Here's a card made with MDS, cardstock and my home printer. It uses the brush sets Homegrown and Chateau Bella from MDS.  You get a lot more creative freedom in MDS, including the opportunity to create your own sentiments. (Digital) Stamps and supplies by Stampin' Up!

At last, I completed my version of the Stampin' Up! My Way logo. Stampin' Up! My Way: I let the stamps be the stamps and the papers be the papers. Nothing too frilly, layered or involved. I also live for the art contests. The themes and deadlines keep me practicing. It's how I live the SU "Good Life." lol

There is another contest theme for July called "home sweet home" in which we can enter projects we would display in our home. I thought it would be cool to have an eye chart with the letters spelling out all the names of my pets. I'm hoping I have time to print and frame this to get it off to the home office in time! I REALLY want to win stamp sets, can you tell? This would be an easy project to teach in an MDS workshop.

Think of MDS as instant gratification. I wanted to enter in the September card contest for the "abc" theme to win some new stamp sets. I did not have any alphabet sets but with the magic of MDS, I had one in a few seconds! The best part is that I could size down the letters to fit the little tag punch! No, I did not thread the twine...waaayyyy too time consuming. I just faux threaded with the white gel pen (and then traced some of the letter edges with it, too)  I hope I win. I'm doing Stampin' Up My Way for the contest prizes, for sure...hee, hee.

Breaking News: If you've always wanted to try digital scrapbooking, you may now download a trial of Stampin' Up!'s My Digital Studio for free! Get details here .

Created with My Digital Studio. Who are you thankful for?

So easy and the results are so gratifying! I'm not much of a paper scrapbooker, but this works for me! This is going to be a swatchbook of all my dining outings with my mom, aunt and cousins. Our first initials spell "SPPASMS," which is sort of funny and accurate.  Everyone brings small presents to share before we eat and we always take a picture before we leave the restaurant. For October, we all got some scary gloves to wear.

Well, I am not a big scrapbooker, so I took a card template and made that my scrapbook page. This is a photo I took of my new betta, Fiesty! He lives in my cubicle and is no more that a foot away from me at my desk. He is so soothing to look at and he can even do a few tricks. I shot this photo with a Nikon D40 SLR camera.not bad, eh? Rock-a-bye, Fiesty, in your fish bowl...

In getting certified, you need to know how to use the major tools in MDS. You also need to know how to modify objects you have placed on your page. Here is my creation which touches on all the learning points.

I had no idea we had training on the demonstrator website so that we can become certified! I love you, Stampin' Up!, and here is my holiday greeting/thank you art. Hope to be certified before the week's end! This art uses Thank You Kindly, Winter Post, Christmas Jingle, and Snowburst brushes.

Finished up the Workshop Wizard cards for August with the "Wedding Wishes" card shown here.  Also shown are items you can make with Stampin' Up's My Digital Studio digital paper-crafting software! Stampin' Up! is holding a contest this month to see who can make the coolest project using it. See more information about the contest here . P.S. Thank you, Stampin' Up, for carrying over "The Open Sea" stamp set. This rubber stamp enthusiast approves!!