A VERY BIG DAY! MDS 2!

Today has finally arrived! and it is a VERY BIG day indeed! Today is the day you can upgrade to MDS2! If you think that I was crazy and obsessed with My Digital Studio Original than you know I am TOTALLY NUTSO INSANE for My Digital Studio 2!!! (Love the ad above cause it is so true for me) I have had the pure pleasure of getting the beta version from Stampin Up! Convention and have had time to play and play with it. Get IT! GET IT NOW! NO REGRETS! The 75 new features are going to help you from the beginners to the advance users.  Ever wanted to change the color of stitching? Ever wanted to make your own text follow a curve? Ever wanted to make a mosaic photo page? Ever wanted to color those stamp images? Ever wanted to crop a stamp, punch or embellishment and use just part of it? I could go on and on!  No really, you will be seeing more of these features used here on my blog for sure!

Ok, so you ask what is all this MDS today? Where do I start? Or what version should I purchase? It is a little confusing so see below.

MDS 2 Options:

For anyone who wants to try MDS 2 for FREE before buying
# 130910 MDS 2 Free Trial (Download)   FREEEEEEEE!
30-day FREE trial with over $200 US/$250 CAN in content to use for the 30 days.

For people who own the original version of My Digital Studio and only want the new software—not the $500 US/$650 CAN in content that MDS 2+ includes.
# 130650 MDS 2 Upgrade (Download)  $ 19.95 US price
Updated software with new design features. Some functional content including a few punches, card stock, and photo layouts.

For people who never bought the original version of My Digital Studio and only want the new software—NOT the $500 US/$650 CAN in content that MDS 2+ includes.
# 130644 MDS 2 (Download)  $ 39.95 US price
Updated software with new design features. Some functional content including a few punches, card stock, and photo layouts.

For anyone who wants the new software as well as $500 US/$650 CAN in content; for anyone whether they own the original software or not.
# 130646 MDS 2+ (Download)  $79.95 US price
Updated software with new design features. $500 US/$650 CAN in content. Most content has already been released. Great for the new users to have TONS of content to use right away. BARGAIN DEAL!

More info:
All disc version of these same version will be out in late 2012 and you can purchase them at that time. Today's are only DOWNLOADABLE and you will be able to find your download over and over again if you change computers. It will be in your Digital Download Manager thru Stampin Up! website.
Also some additional free upgrades will come out soon as they are still working on the last 10 features so be aware of that additional information.

If you have any questions, need some guidance on what to purchase, or some direction on where to start with MDS2, let me know.

Thanks for stopping by and happy DIGITAL DAY!
Cindy

MDS Blog Hop - Punchy!

I have to say that I cheated a little bit on this challenge. But I was playing with a beta version of the new MDS2 that we got at Convention (pretty cool huh?) and ran across this totally awesome punch template! Really I found it on the new feature called Designer Template Selection, #49 feature on the list they gave us of all 75 new features! You are able to search all your downloaded templates in one search area! FANTASTIC, huh?

Want to see more of MDS2 features? This page shows a bunch more. #10 Crop stamp image - the "new" is part of a stamp image that actually says Happy New Year. #29 Recolor Embellishments - the ribbon is recolored in Summer Starfruit and the rhinestone is recolored in Pool Party. # 40 - Text Tracking is where I was able to space my text lines even more.
So what does this page have to do with punches you ask? There are really 55 punches on this page! The chevron line are all made of the single chevron punch. Then the "friends" are in punch letters. Aly said to use as many punches we could. Well, I did!
The best part of this page is the photo of my new friends and I. Some of us MDS Blog Hop designers were able to meet up at Convention. With our crazy busy schedule too! That's Rochelle (with sweet baby Hannah), Erica, Holly, Jeanna and me! We missed Mandy, Heather and Aly for the pic. :( Next year! Hopefully Amber, Terri and Julie will be there too! Love you all!
I wanted to take a minute and thank Erica for coming up with this MDS Blog Hop nearly a year ago! For inviting all of us to join her! For this has opened doors for many of us to share our love of this wonderful program. This also has created new friendships and kindred spirits in the digital designing world. THANK YOU ERICA!

And THANK YOU for stopping by today! We could not do this without YOU!

Cindy

Check out what my fellow MDS Blog Hop friends created this week! If someone is missing as you hop, just come back here and move to the next person.

