Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

When I first looked at today’s ColourQ colors, they seemed very masculine to me. But as I started making my card, that changed.

I was talking it over with Eve, and we started out thinking — blue bird, yellow flowers, green leaves, kraft branch — aha! Season of Friendship! And here’s what I came up with.

Stamps: Season of Friendship
Ink: Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Not Quite Navy, Daffodil Delight
Paper: Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White
Other: Daffodil Delight 3/8″ Taffeta Ribbon, Basic Rhinestones, Bitty Punch Pack, Top Note Bigz Die, Big Shot Machine

I love the fun, summery look of this card!

Stamping 411 has a great sketch again today. I combined it with the Color Throwdown for some great spring birds.

The closest colors I had to the challenge were Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, and Certainly Celery, so I used those. I thought these colors would be great with my Cheep Talk set — haven’t used that one in awhile!

Stamps: Cheep Talk
Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Certainly Celery
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Brights Designer Series Paper Stack
Other: Certainly Celery Satin Ribbon, Playground Buttons (retired), Scallop Square Duo Die, Big Shot, Stamp-a-ma-jig

Like my bow? It’s fake. I just looped some ribbon over to look good. Love that!

Stamping 411 went back to a nice, clean sketch for today’s challenge. I really like these best.

I decided to use Happy Together for my main image. I earned it as a free Sale-a-Bration set last year, and it is still available this year as well! But remember, there are only a few days left to Sale-a-brate — the fun ends on March 31st.

Stamps: Happy Together
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Graden Geen, More Mustard (for the beaks)
Paper: Garden Green, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Woodland Walk Designer Series Paper
Other: Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon, Curly Label Punch

I have to thank Samantha for the Woodland Walk paper and Debbi for the Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon. I couldn’t have made this without you!

Stampin’ Addicts, the fabulous Stampin’ Up centered online forum and gallery, turns two years old tomorrow! Wow! It seems like yesterday that it was just starting up! To celebrate it’s birthday, we are having a “virtual card shower” starting on Tuesday. Make a birthday card, put it up online somewhere like the Stampin’ Addicts gallery, and post a link in the virtual card shower thread. For my card, I combined this week’s Curtain Call Color Challenge with the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

As soon as I saw these bright happy colors, I knew exactly which set to reach for — Pun Fun! I love that little birthday bird! I colored him in with my Stampin’ Write Markers, since there is no Pear Pizazz watercolor crayon. It’s an In Color, you know.

Stamps: Pun Fun
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Tempting Turquoise, Pear Pizazz, Tangerine Tango
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Pear Pizazz, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Brights Designer Series Paper Stack, In Color Designer Series Paper Stack
Other: Scallop Square Punch, 2 3/8″ Scallop Circle Punch, 2 1/2″ Circle Punch

Be sure to stop by again, it’s going to be an exciting week! Tomorrow is the ColourQ challenge, and then on Friday it’s the Stampin’ Addicts Birthday Technique Blog Hop! You don’t want to miss it!

When I saw Mickey Robert’s super cute card with the flamingos on it, I knew I wanted to make a similar one. This week’s ColorLab Color Challenge colors seemed like the perfect time to try it!

Aren’t these great colors for a Valentine? I love how it says to add a touch of Crumb Cake! Here’s what I came up with.

Stamps: Valentine Defined
Ink: Rose Red, Soft Suede, Blushing Bride
Paper: Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Blushing Bride, Whisper White, In Colors Patterns Designer Series Paper Stack (Blushing Bride)
Other: Blushing Bride Poly Twill Ribbon, 1 3/4″ Circle Punch, 2 3/8″ Scallop Circle Punch, Paper Piercer

Rose Red is a very good flamingo color, I have to say.  I just love this new stamp set!

I had some time to stamp in between loads of laundry today, and I was excited to find three different challenges that all worked together really well. I used the colors form the Curtain Call Color Challenge, the sketch from Stamping 411, and the theme from Our Creative Corner (Hey Chickadee).

I’m still in a Valentine frame of mind, so I wanted to make something that could work for that. I used the new Language of Love wheel to create the patterned paper at the bottom. (Did you notice that it has “ahava” on it? That means love in Hebrew! I was so excited when I saw it!)

Stamps: Cheep Talk, A Happy Heart, Language of Love wheel
Ink: Pacific Point, Marina Mist, Always Artichoke, Cherry Cobbler
Paper: Pacific Point, Marina Mist, Always Artichoke, Whisper White
Other: Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, Stamp-a-ma-jig

I used my Stamp-a-ma-jig on every stamp on this card! Sure makes me appreciate our clear mount stamps!
Pssst — be sure to stop back Tuesday. I have a surprise announcement.

My mom had asked me to make her some more thank you notes while we were visiting her last week, but I didn’t have the right supplies with me. When I saw this week’s Curtain Call Color Challenge, I knew it would be a great start.

My mom loves doves, and while Stampin’ Up’s two-step Bird Punch probably isn’t a dove, it is close enough for my purposes. I made this card without any ink or stamps! Just punches and my Big Shot. It came together pretty quickly, and since I know my mom will mail it, I kept it lump free. The embossing provides plenty of texture, without annoying the post office.

Paper: Pear Pizzaz, Early Espresso, Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Subtles Designer Series Paper Prints Stack (Baja Breeze)
Other: Two-Step Bird Punch, Bigz Scallop Square Duo Die, Finial Press Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Big Shot

Let me know what you think, Mom!

When I saw how pretty this week’s Color Throwdown colors were together, I was really excited! They look great together, but how to use them, and only them, on a card… Wow! That was a little tricky!

As I was looking through my stamp sets, I came upon Pun Fun — always a good set in a pinch!  I had just shown this card, with the hippo on it, at school while I was promoting my after school stamping club for kids. I decided to use the same layout.

Stamps: Pun Fun
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Pacific Point, Melon Mambo, River Rock
Paper: Pacific Point, Melon Mambo, River Rock, Whisper White
Other: Scallop Circles #2 Bigz Die, 2 1/2″ Circle Punch, Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Folder, Big Shot, Melon Mambo Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon (retired)

The new 2 1/2″ circle punch from the Holiday Mini Catalog sure made this an easy card to create!

I have another double challenge card today. This one uses the colors from the Pals Paper Arts Celebrity Color Challenge and this week’s Clean & Simple sketch.

I pulled out Cheep Talk for this one. Haven’t used that set in a while! It needed a little something more, so I added one of the Basic Rhinestones for just a touch of bling.

Stamps: Cheep Talk
Ink: Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, So Saffron
Paper: Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, So Saffron, Whisper White, Brights Designer Series Paper Stack (Old Olive)
Other: Scallop Border Punch, Small Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Basic Rhinestone, Stamp-a-ma-jig

I like doing double challenges — they really stretch my mind!

There’s a lot of fun going on over at Stampin’ Addicts today, including hourly creative challenges. I’ve been playing along this afternoon, and having a lot of fun! One of the challenges was “birds.” I was excited to use my new Two-Step Bird punch. Although it has been available for a while, I only just bought it, mostly because there is a Level 1 hostess set in the new catalog with a stamp that matches it! (And you know I love stamps that match punches!) But I didn’t use that set on this card. Actually, I didn’t use any stamps on this card!

Stamps: none
Ink: none
Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Newsprint Designer Series Paper
Other: Two-step Bird Punch, Clear Circle Bigz Die, Scallop Circle Bigz Die, Big Shot

As soon as Eve saw it, she said it would be the perfect card for Mrs. Nevin, her music teacher. She’s absolutely right!