Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge. This week our challenge was to create a Black & White project. I chose pictures from my Mediterranean Cruise. These pictures are from the hotel bar, our first night in Barcelona. I wanted a sleek, modern feel to the layout since that’s how the bar was decorated.
I started with a background from the Night and Day DSP. It’s a textured black background with a slight swirl pattern. I added another layer in white, then changed the opacity to 20% to make it more muted. Next, I added some black stamps from For All You Do and Pocket Silhouettes. I finished with my journaling in white.
Now it’s time to check out the other inspiring creations from the Design Team members at Utah Diva’s International. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for stopping by!
MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- For All You Do, Pocket Silhouettes; Paper- Night and Day DSP, Whisper White; Ink- Basic Black, Whisper White; Accessories- Square Punch; Fonts= CK Journaling; Pea Aimee
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge. This week our challenge was to create a Valentine project. I’ve already made all my Valentine cards, and I wanted to try something different. I needed a new subject, say hello to Chelsea. This is my BFF Janet’s 5-month old daughter Chelsea Grace. I asked Janet if she had a recent picture of Chelsea. And Janet took the time to play dress-up with her daughter and take Chelsea’s picture in her Valentine outfit – perfect for me! (Thanks Janet !!!)
Now about my project: I saw this quote and picture idea somewhere on the internet and I thought it’d be perfect for a little girl's picture. First, I sized my picture just larger than 5x7. Then I added some swirl stamps from Baroque Motifs and Elements of Style. Next, I started working on the quote. It’s just a bunch of text blocks arranged to fit the picture. Finally, I added a couple Vintage Overlays to soften the edges of the photo. And that’s it. The picture’s ready to print and put in a 5x7 frame.
In case the image is hard to read, the quote says, "For Beautiful eyes, look for the GOOD in others; for Beautiful lips, speak only words of KINDNESS; and for Poise, walk with the knowledge that you are NEVER ALONE. -- Audrey Hepburn."
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MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- Baroque Motifs, Elements of Style; Paper- none; Ink- Whisper White; Accessories- none; Fonts= Arial, AR Decode, Juice ITC
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge. This week our challenge was to create a Christmas or Holiday project. I’m showing you a page from my 2012 Calendar. This is April’s page featuring some pictures from last year’s Easter weekend.
This is a really simple page. I started with a Crumb Cake (Kraft) base and added a piece of the Night and Day DSP. I love the texture in this pattern. I use it all the time! Next I added some Melon Mambo and Bravo Burgundy flowers from the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set. I embellished a little with the button and baker’s twine. Then I finished with a great springtime Bible verse that I saw somewhere.
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Good morning! First, if there’s anybody out there still reading my blog, I appreciate you sticking with me. I’m sorry for the long absence. I struggled through the holidays last year and didn’t feel up to any crafting until after the new year. Then work got in the way! Hopefully, everything is back to an even keel, and I’ll be crafting and posting more regularly.
Now, let’s talk about today’s project, or Monday’s project revisited. Do you ever feel like you just need to walk away from a project to figure out what’s missing? That happens to me a lot when I’m scrapbooking. I liked Monday’s layout of my dogs, but it just didn’t feel “finished”. So I modified it slightly, and I LOVE it. I printed it on a color printer, put it in a frame, and now it sits on my buffet for everyone to see.
Here’s what I modified: I changed the DSP pattern on my long strip of paper. This pattern is more subtle. So that I could add the Riding Hood Red Pleated Satin ribbon peaking out from under the DSP. I love how this ribbon looks in digital form. It’s beautiful. In fact, the whole Twitterpated Kit is great. I highly recommend it.
Please let me know if you have any questions, and thanks for stopping by!
MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- Baroque Motifs; Paper- Twitterpated DSP, Kraft (crumb cake) Textured CS, Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red; Ink- Sahara Sand, Basic Black; Accessories- Square Punch, Flag Punch, Circle Punch, Twitterpated Embellishments (button and pleated satin ribbon), Basic Jewels, Bakers Twine, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Full Heart Punch, Heart To Heart Punch, ; Fonts= Pea Bitt Bitt, CK Journaling
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge. This week our challenge was to create a project using hearts in honor of Valentine’s Day. Last year, I needed a new MasterCard for an international vacation, and I wanted to use a picture of my dogs. That meant a photo session with my puppies. And I actually got a picture I love.
