Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

Are you ready? Thanksgiving is almost here, and we’ve actually had cool crisp weather in Southern California! I love it! I can bake and not have to run the air conditioning! I used this week’s Retro Sketches challenge to make one more Thanksgiving card.

The three layers in this card made me want to make another triple time stamping card, with the layers offset like this one instead of centered.

Stamps: Wonderfall, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Early Espresso
Paper: More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla
Other: Bitty Banner Framelits

Have you checked out the Online Extravaganza yet? There are some amazing deals! If you missed Day 3 of the Hanukkah Blog Hop, you can see it here. Day 4 is on Wednesday, so be sure to check back for that. And have a Happy Thanksgiving!

It is a cold and rainy day here in Southern California — it is finally feeling like Fall! What better to do than stay inside and stamp? I combined the Freshly Made Sketches challenge with the Friday Mashup (Fall leaves & Thank You) for today’s card.

The sketch really looks like a card in a pocket to me, but I just wasn’t happy with any of my ideas for that, so I went with just a regular card instead.

Stamps: Perfectly Penned
Ink: Cajun Craze, Early Espresso
Paper: Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Whisper White, Orchard Harvest Designer Series Paper
Other: More Mustard Dotted Scallop Ribbon, Early Espresso Stitched 1/4″ Grosgrain, Corner Rounder

I used Whisper White card stock instead of Very Vanilla because of the white stitching in the ribbon. I hope that you will stop back tomorrow for Day 3 of the Hanukkah Blog Hop! I have an elegant Hanukkah card for you. I can’t wait to see what the other women make!

A great fall color combination from the Fab Friday challenge this week! I combined it with a gorgeous sketch from Sketch Frenzy Friday, though I did rotate it to fit my stamp better.

During that big one-day sale at the end of October I picked up a few of the single stamps, including “For You” from the Layered Labels set. It’s the only one I liked out of the set, so I didn’t want to buy the whole thing. How lucky that it was available individually!

Stamps: For You (from Layered Labels)
Ink: More Mustard, Midnight Muse, Cajun Craze
Paper: Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Midnight Muse, Very Vanilla, Orchard Harvest Designer Series Paper, Comfort Cafe Designer Series Paper
Other: Apothecary Accents Framelits. Square Lattice Embossing Folder

I hope you will come back tomorrow, it is the first day of our Hanukkah Blog Hop! The Hanukkah Blog hop will be every Wednesday and Sunday for the next four weeks starting tomorrow and we will have some great projects to show you!

It has been a really long time since I have been able to combine three challenges, but these three just work so well together that I  couldn’t help myself. I am using the sketch from Nacho Average Challenges, the theme (Elegant Autumn) from SUO Challenges, and the inspiration from the Stampin’ Celebration Inspiration Challenge.

I am very excited that I found my watercolor paper, as I may have mentioned one or two (hundred) times lately. For this card I pulled out my watercolor crayons, too! I embossed the outline of the leaf with Early Espresso embossing powder, and the blended my More Mustard and Cherry Cobbler crayons to achieve the look I wanted. Isn’t it pretty? If I can’t have fall leaves here in Southen California, I’ll make them myself!

Stamps: Gently Falling
Ink: VersaMark
Paper: More Mustard, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Watercolor Paper, Champagne Glimmer Paper
Other: Watercolor Wonder Crayons (More Mustard & Cherry Cobbler), Aqua Painter, 2 1/2″ Circle Punch, 3″ Circle Die, Perfect Pennants Bigz Die, Wood Grain Embossing Folder

Oh yes, I am definitely going to need to get back to using my Watercolor Wonder Crayons! They are so much fun! If you haven’t tried these, I highly recommend them.

I hope you enjoyed the Stampin’ Addicts My Digital Studio Mini Blog Hop. If you didn’t get a chance to see the hop, the links are still up. You also still have time to download your digital freebies from Stampin’ Up, so be sure to do that by the end of the day on Monday. I finally had a chance to play along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Isn’t that a great sketch? Now that I finally found my watercolor paper, I wanted to use it. I had forgotten how much fun it is to use an aquapainter and reinkers on watercolor paper. I love how vivid the colors look!

