Flower gardening is another passion of mine besides papercrafting.  I like to take pictures of my favorite flowers and then scrapbook them using 118108 My Digital Studio software.  On this page, I wanted to show the different stages of the orange poppies at our cabin.  We have an entire flower bed filled with them, which is stunning when they are all blooming.  On Saturday, only one flower was in bloom, one was ready to bloom and the rest were just taking their time to bloom. 

A feature of My Digital Studio that I used on this page, is I "filled" the tag punch with Designer Series Paper.  I double-clicked on the tag punch and was able to move the Designer Series paper to the portion that I wanted to show in my tag punch.  So cool!!!

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I saw this layout on Pinterest last night and had to copy it.  This is a layout that I can see myself using over and over again, by changing the colors and the photograph.  This is my sister, Jan, who taught me how to rubber stamp about 20 years ago.  Who knew how that teddy bear stamp, glossy white cardstock, black ink pad and markers would change my life.  She lives in San Diego, California.  And this is my brother, Pete, who owns Great Harvest Bakery in Great Falls, Montana.  Any time you are in Great Falls, stop by the Bakery and tell him you know me.

An awesome feature in the 118108 My Digital Studio software, is how quickly I can change the color of these letters.  I click one letter, then hold the "Ctrl" key and click the other letters I want the same color.  Then I select which color I want.  Super fast, which is what I like when scrapbooking.

I bet Jan and Pete don't even know they were wearing Rich Razzleberry and Always Artichoke Stampin' Up! colors.  I love how easy it was to match the colors on the scrapbook page with the colors they were wearing.

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The majority of my scrapbooking is my grandgirls, holidays and family events.  To prove that I do have a life outside of my family, (tee hee) I decided to start working on my pages from a weekend retreat I went on with one of my downline, Autumn.

The first page I've done is the packing and the drive to the retreat center.  I love taking short road trips with friends because it is an adventure before the weekend adventure!  Here is page one of our adventure.  I like doing chronological scrapbooking for these types of pictures.  More pages will be coming as I create them, so stay tuned.

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There is more exciting news with My Digital Studio. Can you imagine that it's going to get better? Yes, coming soon will be My Digital Studio 2.  I'm so excited with what I've heard and can't wait to get my hands on it.

Check out this video to hear more from Sara Douglass. She gives us the scoop in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnbeZawpJw0

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There are two new things I did with this scrapbook page made with the 118108 My Digital Studio software. The first thing I wanted to do was to make a patchwork background.  I copied the scallop square punch nine times and filled the punches with different designer series paper.  Viola!  I have made my own unique patchwork background.

Then, I wanted to use a piece of notebook paper on this page.  Simple when you're doing traditional scrapbooking, but a bit more challenging when Stampin' Up! doesn't have a digital download for one (or maybe that is the only download I haven't bought yet–LOL).  So I tore out a piece of notebook paper, scanned it and saved it as a photograph on my computer.  I created a large photo box (the big white square) and dragged my notebook paper photo on to the large photo box and it automatically sized itself.  Yee haw!!!  I created my own custom notebook paper background.

What unique backgrounds have you made for your traditional or digital scrapbook pages?  I'd love to hear your ideas!!!

You can click the scrapbook page to see it larger.

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