MDS Calendar #5

Here are the last few pages of the calendars. I think I will have to make one for myself now!!

With the MDS program, you can change a photo to sepia right in your creating process, so you do not have to worry about editing that sort of thing ahead of time. Also, if you add a photo that you forgot to edit out the red eyes.... MDS will take care of that for you, too! Just click on the red eye correction option.

MDS Calendar #4

A few more pages...

MDS Pages #3

A few more pages to share using the MDS software. This is such a fun program to use, and the printing is exceptional. I opted to use Stampin' Up!'s professional printing studio for the final product, and the pages are so nice and thick and the colours are exactly what they are supposed to be when it comes to matching with SU! colours. I was also very impressed with how fast these calendars arrived at my door!


These next 2 pages are from 2 different calendars. I just had so many pictures to choose from in 2010, that I couldn't decide on which ones to use, and I ended up making 2 completely different calendars!!! It is so much fun to do.

The first page is of my kids all doing different sports, and it is in my parents' calendar. The page below shows various hobbies and personalities of my kids, and that is in Steve's parents' calendar. I like them both, so I also ordered individual pages of these exact pages to add to my kids' scrapbooks. I love that that is an option with MDS, as well. You can do a full project, or you can order individual pages from within that project.


Once again, I have used my own photo as the background for this page. The preset calendar template has gray letters and numbers, but since this is such a personalized program, you can change them to any colour you want. I chose white so they would stand out against the black of the photo.

Calendar Pages #2

I love how the MDS program allows you to use pre-made page layouts, or create your very own from scratch. This 9 square layout is one of the ready-to-go options.


Another fun thing is the "opacity" scale. On the pages below, I used my own photos for background papers, but on the part of the calendar that has the days laid out, I didn't want it to be such a bold image, so I faded out the photo with the opacity option.

MDS Calendars

I made 2 calendars using MDS (My Digital Studio) for Christmas gifts this year. One for Steve's parents and one for my parents. I love how they both turned out. I thought I would share some of the pages with you on here over the next week.

Here's the first set (not really in any particular order!)... The calendars are 12X12 size.




The next two pics are the calendar covers.



I'll share a few pages from the calendars every day this week. Thanks for stopping by!

New Post, Old Project

In December 2007, I made 2 calendars to give as gifts - one to my parents and the other one to Steve's parents. Since I have been so lame at stamping lately (I have club projects, but I can't show them until after my clubs meet next week), I thought I would share a few more pages from the calendars (I think I showed some back in January). I am thinking of getting a head start on calendars for this year! We'll see.... I seem to work better under pressure, so I doubt it will happen!!!

Click on the pictures if you want to see them bigger.....

2008 Calendar

For Christmas, I gave my parents a 12X12 calendar that I completed with pics from the past year. Here is the January page.... All of them were done using scrappin' kits, and I am truly amazed at how fast I finished this calendar... don't tell my parents - but 2 days before we left for the island they weren't going to be getting a calendar, then I discovered that I had more than 12 different scrappin' kits to pull from and I thought, "I can do this in a day and a half!!!" And I always have tons of pics, so that wasn't a problem :) I like how it turned out, and surprisingly enough, there is no stamping on the entire calendar!! The Month titles were done on my computer with the Write me a memory journaling cd.

This is the At Home Simply Scrappin' kit (retired... but there is one similar called Home Again that is available)

Here are the pics that are on this calendar page. Both are from July 2007......

While we were visiting my aunt and uncle last summer Todd befriended a raccoon that came by for a little meal, and Todd even read it a little story (through the glass door, of course!!)

This one was taken just before Elise's first b-day - she was opening her gift from Auntie Louise... A dolly that she tasted as soon as she opened it :)