My Digital Studio (again!)

My nephew graduated from high school last week and sent me a couple of pictures. 

I used a layout from Heather Summers' Simply My Digital Studio online club to make this page.

My Digital Studio and More Wedding Photos

Here is another one of the layouts Heather Summers shared with us in her Simply My Digital Studio Online Club.  I thought these pictures from my niece's wedding in 2008 fit the layout perfectly.

I am still "playing" with My Digital Studio

Heather Summers' Simply My Digital Studio Club will soon be over, but I am hoping she will continue the club or do more online classes.

This page goes back to a challenge Heather gave in January and I just caught up with it recently. The challenge was to make a monochromatic page.

I was looking through photos and decided to use some from the wedding of my friend's daughter Christina.

For the background "paper" I decided to use the colour matching feature in My Digital Studio so that I could duplicate the colour of the bridesmaid dresses. I "stamped" the words and the swirls in white and then reduced the opacity.

Hope you like it

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

When I saw the stamp set The Open Sea in the Stampin' Up! summer mini catalogue I knew I had to have it.

I saw THIS card using this set on Dawn Olchefske's blog and knew I wanted to duplicate it.

Last week when I went to Judy's we made this card together.

Bridal Shower

Hello! - it has been a while.

The card I sharing today is the shower card I made for my niece who is getting married next month - the bridal shower was last weekend. Her wedding colours are ones she selected from a peacock feather so I wanted to make her a card that featured a peacock. I had ordered the Proud Peacock set from the summer mini catalogue in anticipation of using the images on a shower card and maybe the wedding card.

I CASE'd this card from one I saw on the Stampin' Up! demonstrator site (Stampin' Connection) so I can't direct you to the original.

Recipe
Stamp Set - Proud Peacock; Tiny Tags
Card Stock - Whisper White; Taken with Teal (retired); Melon Mambo; Shimmery White; Brights DSP Paper Pack
Ink (and markers)- Melon Mambo; Pacific Point; Old Olive; Lucky Limeade (new InColour); Chocolate Chip
Other - Melon Mambo Ribbon (retired); Basic Pearls; Vintage Trinkets; dimensionals
Tools - Big Shot; Square Lattice Embossing Folder; Jewelry Punch; Colour Spritzer

At the Beach

When I started this page I was following one of Heather Summers' layouts but then got distracted when I remembered I had the surfboard images and decided I wanted to incorporate them into the page. So I think the only thing that resembles Heather's is that there are the same number of photos in the same positions on the page. It will look a bit familiar - after I created this page I adapted it for my blog header.

I Hope You Are Not Tired of My Digital Studio

I have started stamping a little more but haven't taken photos so I have more My Digital Studio to share with you over the next few weeks. These are more pages inspired with the layouts Heather Summers shares in her Simply MDS Club.

The photo of my husband's family was taken in 1966 or 1967.

Week 16 Layout - Heather Summers' Online My Digital Studio Club

Heather's template for week 16 was perfect for pictures of my niece and nephew taken when they went on a Caribbean cruise with their mum.  The colours she used were perfect.

More My Digital Studio

As I said before - I haven't been doing any stamping but I have been using My Digital Studio.  This page was inspired by Heather Summers' week 14 template although it looks nothing like the original.  I used stamps and papers from the Strength and Hope digital kit. 

I wasn't sure what pictures I wanted on the page so I have used punches in place of photo boxes.

My Digital Online Club - Week 8(a)

Week 8 of Heather's Online My Digital Studio club offered two templates.  I loved the simplicity of this layout and searched through my photos to find one that I would like to use.   The background colour is the same as what Heather used but I added one of the Sunset Serenade overlays and reduced the opacity.

She's So Sweet!

This is another of the templates Heather Summers shared on her My Digital Studio Online club.  The pinks and purples automatically brought to mind my sister's youngest grand daughter - she loves those colours.  Although the photo is not recent I think it fits very well.  I decided to have it in black and white and am really pleased with the whole look of the page.

Last month Heather Summers posted a great page featuring a single photo of her youngest son. I decided that I would recreate that page with three photos - my sisters grandchildren. You can see Heather's page HERE.

I decided not to use the `squiggles` and opted instead to use one of the new downloads for this week - Simple Stitches and Corners.

Happy Birthday to a great sister!

Week 2 - Heather Summers' Online My Digital Studio Club

While going through photos stored on my laptop I came across some from my niece's wedding in 2008 and thought the MDS template provided in week 2 of the online club would be perfect.  I tried it using colourful, fun elements and papers thinking they would "match" the photos.  I ended up going with more subdued colours and the result works for me.

Don't you just love those green Crocs!

Tips and Tricks - My Digital Studio

While blog hopping one day, I came across a video showing how to change the colours of embellishments within the My Digital Studio Program.  Here is the video -



This is the link to the very creative Janet Wakeland's blog post - click HERE

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

A very Happy Mother's Day to all the mum's out there and especially to my mother.  I did this page in My Digital Studio using  an old photo of my mum.

And here is a page I did featuring my mother and I.

My Digital Studio - Watercolour Technique

I saw a wonderful video showing how to "watercolour" stamps in My Digital Studio.  You can see it HERE.

My Digital Studio - Heather Summers MDS Club

This is another of the pages I created with a template provided by Heather.  Again, I have used a punch in place of the photo.

My Digital Studio - Heather Summers' Simply MDS Online Club

I haven't been doing any stamping since returning from vacation but I have been "playing" with My Digital Studio.  I have been creating some pages following the templates Heather is providing to her Simply MDS Club members so I will be posting those over the next few weeks.

This page was created with photos of Judy's grandson.  I have removed the actual photos and replaced them with punches.

Happy Easter

Heather Summers' Simply MDS Online Club

Another page using a format supplied by Heather for her club members.