MMS Tutorials

Hey everyone!       

How are you all doing?

I’m great and I’m back with a new blog post!

For those who are new on my blog. The My Memories Suite Digital Scrapbooking Software is the #1-rated scrapbooking software which is easy to use + pretty affordable and it’s compatible with Windows as well as with Mac computers. With over 1,500 papers, over 1,000 page elements, and over 30 album templates, I don’t think you want to miss this software, so add this software to your shopping cart! You can create beautiful scrapbooks looking like professional books with all the old pictures you have lying around or you can enhance your scrapbooks with music, narration, video, and even the Internet. There are endless possibilities with this software. Use the discount code STMMMS35043 to get $10 off, so you will be paying only $29.97 for your software instead of $39.97 if you use this code. Software also comes with a $10 coupon for downloads-a total value of $20!!! Plus you can always download new freebies at www.mymemories.com and/or on my blog, so it’s never boring working with this software, cause you’ll always have new things to work with. Just copy and paste the discount code to avoid typos when using it.

Want a totally FREE My Memories Suite V3 Digital Scrapbooking Software? Then you have to participate in my GIVEAWAY and if you’re lucky, who knows....;) Just give it a try. You do need an internet connection on you pc or Mac to download and install this software if you are the winner of my GIVEAWAY. I am extending the My Memories Suite Scrapbooking Software giveaway till the 4^th of August 2012 and it is open internationally. Go to my GIVEAWAY post at http://www.superenergeticpics.blogspot.com/2012/06/mms-v3-software-giveaway.html to participate!!!

I have some new tutorials for you guys on how to work with the My Memories Suite Scrapbooking software. Below are 3 video tutorials for you guys:

This week’s FREEBIES are Cupcake Liners and Toppers which you can use at birthdays, weddings, showers etc.!!! Here’s the link for everyone who has an MMS software to download this week’s FREEBIES: http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_3

If you are participating in the software GIVEAWAY which I am hosting or if you are planning on purchasing this software, you can also download these FREEBIES. If you don’t have this software you will be able to download these freebies, but you won’t be able to work with them.:) The Freebies automatically install to your software.

Here’s a sample created with this week’s freebies:

I haven’t created my own sample yet. I think that I’ll wait till it’s my birthday.;)

Here’s a tutorial for you guys on how this sample was created:

Cupcake Liner Tutorial

1.  Purchase or Bake and Cool Cupcakes.  If cupcakes are frosted, place in refrigerator and chill cupcakes before putting liners on.  It is easier to put liners on if the frosting is cold.

2.  Print your Cupcake liner templates on cardstock and gather supplies.  Each printed page will have enough supplies for 2 cupcakes. (Recommended supplies: small craft scissors, tape, foam squares, 1.25" circle punch, toothpicks and ribbon)

3.  Using the scissors cut along outside line.
TIP: Use a 1.25" circle punch to cut out the toppers.  If printed at full size, the circles should be exactly the same size.

4.  Wrap liner around cupcake and tape at seam.
TIP: If using a smaller cupcake, just wrap around at the desired height. You can place a smaller cupcake at the bottom of the liner or make it tighter and wrap it around at the top.

5.  Using foam squares or tape, attach the front and back circles together to form the topper. Insert toothpick between the circles.

6. Add a ribbon.

7.  Insert toothpick into cupcake.  Enjoy the finished cupcakes and share.  Don't forget to use your imagination.  The possibilities are endless!

That’s it for today’s post.

Love you all!

Sharda

MMS V3 software giveaway!!!

I am inviting everyone to participate in my 3th My Memories Suite scrapbooking software giveaway which is sponsored by My Memories Suite!!!

Grab your chance to win this fun software with which you can create wonderful scrapbooks, cool postcards, amazing gifts and lots more within minutes. In my last giveaway Meenu from Suriname had received this software totally FREE and without any competition, cause although I had received lots of comments, only one person had participated in my giveaway. The rules are very simple, and this competition is open for kids as well as for adults, so don’t wait and watch this time.

