Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

We had a crazy busy weekend, but I did squeeze in some time for card making. This card uses the Fab Friday colors and the Paper Players sketch challenge for this week.

I think my hatred of Sahara Sand may be waning. This is the second card that I have made lately with it, and it doesn’t look as bad as I remembered. I paired the coffee cup image from Patterned Occasions with one of the sayings from Morning Cup.

Stamps: Patterned Occasions, Morning Cup
Ink: Calypso Coral, Pink Pirouette, Lucky Limeade, Sahara Sand, StazOn Jet Black
Paper: Calypso Coral, Pink Pirouette, Lucky Limeade, Whisper White, Neutrals Patterns Designer Series Paper Pack
Other: 1″ Square Punch, 1 1/4″ Square Punch, Lucky Limeade Ruffled Ribbon, Printed 2011 In Color Designer Brads

Don’t forget, Friday is the last day to get your free Sale-a-Bration goodies, including this great Patterned Occasions stamp set!

Hello and welcome to the Stampin’ Addicts Spring Catalog Blog Hop featuring fabulous stamp sets from Stampin’ Up’s new Spring Catalog! You may have just arrived from Mickey’s blog where she featured the fun and versatile That’s the Ticket stamp set, or maybe from Betty’s blog, where she showed us the amazing All Dressed Up bundle. Or maybe you are starting here! In any case, all of the blogs link in a circle, so you will be able to see them all.

I am very excited to be featuring the adorable set, Oh, Whale. The whale is cute, but I love the puns in the sayings! There is also a coordinating Happy Whale Clearlits Die, that you can use with or without the stamp set.

My first project is a Valentine’s Day card that also uses the new More Amore Specialty Designer Series Paper.

Stamps: Oh, Whale
Ink: Pool Party, Primrose Petals
Paper: Pool Party, Primrose Petals, Very Vanilla, More Amore Specialty Designer Series Paper
Other: Primrose Petals Stitched Satin Ribbon, Window Frames Framelits, Chevron Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Festive Paper Piercing Pack

For my second card, I used the new Oval Framelits to make a cute oval card. This would also make a great baby card if you changed the sentiment and used Pretty in Pink and Marina Mist instead of Melon Mambo and Pacific Point. But I have another baby card to show you later on.

Stamps: Oh, Whale
Ink: Melon Mambo, Pacific Point
Paper: Melon Mambo, Pacific Point, Whisper White, Sunshine & Sprinkles Designer Series Paper
Other: Happy Whale Clearlit Die, Oval Framelits, Pacific Point Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon

For my third project, I cut out the whales with the die, instead of stamping them, so that I could have them facing each other. I used the owl punch to make their eyes, and drew on the mouth.

Stamps: Oh, Whale
Ink: Pacific Point, Basic Black
Paper: Pacific Point, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Sunshine & Sprinkles Designer Series Paper
Other: Happy Whale Clearlit Die, Owl Builder Punch, Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch

My final project for today is a Baby Bib card. I made this for a baby shower at work earlier in the month. I love the way the Googly Eye looks on the whale! Unfortunately these googly eyes will not be available after January 2, so stock up now!

Stamps: Oh, Whale!
Ink: Marina Mist, Primrose Petals
Paper: Primrose Petals, Whisper White
Other: Scallop Circle Bigz Die, Primrose Petal Stitched Satin Ribbon, 1 3/4″ Circle Punch, Googly Eye

Thank you for joining me at the Oh, Whale stop on the blog hop. Don’t you just love that whale? I know that I will be making plenty of projects with him (her?) this spring. Your next stop is over to Betty’s blog. I can’t wait to see what amazing project she has made with the All Dressed Up Bundle!

I’ve got a super cute card for you today, and it isn’t even holiday related! It combines this week’s color challenge from Nacho Average Challenge and the sketch challenge from Freshly Made Sketches.

I pulled out my Morning Cup stamp set — I haven’t used that one in a while — and colored in my image with an aquapainter and re-inkers.

Stamps: Morning Cup
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals, Midnight Muse
Paper: Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals, Midnight Muse, Whisper White, In Color 2012-2014 Patterns Designer Series Paper Pack
Other: 1 3/4″ Circle Punch, 2 3/8″ Scallop Circle Punch, Primrose Petals Stitched Satin Ribbon, Raspberry Ripple stitched Satin Ribbon

There are some great sayings in this stamp set. I love the one that says “Caffeine is not a drug, it’s a vitamin.” I feel like that every morning!

As many of you know, my husband had a pretty major back surgery this past Monday. I wanted to send him to the hospital with a fun “Get Well” something, but more than just a card. Eve made him a great poster for the wall of his hospital room. So I figured, what says “Get Well” better than chocolates? Nothing, really. So I made a cute three-tiered matchbox dresser full of chocolates.

The brads I used as drawer handles are from the retired Hodge Podge Hardware. Did you know that this is still available on the Clearance Rack? And it’s only $12.99 instead of $29.99!! Crazy! I filled those drawers with chocolate nuggets wrapped in little band-aid like wrappers.

