Under the sea - my swap for convention.

It's a late start today after the awards night last night, so limited time to share (sorry).

I snapped my demo swap which my roomie & BFF Donna now is the owner of as it doesn't appear that I snapped one with my camera before giving them all away. I chose the colour combo from the Sale-a-bration DSP we received this year: Pool Party, Summer Starfruit, Sahara Sand, Tangerine Tango. I wanted to give the illusion of an aquarium as I was/am in a semi-tropical city. Though apart from eating crisp melons there hasn't been too much semi-tropical about Brisbane & the weather has been very much like home was.

I KR-eated the recipe with My Digital Studio (MDS) as it looked so much prettier than just a word document.

And talking about MDS one of the fun breakout classes yesterday was MDS, Yes! with the lovely & talented Shannon West & I now can re-KReate one of these cards & I learnt a lot of tips along the way which I can't wait to share,

I'll try & logon again later & share some party piccies as they're a lot of fun but another full on day & night planned so no promises, enjoy your weekend all I know I'm going to enjoy mine.

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Brisbane day 2 & take one notepad

Hi all just a very quickie post as "someone" thought it would be nice to arrange a team breakfast meeting at 7am, so I could meet some of my team mates - I belong to one of the biggest teams in NZ & I think there are over 40 of us at the meeting. On a smaller scale I have 3 of my own downline with me Donna Blackmore, Judy Beetson & Sally Williams & these altered notepads are my take on the front cover of our current seasonal catalogue - one for each of us.

The "Brisbane" in Calypso Coral was printed with MDS on vellum card stock.

Well day one was leadership for me and a full on afternoon & night it was but we were treated like stars - more piccies & new to follow I'd better go shower & get ready for day 2.

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Time to play dress up

WOW I can't believe how much I enjoyed making this card, it brought back such happy memories of dress up paper dolls as a child.

This is one of the projects from my feminine class last night. I'll share the second after tomorrow's class which is always a repeat of Friday's class.

 I still have room for a few more in tomorrow's class if anyone wants to have a play.

One of the other fun things on this card was printing out the sentiment using MDS as I didn't own the Delightful Dozen stamp set  - well I won't have to say I don't have the right stamp ever again, with MDS I can have them ALL!

I can safely say that everyone at class also enjoyed making the card,  it was fun bringing out the inner child in us all.

The recipe is below but the gorgeous satin Pool Party ribbon for her belt was a SAB reward & is not available for purchase but a wee strip of pool party would work equally as well.

Item	Item No.	Price (+5% shipping)
Delightful Dozen stamp set MDS on card (p. 141 AC)	122650 W 122652 C	$68.95 $54.95
*Oh, Hello stamp set (p. 4 Seasonal Mini 2013)	130730 W 130733 C	$54.95 $43.95
*Ovals Collection Framelits dies (p. 4 Seasonal Mini 2013)	129381	$55.95
All Dressed Up Framelit dies (p. 32 Seasonal Mini 2013)	130101	$51.95
Decorative Label punch (p. 182 AC)	120907	$35.95
Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack (p. 183 AC)	118309	$35.95
More Amore Speciality DSP (p. 10 Seasonal Mini 2013)	129309	$26.95
5/8” Vanilla flower trim (p. 5 Mini)	126869	$14.50

*Oh, Hello Bundle (stamp set & oval framelits) – page 4 save 15%

Cardstock Colours:

Real Red, Pool Party, Primrose Petals, Very Vanilla (p. 152-156 AC)

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My first digital KReation

So no laughing as it's my 1st go - but I played with opacity, worked out how to do layers, so the ribbon would go behind the punched image all by myself after watching just 2-3 videos on You Tube.  So yes My Digital Studio is easy to use.

This is a thank you card to Linda for some lovely flowers she gave to me - so rather than a stamped image I have used the photo of the fabulous flowers for my "fantabulous you" card

I've tweaked or torn a back muscle so when it's right going to play some more & make a few scrapbook pages.

But if you haven't downloaded the 30-day free trial of mds - I'd say definitely have a go, you have nothing to lose.

Ciao for now.

More free digital downloads for NZ

As well as the 30-day free trial of mds - it looks like we can also download other freebies.

Check out this link to see what else is available for FREE - I can not wait for the long weekend to be here so I can play - this will be much better for me than chocolate.

try My Digital Studio for FREE for 30 days

MDS & online ordering are here if you'd like to trial it for FREE for 30 days click HERE (be warned it's a huge download - nearly 1 GB) - I'm really looking forward to playing with it tonight & over the upcoming long weekend though.

mds is coming

and you ask what is mds?? It stands for My Digital Studio - it sounds like it's arrival down under is imminent so thought I'd share the excitement with you - stay tuned for more updates.

3 sleeps to go now & owlfully cute

This card was swapped with me by Rachael Knight who actually has created this using one of our mds digital collection discs called Remember December - so it's no stamping! but it's so realistic you think it has been - being 3D (as she's done some paper toile) creates the illusion but talk about a really quick way to make a lot of Christmas cards. The stamp set is available in our new Holiday Catalogue & isn't called owfully cute (but it is) but is called Owl Occasions as it can be used for birthdays too! Set of 14 stamps.

So what's new today: mds (which stands for My Digital scrapbook), Owl Occasions & Dazzling Details glitter glue.

Rachael's comments "this is a hybrid project using MDS content in Microsoft Word. I used a laser printer to print on Whisper White cardstock, then layered it up & added embellishments".

Well Rachael says she's not very techno savvy but I think she's owfully clever!!!