I chose to create a page featuring that picture of my dogs. I’m re-doing my home décor and this page is perfect to put in an 8x10 frame and display on my new shelves. I’m really focusing on creating scrapbook pages that I can frame (in all sizes) and display or hang on the walls. It’s feels great to look at these treasured memories. (I much prefer that over posed studio portraits-- Just my personal preference.)
This page came together quickly using the Twitterpated Kit download. I love the papers, stamps, and embellishments that come with this kit. For this page, I combined the Twitterpated Papers with some older downloads. I started with a Crumb Cake base. Then stamped with Baroque Motifs in Sahara Sand for a watermark look to the page. I added some heart punches and embellished them. Next, I wanted to mimic the outline heart from “I {heart} Hearts”, so I punched the Full Heart and enlarged it. Then I added small circle punches to create the outline and deleted the original punch. Finally, I added some Twitterpated DSP and more embellishments. (*** I have a white strip along the left edge to mark where my design needs to end for the 8x10 frame.)
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MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- Baroque Motifs; Paper- Twitterpated DSP, Kraft (crumb cake) Textured CS, Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red; Ink- Sahara Sand, Basic Black; Accessories- Square Punch, Flag Punch, Circle Punch, Twitterpated Embellishments (button), Basic Jewels, Bakers Twine, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Full Heart Punch, Heart To Heart Punch; Fonts= Pea Bitt Bitt, CK Journaling
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #43 – Snowflakes. Our challenge this week is to create a project featuring a snowflake. I’ve been working on my 2012 calendar, and this is the January page. This week on my blog, I’ll be featuring projects you can make for Christmas gifts. What could be better than a calendar with your family pictures and memories from last year? Last Christmas, I gave my mom a calendar I created in MDS. She loved it, but I was surprised how excited my niece got when she saw it. Of course, she loves seeing pictures of herself :-) Later this week, I’ll show you what I’m giving her for Christmas.
This is a simple page. I love the flag punch and used it throughout the calendar. On this page, I just filled it with various pattern papers in my color scheme. I added a stitched border. And finished with my pictures and embellishments. The snowflakes, brads, and basic jewels look great on this clean and simple layout.
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MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- Best Wishes and More, Holiday Blitz, Old Saint Nick; Paper- Marina Mist Textured CS, Bashful Blue Grid DSP, Night Of Navy Dotted Stripe DSP, Night and Day DSP, Bashful Blue Striped DSP, Night Of Navy Large Polka Dot DSP, Not Quite Navy, Bashful Blue; Ink- Whisper White; Accessories- Simple Stitches and Corners, Square Punch, Flag Punch, Brads, Basic Jewels, Grosgrain Ribbon; Fonts= none
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Now, I have another Digital Page from my Mediterranean Cruise to share with you. But first, I have to explain a little bit about my home décor. I have never been one to display portraits. I’m just not a big fan of all those “staged poses” and the “fake backdrops”. (This could be a leftover dislike of the portraits from my childhood.) Therefore, I mostly have framed Thomas Kincaid pictures and other scenery-type art. But I’m getting tired of the same thing I’ve had for 7 or 8 years. And I keep hearing how your home’s décor should say something about you and what’s important in your life.
Well, I love traveling and all the places I’ve been. And I’ve really come to love MDS because it makes scrapbooking so much easier. What could be better than framing and displaying some scrapbook pages?! So, I purchased several large (11x14 and 12x18) frames to re-do a long hallway in my home. And I plan to fill these with scrapbook pages from all my travels. Stay tuned to see how my project progresses.
In the meantime, I threw together a few pages to display in standard 8x10 frames and place around my home. Here’s a page from Dubrovnik, Croatia. I don’t know how much you can tell from this picture, but this is one of the most beautiful places I’ve been. And I wanted to use so many pictures on my page; I thought the Downtown Grunge frames would work perfectly. Then the rest of the page is very simple to keep the focus on the pictures.
Thanks for stopping by, and please let me know if you have any questions.
MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- Medallion, Vintage Overlays; Paper- Sahara Sand, Basic Gray Textured CS, Cajun Craze; Ink- Basic Black, Garden Green; Accessories- Square Punch, Tasteful Trim 3, Downtown Grunge Photo Frame; Fonts- CK Jacque; CK Journaling
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #37 – Mix It and Match It. Our challenge this week is to use papers from at least two different Designer Series Paper downloads. This is extremely challenging since I’m color blind. One of the things I love about SU! Is the paper packs where I know everything works together. However, I’ve purchased several DSP downloads, and I haven’t written down all the colors yet. UGH! I’ve got to get caught up on that.
