Sep 9, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, In Colors, Punch Art, Scrapbook Pages |
Today I have a scrapbook layout for you. Yeah – I’m all done with the mini cards and yes for those that wondered all 9 cards and envelopes did fit inside the box and there was room for a few more!
This layout was one of the ones we made at my WOW Scrapbook Class in August. I have a class once a month – typically the last Friday of the month. You can see my calendar on my website and RSVP directly from there.
Smile Your Heart out is the title with the Heart turned into a strawberry to match the paper. The designer paper is the Berry Blossoms in the new Stampin’ Up! catalog. It uses several of the new In-Colors – Wild Wisteria, Lucky Limeade and Calypso Coral. The layout idea for this was from a scrapbook magazine. The pictures are of my niece after we went to a Mother’s Day tea this past spring. I spent all morning trying to get her to smile for me and finally when we were leaving she game me some big smiles. And then she walked away toward the car and it was so cute I took pictures of her from behind.
The strawberry is made with the Big Shot Embosslit Heart of Hearts. I turned it over so the dots are indented since a strawberry is like that. The leaves on the top are made from the 5-petal flower punch. The one underneath has one leaf trimmed to be a stem, and the one on top is trimmed to three leaves and layered on top. Then I added a bitty flower punched from Whisper White. I added a little dot from the Lucky Limeade Stampin’ Write marker in the center.
The strawberries turned out cute – I could have added some sponging and maybe scores in the center of the leaves for more dimension.
I hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by today.
Aug 26, 2011 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Masking, Scrapbook Pages, Summer Mini 2011 |
Today is Scrapbook Day. It is my monthly scrapbook class. And I have two fun 12×12 2-page layouts planned. I’m not going to show you those today instead I’m going to show you the layouts we made last month – since apparently I never shared them. So here is the first one –
The back ground is Sahara Sand 12×12 card stock. The stamp sets that I used are The Open Sea and Sail Away. Both of these are in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog which ends on August 31st. So you only have a few more days left to order these.
On this left page I stamped the manifest image in Soft Suede down the left edge. There are strips of Patterns Designer Series Paper in Pool Party, Soft Suede and Cajun Craze. In the upper corner is the featured sailboat with the sunset. See this post for details on how to do the masked sunset. Th Big Shot dies are 3″ Circle, 3-1/2″ Circle, and the Scallop Circle.
There is the panel of Pool Party and a mat for a grouping of photos framed in Cajun Craze with a scallop border strip in Soft Suede on the side. A couple of anchors are stamped around the page.
The right hand page added a few more elements. First the pennant banner at the top. This is the new Petite Pennants Builder punch. The letters for “beach” were stamped using the Just Perfect Alphabet set. I used the 1/16″ punch to put holes in the top of each pennant. Then strung them on a piece of White Baker’s Twine. My idea is that above the banner you would stamp the name of the Beach that the pictures are about. So I plan to use our summer beach photos and will add “North Myrtle” to the top of the page. If you aren’t at a specific beach it could just say “A Day at the”.
There is also a tag hanging down with the date – I just tied a knot to the twine at the end of the banner to attach the Modern Label punch. It kind of blends in with all the Pool Party so I probably should have use a different color card stock for it.
Down in the corner is an idea I got from a swap at convention. Using the Modern Label punch to create the mooring posts. I used a Stampin’ Write marker to add some lines to make them look like wood. A piece of Bakers Twine is wrapped around one and tied in a knot.
Now I need to print my beach photos so I can add them to this page.
I also wanted to say thanks to everyone for all the emails and comments about the Shadow Box Advent Calendar project I shared this week. I have been getting tons of emails and I have tried to reply to each one. I created the project for the UStamp class so I can not share the tutorial with you. But you can join this awesome class and get it there. The cost works out to less than 75 cents per tutorial and there are some awesome projects so it is well worth the money. The box kit was something I purchased online at a big box craft store – but I can’t post that specific information here per my demonstrator agreement with Stampin’ Up!
Have a great day! I can’t wait for my scrapbookers to here so I can show them this months layouts. I will share those with you guys later.
Aug 14, 2011 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
Hi all! It’s late on Saturday night as I write this post and Tyler is packing up his room getting ready to move to his dorm tomorrow as he starts the next phase of his life. I can’t believe he is headed off to college already. Time has passed so quickly.
While he was packing I decided to create a My Digital Studio scrapbook page. These were some pictures that I took this summer when we were at the beach. It is so different now that most of the kids are driving and headed off to college. The adults were able to do what they wanted and the kids for the most part entertained themselves. This particular night they all decided to play a game together – all 7 of the kids – my three (Kyle, Tyler and Ryan), my two nieces (Natalia and Emily) , my nephew (Nicholas), and one of the cousins (Emma). They pulled out the cards and decided to play Spoons – but instead of using spoons they were using the pool tags that came with the condo. So maybe we should call it Tags.
Let’s see if I can list some of the digital elements that I used –
-Downtown Grunge Digital kit – the background paper, the white frames, and the tape
-Stamp Brush Sets – Extreme Elements, First Edition, one of the alphabet sets (I forgot which one), My Friend, and an overlay
The rest is text and photo boxes.
Have a great weekend!
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.
Jul 2, 2011 | Big Shot, Scrapbook Pages, SU Buttons, SU Ribbon |
Today is the Family Reunion – this is Greg’s family and extended family. We get together each year on the weekend of 4th of July in the middle of a cow pasture next to a little pond. It’s a fun day of visiting, eating Fried Catfish and hushpuppies, farm fresh corn and watermelon, playing games, row boat rides, fishing with cane poles, feeding the cows and even a visit to the dollar store. So today I thought I would share this scrapbook page I made last month that is perfect for a family reunion, 4th of July event or other summertime celebration.
This sketch and layout idea came straight out of a scrapbook magazine. I used all Stampin’ Up! products (the magazine did not). I used similar colors and the measurements from the sketch that they had. I finished the page and then went on a search through my old pictures and found these Family Reunion pictures from July 1998! The boys were so little – look at Ryan only 2 years old and now he will be 15 in just two weeks and ready to start driving a car – oh my!
The colors on this layout are Real Read, Marina Mist, Pacific Point, So Saffron and Whisper White. There are several products on this layout that just retired from the Stampin’ Up! catalog (darn those stars). The jumbo wheel, the punches, the Go Go Boots Alphabet dies (for the title), the wide striped ribbon in Real Red, and the Sanded background stamp. The upside is we do have a STAR die for the Big Shot and it has four different size stars on it that would be perfect for this layout.
Other things I used on this layout that are still in the catalog – Sweet Buttons Embosslit, Top Note die, Scallop Border punch, White Bakers Twine, Brads, Buttons, Circle punches, Jewelry Tag punch, and more. It is really a fun layout. I hope you like it!
Have a Happy 4th of July weekend! We’ll spend the 4th with my family at the lake – I can’t wait!
The strawberry is made with the Big Shot Embosslit Heart of Hearts. I turned it over so the dots are indented since a strawberry is like that. The leaves on the top are made from the 5-petal flower punch. The one underneath has one leaf trimmed to be a stem, and the one on top is trimmed to three leaves and layered on top. Then I added a bitty flower punched from Whisper White. I added a little dot from the Lucky Limeade Stampin’ Write marker in the center.
