Category Archives: My Digital Studio

Digital Scrapbooking with My Digital Studio: Mother’s Day

My Digital Studio Wedding Heritage Page

Images copyright Stampin' Up! 2011

Mother's Day is here!  I noticed people on Facebook changing their profile photos to their mother's photo, and I guess that gave one of my friends the idea to post her mother's beautiful wedding portrait.  That gave me the idea to scan a photo of my mother in her wedding gown and make a scrapbook page.  One easy way to make a scrapbook page is to do it digitally.  Stampin' Up! has a fabulous digital program called My Digital Studio.  The nice part of a digital program is that you can change colors, sizes, embellishments, whatever with just the click of your mouse.  No wasted paper!  If I want, I can have this page printed or I could even now duplicate it with paper, ink and stamps.

Happy Mother's Day!

Stampin’ Up! Strength & Hope Campaign

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Stampin' Up! is partnering with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation® by donating $2 of the sale of each Strength & Hope stamp set or Strength & Hope Digital kit (which includes a four-piece stamp brush set, 12 Designer Series Papers, and 10 embellishment pieces) to help with their work in breast cancer.  This promotion runs from May 1 – August 31.  Please click HERE to read all about it and/or watch the video by Shelli Gardner below.


Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog Live!

Summer Mini 2011

The Stampin' Up! Summer Mini is live!  Click on the link to see inside! After a long winter, this mini will get you in a summertime mood with beautiful flowers, bright papers, travel and sailing, summer fun, and brand new amazing punches!  And those are just a few of the great items in the new Summer Mini!

Click HERE to download the "recipes" for the sample projects showcased in the mini catalog.

Summer Mini Flowers-001
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Here's a card I made in My Digital Studio, starting with a template, using the Fabulous Florets Stamp Brush Set #124110.  This digital set matches the regular stamp set Fabulous Florets in the Summer Mini.

Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, Kiss Cam, George and Barbara Bush

What do the Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals, the Kiss Cam, George and Barbara Bush all have in common??  If you live in Houston, Texas you probably know!

My husband got baseball tickets from work for last night's game at Minute Maid Park which was between the Houston Astros and the St. Louis Cardinals.  We love to go to the ballgame when we can, especially when the Cards are here since we both grew up in St. Louis and will always be Cardinal fans in our hearts (although after 28 years here I guess we are legitimate Astros fans as well!)  Attendance at the game was pretty low and we didn't have many people around us, except for the other couple who got the other pair of tickets from work.  So I KNEW this was going to happen!  I just knew it. When they did the "Kiss Cam" between innings, toward the end, if not the end of it, I was stunned to see my husband up on the big new screen, then me and a glimpse of the lady next to us in orange and the big heart!  I think they were trying to get all four of us in the shot, I'm not sure, but we kissed just in case!

To add to the fun of the night, President and Mrs. Bush (George and Barbara) were in attendance in their seats behind homeplate.  Barbara had her scorecard and kept score during the game while chatting with her husband!  They have lived in Houston since they left the White House and frequently attend Astros games!  Another time when we were at a game, they put the Kiss Cam camera on them!  It was very cute!

Here's an easy card to make in My Digital Studio with a bit of a baseball game feel!

Baseball-001

Oh, and the game got very exciting, the Astros even loaded the bases after the Cardinals had taken the lead and we got some runs but no grand slam homer….if an Astro had hit a grand slam that inning a lucky family would have won $25,000 from Sonic!!  I bet they were on the edge of their seats! The game was tied in the ninth, but finally the Astros prevailed with a win!  Just goes to show, always still until the end of a baseball game!!

Ice Cream Sundae Birthday

Apparently, April 3 is the 119th Anniversary of the first documented Ice Cream Sundae, according to Google. Who would have guessed there is such controversy over the history of the ice cream sundae, as several different cities claim to be the first to have invented it!  Whether you want to believe that it was because the selling of soda water was prohibited on Sunday so just the remaining ice cream and syrup led to the invention of the ice cream sundae, or whether a customer asked for some syrup on top of the ice cream and perhaps a cherry, or any of the other versions out there led to the naming and birth of the ice cream sundae, I think we can all agree it is certainly a tasty treat!

In honor of the Ice Cream Sundae, here is my digital version, made with My Digital Studio!  I assure you, all the scoops are made with Blue Bell Ice Cream, my favorite!

Ice Cream Sundae

If you already own My Digital Studio (good for you!) there is a new update from Stampin' Up! you will want to take advantage of!  Open the program, click the "Help" button and then select "Check for Updates". This is a free update and it is the best one yet!  It does take awhile to download because there is lots of new content!  And did I say it is FREE?!