Therefore, I took the easy way and stuck with my favorite downloads that use neutral colors – Night And Day, First Edition, and Elegant Soiree. The Elegant Soiree pattern I chose contains some Baja Breeze, so I added a few more embellishments to bring out that color.
These are pictures of all the souvenirs I bought on vacation. I usually buy a magnet to remind me of the activities I did while I was there. Well, I came home with 10 magnets and, as you can see from the pictures, a ton of other souvenirs, too. I bought Lemoncello, Olive Oil, and Chocolate Covered Almonds from Sorrento, Italy. I bought some local jams, cake, and a T-shirt from Dubrovnik, Croatia. And my biggest purchases were the glass necklaces from Murrano Island off Venice, Italy.
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MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- none; Paper- Crumb Cake Textured CS, Basic Gray Striped DSP, Night And Day DSP, First Edition DSP, Elegant Soiree DSP; Ink- Basic Black, Baja Breeze; Accessories- Brads, Square Punch, Simple Letters Punch, Simple Alphabet Punch; Fonts- CK Jacque, CK Journaling
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #36 – Button, Buttons, and More Buttons. It’s been quite a while since I posted. I was on a Mediterranean Cruise. I had intended to schedule some blog posts while I was gone, but I just ran out of time before I left. I apologize for the long absence. However, I should have lots to post for a while: lots of Christmas Projects and lots of Vacation Scrapbook pages. I have a goal to complete my Mediterranean Vacation book by April. You’ll have to stay tuned to check on my progress. (Keep in mind, I’m a horrible PROCRATINATOR. So this is a big challenge for me!)
Back to today’s project. Although this page uses pictures from my vacation, it’s not part of my album. I decided to create some pages to put in 8x10 picture frames and display around my house. This is the first of 5 frames I want to create.
I started with a Sahara Sand background. Then added the Textured stamp in Chocolate Chip at 40% opacity to get that “aged” feel to my layout. Next, I added my Basic Gray layer and the pictures. Now, it’s time to add a little color to this layout. I’ll be using Cajun Craze, So Saffron, and Garden Green for most of my vacation pictures, to keep a continuous color palette throughout my frames and album. I added strips of DSP in the 3 colors.
I finished with all those buttons in the same 3 colors and scattered them to move the color around the whole layout. I usually finish my pages with the embellishments, whether it be buttons, brads, or ribbon. It just adds that “completed” look to the page.
Now it’s time to check out the other inspiring creations from the Design Team members at Utah Diva’s International.
MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- Textured; Paper- Sahara Sand, Basic Gray Textured CS, Cajun Craze Striped DSP, Garden Green Brocade DSP, So Saffron Textile DSP; Ink- Basic Black, Chocolate Chip; Accessories- Regals Button Pack, Subtles Button Pack, Square Punch, Downtown Grunge Frame; Fonts- Stamp Act, CK Journaling
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #30 – Labor Day. I created another page that I’ll use for my 2012 Calendar. I chose pictures of my niece and nephew swimming. (Work with me, it’s what people do on Labor Day weekend.) Anyway, I wanted a fun summery page for my calendar, and this worked.
I used bright colors like Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Real Red, and Pacific Point. Once I had my paper layers and pictures down, I added the Extreme Elements “splat” stamp to mimic splashing water. Then I struggled with my title. I knew I wanted to use Flag Punches for “Summer Fun”, but I couldn’t figure out how to complete the Scallop Circle element. I finally settled on the dotted circle stamp from Enjoy Every Moment, the Tall Heart Punch, and a Ribbon Knot. It pulled all my colors into the Title, and I’m happy with it.
Now it’s time to check out the other inspiring creations from the Design Team members at Utah Diva’s International.
MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- Extreme Elements, Enjoy Every Moment; Paper- Whisper White Textured CS, Sahara Sand, Melon Mambo Textured CS, Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight Polka Dot DSP, Real Red Textured CS; Ink- Basic Black, Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight, Real Red; Accessories- Square Punch, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Celebrations Kit Elements, Grosgrain Ribbon, Heart Punch, Flag Punch; Fonts- Pea Gretchie, CK Journaling
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #27 – Layers and More Layers. I wanted to use a Sneak Peak from the upcoming Holiday Mini Catalog for my scrapbook page. This page features the new Frostwood Lodge DSP that will be available as traditional DSP and as a Download on September 1st. This paper is beautiful; I just love plaids. Now let’s discuss what I did with the paper.
This challenge is outside my comfort zone. I like doing clean and simple scrapbook pages with maybe a few layers. But I needed to use LOTS of layers on this project. And my inspiration came from an idea in the Holiday Mini catalog. I like how the sample use so many different layers of paper and embellishment, yet the picture is still the main focus of the page.
I chose a picture of my dogs wearing their Christmas Collars – Red and White with Jingle Bells. I added lots of square punches filled with different Frostwood Lodge papers. Then I used the Simple Letters Punch for my “joy” title. And I started going through my stamps looking for what would work. I chose a couple different ones from the Wishes & Greetings stamp set. I added the snowflake from Best Wishes & More. Finally, I finished with more layers of paper, buttons, and brads, and a little stitching. I didn’t add as many embellishments as the sample page since I thought my paper patterns were stronger.
The only tricky thing was creating my Ornament. I layered the ornament stamp on the ornament punch. But the original greeting is “Wishing You Christmas Cheer”. I used a piece of Whisper White DSP to cover up the words “Wishing You”. And replaced it with a text box and the words “Filled With”. I thought that matched my picture better. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
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MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- Best Wishes & More, Wishes & Greetings; Paper- Frostwood Lodge DSP, Cherry Cobbler Textured CS, Early Espresso CS, Whisper White Textured CS, Marina Mist Textured CS, Garden Green, Marina Mist, Whisper White; Ink- Cherry Cobbler, Early Espress, Whisper White; Accessories- Square Punch, Ornament Punch, Buttons – Neutrals and Subtles, Hodgepodge Hardware, Glimmer Brads, Brads, Simples Stitches & Corners, Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Simple Letters Punch, Dotted Scallop Punch, Flag Punch; Fonts- CK Journaling
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #26 – Christmas In August. My page is for my 2012 Calendar. I made my first calendar last year and gave it to my mom for Christmas. She was thrilled with it. I designed my own grid to give my parents plenty of space for writing all their appointments. But as much as my mom liked the calendar, my niece was astonished. She couldn’t believe her pictures were on the cover – and throughout the rest of the calendar, too. I think I’ll make her an easel calendar this year. She can set it on her dresser.
This is really a simple page. The hardest part was picking the papers, embellishments, and stamps I wanted to include. I used all the “align” features to get my squares and pictures perfectly spaced. That helped make this page come together very quickly.
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MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- Bells and Boughs, Holiday Blitz, A Holly Jolly Christmas; Paper- Deck The Halls DSP, Cherry Cobbler Textured CS, Always Artichoke Textured CS, Kraft (Crumb Cake) Textured CS, Very Vanilla Textured CS, Soft Suede Textured CS, Early Espresso Textured CS; Ink- Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black; Accessories- Square Punch, Taffeta Ribbon, Deck The Halls Buttons, Button Pack - Neutrals; Fonts- CK Journaling
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #25 – Your Choice. We get to post whatever MDS project we pick this week. I’m showing you something a little different – a scrapbook page with no pictures. Do you ever have those memories that you want to journal, but you forgot your camera or your pictures didn’t turn out? Well, it happens to me more than I’d like to admit. (I’m a really bad photographer!)
For this particular page, I wanted to journal a Cruise from last year. We’d done a similar cruise in the past, so I didn’t take any pictures during Sail Away. And I hadn’t even gotten any pictures of the ship from our excursions. So I decided to treat the page like a card. I used some DSP, Punches, and Stamps to create my page layout and embellishments.
I love how the Nautical DSP, Sentimental Journey Stamps, and Open Sea Stamps work together to give the perfect backdrop for my cruise memories. And without any pictures, I had plenty of room for all that journaling :-)
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MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- The Open Sea, Sentimental Journey; Paper- Nautical DSP, Not Quite Navy Textured CS, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso; Ink- Basic Black; Accessories- Square Punch, Staples, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Flag Punch; Fonts- CK Ali’s Hand, CK Journaling
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #24 – Punch Art Animal. My friend, Jeanne, had a beautiful baby girl on July 7th. And I’m using baby Kate’s first picture for this week’s page. I created my basic layout with colors and patterns from the Subtles color family. Once I was happy with the look, I added another page so I could create my punch art Teddy Bear in a larger size.
