Artful Avocations

Sailing MDS Page

I love the way this page turned out.  I made this page in January, but never got around to posting it (like most things I make).  I used two photos of my son, Jesse, racing sailboats.  I used one photo as the background and the other for the foreground - changing the opacity just enough to have the background photo show through.  I created the page title the same way - changing the opacity and overlapping the drop-shadowed words.  Hope you like it as much as I do!

If you'd like to purchase your own My Digital Studio to be able to make awesome pages like this one, it's available 24/7 in my online store.

Have a great day!

Bunny and Tulip Baskets

 

Can you believe it's already Palm Sunday?!  Since Easter is almost here, I thought I would remind everyone that I have a few templates for sale that are perfect for Easter and spring.  It includes an adorable BUNNY basket, tulip baskets in three sizes, and a heart basket.  Please have a look!  Here are the items pictured without embellishment and one of the bunny with embellishment.  By clicking on the link on the sidebar, you can see some more embellished samples.  These templates are printed directly onto you card stock, so no tracing is necessary!  Just print, cut, and stamp/embellish, and assemble.  Click HERE or on the link at the left to purchase and I will e-mail you your template asap, usually right away to within a few hours, but please allow me up to 24 hours just in case I'm not around my computer.  These are high quality, professional templates.  The illustration lines print in a light gray and are folded to the inside (or cut off) so as not to detract from the finished project.  The length of the Bunny is about 5-1/4" from nose to tail, and 3-5/8" from the basket bottom to the top of the ear.  The inside basket area is about 2-3/4" wide, by 1-3/4" deep, by 1-3/4" tall.  You can see it's big enough to hold a good handful of Easter jelly beans or other goodies.  Take a peak!  Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day.

 

 

Spring is Blossoming Promotion

Another GREAT promotion from Stampin' Up!  Host a $350 workshop and get these two Brand New, Sneak Peak items from the New Idea Book & Catalog coming out in July, for FREE!  Or you can spend just $20 and get them at the preferred price through my online Stampin' Up! store.

Lots has happened since I last posted and I hope everyone is doing well.  Busy, as usual, here!  Summer is coming though.  : )  Have a wonderful Sunday and thanks for stopping by.

 

Retired Stamp Sets Today

If you're in the Whittier area today, please stop by Trinity Lutheran School's Flea Market today from 8 am to 2 pm, 11716 Floral Drive. I have lots and lots of retired sets for sale in my booth. Hope to see you there!

MDS Beach Page

Love, love, LOVE My Digital Studio for creating a quick page.  This page took less than 5 minutes to put together.

This is my sister and her family on the pier at Seal Beach.  We went out to lunch at a pub my brother-in-law wanted to try out for Father's Day.

You can always get My Digital Studio from my online Stampin' Up! store HERE!

 

Thanks for visiting!  Have a great week.

Explore Your Creativity with Stampin' Up!

 

I would love to have you join my Stampin' Up! Team!  Click HERE to sign up!

MDS - Mom's 90th Birthday Party Invitation

If you are a regular reader of my blog {not that I'm all that regular of a poster!}, you know how much I love using My Digital Studio.  Here is the invitation I made in MDS for my mom's 90th birthday party, with the address and contact information blocked out (this is the world-wide web, you know).

I received so many compliments on the invitation, I thought I would share it with you on my blog.

I hope you like it too.

Of course, you can make your own invitations, party favors, and then scrapbook the whole event with My Digital Studio.  It's available anytime from my online Stampin' Up! store.

As always, thanks for stopping by.

What's New from Stampin' Up!?

For all of you who are in the know when it comes to scrapbooking, stamping, and paper crafts, digital or paper and ink, you KNOW the most wonderful time of the Stampin' Up! year is coming up!  I can't show you the Sale-a-bration Mini yet, but just to let you know...it's amazing!  Even better, each item in the mini is FREE with a $50 purchase!

