Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

To go along with the pack of cards that I showed you yesterday, I also needed to include a card with the gift. I wanted to make another golf card, but different. So I decided to make a round card like a golf ball! I decided that scallops are too feminine (Are they? What do you think?), so I used regular circles.

Stamps: On the Green
Ink: Garden Green, Basic Black
Paper: Garden Green, Basic Black, Whisper White
Other: Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Clear Circle Bigz Die, 3 1/2 Circle Die, Big Shot, 1 3/4″ Circle Punch, 1/4″ Basic Black Grosgrain Ribbon

If you have golfers in your life, this single stamp is a great investment!

One of my colleagues who I have worked with for the past ten years is leaving to go pursue his dream of becoming a golf pro. We’ve worked together a long time, and he’s taught Eve for the past two years as well, so I wanted to make him a thank you gift before he left. I put together a pack of these cards and gave it to him earlier this week.

To get the silhouette of the golfer in black, I inked up the whole stamp in Garden Green, and then colored over just the golfer with my Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker. I did not remove the green ink first — the black overpowers it so you don’t have to. It may be hard to see, but the white layer has debossed circles to look like dimples on a golf ball.

Stamps: On the Green
Ink: Garden Green, Basic Black
Paper: Garden Green, Basic Black, Whisper White
Other: Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Big Shot

The hardest part of the end of the school year is saying good-bye to old friends.

I really like this week’s Stamping 411 sketch challenge — it’s nice and clean. They’ve gone all Stampin’ Up only in their challenges, which is great for me, since that’s all I use any way! Stampin’ Up’s easy coordination can’t be beat for making great looking cards. I combined it with the this week’s Color Lab Color Challenge.

I thought that these colors would look great for a masculine card, and I wanted to send my friend Stephanie some more MotoCross cards. I made the sketch a little more masculine by using a torn edge instead of scallops, and a knot instead of a bow and a button.

Stamps: Extreme Dirt Bike, Texture Jumbo wheel
Ink: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake
Paper: Poppy Parade, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
Other: Poppy Parade Poly Ribbon

Steph, let me know if you like these and I’ll send you a bunch.

When I was looking for a good masculine birthday card, I found this great one by Amanda Mertz. I really love the clean lines on it! I changed the colors around and came up with this version. This was another of the cards that we made at my birthday card class last weekend.

Stamps: Party Hearty, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Early Espresso, Not Quite Navy
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla, Garden Green, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso
Other: Early Espresso Satin Ribbon, Scallop Circle Punch,  1″ Circle Punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals

I toyed with the idea of embossing the four squares to add some texture, but I decided I wanted to keep it looking clean.

I found the colors in this week’s ColourQ challenge very striking!

But when it came time to actually use them, that got a little tricky. I decided to follow Krystal’s lead, and make a masculine card with them. Since I had Crumb Cake (formerly known as Kraft) for Wood, and Basic Gray  for metal, I pulled out my Totally Tools stamp set. Here’s what I came up with:

Stamps: Totally Tool
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Crumb Cake, Basic Gray
Paper: Old Olive, Basic Black, Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
Other: Neutrals Brads (Basic Gray), Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder, Big Shot

Be sure and come back tomorrow for the Stampin’ Addicts Occasions Mini Blog Hop! Great stampers featuring great new products!

Making cards for guys is always harder, isn’t it? I made this set of monogram note cards (they don’t open) for my sister-in-law’s significant other. I’m sorry that the picture is so blurry — I’ve been having intermittent camera troubles since my camera blew off the hood of my car. Hans’s last name starts with an “S,” and I was told that it is better to use a last initial when making monogrammed cards for men. Which is good, because the S in Broadsheet Alphabet is a lot more masculine looking than the H!

Stamps: Broadsheet Alphabet
Ink: Garden Green
Paper: Garden Green, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Travel Journal Designer Series Paper (retired)
Other: Curly Label Punch

The Travel Journal Designer Series Paper is retired, but there is a wonderful digital version that will last forever! It’s part of the Travel Journal digital kit, and comes with a matching digital stamp set.

It’s a big birthday for my husband this year — I won’t tell you which one, though. But I sure was glad to see this week’s Curtain Call Color Challenge. Perfect colors for a strong, masculine birthday card!

My husband is strong and dependable, just like the mighty oak, so I chose this image from Lovely as a Tree. I really liked the way the image looks stamped on the Crumb Cake paper. I added the white faux stitching with my gel pen to meet the Whisper White requirement of the color challenge. I think it adds a nice touch.

Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Texture Stampin’ Around Wheel
Ink: Always Artichoke, Early Espresso
Paper: Crumb Cake, Always Artichoke, Early Espresso
Other: Gold Brads, White gel pen

Happy birthday, honey! And best wishes for many more!

The Pals Paper Arts challenge this week is  KISS (Keep It Simple, Sweetie) but with a masculine theme. I figured this would be a great time to make a monogram card for my husband Steve. I grabbed some of the Travel Journal Designer Series Paper, which is great for masculine projects, and based my colors off of that. I really like how it came out!

Stamps: Broadsheet Alphabet
Ink: Night of Navy, Bashful Blue
Paper: Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Travel Journal Designer Series Paper
Other: Pumpkin Pie Satin Ribbon, 1 1/4 inch Circle Punch, 1 3/8 inch Circle Punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals

I am lucky that his name starts with “S.” Some of the letters in the Broadsheet Alphabet are much more feminine looking! The Travel Journal Designer Series Paper is also available in a digital version for My Digital Studio, but the actual paper is in the Summer Mini Catalog, so it will only be around until the end of August.

Here’s another card that I made for a swap that I’m in. This one features the new single stamp, On the Green. Since my in-laws are such avid golfers, I knew I had to get this one as soon as I saw it! You definitely want to click on the image to enlarge it, I have a whole lot of texture going on! To get just a bit of black on the stamped image, I inked up the whole stamp with Garden Green ink first. Then I used my Basic Black Stampin’ Write marker to color only the silhouette of the golfer. I colored right n top of the Garden Green, and when it stamped down, only the black showed. Pretty easy!

Stamps: On the Green
Ink: Garden Green, Basic Black
Paper: Garden Green, Basic Black, Whisper White
Other: Perfect Polka Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Whisper White 1/4″ Grosgrain Ribbon

Stampin’ Up announced a great hostess special for the end of this month and all of August! More details to come soon, but August would be an excellent time to host a workshop!

I can tell you right now that you are going to be seeing this color combination PLENTY over the next few months, because I am absolutely in love with Marina Mist and Early Espresso! These are two brand new colors being add to Stampin’ Up’s color line on July 1st (next week)! This is a card I made for a shoebox swap my friend Heather hosted last week. It was a great night of stamping with some really fun women!

Stamps: Circle Circus, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Marina Mist, Early Espresso, Old Olive
Paper: Marina Mist, Early Espresso, Old Olive, Whisper White
Other: Scallop Circle Punch, Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, Old Olive Satin Ribbon, Old Olive Brad

The richness of these colors are amazing! I wish that you could see them in real life!