Digital Project Life MY WAY - MDS Blog Hop

 WELCOME TO THE MDS BLOG HOP!

A bunch of us have joined together to share our passion for digital designing with Stampin' UP's My Digital Studio.  These ladies are SERIOUSLY talented in MDS and I am thrilled to be on this Blog Hop with them! You will find us blog hopping on the 2nd and 4th THURSDAYS of each month! We are a little early this month due to the holidays! ALSO we have a guest blogger this month of November! MONIKA DAVIS She is my dear friend and my "partner in crime" with our MDS biz. Believe me, she knows her MDS!

For the MDS Blog Hop this time, we are sharing PROJECT LIFE DIGITALLY! Come check out each of us and what we bring to the digital PL world!

Well there was some talk about MDS moving towards Project Life printed cards, however this has been delayed unfortunately. (insert frown face here) SOOOO......

I decided to make my OWN! I created a 8.5x11 page and filled Happy Things Pocket Cards punch with Designer Series Paper from the Grateful Heart Thanksgiving download. Then I just took some of the stamp images and more punches from that same download to finish my designs on the cards. I printed this page on my home printer with Whisper White cardstock.

Can you see the possibilities with this idea? You can use ANY download kit or ensemble with this! I definitely plan to use it again and again and again. Maybe MDS will get on board with printing cards soon and my life will be Project Life PERFECTION!

I cut them out and rounded the corners with my Project Life corner punch. So simple, right? I like simple scrapbooking memory keeping! I need to finish some journaling on this as well. Perhaps a quote about grandparents!

I did add some "hybrid" quality to my page with Early Espresso Baker's Twine, Pool Party and Peach Parfait (retired color-but I always save scraps for this type of occasion as you know MDS NEVER retires....not yet) cardstock cut with the Fun Fall Framelits Dies. I just threw them in the pouch on the photo. FUN!

Want to make this Project Life page too? Guess what? This download is ON SALE for the WEEKLY DEALS right NOW! Click HERE to order it!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you ! 

 Cindy 

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MDS Blog Hop - Decor style!

WELCOME TO THE MDS BLOG HOP!

A bunch of us have joined together to share our passion for digital designing with Stampin' UP's My Digital Studio.  These ladies are SERIOUSLY talented in MDS and I am thrilled to be on this Blog Hop with them! You will find us blog hopping on the 2nd and 4th THURSDAYS of each month!  
For the MDS Blog Hop this time, we are sharing some home decor or party decor!

I recently re-organzied my studio/office and added these clipboards to an area in there. What to put on those clipboards? How about a monthly calendar to keep me organized with all my creative commitments?! YES! Off to MDS I go! I used the Calendar feature in the program to create the each month removing the month and year off it. I then added a stamp image of from a download. I even copied, paste in place and then move it over with my cursor a tad bit to make the word appear larger. Then I added an image from a Christmas countdown download for the year 14.

I left the top empty as you can see above. But after I printed it out on Whisper White Cardstock, I added a strip of Designer Series Paper at 1 3/4" across the top. I used the Motley Monsters DSP from the Stampin UP Holiday Catalog for all three months.

Here it is! It is looking way better than before. Just need to figure out what to do with the chalkboard memo boards next! Notice that seasonal stack of blocks?

This is probably one of my most favorite thing that I have ever made with MDS! I made it all on a 8.5x11 page. Sent it to the local photo printer. Cut and glued to pieces of cut wood blocks that I painted black and distressed. SUPER EASY! 

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you to get your MDS program and create something special for your home!

 Cindy 

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Blendabilities BRAND NEW! - Artisan Wow

 Welcome back to Artisan Wednesday WOW! We are on our final project of our May box of Stampin' UP products! We hope you continue with our Artisan Design Team Blog Hop to inspire you! You just came from Cathy Caines and next is Connie Collins, but before you do come check out a My Digital Studio/Blendabilities hybrid card to announce the NEW Stampin' Up® Catalog going live on June 2nd! WHOOP WHOOP! You will love it!

I wanted to show how you could use Blendabilities with other graphic images than just flowers! I love the pop of colors that the Blendabilities give on a project!

To make this card, I brought up My Digital Studio program. I added the Baby We've Grown Brush Stamp image called "brand new" to a card project. I increased the image to pixel size 392 x 391 or inches 3.59 x 3.58. Then I just printed the card fronts four times in the program to my printer to make more than one of these cards. You could just add to a 8.5" x 11" project as well. I did the card to make sure it was the size I wanted.

To continue with my hybrid part of the card with traditional products, I used wide washi tape to mask my Crumb Cake card base. I sponged Basic Black ink on it. Then the fun began! I used the Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie and Coastal Cabana Blendabilities to color in my printed image. Because it is printed, the black ink will not run with the markers. Then I simply hand cut it out and popped it up with dimensionals adding some NEW Basic Black Baker's Twine and Bermuda Bay Star Itty Bitty Punch to it!

 
Be sure to check back in June on Wednesdays!
 We will be showcasing all new products from the NEW Stampin' Up® catalog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you!

Cindy

Move on to Connie by clicking on the next button!

MDS Blog hop - Are you ready for the Holidays?

WELCOME TO THE "fresh and new" MDS BLOG HOP!

