Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

A friend of mine is going through some medical stuff right now.  I wanted to let her know I was thinking about her, so I put together this little box of chocolate and a 3×3 card to go with it. I made a clear acetate cover for a matchbox bottom, and filled it with chocolates. I wanted to stamp the wrappers to look like band aids, so I used Peach Parfait ink. I used the polka dot  paper to echo the dots on the “band aids.”

Stamps: It’s a Wrap Occasions, Occasions Alphabet
Ink: Peach Parfait, Island Indigo
Paper: Island Indigo, In-Color Designers Series Paper Stack,  Whisper White
Other: Island Indigo Ruffled Ribbon, Scallop Square Duo Bigz Die, Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, labels, acetate

Hope this helps her feel better soon!

Wow! Can you believe that Mojo Monday is on their 200th sketch? I had to play along! Here’s the sketch:

Fun, huh? I am making a bunch of cards for my mom to have to send as needed, so I knew it had to include Daffodil Delight. I flipped through the cards of the Color Coach, looking for ideas, and I found this color combo on the back of one of the new In Color cards. I really like it! For the big flower, I stamped it in White Craft Ink and then used Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder.

Stamps: Flower Fest, Word Play
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Whisper White (craft)
Paper: Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Whisper White
Other: Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder, 2 3/8″ Scallop Punch, 2 1/2″ Circle Punch, Lucky Limeade Ruffled Ribbon, Lace Ribbon Border Punch

I think I’m going to be using this color combo more often! I really like it!

A friend and fellow stamper has been pretty sick for a while, so I wanted to make her a card to let her know that I’m thinking about her. I decided to combine this week’s Pals Paper Arts color challenge with the Stamping 411 sketch challenge.

I also wanted to play with my new Watercolor Wonder Crayons (see Friday’s post if you missed them), so I used the fabulous line image set, Morning Cup.I used Stampin’ Up’s high quality watercolor paper with it. They work like a dream!

Stamps: Morning Cup
Ink: StazOn Jet Black
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Riding Hood Red, Watercolor Paper, Subtles Prints Designer Series Paper Pack
Other: Watercolor Wonder Crayons (Rich Razzleberry, Riding Hood Red, Certainly Celery), Aqua Painter, Curly Label Punch

I love the tall stack of cups! I saw this idea on a few other cards. The actual stamp has 4 cups stacked, but with the Clear Mount stamps, it is easy to create the tower of cups.

I love stamp sets that coordinate with punches. Absolutely love them! It’s a weakness of mine. One of the great points of the new Idea Book & Catalog is that it actually tells you which punches coordinate with the sets! Color Throwdown is having a big party, celebrating their 100th color challenge, so I decided to give it a try. Here are the colors

Punched Posies is a Level 2 hostess set in the Summer Mini catalog. I had to get it, since the stamps coordinate with our punches! I saw a great card on Mickey’s blog, and based my entry for the color throwdown off that one.

Stamps: Punched Posies, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Regal Rose, Real Red, Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze
Paper: Regal Rose, Real Red, Certainly Celery (textured), Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Other: Rhinestone Bards (Fire Circle), Butterfly Punch, 1 3/4″ Scallop Circle Punch, Fancy Flower Punch, Five Petal Flower Punch, Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals

It’s a definite change from my Clean and Simple style, but I really like how it came out!

A very good family friend had one of his kidneys removed a few weeks ago and his having a pretty rough recovery. Not that there is really ever an easy recovery from something like that. I’d been meaning to make him a Get Well card, and this week’s Pals Paper Arts Challenge inspired me to get on it! Here are this week’s colors:

He’s the kind of guy who would much more appreciate a funny card than a serious one, so I turned to the Pun Fun sent. (If I had wanted a more serious one, I would have pulled out Thoughts & Prayers.) The red was a little tricky to work in, but it does liven up the card.

Stamps: Pun Fun
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Real Red, Island Oasis Designer Series Paper, Whisper White
Other: Tempting Turquoise 1/4″ Grosgrain Ribbon, Aqua Painter

Feel better soon, Jim! We’re all pulling for you over here!

