Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

Yesterday I showed you the necklace I gave my mom for Mother’s Day. For my mother-in-law I put together a charm bracelet also using some of the Simply Adorned options. My mother-in-law has three grandchildren, so I wanted to include a picture of each of them. I printed the photos in black and white (thanks to a great suggestion from my friend Laura), and put a picture on each side of the charms. Her two granddaughters are in the circle charms and her grandson is in the square. Each of these charms measures 5/8 of an inch.

The Simply Adorned products are excellently made and can be used for so many occasions! Below is a list of the charms and chains available. The charms are nickel-plated and the chains are stainless steel.

I hope all of you who are mothers or mothers-to-be have a fantastic day!

Okay Mom, this one is for you, so if you are reading it, STOP NOW. Look away!!!

For everyone else, this is the Mother’s Day card I am making my mom (who better not still be reading this!) I made a similar card last year, though this year I found a different set of instructions from Amy Celona. My mom loves Yo-Yo Yellow. It is her all-time favorite color, so I made that my main color. (Wait until you see her birthday card!) I’m going to be sure to stock up on it, since it is one of the colors that will be retiring at the end of June. I used the 5 petal flower punch to make the leaves.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Garden Green
Paper: Yo-Yo Yellow, Garden Green, Really Rust, Whisper White
Other: Pinking Hearts Border Punch, 5 Petal Flower Punch, Simple Flower Embosslit, Circle Fire Rhinestone Brads, Large Oval Punch, Scalloped Oval Punch, White Satin Ribbon

It looks great like that, but the flowered piece pulls out to reveal a note card for writing on! How fun is that?

Be sure to stop back tomorrow for the Stampin’ Addicts Summer Mini Catalog Blog Hop. You’ll get to see some amazing projects featuring the new items in the Summer Mini Catalog that starts May 1st!

This is another card we made last week after school. I have to tell you the combination of the embossing folders and vellum card stock just makes for an unbelievable card. It looks so tricky, but in reality is easy! These cards werre popular this time last year. I think the first one I saw like this was on Gretchen Barron’s blog. I made this one into a birthday card, but it could just as easily be a Mother’s Day card if you switch the sentiment.

Stamps: Whimsical Words
Ink: StazOn Jet Black
Paper: Orchid Opulence, Vellum Card Stock
Other: Manhattan Flowers Textured Embossing Folders, White Satin Ribbon, Big Shot

Important note — make sure to use the Vellum Card Stock and not the Vellum Paper. The paper will tear from the force of the embossing folder.

This is another card that I made with my faculty after-school card-making group. It uses Awash with Flowers, a wonderful two-step stamp that is available for a sneak peek this month, and then won’t be available again until the new catalog starts in July. All of the stampers last Thursday were so thrilled with how easy it was to use in the clear mount version. If you stamp the outsides first, it is very easy to line up the insides on the acrylic blocks.

Stamps: Awash with Flowers, Well Scripted
Ink: StazOn Black, Taken with Teal, Regal Rose, Rose Red, Always Artichoke
Paper: Regal Rose, Taken with Teal, Whisper White
Other: Regal Rose 5/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon, Top Note Bigz Die, Big Shot

I just love this set. It makes it so easy to make gorgeous cards!

Here’s a beautiful yet easy to make card that I made with my Faculty card making class after school last week. It uses the Fifth Avenue Floral stamp set that is on sale for 20% off until the end of April (which is Friday!)

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, Warm Words
Ink: Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede
Paper: Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede, Whisper White
Other: Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Soft Suede Polka Dot Grosgrain Ribbon (reversed)

It would be very easy to turn this into a Mother’s Day Card — the “Happy Mother’s Day” saying from Teeny Tiny Wishes fits into that oval as well. You could use that instead of the happiness stamp.

If you have been reading my blog for a long time, you may remember that I made a couple of owl themed Mother’s Day cards for my friend Laura last year. I asked her if she wanted some again this year, and she said, of course!So I got to thinking about how super cute it would be to replace the “o” in mom with an owl. And I put this together. It’s hard tp tell from the picture, but the owl is cut out and popped up.

Stamps: Messages for Mom, Fox & Friends
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip
Paper: So Saffron, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Pad
Other: Pretty in Pink 5/8″ Satin Ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals

Unfortunately, I didn’t get the message that her mom didn’t like green until after I had made it. Hopefully it is not too much green! Otherwise you’ll be seeing a similar card in a different color scheme very soon!