I started with Chocolate Chip Circle punches for the head and body. Then I added Chocolate Chip Wide Oval punches for the arms and feet. Once the basic shape was created, I added more details with smaller Pretty In Pink Circle punches and the Oval punch. I completed the Teddy Bear with Whisper White, Basic Black, and Rose Red Circles. Just like traditional punch art, you need to add shadows (for layering) in all the right spots to get that 3-D look. Oh, for a girlie Teddy Bear, I added a So Saffron Grosgrain Bow.
Finally, I used the “Select All” function to select everything on the page and used the “Group” function to turn my Teddy Bear into a single element. I copied the Teddy Bear, pasted it on my original page, and resized the Teddy Bear to the correct proportion for my photo. I’m very pleased with how the page turned out. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Now it’s time to check out the other inspiring creations from the Design Team members at Utah Diva’s International.
MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- none; Paper- Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Basic Black, Pretty In Pink, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue Textile DSP, So Saffron Large Polka Dot DSP, Pretty In Pink Dotted Stripe DSP, Certainly Celery Blooms DSP; Ink- Chocolate Chip; Accessories- Square Punch, Circle Punch, Wide Oval Punch, Oval Punch, Scallop Edge Punch, Grosgrain Ribbon, Rose Red Shadow (for the rosey cheeks); Fonts- CK Ali’s Hand
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #21 – The 4th of July! I know you’re expecting the traditional “fireworks” page. But that just wasn’t what I was inspired to create. You see, my Papaw passed away on July 4th when I was a child. And that had a huge impact on my family. So my page is a tribute to what and who I think of when I remember the 4th of July.
This is really a very simple page. I started with the Night and Day DSP and added a Crumb Cake layer for my journaling. And I finished it with a few brads The only trick I used was to add my background layer as a punch. This way, I could flip my DSP so the design is where I wanted it. Take a look at the my finished page and compare it to the original DSP and you’ll see what I mean.
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My finished Page with the swirl design in the right places![]()
The original DSP with the swirl design in the wrong places
MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- none; Paper- Night and Day DSP, Kraft (Crumb Cake) Textured CS; Ink- Basic Black; Accessories- Square Punch, Whisper White Brads; Fonts- CK Ali’s Hand, CK Journaling
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #20 – Celebrating Summer. Ok, if you look at the date on my page, you’ll notice this isn’t really a “summer” page. But it’s as close as I can get. Since I don’t have any kids, I take vacation in the Spring and Fall. I’ve realized I don’t take a lot of pictures in the summer unless it’s my niece and nephew’s birthday parties.
These pictures are from my first cruise out of New Orleans. I combined the Nautical Expedition Paper with The Open Sea and Sentimental Journey stamp sets. I love cruising so I should get a lot of use from all these downloads.
Now it’s time to check out the other inspiring creations from the Design Team members at Utah Diva’s International.
MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- The Open Sea, Sentimental Journey; Paper- Not Quite Navy Textured CS, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso; Ink- Basic Black; Accessories- Square Punch, Staples, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Flag Punch; Fonts- CK Ali’s Hand
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #19 – Honoring Fathers! My scrapbook page features my dad. This is the first Heritage page I’ve done. Wow, they’re not easy. It’s hard to get the right look and feel for these old pictures. This is another reason I think MDS is so great. I can create pages. Then as my style improves, I can go back and tweak my pages before I send them to be printed.
I’ve seen this picture throughout my life. My mom always has it in her billfold, except when I talk her into letting me borrow it so I can have it scanned. As my parents are getting older, I want to get more of their memories down in writing. My dad loves to talk about his life. Ok, my dad loves to talk, PERIOD :-) But if you get him telling stories, he gets on a roll. My mom and I have learned some very interesting tidbits lately. My dad is absolutely the family clown and prankster. But we keep learning that he pulled more pranks and got into more trouble than we ever knew.
I want to say “Thank You” to my friend, Alice, for scanning some pictures for me. They came out better than I expected. I’ll have to scrap my parents wedding pictures and tell about their very interesting courtship.
