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MDS Blog Hop - Made for Mom

 Welcome to our very special "Made for Mom" MDS Blog Hop! I am always so excited to share with you the team's projects that we create in MDS!

 It's no secret I love my Mom - I post about her on here often. She is awesome. I think like so many Mom's, sometimes there just aren't enough words to express our appreciation and love for them. I hope that she enjoys this card when she receives it in the mail (hopefully not late....)

 

  I think that the ability to use our WONDERFUL downloads with e-cutters is a strongly overlooked feature! I LOVE being able to make such "FANCY" cards and designs with just a few clicks. This time I used the stamp from Mom's the Bomb stamp set, and cut it out from our fabulous watercolor paper. I backed it with Gold Foil Paper and Crisp Cantaloupe cardstock. This card is 5"x7" to make it extra special.

I would love to know what you think. Also, I know that this team never dissapoints, so head on over to my talented friend Julie Davidse - she always wows me!

 

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MDS Blog Hop - What I'm working on April - Baseball Time

 Welcome to our "What are you working on?" MDS Blog Hop for April! I am always so excited to share with you the team's projects that we create in MDS!

 I found a similar layout on Pinterest and I tried to find the original source, but I ended up in a dead end. So if it looks familiar, thanks for the inspiration! I took this pics of my boys back in February. We actually let the boys skip school for this! Zach Walters is currently playing for the Washington Nationals and his Dad works with my husband. He was home for a few weeks, and agreed to meet us at the park for a little ball. For my boys, it was as big as meeting a movie star. I must admit, I was a little star-struck too. It was cute to hear the boys ask him questions about playing in the big league and about other players.

  There's not a ton of baseball or sports downloads in MDS (of course I could have 20 and want more) so I get a little creative - I mean that's what it's for. The background paper is from Watercolor Wonder which I don't think most people would think of with baseball. My favorite thing to use on baseball layouts is that awesome stitching from Staples and Stitching! The font was downloaded online and called Marcelle Script

 

I would love to know what you think. Also, I know that this team never dissapoints, so head on over to my talented friend Julie Davidse - she always wows me!

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A My Digital Studio Endless Birthday Wishes card for the MDSM60 Card Sketch

Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   I am currently stuck on the couch, with my foot propped up. I went to the Orthopedic doc today for my foot. I've had pain for a while, but I've been putting it off. I finally couldn't take it anymore. After x-rays and exam I apparently have bone marrow inflammation in multiple areas, plantar fasciitis, and a Morton's neuroma. UGH! Foot up means one thing to me though.... MDS TIME! To get me through today I decided to head over to the MDS Monday Blog and check out their latest card sketch.

Cute, right? I instantly fell in love with the new Endless Birthday Wishes Kit that was released this week, so why not use it for this fun sketch! I might have gone a little overboard with it, but I think it is as fun as can be!

SEE!?! Fun, right?!?! I love the colors and fun patterns. Now I know I used 5 banners instead of 4, but sketches are meant to give you a starting point, inspiration.....

TIPS:

1. Custom "DSP" I used the dot stamp that is in the kit and used copy and paste to create the fun gray and white paper. Once you have a few stamps lined up, GROUP them, then copy and paste the group - makes things go a lot faster.

2. An added challenge was to recolor an embellishment. I recolored the tiny little Rhinestones on the candles and the stitching behind the circle embellishment.

3. Overlay stamp brushed might be one of my favorite things in MDS. I love the TEXTURE you can acheive. I used one on the far left. See that added little touch of interest?

4. I used the Freehand tool to color in the cake....YUM

 

I can't wait to share it over on their blog - hope they like it! What do you think?

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MDS Blog Hop - It's some Easter Inspiration for you!

 Welcome to our first MDS Blog Hop for April! I am always so excited to share with you the team's projects that we create in MDS! I have said it probably a GAJILLION times, and I will probably say it a GAJILLION timew more - I LOVE creating with My Digital Studio. To me it removes any and all limits in papercrafting and I can do ANYTHING!

 This week we are all sharing Spring and Easter projects and I will admit - I LOVE mine! I was going to show y'all the Carrot Banner today, but I got antsy and posted it earlier this week so I had to come up with something else! I'm kind of glad I did - want to see what I made? (Of course you do, right? I mean that is why you are here!)

EEEEK! Right??? Want some close ups?

So this little guy is actually 3 times, all of the images have a combo of dimensionals and glue to give them LOTS of dimension. I colored the pearls with a mixture of 1 drop of Crystal Effects with 1 drop of re-inker. Oh - and they are all free-hand cut, no e-cutter on this one. All of the images are from Everyday Easter.

I love this little guy! Four layers to make him come to life. It really looks like he is going to hop out of that egg at any moment. His scarf is even blowing in the breeze in anticipation!