This week’s challenge over at Pals Paper Arts is a theme challenge, and the theme is Flowers. Surprisingly enough, I did not use Awash with Flowers for this theme, I figured I’d been using it enough lately, and I wanted to try something else. Instead I used the Messages for Mom set that is in the Occasions Mini Catalog. (Only a few weeks left to purchase what you want out of this catalog!) I used the large flower stamp from this set to create my own strip of paper down the left side. I used the Cameo Coral Stampin’ Write Marker to color in the large flowers, and my white gel pen to dot the centers of the small ones. The other card stock on this card is Chocolate Chip, I’m not sure why it looks like Basic Grey in the photo.

Stamps: Messages for Mom
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Cameo Coral
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Cameo Coral, Whisper White, Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Pad

Cameo Coral is one of the colors that will be retiring at the end of June. Be sure to stock up soon if it is one of your favorites! (A big thank you to Debbi for the use of her stamps and her great ideas in making this card!)

Did you know that Stampin’ Addicts has different challenges every day of the week? Yep they sure do!I like playing the color challenges on Fridays. This week’s color challenge was a little tricky. The colors are Rich Razzleberry, Taken with Teal, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Certainly Celery. I had to use the new set Awash with Flowers, of course! Here’s what I came up with:

Stamps: Awash with Flowers, Well Scripted
Inks: StazOn Black, Rich Razzleberry, Taken with Teal, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Certainly Celery
Papers: Taken with Teal, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White

I had an issue with Taken with Teal stampin’ spot at my mom’s house. It was really dry, so I added a couple drops of water since I didn’t have a reinker with me. Not really a recommended solution! It came out very watery, as you can see. A big thank you to Debbi for letting me use her Rich Razzleberry ink, since I didn’t bring any of the in-colors with me.

Loving the Awash with Flowers set? See more information on this month’s special here.

Welcome to another Stampin’ Addicts Blog Hop! This one features new stamp sets, paper, and other items from the Occasions Mini Catalog. They will be available to order beginning January 5th. You may have just arrived from Melissa’s Blog, featuring Little Angel. If you are starting out here, don’t worry, all of the blogs will link you in one big circle!

As soon as I saw this new mini catalog, I knew exactly what set I had to get! I have been collecting nesting dolls for years (though I’ve been collecting a lot more stamps, lately) and as soon as I saw the set My Matryoshka, I just had to have it! It is a fabulous set of four stamps, as you can see below.

One of the names for this type of doll means “Little Mother” when translated from Russian, and I figured, what better to make out of this set than a Mother’s Day Card? I used some of the new paper coming in this catalog on this as well.

Stamps: My Matryoshka, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: StazOn Black, Rose Red
Paper: Rose Red, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Natural White, Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack
Other: Rose Red 1/4″ Grosgrain Ribbon, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Aqua Painter, Word Window Punch, Designer Label Punch

For this next item, I have to give credit to Eve for the idea. Actually, we both had the thought independently. What if we cut apart the stamped image to look like the actual doll was being opened? I thought this would be even more fun to use on one of the super cute new mini milk cartons! I’m not sure if you can tell, but the top doll layer is raised on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Stamps: My Matryoshka
Ink: StazOn Black, Real Red, Yo-Yo Yellow, Gable Green
Paper: Real Red, Whisper White
Other: Mini Milk Carton, Bigz L Die, Big Shot, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Paper Snips, Aqua Painter

The final item I have to show you today is an all-purpose card. The beautiful dry embossing of the background piece delicately complements the nesting dolls themselves.

Stamps: My Matryoshka
Ink: StazOn Black
Paper: Old Olive, So Saffron, Natural White, Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack
Other: Old Olive 1/4″ Grosgrain Ribbon, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Aqua Painter, Finial Press Embossing Folder, Big Shot

I hope that you have enjoyed this look at My Matryoshka. Your next stop on this blog hop is over to Deb’s Heartfelt Inkspiration, where she will be showing you some great ideas with the new Chocolate Bunny stamp. My favorite is her last card!

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Today’s My Digital Studio tip — the undo command. I love it. Use it often, that’s my motto! Sometimes, when using My Digital Studio, it is easy to rotate when you mean to resize, or resize when you mean to move. If that happens — DO NOT PANIC! Just stop, go up to Edit at the top, and choose undo. Everything will go back as you had it. You can “undo” multiple steps, as long as you have not saved since doing them. Then, when you have it how you like it, save!

Moving on in the calendar, we have April and May.

April focuses on Passover, especially the frogs! I tried to make the background of the first page be reminiscent of matzah. What do you think, did it work?

May has both Mother’s Day and my mom’s birthday, so I used those as the theme.

Feel like making your own calendar yet?