More from My Digital Studio

I am finding it hard to find time to get to my blog these days. Currently, I have my granddaughter here for a second week this summer. It is a joy to have her here. She loves to craft and is working on a scrapbook at the ripe young age of 6.

I will show you two cards today, and I will not comment so much on every item I used, but on some of the great features of the MDS software.

On this first card, I started with the medallion in artichoke, then added the border on the right. Next I created the 'label' on the bottom right with two oval punches layered, then two modern label punches layered. The words were created with a text box and a font I had on my computer. This is one great thing about MDS - any fonts you already have on your computer will automatically be moved into the program. I added the 'brads' and then left the design as it was for a couple of weeks. 

When I came back to the design, I decided I wanted more overall coverage, so I added the vintage overlay digital stamp, reduced the opacity to 1/2 (another very useful feature) and moved it back until it was under the label but still on top of the medallion and border. The other colour I used for the brads and one of the ovals was rich razzleberry. I am not a big fan of the digital embellishments like the brads and next time, I will probable use real brads instead. It would probably have helped if I had added a drop shadow to the brads for a more realistic look. The rest of the card I am quite satisfied with. 

I printed the card front on whisper white c/s  and trimmed it, leaving a 1/4" border of white. I made a 5x6 1/2 " card base from razzleberry c/s and attached the front. Finally I added the satin razzleberry ribbon.

For the inside, I used just the border and the vintage overlay. The great thing is, I have this project saved now and can reuse it, changing the sentiment as needed. This is such a great time saver when you find yourself looking for a card at the last minute.

The second card is a recreation of a template that you can buy from SU ready to use. I did not like the face that the white areas were actually vanilla on the original, so I used the daydream medallion stamps that come with the template to make my own version. 

 This is a fairly acurate copy of the original. I made one medallion group, minus the mustard center design, then 'grouped' it and copied and pasted it three times.

Then I added the centers to the medallions.  For the 'thanks' medallion, I added a label punch, colour filled it and layered the word on top. A drop shadow makes it look like the label is popped up on dimensionals.

The rhinestone brads are real and attached after I printed and trimmed the card front.

Colours used were mustard, white, olive, marina mist, and navy. The navy mat and mustard card base are SU c/s. As you can see, I am lucky that my printer puts out colours that are a very close match to SU products.

I know there is a way to copy this whole page, paste it on another page and reduce the opacity so that I can print a message over it . I have to work with this program more to learn more of the features.

I have a couple of earlier posts which feature MDS here and here, if you want to see them. On the first one, Holiday Bells, I misspoke when I said it was my first foray into digi stamps. In fact, what I meant to say was my first time to purchase a stamp elsewhere than Stampin'Up!. If you have MDS and you purchase stamps elsewhere, you can load them straight into the MDS program and have instant access to them.

Okay, it is time to go spend more time with a very patient 6 year old..