I put 3 layers into that teeny tiny basket. I almost cut out the letters.... almost! (I used Lauren's Letters and the Smitten Alphabet Punch downloads for the letters)

To give this balloon some extra realistic dimension, I only placed Stampin' Dimensionals at the top of the balloon, and glued it near the bottom. All said and done, four layers to bring this one to life. I once again dyed some pearls to add even more dimension. I love the special touch they add.

Last but not least is this sweet little girl with her pearl necklace and pearl trimmed petticoat. Even her shoes were layered to give her that special touch.

 I've been told that some people think that MDS limits them, that digital looks "flat", and that it even takes the creativity out of papercrafting. I beg to differ and I think this proves it!

I would love to know what you think. Also, I know that this team never dissapoints, so head on over to my talented friend Julie Davidse - she always wows me!

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MDS Blog Hop - What I'm working on March - Superhero Party!!!

Hi - Welcome back!

Hey Hey Hey! It's MDS Blog Hop Time! I truly love doing this hop, because although I love creating in so many different mediums, I think I have to say that My Digital Studio is my FAVE!!! I guess that might be why I am so excited that so many of you join us for these hops!

I am so lucky to be following my fabulous friend - with the most amazing smile - the talented, Holly Van Dyne. If you haven't seen her project yet, go check it out or make sure you hop all the way around.

Remember a while back I shared with you the invite I created for my little dudes birthday party? Well, I figured I would share with you some of the other projects that went into this party!

I used my main punch art character images as a focal point for the party - printed on 12x12 - these were quite eye catching. Above I hung a custom banner.

To create the "POW" shape - I edited a star punch in MDS. By filling it with bright, bold colors and adding a thick contrasting mat it really added to the comic book feel of the party. I used the Pennant die to create a banner of comic book pages layered on our awesome Stampin' Up! cardstock.

To create the custom paper for the cupcake holders, I had saved all of the original 12x12s as jpeg images, then brought them back in as 1" photos, after a lot of copy and paste, I had this AMAZING paper. I used a cupcake skirt from the Sunshine and Sprinkles download and my e-cutter and WHAM-O, they were done!

I also created the pics by adding the jpegs into 1" circle photo boxes.

These super hero suckers were also created with some custom punches. The cape started as a square and you can see the "Superman" diamond was created with an altered triangle. We had Batman and Superman suckers.

Here are a few other images from our fun day

I love being able to use MDS the create memorable parties for my family. I know it's a lot of work, but I think it's worth every minute!

Well, as if I wasn't lucky enough to follow one great friend, I get to go before one of the best-bestest-bestiest BFFs EVER - my outrageously talented and sweet friend Julie Davidse!!! Go check her out and tell her I said "Hi!" :)

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MDS Blog Hop - Getting MORE from your MDS - E-cutter style

Hi - Welcome back!

Hey Hey Hey! It's MDS Blog Hop Time! I truly love doing this hop, because although I love creating in so many different mediums, I think I have to say that My Digital Studio is my FAVE!!! I guess that might be why I am so excited that so many of you join us for these hops!

I am so lucky to be following my fabulous friend - with the most amazing smile - the talented, Holly Van Dyne. If you haven't seen her project yet, go check it out or make sure you hop all the way around.

I have had my Silhouette Cameo since August maybe. I've played with it a little here and a little there. I've done some pretty simple things with it. Shoot, some might consider this simple. But I am one that will always love a good, strong design and a strong color combo, no matter how simple or complicated a project is. My awesome friend Julie Davidse (she comes after me in the hop) totally helped me pull this color combo together. I love being able to create with friends.

Inside this gem is a memo notepad, meant to capture DREAMS of course. So often we dream and never write them down, never hold ourselves accountable for our desires. Hopefully whomever picks up this sweet little notebook will be inspired to capture their own dreams inside

The ballon is from the new Sweetest Dreams Framables download, the clouds are actually the Speech Bubble punch and I ended up using a font (Lobster Two - one of my faves) for the "dream" sentiment.

I would LOVE to know what you think - would you like to capture your dreams in this sweet little notebook?

Well, as if I wasn't lucky enough to follow one great friend, I get to go before one of the best-bestest-bestiest BFFs EVER - my outrageously talented and sweet friend Julie Davidse!!! Go check her out and tell her I said "Hi!" :)

Hope you have a great day!!!

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MDS Blog Hop - What I'm working on - February - Super Hero Punch Art

Hi - Welcome back!

Hey Hey Hey! It's MDS Blog Hop Time! I truly love doing this hop, because although I love creating in so many different mediums, I think I have to say that My Digital Studio is my FAVE!!! I guess that might be why I am so excited that so many of you join us for these hops!

I am so lucky to be following my fabulous friend - with the most amazing smile - the talented, Holly Van Dyne. If you haven't seen her project yet, go check it out or make sure you hop all the way around.

One of my favorite things to do is to throw birthday parties for my boys! I LOVE going all out and finding fun ways to create special memories. This year I am combining two boys in to one party - being as their birthdays are 2 weeks apart  - this is proving to be a HUGE money and time saver!