My Memories Suite is standing on the #1 position of all the digital scrapbooking softwares in the world.

Here are the rules for you guys to participate in this giveaway:

·         Follow this blog publicly via Google Friend Connect. If you already are a follower, you can skip this step.

·         Go to www.MyMemories.com and pick a favorite kit from the Free Kits. Come back to my blog and tell me in the comment section of this blogpost which of the Free Kits you liked most. Do leave your first name and e-mail along with the name of your favorite free kit in the comment section so I can contact you when you are the winner.

Extra entries (+2) for people who have a blog and want to blog about this giveaway or want to place it on their sidebar or you can also earn extra entries by tweeting about this giveaway or telling your friends about this giveaway through your fb wall. Do let me know if I have to count you in for extra entries.

If you have any problems at all, you can e-mail me at ssewdien@yahoo.com .

Contest ends on the 11^th of July 2012 at 12.00 AM EST and it is open internationally.

If you aren’t lucky this time and you still want to own this software, you can always use the discount code STMMMS35043 to get $10 off your purchase!

This is the cover of the invitation card I had created for my granny’s 80^th birthday. I had used Flutters My Eyes Quick Page and Cutout-Green frame which comes with the software. You can easily give your text a matching color with the picker option. I actually don’t have a printer of my own, so I had exported my layout in a JPEG format and gave it a green border in Microsoft Word to print it out via my dad’s laptop. I added a smiley on granny’s face cause I haven’t asked her permission to place her picture on my blog.

I had created these long back with freebies. You can easily create different layouts using a single quick page; turn around your quick page with one click for your next page(s) of your scrapbook with this software. You can also let your text follow a certain shape.

This is a postcard I had created with embellishments from the My Memories Suite scrapbooking software. I also gave this card a border in Microsoft Word.

I hope that you guys have saved the freebies from previous time; I had left the link to the Doorknob Hanger freebies open for you guys. I took some time off after my thesis presentation, that’s why I haven’t created any samples. This is a sample that I received from Liz.

Here’s the link to this week’s freebies: http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_3

If you are participating in my giveaway, you can also save these freebies if you like, in case you are the winner or if you are about to purchase this software later on. Kids love crowns, weather it is for a birthday party or just for being a prince or princess for a day. At Hindu weddings out here in Suriname, sometimes the aunts who bake grains and popcorn also get a crown and funny vegetable necklaces for fun. You can customize your crown with pictures or ages or however you like. Here’s a sample from Liz for you guys.

Check out my previous posts for more samples created with My Memories Suite scrapbooking software.

Hugs and best of luck everyone!

Sharda

New freebies and a new tutorial

Hey everyone!
This week, I have a new tutorial for you guys. This tutorial is showcasing My Memories Suite V3 on How to Find Purchased Content in your software. You can see how easy this software is and how your software gets upgraded with each compatible kit. Don’t forget to use the discount code STMMMS35043 if you’re interested in purchasing this software at www.mymemories.com ; you will get a $10 discount by using this code!;)
Here’s the tutorial link for you:  http://mymemories.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2db59f577e9668b002ca5c0af&id=3399e9a712&e=e016845246

I also have new freebies for everyone this week. These freebies can be used in any software! These freebies include two 4” x 6” Quick Pages, and all the papers and elements used in creating them. The Quick Pages and elements are .png files and the papers are .jpg format. My Memories Suite Templates are auto installed in the software, but these are for everyone, even if you don’t have a My Memories Suite software!!! You can do lots of wonderful things with these freebies: create smaller projects like postcards, photos for printing et cetera or add elements to a larger layout and use it as a photo mat!
Here’s the link for everyone to download these freebies: Sorry, link has expired; check out the newer posts for new freebies. 


Just layer your photos behind the open box and add some text and you’re done! I’ve created a sample for you to see. I think that the designer forgot to create two open boxes in the Quick Page I’ve used; there’s only one open box, but you can layer your picture on top and then add the ric rac on top of the picture.