For more information about My Digital Studio, click HERE!  Really!  Do it now!  There is so much to check out!


So Much to Sale-A-Brate CD

The "So Much to Sale-A-Brate CD" is one of the free products you can earn from the Stampin' Up! Sale-A-Bration Promotion……but only if you place your order by March 31!  It's so much fun to play with My Digital Studio and now you can have all the digital content of the Sale-A-Bration catalog FREE with any $50 purchase from Stampin' Up!

I began by choosing a card in the Designer collection….meaning, it is already made up for you.  

My Digital Studio Designer Card

And then I changed almost everything about it!  I changed the Old Olive background paper to a pattern in the Ice Cream Parlor Designer Series Paper; changed the color of the Scallop Border Punch; and added Ice Cream Parlor Ribbon, Bows, and Buttons.  You could make this same card with your real supplies or you can make this digital version.

So Much to Sale-A-Brate CD Card

If you want to get all this free digital content to use with My Digital Studio or your own digital program, please place your order with me or at my Online Store before Sale-A-Bration ends on March 31st!

 

Stampin’ Up! MDS Digital Downloads

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Stampin' Up! has outdone themselves this month with so many new MDS digital downloads! Once you have the My Digital Studio software, you can continue to update your digital program with new downloads.  You can also run them with other digital software.

One new MDS download that I am excited about is the Greenhouse Gala Designer Series Paper!  What beautiful paper in real life and now we can use it on our computers as well!  There are "patterns" designer paper, stamp brush sets, digital buttons, the Nursery Alphabet images and letters….just to name a few!  You can check out the newest downloads and all the digital products HERE.

Don't forget about Sale-a-Bration only until March 31.  My Digital Studio purchases count!  And for your free SAB reward, you might want to pick the CD filled with digital images of the SAB rewards!

Click on the photo above to go to the page with the video and more information about Stampin' Up! My Digital Studio!

To learn A LOT about the papercrafting software, join the website dedicated to My Digital Studio, www.mydigitalstudio.net.  You will find all kinds of inspiration, tutorials, samples, and up-to-date information as well as a forum to talk to other digital crafters.  You will love it!

Let me know if you have any questions!  Just email me at karen@karenstamps.com.

Pi Day–March 14th

Today is “Pi Day“, and, if you are mathematically inclined, a day to celebrate!  I’m sure it’s something we all learned in school way back when, but I couldn’t really tell you much about it anymore!  Here is what the site www.piday.org has to say:

Pi is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi = 3.1415926535…

With the use of computers, Pi has been calculated to over 1 trillion digits past the decimal. Pi is an irrational and transcendental number meaning it will continue infinitely without repeating.”

I wouldn’t be so interested, since as far as I know it has nothing to do with stamping, but when my son was in high school, in calculus (I guess) he was able to recite over 500 digits of pi and held the record for awhile for his class!  He has a “pi” t-shirt and everything.  So today he is home on spring break and sat down at some website and typed out 110 digits of pi. It’s called Pi Trainer, just in case you want to try it out yourself!  He typed the numbers out real fast, just hesitating for a moment, like it was nothing.  He said it’s muscle-memory!  


 

Daylight Savings Time Starts Tonight/Tomorrow!

Daylight Savings Time My Digital Studio Card

Daylight Savings Time starts tonight when you go to bed, if you remember to change your clocks!  Technically, it is probably 2 am tomorrow, which is tonight as far as I am concerned! Spring is coming, so SPRING ahead….. change your clocks an hour ahead….so you lose an hour! That's not good for me this weekend because I happen to have all three children home this weekend (or should I say "four" now that I have a new son-in-law!)

To commemorate Daylight Savings Time, I quickly made this card in My Digital Studio!  It is fairly plain and simple, but today I liked it that way!  I did add a digital brass brad in the center of the clock hands! You've really got to try My Digital Studio…..it's not just for digital scrapbooking!  You can order it HERE in my online store.  The software will be shipped to you, and after that you can order the latest downloads and have them appear instantly to begin using!

Don't forget…..when you go to bed at 11 PM set your clocks for midnight! Check your smoke detector batteries, too! (maybe not at midnight, but tomorrow!)  Watch all the news stories on TV of the clock shops that have to reset the hundreds of clocks and watches they have!  And then order My Digital Studio so you can join in the fun!  (And choose your FREE Sale-a-Bration product too!)


