A New Ink on Life

Reflect in The Moment with My Digital Studio

It's Wednesday and that means another great challenge at Stampin' Royalty. It also means that i am on day 3 of my Disney vacation with my family and I am sure that we are having a blast! (I hope, as it is still Sunday night here while I type this and some packing still needs to be done:)

This week is a picture Inspiration Challenge and if you have been following my blog for any amount of time, you may know that these are my favourite!

Aren't these colours just so fresh and vibrant? I was totally inspired by the flowers and decided to create a digital scrapbook page using My Digital Studio of course.


It has been awhile since I have done any MDSing so I was more than due to create this page. I am really pleased with the way it turned out because when I first started it I had no idea what I was going to make:) I started with Daffodil Delight as my base then lightened the Opacity to about 80%. The flowers are from the Field Flowers Download and they were stamped in Very Vanilla with the Opacity lightened as well. The words "reflect" and "the moment" are from the new Twitterpated Kit. I wanted to play with the reflect word so I stamped it again and mirrored the image (this is just one of the small reason I soooo LOVE MDS) then really lighten the opacity so that the word appears to be a reflection. I am just in love with all the layouts I have been seeing lately with hanging flags so I used the Flag Punch Download and resized several of them then filled them in with various patterned papers. I also used the Pear Pizzazz Bakers Twine and an Island Indigo Button.

Have a wonderful day and we would love to have you play along with us this week!

Wishing You A Very Merry Christmas with My Digital Studio

Just a super quick post today as I am crazy enough to head out into the maddness for some last minute shopping:)

From my family to yours, wishing you a wonderful  and blessed Christmas.

Remember with My Digital Studio

Eeek! I apologize that this post is going up soooo late:( I have had a sick little one yet again and things around here have been thrown a little off schedule.

So with that being said we have a great Inspiration Challenge over at Stampin' Royalty this week.  The picture is taken straight from page 78 of the current Stampin' Up! Catalogue and showcases the amazing  products from the Timeless Portrait Product Suite .

I was really inspired by the colours in the photo and all of the pictures. With Friday being November 11th which is  Remembrance Day here in Canada and all of the Commonwealth Countries, I wanted to recognize and pay tribute to all of those people who served their country, fought and lost thier lives, as well as all those who still serve and continue to fight to help create a better life for us all. 

I seem to get very emotional this time of year as I was very close to my grandfather (who past away 7 1/2 years ago) and I fondly remember him telling me stories about when he served in the second world war and also reciting the poem In Flanders Fields with him. I took this picture of my daughter last weekend and she is wearing a hat that my wonderful friend and downline Leigha made for her. She created a felt poppy using the Circles #2 Sizzix die and pinned it to the hat.  We called my grandfather "Poppie" which I think is another reason why this time of year is especially emotional for me.

Okay so about the page:) There is a lot of playing with the opacity, and drop shadows on this one as well as using a few different overlays to create some "texture" on the page. If you click on the photo to see it larger you will be able to view a little more of the details. I will list the downloads used but as always please let me know if you have any questions.

Supplies used:

My Digital Studio

Downloads: Vintage Overlays, Simple Friendship, Autumn Harvest

Font is CK Chemistry

Have a great day,

Fall Fun with My Digital Studio

Of all the challenges out there my favourite would have to be Inspiration challenges. So I was super excited for this week's challenge at Stampin' Royalty.  The photo collage is perfect for this time of year. Please be sure to check out all the fantastic samples by the design team and we hope you get the chance to play along.

I was short on time to come up with a project for this week, so My Digital Studio to the rescue!  Although truth be told this page was not a quick one,lol! I did do lots of layering and it took me a while to come up with a page layout that I was happy with. I was totally inspired by a page that my friend and fellow Artisan Award Winner Heather Summers did. She is a My Digital Studio Master and I want to be like her when I grow up:) I loved the colours that she used and I just knew that I needed to get some fantastic new downloads. I took these pictures of my youngest on the first day of October but you would never know it, as she insisted on a dress and flip flops! These are the memories that will be fun to look back upon with her when she is older and thinks she knows everything,lol!

I purchased the Autumn Traditions Kit (it contains a ton of stuff including 4 leaf punch images), the Grateful Heart Thanksgiving Ensemble ( there is so much in this one including a fantastic project for creating banners and other party decor) and the Frameable Gratitude Designer Template (this project is all ready to print or you can use images from the 3 piece stamp brush set which is where I got the pumpkins from).

I have used lots of additional downloads on this page so if you have any questions about how I created it just ask:)

Have a wonderful day!

Pirate Party-My Digital Studio to the Rescue!

