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MDSM86 Here to Herringbone

Hi friends!

 Happy Monday! How was your weekend? Did you get any creating done?

 This week over at MDS Monday the challenge to use the Herringbone technique really threw me. I thought for sure that Heidi was trying to make my brain scramble! Then I got going and I like what I came up with. Here is the sketch:

I admit, it took me a few tries before I came up with something I liked....

TaDah! I used the papers in the BBQ Blitz Ensemble - if you want to see all the cool elements in it, just give it a click.

 

 You should TOTALLY play along in this challenge. I'd love to know what you "see" when you look at this sketch....

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the Challenge Graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your Post for this challenge, not your entire blog. (So we can find your project)
• You can create a Card, Scrap Page or 3-D Object with the Sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday Oct. 18th @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! MDS Masters and I made it with MDS Monday runner ups are announced every week. 

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 

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MDSM85 Time to Tweak a Template

 

Hi friends!

 Happy Monday! Hope y'all had a good weekend. I can't believe I just celebrated my TWENTY YEAR HS reunion. How did that even happen?

 This week over at MDS Monday Holly gave us the challenge of tweaking one of the templates that are in MDS

I have always been drawn to this page in the templates, just couldn't figure out when to use it. It's from the Hip and Handsome Overlays. It's a great stamp brush set. (Click on the photo below to view all  the images better)

I really only made minor changes. Instead of the more flowery shape, I changed it to stars, I changed out the letter, and added my journalling, that's IT! So easy!

 

 

 Make some time this week and play along in this challenge. I'd love to see what you do with one of the templates....

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the Challenge Graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your Post for this challenge, not your entire blog. (So we can find your project)
• You can create a Card, Scrap Page or 3-D Object with the Sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday Oct. 11th @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! MDS Masters and I made it with MDS Monday runner ups are announced every week. 

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MDSM84 A Little Vintage

Hi friends!

 Happy MDS Monday! Did you have a good weekend? I spent a lot of mine getting things ready for my HS reunion. I'm doing a LOT of fun things for the party and I am pretty excited.

 This week is a pretty simple sketch over at MDS Monday and I love that Tami challenged us to go vintage. One of my goals is to create an album with some of my families older photos. Of course, I usually have SO many projects going on, I haen't done it yet.

So this sweet boy right here is my Daddy. I LOVE this picture....

 Almost all of the elements for this page are from the Back to School download (click on it to see all of the elements this great kit includes)

 You should TOTALLY play along in this challenge. I'd love to know what you "see" when you look at this sketch....

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the Challenge Graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your Post for this challenge, not your entire blog. (So we can find your project)
• You can create a Card, Scrap Page or 3-D Object with the Sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday Oct. 4th @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! MDS Masters and I made it with MDS Monday runner ups are announced every week. 

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MDSM83 When your words take a turn for the better

Hi friends!

 How was your weekend? Did you get any creating done?

 This week is a pretty simple sketch over at MDS Monday ,but Cindy added in a little extra challenge of wrapping our text around the corners of our photos. I had to watch the video again to remind myself how, I guess it's been a while since I've used this technique - but I see me adding it in a lot more!

When I saw the 3 photo layout, I knew exactly what I wanted to highlight. These great photos from the first day of school!

 

 You should TOTALLY play along in this challenge. I'd love to know what you "see" when you look at this sketch....

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the Challenge Graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your Post for this challenge, not your entire blog. (So we can find your project)
• You can create a Card, Scrap Page or 3-D Object with the Sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday Sept. 27th @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! MDS Masters and I made it with MDS Monday runner ups are announced every week. 

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MDSM82 With a little POP

Hi friends!

 Well, I can say that I am very grateful to be on this MDS Monday Design Team right now, it is definitely giving me a creative outlet while recovering from this surgery!

 This week is a pretty simple sketch, but I love the added challenge of sticking to a white (or light neutral) background and using that as your main color with adding pops of an additional color. I didn't follow the rules exactly, but it's still a pretty white page.

I couldn't help but be drawn to this amazing photo of my little niece on the carousel at Disneyland this past week. I love the MAGIC that is caught in her eyes. I hope that she NEVER loses that look when she rides the carousel. I hope she rides the carousel every chance she gets until she's 107......

