Welcome to My Digital Studio Monday. I love using My Digital Studio to create quick cards without having to haul out all my supplies. Last week I was in a rush to get little Easter treats in the mail for our grandkids and great-grandkids. I realized at the last minute that I should also send a card to their parents so I printed out this card I shared last week. I trimmed it down and layered it onto Wild Wasabi card stock and then onto a Whisper White card base. I had six cards completed in less than an hour!!! Gotta love My Digital Studio!

Now on to today's card.  I used three Wide Oval punches resized and rotated to fit the egg and colored-filled them with Wild Wasabi color. Then I used two Fun Flowers Shapes #3 punches ovelapped and resized to color the center flower with Regal Rose color. I used a small circle punch filled with Daffodil Delight for the two smaller flowers. I was surprised how adding the drop shadow to the black layer of the egg gives depth throughout the whole egg. I used Cottage Wall Designer Series Paper #8 at 50% opacity to fill a square punch stretched into a rectangle for the DSP layer.

Stamp Brush Set: Easter Blossoms – egg (124436)

Designer Series Paper: Cottage Wall #8 (124560)

Other: Square and circle punch from Punch Shapes (118853)
        Decorative Label punch (123951)
        Fun Flowes Shapes #3 punch  (124453)
        Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon and Bow (121063)

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. This was the first year of no rain on Easter after several rainy years so we were blessed with a wonderful Easter Sunrise service. 'Course, the sun rises here at about 5:30 am now but we held the service at 7:00 am anyway. Not many people would get up at 5:30 even on Easter.

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Happy Stamping,
Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com

Usually every Tuesday, Stampin' Up! offers new downloads for My Digital Studio. This past week the Handpicked for Mom card template was one of the downloads we could order. I just LOVE the composition of this template! I wanted to share an Easter card, though, not a Mother's Day card at this time. All I had to do was open a 5.5 x 4.25 card, choose Designer Template, choose Handpicked for Mom, click on the greeting and delete it. I clicked on the banner and widened it. (You will get the message that increasing the size will cause pixelation but it will be not really noticeable.) Then I opened the stamp brush set Easter Blossoms and added the Happy Easter to the card. I resized it to fit on the banner and changed the color to white. Voila! The card was finished! Sooooo easy!!! Check out the templates that are offered with My Digital Studio. They can be personalized or used as is. Click on the item numbers to link to my online store to purchase these new downloads.

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Happy Stamping,
Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com

Stamp Brush Set: Easter Blossoms (124436)

Other: Handpicked for Mom Designer Template (125174)

                             Sketch                                           My Card

 I seem to be only creating digitally the last few weeks. For some reason I go up to my stamp room to create and get no where. It could be that the room is so messy. It could be that I am in love with the ease of creating with My Digital Studio and challenge myself to create increasingly more complex work. Stampin' Up!, just this week, offered the Sunset Serenade Stamp Brush Set and Sunset Serenade Designer Series Paper downloads. The stamp brush set was exactly what I was waiting for. The girl with the windswept hair and the rain image work well with the umbrella from the Year In Review Stamp Brush Set. The girl on this card resembles the Morton Salt girl. Since I live in SE Alaska where we get about 130 inches of precipitation per year and most of that in rain, I often feel like this girl except we don't use umbrellas! The wind would blow them inside out in a minute! I hope you like this card. If you do, I'd be grateful if you would leave a comment. I'd also love to have you go to my FaceBook page and 'like' me if you haven't already done so.

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Happy Stamping,
Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com

Stamp Brush Sets: Sunset Serenade (125754), Year in Review (122180)

Papers: Kiwi Kiss card stock, Sunset Serenade Designer Series Paper
                    (124229)

Punches: Full Heart and Oval filled with Daffodil Delight drop shadow
                    at 80% opacity
            Square punch stretched into rectangles and filled with Kiwi Kiss
                    color, Whisper White color, and Sunset Serenade Designer
                    Series Paper #4

Other: Kiwi Kiss Seam Binding Ribbon and Bow, Font Freestyle Script
                    size 24

I am on the design team for Utah Divas International My Digital Studio Monday and we are supposed to be designing digital cards with My Digital Studio with the beginner in mind. Ooops! I got so involved with creating my card, adding a layer here and a spot of color there, that I forgot it was supposed to be for a beginner. So I created the same card using just very basic techniques.

For the basic card I started with a base color of Soft Suede. I stretched the square punch to cover about 2/3 of the card and filled it with one of the patterns from Botanical Gazette Designer Series Paper. I added a strip of Always Artichoke Seam Binding over the bottom of the designer paper. I filled the scallop circle punch using the color picker and picking one of the colors in the designer paper. I added a drop shadow to the punch so it stood out. I stamped the bird from the Friends 24/7 Stamp Brush Set onto the scallop circle and colored it with Soft Suede. Next, I stamped the verse from Friends 24/7 on the soft Suede bottom of the card and used the color picker to match the print with the scallop circle. Finally I added an Always Artichoke seam binding knot.

