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Merry and Bright- MDS Blog Hop

2014-12-18T07:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This week we are showing you things we have been making in MDS. I have been playing around with multiple Christmas card layouts and I am going to show you one:

Here is one that would measure 4x9. I liked this size because it let me get the entire house (with the lights) in the picture. I added a simple hand drawn looking border and a greeting using some fun fonts and called it good.

Ok, lets see what Wendy has to share!

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Dear Santa- MDS Blog Hop

2014-12-04T07:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This week we have a theme! It is Winter and/or Christmas Memories or Traditions. I have been thinking about making some sort of Santa Wish list for my daughter so we can keep track of the funny/random/cute things she asks for for Christmas, so this was the perfect excuse to finally make one! After seeing a few super cut ones on pinterest, I went to work and here is what I came up with:

We will ask her the questions and fill them in until she can write. I think this will be so fun to look back at when she gets older! I plan on keeping them all together in a binder of some sort.

Now, lets head over to Wendy!

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Wonderfall Project Life Page- MDS Blog Hop

2014-11-06T05:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This week we are showcasing Project Life by MDS. I was a little nervous about this week, but once I sat down at the computer with MDS open, my page came together so quickly! That is what Project Life is all about...quickly and cutely getting your pictures into an album!

Here is my two page spread:

I used a template, DSP (Wonderfall) and embellishments I already had and made them fit the PL theme. I am happy with how quickly these two pages came together.

See, getting your pictures in an album can be painless!

Now let's see what Wendy has to share!

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First Christmas Card of the Season!- MDS Blog Hop

2014-10-23T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This week we are showing you things we have been working on in MDS.

It is beginning to be the time of year when you need to start thinking of Christmas cards, so I made up one postcard style card. Here it is:

Pretty simple, but this is just one so far....I will make multiple and see what one gets the family vote when done! I will have a blurb about our year on the back of it.

Now lets see what Wendy has to share!

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Home and Party Decor MDS Style- MDS Blog Hop

2014-10-09T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This week we are showing you home decor and/or party decor.

I don't have a new project to show you but a few projects I have made in the past that fit our theme.

First is a "Welcome Back" banner I made for my sisters school to welcome back teachers to the new school year.

Next is a "First Year Picture Timeline" I made for my daughters first birthday. This was fun to make and look back through the first year of her life.

Next is a banner I made using MDS to print out the DSP in the colors I wanted and then made a banner out of them for a cake topper.

Here is a flammable piece that I made using MDS. I printed out the tree trunk and the typed Happy First Fathers Day part and then added my daughters hand prints for the leaves.

I think that gives you a few different ideas as what you can do with MDS. Now lets see what Wendy has for us!

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WCMD Flyer- MDS Blog Hop

2014-09-25T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This week we are showing you the different things we have been working on!

A group of demonstrators where I live have an annual World Card Making Day event and this year I made the flyer in MDS for us to post and hand out for it. Here it is:

I used the Hooray for Parties kit to make the flyer. I was inspired by a fly on saw on mydigitalstudio.net (now I don't know who it was!) that was a half page, but needed mine to be a full page so I changed it up just a bit to work. I love how simple and quickly this came together!

Alright, now lets see what Wendy has been up to in MDS!

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Hannah's First Year- MDS Blog Hop

2014-09-11T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This week we are showcasing print products that we have had printed or want to with the new printer.

I have been working on my daughters first year album for probably about 2 years page by page and I finally got it done and printed! I was so happy when it showed up at my door and to be holding the hard copy of it in my hands! So here are a few pictures of a hardcover 12" x 12" album printed using the new print company through Stampin' Up! (Please excuse the PINK table used to take pictures of the album on...)

Front cover of the album with a nice shiny finish


Colors are bright and true to Stampin' Up! colors

High quality paper, ink and printer make the embellishments look "real"


Pages printed all the way to the edge and book lays flat

Spine stitched together


Back cover of the album with a small bar code printed directly on the album, not a huge deal to me

I am very happy with the printed album I got! I am sure in the years to come we will look at this album to remember Hannah when she was little and all the memories we have.

Ok, on to the next blog on the hop Wendy!

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Cousins Meeting- MDS Blog Hop

2014-08-28T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! We are back and showcasing the Stampin' Up!'s weekly deals again!! This week the Playful Polka Dots kit is on special for only $5.97!! It is a super kit you can use for a variety of uses.

Here is my page:

I didn't use a lot of embellishments on my page as I wanted to keep it simple and clean. And I wanted to showcase a page using this bright kit that is not so bright and flowery as the kit seems to be when you first see it.

Ok, to the next blog, the talented...Wendy!

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Ready to Go!- MDS Blog Hop

2014-08-14T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! Welcome to August! Did you know that digital downloads were are part of Stampin' Up!'s weekly deals? They are and we are going to showcase them in August! I used the Tea Time II kit on my page this week and right now it is only $4.77, for the whole entire kit!! Go get it!!

