Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

With all of the craziness of moving across the country, getting settled in, and starting school, I did not get my dad’s birthday card made and mailed on time. (Sorry Dad! It’s on its way!) My dad has always appreciated tree themed items, so I decided to use the tree from Season of Friendship and the sketch from over at Stampin’ 411. I didn’t post in time to make it on Mr. Linky, unfortunately. Here’s the sketch:

I’ve made a lot of fall cards with this set, but my Dad’s birthday is in August so I wanted to make a nice summery green card. I used my Color Wheel from Stampin’ Up to pick out what shades of green went best together. I decided on Garden Green and Certainly Celery. I love the way it came out!

Stamps: Season of Friendship, Birthday Wish
Ink: Garden Green, Certainly Celery, Soft Suede
Paper: Garden Green, Certainly Celery, Soft Suede, Whisper White
Accessories: Soft Suede Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon

Yesterday was the first day of school for both Eve & I. I am super excited for her to be in first grade and so is she! We made some “Back to School” cards for her teachers (she has two this year).  I went with the classic apple from Tart and Tangy. I love the look of it colored with markers! I also used the new Holiday Windows dies (from the Mini Catalog) with the Movers and Shaper die to create a really fun card. This is the outside of the card I made:

Stamps: Tart and Tangy
Ink: Real Red, Garden Green, Chocolate Chip
Paper: Real red, Whisper White, Jackpot Designer Series Paper
Other: Real Red 5/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon, Mover & Shaper Bigz Die, Holiday Windows Die, Big Shot

And here is the card opened up:

Eve also used the same die. It’s really neat how you can move it around to have the opening wherever you’d like. We were both happy to learn that although it is recommended to only cut one sheet of card stock with the Movers and Shaper dies, we were able to cut a piece of cardstock together with a piece of Designer Series Paper, and even two pieces of card stock. We attached the front pieces before running them through the Big Shot. Here is the front of Eve’s card:

Stamps: Tart and Tangy
Ink: Real Red, Garden Green, Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink
Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink
Other: Mover & Shaper Bigz Die, Holiday Windows Die, Big Shot

And the card open:

I am also on the Faculty Social Committee here at school. I volunteered to make cards to go in all of the new teachers boxes on the first day of school. Unfortunately, this was Monday afternoon, and the first day of school was Tuesday! I had to come up with something quick and easy, so I used Tart & Tangy again, and made some cute little 3″ x 3″ cards. A big thank you to my husband for punching the circles and scallop circles for me!

Stamps: Tart and Tangy
Ink: Real Red, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip
Paper: Real Red, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Other: 1 1/4″ Circle Punch, 1 3/8″ Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch

Hope everyone has a great school year!

Whoo-hoo! Stampin’ Up’s Holiday Mini Catalog is here and it is chock full of fabulous new products. All of the Build-a-Bear items that I have been using for the past few posts are in there, as well as amazing stamps and embellishments for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and even a new Hanukkah stamp!  (You’ll see some samples with that soon!) There are a few Valentine sets as well.

Also featured in the new mini catalog is My Digital Studio, digital scrapbooking software from Stampin’ Up.  It will be available to purchase on October 1st. I was able to preorder my copy today, and will be showing you some fabulous samples from that as soon as I get it! Look for more about that coming soon!

There is a fabulous hostess special starting today! Host a workshop totaling $250 or more and choose any one item* from the 2009 Holiday Mini Catalog for only $10! (Offer excludes hostess sets and My Digital Studio.)

On October 1, when My Digital Studio is released to customers, this offer will become even sweeter: Host a workshop of at least $400 and get My Digital Studio for 50 percent off the retail price (retail price: $79.95; promotional price: $39.97)!

Contact me to book your workshop today. If you are not in the greater Los Angeles area, that’s okay! Contact me for information on a virtual workshop.