I was over at my friend Beth’s house in Massachusetts last week. She’s another Stampin’ Up demonstrator and lives right near my parents’ house. I try to visit her everytime we go back there, because she and I have completely opposite taste in stamps! It’s true! Whenever we compare notes, we’ve bought completely different stamp sets! So when we get together we swap stamp sets and it’s a lot of fun. Here are two cards I made using her Lots of Bots set.

Stamps: Lots of Bots
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Bordering Blue, Night of Navy, Ruby Red
Paper: Bordering Blue, Night of Navy, Ruby Red, Whispering White

These cards made think of the song “Mechanical Man” by Bent Bolt & the Nuts. They’ve been playing it a lot on Kids Place Live, the Sirius/XM channel that Eve and I listen to everyday to and from school. It’s a very strange song and people either love it or hate it. You can listen to it here.

My father-in-law is having back surgery today. I wanted to make a Get Well Card for my husband to bring with to the hospital. I am really pleased with the sentiment from the Thoughts & Prayers stamp set for a a quick and complete recovery, because that is truly what we wish him — a refu’ah shelamah!

Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers
Ink: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip
Paper: Old Olive, Whisper White, Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Pack

If you want to keep him in your prayers that would be appreciated. His Hebrew name is Lazar ben Sarah.

I  posted a few days ago about the friends I had made through Stampin’ Up. One thing that is amazing is the friendships I have formed with other demonstrators, most of whom I have never in met in “real life.” There are a variety of sites where demonstrators support each other online, both about stamping and life in general. One of these women, Jenn, is someone I respect as a person and as a fabulous and creative stamper. I’ve never met her, but I visit her blog often.  Her father was in a terrible car accident over the weekend, and when I emailed to see what, if anything I could do (she’s in Illinois, I’m in Massachusetts), she said I could send a card to her dad. Well of course! I’m happy to! This one is for your dad, Jenn. I’ll be putting it in the mail shortly.

At the risk of sounding tacky, it is also one of the cards we’ll be making at Friday night’s Fun Folds Card class. This is called a Z-Fold card. You can see why from the pictures.

Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers, Baroque Wheel
Ink: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip
Paper: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Good Morning Sunshine

I love the stamp set Thoughts & Prayers. In addition to the beautiful tree, it also has a flowering branch that is just lovely. And it has some really nice sentiments in it as well. If the colors and basic layout looks the same, it is because I used some of the leftover cardstock from my last workshop! I just turned it on its side. I used my Stampin’ Write Markers to ink the flowers and leaves in different colors.

Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers
Ink: Rose Red, Old Olive, Basic Black
Paper: Rose Red, Old Olive, Basic Black, Whisper White
Accessories: Rose Red 1/4″ Grosgrain Ribbon, Texturz Plates #1, Big Shot

Thoughts & Prayers $25.95 images©Stampin' Up

I think masculine cards are the hardest to make. Not funny ones, not lovey ones, but real masculine cards. So when my co-librarian asked me to make a get well card for his grandfather, I knew it was going to be rough. There is one set, though, that is always a good one to turn to for manly cards — Lovely as a Tree. You just can’t go wrong with Lovely as a Tree! I based my design off of this card, but I used the new Stampin’ Up Texturz plate harlequin design for the background. The sentiment is from the Chit-Chat rub ons. If you haven’t tried Stampin’ Up’s rub-ons, you really need to. They are head and shoulders above the rest! And the Chit Chat pack is amazing! There are 92 different sentiments, in both Chocolate Chip and Whisper White. That’s 184 sentiments for only $10.95! That’s less than 6 cents a piece! Crazy!

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Always Artichoke (Stampin’ Write Markers)
Paper: Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Whisper White
Accessories: Rich Regal Brads, Chit Chat Rub-Ons, Stampin’ Up Backgrounds 1 Texturz Plates