A final MDS Monday - Favorite Downloads

This is it. The time has come. Let me pause for a moment to collect myself......

The very LAST MDS Monday post. Tami asked us to make a page showing our favorite My Digital Studio download. THAT was certainly hard to do by the way! Too many that I dearly love!

I was working on the 200+ pictures that I took on my daughter's prom night. So when this favorite download challenge came up, I knew what photos to use. Then it was instant inspiration from the photos to use the Glimmer Kit. I used the Gold and Silver toned embellishments and paper for the background. You could never use a WHOLE sheet of the real Glimmer Paper for a background! Seriously! I also used the Basic Pearls and Rhinestones download and the Gold Sequin download.

This has been such a huge blessing in my life to work side by side with these amazing and talented ladies on the MDS Monday Design Team! Tara, Holly, Tami, Beth, Yapha, Heidi, Jeanna and Anita, Rochelle, and Joan over the past couple of years.

You can bet that we will continue to use our MDS in some fashion! So be sure to check out our own personal blogs for some digital inspiration from time to time!

Thanks for joining us on this journey! It has been a great ride!

Cindy

MDS Monday My Final Sketch Challenge #114

Sharing my last MDS Monday Sketch with you today. I have been so blessed to be on this digital design team and to create in MDS with them over the past year. There are some super talented ladies on this team and they all love MDS as much as I do so please be sure to check out there creations on MDS Monday website. Also please give them some love via comments!

Life has been super crazy and this roller coaster called life continues. I wanted to share a page that I made two years ago that changed my creative life. I made a similar page for the Stampin' UP Artisan Design Team Application. I knew that My Digital Studio HAD to be part of my application and this page is probably the one I am most proud of. So I made a sketch layout of it for you. Use it as you like. Add more to it. Change the background or use a different stamp as the focal point. Make photo boxes with mat. Just have fun creating in MDS! 

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the challenge graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your post or mydigitalstudio.net sample page for this challenge, not your entire website (So we can find your project)
• You can create a card, scrapbook page or 3-D object with the sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday May 23rd @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 
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The end is near and I find myself sad and yet thankful for this amazing ride with MDS after all these years. Thank you Stampin' UP for making a great digital program!

Special thanks to the whole MDS team thru the years at Stampin' UP: Andrea, Tanner, Tyler, Elizabeth, Sara, Shara, Lindsey, Philip, Holly, Chad, and Casey!

Extra thanks to Heather Summers for introducing me to MDS thru her online classes, Erica Shaw for asking me to be on the MDS Blog Hop, and to Holly Endress for asking me to be on the MDS Monday Design Team.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you will enjoy the sketch and do some creating in MDS!

Cindy

MDSM Sketch Challenge #107 Freeform a Story

I am bringing an oldie but a goodie back around for the MDS Monday Challenge. Bring up that Freeform Tool, add some shape to it and then add journaling text to it! If you can read what is in my sample text, it will give you some tips or suggestions. Capture the memory and tell a story of a special single photo!

 

 Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the challenge graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your post or mydigitalstudio.net sample page for this challenge, not your entire website (So we can find your project)
• You can create a card, scrapbook page or 3-D object with the sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday April 4th @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! 

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 

MDS Mondays and our challenges!

Cindy 

MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #105

This week over on MDS Monday, Anita had a spring-y theme challenge for us! I love how she added the flower silhouette so I just had to you use it for my page as well. I have not taken much spring-y pictures recently (we just had our first real spring like temp day yesterday which I spent cleaning out our horder-like garage). So I looked back at last year's spring time photos and found this gem. These ladies mean the world to me!

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the challenge graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your post or mydigitalstudio.net sample page for this challenge, not your entire website (So we can find your project)
• You can create a card, scrapbook page or 3-D object with the sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday March 21st @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun!

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! 

If you are looking for some more digital scrapbooking fun, drop by this Tuesday night the 17th on Facebook for two new challenges on our MDS Virtual Digi Crop hosted by Monika Davis and myself. Just search for the group name and we will add you to the group. We start at 7:30pm and give you til Thursday night to complete your challenges and post them for all to marvel at! 
Hope to see you there!

 Thanks for stopping by! 

Cindy 

MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #103 - Family Bike Ride

This week over on MDS Monday, Yapha had a very clean and simple sketch for all. These are perfect for a quick scrapbook page! You can focus on the photos and add simple clean images to enhance the photos. You can see my page above but I loved it so much and I had a few more photos that I had to make another page. What to do? Add a duplicate page mirrored! I added my other photos, removed the button and baker's twine bow, added a few more bike clips (recolored) and move my text to that page. I really like it now and I have more pages done on our trip!

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the challenge graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your post or mydigitalstudio.net sample page for this challenge, not your entire website (So we can find your project)
• You can create a card, scrapbook page or 3-D object with the sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday March 7th @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

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You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! 

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 

MDS Mondays and our challenges!

