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Our Furry Family Members
Aloha, all!
As I said last week, we have a new garden cat, whose name is Honu, who has made our indoor cat, Cholla (from New Mexico, thus the name of the cactus that is ubiquitous where we lived) just a teensy bit jealous. In fact, we have to keep some windows closed as the cats have taken to trying to claw each other through the screens! Not so bad this time of the year when it’s not really very hot at all. Hopefully they’ll get over it before spring arrives and starts to warm things up a bit!
I managed to catch both cats in something of a Christmas pose, so just had to make a quick scrapbook page with Stampin’ Up!’s My Digital Studio.
This digital papercrafting program is just so neat – and things ship quickly, too! I’m going to start on some Valentine’s cards for my Stampin’ Up! friends before long. If you’d like to be on the list to receive one of the cards, just add a comment below and then I’ll e-mail you to get your address! I’ll need the information by January 23rd so I can get my order in and still have time to mail them before Valentine’s Day. I’ll certainly remind everyone about this a few times between now and then.
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Aloha, all!
As I said last week, we have a new garden cat, whose name is Honu, who has made our indoor cat, Cholla (from New Mexico, thus the name of the cactus that is ubiquitous where we lived) just a teensy bit jealous. In fact, we have to keep some windows closed as the cats have taken to trying to claw each other through the screens! Not so bad this time of the year when it’s not really very hot at all. Hopefully they’ll get over it before spring arrives and starts to warm things up a bit!
I managed to catch both cats in something of a Christmas pose, so just had to make a quick scrapbook page with Stampin’ Up!’s My Digital Studio.
This digital papercrafting program is just so neat – and things ship quickly, too! I’m going to start on some Valentine’s cards for my Stampin’ Up! friends before long. If you’d like to be on the list to receive one of the cards, just add a comment below and then I’ll e-mail you to get your address! I’ll need the information by January 23rd so I can get my order in and still have time to mail them before Valentine’s Day. I’ll certainly remind everyone about this a few times between now and then.
I Finally Made a Calendar – With My Digital Studio!
Aloha, all!
I finally made a calendar using My Digital Studio from Stampin’ Up! I am so pleased with the result, and have sent it off to be printed by Stampin’ Up!’s printing service. I love that I can put a photograph behind the grid page, and change the font styles and colors wherever I want. I especially liked that I could use the color picker and pick up a color from the flower that is the main picture on the calendar and make that the color for the text for the Month and Year.
Here’s a short (less than a minute) video that shows all the pages. I can hardly wait to get the printed version. (And I sincerely hope that I didn’t make any serious mistakes calendarwise!)
My Own Take on My Own Challenge
Aloha, all!
Today I was a host of a "Chat and Challenge" on SUDSOL (a group for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators). OK–the Saturday after Thanksgiving, everyone’s stuffed and sick of shopping, right? Wrong! We just had a small group. But what fun we had with my sketch! It’s a bit different from the sketches I usually make or use. But I just felt as if I had to do something a bit different.
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Here’s the Challenge Sketch. I’d been looking at some pinwheel cards, and this just popped into my mind. Of course I made the sketch using My Digital Studio. I didn’t have to waste a scrap of paper in the making of it!!
And here’s my own take on it as a greeting card. I’m definitely back into my Green and Red phase of Christmas Cards. But what struck me most was, as I looked at the photo I’d taken of my card, that I realized it looked just like a CD or DVD. Now I have this idea in my head that I’m going to use a disk as the background for a card. Hope I can get it out of my system before I ruin too many blank CDs!!
I used the stamp set, Four the Holidays, just inking up the word "Merry" in "Merry Christmas" in Versamark then applying Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder and heat embossing it on each rectangle. The background papers are all from the Designer Series Paper set, Merry Moments.
The center piece is a Very Vanilla Jumbo Grommet, with Real Red 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon.
