Stamp With LisaT: My Digital Studio - Soccer Scrapbook Page

Here's the page I promised in my previous post. It's another scrapbook page that I created using Stampin' Up!'s new digital papercrafting software, My Digital Studio. There's a couple of fun things about this page, the first being that I created the scrapbook page on the same day that I took the photos. Talk about instant gratification!

This page captures some of the action of my daughter's final soccer tournament game. It was another gray rainy day here in northern NJ, but that didn't dampen the girls' spirits. One of the other fun things about this page? You're seeing just one version. I created the page and added two team photos and two photos of my daughter. After saving it, I then deleted the photos of my daughter and popped in two photos of another girl in their place. Saved that as a jpeg file, and emailed it off to a soccer-mom friend of mine. I got two separate scrapbook pages with a few extra mouse clicks! Went back to the original file, substituted a team photo with the blanked-out faces, added the Stampin' Up! copyright information (it's a "stamp set" included My Digital Studio) and saved that version to share here with you.

How was it so easy to swap out the photos? There was NO resizing, re-matting or repositioning involved - it was super-easy! My tip here is that when using My Digital Studio, rather than adding a photo, add a photo box. A photo box retains sizing and placement information. I simply deleted the existing photo (this leaves the photo box intact), then double-clicked on the dark gray photo box to select a new photo. The photo mat stayed in place, I didn't have to worry about resizing the photo to match the other photos, and it stayed in the same location. So easy and quick!

A quick word about the matting: I selected each photo, then clicked on 'Mat' under 'Photos' in the Design Center (right side). I kept the default color of Whisper White, but this can be modified. To get the second layer, I simply added a card stock layer in Basic Black and sized it to fit under my matted photo. I did this once, and when I was satisfied with the sizing, I copy and pasted it two times, then positioned these under the respective photos.

Another fun element was the use of stars on this page:

The three black stars along the left side were created using the star punch, which I filled with Basic Black card stock. I added a drop shadow, to give the appearance of being popped up on a dimensional. I also added a Whisper White brad to the center. Again, I created one star, then copy and pasted it. The Align tool did a great job of lining them up for me.
The white stars that appear under the "Go Team" stamp and under my journaling were created by using the Sporting stamp set that's included in My Digital Studio. (Wow! Did you know there are 61 stamp sets included in My Digital Studio?)
The large, transparent star that's under the "Team Huddle" picture is another Star Punch, enlarged, filled with Whisper White. I then changed the opacity to 30%.