Don’t forget to participate in my My Memories Suite V3 software GIVEAWAY if you still haven’t participated yet. Check out my previous post for a chance to win Amazon’s #1 digital scrapbooking software.;)


Hugs and till next time!
Sharda

Valentine's GIVEAWAY

February is a month of love and gifts, so I am also giving away a free gift filled with love to a lucky winner. I am inviting everyone to participate in my free International Valentine’s giveaway! You can win a My Memories Suite Version 3.0 software worth $39.97 which is sponsored by My Memories Suite!

So what can you do with this software?
You can easily create professional looking postcards, covers for your essays, scrapbooks, photo books or DVDs with your videos and/or pictures you have lying around or which are somewhere deeply stored and hardly looked at. Think of all the wonderful pictures you will be taking soon: baby showers, birthdays, weddings, vacations, graduations etc. Wouldn’t it be nice having them printed out like a professional book? You can also e-mail your created layouts to your family and friends or place it on your facebook page. Check out my beauty and fashion blog CREATIVE D-ZINE to see some more samples of layouts I’ve created with this software. You can also read my 1st My Memories Suite giveaway post out there to know some more about this software. The rules are very simple, so do try out your luck. You do need internet connection on your PC or Mac to download and install this software. I won’t leave anyone empty handed, cause if you haven’t won the software, you will receive a free pack containing 2 Quick Pages and all the papers and embellishment used in creating them. You will be able to use these Quick Pages in any software.;) 

The rules for my My Memories Suite Version 3.0 software giveaway are:
• Follow this blog publicly via Google Friend Connect. If you already are a follower, you can skip this step.
• Go to http://www.mymemories.com/ and check out how many Page Elements the kit Luvbugs contains. (You can type in ‘Luvbugs’ in the search box to easily find this kit if you don’t see it. Click on the kit and you will find the descriptions of this kit. I’ve placed a picture of the Luvbugs pack below). Come back to my giveaway post and tell me in the comment section of this blogpost how many page elements the kit Luvbugs contains. Do leave your first name and e-mail along with your answer in the comment section so I can contact you.

Extra entries (+2) for people who have a blog and want to blog about this giveaway or want to place it on their sidebar. Do tell me in your comment if I have to count you in for extra entries.

Tips for people that have a bit of problem with the rules:
- If you don’t have a blog, you can use your Gmail account to follow my blog via Google Friend Connect. Simply sign in with your Gmail, open my blog and then click on the ‘Join this site’ tab on the side bar at the right. If you don’t have a Gmail, then you can sign up first.;)
- Simply click on ‘comments’ below (at the end of my Giveaway post), type in your comment in the blank comment box, and then click on ‘Publish comment’; as easy as that. When you are done you can sign out from Gmail if you prefer. If you don’t want your e-mail to be publicly visible, you can mail me your e-mail at ssewdien@yahoo.com , but you do need to place your first name and answer in the comment section of my blog to participate. If you have any questions at all you can send me an e-mail.

All the comments and entries will be publicly visible on my blog after the contest is closed, so there will be no cheating.;) Contest is open till the 29th of February 2012 12:00 AM EST.

Best of luck everyone!
Sharda

How to print out your MMS layouts if you don’t have a printer of your own

Hey everyone!
How are you guys doing?
I’m good; just pampered my feet in a hot tub. It’s good for your body as well as for your soul to pamper yourself now and then.;)

Today I’m going to share my printed postcard with you guys. I don’t have a printer of my own, so I had placed my exported JPEG images which I had created with my My Memories Suite close to each other in Microsoft Word to print it out.

First I had inserted my JPEG images by right clicking on the thumbnail of my JPEG image and then clicking on ‘Paste’ in Microsoft Word. I had created another layout for the back of my postcard in MMS. So when you insert your layouts in Microsoft Word they will be on two pages. I’m going to place them on one page. So how do you do that?

First start by changing your page layout. Click on ‘Page Layout’ and choose for ‘Narrow Margins’.

