Tami Waddell Creates

It is almost here! 2012-2013 Stampin' Up! Idea Catalog

I can't believe on Monday I will get to see the new Stampin' Up! catalog online!  Yeah, for being a demonstrator.  By the end of the week I will have my copy in my hot little hands.  Hopefully in time to read on the plane trip to spend Mother's Day Weekend with my daughter!

Today's samples I am going to share are from my INKERBELLES! Directs Group dinner at Leadership in San Antonio this past January.  We are all getting excited for Convention in Salt Lake City in July.  I have a couple of my directs attending for the first time! WAHOO!

I LOVED this card by my golf buddy and demonstrator Olive.  I even changed it slightly and we made it at Simply Stamp Time.  The Mocha Morning Designer Series Paper is retiring.  I am going to miss it.  But I am excited to see what is in store!  But be sure to get some if you want before it is gone.  Check out the retiring lists before the month ends.

This card was made by Elizabeth P.  I just love her attention to the little details.  I am so glad that First Edition is hanging around.  I was holding my breath awhen I read the retriing list.  I even had a couople of my demonstrators send me emails knowing how relieved I would be.  I don't believe that stamp set made it but be sure to check out the Occasions Mini Catalog Carry Over list to see what will be in the new Stampin' Up!  Catalog so are still available from the Occasions Mini in case you didn't your order in before the end of April.

So the most exciting news right now is the new $99 Customizable Starter Kit.  You can now become a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator for $99.  And you will recieve $125 in Stampin' Up! Merchandise of your choice - including My Digital Studio Downloads.  If your list gets too long when you see the new catalog this is a great way to be able to get your fun stuff at 20% off.  Check out the details Join Now.  If you sign up now you will be able to see the Catalog online on Monday as well!

Here are a few more samples:

Pleasanton Scrapbook Expo Booth

I was in charge of the Twitterpated part of the booth.  You may wonder what it takes to pull together the booth.  Well, it takes a creative mind in the person of Elizabeth Price.  We have usually worked out of one of the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogs - this naturally narrows down the selection and gives us a piece of literature to hand out to everyone that is cost effective.  Each of us is assigned a group of products to work with.  We discuss what types of projects we think would look good in that product suite.  We surf the web a lot for ideas we can transfer to Stampin' Up! Products.

One of the hot items in papercrafting right now is shadow boxes and specimen art.  I did a few shadow boxes for the booth.

This shadow box was part of our wedding tableau that highlighted our My Digital Studio Progam.  More about this area in a later post.  I made this shadow box using the pictures of my son's wedding.  For those of you who have seen some of the stuff I did for his wedding (click wedding in the categories on the right)  you will know these were not their colors but they worked.  This box took me just a little it of time.  I used a variety of products from the Twitterpated Product Suite in the Occasions  Mini.  I thought it looked lovely.

 

 

 

 

This shadow box I did for my Daughter.  Pink is our color.  I printed the picture using an embellishement from the Downtown Grunge Template download for My Digital Studio.  Again this took me no time at all but how fun and some great memories!

Haven't decided if I am giving this to her but if she reads my blog and asks I might say yes!

 The other two shadow boxes I did were in the specimen art style.  One I did with the Tea Shoppe stamp set which is also in the Occasions Mini but not really in any of the "suites."

I did cut apart the triple tea cup stamp so that I could easily stamp each of the cups seperately and punch them out easiily. Here are some details of each of the cup styles and the label.  You can click on them to make them larger!

These type of specimen framed art displays are very easy and fun to make!  The other one I made is being offered as a class this coming week.  The deadline to sign up is this Sunday, March 25 - wadainker@aol.com

 

Happy Birthday!

Today is my Birthday!  I just got back from a week in the desert, where I got to golf 5 days in a row in warm lovely weather!  It was a great way to celebrate!  I brought my computer with every intention of working but just had too much fun relaxing.  Now it is back to reality.  Simply Stamp Time is one week away!  AHHH!  We are also getting ready for Scrapbook Expo in Pleasantong, March 16 & 17!  Lots of pretty things to finish making! 