So a few weeks ago my son was invited to a pirate themed birthday party. I knew the parents were going all out for this party as Logan's friend Maddy is a huge Pirates of the Caribbean fan. So I needed to come up with a cool "pirate" card and was a little concerned when I soon realized that I had no pirate stamps! So I quickly decided to look through my "stash" of My Digital Studio Downloads and was delighted to find From the Crypt. Now I know that this is more of a Halloween set but just look what I came up with:

I love the fact that this program allows you to create quick and easy Hybrid Projects like this card. I resized the skull image, "stamped" it in Basic Grey, changed the opacity, added a slight drop shadow and created a text box to make a customized greeting, then printed it out on Very Vanilla card stock. Of course it needed to be destressed so I misted on some water and used the Destressing Essentials Kit Tea Stain Ink. I also stamped the crown from Extreme Elements using Black Craft Ink and Heat embossed it with Black Embossing Powder, then added a Rhinestone Jewel. Next I wrapped some Hemp Twine around it and attached a Trinket Key. The whole piece was then matted on Basic Black card stock that had been embossed with both the Square Lattice Folder and the Stripes Folder. Lastly it was mounted onto a Cherry Cobbler base.

And here's what the inside looked like:

 I printed the inside sentiment on Very Vanilla then stamped over it using the Woodgrain Background stamp and Crumb Cake Classic Ink. I then added the ship from Open Sea using Basic Grey ink that had first been stamped off.

So I think all in all I was successful in my Pirate Quest:) I really encourage you to give My Digital Studio a try. It is so much more then just a "Digital Scrapbooking" program. You can create Custom cards, Hydid projects, Home Decor and Party Decorations be sure to check out tons of cool ideas HERE. And right now Stampin' Up! is having a My Digital Studio Contest where you can win $500 worth of FREE downloads!

Have a great day!

Life is Beautiful

I mentioned earlier in the week that we were a way for a few days attending the marriage of my cousin. It truly was an amazingly beautiful day and really made me reflect on how truly blessed I am with my own beautiful (crazy, stress filled and amazing) life.

 

If I was to tell you that this was a quick five minute page like THIS ONE, it would be a lie lol! There was lots of fiddling with the Opacity, filling with punches, layering, drop shadows and several different stamp brush sets. But it was so worth the labour of love as I do think this page is beautiful. It still appears very clean but there is lots of little details (you can click on the photo to view it larger).

As I type this I am not sure of all the downloads that I have used but I will try to get back later and update that info:)
 
 
Have a great day, 

For All You Do.......

Well my family and I just got back from a whirlwind weekend away. We attended the wedding of my wonderful cousin and my 3 children all had the honour of being in the wedding party. I believe I took about 300 pictures!

So I have been sitting here tonight (now early morning) going through all of them and I am now at the editing process. But as soon as I saw this picture of my oldest daughter I just knew I would have to make a quick scrap page in My Digital Studio:)

 Really the picture speaks for itself so I almost feel guilty for actually calling this a scrap page (it seriously took me 5 minutes!). I just added the Vintage Overlay in Texture#2 in River Rock with a 50% Opacity, then "stamped" on the phrase from For All You Do in Very Vanilla and added a slight Crumb Cake drop shadow.

That's it, and you can be sure that there will be lots (and lots:) of photos to come from this beautiful day .

Have a great night and I will be back later with a card.

 

Artisan Award Winning Project #5 Blog Hop Day 5

 

Wow we are already half way throught the Artisan Award Blog Hop! I know I certainly have been blown away by all the amazing projects that have been posted. If you have been following along you should have arrived here from the talented Laura Mellinger's blog, and if not there is a full list of all of the blog's at the end of this post. Thank you again for taking the time to visit us on this hop and we hope we have inspired you a little:) As I have mentioned earlier in the week, I really encourage those of you that are interested in entering Artisan to really go for it this year and enter! It has been an amazing experience so far and I can not wait to see what the rest of this year has to offer.

Today I decided to share one of my 3 D projects. Now those of you that know me know that I tend to procrastinate, so when I confess that this next project was done the night before I shipped my package off you may not be surprised:) I do work best under pressure and although I had  this idea for this project weeks before completing it, it did not come together until the 11th hour!

Here is the picture I used:

 and here is the Canvas I created:

I do apologize for this quality and location of this photo, but to be honest it was taken at the UPS store before I packaged everthing up and sent it on it's way! Again there is LOTS of sponging and destressing on this project. It is also a hybrid project , meaning I combined My Digital Studio with trational paper crafting. I altered my photo in MDS using several of the Vintage Overlays and then typed the words "You're Amazing" over top. I actually used the colour picking tool in MDS and took the colour from my daughter's hair for the words. All the edges of the canvas were sponged with Soft Suede Ink and on the bottom left corner I stencil one of the imagaes from the Elegant Trio Stencils using Blushing Bride Ink.

Here are a few close ups of the project:

The flower was created by cutting some Very Vanilla Ribbon with the Tasterful Trim Die and then using my Heat Tool to seal and wrinkle the edges. I then sponged it with Blushing Bride Classic Ink.

