Stamping With Juanita

Sudsol C&C 223

I was not able to actually participate in Sudsol's Chat & Challenge the other day. But I still wanted to do a card from the sketch. Like many of my latest samples, this card was done with My Digital Studio. I used Sunny Day Designer Kit for the papers and the elements, along with some Grosgrain Ribbon Knots and some Round Buttons. I like to use the knots and shrink them down to make them look like string tied on the buttons.

Be sure to check out my albums for other samples of what I've made with My Digital Studio.

Albums for my kids 2

I am sharing some more of the pages from the albums that I made for my kids for Christmas that I made with My Digital Studio.

My kids knew who their grandparents were, but their kids don't really understand the relationship of their great-grandparents. So now when they are shown these pages, they will know that these are grandma and grandpa's parents. I know I am more of a visual person and I'm sure my grandkids are, too.

Again, I took my 8-1/2x11 paper pages that I had scanned and used them as the focal point in the 12x12 digital pages.  It was so easy to put a photo block on the page and size it to the right size and add the photo of the page that I wanted, then add the embellishments to the sides.

Don't get me wrong. I still love to do scrapbooking with paper, too. But a few years ago, I made calendars for each of my kids, using Stampin' Up!'s blank calendars. I did the scrapbook page part of the calendars with photos of the family through several years and I did seven of them. It was very time consuming. The hardest part, I think, was when they got thrown away because of the work that I had put into them. I did save the pages on the one that I gave my husband and I'm sure those pages will be incorporated into these scrapbooks. 

In fact, I will be having more Scrapbooking Classes in the coming year. I'm hoping to have them on my Event Calendar soon. So be sure to check out my Event Calendar soon to see when those classes will be.

Sudsol CASE Challenge #14

It's been a while since I did a CASE Challenge on Sudsol, so when I saw the challenge come in this morning, I decided to give it a try. This is what I came up with.

 

I've decided that I need a larger variety in the type of cards that I make, too. I very seldom seem to do anniversary cards and since I have several anniversaries that I need to send them out for, I need to make more of them.

Most of my projects, lately have been made with My Digital Studio. That's because I love using the program. It is so quick and easy to put a project together, just like the pages I did for my kids for Christmas. It would have taken so much longer to do them with paper, especially since I would have had to make copies of each of the pages that were duplicated in each album. AND I don't have to worry about wasting paper or embellishments.

Also, with my Christmas cards, I designed several different cards and then I could just print off whichever ones that I wanted in whatever quantity that I wanted. And since I was very short on time this year for Christmas, I did not have time to hand-make each card for friends and family.

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Albums for my kids

Well, I told you the other day that I would share some of the pages that I put in my kid's albums that I made for them. So here is the first page. I put these albums together with My Digital Studio.

This page consists of two digital pages that I had done several years ago with some photos that my Mom had gotten from a distant relative. The fist one is my great-great grandparents and their family. The next one is my grandfather's family. In the bottom photo on the right, he is the baby on his mother's knee. The top photo is his father and all of the children. I really love doing genealogy and this is a way to be able to show my children some of their ancestors.

I only had photos of one set of my husband's grandparents and I had photos of both sets of my grandparents. I had put these pages together several years ago when I had been asked to show how genealogy could be worked into your scrapbooking.

As you can see, there is an 8-1/2x11 page in the center of the 12x12 page. When I had started scrapbooking several years ago, that was the size that I used. To make these scrapbooks for my kids, I had scanned my original pages and used them as a photo on the 12x12 page. Then all I had to do was create a background around them.

It was really funny, though, because a few days before Christmas, my daughter was telling me how when my Mom called to wish her daughter a happy birthday, she ended up getting into a discussion with her girls about grandparents, great-grandparents and trying to explain who they were and how they were related. My daughter said that she was going to have to put together a scrapbook so her girls could see the relationships. I had to really bite my tongue since I was already putting one together for them. When I talked to my daughter after they opened presents, she said that the album was the best present ever. All of my kids who received them this year asked me if I'm going to add to them each year. I had hoped they would want me to and it looks like they do. It is definitely a lot easier to take a page that's already done and convert it to a bigger page than to have to start from scratch.

