May is NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING MONTH! Celebrate with Stampin’ UP!’s My Digital Studio

Celebrate National Scrapbooking Month with My Digital Studio from Stampin’ Up! This easy to use software  lets you use Stampin’ Up!‘s exclusive artwork and vibrant colors to create an assortment of printed and multimedia projects.  Print your own original project at home or use our professional print service for high-quality color coordination.

Purchase Stampin’ UP!‘s My Digital Studio during the month of May, and receive a  FREE package of Designer Brads

Stampin’ Up! has recently added some fun downloads for My Digital Studio. Fans of My Digital Studio will want to check these out!

Click here to check for latest Downloads

Please let me know if you have any questions about Stampin’ UP!’s My Digital Studio I love this fantastic digital scrapbooking product and I’m sure you will too!  Ordering is easy by following the link:

katherinepritchard.stampinup.net

Digital scrapbooking is a fun easy way to keep up with all the summer family & children’s activities.You’ll love Stampin’ UP!’s My Digital Studio for it’s user friendly straight forwardness.

Blue Dog & Friends

Some people believe you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. . .well I am here to tell you that YES you can!

I recently enjoyed playing with Stampin’ UP!’s My Digital Studio and learned a thing or two…or three!

Instead of using one of the Designer Templates, I created this whimsical card from scratch.  Adding background papers, coloring stamps, and characterizing the animal stamps from the  Good Friend Stamp Set template by adding, eyes, a nose, and tongues to the dogs and from the Cheep Talk Stamp Set a red bird with a black wing.   I also created the cloud using a three squished heart punch images and turning them this way and that.  I even added a double stamped image to the fire hydrant for added visual effect.

I love Stampin’ UP!’s My Digital Studio for it’s  simplicity and ease of understanding.  Believe me,  I am not a person that you would consider ‘computer savvy’, and yes, even I can do this!  But all the credit goes to Stampin’ UP! and this wonderful product in My Digital Studio.

I’m currently training to earn my certification for Stampin’ UP!’s My Digital Studio so that I will be better equipped to help my customers with their digitally created projects.

If you haven’t yet considered purchasing Stampin’ UP!’s My Digital Studio, remember Mother’s Day is just around the corner. All you have to do is ask your hubby to email me your order at kpritchard@hot.rr.com, or he can order it himself by following the online link at www.katherinepritchard.stampinup.net, just be sure to select me as your demonstrator to get the ‘preferred pricing’.  At just $79.95 Stampin’ UP!’s My Digital Studio is a GREAT buy and sure to take your creativity to another level of enjoyment!

Have a wonderful day!

Katherine

Grateful Pumpkins!

Happy Monday!

Over the weekend my sweet hubby asked me to create some thank you cards for his referring dentists and here’s the first of two that I quickly put together:

2009-Punpkin-Patch

I created it using Stampin’ UP!’s My Digital Studio. I have to take a minute to brag a little bit here because this digital creativity suite is fabulously easy and so amazingly user friendly it’s totally awesome to work with! Using one of the designer templates, I swapped pumpkins for heart swatches, changed colors, and greeting text, gave it a Pumpkin Pie shadow and sent it to my HP 2500 Ink-jet printer for a dozen card fronts in a flash.

I prefer a 3-D dimension to my creations so I tied a piece of 1/4″ Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon to the card front and mounted it on a standard 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ Pumpkin Pie tent-fold card and it’s ready to go!

2009-Pumpkin-Patch-Closeup

* Stampin’ UP is thrilled to bring you a very exciting hostess special now through November 30, 2009. Host a workshop of at least $400 and get My Digital Studio for 50 percent off the retail price (retail price: $79.95; promotional price: $39.97) when you use your free hostess dollars! Contact me today at: katherine@mybluebonnetcottage.com to reserve your workshop dates before it’s too late! This is a wonderful opportunity from Stampin’ UP! to show our appreciation for our very special hostesses! I have several exciting projects using sets from the Holiday Mini Catalog that I know you’ll love to share with your family and friends.

I’ll put the second Thank You card up later this week, so be sure to check back!

Thanks for stopping in to see what’s going on at My Bluebonnet Cottage and have a wonderful blessed week!

Katherine

My Digital Studio Cards 4 & 5

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:

Chocolate-Petal-Flower-Card

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

and the second one:

Happy-Birthday-Kalidescope

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

My Digital Studio Card #3

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…

Kiwi-Kiss-Thanks

(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!

My Digital Studio Card #2

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!

Chocolate-Birdies-Card

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