Nat'l Scrapbooking Month Promotions 30% off & Sneak Peek

Give scrapbooking a try with Stampin' Up's National Scrapbooking Month promotion! You will get 30% off a wide selection of scrapbooking products including:


•Select stamp sets
•Select professional print products for My Digital Studio
•Special digital download bundles for My Digital Studio


These digital download bundles consist of existing downloads that have been bundled and discounted especially for this promotion and are intended to be used to create a themed photobook during National Scrapbooking Month.

I started using My Digital Studio 2 months ago and if you use a computer, you can use My Digital Studio!  And whatever you download (instantly!) you keep forever, so no worrying about running out!!  Plus digital images take up a lot less room, right?  I will be posting more info about the great May promotions this week so be sure to check back, OK?

And as I mentioned in my post title, here is a sneaky peek of what else is coming up this week....Can you guess what it is/they are?
 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Greetings - A digital card for you

I played with Stampin' Up's My Digital Studio to design an Easter card that I could email to family and friends. 

This is my final version of it.  Of course I had to use purple, since it is my favorite color!

See the little mouse in the lower right hand corner?  He's a non-Stampin Up design - I had to put him in there since my sister (who will be getting one of my cards) loves House Mouse Designs....I wonder if she will notice it and realize I put it there just for her!?

Below is the first draft of my digital card - it is so much fun playing with the different things you can do with My Digital Studio!  It is very user friendly. 

Since I couldn't get the chocolate bunny stamp anymore, I was really glad to be able to get the bunny as a digital stamp!!

Here is a closeup of the text I added as a personal note, lol

Well I'm off to put together an Easter basket - we helped with the neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt activities and games.  I hope some of the pictures I took came out so I can share some here.  Have a nice Easter everybody!

"Dimensional" cards are so much fun

I had fun making lots of cards this past weekend in Diana's class - I love everything about this card....The paper (Love Letters designer series, cherry cobbler cardstock), the pearls on the greeting, the soft shading on the edges, the top note diecut that the polka dot background is cut out of.

And especially love the 3-D dimensional effect - used the pop up dimensionals spots under the greeting and the Eiffel Tower.  Two towers were stamped and one was cut out and adhered on top of the other tower on the oval shape using the pop up dots. 

And can you see how the is an opening cut out in the middle of the tower?  Just these 3 simple things really made the card over the top!! Or should I say, at the top?!  lol

Here is a closeup of the 3-D effect of the tower- this technique was easy to do and really neat looking!  I will have to try it with some other stamps - I think either a guy or gal would appreciate a 3-D card.  In fact, I am giving this card to a guy and some of the people who signed the card commented that it was too nice to throw away - and it was a guy who said this!  Now that's a real compliment, don't you think?

Thanks Diana, for showing us how to do it!

3 quick Easter project tutorials posted; doggy Easter basket

It's only one more week until Easter!  Have you got your Easter cards in the mail at least?!  I found the perfect Easter basket for our furbaby!  It even matches the large stuffed dalmation she has - lol.

Of course our furbaby discovered this already because I put it where she could see it!!  I've moved it around a couple times, and now it's high enough that she hasn't seen it (yet).  After I put some doggy Easter treats in it, I'm sure she will have no problem finding it!  :-)

If you need to make up a few quick Easter items, I posted directions for the 3 Easter project kits that I made up for my ladies' stamping group last week.  I did them in pink, light blue, or light green and they could mix and match them, or use the reverse side of the paper...Remember that the Stampin' Up designer series paper is reversible?  I even supplied potpourri that they could put into the little floral cone or carrot.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the petal cone and had fun decorating it - there were some beautiful variations.

If you want to check them out or download them, you can find them on my Tutorials page, OK?

Cupcake cards - for guy or gal

These cupcards were made for a Sudsol challenge using the Stampin' Up colors of peach parfait and/or pumpkin, rich razzleberry, and old olive. Also needed a cupcake card for a swap, so I thought I would try and make a card that could be given to either a guy or a gal...

I used a stamping wheel of cupcakes

Paisley Petals designer series paper is awesomely elegant

For last week's SUDSOL design challenge we were to use Stampin' Up's new designer series paper, Paisley Petals.  I normally am not a "paisley" type of person, but these papers are so beautiful, I was glad to have a reason to play with them!

I had in mind the template I wanted to do and used 3 of the papers for the 3 squares of flowers and the flower on the bottom.