I tried something new today – well several new things actually – and hopefully it works like I thought….
First I created a Movie from my My Digital Studio album of my Convention scrapbook pages. I have posted a few pages here and there on my blog and now I have all the pages finished and I wanted to create a movie and post it on my blog.
So the movie was done and then I had to figure out how to post it. I was able to upload it to Stampin’ Connection – which is an online community for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators.
Next I uploaded it to YouTube – that’s the first time I have done that – but apparently I already had an account and I just followed the steps on the screen. And now here it is:
I hope you could view it! It looked like some of the pages were fuzzy – I’m not sure why.
It seems that this will open up a whole new area for sharing projects – but we’ll have to see if I can go there….
As of the time I’m writing this post on Saturday night I have not received any emails that someone has BINGO – but there could be one before this actually posts on Sunday morning. I think some of my posts got messed up because WordPress was down on Friday night. The times on my posts seem all messed up and what I posted on Friday is what got emailed to my email subscribers on Saturday night. And the Saturday post didn’t go out in the email yet. So I’m going to wait for tomorrow to draw another piece. Really there should be a winner by now – I can’t believe it is taking this long.
I’m not sure that I regularly post my classes and events on my blog so I thought I would start doing that so anyone local to me can join me. If you have a question about something please let me know.
9/2 – KSU Card Club- hostess this month is Amy
9/3 – Stamper’s Club – this group meets at my house – hostess this month is Jamie.
9/7 – EW Card Club – hostess this month is Tammy
9/11 – PAWS Downline Meeting at my house – this is open to all Stampin’ Up! demonstrators – cost is $5 if you are not in my direct downline – or you can supply a Make&Take project – please RSVP by 9/8. Email me for more information.
9/12 – Halloween Class – 2:00 pm
9/14 – Stampin’ at the Ronald McDonald House
9/17 – Hands-on Class – Love Your Pets – 10:00 am and 7:00 pm
9/23 – Towne Lake Card Club – hostess this month is Meghan
9/24 – Scrapbook Class – 10:00 am and 7:00 pm
9/26 – AAWCC workshop
CLICK HERE to go to my events schedule on my website which has more information about each of these events.
Here’s the latest News from Stampin’ Up!:
The Holiday Mini is here!!
With lots of exciting new products – including FABRIC that matches or Designer Series paper! This mini covers holidays from Halloween through Valentine’s Day and runs from Sept. 1, 2010 – Jan 3, 2011.
You’ll find two new hostess stamp sets, new Big Shot Embossing Folders and Dies, new Designer Series Paper and lots of new stamp sets. Some of our new products include – Waffle Paper, Lace Trim, Designer Jewels, Designer Printed Albums, Sound Cards, Fabric Adhesive, Glass Glitter, Tinsel Trim, Glimmer Brads, Design-a-House Kit, and Letterpress Plates.
Everything you need to make your holidays the best ever.
Five More Card Stock Colors Available for My Digital Studio!
August 30, 2010 Last but not least! Pacific Point, Tangerine Tango, Pink Pirouette, Bravo Burgundy, and Elegant Eggplant are now available for free download for My Digital Studio. Keep your My Digital Studio card stock collection complete and up-to-date by downloading these five favorites today!
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#122163 Vintage Trinkets Pack $1.95
#122164 Antique Brads Pack $1.95
That was a lot of information – but hopefully you found something of interest to you. All month long I’ll be playing Monika’s Blog Bingo. And here we go for today…….
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 2 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 5. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the Round 1 winner. It sounds like things are going well.
Here is piece #6 –small swirly circle from Circle Circus stamp set (stamped in Pear Pizzazz).
This is another page from my Convention Album that I created in Stampin’ Up!s My Digital Studio. I have a few more things I want to fix up before I publish it. When I’m done I hope to add it as a slide show to my blog – but I have to figure out how to do that still. There is always something new to learn when it comes to this blog. The page above has pictures from the Awards night which included entertainment from Charley Jenkins.