Here is a pretty to make your day!  As a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator in the month of your Birthday you get an extra 15% off any one item you would like!  WOOHOO!  They send you this lovely My Digital Studio card to wish you Happy Birthday and tell you how to claim your prize!

I just love this.  I would ne4ver have thought to layer the background with the other items!  Remember you are now able to try My Digital Studio for 30 days FREE! 

Don't forget to sign up for Simply Stamp Time by Sunday March 4, 2012.  Email to wadainker@aol.com which session you would like to attend.

Times for the week are:

• Monday, March 5 6:30 PM
• Tuesday, March 6 10 AM or 6:30 PM
• Wednesday, March 7 10 AM or 6:30 PM
• Thursday, March 8 6:30 PM ( This session open to younger stampers with participating adult!)

Space is limited in each session so be sure to sign up early to reserve your space.  This is the last Simply Stamp Time before the end of Sale-A-Bration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Anniversary Chris & Emily

A year ago today we were celebrating my son's wedding!  What a day!  It was a weekend of fun, family and friends and a lovely celebration of Chris & Emily!  Just what a wedding should be.  You can see some of the fun things I did for the wedding here.

I sent an anniversary card to them.  Chris is still in Kuwait but I know Emily will save it to show him when he gets back (hopefully next month).

I saw this idea with a heart punch somewhere and thought how gorgeous.  Using the negative of a punch is such a cool look.  I ran the layer through the Big Shot with the polka dot embossing folder and put pink striped Designer Series Paper from the stacks underneath.  A little tag and a center on one flower and you have a simple quick card.  The greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes - my go to greeting set and great because you know they all fit in the word window punch which layers lovely with the modern label punch.  Here is a close up.

The little organdy ribbon frosting I think just gives it a little softness.

If you would like to see some great wedding and decor ideas be sure to come see us at the Pleasanton Scrapbook Expo, March 16 & 17.  We are planning on having some great displays of things you could use for parties.  We will also have some My Digital Studio samples of wedding invites, samples and favors.  Remember you can currently try My Digital Studio for free for 30 Days.  During the free trial you can download additional items to try and even send in something to pring. 

Working on Chris & Emily's wedding was awesome using My Digital Studio!

 

 

Christmas Card - My Digital Studio

 

This is the front of our Holiday Card this past year.  Needless to say the wedding was the big deal so it got front and center.  I have always tried to do my card with the picture(s) and note being combined.  I always wanted them to have a finished look to them. Now with My Digital Studio it is easy. 

 

 

The inside was our letter with more pictures.  I just love that I can easily and quickly put in a few pictures highlighting our year.  I love reading and looking at the pictures of people we get cards from every year.  I couldn't let the back be blank.

I just love that picture!  I got so many comments on the quality of the cards and pictures and people just loved the pictures.

Give it a try and you can have some awesome Holiday Cards this year.  My friend even had me help her with hers.

Quick and easy! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Have a wedding coming up?  Other big event?  This is a great product to make all those coordinating items you will need.  Contact me and I will be glad to guide you through the process.

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For 30 days you can try My Digital Studio for FREE.  During those 30 days you can play with the program, purchase additional downloads to try and even order a print product!  What a deal!  I love this program.  Here is a video of the calendar I did for my family. 

 I have done one each year since we came out with the program.  It is so easy.  I collect pictures that are emailed through the year and then put out a request for any additions.  One day in about 2 hours I put it together and placed the order!  Our teenagers have even started requesting there own -not just their family one!  Give it a try with a free 30 day trial what do you have to lose?

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Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - INKERBELLES!

My group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators is called INKERBELLES!  It is a group of over 2000 demonstrators all over the country!  I have over 60 that are direct to me either because I recruited them or because the people who were between me and them have dropped.  I love communicating and helping them have fun build businesses at the level they would like.  One of the things I do is a monthly incentive for these directs.