Now it’s time to check out the other inspiring creations from the Design Team members at Utah Diva’s International.
MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- Vintage Overlays, Sentimental Journey; Paper- Basic Gray Textured CS, Kraft (Crumb Cake) Textured CS, Whisper White; Ink- Basic Black, Soft Suede; Accessories- Square Punch, Antique Brads; Fonts- CK Ali’s Hand, Veteran Typewriter
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #18 – Grandpa! My scrapbook page features my dad and my nephew, Aaron. My dad is a die-hard Texas Longhorns fan. My brother went to UT for a year and hated it. After that. Alan and I both graduated from a Texas A&M school (Tarleton State University). I’m sure you can imagine some heated debates and rivalries in my family! My niece and nephew are often caught in the middle, showing the “Gig ‘em” or “Hook ‘em Horns” signs. So far, my dad’s winning with Aaron :-)
I’m often asked where I get my ideas, and that’s a hard question to answer. I rarely copy a complete Card or Scrapbook page. It does happen, and I always try to give credit to the original artwork I saw. Usually though, I see an element somewhere (on a card, scrapbook page, commercial, magazine ad, etc) that I think is interesting. From there, I build my project.
Today, I was inspired by a couple cards in the new Idea Book and Catalog. I loved the card’s layout in the upper left corner on page 104. Then I liked the look of stacking Baroque Motifs’ square medallion shown in the upper left corner on page 146. I added the vertical stripe stamp from the Hip and Handsome Overlays, and you can see how my page came together.
Now it’s time to check out the other inspiring creations from the Design Team members at Utah Diva’s International.
MDS Page Recipe: Stamps- Baroque Motifs, Hip and Handsome Overlays; Paper- Basic Gray Textured CS, Baja Breeze Textured CS, Soft Suede Textured CS, Very Vanilla Textured CS, Kraft (Crumb Cake) Textured CS, Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Basic Black Textured CS; Ink- Basic Black, Basic Gray, Soft Suede; Accessories- Square Punch, Decorative Label Punch, Circle Punch, Hodgepodge Hardware; Fonts- CK Journaling
Hello! I hope everyone is having a good Memorial Day. UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #16 is “Red, White, and Blue” in honor of Memorial Day. I chose pictures taken from a cruise ship leaving New York Harbor. The skyline picture is a panoramic picture that’s a little over 8” wide. I copied and pasted the picture so the 2nd photobox would line up along the right edge. Then I placed the Statue of Liberty picture to cover where the skyline pictures overlapped. It makes it look like one continuous picture across the page. I also changed the shadow on the Statue of Liberty picture to Whisper White, so it looks like the picture is glowing.
Next I used stamps from the July Fourth stamp brush set. I really like that I can change the size of the stamps in MDS. That makes them much more versatile. And gives more dimension to my Fireworks over the New York Harbor.
I finished my page by creating a Red, White, and Blue “ribbon” (using square punches and Textured CS) to balance the bottom of the page. Now it’s time to check out the other inspiring creations from the Design Team members at Utah Diva’s International.
Page Recipe: Stamps- July Fourth; Paper- Night Of Navy Textured CS, Whisper White Textured CS, Real Red Textured CS, Real Red; Ink- Real Red, Marina Mist, Whisper White; Accessories- Square Punch; Fonts- Juice, CK Ali’s Hand
Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #15 – Fit for a Queen. I’ve told you before that challenges are a great way to get inspiration or even a new way to look at your project. That was true for me when I started working on this challenge. I had planned to create a page using pictures of my niece.
As I looked for appropriate pictures, I came across these pictures of my Sheltie, Roxie. Now, she’s a Queen! I have a German Shepherd and so do my parents. In fact, Roxie’s been around 5 different German Shepherds in her lifetime. And she has commanded them all, along with humans in the family.
I chose pictures that show her unique expressions and how she treats the larger dogs she’s around. And the page came together. It’s a basic page where the pictures and journaling tell the complete story of my Queen. Now it’s time to check out all the inspiring creations from the Design Team members at Utah Diva’s International.
Page Recipe: Stamps- Extreme Elements; Paper- Kraft (Crumb Cake) Textured CS, Basic Black Textured CS, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler Striped DSP; Ink- Basic Black, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler; Accessories- Square Punch, Scallop Square Punch, Scallop Edge Border Punch; Fonts- Juice, CK Journaling