Notice the photo in the bottom right corner – that’s me and that guy is the drummer from the band. He was the one they kept talking about being single. That night happened to be my wedding anniversary and I was spending it at convention. Becky thought it would be funny to get a picture of me with the drummer. So she told him it was my anniversary and that she wanted to take a picture and I don’t know if she planned it or not but when she took the picture he gave me this big kiss! Can you see by my face that I was surprised!
And now it’s time to continue with Monika’s Blog Bingo!
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 2 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I filled group 4 and I opened up group 5. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the Round 1 winner.
Here is piece #3 – the coffee mug image from the Itty Bitty Bits stamp set (stamped in Chocolate Chip).
If you are part of my last ribbon share – I am working on cutting the ribbon and will let you know when it is ready for you. Thanks for stopping by today!
I am continuing to work on my Convention album in My Digital Studio. Apparently I did not do a good job this year of taking pictures. Part of the reason a couple of days was because my battery for the camera died so I couldn’t. And then the other days I guess I just wasn’t thinking clearly about some of those important moments.
This year I earn two special things – one was VIP status on check-in day to get early admission into the Memento Mall. Did I take any pictures of that? No. Not of the sign, not of the inside of Memento mall displays (although I did remember on the last day but it just wasn’t the same then). The VIP status was for getting a recruit at the beginning of July – Thanks Sherri!
The second thing was earning a special Breakfast on Friday morning with Shelli and the Corporate Team and about 200 other demonstrators. That was for being part of the Recruit Crew training program and getting a new recruit during the training – Thanks Stephanie! Did I take any pictures of me at the breakfast, or my table of new friends – Nope. The only pictures I have were of Shelli when she was talking to us. On top of that we got to enter the main stage area from a special entrance early. I should have been taking pictures then too. I’m not sure where my brain was – several special opportunities that may never happen again and no pictures for my scrapbook.
I did get some pictures from the Stampin’ Up! website and Facebook page and my roommates from the Opening Session on Thursday morning. So I created a scrapbook page in My Digital Studio for that and I’m sharing that today.
This year Stampin’ Up! actually closed the home office and had all the employees at the Opening General Session. In the big picture you can see all the employees line up on each side of the entrance in white shirts – two rows on each side to cheer as we came inside. I did not take that picture it was one from Stampin’ Up!
To start each convention when get to hear the new theme song and watch it being performed. I don’t remember who the performers were but I really like the song this year. Very hip and current. And then there were some young dancers on the stage too. Very exciting and fun and we were all standing and cheering the whole time.
For some details about what I did in My Digital Studio – I created the page using one of the photo layouts. You can pull in a photo layout but then it is still fully customizable and you can change anything that you want. I moved one of the photo blocks and then deleted one and replaced with a punch and a text box. My background is from the Happy Birthday Designer Kit – I think it was paper 2. I noticed as I made this page the elements actually coordinated with some of the decorations and things they used at convention on the stage and in the lights and images that they flashed on the walls. I added some embellishments that also came from the Happy Birthday Designer Kit. And some brads too.
One fun thing about My Digital Studio is adding text right on top of your pictures. The text block is actually clear so you can put the text write over the photo and still see the photo. On the page where I have the journaling I used a punch to add a piece of designer paper behind my words so that they would be easier to read. The background was too busy for the text. My photos and my punched piece are all matted with a thin white mat.
I hope to be finished with the whole album later this week. Have a great week!
I have been working on a My Digital Studio project the past couple of days. I decided to take the pictures I have from the Stampin’ Up! Convention and create an album in My Digital Studio that I can show as a slide show with the Share What You Love theme song playing in the background. I have about 6 pages done and love it so far. I thought I would share one of the pages with you. This is one of my favorite ones so far – these are pictures I took of all the flowers and gardens at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Every year we want to go there but never have time. So this year we decided not to plan anything for the day we arrived – which was Tuesday – and use that time to walk around and visit Temple Square.