Each month when they meet certain goals, or for their first year as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator they recieve a project from along with some product.  I hope this helps them have things to demonstrate for their customers and helps them try new things that maybe they couldn't afford to try or weren't sure was their style.  This months card is an My Digital Studio Hybrid Card.  This means that I printed the card through My Digital Studio and then added to it to give it a little dimension.  The reason I did this is I wanted to give everyone the Pick your Poison Quick Accents and Designer Series Paper and I couldn't figure out how to make enough different cards with the Pick Your Poison.  I realized then I should print a card with those items and then add some strips from the Quick Accents since there were plenty of these.

This is what you get in the Quick Accents.  Each of these sheets are 12 x 12.  You can see how hard it would be to make 30 similar cards using this but how easy it was to use the paper ribbons.  Each of the cards I made had a different paper strip down the side.

I added a rhinestone at the bottom that I colored black with a permanent marker.  I also spritzed with Platinum Shimmer paint that I mixed in a hand sanitizer.  I thought the card turned out cute.  Here is the original My Digital Studio card before I hybrided it!

As you can see cute as is but way cuter with the additions.

So check out becoming a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator with me so you can recieve these cool incentives!

The reason I do this incentive is most of those directs live all over the country and cannot benefit from meetings as other groups do.  I do do 3 meetings a year at my house for those Stampin' Up! Demonstrators in my downline.  Check back - the next one should be in early January.  This is a great way to check out what it is about - of course if you wait until then you will miss a few months of the fun incentives!

 

 

My Digital Studio and Demonstrator Incentive

I recently started an incentive program for everyone in my downline, that when they promote to supervisor or above they get to pick some free Stampin' Up! merchandise.  The higher the promotion the more product!  SWEET!  Well, I had to figure out how to notify them of this reward in an easy and efficient way.  My Digital Studio to the rescue.  I made a card for each title level.  The message inside is printed with what they recieve and then I put the instructions to claim their reward on the back.

I used the templates that are pre-designed in the program so I didn't have to spend a lot of time.

These are the four designs so far for the four titles that occur the most frequently.  So far everyone who has recieved them has loved the reward and most comment about how cool the My Digital Studio card is and that they were going to have to do more with the program because they didn't realize how cool the print products were.

If you are in my downline get those promotions and you will recieve one of these and some free product!  If you aren't in my downline maybe you should be?  Check out what it takes to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

You can find out more about My Digital Studio at our online forum MyDigitalStudio.net.  Become a member (it's free!) and learn more about digital crafting!

 

 

Fathers Day with My Digital Studio

Hey Everyone, its Liz again! It's time for a little blog from me!

So in case you guys forgot, it was Father's Day this past Sunday. My dad always says he never has pictures of me at his work and how I should put something together for his desk. So that is exactly what I did. Sadly, my dad and I don't take many pictures together, so it took awhile to find some pictures.

I decided to put all the few pictures together in a 5x7 card on My Digital Studio. I love black and white frames, but didn't want a dark background on my frame. My mom gave me the idea to make a few pictures sepia tone to give it a cool vibe/feeling. I kept the cutest picture of us big and centered, while making a few others sepia tone. One thing I did notice was that having a big mat around the main picture does make it stick out more. Some people try and put a small mat, but the bigger gives it a little more attention.

While working on My Digital Studio, I got frustrated trying to make everything straight and evenly spaced. I learned that there is a button on the top that looks like 3 papers floating on top of each other. To get something in a line you can play with the different settings to get them in line, or centered or vertically/horizontally on the page. I love that playing around on My Digital Studio is so easy and fun!

My Digital Studio is so easy to use, I've done a few projects on it and have always been so surprised how you can add so many little touches so quickly. I love to add a little interesting touch to things so I decided to put a few antique brads in the bottom corner, and used the stamp set that looks like the brads in the opposite corner.