Stamps: It’s a Wrap Occasions, Perfectly Penned
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Peach Parfait
Paper: Marina Mist, Whisper White, Just Add Cake Designer Series Paper, labels
Other: Matchbox Bigz XL Die, Silver Hodge Podge Hardware

For now it is sitting by his bed side. I’ll know he’s on the mend when he eats the chocolate inside!

A friend of mine is going through some medical stuff right now.  I wanted to let her know I was thinking about her, so I put together this little box of chocolate and a 3×3 card to go with it. I made a clear acetate cover for a matchbox bottom, and filled it with chocolates. I wanted to stamp the wrappers to look like band aids, so I used Peach Parfait ink. I used the polka dot  paper to echo the dots on the “band aids.”

Stamps: It’s a Wrap Occasions, Occasions Alphabet
Ink: Peach Parfait, Island Indigo
Paper: Island Indigo, In-Color Designers Series Paper Stack,  Whisper White
Other: Island Indigo Ruffled Ribbon, Scallop Square Duo Bigz Die, Scallop Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, labels, acetate

Hope this helps her feel better soon!

Wow! Can you believe that Mojo Monday is on their 200th sketch? I had to play along! Here’s the sketch:

Fun, huh? I am making a bunch of cards for my mom to have to send as needed, so I knew it had to include Daffodil Delight. I flipped through the cards of the Color Coach, looking for ideas, and I found this color combo on the back of one of the new In Color cards. I really like it! For the big flower, I stamped it in White Craft Ink and then used Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder.

Stamps: Flower Fest, Word Play
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Whisper White (craft)
Paper: Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Whisper White
Other: Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder, 2 3/8″ Scallop Punch, 2 1/2″ Circle Punch, Lucky Limeade Ruffled Ribbon, Lace Ribbon Border Punch

I think I’m going to be using this color combo more often! I really like it!

A friend and fellow stamper has been pretty sick for a while, so I wanted to make her a card to let her know that I’m thinking about her. I decided to combine this week’s Pals Paper Arts color challenge with the Stamping 411 sketch challenge.

I also wanted to play with my new Watercolor Wonder Crayons (see Friday’s post if you missed them), so I used the fabulous line image set, Morning Cup.I used Stampin’ Up’s high quality watercolor paper with it. They work like a dream!

Stamps: Morning Cup
Ink: StazOn Jet Black
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Riding Hood Red, Watercolor Paper, Subtles Prints Designer Series Paper Pack
Other: Watercolor Wonder Crayons (Rich Razzleberry, Riding Hood Red, Certainly Celery), Aqua Painter, Curly Label Punch

I love the tall stack of cups! I saw this idea on a few other cards. The actual stamp has 4 cups stacked, but with the Clear Mount stamps, it is easy to create the tower of cups.

I love stamp sets that coordinate with punches. Absolutely love them! It’s a weakness of mine. One of the great points of the new Idea Book & Catalog is that it actually tells you which punches coordinate with the sets! Color Throwdown is having a big party, celebrating their 100th color challenge, so I decided to give it a try. Here are the colors

Punched Posies is a Level 2 hostess set in the Summer Mini catalog. I had to get it, since the stamps coordinate with our punches! I saw a great card on Mickey’s blog, and based my entry for the color throwdown off that one.

Stamps: Punched Posies, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Regal Rose, Real Red, Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze
Paper: Regal Rose, Real Red, Certainly Celery (textured), Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Other: Rhinestone Bards (Fire Circle), Butterfly Punch, 1 3/4″ Scallop Circle Punch, Fancy Flower Punch, Five Petal Flower Punch, Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals

It’s a definite change from my Clean and Simple style, but I really like how it came out!

A very good family friend had one of his kidneys removed a few weeks ago and his having a pretty rough recovery. Not that there is really ever an easy recovery from something like that. I’d been meaning to make him a Get Well card, and this week’s Pals Paper Arts Challenge inspired me to get on it! Here are this week’s colors:

He’s the kind of guy who would much more appreciate a funny card than a serious one, so I turned to the Pun Fun sent. (If I had wanted a more serious one, I would have pulled out Thoughts & Prayers.) The red was a little tricky to work in, but it does liven up the card.

Stamps: Pun Fun
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Real Red, Island Oasis Designer Series Paper, Whisper White
Other: Tempting Turquoise 1/4″ Grosgrain Ribbon, Aqua Painter

Feel better soon, Jim! We’re all pulling for you over here!

I was over at my friend Beth’s house in Massachusetts last week. She’s another Stampin’ Up demonstrator and lives right near my parents’ house. I try to visit her everytime we go back there, because she and I have completely opposite taste in stamps! It’s true! Whenever we compare notes, we’ve bought completely different stamp sets! So when we get together we swap stamp sets and it’s a lot of fun. Here are two cards I made using her Lots of Bots set.

Stamps: Lots of Bots
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Bordering Blue, Night of Navy, Ruby Red
Paper: Bordering Blue, Night of Navy, Ruby Red, Whispering White

These cards made think of the song “Mechanical Man” by Bent Bolt & the Nuts. They’ve been playing it a lot on Kids Place Live, the Sirius/XM channel that Eve and I listen to everyday to and from school. It’s a very strange song and people either love it or hate it. You can listen to it here.