MDS Blog Hop - Easter Decorating with MDS

 

So here is what I worked on over the weekend...a little last minute Easter decorating!

I had this 8x10 canvas and had seen something like this on Pinterest so I knew I could do it with help from My Digital Studio! Plus I am still in a crafty mood after my friend's Pinterest Craft Weekend which I came home with 10 finished projects all from Pinterest! Those eggs in the picture where from that weekend too!

I added the Little Additions bunny stamp brush image with the Celebrate Easter Happy Easter stamp brush image and fun dotted DSP onto two sheets of 8.5x11 (here they are together to show you)

 

Then embellish! Cut the words and added with dimensionals.  Add a banner with the Hearts a Flutter Framelit cut flag, pennant punch in Melon Mambo, Calyspo Coral and Daffodil Delight, and then some Baker's Twine string thru it all. Speaking of baker's twine, see his little pom pom tail? That is SU's own Baker's Twine! Follow this tutorial on how to make them. I made two of them together for the tail. Those are soooo cute!

  

I can't scream loud enough how versatile this program is! And even better, you can get it now for just $19.95 US/$24.95 CAN! AND it now comes with $500.00 of content too! Now is that exciting or what? Raise your hand if you agree! Find out all about it HERE!

 

Happy Easter!

Cindy

 

Thanks for stopping by our blog hop today! 

You can always check this our past creations on our Pinterest Page HERE!

Start hopping below and be sure to see everyone!

Comments make us girls blush and smile!

Thanks to Wendy for joining us this month as our guest blogger!

 

1. Amber Meadows 2. Jeanna Bohanon 3. Julie Leblanc 4. Rochelle Gould 5. Aly Schilling 6. Mandy Grant 7. Kimberly Van Diepen 8. Holly VanDyne 9. Erica Shaw 10. Cindy Schuster 11. Wendy Weixler - guest blogger!

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MDS Blog Hop - Spring is in the air!

Our weather is starting to feel like spring! HIP HOP HURRAY!

Still working on my daughters' album and since Easter is around the corner,

I wanted to share these special pages I made. 

 

I like when scrapbook pages have a large photo consuming most of the page. Since I cherish this photo of my girls with their late great-grandfather and did not want to take away from it. This was the last time we saw him alive and we were blessed to have this time with him. He was so happy to see the girls even though he was not doing so well at the time.

 

 Think that is designer series paper on the right? Nope. I created my own designer series paper with adding long lines of square punches, rotated to vertical and horizontal placement, colored filled them, and then changed the opacity to a lower setting.

Then I grouped them ALL together, copy and pasted on the facing page. I just rotated it to be horizontal creating this page. I even saved the group so that I could use it another time. See this video HERE if you want to learn how to do that.  Lovin those paper doilies too! So cute!

 

Thanks for stopping by our blog hop!

You can always check this our past creations on our Pinterest Page HERE!

Cindy

Start hopping below and be sure to see everyone!

Comments make us girls blush and smile big!

 

1. Amber Meadows 2. Jeanna Bohanon 3. Julie Leblanc 4. Rochelle Gould   5. Aly Schilling 6. Mandy Grant 7. Kimberly Van Diepen 8. Holly VanDyne 9. Erica Shaw   10. Cindy Schuster   11. Wendy Weixler - guest blogger!

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MDS Blog Hop - Catching Up Again

Our second half of the month on our Blog Hop is sharing what our MDS designers are currently doing in MDS.  I am back to working on my daughters' albums. I want to make each of them a scrapbook of their childhoods to keep. My favorite moments were looking at the photo albums that my Mom and Dad had put together and them telling me the stories of back then. So great that I can journal those stories of my girls in scrapbooking instead and soooooo much easier making it in digital form. I am making some headway this time. I will be sharing them soon!

I started way back here in my Guest Blogger Post on MDS.net :http://mydigitalstudio.net/profiles/blogs/simple-snapshots-of-my-baby

and yes I am still doing then nearly a year later!

I will probably finish on their graduation day! I hope!

