MDS Blog Hop - Goodbye Elementary School!

 

 Our countdown to the end of school has begun! We have 13 days left! Can you believe it!?

 It also means 13 more days of our beloved Elementary School. I just love that school, the staff and the people. I was really involved there where my oldest Megan was in the school and I worked completely from home. I would volunteer to do reading, book fairs, make copies, all field trips, etc. My husband has been more involved with our youngest Allison's field trips in the years past. Many teachers jump for joy when they see that he has signed up to go on one. Not kidding! 

On the front, I made my own designer series paper to do the alphabet background which was made with a stamp brush image repeated over and over.  The apple was colored with the color tool - LOVE IT! Just noticed I forgot to add the freeform highlight to the inside apple. Double doo-doo! (yes, I love Grease- heehee)

 

I got these cute cards printed on May 1st as soon as the 25% print promo started and they should be here by Friday. I hope! I plan to give one to all the special people at the school that we have worked with over the past several years, staff and faculty. We will miss them!

Cindy 

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Also thanks Beth for joining us this month! I love your work!

1. Amber Meadows 2. Jeanna Bohanon 3. Julie Leblanc 4. Rochelle Gould 5. Aly Schilling 6. Mandy Grant 7. Kimberly Van Diepen 8. Holly VanDyne 9. Erica Shaw 10. Cindy Schuster 11. Beth Rush - guest blogger!

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MDS Blog Hop - Crafty MDS hybrid project!

A few months ago, my friend Monika (our guest blogger today) asked me to help her hold a Stamp. Scrap, Create and Escape Retreat at her home. (you can read all about it on her blog - see link below how to get there) Of course, I was all up for it! Duh! She asked me to come up with a MDS project possibly hybrid and crafty to demo to the group of ladies.

So this is what happens at 3am..........

One of the reason why I have a notepad on my bedside table! Ha! 

Of course, three hours of searching on Pinterest helps too! :) I have seen these cute quotes on wood blocks in different ways and it inspired me.

I designed it on three 9.25 x 4"postcards. I knew they would need to be heavy duty to be able to Tomboy glue on the wood blocks. Also you will notice that they are smaller then the postcard size. 2x4 wood in actually 3.5" not 4". We had them printed thru SU printing services. I then cut them down to the following three sizes:  4.25 x 3.25 ; 7.25 x 3.25 ; 9.25 x 3.25 and the wood cut at 4.5; 7.5; 9.5.  I found acrylic paint in pool blue and vanilla. I sponged the watered down paint on the wood blocks til I got the color I wanted.

Next was the hybrid part - Fun Flowers die cut with Fancy Fan embossing in Primrose Petals with a Pool Party button and Island Indigo Baker's Twine.  Then a flag framelit cut out of Primrose Petals and finished with left over postcard 1/4" scrap and bitty punch flower/pearl. (this was an add on after the first trial sample)

Here is Leishman sponging her postcards in Crumb Cake. I also showed them how to create the project in MDS and some new features that I used.  Lots of aha's and ooh's. All the ladies loved the project!

What do you think? Love the versatility of MDS! Don't you?

Cindy

 

Thanks for stopping by our blog hop today!

You can always check this our past creations on our Pinterest Page HERE!

Start hopping below and be sure to see everyone!

Comments make us girls blush and smile, so please leave one if you can!

Thanks Monika for joining us this month! 

1. Amber Meadows 2. Jeanna Bohanon 3. Julie Leblanc 4. Rochelle Gould 5. Aly Schilling 6. Mandy Grant 7. Kimberly Van Diepen 8. Holly VanDyne 9. Erica Shaw 10. Cindy Schuster 11. Monika Davis - guest blogger!

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MDS Blog Hop - Spring is sprung!

April is finally here! WOOHOO! And the MDS Blog Hop is back!

In March, my mom and I headed to Gibbs Garden to enjoy the THOUSANDS of daffodil blooms. We went last year a little bit too late to see them in their full glory, so this year we went two weeks earlier to see them. What a beautiful sight!

This page went a long way before getting to this currant design. Another love of mine about My Digital Studio! I started with one of the photo templates in the program and just started playing with all kinds of elements. I ran across the Happy Hello download from the last Sale-a-bration Digital Disc. I loved the chevron pattern and the Marina Mist color to contrast my yellow daffodils. Did you notice my bag? Also used the Spring Break II download for some of the designer series paper. Have you noticed that several of us MDS designers used this download today? It is a MUST HAVE!

Now this page is doing double duty, I am submitting it for the latest MDS.net challenge for "Freebie". I used the Free Label This Designer Template. Our Stampin Up color names are really perfect titles, making it perfect for my page! I love Daffodil Delight too! It is a favorite of mine!

If you have not download this yet, be sure to get it! IT'S FREE!

 Thanks for stopping by our blog hop today!

You can always check this our past creations on our Pinterest Page HERE!

Start hopping below and be sure to see everyone!

Comments make us girls blush and smile!

Welcome my friend Monika Davis! She is joining us this month as our guest blogger!

1. Amber Meadows 2. Jeanna Bohanon 3. Julie Leblanc 4. Rochelle Gould 5. Aly Schilling 6. Mandy Grant 7. Kimberly Van Diepen 8. Holly VanDyne 9. Erica Shaw 10. Cindy Schuster 11. Monika Davis - guest blogger!

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MDS Blog Hop - Easter Decorating with MDS

 

So here is what I worked on over the weekend...a little last minute Easter decorating!

I had this 8x10 canvas and had seen something like this on Pinterest so I knew I could do it with help from My Digital Studio! Plus I am still in a crafty mood after my friend's Pinterest Craft Weekend which I came home with 10 finished projects all from Pinterest! Those eggs in the picture where from that weekend too!

I added the Little Additions bunny stamp brush image with the Celebrate Easter Happy Easter stamp brush image and fun dotted DSP onto two sheets of 8.5x11 (here they are together to show you)

 

Then embellish! Cut the words and added with dimensionals.  Add a banner with the Hearts a Flutter Framelit cut flag, pennant punch in Melon Mambo, Calyspo Coral and Daffodil Delight, and then some Baker's Twine string thru it all. Speaking of baker's twine, see his little pom pom tail? That is SU's own Baker's Twine! Follow this tutorial on how to make them. I made two of them together for the tail. Those are soooo cute!

  

I can't scream loud enough how versatile this program is! And even better, you can get it now for just $19.95 US/$24.95 CAN! AND it now comes with $500.00 of content too! Now is that exciting or what? Raise your hand if you agree! Find out all about it HERE!

 

Happy Easter!

Cindy

 

Thanks for stopping by our blog hop today! 

You can always check this our past creations on our Pinterest Page HERE!

Start hopping below and be sure to see everyone!

Comments make us girls blush and smile!

Thanks to Wendy for joining us this month as our guest blogger!

 

1. Amber Meadows 2. Jeanna Bohanon 3. Julie Leblanc 4. Rochelle Gould 5. Aly Schilling 6. Mandy Grant 7. Kimberly Van Diepen 8. Holly VanDyne 9. Erica Shaw 10. Cindy Schuster 11. Wendy Weixler - guest blogger!

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