Supplies: MDS2+ (130646), MDS2 (130644), MDS2 upgrade (130650), or 30-day FREE trial of MDS2 (130910); Live Your Dreams Stamp Brush Set from Afternoon Tea II Digital Kit(129928); Thoughts and Prayers Stamp Brush Set (comes with MDS); Fancy Fan Stamp Brush Set (127348); Ink Splatters -6 (a feature of MDS2); Decorative Label Punch (123951); Timeless Taffeta Trimmings -knot recolored (131329)

A few days ago there was a post and sample where the edges of a card were sponged using the splatter tool of MDS2. I was inspired by that card to try it myself. When I applied the splatter, it covered my whole card with big splatters…not what I was looking for. So I reduced the size of the splatter immensely and then cropped just the part I wanted to use. I gave it Concord Grape color and copied and pasted it a couple of times. Then I grouped the three splatters so more of the edges could be covered in one copying and pasting. This was time consuming but what better way to spend a stormy afternoon then playing with MDS2!

The background also gave me fits. Normally I can change the drop shadow to a slightly darker color than the card stock and change the opacity of the actual stamp to 0. This gives the impressions that the card stock has been embossed. For some reason that didn't work this time. So I just changed the opacity to about 30 and I like the results.

I chose the Living Your Dreams stamp brush because it is a good candidate for using the coloring tool. I'm sorry I can't tell you where to order it. I haven't been able to find out with what download it arrived on my computer.

I created this card for a customer who was in a serious car accident this week. I am going to print it out and mail it off to her.

Thanks for coming by to visit me in My Digital Craft Corner. Do come back again soon.

Until next time…blessings,
Sue
sue@soggystamper.com

After posting this, I got my answer where I got Live Your Dreams. It is part of the Afternoon ea II Digital Kit. I have added the number in the supply list.

Supplies: MDS2+ (130646), MDS2 (130644), MDS2 upgrade (130650), or 30-day FREE trial of MDS2 (130910); ABC Alphabet Lower  stamp brush set (118823); Howlstooth and Scaringbone Designer Series Paper (129827); Grass Punch from Celebrate Any Day Greeting Card Templates (127757); Alphabet Soup Punches (129015)

I love Facebook for the reason I can get photos of our grandkids and great-granddaughters that their parents share on Facebook but don't mail to us. This scrapbook page features our great-granddaughter last year at Halloween time. This page was fun as much fun to create as Lillie had going to the pumpkin farm and carving her pumpkin. The grass is a punch that comes with the Celebrate Any Day Greeting Card Templates download. You may not want that download for the cards (although they are really cute!), but you will love all the individual parts like this punch and the Any Day punch that I use a lot in my creations.

Thanks for stopping by My Digital Craft Corner today. Do stay and enjoy a virtual (or real) cup of tea or coffee and browse through my projects I have shared here. If you like what you see, then visit my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mydigitalcraftcorner and 'like' me. Also sign up for my monthly newsletter by filling in the subscription form to the right. I'd love to be sending you my newsletter each month.

Until next time…blessings,
Sue
sue@soggystamper.com

Supplies: MDS2+ (130646), MDS2 (130644), MDS2 upgrade (130650), or 30-day FREE trial of MDS2 (130910); Perfectly Penned stamp brush set (130167); Textured stamp brush set (comes with the software for MDS2), Fan Fair Designer Series Paper (127200); Get It Done Punch 1 from the Get It Done Kit (129924)

Welcome to My Digital Craft Corner today! I love the Fan Fair Designer Series Paper in the traditional form and am delighted that it is also available digitally. I also love adding designer series papers to punches. I think this punch from the Get It Done Kit is the perfect punch for this particular dsp and, of course, I love layering punches to make frames around the image.

Today is my downline's birthday and like the excellent procrastinator I am, I didn't get a card stamped and mailed to her. MDS2 to the rescue!!!! I created this card and emailed it to her so she would get it on her special day. With MDS2, we don't need to use the commercial e-card companies and our friends and relatives can be sure that a virus isn't accompanying the card.

