Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

Did you have fun on the Stampin’ Addicts blog hop? Wow! I am always so impressed with the amazing projects that my fellow demonstrators come up with! If you didn’t have a chance to join us this weekend, you can always see the full list of links on Stampin’ Addicts. It’s a great way to help you decide which Sale-a-Bration freebies you want to earn!

I have one card I made that didn’t end up making the cut for the blog hop. It’s cute, I just didn’t feel like it was “wow” enough, if you know what I mean. I do like it though, so I wanted to share it with you today.

Stamps: Sprinkled Expressions
Ink: Blushing Bride, Regal Rose, Rose Red
Paper: Regal Rose, Blushing Bride, Whisper White
Other: Bitty Buttons, Heart to Heart Punch

Can you see those faint lines above and below the hearts? I used my Simply Scored to make them, and to add a bit of texture to the card. Did you hear that a diagonal insert for the Simply Scored is coming in March? Oh yes! I can’t wait! I’ll keep you posted on the details.

Welcome to the Stampin’ Addict’s Sale-a-Bration Blog Hop! I am super excited to be featuring a Sale-a-Bration exclusive stamp set called Sprinkled Expressions. You may have arrived here from Tanya’s Blog, Tinkerin’ in Ink (Aren’t her projects spectacular?!) If you are just starting here, that’s fine too. All of the blogs link in a circle, so you can start wherever you like, and make your way around.

Sprinkled Expressions is a set of six stamps that work together in three pairs. I have a project for each of these pairs, so you’ll see what I mean. For your Sale-a-Bration freebie, you have the choice of either Wood Mount or Clear Mount. My first project is a simple card that can work as a Valentine or anytime someone needs a little extra love.

Stamps: Sprinkled Expressions
Ink: Poppy Parade, Soft Suede
Paper: Poppy Parade, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Everyday Enchantment
Other: Poppy Parade Poly Ribbon

As soon as I saw the star stamp in this set, I knew I wanted to heat emboss it. I used gold embossing powder on black because it matched the amazing Mocha Morning Specialty Designer Series Paper. This could be a great graduation card!

Stamps: Sprinkled Expressions
Ink: VersaMark
Paper: Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Brushed Gold, Mocha Morning Specialty Designer Series Paper
Other: Gold Embossing Powder, Adorning Accents Edgelit Die, Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Scallop Square Duo Die

My final project is a Telescoping Card. You can find tutorials for these all over. People made some great snowmen out of these, and I think they work just as well for flowers, too. This is what the card looks like all closed up:

And here is what it looks like when you open it out:

Stamps: Sprinkled Expressions
Ink: Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade
Paper: Poppy Parade, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Very Vanilla, Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper
Other: Everyday Enchantment Brads, 1 3/4″ Circle Punch, 2 3/8″ Scallop Punch, 3 1/2″ Circle Die, Scallop Circle #2 Die, Clear Circle Die, Scallop Circle Die, Big Shot

Now that you have seen these, you can head on over to Twila’s Blog where she is also  featuring Sprinkled Expressions. Wait until you see her super cute projects!

I was inspired by two fabulous cards by Robin Merriman that I first saw on Pinterest (here and here) to make this clean and simple Valentine. I changed up the colors a little. I really like how it came out! We’ll be making these today at the After-School Kids’ Class and at my Sale-a-Bration workshop next weekend.(Contact me if you still need to schedule yours!)

Stamps: Take it to Heart, Delightful Dozen
Ink: VersaMark
Paper: Crumb Cake, Whisper White
Other: Cherry Cobbler Embossing Powder, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Embossing Folders, Hearts Collection Framelits, Big Shot

I’m looking forward to starting up my kids’ class again this afternoon. I love watching people fall in love with stamping!

Really fun challenge for the Friday Mashup this week! (Yes, I know it is Sunday, but hey, I play when I can.)

