Aug 23, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Convention |
What do you do when you have to run out of town and still have a project that you need to create? Since you can’t grab the craft room and stamp in the car – you grab your laptop and create with My Digital Studio in the car! With my Create with Connie & Mary sketch and My Digital Studio 2 I was able to create this scrapbook page in the car.
Here is the CCMC215 sketch so you can see what I started with –
I just added the shapes from the sketch using photo boxes and a punch. I wanted to keep the rounded corners. And with My Digital Studio 2 it is super easy to added them to your photo boxes – there is a new feature to round corners and you pick which corner you want rounded.
Another new feature is being able to re-color embellishments – so the antique brad in the center of my flower was recolored to be Wisteria Wonder. It’s very subtle but its there. This picture is in front of the Stampin’ Up! corporate office in Riverton, Utah. We were able to take a bus out there on Wed of convention week. It was such a fun trip. I know I still owe a video from last weeks challenge card – I’m hoping to get to that next week – being gone for two days has thrown me way behind.
All the supplies are listed below – using another new MDS2 feature – the supply list. Have you tried creating with My Digital Studio? Did you know there is a free 30 day trial? I’d love to see what you can do with it. Visit Create with Connie & Mary and submit your creation for this weeks challenge – each week 3 top creations are selected. Each challenge is open for a week. And then a new challenge will be issued.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
My Digital Studio 2
Background
Designer Series Paper\_Designer Kits\Convention 2012 – designer series paper\Convention 2012 – 8
Embellishments
Staple & Stitching\Vanilla – Simple Stitches zigzag
Paper Daisies\Paper Daisies – flower 1
Paper Daisies\Paper Daisies – flower 2
Paper Daisies\Paper Daisies – flower 3
Paper Daisies\Paper Daisies – flower 4
Antique Brads\Antique Brads – brad 1 (re-colored)
Staple & Stitching\Staple
Staple & Stitching\Staple
Punches
Basics\1.25 Square Punch, Filled with: Designer Series Paper\Soft Flower\Soft Suede Soft Flower
Photos
Card Stock\Wisteria Wonder
C:\monika\convention 2012\2012 Jul 18 003
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Now what are you going to make?
Monika Davis
Aug 5, 2012 | Fabric, Stampin' Up! Convention |
Here are some more display boards from Convention. I hope you see something that inspires you.
International Bazaar Display board
Storytime Display Board
Summer Smooches Display Board
World Spectacular display board
Be of Good Cheer display board
Fabrics & Trims display board
Have fun the rest of your weekend.
Aug 4, 2012 | Stampin' Up! Convention |
This weekend I’m sharing with you some of the display boards in the product area from the Stampin’ Up! Convention – hopefully you will get some inspiration.
Birds of a Feather Display board
Fan Fair display board
Comfort Cafe display board
Floral District Display board
Twitterpated Display board
Hopefully I’ll have more for you tomorrow.
Jul 31, 2012 | My Digital Studio, Stampin' Up! Convention |
For a long time I wanted to create myself a business planner using My Digital Studio. The problem with store bought calendars and planners is they are what someone else thinks everyone needs or wants. Which isn’t necessarily what is going to work for me. With My Digital Studio I can create a planner with exactly what I want. Since this one is mainly for my Stampin’ Up! business I wanted it to coincide with the Stampin’ Up! year which is July through June. So that is what I did – I created my planner so that it started in July 2012 and it runs through June 2013. Now I could have even added more months to it if I wanted to look at more than a year at a time. Here is a peek of the inside for you.
My planner is 8-1/2″ tall and 11″ wide – I created in a photobook project and printed it with a soft photo cover (I’ll show you that in just a minute). On each right hand page is the calendar part. I added important dates and my regular classes that I have on my calendar along with scheduled events such as Convention, Leadership and the Getaway trip. There is a stack of the old fashioned tvs on the page where I can fill in my monthly stats.
I used the Keep In Touch Digital Kit – it is the Hostess CD in the main Stampin’ Up! catalog so you can get it free with your workshop hostess dollars. It has the papers that I used in my backgrounds and all the little elements like the TVs, envelopes, pencils, telephones and stamp images for all the speech bubbles and larger envelopes.