Stamps: Every Little Bit
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Raspberry Ripple, Cajun Craze, More Mustard
Paper: Raspberry Ripple, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Water Color Paper, Orchard Harvest Designer Series Paper
Other: More Mustard Dotted Scallop Ribbon, Wood Grain Embossing Folder, 1 1/4″ Square Punch, 1 3/8″ Square Punch

Every Little Bit is such a versatile stamp set, with so many cute images for a wide variety of occasions!

It’s Tuesday, so that means it’s time for another ColourQ challenge! We’ve got some great Halloween colors this week.

I played down the black so that I could use this picture from the Harvest Festival a couple weeks ago.

Those leaves are punches that come with the Wonderfall Kit, just one of the many digital kits from Stampin’ Up that is 50% off this week. Don’t forget, there are three free downloads from Stampin’ Up available this week as well. No obligation, just add them to your shopping cart and check out. If enough people download them, Stampin’ Up is going to release a fourth free download, so please, download them!

I was so honored to have my snowman card chosen as Top Nacho last week! Thank you so much! This week’s Nacho Average Challenge is a fun sketch.

I thought about those circles for a while, trying to decide what I wanted to do with them. I ended up with Fall Leaves, and I really like how it came out.

Stamps: Perfectly Penned
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard
Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Regals Patterns Designer Series Paper Pack
Other: Autumn Accents Bigz Die, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

I used the Inlaid Embossing technique on this card, and I really like the way the Square Lattice folder makes the prints on the DSP so much more interesting.

Another fun challenge from The Friday Mashup this week! This time it is to create a “Fall Leaves Themed project using Twine.”

I decide to also combine this with the So Shelli challenge to make a card that is only two layers. Which is a lot trickier than it looks! For my twine I used the Cherry Cobbler Baker’s Twine, which is Cherry Cobbler & white. The white stood out too much against the leaves, so I ran it through my More Mustard ink pad to tone it down a little. It came out pretty well, I think!

Stamps: Gently Falling, Perfectly Penned
Ink: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze, More Mustard
Paper: Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze
Other: Cherry Cobbler’s Baker Twine

I just love Fall leaves so much. That is one of the things that I really miss, living here in Southern California. It’s still going to be 90+ degrees all this week. I could use a little Fall. Of course, you won’t hear me complaining in February…

I just love it when two challenges com together easily! I was excited to combine this week’s Pals Paper Arts sketch challenge with the Friday Mashup. The Mashup always has three options. This week’s are:

1. Make a ”Indian Summer” themed project.
2. Or Make a project with any three colors from “Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade & Early Espresso”.
3. Or “Mash it Up” and create a “Indian Summer Themed project with the color combo”.
   

I opted for #3, since those colors are in the fabulous Orchard Harvest Designer Series Paper.

I was a little concerned about the term “Indian Summer,” since I wasn’t sure how the Native American community felt about it. I checked in with a friend of mine from the SEED program who is a part of the Ho-Chunk nation. While she does not speak for everyone, she assured me that most people do not find it offensive and in fact there is a large powwow in Milwaukee that is called Indian Summerfest. So I felt comfortable enough to carry on with the challenges, and this is what I came up with.

Stamps: Perfectly Preserved
Ink: Early Espresso, More Mustard
Paper: More Mustard, Raspberry Ripple, Very Vanilla, Orchard Harvest Designer Series Paper
Other: More Mustard Dotted Scallop Ribbon, Small Oval Punch, 1 1/4″ Scallop Circle Punch

I try to be very aware of the language that I use. Words have the power to harm or to heal, and it is important that they are chosen with care.

Happy  first birthday to Freshly Made Sketches! In honor of 52 weeks of challenges, they are having people pick any sketch from the past year! How fun! I went back almost to the beginning, and picked sketch #2.

I was thinking about another Rosh Hashanah card, since it starts Sunday night, but I actually have most of mine in the mail already. So I decided to use the super cute acorn from Wonderfall instead. The card came together from there. It is a 5″ square card.

Stamps: Wonderfall
Ink: Cajun Craze
Paper: Raspberry Ripple, Island Indigo, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Orchard Harvest Designer Series Paper
Other: Wood Grain Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Autumn Accents Bigz Die

This was quick and easy and makes a great all-occasions fall card.