Color Combo - LOTS! Real Red, Crushed Curry, Summer Starfruit, Gumball Green, Pacific Point, Basic Black, Whisper White, Basic Gray

Guess what - it's ALL DIGITAL PUNCH ART!!!!! I KNOW - OMG it was SO fun! I created each character in a 12x12 page to make the details, then added them in here individually. I'll share the rest of what I did next week!!!

Well, as if I wasn't lucky enough to follow one great friend, I get to go before one of the best-bestest-bestiest BFFs EVER - my outrageously talented and sweet friend Julie Davidse!!! Go check her out and tell her I said "Hi!" :)

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MDS Blog Hop - LOVE to use My Digital Studio

Hi - Welcome back!

Hey Hey Hey! It's MDS Blog Hop Time! I truly love doing this hop, because although I love creating in so many different mediums, I think I have to say that My Digital Studio is my FAVE!!! I guess that might be why I am so excited that so many of you join us for these hops!

I am so lucky to be following my fabulous friend - with the most amazing smile - the talented, Holly Van Dyne. If you haven't seen her project yet, go check it out or make sure you hop all the way around.

This first page is pretty simple, but it 1. Shows me and my LOVE 2. Is a good example of why I LOVE MDS - you can do things digitally you can't do traditionally. I LOVE this technique (if you want to call it that) of being able to stamp on my photos.

Did you see the card that I created yesterday for the Artisan Design Team Blog Hop? Well - I guess it's pretty obvious that it TOTALLY inspired this page. I am thinking that I might go ahead and order a print of this one soon and totally work it up hybrid style!

 

Mailbox Love Notes is an AWESOME download - I LOVE it!!! LOL!!! Yes - I know, lots of LOVE today. There are templates and stamps and embellishments galore - all ones you'll surely LOVE ( I couldn't resist)

Well, as if I wasn't lucky enough to follow one great friend, I get to go before one of the best-bestest-bestiest BFFs EVER - my outrageously talented and sweet friend Julie Davidse!!! Go check her out and tell her I said "Hi!" :)

Hope you have a great day!!!

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MDS Blog Hop - What I'm working on - January - A New Look

Hi - Welcome back!

Are you enjoying the blog hop so far? This is a great way to start 2014! I LOVE being able to hop with this talented group of ladies, they constantly inspire me and push me to create my best.

I am so lucky to be following my fabulous friend - with the most amazing smile - the talented, Holly Van Dyne. If you haven't seen her project yet, go check it out or make sure you hop all the way around.

So on our second hop of each moth we share with you what we are working on - so you'll see a big mix of everything! I decided it was finally time for a new look here on my blog, so I am working on getting things switched over! I created a new header and siggy, and will be working on new buttons and some other re-organizing features!

COLOR COMBO

 

 What do you think? Remember how I mentioned last time that I am LOVING the watercolor look? Well, this just seems to be very "ME" ***edited to add*** I have been asked A LOT - and the download is Beautiful Today Kit and Class

 I love how easy it is to create new looks with MDS, whether it's a blog, or Facebook cover photo or ANYTHING - MDS always comes to the rescue!

Well, as if I wasn't lucky enough to follow one great friend, I get to go before one of the best-bestest-bestiest BFFs EVER - my outrageously talented and sweet friend Julie Davidse!!! Go check her out and tell her I said "Hi!" :)

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MDS Blog Hop - What's on YOUR screen?

Hi - Welcome back!

Are you enjoying the blog hop so far? This is a great way to start 2014! I LOVE being able to hop with this talented group of ladies, they constantly inspire me and push me to create my best.

I am so lucky to be following my fabulous friend - with the most amazing smile - the talented, Holly Van Dyne. If you haven't seen her project yet, go check it out or make sure you hop all the way around.

This week we decided it would be fun to create desktop or phone wallpapers. I usually just keep a family photo as my wallpaper, but this year I thought it would be great to create wallpapers for each month with a focus word of the month. Either things I am grateful for or want to focus on. It seemed fiting that FAMILY would be perfect for the start of the year.

 

I LOVE it! I am loving the watercolor look trend that is so hot right now. Gotta love that Stampin' Up!'s awesome MDS team has brought it to us! The background paper I used was from Watercolor Winter and the banner and FUN (aka my new fave) font from the Beautiful Today download. See the "LOVE" banner in the top corner? It's from the Top Notch woodcuts. I recolored it and I wanted it a little longer so that I could add the stitching, so I created 2 of them and cropped a rectangle from under the word LOVE so that I could extend it. Make sense?

I hope that maybe you will be inspired to create your own custom desktop or phone wallpapers. I have a few more I've created for one the upcoming Artisan Blog Hops, so I hope that you will come back and check those out.

Well, as if I wasn't lucky enough to follow one great friend, I get to go before one of the best-bestest-bestiest BFFs EVER - my outrageously talented and sweet friend Julie Davidse!!! Go check her out and tell her I said "Hi!" :)

Hope you have a great day!!!

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