Category Archives: Scrapbooking

Cyber Monday Specials at Stampin’ Up! and More!

The Stampin’ Up! Holiday Sale has been ongoing since November 20 and now will come to an end on Monday, December 2, 2013. Don’t miss it! But be sure to check back tomorrow, Cyber Monday, when Stampin’ Up! will have these products on a special Cyber Monday Sale!!

Here are the links to my Online Store where you can see the products. Keep in mind the sale price will not show today (Sunday, December 1st). Don’t try to order or even put on your list until tomorrow!

You can also add to your order (you won’t believe this!) Valentines!! Well, you know it will pop up soon right after Christmas! This way you will be ready with your supplies!

A Whole Lot of Love Stampin' Up! Valentines

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You can purchase these products beginning today, December 1st, at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE. On that page, click on the product and then you can read more about the details and also click the magnifying glass to enlarge.

And one more thing! The last “Best of 25 Years” stamp set is released today. This stamp set is called “Best of Sale-A-Bration”. All of these stamp sets are available until March 31, 2013. You can see all of the stamp sets HERE.

PS: Don’t forget to check the Stampin’ Up! Clearance Rack every time before you order! New things may have been added!

Absolutely tomorrow, Monday December 2 Cyber Monday, go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store and check out the Cyber Monday specials and all the other items on the Holiday Sale, plus the items I mentioned in my post above! Whew! Happy Shopping!

My Digital Studio New Downloads & More!

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Every Tuesday there are new digital downloads for the Stampin’ Up! digital design software called My Digital Studio. These are extra designs you can purchase to add to your content on My Digital Studio or even other kinds of design software. This week Stampin’ Up! has added a new twist: some of the downloads include an online class to show you how to use My Digital Studio!

Stampin’ Up! will continue to release new classes and coordinating exclusive digital downloads every month, on the last Tuesday of the month. You can go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store to view the projects and techniques to see what is included in the content.

Each class includes an exclusive digital download and instructional project-based video training that will guide users through a number of different techniques as they create a variety of projects in MDS. My Digital Class prices will vary depending on the content included.

You can order any of these downloads and past ones at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store!

One More Chance!

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This past week Stampin’ Up! has been offering daily digital scrapbooking deals for My Digital Studio and write-ups on the mydigitalstudio.net blog with ideas of how to use those downloads. But some people have missed out, so if you would like one more chance to purchase any of these select downloads for 50% off,here is your chance until midnight MT November 9.

Here are the downloads that will be on sale:

Amped Up Ampersands Kit (item 134844)
Hello There Kit (item 133374)
All Time Fave Photobook Template (item 132915)
Modern Medley Overlays Kit (item 134839)
Be Brave Pocket Cards (item 134840)
Nobody’s Business Photobook Template (item 132812)
Autumn Traditions Kit (item 127600)
Afternoon Daydream Kit (item 130861)

Go here to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store and put in the item number. You’ll see a full description of the download and usually will be able to view better close-ups of the elements. You’ll usually see a magnifying glass or the word “More” and sometimes you can scroll through to look at each element.

To find out more about My Digital Studio, just click HERE. You can purchase the software and a ton of content for a mere $19.95. And it’s not just for digital scrapbooking!

Autumn Traditions Kit for My Digital Studio 50% Off to

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Only today and tomorrow left of Stampin’ Up! Digital Scrapbooking Days! Today this beautiful Autumn Traditions Kit is available for 50% off the regular price, today only! If you think you might make a fall digital album or photobook or even if you just want to print off the paper or words yourself, this might be the set for you! Sometimes if I don’t have quite the right words or greeting I want in regular stamps, I can check on My Digital Studio and print my choice from there right onto my card stock. Also downloads, stamp set, and paper do not retire on My Digital Studio.

If you live where there are/were beautiful fall colored leaves or have taken photos on trips, like I have, this paper and images would be beautiful to design your pages and album. Or maybe you’d like just a simple “swatchbook”. Not that you are limited to scrapbooks with digital software because you absolutely are not! You can make all sorts of projects with My Digital Studio!

For more information on My Digital Studio, please visit HERE.

