Two more scrapbook layouts made with My Digital Studio.  I made these on the ride back home.  I have not been posting because I have been in a flare up for over 7 weeks now.  I was hospitalized last weekend.  I had some chest pains and needed to be checked out.  Thankfully the tests came back normal and it is official....I have a heart.   LOL  And it is beating normally.  LOL  Anyway I am battling this flare up and have been unable to even accomplish everyday tasks.  I hope to be back soon with some projects using new catalog products.

Have a great day!

Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper

Tarheel Stamper - Vacation Pages

It has been a while since I posted.   We were on vacation for two weeks and I have been in a flare up for 3 or 4 weeks now.  Our vacation was spent in Florida at my sister's house.  We are blessed to have family there to spend time with.   I have several pages I made with My Digital Studio of some exciting things we saw there and will be sharing them. 

I am a big space program fan.  I have followed our space program for a long time.  I have been blessed to see 4 shuttle launches and witness one time when the shuttle entered  the atmosphere above Texas during the night.  What a pretty sight that was.  All that to say we saw the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis.  It was bittersweet in that it is time to retire them (actually past time), but I love seeing them launch and got goosebumps every time I saw a lift off in person or on TV.  My brother-in-law works on the base (not with NASA) so he got to take some photos with the Space Shuttle in the background on the launch pad for the final time. How cool is that!  He also got us some memorabilia from STS 135.

We walked to the end of the street and watched.  Cloud cover shortened the time we were able to see the shuttle.  I still enjoyed it and am glad I was able to see it.  Over one million people were there to see the space shuttle lift off.  On Sunday morning we went to the beach.  We had rain just about everyday we were there.  The only day it did not rain was our last day there.  LOL  That was ok.  We were able to rest a lot and enjoy family.  We saw a unique sight on Sunday when NASA brought in one of the shuttle booster rockets in to the port.  There is a pier at Jetty Park so we walked to that and watched it come in. 

Now here are two pages I did of the launch. I used Extreme Elements stamp brush set, Tag punch and star punch. 

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So easy to pull out the laptop and run My Digital Studio on long rides in the truck and work on pages. 

Hope you enjoy and have a great day.

Tammy aka Tarheel Stamper

 

Tarheel Stamper - Reinker Techniques - Custom Ink Pad

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I have shared two tutorial videos on reinker techniques on YouTube on my TarheelStamper channel and also embedded at the end of this post.  I show some variations of reinker techniques.  I am sharing a card today with the custom ink pad technique.  Of course you can use your reinkers for inking your pads, but there are so many techniques out there to try. 

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The card stock is Stampin' Up! Glossy White, Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo, and Daffodil Delight card stock.  Stamp set is Circle Circus.  Basic Rhinestones are used in the center of the flower and the flowers in the Lace Ribbon Punch.  The butterflies are made with the Embosslit Beautiful Wings die. Punches used are Curly Label, 5 Petal Flower, Lace Ribbon Border, Fancy Flower, and one from the Itty Bitty Punches Pack. Color of reinkers are Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, and Melon Mambo.  I thought these colors represent sunny, bright days like we are having this summer.  It reminds me of happy times.  Hope you enjoy the card and videos.  I will be sharing other cards with the other pieces shown soon.

Below is the piece I used on the card. 

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Here are the project pieces I show in the video.   

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