Stamping With Juanita

MDS - Putting a photo into a punch

Someone on Sudsol asked if you could put a photo into a punch in My Digital Studio and how to do. I decided to find out if it could be done. Normally, the answer would be no. But I found out that it can be done with a work-around solution. You can also fix it so that you can add Textured Card Stock to your punches.

Open Windows Explorer. Find My Digital Studio in Program Files and expand the folder. Go to the Backgrounds folder and expand it out. You will see Card Stock and Designer Series Paper there. In the Designer Series Paper folder, make a new folder named Photos. This is where you will place any photos that you want to use in punches for your pages.

When you expand the Card Stock folder, you will see Textured Card Stock. You can copy this folder and paste the copy in the Designer Series folder, like I have below. This makes the Textured Card Stock available for your punches, also. The disadvantage to this is that this folder is 312 MB.

 

Now if you don't have the room on your computer to have two copies of this folder, you can delete the one in the Card Stock folder. That just means to use the Textured Card Stock, you would have to look under Designer Series Paper in the Design Center of My Digital Studio rather than under Card Stock.

 

I am so glad someone asked the question and got me thinking about how to use a photo in a punch so that it got me thinking how to do it. You can see from the page above how I used them on it. The Curly Label Punch makes such a great frame, too. 

Now I can't wait to see what else I can do with punches and photos together. Give it a try yourself and see how much fun it is. You don't even have to worry about messing up your photos if it doesn't work out the way you thought it would, either, lol. Leave a comment if you have a question.

Watercolor Wonder Crayons

This is a video showing you how to use the Watercolor Wonder Crayons from Stampin' Up!

To order your Watercolor Wonder Crayons, just follow these simple instructions:

1. Click here
2. Click the ‘Shop Now’ button in the upper-right hand corner
3. Enter the numbers below in the ‘Search the Store’ box and click OK

• 106695 - Bold Brights Watercolor Wonder Crayons
• 106696 - Earth Elements Watercolor Wonder Crayons
• 106698 - Rich Regals Watercolor Wonder Crayons
• 106697 - Soft Subtles Watercolor Wonder Crayons
• 106746 - Neutrals Watercolor Wonder Crayons

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Stampin' Up!'s New Punches

Stampin' Up! did a great video on how to use the new punches that are available in the Occasions Mini and the Sale-A-Brations Mini. You should watch it and see how fun they are to use.

You can purchase the Scallop Trim Corner punch or the Pinking Hearts Border and Corner Punches HERE. Just click on the Shop Now button on my Demo site. You can get the Scallop Trim Border Punch FREE for Sale-A-Bration by placing a $50 order with me.

Making a plaid background in MDS

When I started my photo album in "My Digital Studio", I chose the page layouts with the Sunny Days Designer Kit. But I needed to add some pages to my album since there weren't enough pre-designed pages to make the 22 page minimum for an album. So I created some of my own designs. This is one of them.

For the background, there was a paper with a diagonal slant to it, but it didn't look quite right. So I added another layer of the same paper, rotated it 90 degrees and lowered the opacity to 50%. Very quick and easy way to make a plaid from stripes. I also added some stamping over the photos to give it a different look so that it wasn't so plain.

The nice thing about doing this on a digital page is that if you decide that you don't like it, you can remove it. With paper scrapbooking, you can't. I'm not saying that this will totally replace my paper scrapbooking. But I can sure do things here that I probably wouldn't do with the paper one. I know I will have both paper and digital scrapbooks. They each have their advantages and I love doing both.

Another nice thing about My Digital Studio is that you can individual pages printed out to add to an existing scrapbook or you can have a whole album printed up. There's a choice of three different types of covers, too: the photo cover, the linen cover or the leather-bound cover. For my album, I've chosen the photo cover. Once I get it ordered and get it back, I will post a photo of the finished album.

Be sure to check back tomorrow to see the cute card I made for one of my granddaughters for her birthday. Just a hint. It's done with punches.

Embossing with MDS

This is a page I did for my first photo album in My Digital Studio. You will notice that I have some embossing at the top of the page. I am going to show you how to get the embossing effect in My Digital Studio. It takes a little work but is well worth the effort.

The first step is to place your stamp where you want it and then resize it to the size you want it. Make this layer white. While it's highlighted (like above) hit Ctrl+C to copy. Then hit Ctrl+Shift+V to paste in place. Hit the down arrow key twice and hit the right arrow key twice.

Because my background is a light blue, I made the shadow a darker blue, in this case Tempting Turquoise. Now you can see how the two layers are in slightly different place and it looks like a white shadow on the blue stamp. Now hit Ctrl+Shift+V again. Your stamp will now be pasted in the original spot again. On this layer, match your color to the background layer. Move this layer down one and right one space.

And, waalaa! You have your embossed image on a digital page.

My Digital Studio will be available for customer purchase on October 1. But I will be posting more samples between now and then. So be sure to check back to see what else I've learned about the possibilities of this program.

Window Sheets

Here's a video that shows how to use the Stampin' Up! Window Sheets.

To purchase these Window Sheets, go to my Online Demo Site and click on the Shop Now button.

Stampin' Up!'s Pop-up Cake die

As promised, here's the video for the Pop-up Cake Die. There are so many cute projects that can be done with this die and they aren't just making cakes. I've seen projects made where it was used to make a boat, a flower pot and even a sand castle. Watch the video to see how to use this die.

If you didn't see the Pop-up Ball video, it's below. If you would like to purchase either of these dies or the Big Shot, you can get them by going HERE and then click on the Shop Now button

Decor Elements Video

Here's another great video from Stampin' Up! that shows different ways to use Decor Elements and how to apply them. I hope you enjoy it.

A Video using Stampin' Up!'s Decor Stencils

Stampin' Up! has started making some videos available for us to use on our blogs. I really love this video showing how to use the Decor Stencils. It really gave me some great ideas. I hope it does the same for you.

You can order the Decor Stencils on my Demo Site. Just click on the Shop Now button at the top. Why not check them out?

Scallop Border Video

Well, it took longer than I thought it would trying to figure out how to put a video into my post. But I finally got it worked out. Here is the tutorial that I promised showing how to put a scalloped border on the heart. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of it.