Cindy 

MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #101

Tami has a awesome sketch and video this week over on MDS Monday! Be sure to go check it out and then open up MDS to create a page with it! The sketch is fairly simple, so it leaves lots of room for imagination. You can use three photos, like the template, or combine them into one or two, like my example. You group the photos and then drag a photo over into the group. You gotta have just the right photo and I thought this one of my besties on our BFFs' Day Out was perfect. 

For my example, I used the designer series papers from Beautiful Today and the images from Painter Petals Brush Stamp Set. 

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the Challenge Graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your Post for this challenge, not your entire blog. (So we can find your project)
• You can create a Card, Scrap Page or 3-D Object with the Sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday February 21st @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! 

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 

MDS Mondays and our challenges!

Cindy 

MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #100

It's our 100th challenge at MDS Monday!  Whoo, hoo!!!  Can you believe that we've had 100 weeks of sketches or challenges?  To celebrate, we're doing something different.  Heidi has maintained a Pinterest board of all the MDS Monday sketches to date.  Go to that board and pick your favorite sketch to create a new scrapbook page or card.  When you link your project, be sure to tell us which sketch you used.  We will give you two weeks to create your projects, and we're giving out prizes!!!  The top two winners will receive a download of their choice valued up to $9.95, and three runner up winners will receive MDS Monday key chains designed by Beth!!!  So, get your creative juices flowing and help us celebrate this awesome milestone.

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the challenge graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your post or mydigitalstudio.net sample page for this challenge, not your entire website (So we can find your project)
• You can create a card, scrapbook page or 3-D object with the sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday February 14th @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

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I selected Sketch #35 for this fun challenge! I was drawn to it by the diagonal aspects of the sketch!This was also a sketch that I never did as I join the MDS Monday Design Team on Sketch #39 so I was excited to take on the challenge! We took a brief yet always fun trip to Disneyworld. We got to see some of our Disney friends while we were there. Great fun and you are never too old to get a picture with Mickey and the gang! I left the background white because the pictures have so much activity in them. Then I just added more chevrons in Basic Black and Real Red. The title is a mix of two stamp images that I cropped to fit together. Opening your mind to this kind of thinking with you stamp images will help to have even more possibilities of word combinations. I also used the ink splatters found in the stamp location in MDS. Can you see my hidden Mickey?

We're also having a Blog Hop this week so you can see the sketches we picked and learn how we created out pages.  The next stop is Jeanna!

MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #99

Here we go with sketch challenge #99! Did I just say 99? Oh wow! Wait until next week!
I have been on the fence with MDS lately. Not sure about the future of the program but I truly still love it and THANK GOODNESS we still have MDS Monday around after 99 sketch challenges that can bring me to create with a digital medium for my scrapbooking heart. Here is a great layout for a birthday or any celebration! Use all kinds of Designer Series Paper with the rectangle punches and fill your circle (or other shape if you wish) punches with photos. 

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the challenge graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your post or mydigitalstudio.net sample page for this challenge, not your entire website (So we can find your project)
• You can create a card, scrapbook page or 3-D object with the sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday January 31st @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! 

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 

MDS Mondays and our challenges!

Cindy 

Hello 2015 - 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! 
This time, we are sharing what each of us are working on in MDS. I wanted to share how I am using MDS for my New Year's Eve celebrations!

I started off with an invitation! It is just a postcard that I will mail out. I used a photo for my bohek background image. I added a circle punch in white at 30% opacity. Then added a few key stamp images for the theme "Hello 2015!" The other side of the invite is just a few simple lines to give the deets. A good start, right? 

I plan to use this download When the Clock Strikes Twelve #136679 for the rest of the decorations. I plan to pull many parts of this display showing for my party with friends. I hope to share some of them with you soon! 

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you! 

Cindy 

Click on the button to move on to see what Cori made!

MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #93

Tami has a super sweet sketch challenge this week for you over at MDS Monday! You have to use one special photo and a flourish or two. I knew what photo I wanted to use right away! I took this photo of my daughter at the beach in September. I used the beautiful DSP called Lullably which is definitely not for just a baby theme. I love the confetti pattern as it has that trendy bohek look. I used the Convention 2012 download for my flourish around the photo. I also used the flag outline and the medallion flower image from the same download. The washi tape is from the download See Ya Next Year. Added some Gold Baker's Twine in a bow and string. 

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the Challenge Graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your Post for this challenge, not your entire blog. (So we can find your project)
• You can create a Card, Scrap Page or 3-D Object with the Sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday December 12th @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! 

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 

MDS Mondays and our challenges!

Cindy 

Bright Christmas - 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! 

Inspired by colored chalkboard Christmas cards, here is what I came up with to capture one of our favorite things to do! The tree is from Jingle and Joy download and it has red star and ornaments but I changed it to match my "merry and bright" theme. I have to say that the coloring tool is SUCH fun to use on the stamp images. It is the "artist" in me! I also love the re-coloring tool on embellishments. I took Sara's Sequins download and re-colored a few of them for the ornaments on the tree.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you to get into a little MDS coloring!