 

 You should TOTALLY play along in this challenge. I'd love to know what you "see" when you look at this sketch....

Challenge Guidelines:

• Please create a new MDS project for the current challenge.
• Provide a link back to MDS Monday or use the Challenge Graphic above within your post.
• Link directly to your Post for this challenge, not your entire blog. (So we can find your project)
• You can create a Card, Scrap Page or 3-D Object with the Sketch.
• The Challenge will end on Saturday Sept. 20th @ 12pm EST. 
• Have fun! 

 

You can give the challenge a try and submit your own page if you click on the MDS Monday button on the right side! MDS Masters and I made it with MDS Monday runner ups are announced every week. 

 Thanks for stopping by! I hope this inspires you today to get into 

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More MDS Monday 76 - Another one? No Oh, Baby in this one!

Hi!!!!

 

 I saw this AWESOME, versatile sketch on MDS Monday the other day and even though I used the Oh, Baby download on the last two projects, I figured that I should change things up. So I really changed it up!

 

I sometimes forget to scrapbook anything other than my boys. Well, these are my other boys! LOL I was SO thrilled to be able to go to Opening Day at Angel Stadium this year. It was AWESOME. I did have to change up the journaling area a bit to fit my photo, but I LOVE the simplicity in this page!

Here is Cindy's Sketch

Have you used your My Digital Studio lately? If not, what stops you? Is there anything I could do to help change that?

 

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More MDS Monday 76 - with another way to use Oh, Baby

Hi!!!!

 I told you yesterday that I really love Oh, Baby and I am so glad it's on sale this week. Did you check it out??? You can HERE, there are ink pads and ribbon, and downloads - so much fun!

 While I had the MDS Monday sketch in my head, I thought I would see if I could make a "non-baby" card with it! Ta-Dah!

 

Who would you give this card to?

Here is Cindy's Sketch

I have 1 more project to share with you using this sketch tomorrow. It does NOT use Oh, Baby. In fact, it's quite an opposite look. Curious? Guess you'll come back!

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MDS Monday 76 - A Special Story about this Download - Oh, Baby

Hi!!!!

 I was so excited to see one of my favorite downloads on the weekly sale list this morning! Did you check it out??? You can HERE, there are ink pads and ribbon, and downloads - so much fun!

 Do you want to know why I LOVE Oh, Baby so much? Well, because of an idea given to me by my best friend Christi, this download happened! A few years ago I presented at a Regional Stampin' Up! event. My idea was to use MDS to make monthly stickers to put on baby onesies and then make a matching album! Well, someone at Stampin' Up! loved the idea and this download was born!

 I saw this AWESOME, versatile sketch on MDS Monday yesterday and thought that maybe I could combine the two. Here is the first project I came up with.

 

 I made it in a card size, but I think it would be a great wall decor item for a nursery, what do you think?

Here is Cindy's Sketch

See what I did there? :)

I actually created 2 more projects for this sketch, but I didn't want to make y'all crazy with too much! So I hope you can wait a day.

Hope you have a great day!!!

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I love Ombre - a little MDS fun

 Hi there!

 How did your Monday go? Mine was pretty easy, even though my physical therapy session was a little rough, the day was GOOD!

 One of my favorite pages I ever created was 2 years ago. I made it in MDS. There was this new trend I kept seeing - Ombre. I wanted to play with it in MDS. I loved how it turned out. But then again, with the blue eyes on the page, not sure if people really ever noticed the page!

I actually used the technique FOUR times on the page. I thought I would repost the page because I have been seeing the Ombre technique being used so much lately. Like this week's MDS Monday Challenge! It's not even that far off of the sketch!

Well, I have a class here on Friday, I guess I should go get some things together for it. Why did I decide to rearrange my stamp room this week???

If you want to try your hand at the AWESOMENESS that is MDS - CLICK HERE and give it a shot  - at only $20, it's probably the BEST VALUE Stampin' Up! offers.

Have you seen this?

 I am looking for a few more people who like to join my team by the end of the month. I a sending all new team members a special gift.

Hope you have a great day!!!

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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?

Hope you have a great day!!!

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