MDS Monday #25 -- Your Choice

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 :-)

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- 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

MDS Monday #20 -- Celebrate Summer

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

MOJO191 for Father's Day

TGIF! As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been working with My Digital Studio (MDS) a lot lately. Yes, I’m still catching up with my Scrapbooking. (I think I need a “National Scrapbooking YEAR”, not just a month!) Anyway, I love so many of the new products in the Summer Mini Catalog. The Stamps and DSP in the “Nautical Expection Suite” and the “Beyond the Garden Suite” are just meant for my vacation pictures. That means I purchased the MDS Downloads instead of the traditional products this time.

But, I know some of you still want to see card samples with these products. Therefore, I’ll be showing you Digital Cards and Hybrid Cards (part traditional, part MDS). Today’s card is totally Digital. I love that the embellishments look so real, you almost want to touch them to see if they’re really there. My inspiration came from the MOJO Monday MOJO191 sketch and the Paper Players PP46 color challenge -- Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy, and Early Espresso.

Keep MDS in mind if you need to mass produce cards for a Birthday Party, Graduation Party, Bridal Shower, or Birth Announcement. You can completely customize your cards with the fonts and text you choose. I’ll show you more MDS card creations next week.

Please let me know if you have any questions about MDS or you’re interested in a demonstration. Have a great weekend!

Page Recipe:  Stamps- The Open Sea, Textured; Paper- Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Not Quite Navy Textured CS, Nautical Expeditions DSP; Ink- Not Quite Navy, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler; Accessories- Jumbo Eyelet, Square Punch, Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Flag Punch; Fonts- CK Journaling