 Cindy 

Click on the button to move on to see what Cori made!

MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #92

Back for a new MDS Monday Sketch Challenge! And guess what? I got to create the challenge this week! Ok, so it is a good one and most challenging cause it is double the trouble! Come on you can do it! December has arrived and I thought it would be great to make a double page layout for those thousands of Christmas pictures you took or will take soon! Another idea would be to change the trees to snowflakes for a snow pictures.....another idea would be ornaments for tree decorating pictures....see the possibilities? What can you come up with?  (you can do a single page layout if you like too!)

I took the layout as it was designed and re-colored the trees to Lost Lagoon. Then I used Designer paper from the Daily December Memories download. The stamp image for my title also comes from the same download. The snowflakes both stamp images and punch shapes come from the Festive Flurries download. I also like the option of filling some of the photo areas with Designer Series Papers if you do not have enough photos for this double page layout. 

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the Challenge Graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your Post for this challenge, not your entire blog. (So we can find your project)
• You can create a Card, Scrap Page or 3-D Object with the Sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday December 6th @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! 

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 

MDS Mondays and our challenges!

Cindy 

Christmas Card 2014 - 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! So this blog hop is all about WHAT YA DOING in MDS?

Seriously I was wondering what to do for this blog hop when I looked at my calendar and realized that it was NOVEMBER 16th! Thanksgiving is next week! HOLY MOLY! I needed to get my butt in gear and get a holiday card designed asap! I gotta get them into the printer to get back in time to send out BEFORE Christmas!

FRONT OF CARD

BACK OF CARD

I have been seeing alot of black, white, red and gold themed Christmas decorations out there! I find the color theme very elegant. So I was inspired by my visions of that decor for my design. To get the curve of white around the photo, I used the leaf punch blown up to get that perfect curve. You can see how I use it HERE as well on a calendar. I am also loving the long look of a postcard photo card. What is so great is that you get envelopes with these when you print thru Stampin UP! MDS print services! I plan to get this card printed for family, friends and church family this year so watch out some of you are getting a preview! LOL

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you to get your Christmas photo cards done ASAP! 

 Cindy 

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MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #91

Tara create this fun sketch this week with a focus on numbers. I love using numbers when showcasing a special event on a scrapbook page and of course, I finished off my godson's first year album with his 1st birthday celebration! For my page, I used many embellishments from the On The Go download. If you have MDS and boys, this is a must have! I re-colored the truck to Pacific Point but left the tractor the green and gray. 

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the Challenge Graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your Post for this challenge, not your entire blog. (So we can find your project)
• You can create a Card, Scrap Page or 3-D Object with the Sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday November 29th @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! 

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 

MDS Mondays and our challenges!

Cindy 

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 

Click on the button to move on to see what Cori made!

MDS Monday Sketch Challenge #88

My sweet friend and amazing MDS guru Jeanna created this week's challenge for us over on MDS Monday Blog! I love that she said to go with LOTS of layers and embellishments which is so not me. I also played with the new tip I shared last Thursday HERE. The Days to Remember download is what I use mostly with this page. The leaf punches come from the Wonderfall download. It was lots of fun to make this page and I love the layout for many pages yet to come!

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the Challenge Graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your Post for this challenge, not your entire blog. (So we can find your project)
• You can create a Card, Scrap Page or 3-D Object with the Sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday November 1st @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! MDS Masters and I made it with MDS Monday runner ups are announced every week. 

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 

MDS Mondays and our challenges!

Cindy 

Thankful Crop - 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!  
For the MDS Blog Hop this time, we are sharing what we have been doing in MDS!

So once a month, my friend Monika and I hold an online virtual digi crop on our Facebook group page. We had one just this week! If you missed it or not part of our group, you still can join us! Just look for our group: MDS Virtual Digi Crop and ask to join. Once we approve you then you can click on events and see both challenges there. But I wanted to share my challenge with you here and inspire you to go create and join us!

I am going to share the feature where you can crop an embellishment. You can get really creative with this!  Several of the ladies who joined us had some great ideas on this technique.

1. Select an embellishment that has a wide area to crop from. The burlap flag here is perfect for this with the texture. Add to your project. Now click on CROP in the Design Center to the right under Embellishments.

2. In the Crop Embellishment area, select CROP SHAPE. 

3. Now you will want to choose the punch. I used the maple leaf punch from the Wonderful download. Then click on APPLY when done.

4. The Crop Embellishment area will come back up and you can see the maple leaf image coverage is larger than my burlap embellishment. Click on the corner box and size down the image fits. Select OK. 

5. Now your cropped embellishment will appear on your project. You can use the corner boxes to alter the size of it. (you can even re-color the embellishment from here like I did and re-colored to Tangelo Twist)

Here is a link to a video that shows how to Crop Embellishments from Stampin’ UP. http://www.mydigitalstudio.net/video/crop-embellishments

Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you to join our monthly 
online virtual MDS digi crop nights! 
 Cindy 

Click on the button to move on to see what Cori made!