My Digital Studio Hybrid Sale-A-Bration Page

Doesn't this look like an adorable scrapbook page?!  It is a digital scrapbook page made with My Digital Studio using the "So Much to Sale-A-Brate Digital Content CD" #123681 that you can get FREE in the Sale-a-Bration Catalog with a $50 purchase!  The project is made by Stampin' Up!'s Sara Douglass who happens to be Shelli Gardner's daughter.  After making the digital page, she adds real buttons and embelllishments for added interest.  Click on the photo above to go to a page on my Demonstrator Business Website where you can watch a video of Sara explaining how she made the page!

If you have any questions about My Digital Studio please contact me.  It really is a fun product to work with.  Stampin ' Up! even has a website where you can learn, ask questions and share projects about My Digital Studio.  The website is www.mydigitalstudio.net  and is a great resource!

My Digital Studio Valentine

I wanted to make a Valentine in My Digital Studio the easy way!  I found a designer template that inspired me in the program and then just changed a few things.  See if you can find all the things I did!

Here is the designer template.  It is a birthday card all ready to be printed….but you can change every single thing on it if you want.

My Digital Studio Birthday Card
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And here is the card for Valentine's Day I changed it to:

My Digital Studio Valentine

I changed the background to Pretty in Pink, deleted the flower and added a heart shaped punch and filled it with a polka dot designer paper.  I added a Pretty in Pink button and a taffeta bow on it.  Also, I deleted the greeting and found a valentine greeting instead and changed the color to Real Red.  With My Digital Studio I can also fill the inside of the card with a color or designer paper, add decorative elements, whatever greeting I want and I've got a whole card!  After printing, if I wanted to, I could add a real bow to the heart flower or a real button and ribbon.

My Digital Studio is easy for the beginner in digital papercrafting, yet has many things to explore so that you would never get bored as you progress in your ability!  To learn more about My Digital Studio software, please click HERE.

 


Valentine Votive Candle Holder

Need a quick and easy little gift for Valentine's Day?  All you need is a votive candle holder and some paper, ink and stamps….maybe a punch….maybe the Big Shot!

Valentine Votive Candle

You probably have these little glass votive candle holders around your house, or if you need to buy some they are easy to find.  All you need to do basically is wrap some paper around the glass and decorate!  I chose to emboss the Stampin' Up! White Vellum Card Stock #101856 with the Finial Press Embossing Folder #115963.  That looked so pretty just by itself!  And of course I had to use the Red Glimmer Paper #121790 in the Occasions Mini Catalog because it is so beautiful to punch a large heart….and no glitter falls off!  Again, it was plenty pretty with just the heart on the vellum!  I tried tying various ribbons around the middle but nothing seemed quite right.  Then I stamped the greeting with the "Be My Valentine" stamp #122045 in Real Red and just cut out the banner. Seemed perfect to me as a finishing touch!  There are lots of easy valentine craft ideas and this is one of them!  Wouldn't this be a great valentine craft for kids?!

And if you need to stock up on supplies for future crafting projects, just click HERE!

Super Bowl Sunday

My Digital Studio Super Bowl Card

Another fun and easy creation with My Digital Studio!  I just started with a design already included in the program, changed the pennant colors, added text, added the owl punches, changed the scallop color to black, deleted the greeting and added my own text box.  With a little research, I was able to find out the color codes for the Steelers and the Packers and used those in a couple places because you can select any colors you want with My Digital Studio.

Remember, when you purchase the My Digital Studio software from Stampin' Up!, you will be able to choose a Sale-A-Bration reward!

Enjoy the 2011 Super Bowl game……….and the commercials!

My Digital Studio Scrapbook Page

My Digital Studio Scrapbook Page

Rarely do we have wintery weather in Houston, TX.  The weather forecasters got us all excited about a prediction of up to 3″ of snow….BUT this is all we got!  Freezing rain during the night made the morning very icy!  Nothing too exciting to see from our house except for tiny little icicles and our car completely covered in ice!  Almost all of the highways are closed as the overpasses were completely iced over with that dangerous black ice.  Pretty cold weather here but it should get over freezing for a little while this afternoon!  

So all that makes for a great day to stay in and do some scrapbooking of the conditions, and the easiest way to do that is with My Digital Studio! I just chose a 12×12 page and a layout of photo boxes and went to work! So many great choices of things to use right at your fingertips on the computer!  Stampin’ Up! continues to produce new downloads for My Digital Studio so there is no end to the possibilities for the creative projects you can make…..and of course you don’t really have to be creative at all…..if you want, just drop your photos into a pre-designed page.

To find out more about My Digital Studio, click HERE.

To purchase My Digital Studio and get your Sale-a-Bration rewards, shop online HERE.