Jun 19, 2013 | My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
One more layout from my book for the Germany trip. This layout is from our tour of the Reichstag – Germany’s Parliament building. We went through security and then with a group into the building. Rode up the elevator and on to the roof. You could see across the city. One thing that I noticed was how many cranes there were along the skyline. In Berlin there is so much construction going on it is unbelievable. Then we walked around the spiral walkway to the top of the clear dome. At the top we sat on the bench in the center and laid back to look out the hole in the top.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Jun 17, 2013 | family, My Digital Studio, Scrapbook Pages |
In May I took a trip with my parents and brother to Germany last month and I’m working on documenting our trip using My Digital Studio. I kept notes in a journal, and kept brochures and tickets, etc from the trip. I started working on it while I was on the trip but didn’t get anywhere close to what I thought done. Partially because some days I was tired and ready for bed when I got back in the evening and partially because we did so much! I thought I would share some of the pages with you this week.
I decided to use one of the Stampin’ Up! Digital Templates for this book – and since I knew I would have lots of pictures I choose one that used lots of pictures on each page – The Best Year Photobook Template. The template is set up to have a two page spread for each month of the year. It looks like this –
Mine is a layout for each day/activity – this first layout is from our journey over the ocean – our flights – from Atlanta to Amsterdam and then on to Berlin – and our arrival.
This is the left page and I kept the layout pretty much the same – but I changed the top left section to reflect our trip rather than the month of the year. The strip at the bottom has the exact date and in the top corner – I was adding modes of transportation that we took that day. On some I changed the paper fill in the punch.
For the right page I changed a few of the decorative pages to photo boxes. In most cases I removed any embellishments that were over-layed on the photo boxes.
The trip there was long and I didn’t get much sleep on the flight and basically at the time we were arriving was the time I would have been going to bed at home. So I was a very tired traveler once we arrived.
I hope you can see how the templates are flexible and you don’t need to use the as they were designed. In fact – the original template is actually a 12″ x 12″ photobook and I converted it to an 8″ x 8″ book for my project. I’ll be printing 4 of them when I’m done. One for my parents, one for my brother, one for my Uncle, and one for myself.
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Jun 14, 2013 | Cards, Demonstrator, This & That |
These are the swaps from the team meeting I had last weekend. So any great ideas from my downline, adopted downline and sidelines – I love getting together with all of these ladies! Lots of new products are featured! I’m going to list with each caption the new products that were used on the card.
Anne’s swap – new In-Colors
Cindy’s swap – Gingham Garden Designer Paper, Really Good Greetings stamp set
Diane’s swap – Flower Shop stamp set, Pansy Punch, Deco Labels Framelits, Bermuda Bay
Laree’s swap – Mosaic Madness stamp set, Mosaic punch, Modern Mosaic Embossing Folder, also some new colors
Leishman’s swap – Mosaic Madness embossing folder, Simply Pressed Clay and molds
Lisa’s swap – Gingham Garden designer paper, Simply pressed clay and molds, Banner Greetings stamp set
Sue’s swap – Epic Day This & That Designer paper – this one is a fancy fold – the front square tucks under the rose to hold it shut
Monika’s swap – Banner Greetings stamp set, Epic Day This & That Washi tape
I hope that holds you for a few days for some creative ideas.
Have a great weekend!
Jun 12, 2013 | Cards, Quatrefancy Suite, Thank You |
I think I’m going to learn how to spell Mosaic very quickly! I’m tired of the little red line telling me I spelled it wrong – I want to reverse the a and the i. Well I think I have it figured it out now.
Here is another Mosaic Madness card for you. I created this one for a swap with the GoDiva’s group. I received many wonderful cards in this swap and had a bunch on display at my open house. I really like the way this card turned out with the clear panel in the front. And I also decorated the inside too. I stamped and punched a ton of those little mosaic pieces!
- the card base is Strawberry Slush – one of the new In-Colors – the front is cut – the bottom edge is 1-1/2″ and the top section is 2-3/4″ – the strip I cut out is now sitting on my table waiting for something to be done with (I have a big stack)
- the top panel was stamped with the long strip image
- the bottom panel was stamped with VersaMark ink and “thank you” from Lovely & Lacey stamp set – then embossed with Pool Party embossing Powder.
- I used a piece of the printed clear window sheet from the Quatrefancy Specialty Designer series paper. My card is actually only 4″ wide (instead of 4-1/4) so that I could maximize my window sheet. Attach to the top panel first – then close the card and position the bottom panel so that it is even with the bottom of the card back and attach it to the bottom end of the window sheet (I hope that made sense)
- Stamp the mosaic pieces – Pool Party and Daffodil Delight – for the front and the inside of the card – and punch out – that’s 8 total pieces per card.
- Tie a piece of Whisper White Baker’s twine around the front of the card and tie in a bow.
- Attach the mosaic pieces to the front of the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then attach to the inside of the card in the same spots.
- Finally I added a Whisper White piece to the inside bottom panel of the card.
I hope you like it!
Jun 11, 2013 | Cards, Christmas, Quatrefancy Suite |
Christmas in June!
So when I look at the Mosaic Madness stamp set I see some Christmas ornaments in there. All I needed to do was use colors that are for Christmas and then I can make Christmas cards in June or July. When we first got our glimpse of the new annual Stampin’ Up! catalog the big thing that was missing was the section for Holiday stamp sets. Oh no! But don’t despair they are coming in their very own Holiday catalog – it will be here soon – ordering starts August 1st. So if you can’t wait until August to start Christmas cards then use this idea and start in July (or in June).
The card layout idea came from another demo – I found it on pinterest and saw it also on Stampin’ Connection (a site for demonstrators). I wanted Christmas colors so I chose Gumball Green, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake.
- card base is crumb cake
- on the Very Vanilla layer stamp the banner image (not sure what to call it) using Crumb Cake ink near the bottom, near the top punch out a Mosaic shape – then layer the Very Vanilla on Gumball Green which will show through the punched out area
- on a small Very Vanilla layer use the Big Shot to emboss with the Mosaic Madness embossing folder, punch out one section with the Mosaic punch and layer on a piece of Cherry Cobbler which will show through
- add the Cherry Cobbler layer onto the Gumball Green layer.
- tie Cherry Cobbler Baker’s Twine around the layers and tie in a bow.
- add the layers to the card front
- stamp the images in Gumball Green and Cherry Cobbler and punch out with Mosaic punch and 3/4″ circle punch – add to the front of the card with dimensionals
- add Rhinestones to the ornaments
I didn’t actually add a greeting to this card but you could add one at the bottom and/or the inside. This was the Make&Take project at my team meeting on Saturday night. I really like the negative/positive aspect that you can create with all these coordinating products in this Mosaic collection.
Come back for more Mosaic Madness – once you get started its hard to stop using this collection.