Here is my finalized project on My Digital Studio:

Once I had finished it all, I decided to get a frame that was in the same sepia tone, I ended with a wood accent frame! I love it and hope you do too!

Check out my finsihed project:

 
Here is my dad so happy to get a picture frame with some great pictures of us! He was so happy on the phone when I called him. Now he can't complain about no pictures for me! I love you dad! :)

Happy Birthday Don!

For my husband's birthday this past weekend, I finally finished the album of his umpire experience in Poland, Summer of 2009.  His passion is umpiring for Little League and spends most of his spare time doing that and spent 10 days at a tournament in Poland in 2009 and will be going again this summer.  He kept a blog of his experience and I turned it into a scrapbook for him.  You can read the details of the experience here Don's Poland Umpire Blog.  Here are just a few of the pages.

I wanted to give it the feel of a journal so I used the journal paper from the Love Letters download.  The rick rack and other strips are from the Terrific Trims. The papers for the stars and trips uses the Desktop calendar papers download.  I made it looked like all the papers and pictures were stapled or taped.

A local photographer came and took pictures of games to sell aso some of these great action shots I was able to get from him.

As you can see my husband takes his umpiring seriously.  The cool thing about this book is it is a way for him to share this experience and something his grandkids will get to see to learn more about their grandfather.  That is what is so important about getting these things down.

My Digital Studio is a great way to create these books and share them and this month albums are 30% off! WOOHOO!  Don't miss out.  You can purchase the Digital Download express and get started within minutes!  We have a great online forum that will help support you with ideas, techniques and inspiration - MyDigitalStudio.net

My Digital Studio 30% OFF!

I have been a digital scrapbooking queen lately trying to get as many albums done and printed this month!  The one I am going to share with you today is not really an album but it is.  I made this book as a guest book for my son's wedding.  It turned out really cool.  It looks familiar because I used the same photos that I used in a previous album of their engagement photos.

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What was really nice is that people wrote short paragraphs and were spread throughout the book.  When I started the book I wasn't sure how I was going to make the lines but one of the digital downloads released right then was Thoughtful Overlays which had the lines as an overlay and was quick and easy.  Emily and Chris really enjoy this book!

Check out the new Digital Download Express and get started immediately. I will be happy to help you design your own great memory albums.

 

My Digital Studio Printing 30% off!

Yep! You heard me - My Digital Studio Printing and lots of other good stuff discounted for National Scrapbooking Month! Plus in the Summer Mini is a downloadable version of My Digital Studio with minimal digital content so you can select the content you want and add it as you choose.  It is an awesome product.

Stampin' Up! has set up an online forum to talk about My Digital Studio and share the tricks and fun of this program.  AND lots of online samples and tutorials. 

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Check it out, sign in - its FREE! and check out all the great samples!  Then visit my online store start your digital crafting adventure.

 

Wedding Invites!

So if you read my blog you have seen some of the stuff I did for my son's wedding. I have had some people ask if I would do this for them!  YES!  Check out my page on doing invites for your special event.  Here is a couple of teaser pictures.

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Check out my album I did of my our cruise for my daughter's Graduation cruise.  Be sure to check back and see what fun stuff is coming in the Summer Mini.

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If this interests you plan on attending my FREE My Digital Studio Introduction Class .   At this class I will show you how My Digital Studio works.  Come join me.  If you would like to have a preview  contact me at wadainker@aol.com and lets schedule a time!

My Digital Studio - Rainy Day Activity

With all the rain lately, I have had a lot of time at home since my golf has been canceled! AHHH!  But the good news is that I have been getting caught up on some scrapbooks.  This one just arrived in the mail today.

Doesn't it look cool?  It will sit on our coffee table with the other one I did of our trip a couple of years ago.

Here is what it looks like open -

Now it the video you can see all the pages with a little music for your viewing enjoyment.

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I love this program and would love to share it with you.  Contact me for a private session to show you all the possibilities!

