4/12 First Communion MDS Share, My Digital Studio

Good Morning Friends!

Last night, in about 30 minutes, I put this menu together for my daughter's first communion celebration gathering after mass tomorrow.  I love that in MDS, things just sort of flow and it makes it so easy to come up with a frame worth art piece in a short amount of time.  Swoon! 

The final menu will be 8 1/2" x 11 and matches the invitation perfectly!  :)  Last night my good friend and assistant Jenny helped me make a bunch of favors to hand out at the restaurant and today, I feel pretty calm!  :)  Scrabooking class tonight, and today I'm going to go see if I can purchase something for my princess to commemorate this special day. 

I'm not sure if I posted the invitation here.. here is a picture of the back.

Again, it was such a time saver to be able to have these printed.  I love making handmade cards, but I'm a bit of a procrastinator.  :)  What do you think of the design?  I like how the banner goes on top of the cross, then on the menu, it comes off.  For the favor, we did them by hand.. :) I'll share those tomorrow. 


Okay.. so now some "business"  Not Quite Navy card stock is completely sold out!  Gasp!  If you have anything that you might need, you may want to snag it before it's gone completely.  There are several reinker colors that are sold out as well. 

In case you haven't seen it, here are the colors that are leaving us!

Stock up on your favorites before they are gone forever! 

Love,
Selene Kempton
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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!!!

Good Morning!

It's TAX day here at the Kempton household, so I'm procrastinating ~ don't tell my hubby!  Not a regular post for me today (unless I finish what I'm supposed to do), but I wanted to thank all of you who placed orders under my online FREE SHIPPING weekend party!  Woot!

Everyone that placed orders got a number (per $25 ordered) and I put the numbers into random.org.  So, Congratulations to Kathleen M. who won the hostess benefits!  As always, EVERYONE who placed an online order with me can expect a card in the mail!  I so appreciate you all!  Big hugs!

I made this cute little graphic in about 10 minutes using My Digital Studio!  Did you know that the price for MDS has dropped?  Oh and because it's a download, there is no shipping?  So $19.95 for the base program and you get some free exclusive artwork, and can turn any type to stampin up colors that will match your cardstock?  How awesome is that?  

Still not sure that you'll love it?  Well, try it out for free for 30 days!  Click here to get your FREE 30 day trial of MDS.  If you still need help from there and want to be an expert at the program, there is FREE training available.  Woot Woot!  Click here to check out all the amazing FREE instruction video's that will take you right through to MDS master!  :)

Okay, now I really need to get off line and do the taxes!  Make it a great day friends!

Love,
Selene Kempton
Stampin' Up! Creative Coach

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9/17 Stampin' Up! Pursuit of Happiness & MDS2, Sudsol sketch challenge

Good Morning Friends!

I know that I have been a little bit MIA on my blog.  Here's the scoop.  I'm working on something BIG!  I mean HUGE!  For this year's stamp out breast cancer event, I'm going to be offering a class planner.  It has taken me 3 weeks solid and it's out for proofing!  I will release the class planner soon.  The best part is, I'm giving all the money from the sale of the planner to Breast Cancer research!  This is my ONE BIG service project a year and I want to do it with gusto ~ so stay tuned!

So ~ here we go.  Once a month I host a chat over on a group that I belong to for demonstrators called SUDSOL.  This morning's chat was a chat and challenge where I provide a sketch.  Honestly, I grabbed one of the 9 sketches that I didn't use from 411 and just re purposed it.  So, this was going to be a 411 sketch.  :) 

I have been seeing this butterfly punch used for negative space all over pinterest and wanted to do my own version.  :)  This is the gorgeous International Bazaar designer paper.  :)  So cool!

So, here's my sketch!  I was having so much fun it sort of looks like a card already!  I did it in My Digital Studio 2.  Pretty fabulous, ey?  I love all the little pearls as the flame on the birthday cake... oh boy.. well how about some measurements.

Base layer is 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored and folded at 4 1/4"
Layer 2: 4 x 5 1/4" and embossed with the Lacy Brocade Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
Layer 3: 5 x 2" strip of the International Bazaar DSP,
with a the elegant butterfly punched out under where you wont see it.
 Layer 4: Whisper white layer 4 1/8" x  2 5/8"
Layer 5: 4 x 2 1/2" different pattern of the International Bazaar DSP, with a elegant butterfly punched out to create the negative space.
Layer 6: 17" of Pacific Point stitched ribbon
Layer 7: The sentiment was cut out with one of the shapes from the Apothecary Accents Framelit, then stamped. I put that layer up on dimensionals to sit nice on top of the ribbon.   I tried sponging that top layer, then decided it looked better clean.
Layer 8: Finally, I attached the butterfly that I punched out of layer 4 with a glue dot and added some self adhesive rhinestone gems to the top.
 
This also doubled as my swap card for last night's team shoe box swap which we held at a local pizza place (which now has the BEST roast beef I've ever had!!)   New favorite, just sayin'

Anyway, one of the shop owners, Helen had her birthday last night.  So, we all made an extra sample and celebrated her birthday!  Last night she actually said she might like to try stamping some day!  That's pretty cool!

That's it for today.  Tonight I'm going to be hanging with a girlfriend in the studio trying out some fun with tiles!  :)

Have a great day!

Selene Kempton
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