Here is my page:

It came together so quickly, because the kit comes with some awesome DSP, that lends itself to a quick layout like this! I added a few embellishments, flowers and some journaling and I was done!

Ok, to the next blog, the talented...Wendy!

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Eleven Months- MDS Blog Hop

2014-07-24T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our second hop of the month and so we are showing you things we have been working on! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

I have been trying to get my daughters first year album done for a long time, but since SU! is offering discounted printing through their brand new print service, I want to bust out the last few pages I have to make in the album and get it printed! So here is one of the pages I have been working on for it.

Here she is at eleven months! I saw a layout on Pinterest like this one that I liked, so I CASED it!

We have some exciting news; we have a new design team member! It is the talented Wendy Weixler ! And she is next on the hop, so lets see what she has been up to in MDS!

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Summer Fun aka Busy Summer- MDS Blog Hop

2014-07-10T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our first hop of the month and so we have a theme, Summer Fun! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

Unfortunately, I do not have anything to show you, but lets hop over to Cindy's blog and see what she has to show us!

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Yummy Cookbook- MDS Blog Hop

2014-06-26T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our second hop of the month and so we are showing you things we have been working on! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

This is a project I made just before the end of May, when we could still order boardbooks through SU! I still wanted to share the project with you, because I think it came out so cute! Here it is:

It is a cook book for my daughter to use in her play kitchen! She LOVES playing and cooking in her kitchen, so I thought she needed a cookbook! I had the thought of making her one using a boardbook from SU! for quite some time, but never got around to doing it, until I remembered they were not going to be available for much longer. So one day (about 2 days before the deadline to order a boardbook...eeeek) I decided to get after it and make one! I made up recipes, gathered ingredients, took pictures and then made the cookbook in MDS. It came together so quickly and turned out so cute!

I realize you are unable to get boardbooks, but you could so easily do this this a traditional album too!

Alright, lets see what Amber has been up to lately!

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ABC Love for Daddy- MDS Blog Hop

2014-06-12T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our first hop of the month, so we have a theme...Dad's! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

I was looking through Pinterest and found something cute and simple for fathers day, so I decided to CASE it and make it in MDS. Here it is:

This could be a card front or it could be printed out and framed as well with a few embellishments. This was a quick project, but I think very cute.

Ok, now lets hop on over to Amber's blog and see what she created for this week!

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Printing Money- MDS Hop

2014-05-22T04:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our second hop of May, so we are showing you projects we have been working on! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

My daughter recently got a play register and it came with coins and bills. I knew the minute we bought it we would be needing more bills, because they were going to be stuffed in purses, pockets, crumpled up and hidden away anyplace she could put them. And I was right! A few days later, we only had a few bills left in the register drawer. So I jumped on MDS and made my own bills for her! Here they are:

Back

Front

I had fun designing the bills. :) I made ones, fives and tens.

Now I am ready to be the "Mommy Bank" whenever she may need more bills! It is awesome because I could make them the exact size she needs so they fit in her register perfectly!

Let's hop on over to Amber's blog to see what she has been up to lately!

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Moon and Back- MDS Blog HOp

2014-05-08T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our first hop of May, so we have a theme....mothers!! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

I decided to make a first mothers day card. I think this would be a cute cad for a little boy to give his mom on her first mothers day.

Front

Inside

The moon is from Nursery Necessities and the plane is from Sent with love. I think the quote is so cute. Simple, but cute!

Let's hop on over to Cindy's blog and see what she has created this week!

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Say What?- MDS Blog Hop

2014-04-24T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our second hop of the month, so we are showing you what we have been working on! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

Our daughter has been talking for a little while and she is starting to say some pretty cute and funny things! So I decided to make a book in MDS so we could document them and look back at them someday! I decided to go with a board book from SU! to be a little different and not just thin paper pages like a traditional album has. Here are a few sample pages.

back and front cover

I used the Be Totally Awesome kit for the DSP and the Word Bubble punches for all the word bubbles. I plan on using a permanent ink pen of some kind to record what she says. I kept the layout simple, so her sayings would be the main focal point. (I am not sure why the colors on the pages above look to be antiqued...in real life they are bright and vibrant.)

Let's hop on over to Aly's blog and see what she has created this week!

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Easter Hop!- MDS Blog Hop

2014-04-10T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our first hop of the month, so we have theme, Spring and/or Easter! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

Like our new logo? Big shout out to Cindy for making it for us!

Unfortunately, that is all you are going to see on my blog today, no other fun project.

Let's hop on over to Aly's blog and see what she has created this week!

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Quick Simple Page- MDS Blog Hop

2014-03-27T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our second hop of the month, so we are showing you things we have been working on! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

So this page was super easy....I used a template that SU! already has designed and I didn't even change anything on it! It was a quick way to scrapbook a few recent pictures my husband has taken our our daughter.

This page just goes to show that you do not have to have all the time in the world to scrapbook family memories and photos!

