MDS Friday: A Sketch Challenge!

Happy Friday!!!

I'm shocked that I have a page to share with you today! I've been beyond busy since we got back from the trip — Stamp Shoppe is open this weekend and my house needed some MAJOR TLC — I've been cleaning for days! But I got a chance to sit down and play for a little bit. I'm not ready to dig into "THE" trip album (lots of photo organizing to do still!) but thought I'd still play around with a page for today's challenge — who knows what I'll do with it, maybe frame it : )

Today's challenge was a sketch challenge!

Now head on over and see what the other girls came up with for the sketch!

MDS Friday!

Happy Friday!!!

I've been in over my head tying up every loose end possible as we get ready to leave for Stampin' Up!'s DISNEY WORLD Incentive Trip!!!! And before I was tying up loose ends, I was beyond busy getting ready for Landon's Mickey Birthday Party.

So, I didn't have a spare second to get to the fabulous sketch challenge today. But I don't want to leave you hanging, so here are a couple of pictures from Landon's Mickey Party that were all done in MDS!

Cupcake Toppers:

Water Bottle Wrappers:

M&M Toppers:

There's a LOT more, but there's just a little preview! I'm actually going to be Guest Blogging the Party on the Stampin' Up! My Digital Studio site in a couple weeks!

And here are the Mouseketeers:

Now for me to go finish tying up all of the loose work ends so I can start packing up for a week of enchantment! We're so excited!

Check out the other girls posts today!

MDS Friday: For Mom

Happy Friday!!!

It's MDS Blog Hop day, and today's challenge was "Mom"! This layout is VERY unoriginal… it came from the Sunset Serenade Designer Kit! I'm getting so far behind on my scrapbooking and just want my 2009 album DONE…. so am starting to use a lot of templates to save time and help me knock of the book.

That's one of the beauties of MDS…. you CAN design from scratch, but you don't have to!

Landon's Birthday is on Sunday and I've been hard at work creating a Mickey Birthday Party with My Digital Studio! So check back soon for more MDS projects with that

Now, check out the other Mother's Day Projects!

Easter Hop!

Happy Friday!!!

It's MDS Blog Hop day, and today's challenge was Easter!!! I'm still stuck on my 2009 album when Landon was born AFTER Easter, so rather than jumping ahead to another album (and risk getting side tracked on the way!) I thought I would share my Easter Subway Art displayed!

Subway Art is SO FUN to make in My Digital Studio — with all of the color selections and the ease of the software for formatting and editing, it's a breeze!

Back in this post I had talked about the year of Subway Art project, so this is one of those 13 inserts:

I've been enjoying it all bright and cheerful the last few weeks!

Now do the bunny hop on over to check out the other projects!

A Fun Color Combo!

Happy Friday!!!

Today's Blog Hop Challenge was a Color Combo Challenge! We were to use: Night of Navy, Pear Pizzazz, Melon Mambo, Basic Grey and Whisper White.

I have to admit…. I struggled with this one! I LOVED the colors together, but with a family of mostly boys, my girly colored photos are few and far between. Then I found these pictures and was so thankful my niece had worn bright pink at Christmas…! It worked perfect! I had always loved the Melon Mambo in the "FROSTY DAY II" Digital Paper — so was happy to be able to put it to use.

Here's what I came up with!

Check out what the other girls have come up with!

Catching Up on Scrapbooking!

Hi Everyone!

Well, since my last blog post where I was "coming down with something"….. I've gotten pneumonia and have been down and OUT. I'm on the upswing, except still can't do much but lay on the couch. It's royally obnoxious and I'm going stir crazy…. with the exception of catching up on some Scrapbooking in MDS!

Here is one of the spreads I've done in my couch potato state. I had a lot of fun with this one… it uses a lot of elements from one of the new downloads – "Epic Overlays".

Enjoy! There's more coming soon : )

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St. Patty’s Day Beer Tasting Projects!

Time for the last round of Saint Patty's Day projects for this year! The last thing that I created was a Beer Tasting ensemble with My Digital Studio. The first thing I made were Beer Tasting Score Cards:

Here's what they looked like on my screen — this was mostly text, but the stars were all a stamp brush image. The banner on the top was the same one that I had created out of punches for the invitation:

Then to make the tasting flights, I made labels in My Digital Studio and put them on clear cups:

To get them spaced right, I made a circle punch 1 3/8" in diameter and put the text and shamrock stamp brush image in the circle punch — I left the circle punch there as I created a sheet of them, then went through and deleted them so that they didn't print. I was then able to print the sheet off on a full sticker sheet and punch out all of the labels with the 1 3/8" circle punch. Here's what the sheet looked like before punching them all out:

The ensemble:

Here's my hubby enjoying his beer flight:

And the beers tasted : ) — Saranac's Irish Red Ale was the winner!