Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge 319 (TSSC319)

Here we go again!  Love Monday's---even when my whole house is sick!  What a pain in the butt that is!  This is not the time of year we are supposed to get sick--it really seems worse because my son has all his final exams and he is either missing days or going and taking finals not feeling well--both are bad.  Oh well, that is how it goes sometimes.  Let's just focus on this week's sketch--hope you can find time to play along....

What do you think? I think it looks fun and I can not wait to play with it a bit more--due to being sick my card was done on MDS and not too creative--sorry.   Although I do need some of these grad cards.

 

now for the design teams samples

they ALWAYS rock the sketches...

Robbie

Tanya

Mary Brown

Nicole Tugrul

Sue Root

 Jonia

And now it is your turn. But be sure to come on back after and link up your card to the linky tool below.  Here are some basic rules for the challenge....

1. You have a full week to play along!
2. Create a new card using the sketch as your inspiration.
3. Use any products you choose.
4. Add your card to your blog or other on-line spot and link back to this challenge.
5. Come back here and add a direct link to your sample for the challenge and NOT you home page of your blog--people will not look for your challenge card--trust me.
6. And this one is not really a rule but a request--get rid of that word verification!  It makes it hard for us to comment on your samples.  It is easier for you to delete the spam then for us to jump through tons of hoops to comment.  If your put your comments on moderation you do not have to worry about spam--you will have the option to delete it BEFORE it ever goes on your blog so you will ALWAYS be safe!
7. Have fun and tell you friends to play too! 
   Add your sample below
   Thanks for playing along!
   Mary Jo

Staff Appreciation Lunch at Middle School!

I thought I would share a few pictures of the Luncheon I did at the Middle School this year since I used My Digital Studio to make most of the decorations.  So fast and easy.  Sorry for the "not so good" pictures--it is always the last thing I think of on event day and get them in really fast and of course miss a bunch! 

I know the Sweets Loading Zone Picture is blurry but that was a fun one and I wanted to share it anyway.  

The event went really well and I know the staff of 170 appreciated it !  And I hope they know how much we appreciate what they do for our children! 

Happy Wednesday!
Mary Jo

Monday Lunchtime Sketch Challenge 264 (TSSC264)

Wow, this month is just flying by--glad to have nice weather though!  Thanks so much for stopping by today-it's Monday so that means I have a brand new sketch challenge for you to play along with.

Here are some basic rules for participation..

1. You have a full week to play along!
2. Create a new card using the sketch as your inspiration.
3. Use any products you choose.
4. Add your card to your blog or other on-line spot and link back to this challenge.
5. Come back here and add a direct link to your sample for the challenge and NOT you home page of your blog--people will not look for your challenge card--trust me.
6. And this one is not really a rule but a request--get rid of that word verification!  It makes it hard for us to comment on your samples.  It is easier for you to delete the spam then for us to jump through tons of hoops to comment.  If your put your comments on moderation you do not have to worry about spam--you will have the option to delete it BEFORE it ever goes on your blog so you will ALWAYS be safe!
7. Have fun and tell you friends to play too!

And now for the sketch....

I have been working on a bunch of card sets for our staff at the middle school.  Today I am sharing my fifth set.  This one is a hybrid card--I do not have that many school themed cards and I am trying to make some of the sets gender neutral so I opened MDS and created the center image for my cards.  Kept this set super simple and used black and read--don't know why that always makes me think of school????

I am excited that this also fits the new bi-weekly challenge on Latenightstampers --we are making gifts for teachers! 

Now that you seen the sketch and my sample let's move on to the real talent -- my fabulous design team and their samples....

Mary Brown

Carolyn Bennett

Tanya

Nicole Tugrul

Eileen LeFevre

Jonia Smith

Robbie 

Sue Root

I told you they were talented!  Now we want to see what you do with the sketch!
Be sure to hop on back and add your sample to the linky tool below.
Thanks, Mary Jo

More MDS--card for two challenges

One more--can you tell I have not moved from this seat yet!  Geez--I have no desire to do anything that involves moving today, lol.  So why not create right here in my seat!

For my sketch challenge for this week and the LNS color challenge too!

Background
     Card Stock\Old Olive

Stamps
    _Designer Kits\A Little of This\A Little of This - flag, Color = SUMMER STARFRUIT 214,183,67
    _Designer Kits\A Little of This\A Little of This - flag, Color = 157,36,51
    First Edition\First Edition - blossoms, Color = 0,0,0

Punches
    Basics\Medium Oval Punch, Fill Color = 225,225,224

Photos
    Designer Series Paper\Flirtatious - designer series paper\Flirtatious - 6

Now I really am going to get out of this seat!!!!

Mary Jo
 

MDS--My Journey

Playing around with My Digital Studio today--thought I would mess with a type of Book of Me--digital style.  One page down, lol.

A simple cover page--got to start somewhere!