I made the circle of Designer Series Paper, with the Garden Green mat behind it, with the Circle Scissors Plus. I’m really starting to get the hang of the Circle Scissors! In another couple of months I’m going to be an expert and ready to start teaching others how to use it!!! One of the problems I have here in East Hawaii is that paper is so often just so saturated with moisture that it’s hard to get a good clean cut. So I try to find the time of day when things seem driest to go playing with it. Had a good stretch of dry time when I made this!
Why don’t you try this sketch out for yourself! I’ll send off some Designer Series Paper samples (four 4" x 5-1/4" pieces) to anyone who e-mails me a link to a card they’ve made with this layout! Deadline for this "offer" is Saturday, December 5th. Have fun!!!
Our Rainforest Garden – Part II
Aloha, all!
Ah, the rain continues! But with rain in Hawaii always comes rainbows, at least when the sun has a chance to peek through the clouds!
This photograph shows the view I have from my kitchen window. A friend told me, upon seeing this picture, that she’d gladly wash dishes all day if she could see this view! I have to tell you, that washing dishes all day gets old, even WITH this view. It’s better just to stand there with a cup of coffee and drink in the beauty of my husband’s garden (yes, he’s definitely the gardener!)
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As with yesterday’s photo, I framed this up a bit with My Digital Studio. There are tons and tons of embellishments for scrapbooking pages (and cards, of course!). But I really didn’t want to clutter this photograph up on a blog with too much of that. By the first of December, I hope to have a complete 2010 Calendar to share with you that will show off more of what My Digital Studio has to offer.
Also as I said yesterday, I hope to have my webinars fully up and running by the first of the year. I have several "guinea pigs" who are taking my webinar training now, and they’re helping me make sure that I’m going to have the best product possible once I start offering it to you. I could use a few more "guinea pigs", though. If you’re interested, please send me an e-mail and let me know. We can set up a one-on-one session if there’s somethign you’d like to learn about My Digital Studio. Or I could invite you to one of the group sessions that I’ll be hosting in December. Just let me know!
Our Rainforest Garden – Part I
Aloha, all!
I take most of the photographs of my cards and other projects out on our front lanai (or porch). All year round, the New Guinea impatiens bloom gorgeously, and a few frequently seem to peek out from the sides of my cards. Last week, in a Chat and Challenge session in which I participated (in a group called SUDSOL, which is a great group for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators), one of the women asked if I could show off a photograph of more of the garden. And I gladly shared this picture with the group. Yes, we see several stalks of bananas from our lanai, though it looks right now as if all of them will become ripe at the same time. Ladies and gentlemen, there is only so much banana bread that one can make in a single week!
Of course, I had to frame this up a bit with some images from My Digital Studio, with which I’ve been working a lot. It is just the most wonderful toy for this computer junkie. I just don’t know where to begin to show you what you can do with it! But I’m working on it. I’ve been practicing on my training webinars, and I should be ready to set up some classes right after the first of the year–when there will be more wonderful digital downloads to add to this great new product that Stampin’ Up! offers!
Tomorrow I’ll share a photograph of the garden as I look out the kitchen window towards the back of the house. Then I’ll have to get back to making some more holiday cards! The Holidays are HERE!!!
Would You Like a Card from My Digital Studio?
Aloha, all!
That’s not an idle question! I have some lovely (if I say so myself) cards that I’ve made with My Digital Studio, and that have been printed by the Stampin’ Up! printing service. I’d love to send you one if (1) you’re not already a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator; (2) you sign up for my Newsletter (and it’s a good one especially this holiday season!) and (3) if you’d leave a comment right here on my blog before November 3, 2009. Now that’s not too much to ask for a beautifully designed and printed card, is it?
This is one of the cards that I’ve had printed by Stampin’ Up!’s printing service. I was going to send them all out, but I just have to keep one for myself (and no, this is not one of the cards I’ll send out–it will be something non-seasonal!)
Hope to hear from LOTS of you!!
New Downloads for My Digital Studio
Aloha all, and especially those of you who have already purchased My Digital Studio!
