How to Go Hybrid

I am a hybrid kind of girl.

As much as I love designing and creating with MDS

I still like to add layers of cardstock, ribbons, and bows to my projects.

I like to design the final look of my project including photos and

embellishments in MDS, then I break the “layers” I wish to print,

for example, the photos are separate from the 12″ x 12″

paper background I have created.

Below you will see one of my pages I had

printed for this layout with some of the

photos at the top and my paper underneath.

Once I printed my sheets, I cut the elements and

photos out and since I had already designed my page in MDS,

I just assembled the page and added little extra cardstock and ribbons.

I created a double page layout to give me room to

journal and showcase photos of my niece.

I cropped the photos on the left to be facial snapshots and

on the right I have the full image.

Journaling is important to me on my pages,

I like to remember what was happening at that point in time.

The main thing that made me love Stampin’ Up! in the beginning

was the coordinating products and colors and I love that it also applies with MDS.

I printed the wings in Coastal Cabana then used a Blender Pen to

watercolor them using my Coastal Cabana ink pad.

I prefer to scrapbook using MDS, then print out the pages because

I like the ability to print my text straight onto paper, like I have done

with the subtitle of the page “May she always dance to the beat of her own drum.

I printed “SHE” separate and cut out the letters then raised them with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Again the coordinating traditional products and My Digital Studio work perfectly.

I love this flag embellishment I created.

The image is from Affection Collection digital stamp brush set

with a little Coastal Cabana ribbon which I have stitched through

and tied off with a sweet bow.

Next time you are creating a scrapbook page or a card,

think about what you could add to enhance this by going hybrid.

Share your hybrid creations by tagging your samples “hybrid”.

-Teneale Williams, My Digital Studio Design Team Member