Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Here's Another Cutie, Courtesy of My Digital Studio

This is another page that I made yesterday. The background is from the Write Stuff II download. Isn't it great???!!! My Nate boy is playing his second year of baseball and is having fun. (Though the season seems a bit long to him.) He usually plays right field or third base. Ok, enough bragging. See how easy it is to use My Digital Studio? I used a photo layout, added text into the text boxes, added the "go team" and "game on" stamps and recolored them, lightened the photos and cropped them with MDS and then I'm done. Ta da! Can scrapbooking get any easier than that? And now I'll send them away for printing so that all of the colors will be exactly SU!, though I could just get them printed at Kinkos or Costco. I think I'll try a calendar next. :-) Yes, MDS also has calendar options.
Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station. I'll try to stop showing off my boys, though I haven't posted a page of my oldest son recently. I'll try to hold off on that one for awhile.
Blessings,
Julie
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Monday, May 24, 2010

My Digital Studio ... Easy to Journal

I was in the mood to post a scrapbook page today and what better subject than one of my boys. With My Digital Studio and the designer pages it's a quick click and drag with the photos, mat the photos with a SU! color, choose a background paper, add some journaling and stamps and you're done! I love being able to add those special touches like the arrows and labels. Do you want to try it? Let me know and I'll get together with you. You can play with My Digital Studio before you decide to buy or not.
Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station!
Blessings,
Julie
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

She's So Cute!!!

Isn't this little Build-A-Bear a cutie??!! She's colored in with markers on Shimmery White cardstock and the dress and flower in the hair are paper-pieced. (Stamped on DSP, cut out, and glued on.) The DSP is Pawsitively Prints and the background texture is the Square Lattice Embossing Folder from the Summer Mini Catalog. Sorry about the bright sunshine on the card...unusual for the NW, but we love it!
Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station.
Blessings,
Julie
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Paper Piecing Bargello Style

My June Stampin' Success magazine from Stampin' Up! had a fun idea. Why not use the Bargello needlepoint style for paper crafting? On this card, I used my Neighborhood DSP from the SAB catalog, cut 3" x 1/4" strips plus one 3" x 1/2" strip to make this interesting background paper. I really like it! I wish it wasn't quite so sunny outside when I took the picture so that you could see the DSP better. The baby carriage image is from Fun & Fast Notes and the baby is from All in the Family. There are large polka dots on the Pretty in Pink background piece, made with the texture plate. I think this will make a great baby card for a couple of customers/friends who just had baby girls.
Want to see this in person? Give me a buzz or drop me a line. I'd love to get together with you!
Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station.
Blessings,
Julie
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

The Hard Disk Is Reformatted....

Yes, the hard drive was reformatted and I'm almost done reloading all of the programs. Wow, what a job! Thankfully, I heard the hard drive working really had and bought an external hard drive before it went kaput. And so, here we are, finally posting a couple of workshop projects. This first project uses the new Sweet Scoops stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog. I was quite afraid that it was too simple and the guests would be bored with it, but they really loved the simplicity of it! We used the kissing technique on the ice cream (bashful blue and ballet blue) and stamped the sentiment across the pumpkin strip. The DSP is the Build-A-Bear set. I really like it! We cut out the ice cream and popped it up on dimensionals.
This card was one of my favorites. We're going to make it at the next workshop as a Father's Day card. We used a Post it note to punch out a circle and sponge around for the sun. The sand was made with Itty Bitty Backgrounds and sponging. The inside of the card was the same scene as the main image, just enlarged. Fun! This card uses the new Tropical Party stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog. Can you tell by the number of times that I've used this stamp set that I love it?!
Ok, back to taking care of the family. The laundry just doesn't fold itself and the folding fairy has skipped over our house again. Bummer!
Well, thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station. Hugs to you all!

Blessings,
Julie
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