My Digital Studio

As I have said in previous posts I am following Heather Summers' online class - Simply My Digital Studio - and am having a great time.

I created this page featuring two of my sister's grandchildren.  I used elements from the My Sweet Pea digital download. 

Pelicans

I have a fascination with pelicans and have some pictures of them that I decided to use while following Heather Summer's online MDS class.  Rather than selecting card stock or DSP from MDS I selected one of the photos for the background image.  I then added photo boxes, matted them, inserted the photos and then changed the photo boxes from squares to circles.  I added text and I was done.  MDS does not come loaded with fonts - it picks all the fonts that are already on your computer.

The previous two pages that I posted were sized at 12 x 12.  This one is 8 1/2 x 11 landscape.  My Digital Studio gives the choice of 5 sizes of pages (12 x 12; 8 1/2 x 11 portrait;  8 1/2 x 11 landscape; 8 x 8 and 5 x 5)

A Happy Heart

On one of the days Judy and I got together we did a little project in addition to talking about our upcoming trip to Myrtle Beach.  I had made several of these using the Eyelet Border punch but as soon as my new Scallop Trim Border punch arrived I knew we would have to give it a try.

Stamp Set - A Happy Heart

Ink - Rose Red

Card Stock - Pretty in Pink, Rose Red and Rose Red DSP

Other - Dimensionals, Scallop Trim Border punch, Filligree Brads (only the flower), Circle Fire Brads (pink), Rose Red 1" Double Stitched Ribbon

"Scrapping" My Projects

I have decided that even though I keep record of my paper crafts with photos and on ths blog, I am going to "scrap" them.  Again following the tips and tricks that Heather Summers provides in her online Simply My Digital Studio class, I have created a scrapbook page of one of my recent projects.  

Gift Card Holder

A third post today - I am in catch up mode.

One of the projects Judy and I did recently was a gift card holder that looks like a cute little beanie hat!  The photos show it closed and open (I forgot to put a gift card in but if fits in between the two half circles). 

Framed Decor Elements

As little Christmas gifts for my sisters I decorated some 5 x 7 shadow boxes that I bought at Michaels.  I used the small real red "Jingle all the Way" decor elements, some silver bells, iridescent basket filler and some quilt batting (not visible).  I was really thrilled the way they turned out.  When the sunshine hits the basket filler it shimmers.

The vinyl decor element is applied directly to outside of the glass; the other elements are contained behind the glass.

I also applied the Dasher decor element to frames and used one as a gift for my dad and another for myself.   I was not able to find a ready made mat that I liked to put behind the image so I ordered them.  The frame is 16 X 20.  The vinyl is applied to the outside of the glass.  Although tempted to add some clear rhinestone to the snowflakes around the antlers - I resisted and am so glad I did.  I love the simplicity just as it is. 

Build a Bear

I finally gave in to what I really wanted to do and ordered the Build a Bear die for the Big Shot.  My nephew's son celebrated his 3rd birthday earlier this month and this is the card I made for him.  I am so pleased with the way it turned out.

A Scrapbook Page!

This is a page I did in My Digital Studio celebrating the birth of my grandniece early in January.  I followed Heather Summer's instructions in her online Simply My Digital Studio class and it came together in minutes.  Just one photo was used.  The four small ones are identical to the focal image but the opacity on each of them has been changed.

My Digital Studio

 still have several projects that I have not shared yet -  I have the camera (and the memory card) but there has been so little sunshine lately that I have not been able to get the photos.  I do however have something to share.  I signed up for Heather Summers' online class Simply My Digital Studio and using her tips and tricks have put together a few projects. 

On the front of this greeting card I used punches, stitching (it is hard to see the white stitching on the pink background), embellishments, stamps and layering all in the My Digital Studio program!  The buttons were chosen from the embellishments available; the little parcels were "stamped".  The hearts are punches which were then filled with DSP.

I also decorated the inside of the card. 

I am still here

No I have not fallen off the face of the earth.  Last week Judy and I made cute little beanie gift card holders - I went to take a picture and can't remember where I put it.  I also have to take photos of a couple of projects I did using Decor Elements.  Hopefully later this week - now I have to find the camera!

Take care

Charming Box of Cards

In recent years it has become increasingly difficult to buy gifts for my mother-in-law.  She is a very healthy 87 year old lady who really does not need or want anything.  I had been buying her gift certificates for her favourite shopping malls only to find out recently that she forgets she has them and they are not being used.  For Christmas this year I have purchased a gift certificate to one of her favourite restaurants and have also made a box of 8 assorted greeting cards with envelopes.  The cards are identical except for the greetings.  All of those are from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.  I packaged the cards in a clear acetate box and tied it with the wonderful Old Olive wide striped ribbon. 

I stamped the pale plum base card with the En Francais background stamp using pale plum classic ink.  I used the same stamp and ink on the whisper white image panel before stamping the floral image.   I coloured the floral image using my markers - Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry.  I also did a few rows of piercing to add a bit of visual interest.  On some of the cards I left the polka dot side of the ribbon showing and on the others I reversed it so the ribbon shows the solid colour.  I stamped the small butterfly image from the Charming stamp set in the bottom corner of the envelope as well as on the back flap.

