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Here's the latest Deal of the Week. Be sure to snatch yours up while they're on sale!


The third deals of the week are from October 19, 10 AM (MT) through October 26, 9:50 AM (MT).

Item 
Page 
Description 
Regular Price 
Special Price
114348
179
Basic Jumbo grommets
$6.95
$4.49
109857
179
Mini Library clips
$12.95
$8.99
112571
179
Circle Designer brads
$5.95
$3.99
112581
179
1/2" Library clips
$6.95
$3.99


It's finally time for the My Digital Studio Blog Carnival! There are a bunch of amazing bloggers who are participating, and you can see them all by clicking on the logo above. Clicking the logo at the top takes you to a post on the Stampin' Addicts website where you can find all of the links to the participating blogs. If you haven't visited the Stampin' Addicts site before, be sure to take a few minutes and look around while you're there. It's a wonderful site full of terrific ideas and there's even a gallery full of amazing ideas where you can find tons of wonderful inspiration. 


I'm so excited to share with you a few more fun projects created with My Digital Studio. It's such a terrific paper crafting program, so let me get started by showing you a few things I've created. 


This is the first page I created with My Digital Studio. Some of the touches I was able to add were the ribbon with staples, the journaling around the photo and the stitching. My Digital Studio includes these fun options and so many more. 

This next page is the cover page for an album that includes pictures from my niece's 1st birthday party. 


This page is very similar to the page I showed you yesterday of Jordan and Samantha. I love the look of using one of the photos for the background of the page, and the picture of her first cupcake was perfect for this type of page.


She is so adorable, and I love the stink-eye look she gives. You can see that in the picture in the top right corner. It cracks me up every time!


This last page documents a memory I just had to preserve. Amelia wanted to share her cupcake with my son Jordan. But when she held out her hand to give him a bit he accidentally bit her finger. They were both in tears for a while, but we were finally able to get them both calmed down. It's something we will all laugh about for a long time.

I appreciate you all stopping by. Be sure to leave me a comment. I'd love to hear what you think about My Digital Studio. And don't forget you can get your hands on your very own copy for 50% off by hosting a qualifying party in October or November!!

You can click here or follow the links below for a list of the other bloggers participating in the My Digital Studio Blog Carnival. Be sure to check them all out for more terrific ideas!


DMDezigns/Dawnmarie: My Digital Studio - The Birdseye Overview
HowManyCats?!/Comeka: Digitize Your Sketch Library with MDS 
Yapha: Turning Templates into Treasures
Willysgirl/Sarah: MDS Xmas and Extras
Hollylogic/Holly: MDS as a Design Tool (or How Not to Slice Up All Your Brushed Gold)
Lyssa: Playing with Stamps You Don't Own
Lilysinkpad/Sara: Simply Scrappin' Kits Go Digi
JulieA/Julie: Wanna Little Music with Your Slideshow?
lovetostampandscrap/Cheryl: Creating a Calendar to Beat All Calendars
Melina Stamps!/Melina: Man-Scrapping with MDS 
BroncoMom/Joyce: Build Your Own DSP
Britiney: Clever Album Covers - A Piece of (Cup)Cake
S1itcher46/Kim: Hybridizing and Cataloging Collections
Kelli: Side-by-Side Test: Is it Actual or Is It MDS?
Scrapbookmama/Ellie: Keeping the Spotlight on Your (Adorable!) Subjects

My girlfriend, Carrie came over today to play and craft and we put together this darling page of our kids, who are in love. Yes, they're only 4 (yes, FOUR) but they're planning their wedding and future together. It's so funny, but they sure are darling together, and Carrie and I are looking forward to spending holidays together after they're married.

I love making pages with a photo as the background, and this picture was perfect for that technique because it was a little out of focus. My Digital Studio uses all of the fonts on your computer, so I found this super fun font called Birth of a Hero. I love that it's a little grungy. We used the bird stamp from the Always stamp set and added a cute little heart. I have a bunch of cute pages to share with you during the My Digital Studio Blog Carnival which starts tomorrow. Be sure to stop back by to see more digital scrapbook pages.
Starting today, the all-new My Digital Studio is available for Customer Purchase. This program is amazing. Here's a short video to show you some of the great features of this program. This is a revolutionary new Digital Crafting solution. I can't wait for you to see all it can do!



As part of the amazing hostess special during October and November, if you host a workshop with $400 in sales, you can purchase My Digital Studio for 50% off!!  I'll be demonstrating My Digital Studio at my Ladies' Night Out meeting next week, so be sure to let me know if you can make it. I hope to see you there!

In addition to the new My Digital Studio, Stampin' Up! announced that they're bringing back the super popular Deal Of The Week!!


This week SU! is offering three punches at steep discounts. The Trio Flower punch, the 5-Petal Flower punch, and the My Way arrows punch. 

The Trio Flower punch and the 5-Petal Flower punch are being offered for $10.99, and the My Way arrows punch is being offered for $11.99. That's a great deal on some terrific punches. This offer ends at 9 a.m. on October 12th, so be sure to get yours today. You can order directly from my Demonstrator Website by clicking on the SHOP NOW button. Be sure to check back next week for the new Deal of the Week! I know I can't wait to see what it is!!

