are so funny when they have those big beaks open waiting for food. They didn’t stay open long once they realized I wasn’t mom or dad.
This month I am planning to start a new club – the Card Maker’s Club – our focus will be all about cards. The club will meet on the last Wednesday of the month from 7-9:30pm. So this month we will meet on May 25th. Bring a list of cards that you need for the month of June – birthdays, anniversaries, graduation, thinking of you – whatever you might need. Each club meeting will be $15 and you will make 6 cards with envelopes. If time permits you can make additional cards for $2 each – so you make as many as you need in the time of the class. And you can choose which cards you want to make and how many – there will be at least 10 different card choices. And card designs will be available for more than one month – so you can come back to make more or make some that you didn’t get to the last time. This should give you flexibility to create what you need each month.
Please bring adhesive – if you’d like me to order Stampin’ Up! Snail Adhesive, Snail refill, or Tombow Multipurpose glue to have on hand for you please let me know before the class.
BYOB – I will provide a small snack. I think it will be fun and I hope you will join me. Everyone is invited – earn free cards by bringing a friend that I don’t know.
Read on below for my full schedule for May and what’s new at Stampin’ Up!
Your Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator,
Monika Davis
Check out my class schedule and the details of my Ribbon Share for May. I hope to see you soon.
NEW FEATURE – RSVP directly from the events on my website calendar.
Below is my class/event schedule for May:
- Sunday, May 1st – Alexan Card Club
- Friday, May 6th – Stamper’s Club – Hostess is Jeanette 7 pm
- Friday, May 13th – Hands On Class – 10am & 7pm – Masculine Projects
- Saturday, May 14th – PAWS Downline Meeting – 6pm
- Tuesday, May 16th – Stamping at the Ronald McDonald House
- Thursday, May 19th – KSU Card Club – Hostess is Pam
- Friday, May 20th – Scrapbook Class 10 am & 7 pm
- Sunday, May 22nd – My Digital Studio Class 2 pm
- Wednesday, May 25th – **NEW** Card Makers Club – 7pm
More News for You
I had a lot going on in April and didn’t get this ribbon share done so it is still open for the month of May – the share will be the 1-1/4” Striped Grosgrain Ribbon (page 191 in the big catalog). You will receive 2 yards of each of the following colors – Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Rich Razzleberry, Night of Navy, Marina Mist, Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Early Espresso, and Basic Black. The cost of the ribbon share will be $26.00. Please email me and pay by May 13th if you would like to participate in the May Ribbon Share. Here is a project with the Early Espresso
News from Stampin’ Up!
The SUMMER MINI CATALOG is here!! The mini catalog started on May 1st. There are some fun new products in this little mini catalog. New Triple Punches! I’ll be showing these in my classes and clubs this month to teach you how to use these fun punches that punch three different designs. Masculine stamps and papers, summer themed products, Baker’s Twine and colored embossing powder.
One of the new stamp sets in the Summer Mini is called Strength & Hope. There is also a Strength & Hope Digital Kit for My Digital Studio. Stampin’ Up! will donate $2 from these purchases to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. This set is one of my favorites in this mini catalog. I hope you’ll make a difference with me and purchase this beautiful stamp set and/or Digital kit to support BCRF.
And finally it is National Scrapbooking Month and Stampin’ Up! has a special – including select stamp sets at 30% off, My Digital Studio download bundles at 30% off, select My Digital Studio Professional print products at 30% off. I’ve already sent off some print projects this week – I can’t wait to get them back. And the My Digital Studio+ Starter Kit is also 30% off – so you can join Stampin’ Up! for $125.50 (over a $320 value) and the Stampin’ Memories Add-On is only $35 (over a $60 value).
Click on each of the images on the right side of my blog to link to my website and see the details – or go directly to my website.
My Digital Studio Updates
If you have purchased My Digital Studio make sure that you register and select to receive email updates from Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Up! will be sending out a monthly email to all registered users with a list of all the download releases for the month.
A new FREE Update for April is available so make sure you run it. CLICK HERE to go see projects I have created with MDS. You can order the Digital Downloads through my online store – CLICK HERE. I have started My Digital Studio classes – there will be one each month. Ask me for more details. Make sure to join MyDigitalStudio.net where you can find all things about My Digital Studio.
If you would like to see more projects that I have been creating – visit my blog at http://monikastamp.wordpress.com/
Below are some projects featuring Strength & Hope stamp set and the new Hello Blossoms stamp set in the Summer Mini catalog.
Happy Stamping!
