step-mother's journal

One thing I did this year was purchase journals for a few of my family members. It is one of the newer items that Stampin' Up! creates for you with it's MDS print service. This was one of them. Each one I made had a different look and color scheme to it. My other one I made was more relaxed and traditional and my daughter's was more funky like. This one is busier, but I still like it. I'm showing you the front and back. The spine had printing on it too (had the name on it, which I think is cool). You just create it in the digital program and then upload it to the printers and you get back a journal. Fairly easy to do.

We had a get together a few months ago and we got her family and our family together and we took pictures of each family and all the grandkids. I thought what a fun way to showcase some pictures for her. Now every time she writes in her journal, she can see pictures of her grandkids and her family. What fun!

Christmas card - mds

This was the front of our Christmas card that we got a few samples made. I wasn't exactly sure how they would turn out, so I only got a few to begin with. They turned out really cool though. You can print on both sides, which was one thing I thought turned out really neat and we had not gotten before. It had thicker paper and the print quality was really good. We got some others made to to compare to and there was quite a bit of difference, both with the picture quality and paper thickness.
This was one of the new size cards. There are several options on the MDS program and you can chose which direction you'd like and I chose this one. Since I wasn't sure how the printing on the back would come out I had a little more blank space then I needed to have, but it's okay. I know now and hope to make some fun ones for future use.

I chose some of our more fun pictures for the back. It was so hard to get pictures of our kids this year. I think we took about 20 just to get the 3 on the front. They kept making faces or laughing or poking on each other. If you have a sibling, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.
So anyways, I wanted to share my card with you guys.
I hope you have a great day and an awesome Merry Christmas.

calendar page - boyscouts

I made some calendars for some Christmas presents this year. This is one of the pages.
This was November's page. I chose my son for November because that's his birthday month. This year he started boy scouts and is really enjoying it, so I picked boy scout pictures for this page.

The calendar page, I included a picture on too. I like how you can coordinate the two and put them together and how you can put pictures on the calendar part too. I've been trying to keep the calendar pages simple. This is one of the busier pages, but still pretty basic in design.

If you haven't checked out My Digital Studio you should. It's pretty easy to manipulate and move around in. The projects come out really pretty too and makes a great keepsake item. You can also make them into DVD/CDs to give to people. Lots of choices on how to finish your project.

my digital studio calendar june

A couple of neat things about My Digital Studio software is that you can make custom backgrounds and you can also decorate the grid section of your calendar. This was my June section of my Calendar. The first picture is the top part and the grid is the bottom. The background in the top is a picture which mainly included water. The background of the bottom one is also a picture but I changed the opacity so you could see through it. Isn't that cool? It allows for more picture usage. So much fun. I'll have more ideas to show you later, but I thought I'd share these ideas with you today.


Also, there are new downloads available for you to purchase. You can go to my store and click on Digital crafting and then downloads to see what's new. There are new calendar ones too that aid in making your calendars if you are interested, as well as Christmas papers, Halloween papers, and several stamp sets. So you should go check it out (http://detailmama.stampinup.net ).

Have a great day today :)

more my digital studio

Here are a few more scrap pages. Some of the nice features are you can change the colors of pretty much everything. You can add shadow effects so items look 3d like I did with my words on the stamps on the top page. You can also change the colors and sizes of the punches too. As in the wide oval on the bottom page.
I can't remember if I said this before, but there are some stamp sets in the studio that aren't in the catalog. One of them is a cute cats stamp set. In that set is a mouse and on every page in my book I hid a mouse. In these two pages he's easy to find, but others are very difficult because I color matched them. So I hope you enjoy the pages and get some ideas for some of your own pages. Have a great day today.

another mds

Here is another page I did with My Digital Studio. I added some stamps from the All in the family set. I just used a basic design since I wanted to show off the pictures and the special bond between father and son.
It was so quick and easy to do.
I hope you enjoy the page. Sorry, I've been a slacker. It's been crazy this week. One thing after another. Hopefully I'll be back on track more next week. I'll try to sneak in some more time to spend on here soon. Thanks for being patient.

my digital studio

I'm so enjoying My Digital Studio. I've already created some cards, a book, scrap pages, a flyer and I'm working on a calendar. It's been really fun to play around with. It's easy to work with too.
I put together a couple of pages of our trip to Salt Lake city this summer. This is some fun we had in our free time.

These two pages are in my book. I tried to put on each of my double layouts at least one rhyming thing and then I hid a mouse on each page. There is a stamp set in the digital studio that you can't buy and it includes cats and it has a mouse in it. My kids like the story Good Night Moon, so I did something similar and put a mouse on each page. The fun thing was that you can color match stamp sets, so sometimes I made the mouse really hard to find. Hey, I couldn't make them all easy. Gave them something to look forward too. :)

Also, didn't this paper match her shirt so well? I couldn't resist using it. Besides Designer papers and cardstock you can also use your own pictures as background.


Sorry I haven't posted as much lately. I'm having 5 events this month which is a lot for me especially when you add on work and all the kid's stuff too. It's no excuse, but it does take time away from my creative side some. Anyways, I hope you enjoy seeing a couple of my sample pages.
Hope you have a great day.