Now, lets see what Aly has been up to!

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Hand Cut Onesie- MDS Blog Hop

2014-03-13T05:00:00.000-06:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our first hop of the month, so we have a theme! We decided to show you what kind of projects you can do using MDS and an eCutter and/or hybrid style. Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

So here is what I made:

A card for my cousin and their new baby! I designed the onesies in MDS using a stamp for the onesie and then I added an overlay over the top of each of them to give them all a little different print and texture. Then, if I had an eCutter, I would have sent it to the eCutter and had it print and cut it out, but I don't, so, I printed them out and cut them by hand out. I sponged the edges once I was done cutting to soften the edges just a bit. I also did the custom greeting in MDS as well. I added a few dimentionals, buttons and twine and my hybrid card was done!

Here you can see the detail of the overlays a little better.

This was a fun card to create, even though I had to cut the onesies out by hand :)!

Now, lets see what Aly made!

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Customized Birth Stat Wall Art- MDS Blog Hop

2014-02-27T05:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our second hop of the month, so we are showing you projects we have been working on in MDS! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

Here is what I made:

It is frame-able subway wall art of my nephew's birth statistics for my sister to hang in his room! Someone gave us something very similar to this when our daughter was born, and it hangs in her room, so I thought it would be so easy to make one for my sister in MDS, and it was! It was nice because I could choose the colors and fonts I wanted to use to match his room decor.

I printed this out at home and put it in a simple white frame and gave it to my sister, she loved it!

Ok, lets see what Aly has been up to in MDS latley!

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Bee Mine?- MDS Hop

2014-02-13T05:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our first hop of the month, so we have a theme! It is "love", very appropriate for this week! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

Here is what I made:

A very simple and quick print at home valentine. This would be cute as a topper on a bag of treats for just printed out and out on a card base. You could even add a little glitter to the wings once you printed it to give it a little more bling!

Alright, lets hope on over to Aly's blog and see what she loves!

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All About you Ryland- MDS Blog Hop

2014-01-23T05:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our second hop of the month, so we have are showing you things we have been working on! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

My sister had a baby about 2 weeks ago and here is one of the things (I do not want to post them all yet, because then she will see them and they will not be a surprise!!) I made for her:

Front and Back

It is journal I designed and had printed through MDS! I have made several journals for new moms and I think they have all really enjoyed them, so I made my sister one too.

And here it is printed! It just came in the mail, so I took a quick picture to show you what it looks like printed! It looks awesome! I LOVE these journals!

Ok, now time to hop over to Aly and see what she has been up to in MDS!

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Hannah's (going to be) Two!

2013-12-19T05:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our second hop of the month, so we have are showing you things we have been working on! Don't forget to stop by our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

Our daughters birthday is at the end of the month, so I made a few invitations for a small birthday party we are going to have for her. Here they are:

Front

Back

I saw a card like this online and liked the simplicity of it. Theirs had a picture for the background, but I didn't want to use a picture, so I used DSP instead and also flipped the entire card to go horizontal. They were so easy and quick to make! The colors I used were Poppy Parade, Blushing Bride, Pool Party and Island Indigo. I also added a few Silver Glitter paper stripes as well.

I needed to mail these soon, so I decided to print them at home and then mount them on to Blushing Bride cardstock. They looked good, but the Glitter paper didn't really look like much, so I added a few Dazzling Details to the glitter paper stripes and it looks great now and they are in the mail!

The fonts I used were KG How Many Times for (Hannah and the main text) and A Gental Touch for the (turning two).

Ok, now lets see what Amber has been up to in MDS!

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Gould Christmas 2013- MDS Blog Hop

2013-12-05T05:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! This is our first hop of the month, so we have a theme, printed products and/or calendars made using MDS! And remember, we still have our Pinterest page with all of our projects pinned!

I decided to share our Christmas card for this year with you. You may recognize it from about a month ago on this hop, but now it is finished (front and back) and and has an updated picture of our daughter. I thought it may be here in time to post a picture of the actual printed card that I ordered, but that is not the case.....here it is in digital form:

Front

Back

So this is the card we decided to use this year! It uses the Jingle and Joy kit. I had fun making the "stationary" on the back of the card for our little greeting.

I love using MDS for Christmas cards! You design one and then print/order as many as you need! It makes it so easy!

Alright...on to the next blog, Aly's!

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Hexagon Thanks- MDS Blog Hop

2013-11-21T05:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the MDS Blog Hop! On this hop we are showing you things we have been working on! And remember, we still have our Pinterest page with all of our projects we have made in the past!

Here is what I have been working on recently:

Front and Back

Inside

It is a Thank You card I made for my sister so she would have easy thank you cards ready after her baby shower. I used the colors of their nursery (Grey, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive and Tempting Turquoise). I didn't make them very "babyish" just in case she had extras so she could use them later for non baby things too.

Are you ready to hop to hop on to the next blog...Aly's!

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