Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

I’m busy getting ready for Stampin’ Addicts Parade of Papers blog hop that starts Friday morning, so I thought you might enjoy watching a video! This fabulous video from Stampin’ Up features three great scrapbooking ideas:

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Don’t forget to check back Friday morning at 8am for the blog hop! It will be more fun than a barrel of monkeys!

(Thank you to Michelle Laycock for making these buttons available to Stampin’ Up demonstrators for free!)

When my friend Stephanie asked if I could make a birthday card for her son, I said sure. Then she said she wanted it with a MotoCross theme, because he races. Well, I’m always up for a challenge. Stephanie had a great idea of  making the card like the black and white checkered flag. I wove one inch wide strips of Basic Black and Whisper White card stock together to make the checkerboard pattern. She also requested that it fit in a #10 envelope so she could put in the tickets that are his birthday present, so the finished card is 8 1/2″ x 3 1/2.

Stamps: Birthday Wish
Ink: VersaMark
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Going Grey, Kiwi Kiss
Accessories: White Embossing Powder

I do take custom orders for cards, or I can teach you how to make your own! You can also visit my Etsy shop to buy some ready-made cards.

I love this Bella Rose Designer Series Paper! You can use it for so many different types of projects! It has the roses for a soft feminine touch, and also some great masculine prints. I used it today to make this Father’s Day card for the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #85. Here’s the sketch:

And here is the card I came up with

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, All Holidays
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red
Paper: Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White, Bella Rose DSP
Accessories: Chocolate Chip 1/4″ Grosgrain Ribbon

Want to see more of the Bella Rose paper? Join me on Stampin’ Addicts’ Parade of Papers blog hop on May 8th – 10th. I’ll be featuring some more amazing projects with this great paper, and 23 other amazing Stampin’ Up demonstrators will each be featuring one of the other packs of paper! So next weekend only, you will be able to see fabulous projects with every single designer series paper that Stampin’ Up offers! How cool is that?

Why are we doing this? Well to celebrate May’s great special — Buy 3 packs of designer series paper and/or 12″ x 12″ Textured Card Stock and get one FREE! You know you’ll want it after you see all the great projects! YOu can go right over to my website, and click on “Shop Now” to order yours! (Add the three packs of Designer Series paper and/or 12″ x 12″ textured cardstock to your shopping bag. Then when you check out, click a link in the Special Offers section that will bring up a pop-up window directing you to choose your free pack of paper.)

Stampin’ Addicts has a new color challenge every Friday. This week’s colors were Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, and Baja Breeze. Tricky, tricky colors! I don’t really gravitate towards these two plums. While they are lovely, I never really think about them. That’s the great thing about color challenges, they help you step away from your usual choices. After mulling over these colors for a long time, I came up with this card. I think it came out super cute! These are fantastic colors together!

Stamps: Pun Fun
Ink: StazOn Black, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Baja Breeze
Paper: Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Baja Breeze
Accessories: Scallop Circle #2 Bigz Die, Baja Breeze Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Circle Scissors Plus

Check out Stampin’ Addicts for more great challenges and conversations!

Today is my mom’s birthday, so in a big birthday shout-out to her, I am posting the card I made for her. Since her favorite color is yellow, I tweaked the Mother’s Day rose cards, and made her a birthday card with yellow roses. If you want to see where I got my creative genes from, visit her needlepoint design web site. Happy Birthday, Mom! Hope you are having a great day!

Stamps: A Rose is a Rose, All Holidays
Ink: Summer Sun, Barely Banana, Certainly Celery, Old Olive
Paper:Summer Sun, Barely Banana, Whisper White
Accessories: Top Note Bigz Die, Stamp-a-Ma-Jig

All supplies are from Stampin’ Up and available to purchase through my website.

Wow are there some amazing Stampin’ Up specials for May!

1. Buy three packs of Designer Series paper–including Specialty Designer Series paper–or 12″ x 12″ textured card stock and get one FREE! (You’ll see all of these great papers in the Parade of Papers coming next weekend.)

2. Become a demonstrator for only $75 with the limited-time Scrapbooking Starter Kit! (You can sign up online by clicking Join Now, my password is SUwithYapha.)

3. Buy the new Jumble Alphabet stamp set–a sneak peek from the upcoming 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalog–at 20% off!

With so many great offers to choose from, your scrapbooking possibilities are endless! Visit my website to order or contact me for more details.