Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

When my parents came out to California right after my nephew was born, I knew that I wanted to be sure to get a picture of all eight of us.  My dad has been asking for this picture, so I thought this would be a good one to turn into a scrapbook page. The page below is 12″ x 12″, ready to slip into his scrapbook. I used the individual page printing option through Stampin’ Up. I think I have mentioned before how much my dad loves maps, so using one of the backgrounds from the digital version of the Travel Journal Designer Series Paper was a natural fit.

I printed an extra copy of this, in case my parents want to hang it up somewhere. The easiest way to print doubles is to duplicate the page within the album. This is only when you are printing individual pages, not for bound albums.

Yesterday was my dad’s birthday. A few years back, when he turned 60, I put together a HUGE scrapbook for him. It not only chronicled his life, but I gathered pictures as far back as possible, and from as many cousins as I could. It was amazing, if I do say so myself. But this was before either of his grandchildren were born. So I figured it was time to update the scrapbook with some new pages. And since I’m in California, and he’s in Massachusetts, I had to think about what would be the best way to make the pages and get them to him. So, what I decided to do was create the pages in My Digital Studio, then use Stampin’ Up’s individual page printing option, and have the pages sent right to him. I’ll share the different pages with you over the next few days. The first set of pages I’m going to show you is a double spread page with pictures of my father and my daughter. These are two 12″x12″ pages side by side. You can click on the image for a closer look.

All products used on these pages are from Stampin’ Up’s My Digital Studio.You can purchase My Digital Studio or any of the digital downloads through my online store.

In case you were wondering, Sabba means Grandfather in Hebrew. You can actually see them looking at the scrapbook together in the picture on the bottom right.

Whoo-hoo! Stampin’ Up just released some great new digital downloads! There are three different coordinating components in the Play Date line that are now available digitally as well as in real life. I am super excited to have these, as I am currently working on Eve’s first grade scrapbook. Before I show you the downloads, I want to show you a quick page I put together with them:

These downloads work with My Digital Studio and any other digital scrapbooking program that allows you to import PNG and JPG files.

121438 Play Date Designer Series Paper $4.95

123433 Play Date Embellishments $3.95

123432 Play Date Quick Accents Kit $5.95

You can purchase these or any other digital downloads through my online store. They great news is that they are available for immediate use, with no shipping or tax! Just click on Digital Crafting, then Digital Downloads, then Newest Downloads to see all of the recent additions!

p.s. Did you get the My Digital Studio color upgrade? If not, take a look at this blog post for all of the information.

I’ve been out of town for the past week or so, and believe it or not, I didn’t bring any stamps with me! Instead I decided to use the time to catch up on my digital scrapbooking. I haven’t gotten as much done as I had hoped, but I have made some progress on the scrapbook I had promised to make for my In-Laws of their big trip last fall. I want to share the cover of that with you today. This will be a 12″ x 12″ scrapbook, with a photo cover. This cover looks awesome (if I do say so myself), and it was super easy to create! The background is just one piece of the digital version of the Travel Journal Designer Series Paper! I changed the opacity of the paper to about 60% so that the designs wouldn’t overpower my title.

You can purchase My Digital Studio and/or any of the digital downloads through my online store. The downloads work with My Digital Studio and any other digital scrapbooking program that allows you to import PNG and JPG files.

This project was created by Samantha Alvarez, who I am fortunate enough to have in my down line. She gave me permission to share it with you.  She was asked to create a scrapbook page as a project for an upcoming workshop.  All of the guests will be creating their own 6″ x 6″ page, but she also wanted to show them how it can be used as a larger page as well. Her lucky hostess will get to keep the stepped up page!

This is the 6″ x 6″ page that everyone will be creating together. How cute is this? Can you just picture an adorable 6″ x 6″ album with all of the First Day of School pictures?

Stamps: First Day
Ink: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight
Paper: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White
Other: Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/8″ circle punch

This is easily incorporated into an 8 1/2″ x 11″ page, if that is the size you prefer to use, with room for two more pictures.