Be sure to check back this next week for some more pages from the albums.

Sudsol Sketch Challenge #6

For this challenge I wanted to try something very different. I took one of the stamps from Wishes and Greetings and opened it in my graphics program. I colored the stamp, gave it a bevel and then made a background for it since it was just the outline. As you can see, I gave the greeting a different color than the ornament details. Then I saved it as a png file and copied it to the Embellishments folder for My Digital Studio. It does have to be in the Embellishment folder to be able to use it in My Digital Studio. But this means I can use my stamps to make other embellishments, too.

As you can see, I made another Christmas card. By making several Christmas cards, I had a good variety to choose from for sending to family and friends. Now it's time to start working on other occasions, too, since Christmas is only two days away.

I hope you have a Very Merry Christmas this year. And like I said yesterday, I will start posting some of my scrapbook pages that I made for my kids after Christmas.

Sudsol Sketch Challenge #5

Between getting packages ready to mail to my kids and then my computer crashing, I am so far behind on my posting. Anyway, this is the card that I did for the Sudsol Sketch Challenge #5 and yes, I used My Digital Studio to make it. For a while, I was able to get several challenges done each week. Lately, I haven't had time to get any challenges done.

But with the help of My Digital Studio, I started putting some scrapbooks together for my older children. They tend to use the 12x12 size and most of my earlier pages with the pictures of them when they were little are the 8-1/2x11. So I added those to my page in MDS as an 8-1/2x11 photo and then did a background and embellishments around them. And since I was doing some duplicate pages from one album to another, I was able to import from one project into another so that I didn't have to redo those pages. If I can get my kids to take photos of their pages since I lost them when my computer crashed Sunday, I will post some of them here. This is a great way to make copies of pages that you've already made and give as a gift to someone else.

If you'd like to know more about My Digital Studio, feel free to Contact Me. I will be more than happy to help you in any way that I can to learn more about this great software.

Christmas Cards from Card Class 2

Here's another card we made at our last Card Class. This one gave us a chance to use the Square Scallop Die. I really love the Stampin' Up! Finial Press Impressions Embossing Folder. As you can see from yesterday's entry, I used this embossing folder on two different cards.

Here's the last card from our class. The cards were stamped with White Craft Ink and then embossed with Iridescent Ice EP. Then I stamped the snowflakes with White Craft ink. The sparkle on the starts doesn't show up in the photo, but I stamped some Real Red CS with VersaMark Ink and then used a combination of Clear EP mixed with some of the red Fine Cosmo Glitter to emboss it. After embossing the CS, then I punched out the stars.

For more Christmas Card ideas, be sure to check out my Card Album or my MDS Card Album.

Christmas Cards from Card Class

This is one of the cards we made at our last Card Class. I guess you could call this a hybrid card because the greeting and decorative strip are printed out from My Digital Studio. I wanted to give my customers a chance to see how traditional stamping and digital can be combined.

Here is another card from our class. I really love the Eyelet Border Punch and look for any reason to use it, as you can see from both cards. I had also just gotten the Lattice Big Shot Die and was looking for a way to use it, too. So this is what I came up with. On the Poinsettia, we added some sparkle with some Dazzling Diamond Glitter, though it doesn't show up in the photo.

Be sure to check back tomorrow to see the other two cards that were made for the Card Class.

Sudsol Sketch Challenge #4

 Here's another card I made for Sudsol's Sketch Challenge. This one was for Challenge #4. As you can see, this is another creation made with My Digital Studio. I love the way the stamps can be stretched and resized. That's how I made the shadow effect on this card. This was a very easy card to make. With all of the cards that I've been creating with My Digital Studio, I'll be prepared for just about any occasion.

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