This is one of the cards from the box:

The image panel and the greeting are raised up with dimensionals.   I left the inside of the card blank so there is plenty of room to write a personal note.

Recipe:

Stamps Sets - Charming, Teeny Tiny Wishes, French Script

Card Stock - Pale Plum, Old Olive, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Cottage Wall DSP

Ink - Pale Plum, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive

Other - Word Window Punch, Rich Razzleberry Polka Dot Ribbon, Dimensionals, Acetate Card Box

All products used are Stampin' Up! except for the acetate box.

Clock

I made another clock following the directions given by Heather Summers in her Simply Holidays 2009 online class.  This one is for my sister and I can show it now that I have given it to her (she peaks in on my blog so I couldn't post it before now).   She loved it!

Supplies used were posted HERE

Gift Card Holders

Yesterday Judy and I made some cute little gift card holders.  We followed the instructions from week 7 of Andrea Walford's 12 Weeks of Christmas.  Quite quick and easy but oh so cute!   We made one little change - Andrea had stamped the greeting right on the "cuff" of the stocking but we decided to make a little panel so the greeting would stand out a little more.

It is hard to see in the photo, but we used the Perfect Details texturz plate to add some detail to the stocking.

Recipe:
Stamp Set - Four the Holidays
Ink - Chocolate Chip
Card Stock - Real Red, Very Vanilla, Merry Moments DSP
Other - Real Red 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, Vintage Brads, Antique Brass Jumbo Eyelet

Have a great day!

Monday's Projects

I got distracted and forgot to post the cards Judy and I made on Monday. 

I had posted this card before, but Monday was the first chance we had to make it together. 

Recipe:

Stamps - Snow Buddies (Level II Hostess), Winter Post
Card Stock - Real Red, Soft Suede, Whisper White
Ink - Real Red, Jet Black StazOn
Markers - Only Orange, Real Red, White Signo Gel Pen, Sakura Gelly Roll Pens (Stardust and Metallic Black)
Other - Real Red 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Paper Piercer, SU Mat Pack
 
We also did an easel card - similar to the one I had posted before, but I changed up the DSP a bit.  I am liking it a lot more than the previous card I had made.
 

 
Recipe:
Stamp Set - Christmas Punch (Level 2 Hostess); The More the Merrier (Level 3 Hostess)
Card Stock - Real Red; Old Olive; Merry Moments DSP
Ink - Jet Black StazOn; Real Red (craft and classic); various markers
Other - Wide Oval punch; dimensionals; 5/8" Real Red grosgrain ribbon; clear embossing powder; glitter glue

The third card we did was one I had seenn on Sandi McIver's blog.  She had posted THIS CARD and later posted a tutorial which I purchased.  On her card Sandi had "whacked" her Finial Post embossing folder.  I was tempted to do so as well, but finally decided not to.  Instead of embossing the Real Red card stock we gave it a quick spray with a mixture of isopropyl alcohol and Frost White shimmer paint.  A very pretty effect with no scissors involved!  You can't really see the beautiful shimmer on the card stock in the photo, but rest assured it is very pretty in real life.

Recipe:
Stamp Sets - Leaf Lines, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card Stock - Real Red, Old Olive, Shimmery White
Ink - Real Red, Old Olive, Encore Gold
Other - Gold Embossing Powder, Orament Punch, Mistletoe Ribbon (Holiday Mini), Glitter Glue,  Mini Glue Dots, dimensionals
 
Have a great day! 

Easel Card

I decided to try another easel card - this time with a Christmas theme.   Overall, I am quite pleased with the way it turned out and I plan to make more (it will be one of the projects we do at Judy`s tomorrow).  I am changing some of the DSP though.  A little bit too much green for me on this one.  Maybe I should have used the pine bough paper on the 'platform' of the card instead of repeating the olive green snowflake pattern.   For the ones we do tomorrow, I plan to use the striped paper from the Merry Moments package instead of the pine boughs.  In addition, we will use the striped design on the `platform`. 

Recipe:

Stamp Set - Christmas Punch (Level 2 Hostess); The More the Merrier (Level 3 Hostess)

Card Stock - Real Red; Old Olive; Merry Moments DSP

Ink - Jet Black StazOn; Real Red (craft and classic);  various markers

Other - Wide Oval punch; dimensionals; 5/8" Real Red grosgrain ribbon; clear embossing powder; glitter glue

Thanks for stopping by.

More Christmas Cards - Part 2

The camera battery is charged so I was able to get pictures of the rest of the cards Judy and I made on Monday.   These are the other two cards from Heather Summers' group of three.  All of the stamps, card stock, etc. are the same as posted on Monday.  Hope you like them.

More Christmas Cards

Judy and I got together on Friday as well as yesterday to make some more cards.  On Friday, we only made one card instead of the usual three because I had brought my laptop to give her an overview of My Digital Studio.