I forgot that I had mentioned before that I'd made another card with the ornament background. On this card I used the ornament and stamped it in white craft ink onto Kraft card stock to create a beautiful and delicate background. This was another fun idea for using these little ornament stamps for an occasion other than Christmas. For the sentiment, I inked it up in a combination of Sahara Sand and Creamy Caramel to try to get a match to the Kraft card stock color. I stamped the sentiment and the dotted circle onto a metal-edge tag and mounted those onto a vellum scalloped circle. This makes a beautiful but simple wedding card. I promise this is really the last of the Convention Display samples. Thanks so much to all of you who stopped by to see them and took the time to leave comments!!! I'll try to keep the craftiness coming, so be sure to stick around!


This blog carnival from Stampin' Addicts is going to be THE PLACE TO BE for My Digital Studio inspiration during October! You can click here for a list of participating blogs. All of the MDS project posts will go live on Saturday, October 3rd. If you stop back by later, you can find the list by clicking the link in the sidebar on the right. Thanks for stopping by!!
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, the local Susan G. Komen affiliate does a bra display around Boise. Because my mom volunteers in their office, and because she doesn't think I have enough to do *grin*, she signed us up to decorate one of the bras. Our bra will hang at Global Travel (a travel agency) downtown, so we wanted something with a travel theme. Here's what we came up with.



I thought it turned out SUPER cute. We painted the cups with fabric glue and then poured sand onto the glue from my kids' sand box. The water is cut from fabric and we added glitter along the wavy edges. My mom found all of the cute beach stickers somewhere in town. For the palm trees we wrapped the straps with brown fabric and then cut leaves from green fabric. The coconuts are circles cut from brown felt. I love how it turned out and may even have to make a trip downtown to see it displayed. If I do, I'll try to remember to take my camera! Thanks for stopping by.

Everyone loves a clearance sale, and SU! is having a great one.

Stampin’ Up has started a clearance section with steeply discounted retired products! Go check it out pronto and see if you can score some of your old favorite colors, embellishments and accessories and some of it is 80% off—no that’s not a typo!

This order must be placed through my shopping website—not through me personally. Here’s a couple of FAQ to help you figure out how this works. Happy shopping!!!

Q: Why does the order have to be placed online?
A: Because the products are only available while supplies last and may sell out at any time.

Q: Is the Clearance Rack a time-sensitive promotion?
A: The new Clearance Rack is to be a permanent part of the online store. Hooray for that!!

Q: How often will the Clearance Rack be updated with new items?
A: Clearance Rack items will be posted and removed based on inventory levels. Because there is no set schedule you should check back regularly through www.britineyj.stampinup.net  for new postings.

Q: If they run out of a certain item, will SU restock inventory and post it for sale again?
A: No. Clearance Rack items are retired, discontinued items and are only available while supplies last. This is first come, first served—so check regularly for the best deals!

Q: Where can I see a list of available Clearance Rack items?
A: To see the available items, simply visit the online store at www.britineyj.stampinup.net and click on Shop Now. The Clearance Rack is on the menu. There's a bunch of great stuff in there and more to come. Be sure to look around and enjoy how easy and simple it is to place an online order any time of the day or night.

Imagine--ordering in your jammies! And you can order right when you think of something you need, instead of trying to remember to call me and having to wait for someone to host a show. If your order qualifies, you can also earn hostess benefits from online order as well. Go check it out today!


After I created the glass ornament with the stamped ornament inside, I couldn't wait to find something else I could hang those darling little ornaments from and it suddenly occurred to me that they might look pretty hanging from the bottom of a banner. You should have heard me squeal!

Once again I used the beautiful Bella Bleu Designer Paper and cut out the banner with the Pennant Die and trimmed off the scalloped edges. Then I cut out the pennant pieces from Not Quite Navy card stock and mounted the DSP pennants onto them. I cut out the letters from Kraft card stock using the Serif Essentials alphabet dies.

Once I had those two steps done, I outlined the letters and the edges of the pennants where the two papers meet with the Two-Way Glue pen and covered them in Turquoise Ultra Fine Cosmo Glitter. I created my own "rivets" from Not Quite Navy card stock where I threaded ribbon along the top to hang the banner from. The Elementary Ribbon Originals includes the yummy Not Quite Navy taffeta ribbon I used along the top.

At the bottom of each pennant I created another ornament hanger by stamping the ornament image on a window sheet with Not Quite Navy craft ink and then embossing them with clear embossing powder. I cut them out carefully and glued a string of monofilament along the back with Crystal Effects. I strung ivory pearls and beads on the top and bottom of the stamped ornaments and attached the monofilament to the bottom of the pennants. The little Kraft Taffeta bows at the bottom of each pennant add a fun and elegant touch.

I was so thrilled with how this turned out I could barely bring myself to send it in to SU! I haven't yet taken the time to recreate this for myself, but I sure hope to before the holidays. I may even have to do it with some of the delicious new flocked DSP in the Holiday Mini! If I get that done you can be sure you'll see it here!! Thanks for your patience while I finally got all of my display projects posted. I appreciate all of you who have taken the time to leave me a comment.

Although I'm out of Convention Display projects, I'm never out of ideas. Stop back by soon to see more fun projects!

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