I just love all the pretty flowers. The photo in the center of the bottom row is of a family of quail (I think that is what they are). Michele, Diane and Becky stopped to talk to someone and as I turned around I notice this large group of birds waddling across the sidewalk from one section of the gardens to another. Well you know me I had to go check it out. I got over there with my camera just in time. About half of them were already through the bushes and I only got a picture of the last few before they disappeared.
This page was very easy to create in My Digital Studio. I am working with a 12 x 12 album and I started with a blank page. I added a background paper which is the Designer Series Paper in Pear Pizazz Wallpaper print. Then I added a photo layout on top. In the Resource Palette it is the 5th button over and when you hover over it it says – “Click to Access Photo layouts”. Click on that and it brings up a selection of different layouts to choose from. I picked the one I wanted and it adds it to my page. Then I Click over on the little camera (the 1st button) to access my pictures. Browse to the folder on your computer with the pictures you want to use. Then I just click and drag the photos into each box. I normally go back and select each one to adjust the crop to show the portion of the full photograph that I want to see on my page. Last I added a text box with my title. My Digital Studio uses fonts that are loaded on your computer. This happens to be one that I downloaded for free and is not a standard font.
I hope to post the entire slide show to my blog when it is finished. So hopefully I can figure out how to do that.
Have a great day – I spent most of it shopping with Kyle to get him ready for college. We had a long list of little things to buy – an alarm clock was at the top and I made him get a little hand held vacuum for keeping his dorm room clean too.
I joined a new demonstrator group earlier this year – a group that shares ideas and business tips. They have a dinner and swap at convention so I signed up to attend along with my 3 room mates. The card swap for had some specific rules or guidelines that I found quite challenging. I decided that the reason I waited so long to make all of my swaps for convention was because I was struggling with what to do with this one. So here are the specifics that I had to work with:
– Colors: Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, Whisper White
– Theme: Whimsical or Funny
– Royal in nature with bling
Somehow for me the whimsical/funny didn’t go with royal bling – but I thought through it and played around with various ideas until I finally came up with something and everyone I have showed my end result to has loved it! I’m so excited that they liked it and I hope the ladies I’m swapping with like it too!
Here are all the pieces of my card. It was a lot of pieces and next time I need to do a swap with not so many pieces and steps. Can you see what it is – little heads and little bodies…..
Here they are all finished – do you see the dog bones, the dog, the newspaper rolled up in his mouth?
It is my punch art dog and I forgot to take a picture of my inspiration – it is a piece of metal art that hangs on the wall by the garage door. This piece happens to have the head and legs that move so my card is supposed to resemble that – so I call it my bobble-head card.
The dog is made out of punches and the legs are dangling – they are attached with brads so they move. The head moves because I attached it to a jumbo brad that is then inserted through a hole on the embossed Cherry Cobbler layer and it rotates around.
My “bling” on my card include 3 brads on the left side and some chunky glitter – I don’t know how easily you can see it in the picture so here is a close up of his head. The nose is covered in black chunky glitter and his tongue is covered in red chunky glitter.
The newspaper in his mouth is a piece from the new News Print Designer Series paper. The tail is a thin strip of Basic Black card stock curled around a skewer to make it curl up. I shaded all the punched pieces with Black StazOn ink – for me the regular basic black looks to much like purple when I use it for sponging. I added spots cut/punched from pieces of black card stock or with a black marker.
He really is a funny little dog with a bobble-head. I’m also going to demo this card at the Udderly Awesome gathering at convention. I hope I don’t get to nervous showing it in front of people. I did pre-assemble most of the dog parts ahead of time. I’ll come back after convention and add more on the punched pieces for the dog.
And I forgot to get a picture of the inside. By the way the “Heard the News” was made using My Digital Studio and printed on card stock and punched out. I’ll show you later how to create the bone shape.
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