 

Andy's 50th Birthday

A quick Sale-A-Bration break.  More of the 36 cards coming tomorrow but I thought I would give you a little change of pace.

My friend asked me if I could wrap up a birthday gift certificate for a friends 50th birthday. Oh, did I have anything that went with hot air balloons?  Sounded like a challenge.  Here is what I came up with.

I actually ended up changing out the balloon to a 50 printed out on My Digital Studio.  Forgot to take a picture after I made the change!  It looked way cute.

This is the top of the box I made using a 12 x 12 piece of Textured Basic Black Cardstock that I then sprayed with Silver Foil Smooch Spray.

The first picture is of the 12 x 12 piece of paper cut and scored.  You wrap it up and then place the lid on to hold it together then when it opens you see the card and the gift certificate was rolled up inside.  Here is  the card.

To gather the wide grosgrain I pulled a thread in the middle and then stuck it to two strips of sticky strip. The glimmer brads on the end hold the ends down great.  The stamp is from Bring on the Cake.  I used the Pearlized Silver Fox Pearlized Smooch Paint to accent the 5 and 0 but it didn't accent the th enough.  Instead I punched it out with the little circle punch in the Itty Bitty Punch Pack and put it on top of a punched piece of basic black using another punch from the punch pack.  Layering on the scalloped square made from with the Big Shot die in the Occasions Mini.

So Happy For You

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I decided to go with the Sweet & Sour Designer Series Specialty Paper for this stamp  set.  The colors in this paper are Rose Red and Pumpkin Pie.  The paper has some shiny embossed images which is why it is a specialty paper.  It is really cool!

I have decided the First Edition Designer Series Paper can be used in place of Very Vanilla.  I can't get enough of this paper and since 24 sheets come in a pack it goes a long way.  It is now available in Digital for My Digital Studio which I plan to download soon! So back to the sample. I used ribbon rosettes (Occasions Mini) Glimmer Brads,(Occasions Mini) Designer Brads and trinkets to make the little arrangement around the heart stamp.   I love the little key hanging and a little smooch spritz.

I figured out the trick to the little images in this set is to create a focal image. 

It is hard to tell in the picture but the various scalloped squares use paper that have shiny embossing on them.  The strip for the greeting is from the Petal Cone Die (Occasions Mini)  I love the little Sweet Stitches covered button and of course a layer of First Edition Designer Series Paper.

My Digital Studio

I don't normally post on Sunday - but today is 3 weeks until THE WEDDING!  Yesterday I spent most of the day on My Digital Studio doing wedding stuff so I thought I would share a My Digital Studio project with you. It is not a wedding project.  I will wait until after the wedding to share with you some of the cool stuff I have done.

Isn't this just lovely?  I made this journal with My Digital Studio for my direct downline that attended Leadership.  I have been pressed for time and I wanted something cool for them.  It took me about 45 minutes total and I just love the look.  Here are some close-ups.

 

The pages inside are all lined and it has a cool ribbon place marker attached.

You can even put words on the binding. I the designs use many of the images from the Occasion Mini Springtime Vintage Suite.  All of the product in the Mini Occasions is available for download to My Digital Studio.

These are awesome you.  I love My Digital Studio and would love to spend time sharing it with you.  Contact me and set up a time to come learn it!

2011 Calendar

Happy New Year! Here is an idea to get you started on your Holiday giving for Christmas 2012.

Each year my family does a calendar.  Since Stampin' Up! came out with My Digital Studio I have used the digital calendar template to make it.  Everyone sends me pictures and I put them together!  I turned this years into a movie with music for your enjoyment!

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If you would like to do one for your family let me know!  Don't wait until the last minute.  Make a file on your computer in your pictures and start copying pictures as you get them from your family or take them through the year.  By next November you will only need to plug them in and order them.  I promise you will be the hit!  My family can't wait for mine!