A Pop-Up Birthday Card for My Son

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Lots of days I can have or see hundreds of ideas for cards and stamping projects I want to make, but sometimes when I need a card for someone special it’s like I’ve never stamped before and can’t think of a thing to make. Does that ever happen to you?! Sometimes I can look around in all the usual inspirational places and not see anything I like, just because I NEED something right then.

Cards for guys always seem a little harder to come up with, although they really shouldn’t be. Often it’s just a matter of changing the color or the paper or using less bling or more texture. Anyway, when I needed a card for my son for his birthday I found this one at StampingSchool.com. I used the “You’re Amazing” greeting on the front of the card from the stamp set You’re Amazing and used the Big Shot and the Apothecary Accents Framelit to cut it out. Love, love, love the little Candy Dots and the Candy Dot Brad Bases (or the Candy Dots by themselves!). While the sample I was copying used a more feminine designer series paper, I changed it to our current Sweater Weather Designer Series Paper.

The inside of the card is a pop-up! And it’s made the old-fashioned way, with two little strips of paper making a box shape on each side of the card hidden by a front panel that you can then add things to so that it pops up. I copied the sample pretty closely except for the greeting and the designer paper. Then if you like you can stick a gift card, check or cash in that opening or even engineer it to have a pocket, or any other design along the pop up portion!

This was a good male birthday card to make. It could be for anyone, but the Sweater Weather Designer Paper makes it look like fall and more masculine. With a whole pack of paper, you can choose any of the patterns and know they will look good together because Stampin’ Up! has done all the work of coordinating colors and patterns. And did I mention that I love the Candy Dots??!!!

To order any of these supplies or papers or stamps, just go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store.

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And it is Day 4 of Digital Scrapbooking Days over at Stampin’ Up! website for My Digital Studio! Choose this Modern Medley Overlays Kit digital download for 50% off today only! Click on the image below for more information and to shop for this download.

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Visit the website www.mydigitalstudio.net (you do have to sign in) for more information about using this download and tons of information about My Digital Studio.

Digital Scrapbooking Days from Stampin’ Up!

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Stampin’ Up! continues celebrating digital scrapbooking with 50% off this digital download, TODAY ONLY. This download is the “All Time Fave Photobook” #132915. You can click the image above or the link and view this download in detail. Once you are on the shopping page you can click “More” or the magnifying glass to get a closer look. If you like documenting your favorite things and making lists, this is the download for you!

You don’t have to own My Digital Studio to use it, it will work with other design software, but why wouldn’t you own My Digital Studio?! It’s an easy program to learn and you’ll have access to lots of your favorite, past and present, Stampin’ Up! stamps in the “brush sets” as well as designer papers and embellishments. Have your projects printed by the Stampin’ Up! printer and be assured of exact color matches. Or print yourself or at a local printer if you are in a hurry.

Check out My Digital Studio here for more information.

Click HERE to purchase the My Digital Studio software which comes with an ENORMOUS amount of content!! I recommend the digital download version because you won’t have to worry about losing or damaging the MDS disc. But if you prefer the hard copy, you can purchase the program on a MDS Disc.

I guarantee you at only $19.95 My Digital Studio is an absolute bargain!

Not convinced?? Do the 30-Day Free MDS Trial. No obligation. You get to use the FULL software (not as much content, but enough to play with, and you can purchase more that you like AND print your projects). At the end of 30 days it will just expire.

Did You Remember to Change Your Clocks last night?? We’re back on Standard Time! “Fall back” an hour! Hope you enjoyed your extra hour of sleep!

Magnificent Maple One Sheet Wonder Random Stamping

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The Magnificent Maple single stamp is just perfect for fall stamping projects, and perfect for today, the first day of fall. This is one way creativity starts: I picked up a scrap of Very Vanilla card stock and used the “One Sheet Wonder” technique of random stamping all over the paper. I inked up the maple leaf stamp and stamped on the paper and then continued stamping without reinking on the same paper. Then I changed to a different color ink and did the same thing. The colors I used were Baked Brown Sugar, So Saffron, and Cherry Cobbler. You could even just use one color and with the “stamping off” without reinking you would still get an interesting background.

To make cards or use on a project, just cut the stamped paper into pieces of whatever size you want. There are templates out there for cutting a full sheet of paper and making a mulitude of cards, but all you have to do is cut the sizes you want.

You will find this stamp, ink and paper in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store here!