Have you tried MDS2 yet? Why not? Stampin' Up! offers a 30-day free trial and I am here to help you get started. So go click this link now to sign up for the free trial. You have nothing to lose.

Until next time…blessings,
Sue
sue@soggystamper.com

                                           Get It Done Digital Kit

Supplies: MDS2+ (130646), MDS2 (130644), MDS2 upgrade (130650), or 30-day FREE trial of MDS2 (130910); Everything Eleanor stamp brush set – flourish (130859); Fancy Frames (131330); Everything Easter Ensemble (129363); Petite Pennants Scallop punch (127352); Beautiful Butterfly Shapes – 1 (125512)

Today is Terrific Tuesday because today, Stampin' Up! releases new digital downloads to sauge our hunger for new content. Click here to see today's downloads and place your order for those you want. You will find them on the right-hand side of my demonstrator online store front. I did not order any today because I haven't even shown you some of the ones I got last week. I initially passed on the Fancy Frame download because I didn't like the bold colors of the frames. Then I remembered that now we can recolor them with the new MDS2 update so I got them. I recolored this frame Regal Rose and think this is the perfect frame for our littlest great-grandaughter's picture. I wanted to create a banner with the pennants and attach the title to the top of the banner. I did it a hard way with a lot of fussing and then applied a drop shadow to all the punches on the page. Guess what…I ended up with a drop shadow from the curved line up to where the line would have been if it had been straight! Ugh! Guess what else…they really mean it when the little warning comes up that applying a drop shadow to the whole page can't be undone. :o( I had to group the pennants so their alignment wouldn't be ruined and move them out of the way. Then I deleted the line and the text and started over on that part.

After several times of attaching the text to the line, I decided that the text would always be attached at the beginning of the line and would always have a little tail of line extra at the end. So I made the line invisible by making the opacity 0% and added the drop shadow to the text at this point.

Then I created a new line and colored it Crumb Cake and curved it to match the curve of the pennants. I also learned that you can adjust the curve of the line by pulling down the bottom gray squares and leaving the width the same. This avoids having to double click on the line each time you adjust it. Finally I moved the title line in place adjusting the curve to fit. It was a bit of a hassle but I am quite pleased with the end results.

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Until next time…blessings,
Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com

Supplies: MDS2+ (130646), MDS2 (130644), MDS2 upgrade (130650), or 30-day FREE trial of MDS2 (130910); Inspired by Nature Stamp Brush Set (124473); Textured Stamp Brush Set (comes with MDS and MDS2), Convention 2012 Curvy Frame Punch from Convention 2012 Photobook Template (130971); Timeless Taffeta Trimmings long bow (131329)

Welcome to My Digital Craft Corner this evening. I wanted to show you tonight how much just a little adjustments to a good design will make a project into an outstanding design. The card above is nice enough. I colored the stamp set with the coloring tool which upped the appeal a notch from the sold black image. However, the background of Raspberry Ripple looks a little blank to me. So I added the texture stamp with an opacity of 50% and resized to fit the card. That helped. Then I decided to add a Basic Gray mat to the punch. Now the card looks GREAT!

By adding just two more simple features to the card, I made it stand out. If you need the supplies to create this card yourself, either click on the links or visit my online store to order them.

Thanks for coming by to visit my blog. Come back tomorrow to see what goodies Stampin' Up! brings us on Terrific Tuesday.

Until next time…blessings,
Sue
sue@soggystamper.com

Supplies: MDS2+ (130646), MDS2 (130644), MDS2 upgrade (130650), or 30-day FREE trial of MDS2 (130910); Seasonal Sayings Stamp Brush Set (121217) and Ink Splatters 4 (part of the MDS2 content); Candy Cane Lane Photocard Designer Template (122177) Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper pattern 3; 1.25 Square punch (comes with MDS2) and Any Day Punch from Celebrate Any Day Greeting Card Templates (127757); Timeless Taffeta Trimmings – Long Bow (131329)

Today while I was downloading the flyer for the Single Stamp promotion of the Seasonal Sayings Stamp set, it hit me that this would make a great frameable wall art. However, the image you get with a stamp would not be big enough to make good wall art. So….MDS2 to the rescue. I have the Seasonal Sayings stamp brush set in MDS2 and with the new program it is scaleable! Here is the end result of my inspiration.