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Apr 18, 2011 | Birthday, Cards, My Digital Studio, Occasions Mini 2011 |
Owl’s are all the rage but they are also the school mascot for my KSU Card club. So last week when we had our monthly club meeting I wanted to make a fun owl card for them. I decided to use My Digital Studio and have them make a hybrid card. What is a hybrid card? It is when you combine digital elements with traditional elements to create your card. I was really happy with how cute this card turned out.
Isn’t he cute? The big owl is the digital part. I used My Digital Studio with the following Digital Downloads –
– Two-Step Owl Punch
– Botanical Gazette Designer Series paper
The fun thing about My Digital Studio is that I was able to take the different elements from the Owl punch and make them larger. I made them large enough that the took up the whole front of the card. I filled the different punch pieces with designer series paper or card stock. The eyes are all “popped up” by adding drop shadows – same with the heart. I created the owls on an 8-1/2 x 11 album page and put four on a page. Here is what it looks like.
With four owls to a page I printed them on Whisper White card stock. Then cut out the owls to make the cards. Each card is on a So Saffron card base that was stamped with the Sanded background stamp inked in So Saffron ink. The cut out owl is put on the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Next I used the heart shaped Bitty Button – added some Linen Thread tied in a bow – and put it on top of the heart on the owl using a Mini Glue Dot. I love the little heart button.
I used the Family Phrases stamp set to add a greeting on the owl. My sample has Happy Birthday stamped on it. But the girls at the class could choose what they wanted. I think the cutest one was actually the “Love You Much” stamp.
The third class in my MDS class series will include this as a make&take project. This class will be in May and we will explore how to use MDS to create hybrid projects and for making cards.
I’m having lots of fun creating with My Digital Studio and love the idea of hybrid projects – it opens up a lot of possibilities!
Have a great week and create something fun!
Apr 7, 2011 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
It’s Prom season around here and the boys high school had theirs the other weekend – during one of our storms. Tyler went with one of his long time friends – Afton. They were part of a group that met at one of the girl’s homes and then they all went to dinner together and then to prom. Last night I decided to put together a quick My Digital Studio page with a few of the pictures of Tyler and Afton.
I used a photo template that was in My Digital Studio that happened to suit my photos – one vertical and two smaller horizontal photos. I also have some group shots from everyone but those will be added to a second page. I decided to use Basic Gray for the background since Tyler had the silver tux accessories. Looking back I wish we had gotten silver ribbon on Afton’s corsage – oh well. I added a mat in Basic Black around the photos and a drop shadow.
The digital stamp is Baroque Motifs – they are all in Basic Black but the ones in the background I changed to be 50% opacity which makes them look more gray. There is also a background overlay that gives it a more distressed look – it was also changed to a lower opacity – I think I started with 50% and then went back and made it even lower – just play around until you get the effect that you want. I added the journaling and move my stamps so they didn’t cover any of it. Finally I added some pearls at the corners just because.
Did anyone watch American Idol last night? I did while I worked in my craft room on Easter invitations for my family (I’ll share those later) and the final packaging of the March Ribbon shares (I’ll share that too). I have no idea who to pick as going home – I really thought everyone had a good night. Which is something that normally doesn’t happen when there are still 9 people in the competition. Usually someone has an off night. If I were picking my least favorite – I would say Haley – but I’d hate to see another girl go since there are only 3 left. But I did say the boys were much stronger this year than the girls and so far that seems to be true. Another guess for the bottom 3 might be Stephano (although I do think he probably sang his best yet). Not sure about who else – I guess it could be any of them – who is the most/least popular may be the deciding factor because right now they all seem talented. Just my thoughts – ignore them if you don’t care.
Back to spring cleaning – we are tackling Tyler’s room today – oh boy! Maybe I should take before and after pictures of his…..he may not appreciate that.
Mar 28, 2011 | Bingo, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
This My Digital Studio scrapbook page was super quick to create because it was a Designer Template that came with the Love Letters Designer Series paper Digital Download. All I had to do was add the picture in the photo box and my journaling in the text box. And I was done – it took me longer to find the picture than anything else. This is an old picture from November 2002. For my journaling I wrote –
One of our trips to Washington D.C.
A fun fall afternoon in the city.
The five of us together.
Under the trees.
November 2002
Kyle was home this last week – it was his spring break from college. I took him back on Saturday. I’m so glad he isn’t too far away. Tyler won’t be either he will be going to KSU in the fall. We need to look and see what else we have to do for him.