The Magnificent Maple stamp really is a magnificent design, I think, and will make many beautiful projects for fall or any season in your paper crafts.This is a technique you can use to make your own patterned paper or decorative paper that you can then use in making greeting cards using the pieces or decoratively on scrapbook pages. Take some time to get out your basic card making supplies: paper, ink and stamps and go to town! You might be surprised at what you come up with! Trying the rubber stamping one sheet wonder technique would be a good way to enjoy the first day of fall while you watch your favorite football game!

New Photopolymer Stamps for Travel Projects

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Stampin’ Up! just released two new photopolymer stamp sets (photopolymer-what??) for your stamping pleasure! They are Map It Out and Greetings From. They both have travel themes so will be great for scrapbooking your summer (or fall) travels…..and of course they’re not “just” for travel! And not just for scrapbooking!

Photopolymer are the stamps that are clear themselves and go on the clear blocks so you can see right through them when you stamp. They’re very sticky so they work well on the blocks.

At Convention last summer, Shannon West showed on stage how she makes cards in My Digital Studio ahead of her trip with a map or states on the front and shows her travel, and then she sends them out. Now you can use these new stamps of the USA map to do something similar.

Map It Out Photopolymer Stamp Set #134620

Greetings From Photopolymer Stamp Set #134621

Check out the PDFs for the sets for more information:

You’ll find these two sets in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store.

Watch this video for an overview about Photopolymer Stamps!

Amazing New Downloads Today for My Digital Studio!

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Wow! If you ask me, I think Stampin’ Up! has hit the jackpot today with their new weekly downloads for My Digital Studio! There are several Halloween downloads, the BURLAP RIBBON, the cute coffee cup stamp brush set, “Perfect Blend“, washi tape, and MORE! One amazing download, Simply Life Photo Templates, is a bunch of divided pages that you can put in an album, using digital images plus traditional elements. Check out the blog post from a Stampin’ Up! concept artist, Arika, showing how she used these elements for her trip scrapbook.

My Digital Studio downloads Sept 10 2013

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You can find all these new downloads and previous ones at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE. You don’t pay shipping on MDS downloads and you have instant access to them! Isn’t that great?! Go check them out now!

New Single Stampin’ Up! Holiday Stamps

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Single Stamps Flyer Holiday 2013

Stampin’ Up! has just released some new holiday single stamps you can purchase! Sometimes you don’t need a whole set, you just need one stamp of a certain style or greeting. Here are some great choices you can use on your holiday cards, scrapbook pages, and projects. Click the image above to read the whole flyer.

To purchase any or all of these holiday single stamps, just go to my

Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE.

Projects on Display at the Stampin’ Up! Convention

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I can’t get enough of these photos I took of the display boards at the Stampin’ Up! Convention! Such creative projects and cards! It’s amazing! You should be able to click on each photo to enlarge.

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Designer Paper bits and pieces on a scrapbook page

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More Stampin’ Up! Convention Display Board Samples

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Just a few more I chose from my photos! Enjoy!

Stampin’ Up! Apron Dress Up Framelit Die

Paper Doily Die Card

Beautiful Embossed Pumpkin Card

Sample Cards

Fall Inspiration Cards

Doggie in the Dog House Punch Art Card

Summer Smooches Cards

Cute Red Bird Card

Oh Hello Scallop Tasteful Trim Card

Make an easy hot air balloon card!

Epic Day Designer Paper Triangles

Hello Card with Epic Day This and That Designer Paper

Cupcake Punch Birthday Card

Apothecary Accents Framelit and Epic Day DSP

Epic Day This and That Designer Paper

Cute Little Embellishments to Make

Yellowstone Natl Park Scrapbook Page

Patio Party Designer Paper (Retired)

Cute little cork board

Label Love Stamp Set and Artisan Punch

Stampin’ Up! My Digital Studio New Downloads!

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Hey! Here’s a great idea for your summer! Buy the My Digital Studio software for only $19.95 and start creating your summer scrapbooks, summer party favors, invitations, fun things for the kids to make, whatever you want! It won’t take you long at all to “get the hang of it” with MDS. And if you have the kids home for the summer, you KNOW they will be able to help you with anything digital! Let them create some things as well, then print them out at home or at the office supply store or send off to Stampin’ Up! for printing if it is a special keepsake. Let them help you digitally scrap any photos from the past school year! Or make an album together to get ready for the upcoming school year and have it ready to drop the photos into during the school year! There’s so much potential for you and the kids to work on during the summer and have fun together…..indoors and in the air-conditioning I might add!

