Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

Happy Monday! I hope you enjoyed the Stampin’ Addicts Summer Mini Catalog Blog Hop this past weekend! I feel so honored to be part of such an amazing group of women! And now I have a wish list a mile long… I featured the three new Builder Wheels available in the Summer Mini Catalog, which I used to create the fun border on the scrapbook page below.

As I promised before, I have a photo tutorial for you on how to make the beveled corners on the scrapbook page shown above. This can be done with any of the Stampin’ Around wheels. I recommend using an ink cartridge in your wheel if you are going to wheeling more than 6″.

The first thing that you want to do is to partially mask the corners of your scrapbook page. You can use any type of removable adhesive. I used Dotto on the back of these squares of white paper. You want to place them at an angle, so they bisect the middle of the corner diagonally to the middle of your scrapbook page. You only want to mask off two corners at a time.

Next, roll your wheel completely across the top of the page where the masks are. You want to start on a mask and end on a mask to ensure complete coverage.

When you remove your masks, you can begin to see how the corners are going to look beveled.

Rotate the page, and place the masks on what is now the top of the page. For the side that you have already rolled on with the wheel, carefully line up the edge of the mask along the the inked edge of your scrapbook page.

Roll straight across as you did before. When you remove the masks, your two corners should meet nicely.

Continue to rotate the page, place the masks as before, then roll on the remaining two sides. After you have completed the fourth side, you should have a scrapbook page with beautifully beveled corners!

Have fun and enjoy!

May is National Scrapbooking month, and Stampin’ Up has some fantastic specials, whether you are a paper scrapbooker, a digital scrapbooker, or both!

The following stamp sets are 30% off:

• Party Hearty
• Célèbre en grand (French)
• Grunge Rock
• Animal Stories
• Printed Petals
• Simple Friendship
• Word Play
• Sweet Shoppe Alphabet Lower
• Días Felices (from the Spanish catalog)
• Cumpleaños (from the Spanish catalog)

There are also some great digital bundles at 30% off, and some print products that are 30% off! See these flyers for more information:

• Overview Flyer
• My Digital Studio Print Pricing Flyer
• Basic List of all sale items

The Digital+ Starter Kit is also on sale for 30% off, which means you get over $320 worth of merchandise for only $122.50 plus tax. Contact me for more information — I’d love to have you join my team of Craft Therapists — or visit my website.

Summer Mini Catalog

The Summer Mini Catalog is also live now, and it is fantastic! Super cute stamp sets, colored embossing powder, baker’s twine, and new triple layer punches! If you purchased from me recently, you should have recieved one in the mail. If not, I’ll be happy to send one out to you, just drop me a line. In the meantime, you can view a flash version of the catalog here or a PDF version here.

Strength & Hope Campaign

As part of our Making a Difference program, Stampin’ Up! is proud to partner with The Breast Cancer Research Foundation® (BCRF) in the Strength & Hope Campaign.

From May 1-August 31, 2011, Stampin’ Up! will donate $2* from the sale of each Strength & Hope Set or Digital Kit—a special stamp set and digital kit designed specifically to honor those who have fought, are fighting, and will fight breast cancer—to BCRF.

You can see the images here, with the stamp set on the first page and the digital kit on the second. There is also a PDF with three project ideas. You can also view a video about this Campaign.