To satisfy your creative juices now, Stampin' Up! is offering a Filled With Love Valentine promotion.  From December 17, 2010 through January 24, 2011, get a FREE package of Bitty Buttons--a $4.95 value--when you purchase an exclusive Filled with Love Bundle. See details below.  (Don't forget you can click on the pictures to see them larger.)

Notice you can order the stamps in a choice of three languages!  English, Spanish, or French!  

Description	Wood-Mount Item	Wood-Mount Price	Clear-Mount Item	Clear-Mount Price
Filled with Love Bundle Contains the Filled with Love Set* and Love Patterns Designer Series Paper Pack	124380	$32.90	124381	$26.90
Lleno de Amor Bundle Contains the Lleno de Amor Set* and Love Patterns Designer Series Paper Pack	124382	$32.90	124383	$26.90
Plein d'amour Bundle Contains the Plein d'amour Set* and Love Patterns Designer Series Paper Pack	124384	$32.90	124385	$26.90
Love Patterns Designer Series Paper Pack (non-bundled) 12 sheets total: three 12" x 12" sheets of two double-sided designs in Real Red and Pretty in Pink	124156	$9.95	---	---

If the thought of Sale-a-bration just around the corner and the Filled With Love promotion weren't enough to get you excited, the new Occasions Mini Catalog is unveiling on January 4, 2011!!  It is sure packed with some really neat stuff!!  All I can say is WOW!  I can't post anything yet, so you'll have to wait a few days and get by with this picture of the Occasions Mini cover.  (If you were a demonstrator, you could have it now!  Want to sign up?  Go to my online store to sign up!)

Well, that's it for today.  It's starting to rain again here in sunny, Southern California this afternoon.  Love the rain!  :)

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Sale-A-Bration - It's Coming!!!

Watch for it!

January 25 - March 31, 2011

Christmas Boutique Items

I was able to make a little time this morning to crop some of my "group shot" photos of the things I made for my school's annual Christmas Boutique.  Rather than watermark each one (which I think is a pain), I decided to use MDS and create a page to showcase them and having to only watermark once (!).  As you might not be able to tell from the photo, many of the items were also made using MDS.  I will explain following the picture.  Don't forget you can click on the picture to enlarge it for a better view!

Starting in the upper left corner is Peppermint Bark packaged with an MDS bag topper - YES, as 3-D as it looks, the whole topper is MDS.  Moving to the upper right corner are my Gingerbread Houses with Gingerbread Men cookies inside.  I drew the house and the white "icing" architectural features using my SCAL software and cut out {many} of them with my Cricut using all Stampin' Up! card stock (because it's the BEST!!).  Center left, are some Candy Cane Reindeer I made, again drawing the reindeer head using my SCAL software and cutting them out with my Cricut using (retired) Close to Cocoa card stock.  (Yes, I hated using some of my retired card stock for that, but I am trying very hard not to hoard!! :-))  In the lower left corner are my Hot Cocoa packs.  I used MDS to make the "Hot Cocoa" labels and punched them out with the Decorative Label punch.  I also used the Snowflake punch and Fancy Flower punch (gingerbread man) on these.  In the lower right corner I used up lots of retired SU! card stock and stickers from some Simply Scrappin' sets, Big Shot die cuts, and other things in my stash, to make these adorable K-cup gift sets.  I cut out the K-cup holders on my Cricut using a pattern I purchased from Lauren Meader.

I hope you enjoy these projects.

Thank you for visiting my blog this past year!  I really and truly appreciate all of you who take the time to stop by, link to my projects, leave comments, and e-mail me. Best wishes for a wonderful 2011!!!

MDS Layouts

I do love to play with My Digital Studio and here are a couple of page layouts I made using some photographs my friend, Carolyn, took of her nephew.  If you still don't own your own My Digital Studio, what are you waiting for???  It is the best thing since sliced bread for the digital crafter!

You can get your own My Digital Studio from my online Stampin' Up! store anytime!

Thanks for visiting!