Endless Birthday Wishes

Hi everyone!!  There is a new sketch for MDS Monday!  This time the sketch is brought to us by Anita and it is a really easy one to adapt to so many different types of pages.  When you go to the MDS Monday site you will see pages using the sketch in a very simple bold way, like I did, and some who make very elegant and soft pages.  I know you will see one that you will want to use as inspiration for you page.

We hope that you will give the sketch a try and that you will share what you created with us!

Here is the sketch...

I used the "Endless Birthday Wishes" digital kit for my page! This kit comes with 12 digital papers, 44 stamps, and 15 embellishments.












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Making Apple Pie

Hi Everyone! It's time for another sketch for MDS Monday!! This time Jeanna is hosting the sketch challenge and she has us using lots of photos and accents.  I often have events with a lot of photos so I really like these sketches that allow you to fit a lot in.  For my page I used the Seasonal Snapshot Project Life download for most of my accents.









 Here is the sketch!  Head on over to the MDS Monday site and see what the rest of the design team has come up with, then give the sketch a try of your own.  We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Planting the garden

I completely forgot to post my MDS Monday challenge this week!  oops!  Here it is a few days late! There is still time to play along, I hope you will give the challenge a try.  Yapha has created a fun sketch and askes that we try to use some grouped photo boxes on our page. 

Here is Yapha's sketch! Fun right?

 I did the sketch pretty exactly the first time and then did it again but I changed up the photo boxes to cut the kids up a bit less. It is so easy to make a few changes when you are working in the digital world! 
Head on over to the MDS Monday site and see what the rest of the design team came up with!

Weekly Deals

Hi everyone! I just thought I would share the digital deal of the week.  It is called Spooky Treats and you get 7 digital papers, 15 stamps and a digital punch.  You also get a pre-made treat wrapper template.  These are fun for Halloween parties and pages.  And, its all on sale for $7.77 this week! See it here. 

MDS Monday sketch #86 herringbone

Hi Everyone!  It's MDS Monday time again.  Heidi is the hostess and she is having us try out a herringbone technique on our page.  I have not tried this before so it was fun to take the challenge. It took a little bit of time but was very simple and there are several videos that you can look at to make it even easier.  Here is a link to the one I watched.   The video is a few years old so the MDS desktop looks a bit different that how it looks today but the punches and techniques are still the same so the video works nicely.  Heidi has also given some tips and tricks on the MDS Monday site, so head on over there and see what the rest of the design team has come up with.  We hope you will play along!






Here is my take on the sketch.  Since  I used my grandfather for a sketch a few weeks back, I thought I would use a photo of Grandma this time. 











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Monster Munchies Download

Hi Everyone!  I wanted to mention that the "monster munchies" download is on sale this week!  I really like this download for its distressed papers and fun stamps.  Take a minute to look at this download.  Be sure to click on the magnifying glass so you an see all that you get.  I have used the papers for backgrounds many times and the fun embellishments for treats.  Check out my Cupcake toppers!

a not so spooky Halloween

Hi everyone.
While looking though my templates for the MDS Monday challenge this week, I found so many that I wanted to use.  This is a card template that I think came with the bitty bat digital punch.  I looked in the online store and it doesn't show that that is where it's from, but that is the label it has in my MDS program.  But, if you don' t have the template it doesn't matter because you could easily recreate the card on your own.  The original card was old olive and black but I changed it up a bit to make it have some pink for my little cheerleader.  This would make a cute postcard to send to the grandparents, don't you think?  This picture is from last Halloween, but I will have to get my kids to put their costumes on a bit early and take a few photos to send out, too cute! 

This is what the original looked like. Check through your templates and see what you have, I am sure you will find some great cards or pages that you can switch up and make your own.