Monthly Archives: November 2013

One More Chance!

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This past week Stampin’ Up! has been offering daily digital scrapbooking deals for My Digital Studio and write-ups on the mydigitalstudio.net blog with ideas of how to use those downloads.  But some people have missed out, so if you would like one more chance to purchase any of these select downloads for 50% off,here is your chance until midnight MT November 9.

Here are the downloads that will be on sale:

  • Amped Up Ampersands Kit (item 134844)
  • Hello There Kit (item 133374)
  • All Time Fave Photobook Template (item 132915)
  • Modern Medley Overlays Kit (item 134839)
  • Be Brave Pocket Cards (item 134840)
  • Nobody’s Business Photobook Template (item 132812)
  • Autumn Traditions Kit (item 127600)
  • Afternoon Daydream Kit (item 130861)

Go here to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store and put in the item number. You’ll see a full description of the download and usually will be able to view better close-ups of the elements. You’ll usually see a magnifying glass or the word “More” and sometimes you can scroll through to look at each element.

To find out more about My Digital Studio, just click HERE.  You can purchase the software and a ton of content for a mere $19.95.  And it’s not just for digital scrapbooking!

Decorating a Baby Gift Bag

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Decorating a baby gift bag

While I had this shiny blue gift bag, it needed something to be appropriate for a baby gift.  I just stamped a panel to put on the front of the bag. The animals are from the retired stamp set “Animal Stories” (do you have it in your stash?). Even the greeting is retired but from one of my all-time favorite, how-can-we-live-without-it stamp sets, “Sincere Salutations”. Of course the panel still needed some jazzing up. I used some pieces of the Silver Glimmer Paper die cut with the  Tasteful Trim Bigz Die for the top and bottom edges and tied some Silver 1/8″ Ribbon in the Holiday Catalog around the panel.

You can do this with any plain gift bags you have.  I like to save the handled gift-bag-type bags you sometimes get at stores or you can buy at the craft store. Then you can use those for gifts after you decorate them!

If you are looking for a similar cute animal stamp set, perfect for baby cards and gifts, try Zoo Babies available in wood- or clear-mount.

Autumn Traditions Kit for My Digital Studio 50% Off to

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Autumn Traditions Kit for My Digital Studio

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Only today and tomorrow left of Stampin’ Up! Digital Scrapbooking Days! Today this beautiful Autumn Traditions Kit is available for 50% off the regular price, today only! If you think you might make a fall digital album or photobook or even if you just want to print off the paper or words yourself, this might be the set for you! Sometimes if I don’t have quite the right words or greeting I want in regular stamps, I can check on My Digital Studio and print my choice from there right onto my card stock. Also downloads, stamp set, and paper do not retire on My Digital Studio.

If you live where there are/were beautiful fall colored leaves or have taken photos on trips, like I have, this paper and images would be beautiful to design your pages and album. Or maybe you’d like just a simple “swatchbook”. Not that you are limited to scrapbooks with digital software because you absolutely are not!  You can make all sorts of projects with My Digital Studio!

For more information on My Digital Studio, please visit HERE.

Baby Circle Flip Card

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Baby Circle Flip Card

Have I said before that I think you will love the Circle Card Thinlits Die for making cards?  I needed a baby card for a little boy and thought the Thinlits Die would make a cute card! The paper I used is retired (Nursery Nest), but of course you could use any paper of your choice.  The stamp set I used is also retired, unfortunately.  I loved the Easy Events stamp set because it was so versatile for many occasions. I loved the little duck so I had to use it for this card.

The Thinlits Die practically makes the card for you!  Just decide what to put for the focal point on the front of the card in the circle and probably a greeting for the circle on the other side inside the card.  Add a little designer paper if you like or do some stamping on the plain card stock.

Baby Circle Flip Card Inside

If you are game to try the new Thinlits Dies, just contact me or shop online at my Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE.

New Deals from Stampin’ Up!

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Here’s a new list of Weekly Deals from Stampin’ Up! good today through next Monday!

Wk Deal Nov 5(1)

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Adorning Accents Textured Embossing Folder Item # 125601
Regular Price: $8.95 US/$10.95 CAN
Discounted Price: $6.71 US/$8.21 CANAutumn Accents Die Item # 127812
Regular Price: $21.95 US/$26.95 CAN
Discounted Price: $16.46 US/$20.21 CAN

Cherry Cobbler Grosgrain Ribbon
Item # 132135
Regular Price: $8.95 US/$12.50 CAN
Discounted Price: $6.71 US/$9.37 CAN

Wk Deal Nov 5(2)

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Cupcake Punch Item # 121807
Regular Price: $16.95 US/$22.95 CAN
Discounted Price: $12.71 US/$17.21 CAN

Day in the Life Kit MDS Download 
Item # 128876
Regular Price: $14.95 US/$16.50 CAN
Discounted Price: $8.97 US/$9.90 CANDress Form Pop N Cuts Item # 130100

Regular Price: $21.95 US/ $26.95 CAN
Discounted Price: $16.46 US/$20.21 CAN
Weekly Deal Nov. 5

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Simply Created Goody Gear Pumpkin Pie
Item # 132792
Regular Price: $4.95 US/$6.95 CAN
Discounted Price: $3.71 US/$5.21 CANRhinestones Large Item # 129324
Regular Price: $4.95 US/$6.50 CAN
Discounted Price: $3.71 US/$4.87 CAN

Just visit my Online Store HERE or use the links above to order any of these great supplies that you NEED!  Especially when they are on sale!  One week Only!

