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Ready for some Summer Smooches?

Posted on April 7, 2012 | Comments Off on Ready for some Summer Smooches?

Are you ready for some Summer Smooches?  Nah, I don’t mean sticky kisses from a kid eating cotton candy!  I’m talking about the fabulous new suite of patterns from Stampin’ Up!, available in both paper/fabric/ribbon/stencil/ fabric covered brads, as well as digital downloads.  Here are the brightly colored patterns – put on your sunglasses! and read thru to the end – I have a recommendation to save you some money if you want to do some fast and easy scrapbooking!

125409 Summer Smooches Designer Series Paper

125409 Summer Smooches Designer Series Paper

I have to say, I am a sucker for any kind of fabric covered brads – and these are adorable – use them with the paper or the fabric selections.  But here’s the kick – these selections are available as a preview this month only, until 4/30 – most of them will also be available in the new catalog, coming out on June 1 – but you can only get the fabric covered brads until 4/30 and they won’t be coming back in the catalog!!  Aren’t they cute?

125589 Summer Smooches Fabric Brads

125589 Summer Smooches Fabric Brads

And the stamp set is a lot of fun:

125497 Bright Blossoms - Clear-Mount Stamp

125497 Bright Blossoms - Clear-Mount Stamp

How are you doing so far – are you ready for some Summer Smooches?

I also love the digital downloads available from Summer Smooches – for My Digital Studio, or any other graphics programs.  There are two choices.  First is a kit, containing the paper, the stamp brush set, the fabric brad embellishments and some card templates (129601 Summer Smooches Kit) – here’s one of the cute cards:

Summer Smooches card template

Summer Smooches card template

Or you could choose the 129919 Summer Smooches Photobook Template, including the DSP, stamp brush set, a ton of embellishments and one of my favorite photobook templates that I have seen from My Digital Studio yet!  Templates can make for fast and easy scrapbooking – just drop in your pictures and add the text.  Here’s a little sample:

Summer Smooches Photobook Template

Summer Smooches Photobook Template

The pages are brightly colored, making them perfect for a vacation layout or… just about anything!   So my vote, even though the card template is cute, is to save some money and just go for the photobook template.  You really don’t need both – you would be paying twice for the same paper (um, don’t ask me how I learned that!).

You can order any and all of these cute selections in my online store.  What do you think – are you ready for some Summer Smooches?

 

 

 

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My Digital Studio digital downloads for week of March 20, 2012

Posted on March 23, 2012 | Comments Off on My Digital Studio digital downloads for week of March 20, 2012

There are some great new items that I want to share with you in the My Digital Studio digital downloads for the week of March 20, 2012!!  Check ’em out below!!

1) Taffeta Trimmings embellishments (129603)

Oh boy, a whole new set of ribbons and bows – I love to use these as decoration on pages and cards, and also to divide sections on a scrapbook layout… look to see these in some of the upcaoming pages that I will share!

The download includes:
* 188 embellishments

Features:
* New ribbon style
* Gathered skinny taffeta and not-quite-as-tidy tied bows; a perfect statement for any project
*A perfect addition to the Taffeta Ribbon Color Pack (item 122156) that you may already have.
Look how cute they are:

129603 Taffeta Trimmings

129603 Taffeta Trimmings

2) Wish You Were Here Stamp Brush Set (129926)

Let’s face it, many of the scrapbooks that we do are travel or vacation related, and it is always fun to have travel images to use on the pages.  These are cute!

129926 Wish You Were Here Stamp Brush Set

129926 Wish You Were Here Stamp Brush Set

3) Wonderful Wings Stamp Brush Set (129602)

It’s hard not to love these butterflies.  Plenty of was to use them on cards, scrapbook pages, as frameable art for a gift…  ‘Nuf said!

Download includes:
* 3-piece stamp brush set
* 5″ x 7″ greeting card designer template

129602 Wonderful Wings Stamp Brush Set

129602 Wonderful Wings Stamp Brush Set

4) Get It Done Kit (129924)

Yet another set of images that are very flexible in how they can be used.  I absolutely love these little tags and journaling blocks, AND the punch with the ticket corners… and I am looking forward to making a page that uses them to label the pictures!

