Have you heard about the My Digital Studio Virtual Crops that my friend Cindy and I are hosting on Facebook? We have done a few now and they have been so much fun! In just a few weeks the participation and members in our group have grown! And we have people joining us from all over the WORLD – how exciting is that! We love this software product from Stampin’ Up! and are eager to share and encourage everyone to use it. Just try it!
Last week we had our April Virtual Crop and Cindy and I each had a challenge for the group. Mine was much easier than hers! I made two samples for mine – here they are –
Mine are both cards and the challenge was to take an element and repeat it on your project and then use the Align Feature to line them all up and space them all evenly.
And here is my creation for Cindy’s challenge –
She gave us a sketch that was a 2 page layout and we needed to create it as a photo book and use the 2 page view, we had to include ribbon elements, and a quote – and the quote was to be made up of different fonts/texts or cropped words. Well I left out the last part – my quote is all one font, but I did have another font on my page. You can’t tell in this shot but since my photo and my quote cross between the two pages they are actually in my layout twice – once on each page. The double page view allowed me to line everything up because I could see both pages as a spread at the same time! And believe it or not I was even able to attach my quote to my circle punch shape that the photo is in and got it lined up correctly – I wasn’t sure it would work but it did! I just took a photo snip of my screen so you could see the two pages all line up together.
We also had our “pick of the crop” for those that tried the challenges and submitted their creations to our photo album. There was one pick for each challenge and they get to display this cute badge on their blog or Facebook page to show that they were the “pick of the crop”.
If you would like to join us next month then you need to join our group on Facebook – MDS Virtual Digi Crop. Leave me a comment here and let me know you plan to join, ask to join the group on FB, and then I’ll approve you.
I hope to see you there when we have our next Virtual Crop – it should be in May sometime – a date will be posted in the group once we schedule it.
