I’ve always loved the look of a handmade scrapbook, and so when the big digital scrapbooking wave hit, I wasn’t too sure about it.  However, when Stampin’ Up! came out with My Digital Studio and I saw how easy it would be to match all of my papers and embellishments to the digital layouts and create hybrid scrapbook pages, I started catching the wave too.

I bought MDS so that I could try to make headway with my wedding album (lets just say the photos and memorabilia have been in a box for the last 9 years).  Well, I’ve been too distracted playing with other projects that the wedding album hasn’t happened.  But here is an example of a layout I whipped up tonight.

I love this picture my mom took of my son during a recent visit and thought it would make a great page.  I started with one of the built in photo layouts that had caught my eye and even though in the end I ended up moving everything around and deleting some of the photo spots, it actually was quick, easy, and fun to create this page.
(All of the elements I used on this page come by default with My Digital Studio)

Plus, have you heard?  There is a My Digital Studio contest going on right now!

I figure this layout is practice for me so I can get some ideas to submit for the My Digital Studio Contest being run by Stampin’ Up!  Create your best digital designs and you could win $400 in digital downloads for My Digital Studio!

Here are the details:

• Design 1 digital card and 2 single page layouts using only My Digital Studio and Stampin’ Up! downloads
• Submit your samples plus the official entry form and photo release form to MDSContest@stampinup.com
• Contest runs from Oct 1 – Nov 15, 2010
• A panel of judges will select 10 winners – 5 demonstrators and 5 customers
• You can see the full rules, FAQs, and more details here.

Don’t have My Digital Studio or want more digital downloads?
Grab a copy from my online store and you can be designing in no time!