MDS Blog Hop - Gearing up for summer weather!

You may be thinking: "Hey wait a minute!  We're just barely getting spring weather  - what's with the summer theme?"  Well... that's true for a lot of us.  Mother Nature has been toying with us for the last few months.  However, I looked at the calendar recently and noticed that Summer Break starts in 6 weeks! Not only that, our pool opens at the end of May!  It's definitely time to start thinking about warmer weather.  I hope our projects cheer you up and get you excited for fun in the sun!

I pulled out a couple of pictures from last summer of my son Andrew and his friend Clara goofing around at the pool. They always have a blast hanging out together and this is a fun memory.

I added the circle of patterned paper in the background by first filling the circle with paper, then in edit mode, pulling the paper off to the side so it only filled one quarter of the circle.  I copied and pasted the circle in place three more times and filled it with a different paper, moving it to a different section of the circle each time.  

This month Beth Rush will be joining us as a guest designer and we're thrilled to have her! 

Hope you have fun on the rest of the hop!

1. Amber Meadows 2. Jeanna Bohanon 3. Julie Leblanc 4. Rochelle Gould 5. Aly Schilling 6. Mandy Grant 7. Kimberly Van Diepen 8. Holly VanDyne 9. Erica Shaw 10. Cindy Schuster 11. Beth Rush - guest blogger!

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MDS Blog Hop - Summer Fun!

Well, I'm still having issues with MDS 2. I can't figure out why, but when I try to select an object either takes several seconds to respond or it just doesn't do anything at all. Frustrating. I'm trying to be patient though; I know that Stampin' Up is working to fix the bugs.

My page is mostly done, so I'll post it now.  I'm trying to figure out how to add a text path all the way around my page, but so far I can't get it to work.  Maybe it's not possible?  I'll keep playing with it.

*UPDATE* Thanks to a comment from one of my readers, quirks59m, I was able to figure out how to create a text path around the page!  It still takes some tweaking to get everything just right (especially around the corners) but it works!  Here's the finished page:

I'm off to the beach today, but I hope you have some summer fun by checking our designs today!

1. Jeanna Bohanon

2.Rochelle Gould

3. Mandy Grant

4. Julie Leblanc

5.Amber Meadows

6. Terri Mongeon

7. Aly Schilling

8. Cindy Schuster

9. Erica Shaw

10. Heather Summers

11. Holly VanDyne

12. Kimberly Van Diepen