A Pop-Up Birthday Card for My Son

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Pop Up Birthday Card

Lots of days I can have or see hundreds of ideas for cards and  stamping projects I want to make, but sometimes when I need a card for someone special it’s like I’ve never stamped before and can’t think of a thing to make.  Does that ever happen to you?! Sometimes I can look around in all the usual inspirational places and not see anything I like, just because I NEED something right then.

Cards for guys always seem a little harder to come up with, although they really shouldn’t be. Often it’s just a matter of changing the color or the paper or using less bling or more texture. Anyway, when I needed a card for my son for his birthday I found this one at StampingSchool.com. I used the “You’re Amazing” greeting on the front of the card from the stamp set You’re Amazing and used the Big Shot and the Apothecary Accents Framelit to cut it out. Love, love, love the little Candy Dots and the Candy Dot Brad Bases (or the Candy Dots by themselves!). While the sample I was copying used a more feminine designer series paper, I changed it to our current Sweater Weather Designer Series Paper.

Pop Up Birthday Card Inside

The inside of the card is a pop-up!  And it’s made the old-fashioned way, with two little strips of paper making a box shape on each side of the card hidden by a front panel that you can then add things to so that it pops up. I copied the sample pretty closely except for the greeting and the designer paper. Then if you like you can stick a gift card, check or cash in that opening or even engineer it to have a pocket, or any other design along the pop up portion!

This was a good male birthday card to make.  It could be for anyone, but the Sweater Weather Designer Paper makes it look like fall and more masculine.  With a whole pack of paper, you can choose any of the patterns and know they will look good together because Stampin’ Up! has done all the work of coordinating colors and patterns.  And did I mention that I love the Candy Dots??!!!

To order any of these supplies or papers or stamps, just go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store.

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And it is Day 4 of Digital Scrapbooking Days over at Stampin’ Up! website for My Digital Studio! Choose this Modern Medley Overlays Kit digital download for 50% off today only! Click on the image below for more information and to shop for this download.

Modern Medley Overlays Kit

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Visit the website www.mydigitalstudio.net (you do have to sign in) for more information about using this download and tons of information about My Digital Studio.

Digital Scrapbooking Days from Stampin’ Up!

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All Time Fave Photobook

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Stampin’ Up! continues celebrating digital scrapbooking with 50% off this digital download, TODAY ONLY. This download is the “All Time Fave Photobook” #132915.  You can click the image above or the link and view this download in detail. Once you are on the shopping page you can click “More” or the magnifying glass to get a closer look.  If you like documenting your favorite things and making lists, this is the download for you!

You don’t have to own My Digital Studio to use it, it will work with other design software, but why wouldn’t you own My Digital Studio?! It’s an easy program to learn and you’ll have access to lots of your favorite, past and present, Stampin’ Up! stamps in the “brush sets” as well as designer papers and embellishments. Have your projects printed by the Stampin’ Up! printer and be assured of exact color matches.  Or print yourself or at a local printer if you are in a hurry.

Check out My Digital Studio here for more information.

Click HERE to purchase the My Digital Studio software which comes with an ENORMOUS amount of content!!  I recommend the digital download version because you won’t have to worry about losing or damaging the MDS disc.  But if you prefer the hard copy, you can purchase the program on a MDS Disc.

I guarantee you at only $19.95 My Digital Studio is an absolute bargain!

Not convinced??  Do the 30-Day Free MDS Trial.  No obligation.  You get to use the FULL software (not as much content, but enough to play with, and you can purchase more that you like AND print your projects). At the end of 30 days it will just expire.

Did You Remember to Change Your Clocks last night??  We’re back on Standard Time!  “Fall back” an hour!  Hope you enjoyed your extra hour of sleep!

New Best of 25 Years Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up!

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Best of 25 Years November Best of Snow

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Here is the November Best of 25 Years, celebrating Stampin’ Up!’s 25th Anniversary!  This stamp set, Best of Snow, has one of everyone’s favorite images “Frosty” plus a couple of hedgehogs!! The Frosty stamp set was one of the first ones I bought when I became a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.  Frosty became one of those stamp sets that no one wanted to see retire. Although I didn’t own the hedgehogs, I know they were very popular as well.

It’s time to be working on those Christmas cards so if these images speak to you, you should order them right away!  Just go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store HERE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Digital Studio Seasonal Sale

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My Digital Studio Seasonal Sale

Stampin’ Up! is offering 30% off select holiday downloads and print products in My Digital Studio to help you get a head start on the holidays!  Try your hand at My Digital Studio with the 30-day Free Trial or just jump right in for only $19.95 for the software.  You will have PLENTY content to keep you busy and the whole My Digital Studio program is easy enough to learn! You could be making photo Christmas cards in minutes or adding photos or your own designs to a calendar for the new year or a photo album.  You can do so much with My Digital Studio!

See the festive downloads on sale HERE.

This sale begins NOW and ends November 30, 2013.

Please contact me if you have any questions about My Digital Studio (MDS).