Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

I’ve been trying to figure out how to make a SUO (Stampin’ Up Only) seder plate, and I think I did it! For a detailed explanation of the elements of the seder plate, you can visit Chabad.org. The hardest of all of the items for me to find was the egg. I don’t have any single egg stamps, and a pile of Easter eggs just wasn’t going to cut it! I ended up using my marker on just the outline of the baby’s head from All in the Family.  The maror in the middle is made from the stem that is included with Fifth Avenue Floral. I used the cupcake top and sprinkles from Create a Cupcake to make the charoset. The sentiment is printed on the computer.

Stamps: D is for Dog, Build a Blossom, Fifth Avenue Floral, Create a Cupcake, All in the Family, Fresh Cuts
Ink: Soft Suede, Certainly Celery, Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Cherry Cobbler
Paper: Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Soft Suede, Whisper white
Other: 1″ Circle Punch, 3 1/2″ Circle Bigz Die, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Big Shot, 1/4″ Certainly Celery Grosgrain Ribbon

The Ten Plagues card that I made two years ago is still my all-time favorite Passover card, though. Passover starts Monday night, April 18, this year. Plenty of time to make your Passover cards!

A little over a week until Passover starts! That means it’s time for cleaning out the chametz and making Passover cards.  I decided to use this week’s Pals Paper Arts sketch to get started on them.

As I’ve mentioned before, my family equates frogs with Passover. This comes from the second plague in the Passover story. And it helps that they are cute and spring-like. Decorating the house with boils just doesn’t have the same type of charm! Here’s what I came up with:

Stamps: Hoppy For You, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Pad, Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper Pad
Other: Modern Label Punch, Gold Brads, Paper Snips, Stamp-a-ma-jig

There is a strip of torn bashful blue at the bottom to make the water. The lily pad and cattails are both paper-pieced. If you are interested in other Passover cards, check out my all-time favorite, the Plague Card that I made last year.

Today’s My Digital Studio tip — the undo command. I love it. Use it often, that’s my motto! Sometimes, when using My Digital Studio, it is easy to rotate when you mean to resize, or resize when you mean to move. If that happens — DO NOT PANIC! Just stop, go up to Edit at the top, and choose undo. Everything will go back as you had it. You can “undo” multiple steps, as long as you have not saved since doing them. Then, when you have it how you like it, save!

Moving on in the calendar, we have April and May.

April focuses on Passover, especially the frogs! I tried to make the background of the first page be reminiscent of matzah. What do you think, did it work?

May has both Mother’s Day and my mom’s birthday, so I used those as the theme.

Feel like making your own calendar yet?

I’m so excited that Kristina Werner’s color challenge this week works perfectly for a Passover card! I’ve been feeling the need to make more, especially with these adorable froggies! Here are this week’s colors:

I decided to do another scalloped circle card. The circle reminds me of a seder plate. And the frogs, the second plague, are one of my family’s traditional Passover symbols. I used textured cardstock for the Kiwi Kiss and the Baja Breeze. I liked how it adds just a little more dimension.

Stamps: Hoppy for You, Simple Serif Alphabet
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Accessories: Baja Breeze Striped Ribbon, Scallop Circle Bigz Die, Big Shot, Circle Scissors Plus, Stamp-a-Ma-Jig

Hoppy Passover to you and yours!

Here’s another Passover related card. Well, for me it is Passover related because of all of the frogs, and frogs always make me think of Passover. For you, a frog may just be a frog. This is from a sketch challenge on a new website I have been visiting called Stampin’ Addicts. It’s a happy, upbeat group of crazy stampers like myself.  The forums are a great place to chat and the gallery is growing. Today’s card:

Stamps: Hoppy for You
Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Accessories: Kiwi Kiss Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Large Oval Punch, Scalloped Oval Punch

Passover is coming up next week, and one of the things my family really likes to focus on are the ten plagues. Particularly the decorations — frogs and bugs more so than blood and boils. So I got it in my head to make a Ten Plagues Passover card. It took quite a few stamp sets, and a fairly loose interpretation of the plagues, but here is what I came up with:

The plagues (and the stamp sets I used)
1) Blood (Pick a Petal)
2) Frogs (Hoppy for You)
3) Lice (Hoppy for You)
4) Wild Beasts (Wild About You)
5) Cattle Disease (Pun Fun)
6) Boils (All in the Family)
7) Hail (Pick a Petal)
8 ) Locust (Bugs & Kisses)
9) Darkness (Chocolate Chip Cardstock)
10) Slaying of the First Born (All in the Family, Family Accessories Too)

Ink: Ruby Red, Garden Green, Not Quite Navy, More Mustard, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Creamy Caramel, Garden Green, Not Quite Navy, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Accessories: Stampin’ Write Markers

You can learn more about Passover from Judaism 101.