On Friday we had intended to do all three of the cards Heather Summers had posted HERE.  I really liked that there were three cards that were basically the same but a little bit different.  The dimensions of each the card stock layers for all three cards is identical.  The same stamp set is used for all three cards.  Different embellishments are used on Heather's samples.  We used nonSU snowflake brads in their place.

Here is the card we did on Friday

                                                           

Recipe:

Stamps - Snow Buddies (Level II Hostess Set - Holidy Mini); Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock - Soft Suede, Bravo Burgundy, Creamy Caramel, Very Vanilla

Ink - Soft Suede, Creamy Caramel, Timber Brown StazOn (non SU)

Markers - Pumpkin Pie, Creamy Caramel, Bravo Burgundy

Other - Snowflake Brad (non SU), Scallop Border Punch, Modern Label Punch, Dimensionals

Yesterday we made the other two cards from Heather's group of three.  I will post pictures later in the week - I have to charge the battery in the camera first.  In the meantime, the third card we did yesterday was one we had seen on Patty Bennett's blog HERE.   I had made a sample on Sunday so did get a picture.

We made one change - instead of using the red gingham ribbon that Patty used, we used 1/4" Whisper White grosgrain.  What a lovely way to showcase the beautiful flocked paper from the Christmas Cocoa Specialty paper pack.

Recipe:

Stamps - Grateful Greetings

Card Stock - Whisper White, Real Red, Soft Suede, Christmas Cocoa Specialty DSP

Ink - Soft Suede

Other - Ornament Punch, Dimensionals

Have a great day!

Using the layout from one of the cards in Heather Summers' fundraiser kit, I made this card.  Just changing the DSP and the stamp set makes the card look quite different.

My friend Debbie does not live near me and she wants to do more stamping but it is difficult to get together.  Hopefully we will be able to arraange something soon.  I prepared a kit for her and am mailing it to her.  She will have all the card stock, ribbon, DSP already cut to size to make two of these cards.  I also stamped and coloured the snowman image.   She will just have to assemble her cards.  I think she will enjoy it and I am pretty sure she has some stamps at home that she could use with this layout.  I haven't told her this will be coming - I think she will be pleasantly surprised.

Recipe:

Stamps - Snow Buddies (Level II Hostess),  Winter Post

Card Stock - Real Red, Soft Suede, Whisper White

Ink - Real Red, Jet Black StazOn

Markers - Only Orange, Real Red, White Signo Gel Pen, Sakura Gelly Roll Pens (Stardust and Metallic Black)

Other - Real Red 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Paper Piercer, SU Mat Pack

Fundraiser - Heather Summers - more cards

Here are two more of the projects from Heather's fundraiser.

As I said in a previous post, all of the projecs in the kit featured the Four the Holidays stamp set and the Christmas Cocoa Specialty Paper pack.

This first card showcases the metallic snowflake in the Christmas Cocoa papers.  It also uses the Petals a Plenty embossing folder.

Recipe:

Card Stock - Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Christmas Cocoa DSP

Ink - Chocolate Chip

Stamps - Four the Holidays

Other - Whisper White Organza Ribbon, Petals a Plenty Embossing Folder

This card uses the very popular Dasher Stamp and the flocked paper in the Christmas Cocoa pack.

Recipe:

Card Stock - Real Red, Soft Suede, Whisper White, Christmas Cocoa DSP

Ink - Soft Suede

Stamps - Dasher

Other - 5/8" real red grosgrain ribbon

Swap Cards

I am participating in another swap.  I chose 2 spots.  For one spot the theme was Thinking of  You and the second spot is Thanks.  This time the swap was for full cards with envelopes rather than the usual mountable card fronts.  The idea is to get a selection of cards that could potentially be packaged up for gift giving.

For the first card, I used the one sheet wonder technique.  I stamped the images from Fifth Avenue Floral randomly using Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa and Creamy Caramel classic inks on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of shimmery white cardstock.  I then used my paper trimmer to cut out panels of the desired size.  There is a whisper white panel on the inside of the card and it has also been stamped with some of the floral images.  I think that although it is a very simple card, it is quite pretty.  I hope the other participants in the swap think so too.

Recipe:

Stamps - Thank you Kindly, Fifth Avenue Floral

Card Stock - Shimmery White, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Whisper White

Ink - Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel

Other - 5/8" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon, Wide Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch

The second card uses the Medallion background stamp.  For this card, instead of using Shimmery White card stock I chose to mix some isopropyl alcohol with Frost White shimmer paint to make my own "shimmer mist".  After inking up the stamp with Bermuda Bay I used my sponge dauber to dab Night of Navy on the edges and around the centre circle.  I then stamped the medallion from the Charming stamp set, punched out a 1/2" circle and mounted that on a Build a Brad.  I then placed it in the centre the the stamped medallion.  When assembled, I spritzed the whole card with the "shimmer mist".

Recipe:

Stamps - Medallion, Charming,  Kind and Caring Thoughts
Card Stock - Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Not Quite Navy
Ink - Bermuda Bay, Not Quite Navy
Other - Build a Brad, Frost White Shimmer Paint and Isopropyl Alchohol