Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

Wow! What could be better than great colours from ColourQ this week? Why, a fabulous Scrapbook Sketch from Stampin’ Addicts to go along with it!

Since my husband couldn’t go along to one of my friend’s wedding’s this summer, I took Eve as my date. (I asked if it was okay first, of course!) And how much more fun that Amy ended up being Eve’s third grade teacher this year!

I created this page with My Digital Studio, Stampin’ Up’s digital scrapbooking and card making software. Did you know that you can now download a free trial of the software? It’s the same fully-functional software, yours to try free for 30 days! Click here for all of the details.

The colors from this week’s ColourQ challenge could really go two ways this week — either something floral or Christmas.

As I was looking through my different pictures, I realized that my parents’ tablecloth reminded me of the the skirt in this challenge!

How much do you love that font? I saw it on one of Tanya’s pages, and I knew I had to get it! You can download it for free here!

Have you been wanting to try My Digital Studio? Well, I have great news for you! Starting February 1st you will be able to download My Digital Studio Express for a 30-day FREE trial! I’ll have more info about this next week.

Another great set of colors from ColourQ this week! And for extra fun, I decided to combine them with the Saturday Scrapbook sketch challenge from Stampin’ Addicts.

I realized that most of the colors could be found in the Sweet Pea digital kit. (The actual paper retired a couple years ago, but the digital version is still available!) By using different patterns from the same pack of paper, I knew that the whole page would come together easily and coordinate well.

I have to say, I was a little intimidated by the sketch when I first saw it. But using the Half Circle Punch and the Flag punch really helped it come together easily.

(Oops! I just realized that the digital paper I used is Rose Red instead of Melon Mambo! I think that it is still close enough for the correct feel of the color challenge. Sorry about that!)

What a fun color challenge from ColourQ this week! It’s black, white, and one other color of your choice!

I used a picture from last New Year’s Eve, and chose Melon Mambo as my third color. My title is a play on words, since my daughter’s name is Eve. It was New Year’s Eve, and she IS New Year’s Eve!! Yes, I love bad word plays. They make me chuckle.

The background paper is from the digital version of the Night & Day Designer Series Paper. Many retired papers are still available digitally. This one is gorgeous for black and white.

(Oh, and that’s sparkling apple juice in her glass, just in case you were wondering…)

Do you remember those Hink Pinks, where the answer has to be two words that rhyme? Like, what is a silly rabbit — a Funny Bunny! So here’s one for today: What do you call Sabba & Savta with their favorite grandson? A Leo Trio! And I had just the perfect picture of that for today’s ColourQ challenge:

I know that many, if not most, of my other design team members are creating Christmas cards with these colors, but I just don’t have that many Christmas photos. (No real surprise there!) But when I saw this picture, with my mom in a Regal Rose sweater, Leo in a Glorious Green striped shirt, sitting in a Real Red wagon, I knew it would be just perfect!

That fabulous patterned paper is from the Big Top Birthday Designer Series Paper. It is available both real and digital, and wonderful to use either way!

Great blues from ColourQ today!

Of course, I had to use this for a Hanukkah page, and what better than Leo’s first Hanukkah?

I used the Jewish Holiday Sayings Stamp Brush Set to decorate my page. Sorry for such a short post. I was just diagnosed with pneumonia, so my posting may be spotty over the next week or so. Thanks for understanding!

Another palette of great fall colors for ColourQ Challenge #111 today!

It was the perfect set of colors for a family picture we had taken at the Harvest Festival last month. I’m also happy to have a family picture where all 3 of us look good! Now, if only we had been centered under the words…

The background paper is from the Digital version the Woodland Walk Designer Series Paper. I love that paper!

Please take note: Stampin’ Up recommends ordering any My Digital Studio printed projects by December 7 in order to insure delivery in time for the holidays.

I hope you will stop back tomorrow to see this week’s batch of Digital Downloads from Stampin’ Up.

Today is the last day to get your four free digital downloads from Stampin’ Up! Head on over to MyDigitalStudio.net and complete a quick survey. You can use them either with the My Digital Studio software or with any other software that accepts graphics. The choice is yours when you download.

One of the downloads is this super cute Home for the Holidays Ensemble. It comes with:

• 7-piece stamp brush set
• 19 embellishments
• 5″ x 3-1/2″ postcard invitation
• 7″ x 5″ thank you greeting card
• 8-1/2″ x 11″ labels & flags template (2 pages)
• 8-1/2″ x 11″ décor template

Below is the décor template. You can use it as is, print it, frame it, and voila! Fun holiday decorations.

Or you can change it up. I started with the template, and turned it into a scrapbook page. I moved the tree to the left and made it a touch smaller. Then I got rid of a couple of the background trees and moved the snowman to the right. I added my pictures, the satin ribbon, and the headline. It literally took me about 10 minutes to put together, after I decided what pictures to use.

I set the opacity of the Old Olive Satin Ribbon to 80% in order to make sure the title showed up. The added benefit of this is that it makes look more like organdy ribbon, I think. So what are you waiting for? Go get your free downloads! They will be gone tomorrow!

The winners of Stampin’ Up’s My Digital Studio contest have been announced, and their work is incredible! I hope you will find time to take a look. To enter the contest, we were asked to submit one scrapbook page and one card created  exclusively with My Digital Studio. The entries were due on October 15th, and I had Halloween on the brain! For the scrapbook page,  I dug back through the archives and found these ridiculously cute pictures of Eve when she was 6 months old. (You can see the card I submitted here.)

I made the patchwork behind the picture with squares of the digital version of the Cast A Spell Designer Series. The images inside the circles are from the Spooky Bingo Bits Stamp Brush Set. I “colored” them in by layering different punches filled with color behind the stamps.

Don’t forget to get your free downloads from MyDigitalStudio.net. You just need to complete a quick survey. They are available through the end of the day Monday, and work in My Digital Studio or any program that can use JPGs or PNGs.

Do you have My Digital Studio yet? Anyone who purchases it through me will receive an hour of one-on-one training for free! (In person if you are local, by phone if you are not.) Contact me for more information!

Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day! One of the free downloads from Stampin’ Up is the Neutral Delightful Digital Tape. This comes in 5 colors — Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, and Transparent. It also comes with an 8″ x 8″ designer template for a scrapbook page. I love the My Digital Studio designer templates! They are always fabulous to use as is, and very easy to modify if one wishes! Let me show you. This first scrapbook page uses the designer template as it came. I just put in a picture and typed my text.

As I looked at the page, I realized that the colors almost matched our school uniforms, if only there was some red on the page. So I changed the background to Cherry Cobbler, as well as a couple of the stamps used on the page. I also removed the original page title, and replaced it with one of the stamps from the (also free this weekend) So Typefelt Stamp Brush Set.

As always, you have the option to download these free items either to use with My Digital Studio or with any software program that uses JPG or PNG files. Yes, even Microsoft Word! So what are you waiting for? Get your free downloads today!