The photo was mounted on a piece of Presto Patterns Designer Series Paper that had been sponged with Soft Suede and Blushing Bride Inks as well as spritzed with Smooth Spritz Spray in Vanilla Shimmer. I also stenciled the Flower image again using Peach Parfait on the DSP. A lot of times people will ask me wher my inspiration comes from and to be honest for this project I kept hearing the Lyrics from the Bruno Mars song "Just the way You Are".

Supplies used:

My Digital Studio

Stamps: Musical Notes Wheel

Paper: Presto Patterns Designer Series paper

Stencils: Elegant Trio

Ink: Blushing Bride, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Big Shot, Tasteful Trim Die, Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon, Pearl Jewels, Heat Tool, Sponges, Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz, Sticky Strip, Hot Glue Gun

Now be sure to hop on over to Heather Stevens blog and her amazing project!

And here is the list and order of the full hop:

1. Connie Collins  
2. Sandra Farrell
3. Heidi King  
4. Heather Klump   
5. Cheryl LeFore   
6. Laura Mellinger
7. Jennifer Picard    
8. Heather Stevens       
9. Summer Stone    
10. Heather Summers   

Have a great day!

 

 

 

 

 

Artisan Award Winning Project #4 Blog Hop Day 4

So we are now on day four of our fun little hop through this year's Stampin' Up! Artisan Award winning projects (as if you didn't know that from the title, lol).  You should have arrived here from the talented Laura Mellinger's blog, and if not there is a full list of all of the blog's at the end of this post:)

Today I decide to share another one of my scrapbook pages. I really love how this page turned out and it was the second projects that I had completed. These pictures just crack me up. I have very few photos of my son as he usually never stands still long enough for me to get a good one. Or I end up with one that has him making faces in it-BOYS!

Here's the page:

This photo was taken the same time as the ones that I used for the last page that I posted. As you can tell he was a pirate for halloween last year and we had a lot of fun creating a beard for him out of coffee grounds.

 
 There is so much going on, on this page that I would have to babble more then I usually do, to explain it all:) Let's just that there is lots of destressing and sponging, misting and crumpling, sanding and even some cutting out! (I really do not enjoy fussy cutting). For the title I actually cut out the letter "X" from the Newsprint Designer Series paper and I created the "treasure map" also using this DSP and some Very Vanilla card stock. The journaling was created in My Digital Studio and I used the Extreme Elements stamp brush (in MDS) to create a background then typed the journalling. There is even a little sewing on this one! I am not a sewer;I am a wanna be sewer, so thank you to my wonderful downline and friend Leigha for helping me with this one (she was so patient showing me what to do).

 The bottom two photos were matted on More Mustard then Basic Gray Card stock. The DSP behind the photos is from First Edition and it was stamped with images from Extreme Elements and Artistic Etchings. Then of course destressed!

Supplies used:

Stamps: Artistic Etchings, Extreme Elements, Tiny Tags

Paper: Textured Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler and Basic Gray, More Mustard, News Print and First Edition Designer Series Paper,  Cherry Cobbler DSP from the Regals Designer Series paper stack

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard, Basic Gray, Tea Stain ( Destressing Essentials Kit)

Accessories: Big Shot, Square Lattice Folder, Circle Scissors Plus, Ticket Corner Punch, Glimmer Brads, My Digital Studio, Trinket Keys, Water Bottle Mister, Destressing Essential Kit, Sewing Machine and Denim Thread, Hemp Twine

Thanks for visiting and be sure to check out Heather Stevens and her amazing project!

And here is the list and order of the full hop:

1. Connie Collins  
2. Sandra Farrell
3. Heidi King  
4. Heather Klump   
5. Cheryl LeFore   
6. Laura Mellinger
7. Jennifer Picard    
8. Heather Stevens       
9. Summer Stone    
10. Heather Summers   

Have a great day!

 
 

 

Go Team! with My Digital Studio

This week at Stampin' Royalty we are challenging you to a theme challenge. With Canada Day on Friday and Independence Day on Monday we challenge you to  GO PATRIOTIC!!!

Now I took a lot of creative lisence with this one as I have no Canadian themed stamps as well as I could not find any Canada Day photo. But I figured what could be more Canadian then Hockey,EH?

 
 Back in February my husband and I were able to take our two oldest to a NHL hockey game here in Vancouver. My husband is a die hard Montreal Canadians hockey fan so of course our kids are too.  Through his work connections we were able to go back after the game and meet a lot of the players and get autographs. I think one of the most amazing experiences was to watch the kids just be so completely excited and overwhelmed. Especially when they got to meet their favourite player; Montreal's goalie Carey Price!

Okay so now on to the page,lol! It is very simple and I just created my own background paper using the Maple Leaf from the Canada Day Download and added a Real Read drop shadow to the white ones. The tital is a stamp brush from the Sporting stamp brush set which is included in the full My Digital Studio Program.

Have a great day and be sure to check out the Design Team's amazing samples.