Stamping With Juanita

Color Lab Color Challenge #3

Here are the colors and inspiration for this week's color challenge. The colors for this week's challenge are Pumpkin Pie, Night of Navy, Not Quite Navy, Baja Blue and Crumb Cake.

For this week's challenge, I chose to do a scrapbook page. It's been a little while since I've done a page and I still have so many to do. These colors worked great for my son's third birthday party and they look great together. I used My Digital Studio to make this page since I haven't had a lot of time to sit down and create the last few days. 

On this page, I lined up several of the Tag Punches along the side to give it a different type of edge. There are so many different ways that the punches can be used in this program.

You can find other samples on the Color Lab Blog. You can also leave a link to your creation there. We'd love to have you join us for this challenge.

MOJO 148

I needed a masculine birthday card and this sketch worked great for what I wanted to do. I used the Circle Scissor Plus for the different circles. I love being able to make many different size circles to layer together, like I did here.  The stamp sets are Lovely As a Tree and Teeny Tiny Wishes. I used Marina Mist, Old Olive, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake and Whisper White cardstock for this card, along with some Old Olive Grosgrain Ribbon.

I love being able to add texture to my cards and projects so easily with the Big Shot. It helps add so much to a card that may have otherwise been rather plain. On this card, I used the Square Lattice and Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folders.

You can purchase the Big Shot and embossing folders from my Demo Site. These are a great addition to you creative tools for your cards, scrapbook pages and projects.

MDS Update and New Downloads

Stampin' Up! has released the new Free Downloads for My Digital Studio so that you can add the New Colors and New In Colors of card stock and DSP. You can find these updates HERE. Be sure to run the update from the Help menu, too, to get the latest program fixes. I've noticed that MDS loads up faster with this latest fix. I really like that.

I just had to play with some of the new papers and colors for this page. Plus I decided to try my hand at some more digital punch art while I was at it.

Along with these updates, Stampin' Up! has also released some New Downloads.

Item	Description	Price
119839	Always Elegant Digital Kit	$9.95
121431	Wedding Sweet stamp brush set	$3.95
121432	Paper Daisies Kit	$3.95
121433	Elegant Soireé Designer Series Paper	$4.95

Check out all the most recent MDS releases on my Demo Site. These are great additions to My Digital Studio and will expand your creativity.

Thursday's Color Challenge #19

Here are this week's colors for the Color Challenge. I decided to go with a more patriotic look this week since it's almost July 4th.

Since I've been so busy making the new elements to update my blog, I haven't had much time to stamp this week. So I made my card in My Digital Studio. I also used this week's Mojo Monday sketch to design me card. I used the July Fourth stamp set that was recently released.

I would love to see what you make using these colors. Be sure to post your link below.

Cute Baby Card

For this card, I used a sketch from Sudsol's Chat & Challenge. I made this card with My Digital Studio. But for the boat, I opened up the stamp in my graphics program, filled the sails with DSP and colored the boat. Then I saved it as a different PNG file and put it in the embellishments folder to use as an embellishment any time.

I decided to make a baby card for a change, since I tend to do a lot of Thinking of You or Thank You cards. I'm trying to get away from my usual ideas and broaden my horizons here. With MDS, I have a lot more saying stamps than I have in real stamps. So that helps a lot with my plan to do a wider variety of sayings now.

Check out all my other posts that are done with My Digital Studio to get an idea of the many different things you can do with the program. You can find them all real easy by clicking on the My Digital Studio category on the left. Hope you find some ideas there, too.

Thursday's Color Challenge #15

Here are the colors for this week's Challenge.

I decided that since it's getting close to Father's Day and these colors would work perfectly for a masculine card I would make a Father's Day card. Here's my sample. I made this card with My Digital Studio. All of the solid colors are Textured CS and the stamp set is Holiday Blitz. Then, as you can see, I added some Stitching. To get such a small piece of stitching, I had to make use of some square punches, re-shaped and re-sized, to cover up the excess stitching.

Now let's see what you can do with these same colors, whether it's a scrapbook page, a card or a 3-D project. Be sure to post you link below so we can all see your creation.

MDS Smiley Page

As I was looking at this page and getting it ready to post it here, I realized that since it said "Smiley" I should put a smiley face on it. This is another page made with My Digital Studio. The smiley face is made with Circle Punches, Square Punches and Brads. The square punches were used on the sides of the mouth.

My Digital Studio is so much fun to work with or play with. It's so easy to try different layouts or colors when you are trying to decide how you want your page to look. And there are new downloads for it made available each month from Stampin' Up!. I love the fact that when the new catalog and new colors come out in July, I will still have my favorite retiring colors available in My Digital Studio.

Check out my offer for My Digital Studio HERE. I have a gift for anyone who purchases MDS from me and you will see what it is in my offer.

Soul Scrappers Technique Challenge - Using Frames

These pages were made using frames. I used Frames With a Flourish to make the background, page borders and on the title blocks. I also used the Pinking Hearts punches to make a frame around the white area.  I hadn't really used this stamp set much, so this challenge gave me a chance to use it. But I only have it in My Digital Studio. I love the fact that I can change the size of the stamps in MDS as you can see from the background on the pages.

I love challenges to help give me ideas and get my MOJO back. Do you need a challenge to help get your MOJO back? Sign up for my Monthly Newsletter and get a new Card Challenge each month. The winner of each month's contest receives five hand-stamped cards from me.

New Geometric Lines DSP Download

 

I've had very little time for creating or sharing during the last couple of weeks. Between getting things ready for a friend's funeral and laying tile in our basement after some flooding, there has been very little time to create. But I did manage to get this page done for Soul Scrappers Sketch Challenge this last week.

This page is made with My Digital Studio and I used the NEW Geometric Lines DSP that Stampin' Up! just released this week. These papers really lend to the masculine look of this page. I am so excited to have more masculine designs in our papers since I should be doing more of that type of page for my boys.

Check out the NEW My Digital Studio Downloads now. You can find them in my Online Store and you can order 24/7. When you order the downloads, they are available to download immediately.

Thursday Color Challenge #11

It's time for another Color Challenge. So here are the colors for this week's challenge.

Now for the card that I made using these colors.

 

For this card, I tried to do something a little more masculine since it's one that I made for one of my sons for his birthday. First I ran the Gable Green card stock through the Big Shot with the Top Notes die. Then I stamped the tree from Thoughts and Prayers with Garden Green onto it. I decided that I wanted to do something a little different, so I ran it through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. I really love the way it looks that way.

The Ballet Blue card stock was run through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions folder. I really love using the textured Impressions folders on my projects. It really adds a lot to the project.

The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations and is stamped with Garden Green ink, then punched out with the Large Oval Punch. I used Barely Banana card stock, punched with the Scallop Oval Punch for the tag background.

Now it's time to see what you make with this color combination. Please share the link to your creation below so that we can all see it.