Download includes:
* 16-piece stamp brush set
* 15 embellishments
* 3 punches

Features:
* Digital-exclusive
* Send cool digital memos to yourself or your friends

Coordinating colors:
Bashful Blue, Basic Black, Basic Gray, Calypso Coral,  Crumb Cake, Whisper White

129924 Get It Done Kit

129924 Get It Done Kit

5) Book of Birthdays Swatchbook Template (129923)

How aborable is this!  Do you find yourself forgetting birthdays?  This looks like a template that you can use for a swatchbook where you keep track of all the birthdays that fall in each month so you can reload your calendar each year!

Download includes:
* 26-page swatchbook designer template
* 23-piece stamp brush set
* 7 Designer Series Papers

Features:
* Digital-exclusive
* Never miss another birthday with perpetual calendar that keeps them all in one spot
* Versatile stamp brush artwork works for any project
* Portrait swatchbook pages designed so that when professionally printed, the rivet is in the upper left corner

Coordinating colors:
Crumb Cake, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Rich Razzleberry, Very Vanilla

129923 Book of Birthdays Swatchbook Template

129923 Book of Birthdays Swatchbook Template

6) With the Grain Stamp Brush Set (130680)

Aw, I saved the best and cutest for last.  My Senior Girl Scout troop (of high school girls!) has adopted the squirrel as their unofficial mascot, as they have to work hard to stay on topic during meetings… remember the dog in the movie “Up”?  He would be talking along until –“Squirrel!!” — he was totally distracted by a squirrel running by!

130680 With The Grain Stamp Brush Set

130680 With The Grain Stamp Brush Set

So, what do you think – can’t you see yourself using a bunch of these?  You can download any of these at my online store.  And if you don’t have My Digital Studio yet, please check out the 30 day free trial and you will be eligible for my free series of training videos.  And then you’ll be able to use  some of these cute My Digital Studio digital downloads for the week of March 20, 2012!!

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Make a filmstrip on the scrapbook page

Posted on March 15, 2012 | Comments Off on Make a filmstrip on the scrapbook page

Oh boy, I took one of the new embellishments from this week’s digital downloads for My Digital Studio and used it to make a filmstrip on the scrapbook page!

Candid Frame filmstrip

Candid Frame filmstrip

The download set is called Candid Frames and it has six embellishments that look like various picture formats.  These are the types of film or picture images that are included:

  • a snapshot,
  • a vintage picture,
  • a slide holder,
  • a film frame,
  • an instant picture (like a Polaroid picture),
  • or a 35mm format (the one I used!).
129929 Candid Frames - Digital Download

129929 Candid Frames - Digital Download

These are so easy to dress up your page – just add the embellishment on top of the picture, and adjust the sizes.  The embellishments are clear so you can see whatever is underneath them in the middle!

For this page, I simply used one of the basic templates for a 12 x 12 scrapbook page that has three pictures and a text box underneath.  Here’s all I had to do to make this cute page:

  • I dropped in the pictures,
  • added one of the Candid Frames – 35mm embellishments on top,
  • resized it to cover the pictures,
  • copied the embellishment and pasted a second copy, then aligned them by selecting both embellishments and using the Align Image button on the top
  • I added the text into the text box and increased the font to 16, bold,
  • I added a text box for the headline across the top and changed the font to Bauhaus 93, size 64 bold.
  • I added the Open for Trade – Photo Log stamp from the prior week’s downloads to make it look more like a photograper’s proof sheet and added text boxes for the location, etc.

And that’s it!  Clean, simple, graphic and fun.  I love it!  What do you think?  You can get the downloads from my online store, and then you too can make a filmstrip on the scrapbook page!

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My Digital Studio new release

Posted on January 25, 2012 | Comments Off on My Digital Studio new release

Have you seen the baby book template available for download in this week’s My Digital Studio new release?  It is so cute!  You can open this template, drop in your pictures, and have a great gift or keepsake ready for printing in no time!