Now I’m going to make my images smaller. First select your picture, then click on ‘Picture Tools’. Now you can change the size of your picture.

I’m gong to change the height and width of my picture into 4.84”, but you can also choose some other value if you like. So type in the value; I’m typing 4.84” for the height and width and then I’m hitting the ‘Enter’ key.

Select the other picture if you have also created a back in MMS. I’ve added a deer embellishment and a Text ‘Created by Sharda Sewdien’ for the layout of the back. If you haven’t created a back for your postcard, you can also leave a piece of white area and cut out the white area as your back after printing out your layout. So now I have both my layouts on one page.

Select the pictures one by one and and choose for the option ‘Rotate Right 90˚’ from your Format menu.

You could actually also have choosen for a landscape orientation; this way you wouldn’t have to rotate the pictures. There are lots of ways to get the job done.

When you only have one layout, you can place your layout somewhere below on your page and print it out and your done after cutting out your layout! When you also have a layout for the back of your postcard, we are going to continue. So when you’ve rotated your pictures, give it a borderline by selecting a picture border color; this way you will be able to view the borders of your layout.

You can now see that there’s a space between the two layouts. So what we are going to do is, we are going to select the second layout and then we are going to give it a Text Wrapping; click on ‘Behind Text’.

Now you can place the two layouts close to each other without any space; use your arrow key ‘↑’ to get the layout a bit up.

Now choose for ‘No outline’ cause you don’t want to see the line between the two layouts and then insert a line shape instead at the top and bottom of your postcard, this way you’ll know where you should be cutting your postcard.

To insert a line, go to ‘Insert’, ‘Shapes’, then click on ‘Line’ and draw your line by holding your mouse in. Now you can print out your postcard.

This is the front cover of my postcard.

The back of my postcard.

You can also decorate the inside of your postcard if you like. There are endless ways from which you can choose to decorate your postcard. You could for example also have created another layout for the inside or you could use cut-outs and or other decoration items. As a little girl I would love cutting out shapes and pictures from magazines and decorating my diary with them. I’ve chosen for this option this time to decorate the inside, cause I love reusing materials.  You could also try this out when it’s for personal use. I’ve cut out a light-up penguin pal from the inside of an Avon brochure cover which isn’t valid anymore and I’ve glued it on the inside of my postcard. I’ve also stuck some glitter stickers on the side of the penguin and I glued a piece of red lace on the other side. This is how the inside of my postcard looks like.

The only thing missing is a handwritten message and I can do it in the post. I also have created my own envelope; maybe I’ll explain next time how I created my envelope.

I have something special for you guys this week! Everyone visiting my blog gets a free gift. You can download your full of spunk quick pages from this link: Sorry, link has expired. Check out my newest post for new freebies. . You have the time till Tuesday to download your free gift. Have fun creating your layouts with them!!!

I’m going to polish my nails now.

Till next week,
XOXO

Tutorial 2: How to insert embellishments into your album

Hey everyone!


I’m back! Well, the special news is, as some of you may know, that a newer version of My Memories Suite has arrived! In version 3, you will find everything you received in version 2 plus lots more album templates, papers, embellishments etc., so you can choose from thousands of items to work with and to create something unique and of your own. On the control panel you will find two new tabs: the ‘Imprints’ tab and the ‘Calendars’ tab.
Use my discount code: STMMMS35043 to get your discount on this software!!!
I’m going to continue with my previous tutorial. So you have to open your My Memories Suite software by double clicking on the MMS icon or by clicking on ‘start’ and then clicking on ‘My Memories Suite’. It may take a moment for your MMS program to open.

Your ‘New Album Options’ window will open, and because I’m going to work further with the album I was working on previously, I’m going to click on the thumbnail of my Jingle Bell album which is one of my five ‘Recent Albums’.

So now your album has opened.

You can zoom in or out to get a better look at your page or page elements. I’m going to click twice on the '-' tab to zoom my page out to 50%.You can also click on the Caron sign 'ˇ' next to the zoom percentage to choose a zoom option.