Background
     Designer Series Paper\Love Letter - designer series paper\Love Letter - pattern 4

Embellishments
    Staple & Stitching\Chocolate - Simple Stitches corner 3 (re-colored)

Stamps
    Daring Adventure\Daring Adventures - feet, Color = 0,0,0
    Daring Adventure\Daring Adventures - feet, Color = 0,0,0
    Daring Adventure\Daring Adventures - feet, Color = 0,0,0
    Daring Adventure\Daring Adventures - feet, Color = 0,0,0
    Daring Adventure\Daring Adventures - or nothing, Color = 0,0,0
    Splatters\Ink Splatters\Ink Splatter 2, Color = 0,0,0

Photos
    Designer Series Paper\Vintage Overlays - designer series paper\Vintage Overlays - texture 10 

and photo of me

 

Raining ugly day!  Off to work out and see if that makes me feel more energetic--feeling really lazy today.

Mary Jo

When Pigs Fly....

that is when I will stop loving you! 

I have been wanting to make a card with this cute pig and the wings for so long--today's sketch challenge on Splitcoaststampers was perfect for it...

 Probably one of the easiest cards I have ever made, the dp form the Sycamore Street pack along with the clouds embossing folder make the back ground so easy--then just a bit of typing on MDS quick stamp and cut and there you have it--You Know What They Say!

Stamps: Button Buddies, Affection Collection

Paper: Island Indigo, Whisper White, Sycamore Street DP

Ink: Primrose Petals, Island Indigo 

Other: embossing folder with clouds, marker, button, glitter on wings (very light), MDS

Hope you enjoyed today's fast post.

Lots to do with my son home from school for winter break.

See You Soon!

Mary Jo

Facebook Timeline Header

So I was too lazy to get my but out of the warm bed this morning but didn't want to keep sleeping--so what's a girl to do???? I reached over and grabbed my laptop and open my MDS (My Digital Studio) and started playing.  I wasn't really sure what I wanted to so since I have limited stuff on my laptop but then I thought about a header for my timeline on Facebook--one for the upcoming holiday

VALENTINES DAY--THE SEASON OF LOVE!

here is what I can up with--not too bad considering the limited amount of images I had on the laptop to work with--I actually like it--and it was so easy I can change it out again and again and again and---well you get the idea!

I do not have a Facebook business page--just my personal page--want to see it in "action"

My Facebook Home Page

With the new MDS2+ it was easier than ever!  Just open a new project.  Pick custom from the new project screen.  When it opens change the inches to pixels and set a custom size to
851 pixels wide and 315 pixels
This will fit perfect without stretching--if you make it smaller it will get stretched and if you make it too big it will not load.  After you have your blank canvas just design like a mini scrapbook page or card front.  One thing to keep in mind is that this is a pretty small area when you add stamps or elements they are HUGE and need to be re-sized--you may need to move them around to find the corner to shrink--or you can always use the re-size tool but to me that is more difficult.  Please feel free to ask if you have questions.  But remember Blogger does not show e-mails unless you have your google account set to share--so leave a reply e-mail or check back for the answer in the comments section!
Happy Creating!
Mary Jo

VC Rocks Final Blog Hop of the year.

Welcome to the final blog hop of the season for the VC Rocks' crew!  Another sad reminder that the summer is almost over--I want a re-do!  But although I am sad about my summer coming to a close there is good news too!  And that is the fact that there are 19 stops on this blog hop and the crazy talented members of the group are going to be sharing so many creative ideas with you that your head will be spinning!  The theme of this hop is Punches-Big Shot and Score Board projects.  I believe I used all of those and the MDS too!  So I suggest you find a comfy seat and enjoy the hop.  If you just came here from Jane's Stamp With Jane blog then you are on the right path but if this is your first stop that is great too, you can just keep right on hopping along until you end up right back here--that way you won't miss anything.  And of course if you get lost at any time you can always visit the VC Rocks home page and see the complete list of hoppers along with the links to their blog.  So no worries--just enjoy yourself.

My projects will begin with a few more teacher gifts.  That is the challenge on the Latenightstamper's group for the week and it is so appropriate as my son will be going back to school soon and I never send him empty handed!  I shared a few projects with you already in the previous post so if you missed those you might want to come on back after the hop and see them.

The first project is using the score board, bigshot and the MDS program.  It is a simple 2/4/6/8 box that is full of pencils for my son's teacher.  You know that is something that a teacher can never have too many of.  I decorated the box with a scallop cut on my big shot with the Tasteful Trim Bigz Die, then I added a cute saying created on the MDS to the front and finished it off with a tag cut from the Two Tags die.  Simple, fast and practical!  Score one for me!

 The next project also using the the score board, bigshot and the MDS program.  This one needs you to use just a tiny bit of imagination because it is supposed to be filled with homemade cookies but since my son does not go back to school until September 6th I thought I better wait a bit before I baked them, lol!  So use your imagination and pretend this cute box is filled with delicious homemade chocolate chip cookies--I can smell them already!

Again it is another simple box but I cut a window in it using the Apothecary Accents Framelits and the big shot.  The saying was done on MDS!  Again, quick, cute and this time yummy!

