Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

This cute little 3×3 card is just perfect to tuck in a lunch box and let your child know you are thinking of her! I heat embossed the alphabet and used my Melon Mambo Stampin’ Write marker to color in the HI. It’s even cuter in real life. Today is the last day to get this Recess stamp set, and anything else out of the Summer Mini catalog. Get what you want now, before you regret it.

Stamps: Recess
Ink: VersaMark, Melon Mambo
Paper: Melon Mambo, Basic Black, Crumb Cake
Other: Black Embossing Powder, Scallop Square Duo Bigz Die, Big Shot

The Holiday Mini Catalog starts September 1st! Be sure to stop back for all the info on that!

Wow! 100 ColourQ challenges! I feel so honored to have been a part of the design team for the past 8 months. Arielle cooked up an extra fun challenge for the 100th! It’s a combo sketch challenge with clean&simple stamping, and you pick your own favorite set of colors from the past 99!

How can a person possible pick a favorite out of all of these fabulous colors? There are just too many great ones to choose from! Today is the first day of school, so I picked some fun and bright kids’ colors.

I thought the colors were an amazing match to some of the pictures I took when Eve was doing a little archery a couple weekends ago. At first glance, this may not seem like a good sketch for scrapbooking, but I’m pretty excited about how it turned out!

I hope you’ll have time to play along with these two great challenges! They are two of my favorites!

When I saw this cute card made by Selene, I knew I had to try my own version. I just love this Recess stamp set — the images are just so cute and fun! But just like summer is ending, so is the summer mini catalog. August 31 is the last day to order from it.

Stamps: Recess
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, VersaMark
Paper: Crumb Cake, Pacific Point, Whisper White, Beyond the Garden Designer Series Paper
Other: Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Aqua Painter, Melon Mambo Embossing Powder

I wanted another touch of Melon Mambo, in addition to the girl’s shirt, so I embossed the sentiment with Melon Mambo embossing powder as well.

Hello and welcome to the Stampin’ Addicts’ Holiday Mini Blog Hop, where we will be featuring a variety of the new products in Stampin’ Up’s Holiday Mini Catalog! You may have arrived from Trina’s blog, where she shared the super cute Festive and Fun, or you may be starting here. The blogs connect in a circle, so either way you’ll get to see them all! I am excited to show you some of the great digital downloads that are available in the Holiday Mini Catalog. Each of these have actual paper versions as well.

The first download I want to show you is the Pick Your Poison Embellishments. There is also a coordinating Piece of Poison Stamp Brush Set, though I didn’t use it. This download comes with labels and borders. I used two of the border strips to create the background of this page, and a third one around the edges to frame it. There are both blank labels, and ones already filled in. I used one of the blank ones below the photo.

My next project features the digital version of the Spice Cake Designer Series Paper. You may have noticed that Trina used this in the blog hop banner and buttons as well. It is a beautiful paper set, with a soothing fall feel to it. For this project I created a Thanksgiving Menu that you can be proud to display on your holiday table. If you wanted to make this in a hybrid version, you could use the actual Pool Party ribbon instead of the digital version. Because you can choose which part of the Designer Series Paper shows through the punch, both Trina and I were able to fill our punch with the flower image! It was a quick and easy wow!

My final project uses the Digital Version of the Frostwood Lodge Designer Series Paper. This would be great to use for your Christmas Cards with the family photo! I love the quilt-like quality of the designs, as well as the wood ones, so I combined these into a patchwork scrapbook page.

Want to see all of the digital downloads? Come by after the Mini catalog goes live on September 1st and I’ll post them here for you.  Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed this look at three of the Digital Downloads. Now it is time to move on to Debra’s blog where she will be showing you the beautiful single stamp, Leaves of a Tree.

Take a look at this fabulous sketch that Paula put up over at the Stampin’ Addicts’ sketch challenge last week. Isn’t it great?

My friend and downline Samantha is starting a new teaching job, in her own classroom at another school. I wanted to make her a card to wish her the best. They sure are lucky to have her! This sketch was just perfect for what I wanted to do! I rotated it 90° so it would fit the bear. The dress is paper-pieced, the rest is colored with ink and an aqua painter.

Stamps: Beary Best Friends, Season of Hugs
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Poppy Parade, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip
Paper: Poppy Parade, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Big Top Birthday Designer Series Paper
Other: 3/4″ Circle Punch, 1″ Circle Punch, Designer Label Punch, Aqua Painter, Paper Snips

Do you see what looks like note book paper in the background? It’s actually a sheet from the Big Top Birthday Designer Series Paper Pack! How fun is that? Only a few more days to get in on the Buy 3 Get 1 Free Designer Series Paper sale!

Have you been waiting for the Paisley Petals Designer Series Paper and matching stamp set to come out in the digital version? If so, then your wait is over! Stampin’ Up just released some great new downloads. As for me, I love the Furry Folk! These downloads work with My Digital Studio and any other digital scrapbooking program that allows you to import PNG and JPG files.

