One Stamp Five Ways: Floral Mix Background
Hi friends! Happy Saturday and happy STAMPtember® eve! I hope you’re as excited as we are for all of the festivities starting tomorrow! Please join us in welcoming back special guest Suzy Plantamura with her popular One Stamp, Five Ways blog series! Read on for more info and enjoy!
Today I have a “One Stamp, Five Ways” post for you using one of the gorgeous background stamps by Simon Says Stamp called Floral Mix Background. I love the series of stamps and now background stamps using these gorgeous florals with little dashed lines throughout.Not only are they super pretty, they are really fun to color too! I also used another stamp set for almost all of my greetings on these cards, so this is really a two stamp, five ways post!
I stamped the Floral Mix Background stamp on Ranger Watercolor Paper with white embossing powder. I painted over the embossed stamp design with blue and purple watercolors using a wet on wet technique.
I then used a layer of Liquid Pixie Dust over the top of the paint. You can use it by itself for lots of sheen or you can mix it into your watercolors. I love this stuff! It’s like the glimmer pens inside a bottle! And this photo doesn’t even do it justice as it is so shimmery in person!
I die-cut the Peeking Butterfly Wafer Die out of white cardstock. I colored the inside piece with three colors of purple Copic Markers moving from light on top to darker on the bottom. I die-cut a second one and layered that over the first one turning up one of the butterfly wings. I covered the butterfly with Glossy Accents and white glitter. I added some white jewels.
This time I stamped the Floral Mix Background stamp with black ink on white cardstock. I then colored it in with a very bright mix of colored pencils. Copic Markers would look good for this technique as well since they come in some very bright colors.
I stamped the“Happy Birthday” sentiment from the Greeting Mix 1 stamp set with black ink on a Sentiment Label Die. I layered that over the front of the card and trimmed off the right edge. I added some Watermelon Jewels on the right side.
Last, I took this card up a notch by covering many of the colored areas with Tonic Nuvo Glitter Drops. They add so much sheen to this already bright card! I used Glossy White drops over the background.
This time I stamped the Floral Background Stamp with black ink on white cardstock and colored it in with Copic Markers. I used colored pencils to add additional shading.
I die-cut the It’s Your Day Wafer Die out of Lawn Fawn Guava cardstock (my new favorite color) and white cardstock. I layered them on the front of the card using the white inside the letters. I added some Glossy White Nuvo Drops around the die.
This just shows a close up of the flowers, but no more directions here! My daughter colored this with Copics for me, so she shades a little different than I do. I think she does a beautiful job and I always appreciate her help!
This time I wanted a no-line stamping look, so I stamped the Floral Background Stamp with a light color of ink on white cardstock. I colored the flowers in with colored pencils.
I used darker shades of the pencils to add the little dashed lines over the flowers and leaves. I have no idea why that one green leaf has a brown dashed line – Imust have been tired!
I layered three different sentiments from the Greetings Mix 1 stamp set. I stamped the largest one in black ink on a watercolored banner. Then I stamped the smaller text on a white banner using the Sentiment Label dies. I stamped the last one on a small circle die. I added some Watermelon jewels to finish the card.
For this card, I started by stamping the Outline Leaves background stamp on white cardstock with a light color of ink and then I colored the leaves in with colored pencils. I thought I would try cutting some of the flowers out of this stamped image and these leaves were perfect for a background for the flowers.
I stamped a sentiment from the Greetings Mix 1 stamp set with Leaf Green embossing powder on a stitched square die. I attached that to the front of the card and used some Golden Sunset Glitter Nuvo Drops.
I stamped the full Floral Mix Background Stamp on white cardstock with a light color of ink and I colored in just the three sunflower stamps with colored pencils. Ithen cut them out. Because I used a light color of ink, the lines of the otherflowers didn’t show up very much and I used a white Uniball gel pen to cover up the ink that did show. I used Golden Sunset Glitter Nuvo Drops to decorate the inside of the flowers.
Thanks so much for visiting the SSS blog today. I always enjoy sharing these “one stamp, five ways” posts with you. I hope you are motivated to pull out one of your stamp sets and try to come up with five ways to use it! Happy crafting friends! -Suzy
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Beautiful cards!
