Jan 20, 2011 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
I put together a quick scrapbook page using My Digital Studio for our snowstorm from last week. I think of this as the beginning of my adventure to the Stampin’ Up! Leadership Conference in Nashville. Normally I am excited about some snow since we don’t get it very often, but with my trip planned I wasn’t really that excited about the snow this time. I REALLY wanted to go to Nashville! The storm came in quickly on Sunday night and dropped 6 inches of snow at our house. Then it changed over to freezing rain and put a layer of ice on top. On Monday everything around here was closed (even the Atlanta airport) and no one was moving. I spent Monday shoveling snow off the driveway because all our neighbors that have moved here from up north were doing that – so I borrowed a shovel and did the same – I figured they must know something that I don’t and I wanted to have every shot at getting out on Wednesday to go to Nashville.
This page layout was one that I got from the awesome Heather Summers. I basically copied her page exactly as she had it. She is the My Digital Studio queen and makes the best scrapbook pages. The left side of the page is a collage of 2×2″ photos. This is much easier to do in MDS than it is in real life – you can turn, crop, zoom, cut and “glue” all at the same time! I was lucky enough to see Heather at the Leadership conference – here we are together on the first morning.
Heather has such great inspiration not only her My Digital Studio projects but all of her work.
I hope you get inspired too. I will be holding a My Digital Studio class at my house on Sunday, January 30th. This first class will be the basics to getting started with My Digital Studio. If you live near me and would like to come please let me know.
Jan 19, 2011 | My Digital Studio |
The latest digital downloads for My Digital Studio from Stampin’ Up!
| Item | Description | Image | Price | Content |
| 124030 | Tempting Turquoise Patterns Designer Series Paper |  | $1.95 | Four Tempting Turquoise
Designer Series Paper Patterns |
| 124031 | Old Olive Patterns Designer Series Paper |  | $1.95 | Four Old Olive Designer Series Paper Patterns |
| 124033 | Pretty in Pink Patterns Designer Series Paper |  | $1.95 | Four Pretty in Pink Designer Series Paper Patterns |
| 124022 | Sweet Stitches Designer Buttons |  | $2.95 | Three button styles in Tangerine Tango, Melon Mambo, Chocolate Chip, and Daffodil Delight. Total of 12 buttons. |
| 124028 | Pattern Pieces Stamp Brush |  | $1.95 | One oversized fabric pattern. Coordinates with the “Oh Sew Suite” product line. |
| 124018 | Blossom Petals Punch |  | $0.95 | Four-piece stamp brush set and one 5″ x 7″ greeting card designer template. |
| 124019 | Build a Blossom Stamp Brush Set |  | $5.95 | Twelve-piece stamp brush set. Coordinates with the digital Blossom Petals Punch. |
| 124027 | Eat Chocolate Stamp Brush Set |  | $3.95 | Four-piece stamp brush set. |
| 125161 | Top 10 Photo Book Template |  | $14.95 | This 24-page designer template (11″ x 8-1/2″) was used to make the My Digital Studio Professional Print Product Sampler, demonstrator supply item #124261. |
| 125162 | 2011 Pennant Desktop Calendar |  | $14.95 | This 25-page calendar template (5-1/2″ x 6-1/2″ calendar with easel) was used to make the My Digital Studio Professional Print Product Sampler, demonstrator supply item #124261. |
| 125623 | Baja Breeze Flower Bouquet Birth Announcement |  | $1.95 | Double-sided baby boy announcement postcard designer template. Colors are Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, and Basic Gray. |
| 125163 | Regal Rose Flower Bouquet Birth Announcement |  | $1.95 | Double-sided baby girl announcement postcard designer template. Colors are Regal Rose, Kiwi Kiss, and So Saffron. This template was used to make the My Digital Studio Professional Print Product Sampler, demonstrator supply item #124261. |
| 125164 | Play Date Invitation Designer Template |  | $1.95 | Birthday greeting card invitation template. Front and inside of card are pre-designed. Template includes nine embellishment pieces and was used to make the My Digital Studio Professional Print Product Sampler, demonstrator supply item #124261. |
| 125165 | Snowflake Flurry Holiday Trifold Card Designer Template |  | $1.95 | This 4″ x 9-1/4″ trifold card designer template was used to make the My Digital Studio Professional Print Product Sampler, demonstrator supply item #124261. |
| 124542 | Chat Room Rock Star Stamp Brush Set |  | $5.95 | Ten-piece stamp brush set. |
| 124543 | Chat Room Friend Stamp Brush Set |  | $5.95 | Ten-piece stamp brush set. |
| 124486 | Chat Room Baby Stamp Brush Set |  | $5.95 | Ten-piece stamp brush set. |
Jan 17, 2011 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Events |
I am back from the Stampin’ Up! Leadership conference in Nashville, TN. I was bound and determined to get there even through ice and snow! I am so glad that I made it and it was the best time ever! We were busy from the time we got up until the time we went to bed each and every day. I stayed an extra day for a smaller stamping event a another demonstrators house that lives near Nashville so Saturday was almost just as busy as Thursday and Friday. I got home Sunday afternoon about 5 or so, unpacked the car and dumped it all inside the house. Aspen and Magnolia were super excited to see me! I got my normal lecture from Aspen – “how could you leave me?”, “why were you gone so long?”, “don’t go back out that door”. He literally won’t let me get back out the door without coming with me – he is very determined that I won’t go out again without him. A little while later I sat on the coach – I was able to watch my recording of Grey’s Anatomy and then fell asleep. It did seem that the weather last week not only messed up the roads, the school schedule, the mail service, garbage service and UPS deliveries but apparently messed up the TV schedules – I set the DVR to record some shows while I was away and when I tried to watch some today – it was the wrong show – even though the TV listing had the right show – weird – I guess I have to try to find them on the internet.
