April 22, 2013
Here’s my swap from the Stampin’ Up Regional in Baltimore, Maryland, April 13. The design was all done with My Digital Studio, using the Spring to Life Kit. To make it a hybrid project, I added a mat in Lucky Limeade and added Pearls, in graduated sizes, to the butterflies.
My design was inspired by a birthday card by Heather Summers from the Simply My Digital Studio Challenge group on Facebook. I switched out the kit and used different embellishments.
My one cheat is the butterflies. No amount of recoloring the butterfly embellishment from the Spring to Life Kit was giving me a butterfly that looked appropriately Lucky Limeade. If I were patient, I could have colored in the butterfly using the Freeform Tool. As it happens, I’m not that patient. I took the butterfly to Photoshop, used the magic wand, and refilled the butterfly in Lucky Limeade. Its mat outline is Always Artichoke.
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March 30, 2013
This card was so simple I can’t believe it. It was inspired by the most recent challenge in the Simply My Digital Studio Challenges group on Facebook.
It’s an 8″ by 8″ scrapbook page (Be of Good Cheer Kit) converted to a 4.25″ by 5.5″ card. I removed the photo box and stitching (it wasn’t wide enough and pixelated when I stretched it), widened the red ribbon slightly, added a new straight stitching embellishment, and exported it as a JPEG. Then I added that JPEG to a photo box on a new page so that I could add a mat, and, ta-duh, a card. I’m sure this is cheating.
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March 28, 2013
We always give the dogs who visit for holiday dinner a container of their dog food that matches the holiday meal. Here’s Cesar Pork Tenderloin with an Easter wrapper for one of seven spoiled puppies.
The wrapper uses embellishments from the Celebrate Easter Ensemble. The row of eggs was cropped from the name card.
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March 25, 2013
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March 15, 2013
My sister and I created a snack for a Girl Scout group that we work with, and my job was to create a cute label. Fortunately there are several camp-themed stamp brush sets in My Digital Studio.
I made a 2″ by 4″ rectangle (the size of the labels I was going to print on), and then I filled it with Downtown Grunge DSP #1. The yummy food is Smores from the Under the Stars set, stamped in Early Espresso. I used the Freeform tool to color in the marshmallow in Very Vanilla and the Chocolate in Chocolate Chip (of course). The main sentiment is S’more Great Moments from the Happy Camper Memories set, also stamped in Early Espresso. I typed the text across the bottom (“with the Archives Group”) in the font Kristen ITC, 22 point, in Early Espresso.
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January 28, 2013
I decided to try creating the appearance of Triple Stamping with MDS, and here’s the result. I used grouped photos and a two-color DSP to create the look.
Supply List
- Marina Mist Grosgrain Ribbon
- Christmas Cheer – snowflake 6
- Marina Mist Grosgrain Ribbon – knot
- Winter Wonders – hello snow stamp
- Get It Done – punch 3
- Christmas Cocoa II – designer series paper, pattern 3
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December 9, 2012
Here is the little sign that I made to go with Mom’s Christmas doorbell, which plays Christmas carols when you press the big red button.
It’s essentially the same as last year’s sign, but with MDS2 I was able to color in Santa’s boots, make his eyes blue, make his gloves Gumball Green, and color in his belt Basic Black. The Santa is 24 from 25 & Counting stamp brush set. I colored the number 24 with Whisper White so that it wasn’t visible, though the Presents (an embellishment from Candy Cane Lane) hide it fairly well without that.
The card is ever so slightly hybrid. I colored in Santa’s face and ears with a Pink Pirouette marker. That was so much easier than piecing punches behind his face and ears.
I slipped the card into a clear envelope to protect it from the weather, and put it up on the door frame with some Command Strips. Now we’re ready for those holiday deliveries and visitors!
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November 16, 2012
Here’s another layout for the MDS 30 Days of Christmas Class being taught this month by Heather Summers and Martha Inchley. This page is for Saturday Sketch Take 2, and it also fits the MDS challenge for this week to use October 2012 downloads.
Here is the supply list for the card:
- Background: Christmas Cheer – pattern 4 at 30% opacity
- Stamps:
- Embellishments:
- Punches
- Candy Cane Lane – pattern 1
- Rounded Corner Punch, filled with Whisper White, with a Not Quite Navy Mat
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November 8, 2012
I’m participating in the MDS 30 Days of Christmas Class being taught this month by Heather Summers and Martha Inchley. My Thanksgiving card is for their Bonus Sketch 1 Challenge. Yes, I know, I should probably do a Christmas card since it’s a Christmas class, but falling leaves and Thanksgiving were on my mind.
The stamp that I used for the sentiment is actually much larger than what appears on the card:
I added this stamp six times and then cropped it to get just the portion I needed:
- The word “Very”
- The word “Thankful”
- The word “For”
- The letter “Y”
- The letter “O”
- The letter “U”
Here is the supply list for the card:
- Background: Very Vanilla
- Stamps:
- Embellishments:
- Colors:
- Background Punches: Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzaz, River Rock, Cajun Craze, Always Artichoke
- Leaf Backgrounds: Daffodil Delight, So Saffron, Tangerine Tango, Peach Parfait, Cherry Cobbler
- Leaf Overlay Stamps & Sentiment: Early Espresso
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October 4, 2012
This card uses the Monster Munchies Ensemble Kit. It was designed for the MDS Challenge: September 2012 Download.
Here is the supply list for the card:
- Background: Monster Munchies – Paper 1
- Element Backgrounds:
- Stamps:
- Monster Munchies – happy boo
- Pumpkin Patch – element 1, face 2, and element 3 (part of MDS install)
- Spooky Bingo Bits – black cat (white oval punch behind stamp to color eyes)
- Embellishments:
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