Category Archives: Scrapbooking

New My Digitial Studio Downloads

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Yesterday Stampin’ Up! released several new downloads for My Digital Studio.  It’s always fun to check on Tuesdays and see what they have come up with! Click HERE to see the PDF with all the details about these new downloads or click on each image to view them in my Online Store.

Hash It Out Greeting Card Digital Kit

Hash It Out Greeting Card Digital Kit

Summer Possibilities Digital Download

Summer Possibilities Digital Download

Label It Stamp Brush Set

Label It Stamp Brush Set

Venetian Romance Designer Series Paper

Venetian Romance Designer Series Paper

Don’t forget!  There is a download and printing sale going on with less than a week remaining! Check it out HERE!   Click one of the buttons below to share!

New Stampin’ Up! Catalog Day is Here!

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The NEW STAMPIN’ UP! ANNUAL CATALOG BEGINS TODAY AT NOON MT!!

Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog 2013-14

View the Catalog online (Flash)

View the Catalog PDF

View the Stampin’ Supplies

This is the day we’ve all been looking forward to!  Stampin’ Up! will be transitioning the website over to the new catalog until noon MT today You can also order any retiring items, as well as from the Spring Catalog, while supplies last!  People are calling it the “trifecta of ordering” because you can order from all three catalogs at once…the old, the new, and the Spring Catalog!  Have patience because there will be a LOT of people ordering and sometimes there are glitches when everything is new!

Stampin’ Up! New Catalog goes live at:

  • 11:00 am Pacific Time
  • Noon Mountain Time (Stampin’ Up! Home Office Time)
  • 1:00 pm Central Time
  • 2:00 pm Eastern TIme

I always like the see the time written in my own time zone so I don’t have to keep figuring it out!

And that’s not all!!!!

Grab-Your-Greetings sale

Three greeting stamp sets are on sale for 25% off starting today and going through June 30!  We always need another greeting set!  This is an easy add-on to your order!

Grab Your Greetings Chart

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The Bracket Stamp personalized name stamp with 5 lines (item 131138) will not be available in time for the May 31 catalog launch, but we anticipate that it will be available soon. However, the other versions of Bracket Stamp, with 1-4 lines, will be available to order once the catalog is live.

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Remember……Ordering begins today at Noon MT (Stampin’ Up! Time!)

Current Catalog          NEW CATALOG           Spring Catalog

The Spring Catalog will END tonight at 11:50 pm MT!!!!!!!!!!!

Just go to my Online Store after Noon MT today and you can start placing your order!  If you have any questions, please contact me at Karen@KarenStamps.com or call at 713-981-7662.

If you plan to shop for your Stampin’ Up! supplies with me and want a brand new catalog to hold in your hands (even though it is online!) please email me or call with your contact information and phone number.

Celebrate Memorial Day

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Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the United States to honor men and women who died while in the military. I remember when it originally was called Decoration Day.  At many national cemetaries there are ceremonies and volunteers who place small American flags on all the graves. Amidst all the sales at the mall that seem to take over our holidays and the unofficial beginning of summer as many people use this weekend for traveling and summer fun, we should all pause to remember the real meaning of this holiday.

If you have family members who served in the military, you might want to check out www.Ancestry.com which is giving free access to draft, enlistment and service records through May 27th. It is SO fascinating to look up these records.  You just have to sign up for a free account.  I just looked up my grandfather’s World War I registration card.  He was just my youngest son’s age. It’s amazing to read his physical description, address, and see his signature in his own handwriting.  These records might be something you can use in your scrapbooking.

Enjoy your day!

Make a Mother’s Day Card in My Digital Studio

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My Digital Studio by Stampin' Up! is always a fun place to go to make a card quickly. So if you need a Mother's Day card at the last minute, digital might be the way to go! You can even download the free 30-day trial of My Digital Studio, make your card, print it on your own computer or at a store, and have it in hand in minutes.  Better yet, purchase the full MDS version for only $19.95 and take advantage of ALL the content that comes with it!  I can't begin to tell you what a bargain that is!! Digital papercrafting is so big right now!

Even better, if your kids and husband don't know what to get you for Mother's Day, give them THIS LINK and let them order you the download for My Digital Studio. You'll have it instantaneously and after breakfast in bed you can play on the computer all day with MDS while they go to the park or a movie and give you peace and quiet!

This MDS Mother's Day card was made starting with a card template, already designed. It was a thank you card, so I deleted the words and found a Mother's Day greeting instead! Because I preferred the flower on the other side of the card, I moved it over. And since I preferred it to be another color, I used the coloring tool (so fun!) and colored the flowers Melon Mambo and the leaves Gumball Green.  That's all it took! I could have made it even simpler by only changing the "Thank You" to something for Mother's Day and left everything else as is.  And if I wanted to I could have started with a blank screen and created my own card because I actually had a page torn out of a magazine I planned to recreate….then I looked at the designer templates first…and here's the result!

