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Keep in Touch - Resizing DSP Tutorial

One of the products retiring this month is the My Digital Studio Keep in Touch CD.  This was one of the very first things that caught my eye when last year's catalog came out.  The retro images of TVs and phones are just my style.

There are also images that are perfect for a school layout or as in the card below notes to a friend.

The images on pencil DSP and dotted DSP were too large for the proportions of the card so I reduced the size of them.

Here is a quick tutorial of how to make this card including resizing DSP:

1.  Open a blank 4-1/4" X 5-1/2" landscape card.
2. Add three square punches to the page.   Pull the corners to form three rectangles sized approximately as shown.  Add DSP to each.  The top is Keep in Touch DSP #4, the middle is Keep in Touch DSP # 6, and the bottom is Keep in Touch DSP #1.

3.  Double click on the middle section.  It will bring up the Punch Image Editor.

4.  Click on the left zoom button (the negative) several times until the image is reduced to a size you like.

5.  Repeat with the bottom section.

6.  Add two Basic Gray Grosgrain ribbons from the embellishment section.  (These are full size- no need to adjust.  If you did want to change the size just double click on it.)

 7.  Add a Basic Gray Grosgrain Knot.  Use the mirror image button to flip is over.

8.  Add the envelope and pencil embellishments from Keep in Touch.

 I had my card professionally printed through Stampin' Ups print service.  Love the way it turned out!

Color Refresh Retiring Colors Blog Hop

I have the pleasure of wrapping up the Stampin' Addicts Retiring Colors Blog Hop.   Each member has highlighted one of the lovely colors that are retiring as part of Stampin' Up's Color Refresh.   I am going to show how pretty they are in combination with each other.

I started by spreading out all the retiring colors and rearranging them into various combos.  The results were unexpected and fun!  I have had these colors at my fingertips and yet had never put some of these together.  I hope you are inspired to try some new combos yourself and then be sure to stock up on your favorites while they are still available.

 First I went with a masculine combo of Not Quite Navy, Bravo Burgundy and More Mustard.  Then to lighten it a bit I added Bashful Blue.  These colors complimented the Fan Fair DSP nicely.

Then a softer combination of Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery and River Rock.  A touch of Baja Breeze ink around the butterfly makes it pop.  Also the Baja Breeze Seam Binding will be retiring in May.. love that stuff!  And speaking of "love" did you notice the stamp?  That is from the Best of Love stamp set which is part of the Best of 25 Years sets which are bringing back favorites from the past.

And finally a very feminine combination of Riding Hood Red, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink and Lucky Limeade.  The image is colored with markers of all four colors.  I am a marker collector and love having past colors in my collection for shading images so don't forget to get the markers too while you can!

I do hope you have enjoyed seeing just some of possibilities of these colors.

Please click on the links below to hop forward to Tanya's remarkable Regal Rose creations

 

or backward to Sara's luscious Lucky Limeade projects.   Enjoy!!

 

  

Sweet Threads Gift Caddy

Dawn Rapsas gave the designers of the Big Shot Round Up session of UStamp with Dawn and Friends the challenge of using every single current Big Shot product.  We have been having fun pulling out older favorites and combining them with new items from the Spring Catalog.

For my project, I chose the older Sweet Buttons embosslit and Buttons #5 sizzlit to go with the new Needlepoint Border embossing folder, Sweet Threads Simply Sent Kit and the Pop 'n Cuts Card Base to make a sewing themed gift caddy.   To continue the sewing theme, I filled the caddy with  fabric, ribbon and buttons.

The caddy is made with the Fancy Favor die and the Pop 'n Cuts base designed by Karen Burniston. The SU! Pop 'n Cuts products are so popular and the designers have really showcased just how versatile they are.  Karen is designing several exclusive projects just for the Big Shot Round Up session and several other designers have super projects with the suite as well.  To sign up for access to all the tutorials click on the link below.

Ears To You

We are FINALLY getting a little glimpse of spring today.  There are still a few stubborn bits of snow but the sun is shining so hopefully even that will be melted away by Easter Sunday.    These little bunnies another sign of spring.

The card is larger than normal (5-1/2" X 8-1/2") to accommodate the oval focal piece that is cut using the Ovals Framelits and to give plenty of writing room.  I am sending this with the basket of candy so I did not need to be concerned about it fitting in an envelope.  The striped pieces at the sides are 1"X 5-1/2".

Supplies used:  Ears to You single stamp, Sunshine and Sprinkles DSP, Melon Mambo card base (8-1/2" X 11", scored at 5-1/2"), Ovals Framelits, Fancy Favor die, Melon Mambo, Lucky Limeade, and Pacific Point Stampin' Write Markers,  1/4" Pacific Point Stitched Grosgrain ribbon.

Pop 'n Cuts Basket

Goodness time flies by!  Amazingly, we are at the end of another session of UStamp.  The session started with my Love You Lollipop Holder as bonus and my Pop 'n Cuts Basket was the bonus project ending the session.  There were lots and lots of awesome projects in between by the wonderful design team.   You can still join by clicking on the blinkie at the bottom of this post.

My project uses the Pop 'n Cuts Base to make a basket and the Dress Form pop-up for the card.  The decorative edge on the Pop 'n Cuts Base makes a pretty fold-down flap for the basket.  

The image for the pop-up portion of the card is made with My Digital Studio and One Big Sale-a-Bration Digital content CD.  I am having fun with new stamp coloring feature on MDS 2 as you can see.

Karen Burniston, the Pop 'n Cuts designer, was also part of the design team for this session of UStamp. She shared a great project with us and had some super tips for using the Pop 'n Cuts dies.   And she will be doing several projects for the next session too.   She is a wonderfully creative resource, bubbling with energy and ideas!   

Love You Lollipop Holder

The next session of UStamp is kicking off on Friday.  There will be more than 40 projects with full tutorials focusing on products from both the Spring and Sale-A-Bration catalogs.   I have had a sneak peek at the designer's projects and wow there are some fun things in store!

I get to show you one of my projects now because it was posted today as an early bonus:

I designed this little holder to display twelve yummy lollipops.   Very quick and very sweet!

Come join the fun!  Clink on the blinkie below to join!!!