A little MDS

With everything that I have going on in life I have been keeping a binder to keep my life in order from kids activities, appointments, lessons etc, even what days to do which chores!  It was not perfect and I was telling a friend about it at the beginning of the summer.  Well last week my friend sent me a link to a website where a lady does the same thing.  I took some of her tips and combined it with my own and am liking the end result much better.  Now that I have the binder set up better I thought it needed a cover page. 

This was created in My Digital Studio.  Although I used it for a cover page, all you need to do is add in a picture in the frame and it would be a great scrapbook page.  Some of the elements (Well I guess most of them) are not from MDS but the “everything” stamp, the texture overlay stamp (early espresso on the top and left sides), and the alphabet are from MDS.  I love the versatility of MDS and how easy it is to use other products with it.  I have been collecting digital scrapbooking elements for almost 2 years, so it is great to finally start using them!

 

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I just love MDS!

I cannot get over how much I just love playing with My Digital Studio.  It will be available for purchase starting on October 1st, and the exciting news is that you can earn it half off!  My only problem is that I just do not have the time in the day to play with it more.  I have not had hardly any time for me in the last week.

I like to have the family help me plan meals for the week so that they have a say in what they eat.  It has helped my kids take responsibility for what they eat and in general they have started making healthier choices.  They also are more willing to eat the dinner without complaints when they help pick it and I also involve them as much as is possible (and safe) in the cooking process.  I started a while ago taking pictures of some of the foods so that I could make a family recipe book where they could look at the pictures to help remember the dish that I am suggesting to them as we plan.  Well the pictures have just been sitting on the computer doing nothing until MDS came along!  Here is a sample of one of the pages that is in our family recipe book. 

 

This project is just flying together.  I was able to use My Digital Studio to create a page template, which has made the project so easy and they all look the same and fabulous. 

Tools:  My Digital Studio

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Cute, but no stamping

I have so many older retired Simply Scrappin' Kits that I just cannot bring myself to buy the news ones. I really want to try some of the newer kits so I had better get these old ones used up. This project uses the retired Island Blossoms kit. My MIL bought one of these scrapbook box things at a craft fair and wanted to know if it was something that I could make. I finally got around to getting one made. Mine is a little different from the original becuase I felt that the original was just to small.


So my box when it is all closed up is a 4 inch cube (the original was a 3 inch one). I also decided not to glue the three layers together as you can get more pictures in it and I like the idea of seeing each layer as a whole. It still folds up nice and neatly to fit inside the lid. I thought that this would be a fun way for my MIL to display some of her pictures of a trip to Hawaii.

Here are individual shots of what the pages look like. The 3 blank squares on each of the layers is for the photos and then the tags and white boxes are for journaling.



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OK, So it has been a while

To be honest I actually forgot I had a blog until a sweet friend asked me about it, thanks for the reminder Debra! Last week I worked on several projects to send to a friend as part of a secret exchange. Here are some of the projects that I sent to her.

This is a Jacob's ladder scrapbook. I really loved this one and had a hard time parting with it. I loved playing with these as a child and was always fascinated by them, I am so glad that there are instructions out there to make my own so that I can create some special ones for my kiddos. All she needs to do is mount some photos on the black and white mats and it is a fun interactive scrapbook.

Stamps: Wild about You Ink: Blue Bayou, Jet Black Staz On Paper: Blue Bayou DSP, whisper white, basic black Accessories: Blue Bayou double striped ribbon, white and black grosgrain, photo corner punch, black stampin write marker, corner rounder, black brads, sticky strip and snail adhesive, coasters and sanding blocks. I found the instructions on Craft TV http://sbl.tvweekly.com/player.php?c43eadeae46f61fbecd49bde4356b006z872

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