Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

I saw this super cute bunny card by Rita Wright, and I knew I had to make one of my own! I simplified her layers and used markers on the stamp instead of cutting out the rabbits because I am going to be making this with my after-school class. This could be an Easter card, but I don’t think it has to be.

Stamps: Ears to You
Ink: Island Indigo, Pool Party, Tangerine Tango
Paper: Tangerine Tango, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Sycamore Street Designer Series Paper
Other: Sycamore Street Ribbon & Button Pack

Ears to You is one of the single stamps that is only available until the ends of March. Be sure to get yours before it is too late!

I am so excited! One of my favorite challenge blogs is back! Stampin’ Celebration, organized by my friend Krystal , is back as a monthly challenge. Here is the inspiration photo for April:

I love these pastel colors, so light and spring-like! I had a card by Laurie saved into my favorites on SplitCoast for over a year and a half, and this finally inspired me to make my version of it. She cleverly combined Awash With Flowers with All in the Family.Too cute!!

Stamps: Awash with Flowers, All in the Family, Delightful Dozen
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Blushing Bride, Pear Pizzazz, Baja Breeze, Blush Blossom, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa (retired), Peach Parfait
Paper: Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White, 2010 In Colors Patterns Designer Series Paper Stack (Blushing Bride)
Other: Pear Pizzazz Pleated Satin Ribbon, Blushing Bride Pleated Satin Ribbon, Baja Breeze Pleated Satin Ribbon

I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Happy Passover if you are celebrating now, or Happy Easter if you are celebrating on Sunday.

ColourQ has some really pretty colors up this week (not that they aren’t always) and they go really well with Pals Paper Arts Easter/Spring Inspiration Challenge.

Stampin’ Success, the free magazine for Stampin’ Up demonstrators (it’s another perk of being a demonstrator!),  had some cute samples using the Awash with Flowers stamp set. I realized that I hadn’t used mine in awhile, so I pulled it out for today. It makes such great looking flowers so easily! Especially the clear mount set! I don’t have any Kiwi Kiss, so I used Pear Pizzaz instead. (And that really is Early Espresso ink and card stock, even though it looks black in the picture.)

Stamps: Awash with Flowers, Something to Celebrate (hostess)
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso, Old Olive, Pear Pizazz
Paper: Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso, Whisper White
Other: Eyelet Border Punch, Pear Pizazz Poly Ribbon

These are such great spring colors! I hope you can play along with ColourQ this week!

Happy Easter to my friends who are celebrating today! I decided that the colors in this week’s Pals Paper Arts Challenge would work perfectly for an Easter card, especially when combined with the new stamp set Awash with Flowers. The colors are:

I ordered this stamp set in the Clear Mount, and it is so easy to do the two-step stamping! You’ll be seeing a lot of this set over the next few weeks — I love it!

Stamps: Awash with Flowers, Well Scripted
Ink: Lavender Lace, Barely Banana, Certainly Celery, StazOn Jet Black
Paper: Lavender Lace, Barely Banana, Whisper White
Other: Certainly Celery 5/8″ Satin Ribbon

Have you seen the Eggcellent Eggs Kit on page 23 of the Occasions Mini Catalog? It is a fabulous value at $9.95!

It contains:

• 4 sheets of printed die-die cut flowers (Pretty in Pink, Pale Plum, So Saffron, Bashful Blue)
• 1 sheet pf printed die cut leaves (Certainly Celery)
• 4 sheets of printed die-cut egg stands
• 2 sheets of white rub-ons
• 1 sheet of adhesive-backed rhinestones

When I was at Stampin’ Up’s Leadership Conference in January there was a whole display set up of all of the amazing things you can make with this kit. Take a look!

Let me know if you are interested in purchasing this, or any other Stampin’ Up products.

Did you know that Stampin’ Up has a monthly project available on their website? Yep, they do! Here is the project for March:

Stamps: Eggcoutrements, Spring Floral Stampin’ Around wheel
Ink: Bashful Blue, So Saffron
Paper: Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Whisper White
Other: Bashful Blue 1/4″ grosgrain ribbon, Linen thread, Sherbet Designer buttons, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Extra Large Fancy Flower punch, 1″ Circle punch, Bamboo skewers

Makes me want cupcakes! How about you?

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Since I don’t celebrate Easter, I don’t have any Easter stamp sets. So how, I wondered, could I make Easter cards for my friends who celebrate? Why by relying on punches, of course! (And thank goodness for the All Holidays stamp set that has the phrase “Easter Wishes” in it.)

I saw this super cute Easter card on Jackie Topa’s blog, and realized that she used the wide oval bunch on the Delicate Dots Sale-a-Bration paper to make the eggs. Hey, I thought, I have both of those! I can make Easter Eggs too! And so I did. We made this card at a workshop in Ashby this week, and will be making it in Santa Monica next week.

Stamps: All Holidays
Ink: Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, So Saffron
Paper: Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Delicate Dots DSP
Accessories: Wide Oval Punch, Eyelet Border Punch, So Saffron Grosgrain Ribbon (Sale-a-Bration), Sponge daubers

You only have two weeks left to get your free Delicate Dots Paper and Ribbon Bundle! Sale-a-Bration ends on March 31st, so hop on over to my website to place your order and get your freebies!

Stampin’ Up has some super cute Easter sets in their upcoming mini catalog. But you can’t order from the Occassions Mini Catalog until April 1st. So in order to make sure that everybody gets their Easter stamp sets in time, Stampin’ Up has made them available now! Yes, you heard me right! New Stampin’ Up sets available. But even better, some are available in Spanish and French. Starting with this mini catalog, select sets will be available in French as well as Spanish! Whoo-hoo! Below are the new sets, currently available to order. Just hop on over to my Stampin’ Up website, and you can order them quick as a bunny.

An Egg-cellent Easter $21.95

Egg Hunt Stampin' Around Wheel $6.50

Wagon Full of Fun $34.95

Eight Great Greetings $27.95

Ocho saludos geniales (Spanish Eight Great Greetings) $27.95

Huit souhaits sympas (French Eight Great Greetings) $27.95

I’ll be back with more of my own projects tomorrow.