Each left page has places for me to write in goals and calls and followups that I need to remember to do. I have a little check list of things to remember to do each month – pay bills, write newsletters, update website and stuff like that – this will give me a place to check it off as I get it done. And since it is the end of July I better go check all of those to see what I need to do today.
Here is the front cover –
Our convention theme this year was “I am…” so my planner follows that theme with different statements on the front cover and all over the back – different things that I am. I listed some of our class titles amongst these – “I am having fun!”, “I am creative”, “I am doing business “My Way”!”.
I guess I am repeating myself a bit – here is my original post about the planner – http://monikastamp.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/my-digital-studio-planner/
To go along with my planner I wanted a journal for taking notes –
I actually made three of these – one for my friend Cindy – she actually designed the center image for the cover which she used on one of her projects for convention. We took a day prior to convention and collaborated on project ideas – we decided the Keep in Touch download worked well with the ‘I am…” convention theme and ideas just started flowing from there. I printed a 3rd journal for my upline Wendy and that was a gift to her from Cindy and I.
And get ready for tomorrow with the early release of My Digital Studio 2! Lots of new features are ready with more to come. I’ll have more details for you once Stampin’ Up! posts them tomorrow. Cindy and I will be holding a class later showing all about My Digital Studio 2’s new features. We’ll let you know more about that soon. Also we have our next MDS Club class planned for August 18th. I’m working on an email for our club list. And there is more MDS news coming tomorrow that you’ll want to come back to see. Today there are some new downloads – it is Tuesday you know – a Chevron themed download is what I saw on the list – those are so very popular right now.
Stampin’ Up! has new downloads today – You can see all the available Digital Downloads on my website.
Have a great day! Tomorrow is the first day of school for Ryan.
Jul 29, 2012 | Birthday, Cards, Designer Series Paper, Pierced Circle, Stampin' Up! Convention |
I used the Animal Talk stamp set for some of my convention swaps. I wanted to use all the stamps with the same card design and use the Polka Dot Parade Designer Series paper. Here is the result –
I have wanted a pack of designer paper for a long time that was just dots or just stripes. And this one fits perfectly. I can used every piece in the pack easily for projects and classes. Letting everyone choose their own colors. All of these cards have the same layout but everyone can choose the image and colors and make it their own.
It’s hard to see in these photos but I pierced around the punched circle using the new piercing templates (love them!) and the mat and new piercing tool (love them all). That’s really the part that takes the longest on this card is the piercing. Otherwise these are easy to put together.
Have a great day!
Monika Davis
Jul 27, 2012 | Stampin' Up! Convention |
At the Stampin’ Up! convention there is always a Memento Mall where we can shop and purchase various Stampin’ Up! logo items. I like to pick up little gifts for my downline and stamp club members, some things for me and some things for gifts and prizes throughout the year. This year the Memento mall was set up with seasonal displays and I thought I would share them with you.
I am Summer
Each season had a tote bag and a stamp set with little incentive stamps to use for prizes. For summer there was also a water bottle and some business tools – a planner, pens and wish list pads.
I am Fall
Fall included some SU logo clothing and a card tree. Here is another look at some of the clothes.
SU clothes – you’ll see me wearing the white t-shirt!
I am Winter
The winter collection included chapstick, mittens and ornaments plus some fun little post-it note packets.
I am Spring
For spring there were some fun floral decorated tools – a multi use mini hammer with screwdrivers inside and a tape measure. Also mini magnetic dry eraser boards. They also had tissues – maybe those should have been included in the winter display.
Later they added some cute garden flags – you’ll get to see those when you visit my house on class days! and some SU cookie stamps – now I need to make more cookies. Also a bundle of new My Digital Studio print product samples just in time to show off the new My Digital Studio 2 that’s coming in August. I can’t wait to get my hands on that. Some demonstrators got a trial version of it at convention when they attended the I am Digital class (I opted to take a different class – silly me – what was I thinking!). Now I have to wait until August – good thing it isn’t far away.
Have a good rest of your day! My Scrapbook class this morning was tons of fun. And now I need to finish preparing for tomorrows PAWS team meeting. That’s going to be fun too with 14 of my demonstrator friends joining me for an evening of stamping and sharing.
Monika Davis