Whatever you decide to do……my boys made it home for the weekend so I plan on lots of hugging on them and catching up on their busy lives…. I hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!!!

 

When Is Mother’s Day? Mother’s Day is Sunday!

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Pleasant Poppies Mother's Day Card

When is Mother's Day? Yes, Mother's Day is this Sunday, May 12th!

Here are some quotes about mothers that perhaps you can use in your cards or projects for your mother.

 A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love. – Anonymous

A man’s work is from sun to sun, but a mother’s work is never done. – Anonymous

A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go. – Anonymous 

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.- By Tenneva Jordan 

A mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. – By Emily Dickinson

A mother understands what a child does not say. – Jewish proverb

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. – By Abraham Lincoln

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. – By Jewish Proverb

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. – By Kate Douglas Wiggin

Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. Anonymous

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – By Theodore Hesburgh

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I hope you enjoyed these sayings about mothers and that they help you with your Mother's Day card or Mother's Day gift or project.

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My Mother's Day card is stamped with Pleasant Poppies (a large background stamp) in Stazon Black Ink. The flowers and stems are colored in with Calypso Coral and Tangerine Tango Stampin' Write Markers using an Aqua Painter and just the markers themselves. As a final touch I spritzed the card with Gold Glow Smooch Spritz.  I think you can see it in the photo.

 

Brides & Babies–Best of 25 Years!

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Best of 25 Years_May Brides and Babies

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In continuing to celebrate their 25th anniversary, Stampin' Up! has released this new collection of stamps for May 2013! One stamp in the set is a new image and the rest are favorites from the last 25 years! Although a new set is being released each month, they will all be available until March 31, 2014.

This is the season for brides and babies, so if you need to be making cards for new babies or weddings, you might want to invest in this set!

Just shop at my Online Store and check out this stamp set!

Best of Brides & Babies   #133482   Clear-mount



 

 

Using Epic Day This and That Designer Washi Tape

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My camera is broken at the moment so I thought I would just post some ideas I have seen or had for using the great new Epic Day This and That Designer Washi Tape. You can order this tape as a separate item #131269 from my Stampin' Up! store….but the better idea would be to purchase the entire Epic Day This and That Bundle before the end of April so you can get a 15% discount on the whole package.

Of course the obvious use for Washi Tape is to adhere, decoratively, your photos and memorabilia to your album or journal or whatever. But you can also use the tape itself as a decorative item. Here are a few ideas:

  • Wrap washi tape around a tea light base (use a battery-operated one).
  • Decorate plastic cups, straws, plasticware for a party with washi tape.
  • Wrap washi tape around a gift box or gift bag as decorative borders.
  • Use washi tape on a card or scrapbook page just placing it as lines of tape on the project, as borders or stripes or small banners.
  • Wrap washi tape around a glass jar as a decoration or even as a identifier of the contents.
  • Before making a rosette, place a long strip of washi tape on the strip of paper and you'll have a design on your rosette after you fold it!
  • Tape pieces of washi tape in long or short strips down or across a notebook cover to add color and design.
  • Adhere washi tape around a glass votive holder to decorate your candle.
  • Adhere washi tape on clip clothespins to decorate.  Add a magnet to the back.
  • Decorate a plain file folder with washi tape.

So there you have a FEW ideas to get started!

Get your Stampin' Up! Washi Tape here at my Online Store!

 

Playful Polka Dots Scrapbook Page

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Yesterday I mentioned you could get this My Digital Studio Playful Polka Dots Digital Kit from Stampin' Up! for FREE! Amazingly, I didn't already own it so I downloaded it and installed it on MDS and played with it! Here is an 8"x 8" scrapbook page I could use once I added some photos.  I had to add the black punches behind where the photo boxes would be because I don't think the photo boxes show up here by themselves.

I started with a custom project and chose the 8" x 8" size. Then I added four photo boxes and chose a background paper from the designer kit.  Next I looked through the embellishments in the Playful Polka Dots Kit and chose the polka dot trim and rotated one to go horizontally. The other two strips were also border embellishments. Next I chose the flowers and leaves and placed them where I wanted.

Working in My Digital Studio is very easy…perhaps you will need a little time to get used to it, but there's not really too big a learning curve!

You can still try MDS for 30 days for a FREE Trial, if you like.  However, with the price dropped drastically down to $19.95 I would just go ahead and purchase MDS and start working with ALL the artwork and content you get for that price.  Really, it is amazing!

