MDS Blog Hop - refilling my card stash

Good morning MDS Blog Hoppers!  This is the week that we get to show you the projects we've been working on.

Recently I was put on bed rest due to complications with my pregnancy and we've been blessed with friends and neighbors who have sacrificed their own time to help our family out.  We've had visits and meals, people offering to help clean, run errands and take my boys where they need to go each day.  Lying here on the couch it became apparent that I wouldn't be able to stamp any thank you cards and I desperately wanted to!  Then it hit me - make the cards in My Digital Studio!  Stampin' Up! is having a fabulous sale right now on print products so now is the perfect time for me to replenish my stock of cards.  While I'm at it, I may as well do some Father's Day cards too :)

There is a version of this card on SU's website and I adore it!  So, so cute!  I didn't get the Paper Pumpkin kit to make my own :(  but I had fun recreating it in MDS.

My plan for the rest of the week is to make several more cards.  I can't wait to send them off for printing!  Hope you enjoy the the hop this week - there are some great projects!

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

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MDS Blog Hop - Gearing up for summer weather!

You may be thinking: "Hey wait a minute!  We're just barely getting spring weather  - what's with the summer theme?"  Well... that's true for a lot of us.  Mother Nature has been toying with us for the last few months.  However, I looked at the calendar recently and noticed that Summer Break starts in 6 weeks! Not only that, our pool opens at the end of May!  It's definitely time to start thinking about warmer weather.  I hope our projects cheer you up and get you excited for fun in the sun!

I pulled out a couple of pictures from last summer of my son Andrew and his friend Clara goofing around at the pool. They always have a blast hanging out together and this is a fun memory.

I added the circle of patterned paper in the background by first filling the circle with paper, then in edit mode, pulling the paper off to the side so it only filled one quarter of the circle.  I copied and pasted the circle in place three more times and filled it with a different paper, moving it to a different section of the circle each time.  

This month Beth Rush will be joining us as a guest designer and we're thrilled to have her! 

Hope you have fun on the rest of the hop!

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 - Unless...

Hi everyone!  This is one of my favorite weeks of the hop - the week where we get to show what we've been working on.  Last week our PTO president contacted me and asked if I would make some tags for an appreciation gift she was working on for the school's volunteers.  She wanted the tags double sided - the front with a quote from The Lorax and the back with a Thank You.

I didn't want to do a cartoony Lorax tag, but I knew I wanted some bright colors to make it fun.  Here's what I came up with:

For the background of my tag I chose Pool Party and then decreased the opacity until I was happy with the shade.  I placed 8 tags on a page just like I did when I made tent cards for my son's baptism luncheon.  I had a lot of fun playing around with different papers and elements - hope the volunteers like them! 

Now it's time to hop on over to the blogs of the other designers on the team.  Enjoy!

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 Break!

Good Morning!  I'm hoping that wherever you are, you're enjoying lovely Spring weather.  Here on the East coast we seem to have skipped the lovely 70 degree temps and moved straight into 80+.  I have to say, I wasn't expecting to use my air conditioner in April, but I wished for warmer weather so I guess beggars can't be choosers!

Spring Break for my kids was the last week in March and it started out with snow - aack!  Not what I wanted to see happen.  It warmed up a bit through the week, but not much.  Still, my friend Sarah and I braved the cold to go outside with the kids.  I think we're all suffering from cabin fever.  Hidden Pond is one of my kids favorite places to go.  There's a great nature center where we can look at snakes, turtles, crayfish, and skinks.  Have you ever heard of a skink? Neither had I!  The pond is also fantastic for some fishing.  Well...my kids use nets but that's ok. I'm not ready to hand them a pole with a metal hook on the end.  Sadly we only found one little fish on this outing but the kids still had a great time.

I'm a huge fan of Crystal Wilkerson and I use her layouts as inspiration often. This one I outright copied, but I think I've mentioned before that I'm ok with that. :)

I wanted to incorporate some fun bright patterns into this page so I pulled open couple of kits that I loved when I bought, but haven't been able to figure out how to use - Neon Notes and Here and There.  Both kits have really busy patterned paper and I've struggled to find a way to use them without overpowering my page.  This is still a pretty busy layout, but I like the brightness of the page - makes it seem like our Spring Break was sunny and warm!

This month we're really excited to have Monika Davis join us as a guest blogger!  She's really talented and I always love her layouts.  Hope you have fun on today's hop!

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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