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This 'n' That

26 Sep

I have had such fun playing with My Digital Studio (watch for a fun announcement on my blog on September 30th). I have not had as much time to play because of our September to Remember event and designing for my classes, but I have been sneaking time in, one thing that is fun about is, I can play and not make a mess. Sure I still enjoy getting my hands all inky, but it is kinda neat to design and then use that as like a pattern and make the card or page for "real".

One of the things I did was play around and make a new blog header, I saw my friend Patsy Waggoner had used My Digital Studio (MDS) to do hers and she gave me some great tips on how to do it. Thanks Patsy, I will never ditch you ever again…ha!

This is what I did:

I went into MDS and started to make an 8 1/2 x 11 scrapbook page.  I did one from scratch, not one of the templates.  I played around with the colors and the punches and stamps till it looked how I wanted it.  I added text. Then I scrolled down a bit and added some text and put my signature line and put some background to go along with the header, then I saved it as a JPEG.

The page looked like this:

Blog header with signature-001

So using my Photoshop program (you may have another program you use) I then opened up this JPEG and then cropped it so it was the size I wanted, and then I re-sized it so it would work for my blog.

I had to go back and forth between re-sizing it and to get it to look right on my blog, I am NOT a computer whiz, so I am sure I did it the hard way, but hey I love it and feel proud that I did it by myself (with Patsy's help).

I don't know how to do it for other blogs, I just understand typepad, (to a certain extent) so if you have blogger or something, this may or may not work, but I just wanted to answer all the questions I have been getting on how I did it.

Hope you have fun playing with MDS.

Have an awesome Saturday, I'll post pics from our September to Remember event tomorrow!

Signature for blog

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  1. Marie says

    September 26, 2009 at 5:13 am

    You're so awesome to explain this to everyone! I did mine this way, but didn't create any instructions as to how I did it for my readers. I guess it wouldn't be too hard…Oh, and I created mine in one of the horizontal 5×7 (I think that's the dimensions) cards. Just an idea if you want a smaller canvas to work with initially.

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  2. Jacqui says

    September 26, 2009 at 5:47 am

    ya done good! hey can you use it to make up those colour challenge things?
    That would be a cool thing to try and then you could have your image for the colour challenge an actual Stampin' Up! image instead of just a circle or a flower or something like that!!!
    I might just have to buy the thing to see if I can do it!!!!
    haha
    Luv ya
    Jax

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  3. Mickey Tait says

    September 26, 2009 at 6:10 am

    Thanks, Di. I may have the courage to try it myself. You're the best!

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  4. Michelle Dawn says

    November 5, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    I recently joined SU-LNS and was going through the past blog finds.

    How cool is this. I LOVE your blog banner design and colors. Perfect! And Patsy is my up-up-line. Cool – What a small world.

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