September is slipping away fast, and October is peeking around the bend, we’re in Football, Football, Football around here. All that Testosterone you know, is somethin’ else! A gal’s got to have some outlet right? That’s why you’ll find me in my stamp room, running my fingers over card stock, and paper and stamps and all that glittery stuff! That is, when I’m NOT watching Football. I love to watch our youngest son (a.k.a. Colin now 18!! He had a birthday Sunday the 20th, along with my brother Mike, we won’t disclose his age… HA! HA!, along with my lovely mom, may she rest in peace; and her sweet mother, may SHE rest in peace…that’s right our family has had FOUR birthday’s to celebrate on the same day, how awesome is that?) Any way…I thought I’d let you see the last two cards together…

Here’s the first one:

It’s a sweet Chocolate Chip round petal flower with a Real Red button for the center.

and the second one:

Images are from the Happy Birthday Simply Scrappin’ Kit pg 166 ’09-’10 Idea Book & Catalog. Teamed with Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon and I added a Filigree Designer Brad over a blue flower that was in the template.

Well, as you’ve seen I had a very successful afternoon last Tuesday after I installed My Digital Studio. And for those of you who may be intimidated by the art of stamping and paper crafting, this is a wonderful tool that can be customized with hundreds of options and images to choose from that give you the look and feel of a hand made card for those special events and holidays coupled with tons of images to use in creating your scrapbook memories. Please call or write if you want more information on this latest great product from Stampin’ UP!

Thanks for stopping by!

Katherine

Hello again,

I hope you’ve had a wonderful weekend I’m enjoying a few days in DURANGO, CO with hubby (a little R&R never hurt anyone!), this isn’t a business trip so we’re really having a good time just relaxin’ and enjoying the cooler temps of the mountains.

Here’s the next card that I created last week with My Digital Studio, I guess I’m beginning to sound like a sort of ‘broken record’ but you just have to realize how much fun I was having and especially how easy it was to do is quite unbelievable…

(Psst…Now for those of you that have been around Stampin’ UP! a while you might just recognize the Kiwi Kiss Polka-A-Dot Designer Paper that is on this card…yes, that’s right…SU has been developing this product for a while and that’s a sure tell-tale give-away don’t you know? Let’s see Kiwi Kiss was introduced with the Fall-Winter 2008 Idea Book & Catalog)

In My Digital Studio I printed out the Designer Template Card. Some of you have asked about my printer, I have an HP PSC 2510 Photosmart all-in-one. I’m about due for a new one since I’ve had this one going on thee years.

In my Stamp room…I cut it out and re-sized it for a 1/8″ border all around, but oops the top of the card seemed to disappear with the white on white so I scraped the edges with Real Red Classic Ink and added the Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon with a Circle Fire Rhinestone Brad in yellow; then mounted the digital face onto a standard size Whisper White Card Stock base using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

You know, this reminds me of a cooking show I ran across back during the summer, something along the lines of “Almost Homemade” or along those lines, where you kind of altered store bought food items, or ready to eat items and kicked them up a notch. That’s sort of like what using My Digital Studio is for card making. You can use the card just the way it is if you want and it’s really just fine. I like to have the touch and feel aspect of embellishments that are added on for that extra little something. To each his own or her own, anyway however you choose to use it, I’m sure you’ll just love it!

Hi there, it’s me again!

Here’s the second card that I created Tuesday while I was getting familiar with My Digital Studio

This is just the cutest little birdie (a.k.a. Good Friend Stamp Set #113740 with the Cheep Talk Stamp Set #113204 both in the ’09-’10 Idea Book & Catalog pgs 112-113), and it’s images are in My Digital Studio so it coordinates with the stamp sets that you might have on hand!

In My Digital Studio program…I loaded the designer template for a tent fold card this time. Liked what I saw and didn’t change a thing. Printed it out like before and headed to my Stamp room.

In my Stamp room…I cut out the card front, resized it to leave a 1/8″ border around the card face, cut off the bottom third (which was actually white and had the text on it) and mounted it to a Chocolate Chip standard size tent card. Tied a piece of Only Orange grosgrain ribbon in a square knot, used the new Modern Label Punch (pg186-186 Item # 116630 ’09-’10 Idea Book & Catalog) on the greeting and mounted it in the lower right hand corner using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

My Digital Studio is a fabulous tool for all of your creative projects, I’m just getting started, but I think you’ll find it very user friendly. I can’t wait to show you the next card I created so stay tuned it’ll be here in a couple of days…

Thanks for stopping by and remember Stampin’ UP! is launching this great new product at a really great price for only $79.95 on October 1st. Follow the link to the Holiday Mini Catalog in the side bar and go to pages 38 & 39 for more details.

Thanks again for coming by today, I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Katherine

It arrived last Thursday, and I’ve been looking at it on my desk since then…

I’ve waited since convention to get it in my hands so why am I hesitant???

Honestly, (for all those of you who know me will agree), I’m not all THAT computer savy. I am more so than my sweet hubby, but like many of those ‘my age’ (being that of the techno-dinosaurus era) we plink and plod as best we can and sometimes it works, and a lot of the times it just doesn’t! So I was afraid I couldn’t do it until I had ‘lots of time’ to work it out. I have to tell you, it worked like a charm! It was everything I had expected and anticipated and was just so wonderfully easy. Of course, I’ve seen it demo’d several times, and participated in a webinar a couple of weeks ago, so I had actually seen it in action, which did help LOTS! But within about an hour and fifteen minutes, I had created six scrapbook pages and five cards. Whoa!!! I didn’t print the scrapbook pages, I started a Football album for our #1 star Falcon (a.k.a. Colin), but here is one of the cards…

In the program….I loaded the template, changed the background color, changed the flower shape, added a button embellishment, deleted a line of text, re-sized the other two lines, changed the color of the box at the bottom of the flower, changed the color of the text and printed it out.

In my Stamp room…I cut it out from the page, adjusted the size so that I would have a 1/8″ all-around white border on my card base, mounted it on a standard Whisper White Card, punched a Five Petal Flower from Summer Sun Card stock, and mounted that with Stampin’ dimensionals. Added the Bashful Blue flower button from our Designer Buttons tied with white embroidery thread using a Mini Glue Dot and VOILA!!!

I have to tell you I am pretty darned AMAZED. I’ll let you see one of the other cards on Thursday!

My Digital Studio is available for customer order OCTOBER 1st . . .so get ready for some FUN! It’s a wonderful addition for your creative resources at only $ 79.95* (For more info on this great new product follow the link in the sidebar for the 2009 Holiday Mini Catalog and check out pages 38 & 39. Be sure to check the system requirements)

Thanks for stopping by and hope you’ll comeback Thursday for more peeks at My Digital Studio projects.

Katherine

* Price does not include Tax + S&H