Aloha, all!
Though I don't post much here about Stampin' Up!'s My Digital Studio, I use it quite a lot – and not just for digital scrapbooking!
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I make greeting cards! You might think, "Hey, she has all that paper and ink and all those stamps and embellishments; why would she want to go digital?!" A very good reason is that Stampin' Up! frequently retires a lot of those papers and stamps and so forth. They have to in order to add new stuff to their catalogs. But where does that leave us when something we love retires?
Up until 2009, it left us in the lurch. NOW, however, a ton of that "stuff" lives on in the digital world of Stampin' Up! – through My Digital Studio.
Take today's card. I really needed a Bon Voyage card for some friends about to go on a cruise of a lifetime. But Travel Journey Designer Series Paper as well as the stamp set, Sentimental Journey were RETIRED! What to do? Go digital, of course!
OK, now I have a confession to make. There are some stamp sets and papers that I just can't let go! And I happened to have some scraps of Travel Journal paper stashed away in the craft room – right next to that wonderful scrapbooking stamp set, Sentimental Journey. So our friends did receive a stamped and embellished card. Of course, I could have had the digital version printed professionally and then added in the still current Pumpkin Pie Ribbon. But I didn't have time – I had like a day's warning that a group wanted a card to sign! And, no matter how well I calibrate my printer, ink jet is just not the same as the wonderfully printed cards made by Stampin' Up!'s printing service. So here, carefully stashed at the bottom of this blog post, is a real honest-to-goodness card made with retired products (gasp!).
Hey, compare the two! Is My Digital Studio not wonderful! And from now on, when I want the Travel Journal paper for a project, I really am going to have to go digital – because the scraps I now have left are really, really, teensy.
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