Everything MDS can be found in my Stampin' Up! Online Store! Find My Digital Studio in the left sidebar and click on it to go to all that Stampin' Up! offers in MDS!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Free Shipping at Stampin’ Up! April 6-8, 2013

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Stampin' Up! Retiring Colors 2013

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Stampin' Up! announced a "Color Refresh" the other day, and I made this display above in My Digital Studio of all the retiring colors! As you can see, the discontinued Stampin' Up! colors are:

  • Regal Rose
  • Pretty in Pink
  • Bashful Blue
  • Certainly Celery
  • Baja Breeze
  • Riding Hood Red
  • Bravo Burgundy
  • Not Quite Navy
  • More Mustard
  • River Rock

Stampin' Up! is also having FREE SHIPPING starting NOW and going until Monday night at 11:50 MT.  I'm guessing that a lot of people will be wanting to stock up on these retiring colors….but not just the card stock and ink…..think about refills for each one, ribbon, buttons, markers, designer paper…whatever has these colors in it!

Of course the FREE SHIPPING is on EVERYTHING Stampin' Up! sells….so take advantage of it! It's rare that Stampin' Up! offers free shipping!  Check the annual catalog, the Spring catalog, all the specials….the clear stamps, the Dude You're Welcome Kit, the new preview stamp set A Round Array, the new Petite Curly Label Punch,…especially the new This and That line in the bundle at a 15% discount!

Also, remember Watercolor Crayons are being discontinued, due to problems with the supplier, so the Neutrals, Subtles, and Regals are available while supplies last! Watercolor Pencils are no longer available either.

Once you are ready to order, go to my Online Store here!  Sign in or Create an Account. You can see all the New Arrivals, Specials, Clearance Rack…all on the left sidebar.

If you prefer, you can email your order to me although you will have to give me your payment information.  Email me at Karen@KarenStamps.com.

"Like Me" on Facebook or check back here on my blog and I'll try to keep you up-to-date if anything sells out or if there is any new information!

Let me know if you have any problems or questions!  The retiring colors are only available while supplies last!

Check my blog post here for more information, if you want.

Just be sure to go directly to my Online Store here…don't start at Stampinup.com…especially if you have a large order so you get the best prices, etc.

Have fun shopping!!

New Product Line from Stampin’ Up!….This and That….for Quick and Easy Scrapbooking!

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This and That

Stampin’ Up! is introducing a new product line called This and That!! It will be in the next new Stampin’ Up! catalog, but we are ALL getting a sneak peek NOW and opportunity to purchase it at a 15% discount!

It’s the latest craze in scrapbooking….just write in the journal, just stick in your mementos, no designing perfect scrapbook pages…..just get it in there! Use the washi tape ( the hottest item these days!), use the clips, cut up the paper…write, stamp, stick…whatever you want! Just get it in there so you have something.  It can be the everyday, the mundane, the usual daily stuff…or it can be the special occasion,the extraordinary, a gift, a remembrance.

This and That Photos

Click any of the photos above to see more about the new product line, This and That, from Stampin’ Up! Or click HERE to go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store and place your order for any or ALL of these products! Surely you want them ALL in the BUNDLE for the 15% discount!  Order extras for gifts for your friends or those young people in your life! These kind of journals are “all the go now” as my grandmother used to say!

These products (and more in this line!) will be available in the new catalog; however, the 15% bundle discount is only good from now until April 30.  Don’t miss out! Just get it all…..and some extras!

 

My Digital Studio….Learn and Work with the Modern Lingo!

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If you've ever wondered what some of these terms mean, like FTW or BRB, that teenagers and young adults (and maybe older adults, too!) use all the time, here's a great new digital download for My Digital Studio that you can use in your digital paperscrafting….or use to "learn" the terms! It's the FTW Stamp Brush Set #133500 for only $5.95.  Use it on modern scrapbook pages or cards for those people who are so "with it" using these new terms!

If you would like a kit for teenagers, the Seriously Teen Kit looks like a winner for documenting teen life….whether you're the young person or whether you're the one making something for them.  Of course, with all templates in My Digital Studio, you can change anything you like, so I think this kit looks great to use whether for teenagers or not!

And the Made to Be Awesome download is great for anyone who needs a reminder about how awesome they are…or for ourselves! That never hurts!

Click the image above to see these great downloads available today!

Then go to my Stampin' Up! Online Store here and click "Newest Downloads" to find all the latest downloads for My Digital Studio and choose your favorites!  You can add these downloads to any regular order of other merchandise and you can earn Sale-a-Bration rewards on digital purchases, too!  For every $50 you spend, you get one free Sale-A-Bration product (only until March 22!).

Celebrate Easter with My Digital Studio

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Let the Stampin' Up! digital papercrafting download for My Digital Studio help you make your Easter celebration a little easier!

