Hi there!!! Welcome back! I love MDS Blog Hop Days! They are also the Artisan Design Team Blog Hop as well! Kind of crazy, but oh so fun!
I've taken a lot of time this past week to focus on these two people. It's been challenging, it's been rewarding, it's been one of the most important things I have ever done in my entire life. There will be another page in my personal book that chronicles this week, but right now - I am just looking for the sunshine.
This page was created mostly with Stampin' Up!s brand new download released yesterday, April Showers. There is also a free desktop calender download you can get HERE.
The rest of the team has been working on some great projects, and I hope you take a few moments to check them all out.
OMG! I do! Being as I am in the Pacific Time Zone, I often stay up until after 11 on Monday nights, just so I can see them! Is that crazy? Maybe a little, but I love it. Do you look forward to Tuesday download days?
Well, this week was no different. I INSTANTLY fell in love with the Seriously Teen Kit. WOW! Having mostly boys to scrap, I am going to use this A LOT!
I had to take pictures of my sweet little guy when he came in after a hard afternoon of playing, he was not happy about being dirty! LOL
What do you think? FUN, right? Well, I think this is another MUST HAVE download!!!!
Well I hope so, but do you have the Happy Things Pocket Card Download? Well, I think you should! I shared a fun and quick MDS card for you yesterday, and here is ANOTHER (I'm on a roll)
I will say that this entire collection of cards was inspired by the artwork of my fabulously talented friend and fellow Artisan Design Team member, Jane Lee.
This one used mostly stamps from the Happy Things download, a splatter stamp and just a square punch to back the little lined paper image.
Hi!!! I hope you know how excited I am to see you! Welcome back for another MDS Blog Hop. This week is one of our - whatever we happen to be working on weeks. I know I am always working on SOMETHING! LOL
I have a fun tradition I like to do with my boys and that is at least once a year we go out on a date. It gives me some great one on one time with them, and gives them an opportunity to learn how to act like gentlemen. In fact, I'd like to share a little story about this date night with you. We live in Las Vgeas, but don't go to the Strip very often, however it does offer us lots of opportunities when we want. Anyhow, for my first date night with Shane I decided to take him to Serendipity in front of Caeser's Palace for dinner and a great dessert. Through the whole night, I go over his gentleman points, "ok Shane, remember to open my door", "Shane, you should pull out Mom's chair", etc... as we were exiting an elevator with another lady and another man (not together), she motioned for us to go first, and we did. I told him, " Shane, tnight you were with me, so she was being polite to let us go, but you need to remember to always allow ladies to exit the elevator first". The man behind us actually commented that he was shocked, and he didn't think people taught their children those things anymore. It really made me proud, I try really hard to make sure these boys are "raised right".
Ok, sorry about all the talk, although I hope you enjoyed my little story. Here we are about to head out for our date
The elements on my page are from the new MDS download Hello There Kit! There are some FUN embellishments in this kit. I fell in love with some of the word embellishments and wanted to recreate the look for my page. I used the font LDJ Hearth (although I am sure you could find a similar free font) Then I added a freeform brush layer and colored in the closed in portions of the letters. After I did that, I sent that layer behind the font and I had the look I wanted!
Can't wait to see what the rest of the talented designers come up with this week! Go take a look for yourself!
Stampin’ Up! is committed to bringing you fresh,
exciting digital content each and every week. Check out the latest
downloads below. Click on the download title to see it in the store, or
click on the images to get an even closer view. You can also click here to view a PDF with additional details about this week’s downloads.
Can't you SEE your newly organized, beautiful kitchen with these AMAZING labels?!?! HOW FUN - you would get SOOOOO many compliments!
Stampin' Up! My Digital Studio Team
Don't forget to click on the names of each one so YOU can download them and start designing!! Remember, downloads take up no room on the shelf! See ya tomorrow!!!!
Oh!!!! I just adore today's downloads! What do you think? I think I am going to be getting quite a few...
Stampin’ Up! is committed to bringing you fresh, exciting digital
content each and every week. Check out the latest downloads below. Click
on the download title to see it in the store, or click on the images to
get an even closer view. You can also click here to view a PDF with additional details about this week’s downloads.
I am so excited that there is a fun new MDS Challenge blog on the block and I am THRILLED to be a guest artist for their very first challenge.
Tara Bourgoin was one of this year's Artisan Award finalists and so very talented, so when I checked in on her blog last week and saw her announcement of the new challenge blog, I sent her a quick little email telling her how excited I was for her and how fun it sounded. I also asked her to keep me in mind if they ever wanted a guest artist.... well, she said YES! I am so excited that I get to be a part of their launch!
This week's challenge was a page sketch, and as soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what I wanted to do....
So for this page I used the text stamp of baseball sayings in place of the journaling, but when I print out the page I will put the names of all the boys on the team. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new Game Day Baseball download. We are a BASEBALL family. You see, my husband is that super good looking coach and 2 of those handsome boys are mine.
Please go check out the new MDS Monday Challenge Blog, take a look at what the talented design team has in store for you. I know I am very excited to play along!
Have you downloaded your FREE downloads yet? They are deisgned to work with MDS2, but will work in most digital design programs. Last night I took about 10 minutes to play and created this cute little Christmas Photo Card.
I hope you take a moment to download the THREE FREE downloads, and take a peek at all of the great kits that are 50% off this week.
I am so grateful to all of you who took advantage of the stamp sale on Monday, and who have chosen me to be your Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. I will announce the winner of the bundle tomorrow morning!
