Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

Happy Monday! I hope you enjoyed the Stampin’ Addicts Summer Mini Catalog Blog Hop this past weekend! I feel so honored to be part of such an amazing group of women! And now I have a wish list a mile long… I featured the three new Builder Wheels available in the Summer Mini Catalog, which I used to create the fun border on the scrapbook page below.

As I promised before, I have a photo tutorial for you on how to make the beveled corners on the scrapbook page shown above. This can be done with any of the Stampin’ Around wheels. I recommend using an ink cartridge in your wheel if you are going to wheeling more than 6″.

The first thing that you want to do is to partially mask the corners of your scrapbook page. You can use any type of removable adhesive. I used Dotto on the back of these squares of white paper. You want to place them at an angle, so they bisect the middle of the corner diagonally to the middle of your scrapbook page. You only want to mask off two corners at a time.

Next, roll your wheel completely across the top of the page where the masks are. You want to start on a mask and end on a mask to ensure complete coverage.

When you remove your masks, you can begin to see how the corners are going to look beveled.

Rotate the page, and place the masks on what is now the top of the page. For the side that you have already rolled on with the wheel, carefully line up the edge of the mask along the the inked edge of your scrapbook page.

Roll straight across as you did before. When you remove the masks, your two corners should meet nicely.

Continue to rotate the page, place the masks as before, then roll on the remaining two sides. After you have completed the fourth side, you should have a scrapbook page with beautifully beveled corners!

Have fun and enjoy!

I hope you enjoyed the blog hop this past weekend. I know I did! And I have a ton of new techniques to try! As promised, here is the tutorial video. It’s actually the second one that we filmed. The first one, Eve filmed and Jack the Great Dane kept sticking his nose into it! I’ll include a link to that one at the bottom of this post.

Didn’t Eve do a great job? She’s such a fabulous helper! Here is the card she made afterward. She used the butterfly punch on the piece that she decorated.

Ink: Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight
Paper: Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, Glossy White
Other: Butterfly Punch, Daffodil Delight Taffeta Ribbon

As promised, you can see the blooper video here.

Whoo-hoo, it’s Friday! And as a special treat, I have three videos for you today. Stampin’ Up created these videos, which show you some of the great products available for FREE during Sale-a-Bration. Yes, free!

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Below is the February page for the desk calendar I made for my dad. (See yesterday’s post for more info.) The picture was taken on the Fourth of July, but I thought the colors worked pretty well for Valentine’s Day as well. The picture is my daughter holding my nephew. He’s about 10 days old there.

Do you see how the picture is in a heart? This is actually the heart punch, filled with a photo. Some of my very clever fellow demonstrators figured out that you can trick My Digital Studio into thinking that a picture is actually a piece of Designer Series Paper, and make your photo into any shape that we have a punch for! What you want to do is to make a new folder inside the folder where the Designers Series Papers are kept, and put your pictures inside that.

On a Mac, double click on your hard drive (usually Macintosh HD) –> Applications –> My Digital Studio –> Components –> Backgrounds –> Designer Series Paper

On a PC, click on the Start or Windows button on the bottom left, then go to Computer –> Program Files –> My Digital Studio –> Components –> Backgrounds –> Designer Series Paper

Make a new folder there. I called my __Photos, with two lines in front so it would always be at the top of the list. Put any pictures you want to use in the punches into that folder. Then, when you are working in MDS, simply insert your punch, then act as if you were filling it with paper, but use the folder with your pictures instead! Easy Peasy! Just image what you can do with all the different punch shapes!

I love my Watercolor Wonder Crayons! They coming in all 48 of Stampin’ Up’s basic colors, plus neutrals. They are easy to use in a variety of ways and really add so much to my projects. Stampin’ Up has just put out a great video on four different ways to use these crayons.

If you want to see any of these techniques in person, please let me know. I’d be more than happy to show you!

I am so excited that Stampin’ Up is introducing the option of clear-mount stamps in the Occasions Mini Catalog (which starts January 5th). These are unmounted red rubber stamps, with the same crisp Stampin’ Up quality as always! Just like anything new, there are a few tips and tricks to getting them to work just right. I have created a little video to help get you started. (A big thanks to my cameraman Steve for doing a terrific job!) The set in the video is I {heart} Hearts, which is also in the picture above.

What do you think? Are you going to try them? I think this is a great solution for stamps you might use once a while. Same great Stampin’ Up quality, but they cost a few dollars less a set, and don’t take up as much room!

(Did you hear Biscuit bark? He was disappointed that he wasn’t in the video.)