I have another Bingo Winner – Heather (and JoAnn) have Bingo -Congratulations!
The prize is the Botanical Blooms stamp set – a retired Sale-A-Bration set from 2009.
That’s three down and two to go. Will the next one be you? Here is the next piece.
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I’ll be back tomorrow with the UDI color challenge – see you then.
Mar 24, 2011 | Big Shot, Bingo, Designer Series Paper, My Digital Studio, Occasions Mini 2011, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Events, Tutorial |
Look at this cute mini scrapbook using the Sew Suite product line from the Stampin’ Up! Mini catalog. This was a project that the fabulous Bonnie Thurber showed on stage at the Leadership Conference. I sent Bonnie a message asking if she could give me the dimensions and she did! So I was able to recreate it and used it as a Make&Take project at my downline meeting this month. So here are the details for this little project. There are 4 pages that are glued to an accordion folded spine that creates the top where the chipboard letters are glued on to. The spine and all the pages are Early Espresso card stock. To create the spine you need a piece that is 8″ x 5-1/2″ then score it at every 1″ to create the accordion – so that is 1″, 2″, 3″, 4″, 5″, 6″, and 7″. Fold that into an accordion. I’ll come back to how to finish the spine at the end. Now I’ll show you each page from the bottom up –
So here is the back page – cut the Early Espresso to be 6″ tall by 5-1/2″ wide. Cut a piece of the Sew Suite Designer Series paper to be 5-3/4″ tall by 5-1/4″ wide and glue it to the back page. Take the back page and glue it to the back flap of the accordion fold. Here is the next page
For this page cut the Early Espresso to be 5″ tall and 3-3/4″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer Series paper to be 4-3/4″ tall and 3-1/2″ wide. Attach this page to the next step on the accordion towards the left side. On this page there is a flower – it is the Flower Fusion Sizzlet cut from Tangerine Tango. The center is one of the buttons from the Button Embosslit cut from Daffodil Delight. I’ll tell you how I did the words in a minute. Ok next page –
This one cut the Early Espresso to be 4-1/4″ tall by 3-1/2″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer Series Paper to be 4″ tall by 3-1/4″ wide. Attach this page on the next step of the accordion toward the right side. For this page wrap a piece of Linen Thread around it and tie on one of the Sew Suite Big Designer Buttons. Then add some of the buttons cut with the embosslit from Tangerine Tango card stock. And the next one –
This page cut the Early Espresso to 2-1/2″ tall by 4″ wide. Cut the Sew Suite Designer paper to 2-1/4″ tall by 3-3/4″ wide. Attach to the next step of the accordion centered over the other pages. Now to finish up the front of the accordion –
Cut a piece of Sew Suite Designer paper to be 5-1/2″ wide and 2-1/4″ tall – then score at 1″ from each side – leaving 1/4″ in between – this piece will wrap around the spine – glue it to the back of the spine and then to the front. Cut a 5-1/2″ piece of Tangerine Tango card stock and punch it with the border punch Dotted Scallop Ribbon. Glue this under the front flap of the scrap book. I used a piece of On Board Chipboard and cut the letters using the Big Shot and the Simple Letters die set. Cover the letters with Early Espresso Craft ink using a sponge dauber. Well I should have told you this part first – I would recommend cutting out the letters putting the ink on them and set them aside to dry while you do everything else. You can use the green bottle glue or crystal effects to glue those to the front flap.
Now the words – Bonnie used the stamp set Fabulous Phrases for her example (and she used precut chipboard letters from one of the packs in the catalog). I don’t have that stamp set so I thought – hey I can use it in My Digital Studio and print them out – well the stamp set isn’t yet available in MDS either – so instead I chose a font that I thought was similar and just add text boxes in MDS. To make sure I had the size close I added a Word Window punch in MDS to see that my words would fit. I printed out a sheet of words on Whisper White card stock. We punched them out with the Word Window punch and layered them on a Modern label punched out of Tempting Turquoise.
Now I just need to add pictures and it will be done. How cute is that?
Is today’s Bingo piece going to be the one that makes you the winner? Here it is……
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Have a great day today!
It’s a picture that I took on Mother’s Day. Prior to that weekend I saw a page that someone created about her boys. At their age my boys really don’t like me to take their pictures. So I decided for Mother’s Day what I wanted was to take pictures of them. And for them to cooperate until I got as many pictures as I wanted. This was the best one of the three of them (and Aspen is in there too). They are all up on the play set in the back yard so there was a very natural back drop that I like. And I like that they are at different heights.
