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More new My Digital Studio downloads for this week! To see them, click HERE or on the image above. My Digital Studio is the Stampin' Up! digital papercrafting program that you can learn to use easily to make digital scrapbook pages, albums, calendars, cards, gifts...anything you can come up with! Use either a predesigned template that you only have to add a photo to or print out as is or delete and change anything you want to and make it your own!
Don't worry that you've never done digital scrapbooking or cardmaking before...or didn't have success with it. This program is intuitive and easy to learn. For additional help and ideas, check out www.mydigitalstudio.net, a website for both customers and Stampin' Up! demonstrators alike.
At the end of the 30-day trial period, you can purchase either My Digital Studio or My Digital Studio Express to continue using the software. You will not need to re-download the program, but will simply enter the product key you receive after purchasing the software. (If you purchase the disc version you'll find it along with the shipped software, and if you purchase the downloadable My Digital Studio Express, you'll receive the product key via e-mail.)
You will be able to keep any downloads you purchase during the 30-day trial period.
To get the free trial version, add My Digital Studio Express Trial (item 129600) to your online shopping cart, and then download and install it from your Download Manager.
One of the best parts of My Digital Studio....no charge for shipping for My Digital Studio Express or the extra downloads! And you can download and install right away!
Before you go off to your big Super Bowl 2012 party this afternoon, why not make a scrapbook page in My Digital Studio (or the traditional way with paper!) so that when you come home with some photos of your friends, you'll be ready to make a Super Bowl scrapbook page right away!
This is one that started with a template already in the program and I just changed the colors to reflect this year's Super Bowl. That's the great thing about My Digital Studio....even if you start with a professional template, you can change anything and everything on it to suit your own tastes!
Even if you prefer traditional scrapbooking, My Digital Studio is great for designing....design your digital page without wasting any paper or embellishments....then copy it the traditional way!
And the "hybrid" way, is a little of both! Design some parts in My Digital Studio but add "real" embellishments or stamps or punches. It's great any way you do it!
Why not try My Digital Studio Express FREE for 30 days from Stampin' Up!....You can read all about it on my blog post HERE. And for even more details on the free trial, click HERE. Then play with it and see if it works for you!
The more you use it, the easier it gets....and it's pretty easy to start with!
Want to know more about the Stampin' Up! digital papercrafting program called My Digital Studio? Never tried anything like this before?? Starting today, you can try My Digital Studio Express FREE for 30 days!
Opportunity to purchase additional downloads from designer templates to stamp brush sets--and everything in between.
Access to our professional print services.
Add the free My Digital Studio Express trial (item #129600) to your online shopping cart. Then you will download and install it from your Download Manager. Just go to my Online Store HERE!
This offer begins Feb. 1st AND is ongoing!!
What a great chance to try out My Digital Studio for free! It's not just about scrapbooking.....make cards, party favors, postcards, calendars, recipe books, banners and more!
I love mine and learn more every time I play with it! If you need help, there is www.mydigitalstudio.net with PLENTY of conversation, tips, samples, and videos about how to use it. Or you can ask me! Just give it a try and see what you think....but be sure to play with it and use it while you have it!
New downloads come out every Tuesday as well! You'll never get bored!!
Go right now to my Online Store, enter #129600, and you'll be ready to use My Digital Studio in minutes!
Here are just a few of the beautiful displays Stampin' Up! had up at Leadership! Each one is creative, beautiful and exquisite!! You can probably click on the photos to enlarge them.
Oh my! It's hard to come back down to earth after a Stampin' Up! event, especially one like Stampin' Up! Leadership 2012! The withdrawal was eased a little bit yesterday when my new Stampin' Success, the magazine for Stampin' Up! demonstrators, was in the pile of mail!
I've been looking through my photos and decided to start with one of my favorite displays. These were in the room where we did Make & Takes the first night. We used the Blossom Builders Designer Printed Kit#125410, in the Occasions Mini Catalog, which is a cute set of double-sided, printed, die-cut flowers on textured paper PLUS an assortment of pink rhinestones to add some bling! You have to put it on your next order!
Enjoy!
All images copyright Stampin' Up! 2012
This one is a little blurry, but I loved the braided fabric for a flower stem!
And DON'T FORGET........Sale-A-Bration begins tomorrow, January 24th!! With a $50 purchase, you can choose a free product in the new Sale-A-Bration Catalog! Check back tomorrow for more information!
It worked last week so I am hoping it will work again this week! The Houston Texans have their second playoff game today against the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore, so maybe this card will bring them good luck again! This is the first time the Houston Texans have advanced to the playoffs so this is a big deal, to say the least, in Houston!
This card was made digitally in My Digital Studio, the digital papercrafting software from Stampin' Up! Easy to learn and fun to work in.....everyone should have it! And more downloads come out every Tuesday!
This has been a big sports weekend for Houston with the Olympic Marathon Trials on Saturday, choosing three men and three women from a field of hundreds to go to the Olympics in London this summer. Today is the "regular" Chevron Houston Marathon....if any marathon can be "regular"......always an important and fun event in Houston whether you are running or watching from the sidelines or TV.....and then the big Texans game at noon!
