MDS Update.

New update for MDS. You can now do journals. That is so exciting.

AS well as.............. a PERMANENT price drop in printing services, from 15- 60% off original prices. How cool is that?

See the price flyer HERE

A Handmade Holiday.... with saving's of 20%.
From October 19 until December 16, you can save 20% on the bundles below. These are fantastic products to work with. See full flyer HERE
Now is the perfect time to book a party and do something that you love.

So today being terribly rainy I have decided to play hooky for awhile from what should get done to play with my new download.

Since I have not purchased this set yet, it is kind of fun to play with.

I love MDS. I can use it to see what a card will look like before I use supplies to make it. I am a terrible hoarder and hate to use anything. I need to save it all for later. LOL

I hate to say it but I am excited for Christmas this year. For the first time since my Mom passed away. I guess I am slowly getting to my new normal. My friends would say I have never been normal. (Actually I asked my DH if I could put up the tree, he said no) He's a meaney.

Stampin' Up! has a new website just for MDS.

MDS stands for My Digital Studio and it is a program for your computer that allows you make cards, scrapbook and make other digital projects. It is user friendly, compatible with PC and Mac. What I love about it is it comes loaded with beautiful SU! artwork, colours and accessories.

You can print your pages at home or use our print service. (it is a guaranteed colour match and very reasonable prices and shipping) Look for a great announcement on the 19 th of October :)

Item number 118108 and the cost is 106.95.

Stampin'Up! also has a great new website for Demo's and Customer's http://mydigitalstudio.net/

Find it on page 181 of the Idea Book and Catalogue.

With new down loads every month and Stampin'Ups exclusive art you can't go wrong.

These are 2 pages that I did with MDS. I had them printed using our print services... (way cheaper than other big box stores printing.) Plus UPS brought them right to my door. Very easy!

I seem to always have Christmas on my mind these day's. My kids are already starting to be excited for snow and sledding and hot apple cider. I am a little ready for these things as well.
This card is made with Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake and the Deck the Hall's and of course a new fave of mine Cherry Cobbler.
The image is from the Holiday Mini set called Bells and Boughs. I stamped the image on a piece of Very Vanilla and immediately went over it with a aqua painter (water pen) It bleeds the colour out of the ink to softly colour the image. Giving a vintage look to the card.

NEW DIGITAL STUDIO DOWNLOADS

I love MDS and these new downloads are the best. I can't wait to get them.

122176 Deck the Halls Photocard Digital Kit 4.95

122166 Brad add on pack 1.25

122175 Autumn Spice Digital Kit 12.50

122177 Candy Cane Lane Photocard Digital Kit 4.95

122174 Nite Owl Digital Kit 9.95

Did you know that you do not need to have the MDS software to use these great digital elements they are compatible with other software. But I personally love MDS. It is so user friendly and easy to complete beautiful projects.

Stampin'Up! also has a digital studio contest going on with a prize of 500.00 in downloads.

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This is a fun little sketch from the create with Connie and Mary blog.


I made one card the standard 4 1/4 x 51/2. Used the Wicked Fun designer paper and the stamp set called Wicked Cool. Love it. My DH's birthday is Halloween and it is kind of a special Holiday for our family.

This card was done using the Greeting Card Kids set. (A must have) and the Candy Cane Lane papers. I also used the absolutely too cool new sizzix snowflake die. Another must have! You need a little bling so I added the glimmer brads. I hope these show up in the big catty in June.

This last card uses a colour combo of Cajun craze, Sahara sand, and pacific point. The card measures 5x5 square. The set is from the mini and is called French foliage. It is so pretty. I just love it!

I am not getting a lot of crafting time in....time is at a premium right now with too many pot's on the stove. I will be happy when the first week of November is over. :)

I made this for the Create with Connie and Mary challenge anything but a card.

So I made a star and attached it to a wreath. The star is covered in the Candy Cane Lane paper. The rosette is made of co ordinating paper and I just punched out a cute accent from the paper as I have not purchased that set...YET!

Happy World Card Making Day! As well as Happy October.
I love the usual cool weather that this time brings. But we have had a heat wave the last few days. Muggy at this time of year? yuck.
I am posting this card today as it has 2 of my favorite things. Owls and Halloween.
I learned this technique from the amazing Michelle Zindorf.
Her card was way cooler than mine, but I am working on it. I hope to snag some time today for stamping we will see how the day goes.
Enjoy your day everybody.

This was such a fun challenge. I found it at Create with Connie and Mary. The challenge was to create a card using a cake as inspiration. It doesn't matter what you do as long as you use the picture for inspiration.

I took the colours from the cake Peach Parfait, Blushing Bride, Pear Pizazz and Burgundy.

The Background stamp is called Print Pattern. It is retired but a favorite of mine.

The flowers are from Vintage Vogue and I rock and rolled them. (How fun is this!)

I used the colours from the colour palette.

I don't usually do inspiration challenges but this was so much fun.

It's beginning to feel like Christmas? I hope not I am just not ready for it. I love Fall and we still have to get through Halloween. But for some reason I have been working on Christmas. This is a sketch challenge from Stamping 411, HERE.

It is a nice simple sketch and I really enjoyed working with it. I don't have alot of the new sets from the mini.....yet! So I reached for some old tried and true friends. A personal favorite Snow Swirled. The card above is done in a Pink Pirouette and Basic Black theme with a little Vanilla thrown in. It was a colour combo challenge I saw on some one's blog. But I have forgotten where.(But I just figured it out...Stamping 411) I am going to get a book to write challenges, dates and where I found them. Organization is not really my strong point.

This card again using snow swirled is done in another favorite combo of mine Riding Hood Red and Basic Black with Very Vanilla. I really like the stitched rub on's (not SU!). If I ever drag my machine upstairs, I will sew on everything.