1. Make a project using “Paper Piercing”.
2. Or Make a project using the colors “Blushing Bride, Riding Hood Red & Early Espresso”.
3. Or “Mash it Up” and create a project with the “Color Combo & Paper Piercing”.

I decided to try and make a heart shaped card using my new Framelits, but I wasn’t sure if they were able to cut through two pieces of cardstock. The answer, as you can see below, is that yes you can. I will tell you, though, that it is not recommended by Stampin’ Up or Sizzix. So only do what you feel comfortable with. You can see the hinge for the card on the top left, where I kept the fold inside the Framelit. For the paper piercing part of the Mashup, I poked a hole in each of the scallops of the base heart. And really, even though it looks black, that is Early Espresso!

Stamps: Word Play, Woodgrain
Ink: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Riding Hood Red
Paper: Riding Hood Red, Early Espresso, Blushing Bride
Other: Hearts Collection Framelits, Small Heart Punch, Big Shot, Paper Piercer

I stamped the Early Espresso heart with Very Vanilla Craft Ink and the Woodgrain background stamp to make it look more like wood.  I can’t remember the last time I used that ink pad. I was pleasantly surprised that it worked great!

This week’s clean&simple Fall to Layout is REALLY clean and simple! Just one strip of something at the bottom. Wow!

After looking through my stamps, I decided to stick with their place holder of a tree. But I put little hearts on it. It kind of looks like the orange tree in my front yard, except with hearts instead of oranges. (How about a tree that grows red hearts full of chocolates? Yes, please!)

Stamps: Season of Friendship, Delightful Dozen
Ink: Soft Suede, Lucky Limeade, Poppy Parade
Paper: Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Poppy Parade, Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper
Other: Heart to Heart Punch

The hearts are punched out using the smallest of the three hearts on the Heart-to-Heart punch. And that yummy new DSP? You can’t buy it, can get it for free during Sale-a-Bration in a couple weeks!

There’ a really fun sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches this week — I like that it has two stripes across the page instead of the usual one.

This gave me a chance to play with some of the new goodies from the Occasions Mini catalog. I love, love, love these new Framelits! I hope they come out with lots of other shapes as well. I also used the new Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details. It is easy to use and adds just the perfect amount of bling.

Stamps: Beary Best Friends
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Cherry Cobbler, Blushing Bride, Soft Suede
Paper: Blushing Bride, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, 2010 In Colors Patterns Designer Series Paper Stack
Other: Labels Collection Framelits, Cherry Cobbler Dotted Scalloped Ribbon, Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details, Stampin’ Dimensionals

I colored the bear with reinkers and my aquapainter. The envelope is stamped on Blushing Bride card stock, then cut out and popped up on a Stampin’ Dimensional.

Wowsers! Today is my 16th anniversary. Below is the card I made for my husband. It was so fun and easy to make with the new Heart Framelits! This card was inspired by a card made by Tonya Byrd that I saw on Stampin’ Connection, a Stampin’ Up demonstrator only website. (There are currently over 200,000 samples posted! Another great reason to be a demonstrator!)

Stamps: Take it to Heart, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Real Red, VersaMark
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Whisper White, Big Top Birthday DSP
Other: Hearts Framelits, Word Window Punch, Matchbox Bigz XL Die, Tempting Turquiose Embossing Powder

I just love how that image looks embossed, and I’m so happy that Stampin’ Up has so many great colors of embossing powder now!

Another great sketch from Stamping 411 this week!

I noticed the other day that I hadn’t used my Tool Shed stamp set much, and I really like it! So I pulled it out to use on this card. I combined it with this cute stamp from Totally Tool for a fun masculine Valentine. Or it could be a home improvement thank you card.

Stamps: Tool Shed, Totally Tool
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla
Other: Not Quite Navy Stripped Ribbon, Labels Collection Framelits Dies

A big thank you to Erika Clark for the great idea on how to mat the Framelit. Bumping it up to the next size would have been too big, so I used her idea to put another of the same size behind it. It gives just a little pop of Cherry Cobbler.

Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed the blog hop over the weekend. Lucky me had some time to play with my stamps! I started with this week’s sketch from Stamping 411.

That nice big recatangle in the middle looked like a great place to put some Valentine owls. So I did! I wasn’t quite ready to leave the Candy Conversations stamp behind, so I used it as a little thought bubble between the owls.

Stamps: Candy Conversation
Ink: Rose Red
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Brights Patterns Designer Paper Stack, Subtles Patterns Designer Paper Stack
Other: Owl Punch, Bird Punch, Small Heart Punch, Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Embossing Folders, Old Olive Satin Ribbon

I find the smallest little punched out circle of the owls’ eyes too hard to use, so I just draw that on with my Stampin’ Write Markers. So much easier!

Hello and welcome to the Stampin’ Addicts’ Occasions Mini Catalog Blog Hop! I am super excited to be featuring the new a la carte stamp, Candy Conversations. You may have arrived here from Lisa’s blog, Add Ink and Stamp (isn’t it amazing what she did with the Simply Sent Kit?!) If you are just starting here, that’s fine too. All of the blogs link in a circle, so you can start wherever you like, and make your way around.

Candy Conversation is a single stamp, so it is only available as a Wood Mount. It is a super cute stamp, reminiscent of those candy hearts you see everywhere for Valentine’s Day. This first card is a 4 1/4″ square, so it will still fit in a rectangular envelope. I used markers to color the stamp so it would match the new Sweet Shop Specialty Designer Series Paper. This one was quick and easy — I could see making a bunch of these for Valentine’s Day!

Stamps: Candy Conversation
Ink: Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade
Paper: Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White, Sweet Shop Specialty Designer Series Paper
Other: Pinking Hearts Border Punch, Lucky Limeade Ruffled Ribbon

For my second card,  I decided to punch out the card stock candies so that would look like the real conversation hearts. The Small Heart Punch works great for this! I didn’t want the white backs showing, so I punched twice as many as I needed and glued them together back to back. I cut apart one of the Game Spinner Hands to make the arrow. (I saw this somewhere last Valentine’s Day, but I don’t remember where.)

Stamps: Candy Conversations
Ink: Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, Basic Grey
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Other: Heart Treat Cups, Game Spinner Hands, Small Heart Punch, Full Heart Punch, Hearts Collection Framelit Dies, Pretty in Pink Satin Ribbon, Adorning Accents Textured Impressions Embossing Folders

For my final card I used only the words on the bottom of the stamp. I feel like this Valentine is a little more masculine due to the color choice. I don’t think you can tell in the picture, but those hearts on the Sweet Shop Specialty Designer Series Paper are raised. There is a lot of texture in this card!

Stamps: Candy Conversations
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Paper: Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Sweet Shop Specialty Designer Series Paper
Other: Hearts Collection Framelit Dies, 1″ Square Punch, Stripes Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

I have one more project to show you, a super cute hexagon box! This is made out of two of the milk carton die cuts. I wanted to use the Island Indigo hearts paper from the Sweet Shop Specialty Designer Series Paper Pack, so I looked in my Color Coach to see what matched it. The Color Coach recommended Baja Breeze and Rich Razzleberry, so this is what I came up with. This time I only used the punched out heart “candies.”

Stamps: Candy Conversation
Ink: Baja Breeze, Rich Razzleberry
Paper: Baja Breeze, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Sweet Shop Specialty Designer Series Paper
Other: Small Heart Punch, Milk Carton Bigz L Die, Island Indigo Ruffled Ribbon, Crop-a-Dile

I hope you have enjoyed this stop on the blog hop — it is actually the last stop. You can start over at the beginning at Tinkerin in Ink with Tanya and see the amazing projects she made with the new Paper Doily Sizzlet, or go backwards to Lisa’s blog to see the new Simply Sent kit. Enjoy and Happy New Year!!