I heard the commentator mention yesterday one of the women runners kept a scrapbook for her baby daughter so someday when she is older she will know what her mother accomplished! Would you think marathons and scrapbooking would go together?!
After all the turkey is eaten and the last of the leftovers are put away and the kitchen cleaned up, why not make some scrapbook pages of your Thanksgiving Day? It only takes minutes if you do it in My Digital Studio. If you prefer, make them the traditional way with card stock and embellishments. It will be something to treasure for years to come. Maybe your guests will want to help or make their own little album!
I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Thankgiving!
Holiday Shopping begins today! TheStampin' Up! Online Extravaganzahas begun! Be sure to check all the discounts available to you! We have Stampin' Up! products 20% - 60% off Nov. 21 - 30 only!
24 Hour Only Sale!!!
For 24 hours only, all day today until 11:59 PM (MT) tonight ONLY!!
These two items discounted 20% TODAY ONLY!!
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Simply Scored
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Discounted products are available on all order types. If you prefer to contact me to place your order that is fine! Orders do not have to be Online only (except for digital downloads).
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Be sure to check out these great deals! Start your holiday shopping....for yourself...and others!!....TODAY!
It's fun to make a little album with the Top Note die, especially for Halloween. Here I used Halloween paper from last year to make a little album for my niece and her grandma to make a little Halloween scrapbook mini album. Just cut out your page shapes from chipboard and paper and decorate to your heart's content!
If you need a Halloween scrapbook page, here's one I made in My Digital Studio from a birthday-type template in the program. But if you don't have My Digital Studio, all you have to do is make it the traditional way with the Frightful Sight Designer Series Paper #122351 and a few punches and embellishments.
***This is the last week for the FREE Big Shot for signing up to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator! What a great deal for starting your own business! Contact me at Karen@Karenstamps.com if you would like more information.
***Be sure you are signed up for my mailing list (upper left corner) so you will receive my monthly newsletter and right now, my weekly 12 Weeks of Christmas newsletter. Great ideas you can use for your holiday cards and gifts.
Stampin' Up! has such beautiful designer series paper, but don't you just hate it when you have to cut in to a piece of paper that would make a beautiful scrapbook page on its own? Here is one of those pages that I used a portion off the left side for a project. This paper is from Pocketful of Posies Designer Series Paper #122354. I LOVE this paper!!
After looking in the Stampin' Up! 2011-12 Idea Book & Catalogfor inspiration, on page 184 I found that they used this designer series paper to make several small cards. That led to designing this card:
You can see the corner of the paper I cut off and mounted on Poppy Parade on top of a card base of Crumb Cake. Then I just added a greeting and I had a cute card! I'm sure I can make something with the big bird on the remaining paper, too!
Speaking of designer series paper, don't forget about thespecial promotion going on for only about ten more days!! Buy 3 packs of designer series paper, get one FREE! Can't beat that! Go to myOnline Storeright now and start choosing your paper!
During the month of August, purchase three packages of Stampin' Up! Designer Series Paper and GET ONE FREE! What a way to stock up with Stampin' Up!'s new papers! For more details, click HERE.
Whenever I hear one of those questions like "What famous person, dead or alive, would you most like to meet?" or "What celebrity would you like to have dinner with?" I realize I am not too starstruck because there aren't many names I would use to answer that question. But Lucille Ball would be one of them!
Today would have been her 100th birthday and 60 years after she started her famous television show "I Love Lucy". The show first aired in October 1951. I don't know when I first started watching it, but to hear "I Love Lucy" or to hear the theme music of that show takes me back to my childhood. The show was on at 9:30 am, which means I could only watch it during the summer (if I was up early enough) or on days when I was home sick. Even if I was sick, it wasn't too bad to get to stay home and lay on the couch and watch "I Love Lucy"! I can't imagine how many times I saw those episodes over and over and over again....and they were always hilarious! In later years, Lucy had some shows with Ethel that were shown in the evenings. My family and I loved those too!
There is a new exhibit that just opened dedicated to the "I Love Lucy" show at the Library of Congress. Raymond White, the curator of the exhibit, said, “The Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz papers at the Library of Congress provide a unique opportunity to view the development of the show from the perspective of their family--in terms of the items that were preserved in the family scrapbooks, and this was our point of departure for the exhibit,” he says. “...the scrapbooks contained a wealth of materials documenting the early careers of Ball and Arnaz...and a treasure trove of photographs that present the extremely photogenic Ball and Arnaz in the height of 1940s Hollywood glamour.”
So you never know where your scrapbooks might end up! Consider the importance they might have in history!
Click HERE for more information on the Library of Congress exhibit. Sounds to me like scrapbooking played an important role!
Today begins the Stampin' Up! Designer Series Paper Promotion....Buy 3, Get 1 Free!
Just as it says, when you buy 3 packs of Designer Series Paper, you will get to choose one free! There is no limit to the number of free packages you can earn! And there are beautiful papers in the new catalog! Click HERE to read all about it!