I think this is my favorite card. For me totally not a colour scheme I would use. Pretty in Pink, Old Olive and Night of Navy. But I really like it. I also flipped the sketch so I could use Christmas Collage. This challenge made me realize I need Taffeta ribbon in every colour. I guess I really just need more ribbon. :)

I am hoping to be able to get more stamped today. But my children are telling me I promised them baking so we'll see what happens.

Hi everyone.... I feel like I have been away from the blog for a month. But My family is well again, I am well again and I will be back in the stamp cave tonight.
I missed out on all the challenges last week and I missed it so I am all ready to start new this week.
My desk is even clean. That nearly never happens. I think I work best in chaos. LOL
Have a Happy Friday, see you soon.

It's been a busy week. Most of my family has been very ill with a flu like bug. So I really haven't stamped much. I am hoping to remedy that today. I took place in a swap a few weeks ago. I got back 40 fabulous cards all showcasing items in the holiday mini. This card was created by Dorthy Sealfer from Alberta. I just love the golden halo.

I think this was my absolute favorite card. It is glittery and vintage and just excellent.

It was made by Michelle Tamboline.

I just love how she made the pumpkin. I would have never thought of that. Really cute! This card was made by Shyla Ducharme.

I love being able to participate in the swaps. I get great ideas from them. The downside is it makes me want Set's I said I wasn't going to buy.

It was kind of a quiet rainy Sunday and I decided to play with MDS. (my digital studio) As I was playing around on Facebook. I found these pictures of Charlotte just posted. They were taken by her friend Brendan.
I thought they were beautiful. Am I really that biased?
So here is my simple Sunday page. I can't believe she will be 15 in a week. Where did the time fly?

Another Favorite from the Holiday Mini..... Christmas collage. There are so many things you can do with this set. I was trying to case a beautiful card that I saw on stampin'connection. But I just couldn't for the life of me recreate it. So this is the next best thing. LOLI used Cherry Cobbler (my new favorite red) and very vanilla. I just tried to cut the pieces so I could layer them together it sort of worked. But I still really like how the cards turned out. The mini pearls work so well on the ornament.

Simple and pretty. That's perfect!

Happy Sunday, I'm returning to my stamp cave.

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I made these cards for the colour challenge over at Create with Connie and Mary. I just adore these colours. Crumb cake, Tangerine Tango, Early Expresso and Very Vanilla. I am feeling somewhat hungry now. lol

The card above uses Elements of Style set, with the new antique brads and victoria lace. I ran the base through the Big Shot with the square lattice folder and spritzed it with the vanilla smooch. I really like how it turned out. :)

I love the Artistic etching's set. Wasn't sure if I wanted it but I now reach for it over and over. Really love it, especially in this colour combo. This is a combo, that I will use again soon. Happy Saturday! Hope your day has something stampy in it.

Hope everybody is having a fabulous Thursday. For some reason I keep thinking it is Friday, but good news I have an extra day this week. (Don't we all wish that?)

These are some Christmas Star ornament's that I made using the The Bigz 5 point star. The funny thing is I bought this to make petals for a flower quilt. Another on my huge to do list.

I used the awesome Deck the Halls paper. I also used the equally fabulous set called Bells and Boughs. The Holiday mini is chock full of super cool stuff, and we all need more stuff......right.

I have a picture tutorial on how to do the basic star. It is in the two posts below this one.

(I will be adding a video on how to do the rosette because it is easier to see than to tell how to.)

5 point star tutorial: Part one.

To make the star you need, the Bigz die, Big Shot, glue stick, sticky strip (red line tape) , designer series paper and chipboard. I used the backing board from the designer paper.

I cut the paper and backing board 3x5 inches. You need 5 pieces of each. You need to run each piece through the Big Shot one at a time. This die has scoring lines and cutting more than one at a time will cause the score lines to cut through.

When you have all your pieces cut. Fold all the score lines on all the pieces.

They should look like the ones in the above picture.

Glue both pieces. It will help the paper adhere better and it also gives you a little bit of slip so that you can line the pieces up properly.

You should then have 5 identical pieces. Go on to part 2.........

5 point star: Part 2

Use the sticky strip on the side tabs of the star points. Apply tape to 4 points.

The first point needs sticky strip on both tabs, on the 3 points you only need sticky strip on the far tab. By the time you get to the last point you will have sticky strip on all the tabs that need it.

Or for extra hold you can put it on all tabs. :)

Then you just peel the red liner off. Line up the 2 tabs and press them together.

Keep adding the points to the star. Make sure to apply a little pressure to the tabs to make a good bond with the adhesive.
Only one more point to go......it's really easy, isn't it!

Here is the finished star ready for decoration.

I will post the rosette tutorial tomorrow. These are fun and can be made in all different sizes.

Any questions just ask..... justaddink@gmail.com

As I have said I love a great Sketch challenge this is the Saturday Sketch Challenge from Stamping 411.
The card above is a simple Black and white scheme with just a splash of Cherry Cobbler. I love the Glimmer brads. (new in the Holiday mini)
The card below is in a colour scheme of Pear Pizazz and blushing Bride. I wasn't sure about Blushing Bride but I use it now all the time. The set is from the idea book and it is called Just Believe. It is another staple for me. I love it so great for so many techniques and occasions.
I used the pear Pizazz ribbon and Glimmer Brads in the Blushing Bride colour. I really love how it all turned out. The same sketch but 2 different looking cards.


I have to say that although I miss my Husband (he recently started back to work) I get so much more done. LOL
I haven't really stamped in along time. But you can see by my daily updated blog that I am stamping everyday.
I love the focus and creativity I get from stamping everyday. Quite house ........ It's a good thing!
Thanks for visiting and I'll be back tomorrow.