Beautiful cards and each so very different!
This series is always so educational bc it stretches how we think of certain products and then we can apply that to what we have. Thanks for doing this series.
Stunning cards Suzy!
Love how you showed us how to get more mileage out of one stamp set.
Wow – what beautiful cards and I am always looking for way to use my stamps to their fullest! Thank you for the inspiration.
I like the shading on the flowers. They all look so different. I am working on my shading. Everything is pretty flat….
Gorgeous cards! You colored them so beautifully! I love how you cut out the sunflowers from the floral background stamp on your last card!
This is a fun feature with Suzy and I know the cards will always be beautifully colored and give us great inspiration like these. :)
It doesn’t get better than this! These cards are so beautiful and so different from each other.Love those Nuvo Glitter Drops and the colored pencils bring welcome drama to the cards. Super!!!!!
wow these are so bold and colourful, especially love the embossed and watercolour pairing!
I ADORE your coloring! I always look forward to seeing what you make!
Absolutely beautiful cards, I love sunflowers.
Love all the cards. I would be. Hard pressed to pick a favorite as I like all of them.,
Wow, your coloring is amazing. All 5 designs are so beautiful and unique. Thank you so much for sharing your inspiration!
Wow! These are so beautiful! :) <3
fabulously colored flowers – awesome job
These are all just stunning! Love the texture on the sunflowers; yummy! And also love the blue & purple color combo.
These cards are absolutely gorgeous. In my mind, I have color skills but in reality can only dream and aspire to to get to this level.
Beautiful and versatile cards. Love them all. Thanks for sharing.
Oh wow, gorgeous cards! So fun to see the different looks with the same image.
Love the bright and bold floral backgrounds!! Beautiful!!
Gorgeous cards, I especially love the one done in blues and purple and love that butterfly square!
These are all so pretty! Gorgeous coloring!
I am still stunned and amazed at this post. It’s so dang cool to show us these variations. Talk about inspiring others. If this post doesn’t do that, nothing will!
Thanks for sharing all these fabulous creations! I love all of them & will be looking at my background stamps in a whole new way!
Wow, wonderful flower cards. All beautiful.?
Love the different looks!
These cards are stunning, I love how colorful they are and that floral background stamp is gorgeous!
WOW Suzy, these are ALL such beautiful cards! The colours you chose for each of them are gorgeous! You have so many talents and I am thrilled that you share them, so many great tips in here as well. Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous bright florals – I love the variety and they are all so bright and cheerful!
These are all such pretty cards, my favorite color is purple, so I will have to make the butterfly card.
You just amaze me, Suzy! The first one is my favorite, but I really love all the different looks! I have the Liquid Pixie Dust & need to use it as the sheen is truly gorgeous! Thanks for all the inspiration & have a happy holiday w/e!
These are all beautiful cards, but my favorite is the blue and purple butterfly card.
Such beautiful cards!!!! LOVE them all:)
Oh WOW, what gorgeous cards! I recently got some of these stamps and now you’ve got me so inspired to put them to use today! Thank you!
Such beautiful cards – hard to believe they are all from the same stamp.
The Floral Mix Background stamp is gorgeous and Suzy’s cards are amazing. I love the colors. Simon definitely has the most beautiful background stamps I’ve ever seen.
Suzy, all of these cards are fabulous! The coloring is gorgeous!
That floral background stamp is gorgeous and what you’ve done with it is amazing! I like those flat dies, too!
Wow! Each one of these are beautiful! But I think I like the “no line” pencil one the best. But dang, I love them all! Thanks for the ideas!
I have this stamp! I’ll have to try this!
Such beautiful and happy cards!! I love the colors, so bright and lively!!
Pretty! Love the blue one best.
These floras are beautiful – I am fond of Sunflowers! Nice work
The blues and purples are a nice color combo. Very calm.
Gorgeous cards!
Love the variety!! They’re gorgeous!!
That blue and purple card is gorgeous xxx
The colors
combination on the first card is lovely! But I really like all of them! It is always great to see how versatile the stamps can be!