MDS Monday #42 -- CASE a Card

Good morning and welcome to another MDS Monday Challenge. This week’s challenge is to CASE (Copy And Share Everything) a card from the Idea Book or Holiday Mini catalog. Well, I took a little liberty with this challenge. You see, I’ve been working on my Christmas cards and I chose to CASE a Mary Brown card instead. I usually don’t truly copy cards; I tend to use a layout or aspect I like as a starting point. However, I loved everything about Mary’s card and decided to translate it to MDS as one of my personal Christmas cards this year.

The Christmas Lodge set is one of my all-time favorite stamp sets. And the best thing about the Digital Download is that I can re-size it to fit with any project I’m creating! I shrunk the images to make these Tags. And I’ll be enlarging the stamps on some projects you’ll see in the next few days. For this card, I sized the images to match the real-life stamp sizes.

This is also the first card I’ve had professionally printed. And I must say the quality is outstanding. If you need tons of Christmas cards, I highly suggest taking advantage of the new Bulk Pricing and order your Christmas cards this year. I’ll be happy to help you with MDS or ordering, just contact me.

Here's the Digital image of the card:

 Here's the printed copy of the card:

 Here's the inside of the card -- notice you can design both inside panels to coordinate:

 Here's a better picture of the inside greeting, where I'll sign the card:

Now please check out all the other Design Team creations at Utah Divas International. Thanks for stopping by!

MDS Monday #39 -- Christmas Tags

Good morning, and welcome to UDI’s MDS Monday Challenge #39 – Christmas Tags. Our challenge this week is to create a Christmas Tag. I love creating tags with traditional supplies; they’re so small and quick to make. Well, they’re just as easy and quick in MDS, too. I got on a roll and created 4 tags on a single page.

I’d planned to print some MDS pieces and make Hybrid tags, but I ran out of time. So, I’m showing you the MDS images, and you can see how you’d use traditional punches to create Hybrid tags. However, these completed MDS images would make great embellishments for scrapbook pages or Christmas cards. Just remove the “To” and “From” text and replace it with journaling or a stamped greeting. I hope you have fun creating tags this Christmas Season.

Now it’s time to check out the other inspiring creations from the Design Team members at Utah Diva’s International.

MDS Tag #1 Recipe: Stamps- Christmas Lodge; Paper- Frostwood Lodge DSP, Marina Mist, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White; Ink- Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler; Accessories- Antique Brads, Circle Punch, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Flag Punch, Tag Punch; Fonts= Lucida Handwriting

MDS Tag #2 Recipe: Stamps- Christmas Lodge; Paper- Frostwood Lodge DSP, Sahara Sand, Early Espresso, Garden Green Textured CS, Cherry Cobbler Textured CS; Ink- Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler; Accessories- Basic Jewels, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Modern Label Punch, Square Punch; Fonts= Lucida Handwriting

MDS Tag #3 Recipe: Stamps- Bells and Boughs; Paper- Deck The Halls DSP, Crumb Cake Textured CS, Always Artichoke, Soft Suede Textured CS, Cherry Cobbler Textured CS; Ink- Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler; Accessories- Pewter Brad, Scallop Edge Border Punch, Modern Label Punch, Square Punch, 5-Petal Flower Punch, Basic Jewels; Fonts= Lucida Handwriting

MDS Tag #4 Recipe: Stamps- none; Paper- Frostwood Lodge DSP, Marina Mist Textured CS, Early Espresso, Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White; Ink- Cherry Cobbler; Accessories- Staples and Stitching, Scallop Circle Punch, Circle Punch, Round Tab Punch, 2-Step Bird Punch; Fonts= CK Journaling