One of the best parts is that every Tuesday Stampin’ Up! releases new downloads you can purchase (and on occasion some free ones!). Here are the newest downloads released this week:

My Digital Studio Newest Downloads for June 18th!

View the PDF with all the details!

I suggest purchasing the software because the price has dropped from originally being $79.95 to only $19.95 and you will not believe all the content you get with that full version software!! And when you are ready, you can purchase extra downloads that come out every Tuesday from Stampin’ Up! to suit your projects. But you won’t “need” anything for a long time with all the artwork you receive in the software.

If you really do not want to spend the money without trying, you’re in luck because you can take the MDS 30-Day Free Trial! Get a trial version…..the full software with some artwork to use……and work with it for 30 days. If you want to purchase the full version, do it just before your 30 days ends to make installation a little easier. If you aren’t interested, the program will end after 30 days. No obligation.

My Digital Studio is certainly not just about scrapbooking! So if you are not into scrapbooking, don’t think this program is of no use or joy to you! Experience it! Take the Free 30-Day Trial!

My Digital Studio Software or Free 30-Day Trial! You Choose!

Help a Charity with the Stampin’ Up! Stamp Set “Tag It”

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There’s one stamp set in the new Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog that you can feel GOOD about purchasing! Doesn’t matter how many stamp sets you already have or how full your craft room is or how much paper you are hoarding! The purchase of the “Tag It” stamp set from Stampin’ Up! will help the Ronald McDonald House Charities program because for the sale of every Tag It stamp set, Stampin’ Up! will donate $3 to the charity!

Tag It is a great stamp set, one of those versatile ones that you can use for lots of occasions AND the new Chalk Talk Framelits will also work with it. You won’t have to cut out the tags by hand!

For the first time, the Ronald McDonald House set is available in four different languages: English, Spanish, French, and German. If another language appeals to you, now you have a choice!

To purchase this Tag It stamp set and have Stampin’ Up! donate $3 for each one sold, just go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store here and place it on your next order!

Quotes and Sayings About Fathers for Father’s Day

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Father’s Day is this weekend and I thought you might enjoy or be inspired by some sayings and quotes I found about fathers. I hope you will take some time to make a card for your father, grandfather, or husband and/or help your children make something special for their dad. Make a scrapbook page or a mini album. Decorate a picture frame. Make a gift bag for Dad. This is why we all have our stamps, ink and paper! Let’s take the time to use them. It’s faster than going to the card shop!

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Any man can be a Father, but it takes someone special to be a dad. — Anne Geddes

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” — Rev. Theodore Hesburgh

The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad! — Author Unknown

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. — Unknown

A father carries pictures where his money used to be. — Author Unknown

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~ Mark Twain

A good father is one of the most unsung, upraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. ~ Billy Graham

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” – William Shakespeare

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Category Archives: Scrapbooking

Cyber Monday Specials at Stampin’ Up! and More!

My Digital Studio New Downloads & More!

One More Chance!

Autumn Traditions Kit for My Digital Studio 50% Off to

A Pop-Up Birthday Card for My Son

Digital Scrapbooking Days from Stampin’ Up!

Did You Remember to Change Your Clocks last night?? We’re back on Standard Time! “Fall back” an hour! Hope you enjoyed your extra hour of sleep!

Magnificent Maple One Sheet Wonder Random Stamping

New Photopolymer Stamps for Travel Projects

Amazing New Downloads Today for My Digital Studio!

New Single Stampin’ Up! Holiday Stamps

To purchase any or all of these holiday single stamps, just go to my

Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE.

Projects on Display at the Stampin’ Up! Convention

More Stampin’ Up! Convention Display Board Samples

Stampin’ Up! My Digital Studio New Downloads!

My Digital Studio Newest Downloads for June 18th!

View the PDF with all the details!

My Digital Studio Software or Free 30-Day Trial! You Choose!

Help a Charity with the Stampin’ Up! Stamp Set “Tag It”

Quotes and Sayings About Fathers for Father’s Day

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