Since we are living in school housing and will be traveling next year, I don't want to purchase pictures to decorate the walls of the trailer. But…I can create wall art and hang it up for very little expense. I recolored the Timeless Trimmings bow from Basic Grey to Real Red. If I had started with a Whisper White bow, the recolor would have been too light so I chose a dark color to start with. I really liked the color when I recolored with Raspberry Ripple but it was darker than I wanted.

Thank you for coming to visit today. I am trying toincrease the number of 'likes' on my facebook page so if you like my samples, would you please go to https://www.facebook.com/mydigitalcraftcorner and 'like' the page.

Until next time…blessings,
Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com

Supplies: MDS2+ (130646), MDS2 (130644), MDS2 upgrade (130650), or 30-day FREE trial of MDS2 (130910); Stamp brush sets – Forever Young (123145) and Elementary Elegance from a Sale-a-Bration CD for the saying; Springtime Vintage Designer Series Paper pattern 6 (122172); Convention 2012 curvy frame punch from the Convention 2012 Photobook Template (130971)

I learned about the new Rip Photo Edge option in MDS2 this week and created this Halloween scrapbook page in this post. Then I got to wondering if I could use that feature to distress the edge of a layer of dsp. I decreased the width of the tear to 30 which resulted in a very subtle irregular edge on the layer. I might have needed to increase it a little more to realy make the distressing more noticeable. However, I do like the end result. The 'Hello' comes from the Elementary Elegance stamp brush set which is on one of the Sale-a-bration CDs. I think it was last year's. I didn't realize it wasn't available online or I would have used a different greeting. Sorry! :o(

If you haven't played with the Rip Photo Edges feature yet, I challenge you to do so and then share with me your creation. I'll share it online with you as a guest artist! Have a great weekend.

Until next time…blessings,
Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com

Supplies: MDS2+ (130646), MDS2 (130644), MDS2 upgrade (130650), or 30-day FREE trial of MDS2 (130910); Vintage Overlay stamp brush set (121061); Wicked Cool – spooky stamp brush set from Wicked Fun Designer Kit (127609); Spooky Bingo Bits – spider web stamp brush set (127616); 1.25 Square Punch comes with MDS2 and Punch Shapes (118853)

Sorry I have been lax in posting to my blog the last few days. I am back! I learned on www.mydigitalstudio.net that MDS2 now has a Rip Photo Edges feature that is so cool.

You have to add your designer series paper as a page layer or add a photo frame from the Design Center and drag the dsp into the photo frame. If you add it to the photo frame, you can resize the photo frame without possible pixilation of the dsp. When the dsp is added as a page layer, you will get the pixilation warning if you try to enlarge the frame. Whether you add the dsp as a page layer or in a photo frame, double click on the frame and you will find the Rip Photo Edges feature about half-way down. Clicking on this opens a Rip Photo window. You can click on the boxes to select which side to rip…I did all 4…and you can choose the rip width. I used a width of 50. Then I played with changing the dimensions of the square until I got a torn shape I liked. The resulting piece reminded me of the little pieces of paper you tear when you are doing paper machet.

Let's just say that I had a ripping good time creating this scrapbook page. Since I don't dress up for Halloween and since our grandkids don't send pictures of themselves at Halloween, I didn't add a picture. Or maybe I was the incredible invisible woman last Halloween and you just can't see the picture…LOL!

If you haven't ordered the Wicked Fun Digital Kit and the Spooky Bingo Bits stamp brush set yet, just click on their names in the supply list to be taken directly to those items in my demonstrator online store or visit my store by clicking here. I have really gotten a lot of use from these sets and they will never retire!

Thanks for coming by to visit today. Tomorrow is Terrific Tuesday so come back to see what I do with some of the new downloads.

Until next time…blessings,
Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com