 

Heritage Album - kinda

About 2 weeks before Christmas, my husband decided he wanted me to make a My Digital Studio album for his family of some old family photos! WHAT?  Well, the good wife that I am, I told him if he got the pictures scanned I would do something and if he was lucky they would make it here by Christmas but I wasn't making promises.  So using My Digital Studio, I made an album for him to give.  I made a video with some music to it to share with you!  Enjoy!

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If you would like to learn how to do one of these please feel free to contact me and I would be happy to work with you on your special album.  Check out this video to see How Easy My Digital Studio is to use.

Merry Christmas!

So you will get to see my Holiday Card before they are actually sent! I was a little late but they will go out before I leave on vacation - if they arrive.  I did them in My Digital Studio.  This is the new Tri-Fold card design.  The total size of this card is 9 x 12.  Each panel is 4".  I love that I can combine photos with my letter in one product.  The weight of the cardstock is really nice.  I think there is some real possibility to use this card size for weddings.  Here is a picture of one I used to send to some downline.  I used the actual template that comes in the update.

I hope you are having a great holiday! 

 

Holiday Goodie Bags

Each  year I make a Holiday Fudge to give to friends over the Holiday season.  It has become quite the tradition and the packaging is as much part of the treat as the fudge!  At least I like to think so.  This is the packaging for this year.  I used the treat bags in the Holiday Mini  and ran them through the Big shot with the petals plenty embossing folder.  The tags used the Tags til Christmas stamp set from the Holiday Mini.

Punching and layering the shapes wrapping with some seam binding (also from the Holiday Mini but will be in the Occasions Mini as well.) make a for a great goody!

Here is another goody I made for a Holiday Brunch for one of my Golf Clubs.

I used the bitty box die for the Big Shot and it is a quick fold - no adhesive needed! It holds a chocolate square perfectly.  I printed the labels with My Digital Studio and then just punched.  My family helped me make 80 of these over thanksgiving!

Wedding Invitation - It came!

When I saw the envelope I couldn't figure out who was sending something to Tamara!  Then I realized it was the WEDDING INVITATION.

Ok, yeah I made them!  But still to finally get it in the mail and know that others are getting theirs was pretty exciting.

This is what it looks like when it came out of the envelope.  I used 12" textured paper for the outside.

The printed part I did on My Digital Studio and printed it on very vanilla on my printer.  Lots of cutting and layering later it sure looks spiffy.  I wanted a pearl on it but that was nixed!

Here is a close up of the layering.

 

Recipe Cards & My Digital Studio

When I showed you my cool large candy wrappers,  I forgot to share with you the cool recipe cards I made using My Digital Studio.

I typed the recipes into word and then just pasted them into the text box of My Digital Studio.  I decorated each of the cards with Deck the Halls, Antique brads and seam binding!  They were lovely.  I mounted each on a piece of card stock in cherry cobbler, soft suede and crumb cake.  To do this I exported them as a jpeg.  Here is what they looked like before mounted.

I put all three of them in a crumb cake envelope and stamped the bells from Bells & Boughs stamp set in cherry cobbler.  They were quite the hit!  So you see how cool My Digital Studio is for just about anything!

 

My Digital Studio!

I love this program.  I can't believe everything I can do with it.  Here is a picture of just some of the things I have used it for this holiday season.

These were some of the albums and a family calendar I have made.  You can see the video of the Christmas Album here.  I haven't put the other albums to see since they are gifts.  Look for them after Christmas!

I thought I would show you how quick and simple it is to make a page of an album with My Digital Studio!  Enjoy!

 

Engagement Photos

If you come here often you know my son is getting married!  Chris and Emily had engagement photos taken and they were lovely.  It was really hard to choose which one to use for the Save the date.  Since the whole family was going to be together I wanted to share all of these with everyone.  So I made an album and then turned it into this slide show.  Emily gave me the song which I think just fits so well. We are going to try and figure out how to insert it on their wedding website!

I hope you enjoy it as much as we all did!