Baby Photobook Template

Baby Photobook Template

To order the download, click here to go to my online store and select item number 129350.  After you check out, you’ll be able to download the template and get busy scrapping right away!  That’s one of the great things about downloading a My Digital Studio new release!

 

 

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Journaling as part of scrapbook design

Posted on January 22, 2012 | Comments Off on Journaling as part of scrapbook design

Welcome to this week’s Sunday Journal post,Sunday Journal where we’re going to look at an example of using journaling as part of scrapbook design.

I made the cute page below in My Digital Studio, incorporating the journaling around the edges of the page in order to frame the pictures in the middle.

Square journaling example

Square journaling example

I created a wide, short text box in My Digital Studio, and typed in the words across the top.  Then I adjusted the font, font size, and text color to be the way I wanted them, and copied it.  I pasted it on the page three times, changed the words in each text box and rotated them 90, 180 and -180 degrees to make them read correctly as I placed them around the outside of the page.

Do you like the way the journaling makes a frame around it?

There’s a couple other things I would like to share about the page:

  • No, Munchie the cat did NOT chase a mouse on Christmas Eve, but I really liked the picture of him sitting in the wrapping paper and thought this would be an amusing way to bring him into the page!
  • I particularly like how his darling pink ears and nose match the pink bow and wanted to emphasize it, so I used the Color Match feature in My Digital Studio to make the mat around his picture match the color of his ears!  I simply selected the mat, clicked on Color Match, and then the screen shows the objects on the page in pixellated format.  I moved the cursor to select the pixel with the exact shade of pink that I wanted to feature, and clicked to select the color.  Voila! pink mat!
  • We all know that using Stampin’ Up! gives us scrappers a great benefit because the colors match all across the product line.  Well, I did the same thing on my page by making the outside mat the same pink color!  When I was Color Matching Munchie’s photo mat, I simply saved the pink color as a “favorite,” then selected the Background Paper of the page and changed it to my new “favorite” color: pink kitty ears!
  • I made this page 8 x 8″ so it would show up well on the blog, but I can easily turn it into a hybrid 12 x 12″ scrapbook page by printing it and mounting it on a 12 x 12″ sheet of card stock.  And that additional layer would give it even more dimension, and add to the frame effect!

Check back next weekend for the next Sunday Journal post, when I will share another way to get words on your page and use journaling as part of scrapbook design!

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My Digital Studio for travel

Posted on January 20, 2012 | 2 comments

I’ve been posting about all the problems you may have with scrapbooking that can be solved by using My Digital Studio, and here are a couple more reasons why I love my Digital Studio for travel!

Problem #7

I need a hobby that is portable – I travel a lot for business and have lots of time in the hotel with nothing to do.

Solution:

Put My Digital Studio on a laptop and GO!  Of course, if you use a laptop from work, be sure to ask whether you can add outside software to it.

And if you travel on vacation but have little kids who go to bed early, bring your own laptop from home and scrapbook your vacation pictures at the end of the day, while the little ones are sleeping!  That’s what I did during my solo trip to Utah for Convention this summer, since it was TOO HOT to be outside in the afternoon… I took a little My Digital Studio break!  See my previous post here.

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My Digital Studio easy to use!

Posted on January 17, 2012 | Comments Off on My Digital Studio easy to use!

I am holding a demonstration tomorrow to show why I call my favorite scrapbooking program, My Digital Studio easy to use!  I’ll have some samples of the scrapbooks and cards that we can make with the software, and will do a quick demo of the software on the big screen.My Digital Studio

So come share a cup of coffee and see how easy it is to get your pictures out of the camera or computer, and into lovely a scrapbook that you can share!

Click here for more details about the session and the upcoming classes.  And contact me at carol@carolGpapercrafts.com if you have any questions!

Keep an eye out for future posts about My Digital Studio and the projects you can make with it.

I hope you can join us to see more information about the software, and you can see why I call My Digital Studio easy to use!

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