In the stepped up card, I skipped the Soft Suede base and applied the Botanical Gazette Designer Series Paper directly on the base. I filled the scallop circle with Very Vanilla and again stamped the bird with Soft Suede. I used the oval punch to add Blushing Bride to the bird's breast and neck. After I got the ovals in place I moved them backward so the soft suede stamp was in front. Again I added a drop shadow to the scallop circle. I used a leaf punch from Blossom Petals Punch filled with Wild Wasabi to color in the leaves. The next layer I added was Vintage Overlays Texture 8 Stamp Brush to add some antiquing. When I stamped the verse from Friends 24/7, it was difficult to read on top of the designer paper so I placed an oval punch filled with color picked from the background paper behind the verse. I reduced the opacity until the edges of the oval pretty much blended into the background. Finally I placed Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding diagonally across the corner and added a bow.

The simple card was very quick to design…maybe because I did the stepped up one first and didn't need to experiment with design. I like both cards but the stepped up one is my favorite. Which card do you like best? Leave me a comment. The design process was so much fun and so satisfying. To purchase the files I used, just click on the item numbers and the link will take you to my online store. If you don't own My Digital Studio yet and are dying to try your hand at digital creating, just click on the link.

Stamp Brush Set: Friends 24/7 (118829)
           Vintage Overlays (121061)

Papers: Botanical Gazette Pattern 6 (122169)

Other: Square, scallop oval, and plain oval punches (part of Punch Shapes 118853)
           Blossom Petals Punch – leaf 2 (124018)
           Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding from Seam Binding II Ribbon Pack (124020)

Thanks for coming to visit today. Here is your virtual cup of coffee or tea   to enjoy while you browse. Do come back again soon.

Happy Stamping,
Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com

For my Stamping 411 Saturday challenge today, I wanted to use one of the stamp sets that are in the Summer Mini catalog, Fabulous Florets. I love this stamp set but have lots of other flower stamps so didn't order it. However, I did order the My Digital Studio Fabulous Florets Stamp Brush set. Therefore this is a digital design. I colored the flower bud by superimposing the Blossom Petals Leaf 2 punch filled with Rose Red color and resized. I placed a scalloped circle of Whisper White behind the Regal Rose flower so the lines of the leaves and stems wouldn't show through the flower image. After stamping the leaves, I was not satisfied with the solid, flat image of the leaves. To fix this, I used the leaf stamps from Build a Blossom colored with Always Artichoke. I resized and rotated the stamps to fit on the leaves. This time, the card took much longer using My Digital Studio than it would have if I had made it by hand. But…the fun is in the creating, right? And I did have fun. So you don't miss out on the fun any longer, click on the link to order your own personal copy of My Digital Studio. The individual files work with most programs that use .png or .jpg files and layers. If you already have a favorite digital designing program, you are welcome to purchase any and all digital files you like.

Stamp Brush Sets: Fabulous Florets (124110) Flower 3 using Regal Rose ink
                and Silhouette using Old Olive ink
        All Holidays (118825)
        Build a Blossom (124019) leaves 1,5,6

Papers: Card Stock – Rose Red, Very Vanilla, Old Olive
        Springtime Vintage Designer Series Paper – pattern 6 (122172)

Other: Scallop Circle and Square Punches
        Blossom Petals Leaf 2 Punch (124018)
        Antique Brads (122164)
        Satin Ribbon and Knot in Old Olive

Thanks for coming by to visit today. I hope you have taken time to have a cup of digital coffee or tea with me while you browsed my blog. Do come back again soon.

Happy stamping,
Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com

For my Stamping 411 Saturday challenge today, I wanted to use one of the stamp sets that are in the Summer Mini catalog, Fabulous Florets. I love this stamp set but have lots of other flower stamps so didn't order it. However, I did order the My Digital Studio Fabulous Florets Stamp Brush set. Therefore this is a digital design. This time, the card took much longer using My Digital Studio than it would have if I had made it by hand. But…the fun is in the creating, right? And I did have fun.

Stamp Brush Sets: Fabulous Florets (124110) Flower 3 using Regal Rose ink and
                Silhouette using Old Olive ink
        All Holidays (118825)
        Build a Blossom (124019) leaves 1,5,6

Papers: Card Stock – Rose Red, Very Vanilla, Old Olive
        Springtime Vintage Designer Series Paper – pattern 6 (122172)

Other: Scallop Circle and Square Punches, Blossom Petals Leaf 2 Punch (124018)
        Antique Brads (122164)
        Satin Ribbon and Knot in Old Olive

Thanks for coming by to visit today. I hope you have taken time to have a cup of digital coffee or tea with me while you browsed my blog. Do come back again soon.

Happy stamping,
Sue Erickson
sue@soggystamper.com