Last week saw the very first new downloads for My Digital Studio. There was so much in the original MDS package that I couldn’t imagine what Stampin’ Up! would come up with first. Well, first on my list was the Halloween stamps and papers! Now I know there are some of you who don’t pay any attention to Halloween. But there are quite a few images in the stamp sets and patterns in the papers that I’m sure you’d love both sets. Think of how you could use those lovely pumpkins for a fall garden scene!
But for now, my first Halloween Card with the new sets. This card is a 5" x 5" card. Now, if you just had the rubber stamp sets, you wouldn’t be able to make this card, because the pumpkin stamps are too big. BUT, in My Digital Studio, you can resize everything to your heart’s content (well, if you make things too much larger than the original, there may be some pixilation of the design–ask me if you want more information). Everything in this card is downsized!
The jack-o-lanterns, the grass and the greeting are from the new digital download, Pumpkin Patch. The spider is from the older set, Eat, Drink and Be Scary (included in the original MDS), and the Designer Series Paper is the new digital set, Cast A Spell. The card stock colors are Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black, and Old Olive.
This really was a lot of fun to do!
Tomorrow, I’m back to paper and ink! But I saw a great card done with some other new digital downloads that I’m dying to copy and share with you. So you may see some more digital projects before long, too!
My Digital Studio Cards and Webinars
Aloha, all!
Once again I participated in an online chat and challenge where it was just easier to sit at my computer to make my card–then I get to chat with everyone in the chat room! Can’t beat that.
With this card I tried to make the white layer look textured. I think I should have used something a bit larger than the little white circles. But overall I like the idea of the texturizing.
As the month goes on, I’m planning to design some webinars about using My Digital Studio. They will be overviews of the program as well as instructions in making specific projects. This will be a new venture for me and I’m really looking forward to it! If you’d like to be notified when I have a webinar available, please join my newsletter list. The first few webinars will be free of charge while I make sure that I’m providing you and my customers what they need out of a webinar. Once everything gets settled, then I may start charging for the webinars except for customers. If you help me out by participating in a few of the original programs and providing critiques and input for how I might do things differently, you’ll definitely be part of the group that gets them at a very special price!
OK–off to enjoy what looks like it may be a sunny afternoon in East Hawaii!
My First Printed Greeting Card (with My Digital Studio, of course)
Aloha, all!
A week or so ago, I shared a card that I’d made with My Digital Studio as part of a challenge. Yesterday, I decided that I needed to have a card printed (it’s a requirement for My Digital Studio certification!), and I chose one that I’d made based on that challenge. I’m actually thinking of making my Christmas Cards this year on My Digital Studio, so am trying out different designs to see how they print.
My first effort wasn’t too bad–except for one problem. It turns out that, when you’re viewing a card in MDS, you can’t really tell Whisper White from Very Vanilla. So part of my card’s front is in White and part is Vanilla. I think you can even tell from this photo of the card that the reindeer is on a background of Whisper White, while everything else is Very Vanilla. Rats!!! So from now on, I’ll check that particular color throughout before I send it to the printer!
What’s nice about this card is that it’s what’s going to be known as a "hybrid." Everything in this card has been printed by Stampin’ Up!’s printing service EXCEPT for the Real Red grosgrain ribbon bow. I designed this card so that I could add bows of different colors at this particular spot.
The inside of the card was also fun to make. I took the border (from the Christmas Jingle Designer Kit) from the front of the card and replicated it inside, on both inside pages. While you can’t really see both pages together, no matter what kind of a view you use in MDS, I could tell from the preview when the tree at the card fold was going to meet perfectly. I kept previewing then nudging, then previewing then nudging. So that was definitely intentional!
So now I’m ready to send some more copies of this card to the printer. What I’ve done is to make sure that everything is in Very Vanilla. I’ve also added my own identifying information just under the border on the inside left side of the card.
Even before Christmas, many of YOU are going to be on the receiving end of this card as I work to spread the word about how great My Digital Studio is!
For sure everyone who has placed an order, either directly through me or on my Stampin’ Up! website, will be receiving one.
Of course, one order that I think everyone should be placing early in October is for their very own copy of My Digital Studio!! October 1st is only a day away (tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow….)