I used the Wonderfall Kit mostly which includes all the paper and leaf punches that you see. I am loving the chevron stamp image on here. I also did lots of cropping a stamp image with the title. Love the splatter stamp too! Fun tool!

 

UPDATE on the page! Looking at the page and thought - YIKES! - needs something more! I added some overlays and changed the Title. NOW I am happy with it! Love that about MDS! I can always go back and change with ease. Better?

 

 Thanks for stopping by our blog hop!

You can always check this our past creations on our Pinterest Page HERE!

Cindy

Start hopping below and be sure to see everyone! Comments make us girls blush and smile!

 

1. Amber Meadows 2. Jeanna Bohanon 3. Julie Leblanc 4. Rochelle Gould 5. Aly Schilling 6. Mandy Grant 7. Kimberly Van Diepen 8. Holly VanDyne 9. Erica Shaw 10. Cindy Schuster 11. Cori Kozak - guest blogger!

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MDS Blog Hop - Last Minute Valentine Treats

Welcome back to the MDS Blog Hop! What a SUPER LONG 3 weeks that was!

But we are all here with some great projects full of LOVE just in time for the big day tomorrow!

So Sunday night, my youngest daughter and I were chatting about what she wanted to do for her LAST year in elementary school Valentine treats for the class - "you know that they do not do that anymore in middle school" she told me. :(  We immediately went on Pinterest and she found the perfect little treat with her favorite candy. I knew right away that I could so make that in MDS2!

To create in MDS2 - I added a square punch at 2 3/4" x 4" which made a perfect insert for the clear bags I had on hand to a custom 8.5x11 page for a "template". Next add the jar from the Perfectly Preserved Stamp Brush Set # 129834 and size to fit the punch.

Now add your wording to complete them. I did a Global search for the Valentine saying while the LOVE BUG is just a text box. Copy the whole thing and paste 5 more on the page. Remove the punch and save as a jpeg. You can right click on the photo template above and save as a jpeg if you have the same size bags! Then simply print as you would a photo on your computer/printer. They each measure 2.75" x 4" on this 8.5x11 page.

Last night, we collected what we needed and started to assemble 28 of them. You will need a 1 3/4" circle punch or a wide oval punch would work too. I picked up the sour worms at Publix - 3 for $5.00. Printed the sheets on whisper white cardstock. Cut them with my Stampin Trimmer. She handwrote their names on the front and her name on the back.  Inserted them and 6-7 sour worms i the bag. To close the top, I simply folded over a flap and stapled them.

Call it DONE! Ready to go for tomorrow! Ok, so you have a quick solution to your last minute classmates', co-workers', neighbors', friends' treats! Better get busy!

 

Thanks for stopping by our blog hop! 

You can always check this our past creations on our Pinterest Page HERE!

Cindy

 

Start hopping below and be sure to see everyone! Comments make us girls blush and smile!

1. Amber Meadows 2. Jeanna Bohanon 3. Julie Leblanc 4. Rochelle Gould 5. Aly Schilling 6. Mandy Grant 7. Kimberly Van Diepen 8. Holly VanDyne 9. Erica Shaw 10. Cindy Schuster 11. Cori Kozak - guest blogger!

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Lemonade Happiness

 

I had fun making this page for a MDS.net challenge. You had to create a divided page layout. I have been also playing with all the digital content in the FREE Sale-a-bration CD called Lemonade Stand. It really is a MUST HAVE! You can get it for FREE when you purchase $50.00 of Stampin Up products which includes MDS digital downloads, stamps, ribbon, fabric, cardstock, paper and the list goes on and on. It really is the best time of the year!

 

I tried some new MDS elements on this page too. I used the cropped feature on the hexagon embellishment in the CD. Then moved it to the back behind the poloroid frame.  I recolored the dotted fabric button at the top to Summer Starfruit and the flag near the top from Bermuda Bay to So Saffron. I also tried the Freeform feature. I added a circle line and changed the shape to a heart. Then you can change the line into stitching or zip zag. Did you know you could do that? I just copied and pasted them as well as changed the heart shape a bit again.  You should give it a try!

 

Thanks for stopping by and getting inspired today!

Cindy

 

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