I had the opportunity to drive my car on a small auto cross course this
past weekend at a large all Ford event. It was the first time I have ever done
such a thing and the first time that car has ever been raced like that. It was
soooooooo much FUN! Also kind of embarrassing at the same time: I'm sure I gave
those watching a few laughs as I killed it on the track and missed a turn. It
was still a really neat experience and I'm glad I did it - even more glad I
didn't break or wreck the car =)
So here are a couple of My Digital Studio scrapbook pages to share that
I threw together to commemorate the experience. I think they still need some
tweaking though.
I created my own background paper by using color logos I found online.
I altered them in Photoshop Elements to make them black and white transparent
background PNG files for use with My Digital Studio. That process took a bit of
work to figure out and make them look decent, but now I think I know how to do
it if I need to for other projects !
I created a folder named "Automotive" in the Embellishments folder of My
Digital Studio to save them in. On my computer, the path is
Computer / C drive / Program Files / My Digital Studio / Components /
Embellishments / Automotive = the custom folder I created. I also saved the
large colorful logos taken from the web site and altered in Photoshop Elements
to transparent background PNG files in this folder.
Once you have all of your custom images created for a project and saved in the appropriate My Digital Studio program folders, you will
need to close then reopen the program (at least I must do this on my computer).
They need to be loaded into the program. Start a new project and the newly
created images and folders should show up when you look for them though MDS. Thumbnails for them will be created in My Digital Studio as you access them.
To create the custom background paper, I started a new project, 12 x 12
custom scrapbook page. I inserted several of the images in a row to my liking on
a Whisper White background, copied that row of images then pasted it over and
over. Once I was pleased with the design, I saved and exported the project to
JPG. I saved the JPG file and loaded it back into a "Custom" Backgrounds folder
in the My Digital Studio program file folders. Same path to find the folder as
above, only choose Backgrounds rather than Embellishments. Be sure to name each
of your images and papers something to help you distinguish what they are.
The rest of the supplies used on the above page are:
-Square punch, Real Red, drop shadow
-Large corner punch, Basic Black, drop shadow
-Basic Black grosgrain ribbon, drop shadow
-Real Red Scalloped dot ribbon
-Socket font
I've not ever added a video or sound clipt to a digital page in My Digital
Studio, but I may add the video clip of me driving the course to this one.
Note that I am using the original version of My Digital Studio on an older
Windows Vista computer.
For this page, I created a sort of tire tread design (it really needs to
be tweaked some more though) using corner punches and square punch squished down
into a thin rectangle shape.
The traffic cone was made with the pennant punch elongated slightly and a
squished rectangle punch, both color filled with Pumpkin Pie and a drop shadow
added.
I used the Extreme Elements splatter in a couple of shades of gray with
large drop shadows to try to create the look of tire smoke.
The background is a large square punch layered on Basic Black background
paper. The punch was filled with gray then stamped over with the Textured
background stamp in Basic Black, reduced opacity.
The three photos were added with Basic Black photo mats and drop shadows.
I used the "Socket" font. I may change that.....that is one of the neat things about creating digital projects with My Digital Studio: you can change things if you don't like it .
Thanks for looking =)