127417 Furry Folk Stamp Brush Set $7.95

Whether you’re a lover or animals or a lover of cute, the 14-piece Furry Folk Stamp Brush Set is the set for you!

127426 Sweet Floral Stamp Brush $1.95

This flower bouquet will come to life on your projects with its intricate, lively design—so real you’ll almost smell the sweetness! The one-piece stamp brush download also comes with a 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″ greeting card designer template.

127421 Paisley Petals Stamp Brush Set $3.95

The elegant five-piece Paisley Petals Stamp Brush Set can add floral flair to your projects and coordinates perfectly with our Paisley Petals Designer Series Paper patterns.

127422 Paisley Petals Designer Series Digital Paper $4.95

Add the beautiful designs of these 12 paper patterns to any project. This digital version of our popular Paisley Petals Designer Series Paper offers a similar look and feel with slightly different coloring. Pair this with the coordinating Paisley Petals Stamp Brush Set. Coordinating colors include Always Artichoke, Brocade Blue, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, More Mustard, Night of Navy, Not Quite Navy, Pear Pizzazz, and Whisper White.

127420 Field Flowers Stamp Brush Set $3.95

127433 Sweetly said Stamp Brush Set $3.95

You can purchase these or any other digital downloads through my online store. They great news is that they are available for immediate use, with no shipping charges! Just click on Digital Crafting, then Digital Downloads, then Newest Downloads to see all of the recent additions! If you registered your copy of My Digital Studio, you may also receive end-of-the month emails from Stampin’ Up featuring that month’s digital releases.

There is a My Digital Studio tab to the top right hand corner of this blog. It is a handy reference to a variety of My Digital Studio resources, including a list of all of the downloads and a break down of the printing costs. There is also a new Resources page on MyDigitalStudio.net that includes an MDS Catalog. It shows all of the MDS software artwork (contained in the boxed-version) and downloads from the October 2009 launch through July 31, 2011! The catalog gives a snapshot of the entire product line with artwork thumbnails followed by product details, which includes the colors of the designer papers! Because MDS is regularly coming out with new artwork, the catalog will be updated every month.

Another fun set of colors from ColourQ this week!

I guess I’m ready for Fall, since these colors looked like Fall to me , even with the Christmas trees in the picture! As I searched through my pictures, I found some great ones from pumpkin carving two years ago.

This uses the digital versions of the Old Olive Satin Ribbon, the Cast a Spell Designer Series Paper, and the Calendar Basics Stamp Brush set. I hope you’ll come play along with us at ColourQ! Let me know if you do, I’d love to see what you make!

Tomorrow is my dad’s 70th birthday! Wow, had to do the math twice to make sure I got that one right, but yep, it sure is! Stampin’ Addicts had a great color challenge last week, of Pool Party, Pear Pizzaz, and Soft Suede. They were just perfect for Dad’s birthday card. I tried to include some of his favorite symbols into the card.I used my Stampin’ Write Marker on the birthday stamp from Delightful Dozen, so I could use just the part that says “Happy Birthday.” The rest of the stamp is cute, but it didn’t suit this card.

Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers, Delightful Dozen
Inks: Soft Suede
Papers: Pear Pizzaz, Soft Suede, Pool Party, In Color Pattern Paper Stack (Pear Pizzaz)

Happy birthday, Dad! Sorry we couldn’t be there to celebrate on your birthday, but I’m glad we celebrated while we were in town!

Super cute sketch over at The Paper Players today!

I love the three items in the focal image. I toyed around with a whole bunch of ideas, but eventually settled on coffee. I haven’t had a three-cup-day in a while, but it’s back to work early tomorrow morning, so you never know!

Stamps: Morning Cup
Ink: Early Espresso, Poppy Parade, Baja Breeze
Paper: Baja Breeze, Poppy Parade, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Just Add Cake Designer Series Paper
Other: Early Espresso Satin Ribbon (retired)

The circles on the designer series paper remind me of coffee stain rings! The Early Espresso satin ribbon I used on this is unfortunately retired. It’s so rich and yummy! I do have one unopened roll of it left that I am willing to sell. Email me if you are interested.

Wow! Two great sketches to choose from over at Stamping 411! I picked this one, though if time permits I may give the other one a whirl, too.

I have seen a few of these cards using the pennant punch to make a tiled background. I thought it would be fun to make one in Halloween colors. They bring to mind witches’ hats, don’t you think?

Stamps: Delightful Dozen
Ink: Concord Crush, Tangerine Tango, Basic Black
Paper: Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Concord Crush, Basic Black, Whisper White
Other: Concord Crush Poly Ribbon, Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Pennant Builder Punch

I can think of quite a few variations on this pennant background, including using Designer Series Paper and running it through an embossing folder. The pennant punch made it super easy!