My Why ....

As a new demonstrator to Stampin' Up! I signed up for an extra training course to help ensure my new endeavor gets off to a bang up start - one of the challenges was to create and share your 'my why stampin up story' and to create a 'my why poster' for our own inspiration to keep us motivated in our task! I chose to use the My Digital Studio to capture mine!

It was lots of fun to create and I am looking forward to the next several months worth of challenges to stretch me and my passion for stampin to new levels!

One of a Kind

I have been playing with the MDS again - love how you can plan the layout of a card and then either save for later or use for creating a hybrid card or just use as is for an e-card.

Front of card ... stamped with One of a Kind stamp set and than the Garden Whimsy stamp sets' butterfly layered to help it seem to be lifting off the page. I love how stamping on the page with the same colour as the background, so for this card Tempting Turquoise and Melon Mambo and adding a digital drop shadow seems to give the impression of 'faux embossing' ... too cool!

Inside of card ... hopefully it shows up in the photo but I 'faux embossed' the inside of the card as well by choosing Whisper White from the palette and than giving it a drop shadow which makes the image appear to pop out of the page!Happy stamping and stay cool - it is another scorcher starting out there!

Looking through the Window

I have seen lots of inspirations on the net and at craft shows of the faux tile card - so wanted to play with the technique myself and created this "looking through the window" inspired card ... and yes those are more DAISES ... another great creative feature of the My Digital Studio is that you can re-size your stamps to suit your needs - something a traditional stamp set generally will not do!

Playing with MDS

OK today was a very busy day ... we were busy in the garden and doing some more landscaping in the backyard making a couple garden beds bigger and installing the Bird fountain that the in-laws re-gifted to us! So after all the work I was torn between going down the craft room to recharge my inner soul and staying outside to enjoy the sunshine and the gorgeous view of the gardens in bloom!

Why choose when you can have the best of both worlds with My Digital Studio ... it TOTALLY ROCKS my world man .... not only can you make awesome scrap-booking layouts in minutes - you can also make digital cards which you can either print out same as they scrap layouts and then embellish OR you can just print them out a la carte on their own ... and you can do it will sitting out in your new Zero Gravity Chair listening to the birds surrounded by the gorgeous pansies, lilies and DAISIES in your garden ... Daisy which are the inspiration for my card today!