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2.Rochelle Gould

3.  Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc 
5.Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Holly VanDyne

MDS Blog Hop Friday - Sketch Challenge LIVE

Hi Everyone! I am LIVE from Stampin Up Convention! I have been having an overload of fun here! I have been learning new ideas, making new friends and seeing dear friends that I love to pieces, laughing so hard, eating yummy food, walking walking walking and best of all...learning that MDS2 is coming on August 1st!  We got a sneak peak of it (bonus as a demo) and IT WILL BLOW YOU AWAY! If you have never tried MDS, YOU MUST TRY IT! It is FREE for a 30 day trial starting Aug 1st so DO IT!

Back to why you came, this week's challenge was brought to us by Terri. You can see it at gotsketch here. I wanted to keep the page simple because I love that photo of my niece so much! (And yes, she did not eat that whole cupcake) I did add more of the details like the sketch however it just looked overloaded. I like simple. Did you notice the background is white? Yes, another white background page. I tried to change it but I am limited on the DSP at the moment (long story). So....

Thanks for stopping by!

Cindy

Check out what my fellow MDS Blog Hoppers created this week! If someone is missing as you hop, just come back here and move to the next person.

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2.Rochelle Gould

3.  Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc 
5.Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Holly VanDyne

MDS Blog Hop - Color Challenge

Amber's Color Challenge: Wild Wasabi, Pacific Point, Primrose Petals, Going Gray, Summer Starfruit and Pool Party. Use some or all of these colors together :)  hmmmm....

So I got them all BUT the Pacific Point. I could just not make it fit into this page.

I really like how this page turned out but I think my favorite part is the background overlay. It is the Decorative Overlays - Swirl Stripes in Summer Starfruit. I also used the Designer Kit - Earth Laughs for the Title and Border which is in Wild Wasabi (just a hint of color to accomplish the color challenge :P heehee). A bargain at $1.95 for a wonderful simple kit. I also like the Bitty Flower punches in Primrose Petals spread over the page.

I liked this layout so much that I made another page with it with a Stampin Up Convention theme in mind. Inspired by the Stampin Up name bag and event tickets!  I can not wait to fill it with three or six fun photos that capture my wonderful week with friends as we share and learn together!

I will hopefully be sharing a highlight from each day next week on here. (fingers crossed)

Thanks for stopping by!

Cindy

Check out what my fellow MDS Blog Hoppers created this week! If someone is missing as you hop, just come back here and move to the next person.

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2.Rochelle Gould

3.  Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc 
5.Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Holly VanDyne

MDS Blog Hop Friday - Monochromatic 2

Terri brought us the "monochromatic" challenge this week. Last time we did this challenge, I went with a cream and brown tone on a page and stuck to the monochromatic rule. Let us just say that I started with a monochromatic theme and then added pops of color. Label me a rule breaker! :) Did some research on definition of "monochromatic in scrapbooking" and it varies in ways I did not know. Learn something new each day!

Overall, I love how this page turned out! I used the Piece of Cake CD, Decorative Overlays - Starburst and Word Play stamp set. The B in HB embellsihment is covered by the P stamp image. Color filled with Island Indigo, copied, paste in place and then flipped to cover all of the B of the original B. You do what you gotta do to make it work in MDS.

I will print this page and place it in my girls' birthday book. You can see more of the past birthday pages HERE and HERE and HERE.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cindy

Check out what my fellow MDS Blog Hoppers created this week! If someone is missing as you hop, just come back here and move to the next person.

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2.Rochelle Gould

3.  Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc 
5.Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

12. Holly VanDyne

Recapping the past 6 months II

The recapping continues....here are May, June AND July! Now July is designed and ready to add pictures to it but for now I just added some general photos.  I also might change some of the second pages to "match" the recap pages a little better or maybe not.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a fabulous 4TH of JULY!

Cindy 

Recapping the past 6 months...

I can not believe it has been 6 months of 2012 already! Back in January I started my 2012 monthly recap in MDS 12x12 pages. Here is the basic layout that I created to follow for each of the months. You could do this also in regular scrapbooking. It is a great way to capture monthly moments of the year and keep as a yearly album and you do not have to create a new design each month. This year I am doing a recap page like below and then adding an additional sorta of matching page next to it that features my favorite picture or moment of the month. Here are Jan- Apr with two page spreads. Some of the pages you may have seen on my Blog Hop Fridays.

Be back Wednesday to show you May - July recap pages!

Yes, even July is pre-done!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope this inspires you to make

monthly recap pages!

Cindy