This download, Celebrate Easter Ensemble, includes:

* 5-page décor designer template (8-1/2" x 11")
* Double-sided postcard template (5" x 3-1/2")
* 14-piece SVG stamp brush set 
* 7 Designer Series Papers 
* 8 embellishments

Get these downloads printed and make your own egg holders, napkin rings, mini baskets, cupcake holders, name cards, table tents, invitations and whatever your Easter imagination comes up with! 

Colors: 
Calypso Coral, Crushed Curry, Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo, Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Taken with Teal, Whisper White

Click here to purchase this download or to look at each element more closely. AND view the other downloads for this week!

Click on the download to bring up the single download.  Right below you will see "More Images".  Click on those words, which brings up a closer view.  Then click on each image and finally the word "next" to see even more in that download.

If you don't own My Digital Studio already, take the 30-day FREE Trial of My Digital Studio! Buy the Celebrate Easter download, if you like, play around with it, print your projects, and get the full My Digital Studio experience!  No obligation! My Digital Studio is pretty intuitive, even for the beginner, but if you need more resources, I can help!

Go to my store now to check out My Digital Studio and all the downloads!

My Digital Studio Downloads…Parent Memories and More Organizing

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One of the new downloads this week for Stampin’ Up!’s digital software program, My Digital Studio, could turn out to be one of the most important ones you could buy and use. This one I am talking about is called “Think Back Photobook Templates“. Once printed it would be an album of questions for whomever you choose. It’s designed for your parents and grandparents to write about their lives. They write their answers in the book, maybe post some photos. A couple of questions in the book are: “What song defines your childhood?” and “What personality traits did you inherit from your mother?”

Think Back Photobook MDS

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As with any My Digital Studio templates, you could print this book exactly as is or you can change colors, change names, change questions, add questions, add photos, change embellishments, change design, etc. etc. So you can design this book in whatever manner you want.  You can make it for yourself.

If you still have your parents and loved ones, you take it for granted that you know all about them and will remember all the stories you have heard over and over again in your life. But sometimes that isn’t the case, or your mind just goes blank because you no longer have someone to ask to verify a certain story or fact. If you can get their stories in writing, I guarantee you it will be a treasure to you like no other.

You can even purchase this download for My Digital Studio without owning My Digital Studio and use it in another program. You can even print it yourself or at a retail location.  But if you want the very best, I suggest doing the FREE 30-Day Trial of My Digital Studio and trying it out.  Get the photobook printed by Stampin’ Up!’s own printer and make sure the colors are accurate and the book well done.

If you no longer have your parents and grandparents, then do this for your own children and family. If not now, someday they WILL treasure what you wrote and what you told them.

Click here to see all the newest downloads for this week!  There are more for organizing your home, too!  Stampin’ Up! will have us all ship-shape pretty soon!

Best of Love…Best of 25 Years February Stamp Set!

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Best of 25 Years February Best of Love
For Stampin' Up!'s 25th anniversary, they are bringing back some great stamps from the last 25 years, one set per month, during 2013. Each set also includes one brand new image! For February, of course, the theme is "Love"! Purchase the stamp set you see above, "Best of Love" #132987 at my Online Store anytime!

I remember that beautiful heart and certainly the "olive, you!" I can't believe I didn't own that stamp, being the olive-lover I have always been!
You can use these stamps for Valentine's Day, weddings, anniversaries, even just cards for friends and family….and certainly for scrapbook pages and gifts!

While Stampin' Up! is releasing just one Best of stamp set per month, all of the Best of sets will be available until March 31, 2014. (But you don't want to wait THAT long!!)

As a special incentive to collect the Best of stamps, included will be a collector's card and 25-year proof of purchase sticker with every Best of set. Collect six stickers, and send it in to redeem a FREE set of your choice valued up to $14.95! Free sets must be redeemed no later than April 30, 2014.

Download your free collector's card HERE.

Superbowl XLVII My Digital Studio Football Scrapbook Page

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It's here!  The big day for football, Super Bowl XLVII! Whether you're going to a Super Bowl party, having a Super Bowl party, or just have your own football pictures you'd like to scrapbook, here's an easy idea for a football scrapbook page layout and design! This page was made quickly in Stampin' Up!'s digital software program called My Digital Studio! I just chose a template that was already made up, deleted a few words, added my own football terms and footballs, and it's ready to go! If I had my own football players in the family I could put their photos in the photo boxes from my computer.  If I wanted to add photos of friends at a Super Bowl party, it's easy to do that.  If I wanted to make a page the traditional way, I can plan it on My Digital Studio first, then make it with ink, paper, and stamps. If I wanted to print out this page minus the pennants, I could do that, then cut my own pennants from designer paper and adhere them to the page.  Lots of choices with My Digital Studio!

While you're waiting for the game to start, why not download a free 30-day trial version of My Digital Studio?! Play around with it and see how you like it!

Enjoy the game!! (or maybe just the commercials and half-time!)