A bunch of us have joined together over the past two years to share our passion for digital designing with Stampin' UP's My Digital Studio. We have new designers that have joined us - WELCOME CORI, JULIE B. and our fresh newie ELIZABETH RUSH!  There are now 10 of us on the team!  These ladies are ridiculously talented in MDS and I am thrilled to be on this Blog Hop with them! You will find us blog hopping on the 2nd and 4th THURSDAYS of each month! We will have a "theme" selected on the first hop and then a "What we are doing in MDS" on the second hop. Also new, is the hopping method. Just click on the NEXT button and it will take you to the next person on the hop. We hope this inspires you to get into My Digital Studio and start creating! Would love to hear what you think of our "fresh and new" hop and projects, so please take a moment to let us know in comments.

This week, we bring you a variety of holiday projects! Some of us are doing Halloween, some are doing Thanksgiving and some are doing Christmas! I decided to do Christmas and get a head start in designing my Christmas card for 2013.  Not sure if this will be the ONE but you let me know what you think.

Here is the front of the card.

 Here is the inside of the card.

Here is the back of the card.


I used the Jingle And Joy Kit - Digital Download #132793 for the background DSP and color combo of Poppy Parade, Pool Party, Gumball Green and Basic Gray.
The snowflakes are from Winter Wonders Kit - Digital Download #132567.
The rest of it is a mixture of stamps for the wording. Love that you can FLIP an image to get that reflection look!  If selected, I would add a traditional Whisper White Baker's Twine bow to the front of the card where the button is.

Have you started thinking about your holiday cards yet? Will you go traditional or digital this year? It is October 10 so better get moving! Christmas will be here before you know it!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today!

 Cindy 

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Artisan Wednesday Wow - Halloween Frame and Treats

  

Welcome back to Artisan Wednesday WOW! You just came from Cathy Caines and next is Connie Collins, but before you go come check out my Halloween frame that was posted on the Stampin' UP Facebook page last Friday!  I even have an additional SURPRISE to show you!

To create the images, I used My Digital Studio and the Halloween Happiness download.  In MDS, I enlarged the stamp image just a little and thankfully you can do that because it is a SVG file which does not cause distorted pixelation of the image.  Then I used Coloring Tool to color my pumpkins and stems in. I took the Pumpkin Pie Goodie Gear Simply Created Kit and pulled out the cute Crumb Cake tags from it.  Added strips of coordinating cardstock and used dimensionals to pop the cut pumpkins up. The color combo is Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, and Whisper White. The background paper is from Color Collection DSP stacks in Brights which you can see Tangerine Tango here. The Pumpkin Pie 3/4" Chevron ribbon and the 1 1/4" Burlap ribbon complete the frame. I just used Sticky Strip to attach it to the back of the frame.

I still had the clear baggies, Pumpkin Pie stickers and Bermuda Bay Baker's Twine left from the kit, so I took them with the Halloween Happiness Stamp #131859, the Tag a Bag Gift Bags #131370 and Deco Label Collection Framelits #130102 to make additional treats bags for friends and co-workers. Nothing goes to waste around here!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today!

 Cindy 

Move on to Connie by clicking on the next button!

MDS Blog Hop - Let us make some home decor!

 WELCOME TO THE MDS BLOG HOP!

A bunch of us have joined together over the past two years to share our passion for digital designing with Stampin' UP's My Digital Studio. These ladies are ridiculously talented in MDS and I am thrilled to be on this Blog Hop with them! You will find us blog hopping on the 2nd and 4th THURSDAYS of each month! We will have a theme selected on the first hop and then a "What we are doing in MDS" on the second hop. We have lots of fun MDS themes coming up as the holidays are soon here!

Ok, back to our theme this hop....Home Decor - such as a frameable for holiday or everyday with a template or design your own like a favorite quote or saying. Make it even hybrid! There is a lot that you can do with that, right?  Even the Stampin' UP MDS team has made some great downloads lately with frameables in the home décor occasions section! Check it out HERE!

 I spend hours and hours each week at my office desk, so why not spread that home décor into the office?  My boss is totally ok with it as well.  I used the template pages from the Happy Things Pocket Cards download which is a bargain at $5.95. I had to add just a very few things cause I thought the all the images and quotes were perfect for my work productivity. I printed them at home on Whisper White cardstock.  Now this is my view each day. I may add a few more photos to the mix but overall I love it! It makes me HAPPY!

 

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today!

 Cindy 

Continue hopping to Cori #3 and be sure to leave some love notes (comments) 

for each of these super talented ladies! 

1. Julie Leblanc 2. Cindy Schuster 3. Cori Kozak 4. Amber Meadows 5. Rochelle Gould 6. Julie Davidse 7. Jeanna Bohanon 8. Erica Shaw

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My Winning Artisan Entry - Day 10

You just came from Cathy's blog! I just love her scrapbook page! So pretty! It is our last day of the Artisan Design Team Blog Hop. But hold on because every Wednesday we will have a new blog hop properly called "Artisan Wednesday WOW". Each month Stampin' Up! sends the Artisan Design Team a box of items and we are given the task to create four projects with those products and then showcase them weekly on our blogs. I already have been making projects with the first box of items and let me tell you...WHAT FUN!

Back to my last entry project, this was a last minute change to my scrapbook entry. I had another page done in MDS and added hybrid elements but this idea was stuck in my thoughts and I had to make it. It turned out so awesome that I went with it instead. It was really a challenge for me to create a "boy" page. This is my adorable nephew who I miss a bunch! He is living on the other side of the world right now. 

 

Now continue to hop along to Connie's blog!

 Thanks for joining us in this journey! It has been a blast showing you all my entries. They are really special to me and I hope they inspired you these past 10 days!

 

 Cindy