The left corner of my page looks a bit empty, so I want to add an embellishment to this corner. There are two options how you can add your embellishment: you can click on the ‘Embellishments’ tab from your ‘Control Panel’ on the right of your screen or you can click on the embellishments tab (the flower) from your ‘Resource Gallery’ on the left of your screen. I’m going to start by clicking on my ‘Embellishments’ tab from my ‘Control Panel’ to show you how it’s done from here. Your embellishment options will open up when you click on your ‘Embellishments’ tab. Click on ‘Add’.

You will now get your ‘Choose Embellishment’ window from where you can choose an embellishment. What you see on the left of this window is that all the embellishments are categorized, so this way it’s easy to find an embellishment.

I’m going to click on the ‘+’ of my purchased items. I can now choose from the items that are again categorized. I want a Christmas embellishment, so I’m going to click on the ‘+’ tab of ‘Christmas’, which is once again categorized. I’m going to choose for ‘A Gift for You’, which comes with the My Memories Suite V3 software. I love playing with embellishments and imprints. I’ll talk some other time about the imprints. So now I’m going to click on ‘Deer’ next, and I can now choose from three deers. I’m going to click on ‘Deer 2’ of the ‘Preview’ and then click on ‘Apply’ and then on ‘Close’.

I now have my chosen deer on my page, but it’s not where I want it to be. So I’m going to drag it to the place I want it to be with my mouse held in.

At the right on the ‘Control Panel’, you see all the options for your embellishment. You can give your embellishment a ‘Shadow’, ‘Mirror’ it, ‘Flip’ it, ‘Rotate’ it or change your ‘Opacity’. What I am about to do is to mirror my embellishment and change the opacity to make it matching with the grey on my page. To mirror it, simply click on the ‘Mirror’ tab, and to change the ‘Opacity’ value scroll to the left or type your opacity value and hit your ‘Enter’ key. I’m changing my opacity to 40. You can drag your embellishment again to have it exactly where you want it to be if you’re not satisfied. This is what I got.

You can click on your ‘Embellishments’ tab on your ‘Control Panel’ to hide all the options if you want to work with some other tab.

When you click on the embellishments tab from your ‘Resource Gallery’, you will get a better and bigger view of the embellishments. I recently worked with deer, that’s why I will get a view of all the deers. If I want to place another deer, I can double click on the image of the embellishment to get it on my page. By clicking on the ‘Select Category’ tab, you will find all the categories from which you can choose in the same way as from your control panel.

 I can hide my ‘Resource Gallery’ to get a better view of my page by clicking on the left-pointing double angle quotation ‘«’

What you also may have noticed is that the borders of your page are grey; this is the area that will be cropped when you print your album, so keep in mind that you don’t place embellishments and text that you want to be shown, in this area. When you are going to export you album to a JPEG file for example, and are not intending to print it out, you can place your text, embellishment(s) or imprint(s) in this area, cause they will appear normally on your JPEG file. If you don’t want the crop area to be shown, click on ‘View’, then go to ‘Guides’ and click on ‘Trim area-large photo album’ which is active, to make it inactive. So now you don’t see the grey border. If you are to print your album it’s better to leave the grey area or make your trim area active if it’s inactive.

That’s it for today’s tutorial!

This is something I had created with the pack from previous week. The green background is actually from this week’s giveaway pack. Featuring on the picture are Indian actor Gurmeet Choudhary and his wife, and the quote in hindi is from the Indian actress Priyanka Chopra.:D The quote says: “Don’t look at how many moments there are left in one’s life, but look at how much life there is in each moment”.

As no one has participated in this week’s giveaway, this pack is completely mine!!! I really love this pack!

I will be offering scrapbooking Freebies regularly, so you can start with your album for photo books, printing or online viewing by using them!

Do leave your name and e-mail in the comment section of this blog post for a chance to win the next set of Quick Pages next week!

Hugs and kisses,
Sharda