Rubber Stamping & Card Making with Yapha

Whoo-hoo! It’s Leap Day! It only happens once every four years, so of course I had to make a card for it! I made this spiral pop-up card with my after-school kids this week and they loved it! (There’s a great tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers.) Here is the front of the card:

And this is what you see when you open it up:

Stamps: Turtle & Co
Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Garden Green, Pear Pizzazz
Paper: Garden Green, Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White
Other: Scallop Border Punch, 1 1/4″ Circle Punch, 2 1/2″ Circle Punch, Word Window Punch, Modern Label Punch

I printed out the “Happy Leap Day” greeting on my computer. This would also make a great Passover card, because of all the frogs. Hope your Leap Day is fabulous!

A little over a week until Passover starts! That means it’s time for cleaning out the chametz and making Passover cards.  I decided to use this week’s Pals Paper Arts sketch to get started on them.

As I’ve mentioned before, my family equates frogs with Passover. This comes from the second plague in the Passover story. And it helps that they are cute and spring-like. Decorating the house with boils just doesn’t have the same type of charm! Here’s what I came up with:

Stamps: Hoppy For You, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Pad, Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper Pad
Other: Modern Label Punch, Gold Brads, Paper Snips, Stamp-a-ma-jig

There is a strip of torn bashful blue at the bottom to make the water. The lily pad and cattails are both paper-pieced. If you are interested in other Passover cards, check out my all-time favorite, the Plague Card that I made last year.

I’m so excited that Kristina Werner’s color challenge this week works perfectly for a Passover card! I’ve been feeling the need to make more, especially with these adorable froggies! Here are this week’s colors:

I decided to do another scalloped circle card. The circle reminds me of a seder plate. And the frogs, the second plague, are one of my family’s traditional Passover symbols. I used textured cardstock for the Kiwi Kiss and the Baja Breeze. I liked how it adds just a little more dimension.

Stamps: Hoppy for You, Simple Serif Alphabet
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Accessories: Baja Breeze Striped Ribbon, Scallop Circle Bigz Die, Big Shot, Circle Scissors Plus, Stamp-a-Ma-Jig

Hoppy Passover to you and yours!

Here’s another Passover related card. Well, for me it is Passover related because of all of the frogs, and frogs always make me think of Passover. For you, a frog may just be a frog. This is from a sketch challenge on a new website I have been visiting called Stampin’ Addicts. It’s a happy, upbeat group of crazy stampers like myself.  The forums are a great place to chat and the gallery is growing. Today’s card:

Stamps: Hoppy for You
Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Accessories: Kiwi Kiss Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Large Oval Punch, Scalloped Oval Punch

Passover is coming up next week, and one of the things my family really likes to focus on are the ten plagues. Particularly the decorations — frogs and bugs more so than blood and boils. So I got it in my head to make a Ten Plagues Passover card. It took quite a few stamp sets, and a fairly loose interpretation of the plagues, but here is what I came up with:

The plagues (and the stamp sets I used)
1) Blood (Pick a Petal)
2) Frogs (Hoppy for You)
3) Lice (Hoppy for You)
4) Wild Beasts (Wild About You)
5) Cattle Disease (Pun Fun)
6) Boils (All in the Family)
7) Hail (Pick a Petal)
8 ) Locust (Bugs & Kisses)
9) Darkness (Chocolate Chip Cardstock)
10) Slaying of the First Born (All in the Family, Family Accessories Too)

Ink: Ruby Red, Garden Green, Not Quite Navy, More Mustard, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Creamy Caramel, Garden Green, Not Quite Navy, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Accessories: Stampin’ Write Markers

You can learn more about Passover from Judaism 101.

This whole going on vacation thing can certainly put a cramp in doing the different weekly challenges that I like to do! But better late than never, right? Here is what I came up with for this week’s Mojo Monday sketch:

You may notice that the colors are the same as the ones from the Cheep Talk card last week. I used the same colors from the Good Morning Sunshine Designer Series Paper. I love this paper pack. The colors are amazing!

Stamps: Hoppy for You
Ink: Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point
Paper: Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point, Summer Sun, Whisper White, Good Morning Sunshine DSP
Accessories: Kiwi Kiss Satin Ribbon, Top Note Bigz Die, Big Shot, Stamp-a-Ma-Jig

Every month there is a Demonstrator Only challenge on Splitcoast Stampers called the WICKED challenge. It stands for Wonderfully Inspiring Challenges Keep Educating Demos. It general consists of three parts — a color challenge, a sketch challenge, and a technique challenge. This month I decided to do just the color challenge part. February’s colors are Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze and Chocolate Chip. They are absolutely fantastic colors together! Looking at the Kiwi Kiss, I just knew I had to use those wacky frogs in the new Hoppy for You set. Here’s the card I came up with:

Have a hoppy day!

I am loving this new frog set! It is so cute! And my favorite of all the sayings is “Time’s fun when you’re having flies!” I used it to make a card from last week’s SplitCoast Stampers Color Challenge. The colors were Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, and Garden Green. It’s hard to see, but I used one of the new Texturz plates on the Baja Breeze background. I also used the new Circle Scissors Plus to make the two round circles. Love it! So easy to use!

You’ll be seeing plenty more of these frogs as we get closer to Passover!