I’ll have more stories to tell and pictures to share and all the rest of the excitement from leadership. Today I made an MDS page about Leadership Roommates. This year I shared a room with Diane, Becky and Wendy. We realized late on Friday night that we didn’t have any pictures of the four of us. Actually it was probably already Saturday morning by this time – we were up until about 3 AM. I got my camera out and remembered it had a timer so that I could set up the camera and then run over to be in the shot. Luckily it had a 10 second timer and the option to have it shoot 3 shots back to back. So that was what we did and boy were we laughing. Here is the result:
The layout for this page came from a My Digital Studio book that we were able to get at Memento Mall – I took an idea from one of the pages in there and merged it with one of the photo templates that the program has. Stampin’ Up! is releasing a Leadership Conference exclusive digital kit for MDS that is designed to go with the Leadership theme, colors and logo. I plan to us it for most of my pictures but I did want to start sharing some with you while I wait on that to become available.
Have a wonderful day!
Jan 12, 2011 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
A couple of months ago Greg and the boys decided to cut a hole in the grass in the back yard and build a fire pit. When we go tent camping or cabin camping the boys always make a big campfire and Greg decided it would be a good idea to be able to do the same thing at home. So it was done. We have had a few fires since they built it. This week the snow came and the boys decided that a big fire was just the thing to do. So in the middle of the snow they built a campfire. Now add to that the marshmallows that Ryan found at the store right before Christmas. They are called Giant Roasters – super big marshmallows just for campfires. Ryan pulled those out and I took pictures and created this scrapbook page in My Digital Studio. The actual layout is from Heather Summers – she has to be the MDS queen and she was one of the winners of the recent contest.
I have decided to try to show my pictures as completed scrapbook pages instead of just the pictures so you’ll have to wait on the rest of the snow pictures. I’m hoping that I’ll do a better job of scrapping my pictures. The funny thing is I make lots of scrapbook pages – I really do have tons, I just don’t always get any pictures on them – even though I usually do have in mind what I plan to put on them. This year I’m going to try to show the every day events of 2011 in an MDS album. This is a 12×12 page the colors are Soft Suede, Night of Navy, Very Vanilla and Kraft (Crumb Cake).
I will be on my way to the Leadership conference today and hope that I can get there. I am driving and we still have snow and ice everywhere from the storm. The kids are out of school for the third day and potentially will be out the rest of the week. It won’t really get warm until Saturday. I hope the interstates are clear from here to Nashville so say a prayer for me that Linda (she is traveling with me) and I arrive safely in Nashville. Wendy was supposed to ride with us but she was unable to fly into Atlanta on Monday because the airport was closed but she was able to get to Nashville on Tuesday so we will meet her at the hotel. If you are headed to leadership I hope to see you there!!
Jan 11, 2011 | My Digital Studio |
The latest Digital Downloads from Stampin’ Up! for My Digital Studio.
| Item | Description | Image | Price |
| 124034 | Pink Pirouette Patterns Designer Series Paper |  | $1.95 |
| 124032 | Rose Red Patterns Designer Series Paper |  | $1.95 |
| 124037 | Wild Wasabi Patterns Designer Series Paper |  | $1.95 |
| 124035 | So Saffron Patterns Designer Series Paper |  | $1.95 |
| 124024 | Letterpress Alphabet Stamp Brush |  | $1.95 |
| 124025 | Lots of Love Stamp Brush |  | $1.95 |
| 124026 | Valentine Defined Stamp Brush Set |  | $5.95 |
| 124029 | Be My Valentine Stamp Brush |  | $1.95 |
| 124020 | Seam Binding II Ribbon Pack |  | $3.95 |
| 124488 | Extra Postage Stamp Brush Set |  | $3.95 |
| 124491 | Motorcycle Stamp Brush |  | $1.95 |
| 124492 | Printed Petals Stamp Brush Set |  | $3.95 |
| 125157 | Chat Room Good Thoughts Stamp Brush Set |  | $5.95 |
| 124541 | Chat Room Celebrate Stamp Brush Set |  | $5.95 |
Jan 5, 2011 | My Digital Studio |
Stampin’ Up! is rolling out the Digital Downloads for My Digital Studio on a regular basis these days – about every other week it seems. Several new downloads were released on 1/4 – right after I sent out my monthly newsletter – it included the ones from December but not these. I’m going to try to post here on my blog every time we get a new release. So here is a peek at the latest downloads:
