Guest Blogger!!!

I was thrilled to be asked by Stampin' Up! to be a guest blogger for their mydigitalstudio.net site! As you know, I love using MDS, and I love going to mydigitalstudio.net for inspiration.  Of course I said yes! I hope you hop on over to the mydigitalstudio.net site and check out my post!

My Little Reader

I found a challenge site the other day!  Yea!  I love challenge sites, they are such a great starting point.  Of course my Favorite MDS Challenge site is MDS Monday :)  but I thought I would play along with the challenge at Pixel Maven's Retreat this week as well. 













Here is the sketch.  I pretty much copied the example of Nichole Watt with her play on the opacity of the photo.   Head on over to the site and see what the team has created with the sketch.  Unfortunately, I found the site late in the challenge and missed their challenge deadline, but I will definitely check them out again and play along.   

Valentine Downloads!

Did you see today's downloads?  Super fun stuff!  I love the Valentine's Day downloads! I thought last years downloads were great, do you remember these?   They were the Valentines I made last year.  Jillian thought they were great fun!  The Download was called the "Officially Awesome Valentines" and it made the fun treats you see pictured below.   You can visit the old post here http://bethsdigitalcuts.blogspot.com/2013/01/officially-awesome-valentines-templates.html
to see how I made these with the MDS Download.

 

Officially Awesome Valentine's item #133009 $3.95

Here are two of today's downloads

 

 Love Is All Around Kit - Digital Download.   There are lots of fun papers and stamps with this one! It is going to be great all year round! 

My Digital Class Mailbox Love Notes - Digital Download

This download has some really fun papers and stamps too, but it also has a fun mailbox template that you can print and cut out.  You don't quite see all that it has here, so head on over to the SU store to see all the details and check out all of today's new downloads. 

MDSMonday #49!

Yea!  It's MDS Monday again!  This week Joan has a fun sketch for us! At first I was worried about the tall skinny photos, but I really like how it turned out.  I used the Frosty Day II kit, which is on sale as part of Stampin' Up's! "Weekly Deals".  The sale price ends tonight though, so if your thinking about it, act quick.  The kit is still great if you miss the sale.  It has 12 really fun papers and 25 fun stamps, including the trees and snowflakes you see on this page!

Here is the sketch.
Now head on over to the MDS Monday site to see what the rest of the team has come up with! Then create a page of your own and link it up with our linky button!  You don't need to have a blog to link it. You could upload it to other gallery sites such as mydigitalstudio.net or splitcoaststampers.com and link from there.  Need help with that?  let me know.  We would love to see what you come up with.

Frosty Day Download

Each week, on Tuesdays, two really great things happen at the Stampin' Up! website.   Both the "Weekly Deals" and the "Digital Downloads" get updated on Tuesday mornings.  Yea!  And lately there has been at least one digital download in the weekly deals too!  I happen to have a download addiction, which I am trying to work on, but every download that goes on sale, I already have :(   They are just so much fun!  This weeks "Weekly Deal" has the Frosty Day II kit on sale for only $5.97. Love this kit!  It is snow much fun to use on those pages with the kids playing in the snow, or Christmas cards!  I am working on using it for next weeks MDS Monday page, so you will see that page next week.   In the mean time I thought I would share this page from last year.   This page uses the snowman from a kit called "Days in December" and the "Hello Snow" from the kit "Winter Wonders".  Be sure to check back on Monday to see the new page I'm working on using "Frosty Day II". 

winter wonders #132567 $9.95

Days in December ( great for Advent Calendars)













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Week one on the Year in Review

So far I have remembered to take a photo every day this year!  Of course there have only been 7 days so far, but that's longer than some New Year's Resolutions last, right? 
I was also thinking about what I want the pages to look like and I am going back and forth on this one.  Part of me thinks I want to keep a very simple white background and just focus on the photos and the embellishments.  Then I saw this download called "A year in Review" and I thought maybe that would be a good download to use.  This Photobook template uses some basic paper backgrounds and just a few embellishments but it looks great and works for what I am trying to do.  The Photobook has a two page spread for each month, so I would have to add some pages.  I think I would just copy the basic page for the month and just change up the photo boxes.  Basically, I will end up with 5 January pages instead of the two shown, but they would all match and be similar.  I would then have 5 February pages that look like the ones shown, and on and on.   Here is what I mean....

This is what the January page looked like in the template. 
Below is how I changed it to accommodate more photos on the page.  At the very bottom you can see how I added some duplicate pages to the January and February areas.  I used the "insert duplicate page "feature".  I will then change up the pages in different ways to add journaling and photo boxes.

 

 

 

And here is week one, January 1st through 4th.

 

I also made an opening page, based on the template included in the download.

 

Yea!  So happy to have started this project.  Who else is working on a "Year in Review" type book this year?  Let me know what templates you are using.  I would love to hear your ideas!

 

 

MDS Monday January 6 !

It's MDS Monday again!  This time Cindy has a card sketch for us!  I love hexagons so this as a really fun sketch for me.  The multiple hexagon punches allow you to add several different papers, which is good because sometimes its had to choose just one or two :) 
I choose to use the papers from the kit "Wonderland Party" as well as the "Happy Birthday" from that same kit.  This kit has really fun whimsical papers, and I really like the colors!

Here is the sketch!  Now head on over to the MDS Monday site and see what the rest of the design team has come up with!  We hope that you give the sketch a try too!  Be sure to add your design to the site with our linky at the bottom of the post! We can't wait to see what you can do with MDS!

Wonderland Party Ensemble #134594 $14.95

This ensemble comes with papers, pre-made cards and tags and banners and more!  And I love the stamps, super fun.  Especially those really cute frames!!














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