Specialty Designer Series Paper and Hostess Designer Series Paper are not part of this promotion and cannot be redeemed through this offer.
This offer is good through August 31, 2011.
You can order online at my website HERE, contact me with your order, OR plan a workshop with your friends and earn Hostess Benefits for more free stuff!
Go HERE now to see all the beautiful designer papers available for this offer!
Gotta love this Flower Fest stamp set! And I suddenly went crazy for Poppy Parade, a year after that In Color came out! Better late than never!
We made this 6"x6" card in a workshop this weekend. When I do a workshop and don't know if I have scrapbookers attending, sometimes I like to make this 6x6 project....it can be used as is as a card, perhaps adding some photos to the front or inside...or it can be cut apart and you have two 6"x6" scrapbook pages! If you work with larger scrapbook pages, you can always add this 6x6 piece to a larger piece of paper, adding more photo boxes or journaling or embellishments. Very easy. You could also frame this, if you didn't want it for a card or a scrapbook page.
Here is the inside, just stamped with Poppy Parade ink, and a So Saffron Flower Fest flower cut and punched and sponged with Poppy Parade ink. I forgot we actually have a punch for this flower...I made the ladies cut out the bottom flower by hand! Oops! They would have rather had a punch I'm sure. But it is okay to cut with a scissors and not get worried about perfection!
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Here's an idea for using those cute eyelets and Crop-a-Dile I don't think we have used much recently! Whether you use your chipboard letters plain or inked in some color or covered with patterned paper, use your eyelets to decorate the letters. Maybe place one or two eyelets on each chipboard letter here and there just for an extra embellishment. You can then use these on your cards, scrapbook pages or other projects. It will be fun!
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What happened to May? It went by way too fast for me and maybe it did for you, too, so here are some reminders since this is the last day of May!!
Last day of National Scrapbooking Month! Stampin' Up! has a list of specials related to scrapbooking, but if you're not into scrapbooking, it still is beneficial to you...regular stamp sets discounted, digital bundles discounted, MDS printing discounted, Stampin' Up! Digital+ Starter Kit discounted! Beome a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator in minutes (and there is still time to sign up for Convention if you want to go!). Click HERE to go to the page of specials!
If you want to find out more about being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, there is a chance to call in to Stampin' Up! TODAY and listen to someone from the home office talk about the business opportunity and answer questions. The call is free and takes place at 11:00 AM (MT) and 4:00 PM (MT) today, Tuesday, May 31. To attend this call, dial 1-866-640-4044 and, when prompted, enter the access code 500284#. After you state your name, you will be added to the call.
New My Digital Studio downloads come out this afternoon! I spent a lot of my weekend working in My Digital Studio! The more you work with it, the more you learn! Click HERE to see the downloads! Click HERE to learn about My Digital Studio.....it's not just for scrapbooking!
Last but not least.....tomorrow, June 1st the Stampin' Up! Last Chance Retirement List comes out! See what stamp sets will be leaving us to make room for new and start making your list of must-haves! Check back tomorrow and sign up for my monthly newsletter in the upper left corner of this page! Thanks!
Here are some more pages from the baby scrapbook I made. Some materials and stamps may be retired but you can easily substitute something similar. You can copy the layout ideas or just get your creative juices flowing! These smaller albums are so much fun to make! Just slip the pages you make into the clear page protectors in the album.
Make your own designer paper by stamping...and this stamp even comes from what could be considered a Valentine stamp set! (I think it is a retired stamp set)
Designer paper from Nursery Suite Specialty #117165. I don't remember where I got the punch art giraffe idea, but you can google it and probably find one to your liking.
These are die-cuts from an old Simply Scrappin' Kit but you can find something similar in the current catalog. Love the Simply Scrappin' Kits!
I usually like to make the last page in a baby album something about sleeping!
Even though this is a 6x6 album, to make a larger page, just take the same layout ideas and make them larger! There's probably always a little something extra you can add, too! Have fun with it!
Baby scrapbook albums are so much fun to make! I've made them for gifts and as special orders for other people. Whether you start with just a generic baby theme or choose something special, such as nursery colors, you just need to start, and as you play around with your pages and layouts, creativity will come! You can get many Stampin' Up! ideas for layouts just by looking at the Idea Book & Catalog. This scrapbook is made with the 6x6 Natural Linen Post Album #104515 (it also comes in a Ring album if you prefer). Some stamp sets and materials I used are retired, but you can easily substitute something similar.
For the album cover decoration I usually like to just tie some ribbon around the cover and attach a tag of some kind. This one is the 1/2" Stitched-Poly Ribbon laid over 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon.
I used the Scallop Trim Corner and Scallop Trim Border Punches to this photo mat....best to just start with a piece of paper and punch, not expecting a certain size. I added tiny Pearls in between the scallops. The flower is made with the Daisies #2 Die and the Big Shot.
I think these pieces are from a retired Simply Scrappin' Kit (which are fabulous for making scrapbooks!).