The final project is a big one for me.  Our church is hosting it's second annual women's retreat in September and these will be used there.  Again you may need a bit of imagination here--sorry.  They are decorated bags with matching decorated clothes pin magnets.  Last year we did the sweetest thing throughout the retreat.  We took time to write little "love notes" to the other women.  Just little notes saying we were glad to meet them, or that we enjoyed spending time with them or that they inspired us or any other little thing you could think of to lift up and encourage our sisters in Christ.  The bags that we used to hold the heart shaped pieces of paper with the notes on them kept falling over and it was difficult to find the right bag to put the notes into--each bag has someones name on it.  So I thought it would be fun to decorate the bags and hang them on a clothes line with matching decorated clothes pin magnets that the ladies can keep and use after the retreat as a reminder.  Hope this makes sense-Here is an individual bag--there will be names on each bag by the flowers.

And here a few of them hanging on a "line".  I still have a bunch more to make but they fit this theme well since I used punches for the flowers and the big shot for the butterflies on the magnets!

Each bag will be the same layout and design they will just use different colors and designs--I am using some of my retired DP that I have way way way too much of, lol!  I hope you enjoyed my project for this hop.  Now you can jump on over to see what the talented Barb Furlong has in store for us on her blog!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Mary Jo

Digital Scrapbook Page

For the challenge on Sudsol this week!  It was such a simple sketch I had to make a quick page.  That is what is so great about the MDS program, you can make a page in just 15-20 minutes and be all cleaned up at the touch of a button!  Wish all my cleaning was this easy!

Here is the sketch...

Quick and easy.  I don't get many pictures of my men dressed up, lol.  They are the type who love to be dirty--working on cars, riding or fixing things--always into something and generally not into dress clothes!

Hope you have a great Thursday!
Thanks for stopping by.
Mary Jo

LNS--Trash to Treasure!

This week on the Latenightstamper's group our challenge is to go GREEN use something that would be trash on your project.  This is one of those challenges that generally make me cringe and wait to the last minute to do.  Not because it is hard but mostly because I am lazy, lol.  I like the fast gratification of making cards--not too much thinking just kind of do.  But you need to do a little thinking to turn a piece of garbage into something you can use again.  But I think I made it work--although I did wait till the last minute as always.  I have a few of these containers sitting around because I was wondering if cards would fit in them but I was too lazy to check when I thought about it and too forgetful to remember to bring in down to my craft room on the other times. So I figured today is the day--I grabbed the empty Cascade packet container (love these) and crossed my fingers that cards were gonna fit--and I am happy to say that YES!!! they do.  I actually got 25 cards into this with five separators.  Would make a great gift don't you think?!

I didn't like the way the top was so crooked so I just took it off and decorated the rim and then made the tabs stick out a bit above the top.  I separated the cards into five categories of Birthday cards--Feminine, Masculine, Teens, Children and General and added five of each card with envelops.  The wording was done on the MDS.   Hope you enjoy, off to see the fireworks now!

Happy today!
Mary Jo

ABC challenge on LNS!

ABC Anything but a card--LNS Latenightstamper's Yahoo Group

It is the last few days of school, the count down--being active in the PTO means that this last few days are CRAZY!!!  But fun.  I have not had much time to do any crafting but you know I have to make something for the LNS challenge, after all I am the co-DT coordinator.

So you can probably guess what that means

MDS to the rescue

I know more letters--My Digital Studio!

Made this quick page of my son at his last middle school field days.

If don't have this program you should really consider it.  It is so fun and you can create without making a mess and bring out all your supplies!  NICE!

Hope you week went well and that your weekend if full of all the fun things you like to do.

We will be working the Lawn Fete at the church that sponsors our Scouts--so may not have much crafting time at all---but...

Be sure to stop back tomorrow for the second VC-Rocks blog hop!  Lots of fun card ideas!  

See ya then, Mary Jo

Playing with my MDS.

I love how this page turned out.  I used the inspiration challenge from Latenightstampers for the colors and layout.  Of course the ONLY supplies used were My Digital Studio!  Fast fun and oh so EASY--and no mess to clean up afterwards.

I wish there was more time in a day.  You may see lots more of the MDS from me over the next few days as I fell coming out of a Women's meeting at a local church last night and I can barely walk, my ankle is messed up.  But I am hoping I can "walk" it off, or drag it off, limp it off, which ever works.  I have toooooooo much to do to be in one spot!

Mary Jo

Three Clover's Thursday Challenge Week 42

I have had this done for a while(over a month)--I even sent it to SU for the "What can you do with the MDS challenge" and knew that it would be perfect to post for today's Thursday Challenge--and believe it or not I am still late--what the heck!

Anyway the challenge that Kerry gave us for this week is to create a gift! What fun--this is the simplest idea for the MDS yet. You can match your clothes and accessories to your stamped cards, got to love that. I printed the images onto iron ons and then simply followed the directions to add them to the t-shirts. Then the rest of the project just grew from there. Hope you like it.







Don't forget to check out what the other girls did by clicking HERE.

Have a great day,
Mary Jo