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Three Dogs, Two Turkeys & Don

Sorry I haven't posted this past week.  I was a little busy with 13 houseguests and 3 dogs!  My sisters and their families and both my kids and fiance and boyfriend!  It was a houseful but great fun.  I fully intended to get on and put up some cool stuff but it was just too busy and fun.

This pretty much one of the best pictures of the weekend. The three dogs, Shadow, Smudge and Tika, were quite sweet and enjoyable all week.  While Don was cleaning off the turkey carcuses they were sitting so patiently! 

While we were together, I did give my family My Digital Studio Albums of Lizzie's Graduation.  To present it to them I made it into a slidewhoe so everyone could watch it on the TV and then have their own copy to take home.  It was super easy to do.  I have already shared the album with you Lizzies Graduation.  Here is the slideshow so you can see the difference.

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The trick is to make the album first and then it is simple to make the slideshow.  It was a great way to share the album with a group of people.

 

A Fun Day

Today I put together this fun display in my entry. This weekend I was not feeling so good and thought some crafting would do me some good.  It isn't very often I just get to craft for fun - not prepping for a class, workshop or expo!  So Saturday I started out with the Decor ELement Frame.  I have made one for Halloween and Christmas so I felt that I needed one for Thanksgiving. 

Covering the frames are really easy with the Big Shot Adhesive available in the Holiday Mini.  I stamped a few of the big medalions from Day of Gratitude in Early Espresso on the Early Espresso paper. 

Add a few pearls and ribbon frosting and it looks great. 

The hardest part of working with the frames is the inside of the inner square.  Trying to cover it neatly if you don't want the white.

I wanted this sentiment for the center but the stamp in the stamp set was too small.   THen I remembered that I had bought the digital download of this set for My Digital Studio so I printed out a larger version - making it the perfect size for the opening.

For this one I used some gold waffle paper and glued it up and over the edge and then layered the leaves over the edge and sprayed some log cabin smooch spritz to help cover the edge.  By covering with the gold waffle it just made sure no white showed through.

 

 

 

 

Stay tuned and I will show you some close ups of the parts of my display!

My Digital Studio Album - Scrapbook Expo

I finished my Christmas 2009 Album! WAHOO!  I have to say I have been pretty good about making sure that each year the previous years pictures have been scrapped - though sometimes I am finishing them on Christmas Eve.  This year I wanted to get the My Digital Studio Album done in time to send to my kids.  They will be sending Christmas this year with their fiances and boyfriends families and I wanted to send this to them in their Christmas package!  I am either evil or wonderful!  Here is a movie of the album

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 If you would like to see this album in person come visit us in our booth at the Sacramento Expo, Friday  November 5, or Saturday November 6.  If you can't make it schedule a time with me!

We have a Wedding!

I am sorry I haven't posted but trying to recover from surgery,  visiting children, keep business stuff going and helping plan a wedding has been crazy.  This is one side of the save the date card Chris & Emily sent out.  The pictures they had done were fabulous - Narrative Images took them in San Diego, you can see the rest of them here Emily & Chris. I did it in the My Digital Studio.  Super quick and easy.  I had to take them out to print them as a postcard since Stampin' Up! didn't have that option.  Now we do!  YEAH!  When the printers converted it so they could pring it on a very heavy cardstock the printing on the back was not great.  I am so excited that in the future we can have postcards printed through the My Digital Studio Print Services - and the prices have been greatly reduced.

Here is the back of the card

The actual card had their wedding website but I took that off before I posted it!

Here is a card I did for my family Thanksgiving!

I will be honest I copied the card exactly from a sample on the My Digital Studio, inspiration forum.  A German demonstrator shared this design and I just changed it to English!  The My Digital Studio  Forum is open to customers and demonstrators to learn and share about My Digital Studio so check it out.

Here is the backside of the card.

If you would like to schedule a time to learn more about My Digital Studio please contact me - wadainker@aol.com.  I loved to share my enthusiasm for all this has to offers.