Stamps: First Day
Ink: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight
Paper: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White
Other: Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/8″ circle punch

Finally, but putting it on a 12″ x 12″ page, there is room for journaling.

Stamps: First Day
Ink: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight
Paper: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White
Other: Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch,Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/8″ circle punch, gold brads, dimensionals

How cute is that? What a great example of a progressive scrapbook page! A big thanks to Samantha for letting me share it here.

With all of the excitement around the birth of my new nephew, I haven’t had a lot of stamping time. Which is fine, I’m not complaining, just explaining. One of the projects I have planned right now is to make a scrapbook of Leo’s first week or so, with pictures all of the family visiting him. When I saw this week’s sketch from Stamping 411, I knew that it would be perfect for the cover.

I am going to make an 8″x8″ scrapbook in My Digital Studio. That way, when it is done, I can print a copy for my brother and his wife, for my parents, and for Leo’s other grandparents if they want. Also, I can start working on it now, and add photos and pages, and rearrange things as I go. I also want to gather some pictures from other people who have been taking them this week. Here is what I came up with for the cover.

I love that I can make a custom cover in My Digital Studio and chose whether I want it to be cloth, leather, a soft photo cover, or a hard photo cover! I’m thinking about adding something in the lower right hand corner, but I’m not sure what yet.

How exciting! Just a few days ago Stampin’ Up released three new sports-themed digital stamp brush sets. Yesterday they released three more downloads, which are absolutely gorgeous! These can be used with My Digital Studio or any other digital scrapbooking program that allows you to import JPG or PNG images.

You can purchase these or any other digital downloads through my online store. They great news is that they are available for immediate use, with no shipping or tax! Just click on Digital Crafting, then Digital Downloads, then Newest Downloads to see all of the recent additions!

As part of today’s presentation on teaching Visual Literacy through Digital Scrapbooking, I made up a few scrapbook pages to show different ways teachers could incorporate digital scrapbooking into their courses. I made these pages using Stampin’ Up’s My Digital Studio. At the end of my presentation I will be demoing how to use the software, as well.

If your students need to do a family history report, a family tree, immigration report, homeland report, or report on a historical time period, a heritage style scrapbook would be a great way to present the information. This is an actual picture of my great great grandmother and her three daughters.

Any type of biography would make a great digital scrapbook. You can find a lot of historical photographs and documents online at the American Memory Collection. Below is a scrapbook page about the world famous aviatrix, Bessie Coleman. (It also was created for this week’s Stampin’ Addicts Scrapbook Sketch Challenge.)

The final page I wanted to show you could be used for a book report. How great would it be to have a every student in the class do a two-page spread as a book report, then make them all into one book that students could look through when they wanted to find something to read? I would love to put something like that in my library!

What other ideas do you have for digital scrapbooking in the classroom?

I am presenting tomorrow at the Southern Regional Conference of the California Association of Independent Schools. My topic this year? Teaching Visual Literacy Through Digital Scrapbooking and Storytelling. (I like to weave my obsession with stamping and scrapbooking into all aspects of my life.) Over the next few days, I will share most of that presentation with you. If you would like to read the source material that I used, you can find links to it all on the LibGuide I created. Here are my opening slides, created in My Digital Studio, of course.

One of the main reasons that teaching visual literacy is important is that children believe everything they see. By learning the basics of design, they will see how to manipulate images, as well how to communicate effectively through them. This will open their eyes up to the messages other people are sending via imagery.

Rabbit, rabbit! It’s March first and there are new downloads available for My Digital Studio (and your digital studio, too). First to answer a few questions about these downloads.

Yes, they do in fact count towards Sale-a-Bration benefits.  (How awesome is that?)
No, there is no shipping charged on them.
Yes,  they are available for immediate download.
No, you cannot put them on a workshop order. They must be ordered online via my website (click on Shop Now).

Here are this month’s new releases:

121063 Satin Ribbon $3.95

120171 Mini Project Boxes $1.95

120172 Spring Shades Designer Series Paper $4.95

Let me know if you have any questions about these or any other aspects of My Digital Studio.