MDS Notecard Thank You

Hi! I interrupt all this holiday posting with a non Christmas project. Today, I'm showing you my wedding card thank you done with My Digital Studio. I knew that I wanted to do my own thank yous (of course, since I did lots of DIY for my wedding), but I was having a hard time finding a design that I liked online. And also find something that wasn't real expensive either. So then I thought about using MDS for the design of the thank you and then upload it to a site where I could have them print it (like vistaprint). But I still wasn't sure I wanted to do that either. So after fooling around with MDS, I figured out how to print my thank you on the 3.5 x 5inch notecards from Stampin Up. The thank you looks like its simple but it ended up taking me a while. The part that took me the longest was coming up with a design I liked and figuring out how to get it to print on the right section of the notecard. A couple of the original designs I had used our initials (J & J) but then I decided I didn't like that. And I didn't want to have "thank you" on the front, just in case someone wanted to put the picture in a frame or something. So after searching the different stamps in the program I found the "mr. & mrs." and I thought that worked good. I added that on top of the modern label punch and sized everything until I got it to how I wanted it. I do plan on adding something on the back to show that I designed it. Once I printed it, it didn't look quite as bright as it shows on the jpeg version but overall I'm really happy with how it came out. The photo of the actual card doesn't have the best lighting either so it isn't quite as dark as the photo may show. Now comes the fun part of writing all of these out...yeah right!
Tomorrow I will be back to the regular holiday posting. I have a few more holiday things to share.

Wedding Pictures

Hello. I do not have anything crafty to share with you today. I am working on some things, that I will get to show you in a few days. The next Control Freaks Blog Tour is coming on November 20th, so I've been working on a couple of things for that. Be sure to stop back here on the 20th to check out everyone's fabulous projects. In the meantime, I thought I'd share some of my favorite pictures from our wedding day. We just got our dvd of images so we've been going through them to figure out what picture we want to use for our thank you card. But I just wanted to share a couple of my favorite ones. There are so many great ones that our photographer took. He did such a wonderful job. Anyway, enjoy some pictures and come back on the 20th!

Married!

Hi! So it's been a couple of weeks since I've last posted. I was getting all of my projects done before our wedding on the 16th. I got everything done in plenty of time and we had a wonderful day. It was a little chilly and windy but no rain and plenty of sun. Everything came out just as we hoped it would. Here is a link to a couple of pictures that our photographer posted on his blog.

I've also posted some pictures of some of the things that I made for the wedding: centerpieces, programs and the birdcage for the cards.









Now that all the wedding things are done, I have plenty of time now for cards! I just need to get back into it after not doing anything for the past few weeks. So hopefully i'll have some cards to share with you this week. I'm not promising too much since it is my first week back at work after being off for about 10 days so I will probably be pretty tired this week. Have a nice day!

Baja Flower and a Wedding Centerpiece

Happy Wednesday!! I’ve actually had a chance to get a couple of cards done. Today’s card was kind of CASE’d from Andrea Walford. I used her layout but I just changed the paper and stamps used. I used the Greenhouse Gala dsp along with Early Espresso and Crumb Cake. The flower is stamped in Baja Breeze from Friends Never Fade. And the leaf is in Certainly Celery, also from Friends Never Fade. The sentiment is from A Word For You. I plan to have another post for tomorrow. Woo hoo 3 days in a row!! I’m trying to keep up but now we have to get working on all the little wedding details, which apparently is a LOT! Plus the fact that I’ve decided to do my own centerpieces so that’s added to our list. Here is a picture of our centerpiece in progress. I have to do some better arranging with the wheat and then we plan to have some votive candles and maybe some little pumpkins around the jar. I’m also going to play around with the bow a bit too. This was just to see how it would look with the ribbon around it. I think it adds a nice little touch than not having anything. The ribbon is Rich Razzleberry satin ribbon (this plum color is the color of the bridesmaid dresses). I will post another picture of mock set up once I have it figured out. Have a nice day!