One Stamp, Five Ways: Ornamental
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Welcome to the latest edition of Suzy Plantamura‘s famous “One Stamp, Five Ways” feature! Today, we’re in a festive mood and using the NEW Ornamental set from the one and only… Cathy Zielske!
It’s getting closer to the holidays, which means I get to start making my Christmas cards. This always gets me in the holiday mood, especially if I shop for new Christmas stamp sets which come out around this time each year! Today I have a “one stamp, five ways” post to share with you using the new stamp set called CZ “Ornamental” that was part of the Fun and Festive release. I have five cards to share with you with directions and supplies used for each.
I love using soft blues and aqua’s for Christmas cards. The snowflakes in this stamp set fit on the ornaments, but they also work well embossed with a watercolored background in this color palette. I used WOW embossing powder called White Puff Powder for the snowflakes – I love the soft textured look it gives them!
I wanted to create some ornaments that used my Tonic Nuvo Glitter Drops. I started by stamping the ornament stamp with MFT Natural Ink for a no-line coloring look. I then colored them with one color of Copic markers each (no need to shade since they would be covered). I then used the Glitter Drops over the top of each and used a Silver Uniball for the holders. I love how these turned out and I ended up using them on two of the cards I’m sharing including this one.
I arranged three of these ornaments on top of the background with foam tape underneath them. I used silver cording to hang them. I stamped the sentiment from the stamp set on a black cardstock banner using the Honey Bee Sentiment Banners and Ranger White Embossing Powder.
I recently posted a blog post called “Making Backgrounds Ahead of Time” that you might want to check out. I made this background and some of the others I’m using on this post ahead of time. I love mass producing backgrounds so I have them ready to go when I am making cards. This one was made by rubbing Distress Oxide Inks (Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron) over the SSS Medium Dot Stencil (notice I didn’t ink it all the way to the edges).
I used three more of the glittered ornaments I showed you in the last card directions on this one. I stamped the word HO three times with SSS Intense Black Ink and glued those to the top of each ornament. I stamped the word Merry with the same ink and embossed the word Holidays with Wendy Vecchi Red Geranium Embossing Powder. I arranged the title over the ornaments popping up the word Merry. I made the hangers using the SSS Critter Sweaters stamp set and SSS Black Intense Ink (so clever, right?!?!?!) haha I added some red sequins from the SSS Christmas Magic Sequin mix.
This is my “random stamped” card I like to include each time, but I always try to do a different take on this technique. This time, I embossed only the ornament over and over on a piece of watercolor paper using SSS Antique Gold Embossing Powder. I then painted them with Daniel Smith Permanent Red watercolor and painted the background with Quinacridone Gold paint. I built up layers of gold paint so the background was very opaque. I colored in the hangers with a white Uniball Marker.
I stamped the word Holidays with SSS Intense Black ink and then I embossed over it with Ranger Clear Embossing Powder. I watched a Jennifer McGuire video once that said not to use black embossing powder, but rather to use clear over black ink and it would give you a better result. I have to admit, this black word looked PERFECT this way as the embossing powder added some nice shine and texture. I stamped the rest of the sentiment on a small banner using SSS Intense Black Ink. I added some Gold and White Confetti Sequins from the SSS Holiday Wreath Mix.
This is another card background that I had already made and is shown in my “making backgrounds ahead of time” blog post. I used Texture Paste over the SSS Medium Dot Stencil. Then I poured gold glitter over the texture paste while it was wet. Unfortunately, it didn’t stick or at least not much of it did. You can still see some little remnants of the glitter! I want to try this again with a wet glue over the stencil so the glitter will stay put!
I stamped these three ornaments with SSS Intense Black Ink and colored them in with Copic Markers. I used some of the added details from the stamp set on each and colored them in with a Gold Uniball Marker. I embossed the title using SSS Antique Gold Embossing Powder. I added some gold cord to the top of each ornament and some gold confetti sequins from the SSS Holiday Wreath sequin mix.
For the background of this card, I used a Ranger Blending Tool and rubbed on Distress Inks in Wilted Violet and Picked Raspberry. I used them very lightly by rubbing them on scrap paper first so the color stayed soft and there weren’t edges of the applicator showing. I stamped the ornaments using SSS Hot Mama, Lavender, and Doll Pink inks so they were really bright. I used Wow Whisper Embossing Powder for the holder on each ornament as well as for the snowflakes. I used Ranger White Embossing Powder for the sentiment inside each ornament as well as for the little line on each.
I arranged the three ornaments over the inked background and then arranged the snowflakes around them. I stamped the beginning of the sentiment directly on the card with SSS Intense Black Ink and then embossed the main part of the sentiment with Wendy Vecchi Cactus Flower embossing powder (best color ever!). I finished the card with some sequins from the SSS Holiday Wreath sequin mix.
Thank you so much for visiting today and I hope I have inspired you to start making holiday cards. I promise it will get you in the Christmas spirit which hopefully will help us get our shopping started early this year! Merry pre-holiday-season to all! Suzy
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Lovely ideas for using this stamp set. Love the background of baubles. Hugz
These are all so neat! I really like the one with the purple and pink ornaments. :)
Great post! Love all the possibilities using this set. Cheers.
Wonderful versatility.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
These ornaments are adorable!
I just love seeing using a stamp set on multiple cards. Most of the time I have a favourite one or two. But I just LOVE all of these cards! It is so hard to pick.
love all these great ideas
Really like the 5 different ways that you made the cards especially like the card with the shades of purple.
WOW! This set is SOOOO VERSATILE! I love all the different color combos!
I normally don’t purchase holiday-themed products, since at my age I send only a few Christmas cards. However, the versatility of this set makes the investment worthwhile. The samples are all beautiful.
Pretty variety of ornament cards.
Great ideas!
Wow, amazing cards! So wonderfully festive and full of texture, depth and dimension.
Love all the different samples!
Such great Christmas cards! I love the range of designs!
Lovely cards – what a great variety too!! Thanks so much for sharing different ways to use the same stamp set!!!
These cards are beautiful! I love all the colors and different ways you used this fun stamp set. :)
So fun how you used this ornament set.
Great cards! Lots of ways to use this set!
Great cards! I love the pink and purple!!
Awesome cards!! I love the soft blue and purple ones :)
It was nice to see so many different things that can be done with one stamp set. I love the idea of making the most of my tools. NICE JOB. I especially like the one where you just used red watercolor, and embossed in gold. The light shining off of each ornament is wonderful.
WOW these cards are amazing Suzy!!!!
I love everything about these cards! The backgrounds are gorgeous and the Ornamental stamp set is awesome! You definitely gave me some wonderful ideas…all of those products are calling my name!
AWESOME ornament cards, I love the variety of looks!
I love these ideas Suzy! TFS your lovely cards!
Such pretty cards!
So many different ideas, and they are all great. I really like the “different” ones. Thank you for all of the samples.
Beautiful cards!
Pretty cards! I like how hou used the nuvo drops!
Gorgeous cards.
Love the colors,
especially the last
card. So festive!
Carla from Utah
I’ts too hard to pick a favorite. I love them all! Wonderful inspiration Suzy.
A very cool effect with the Nuvo drops on the ornaments. Gorgeous cards.
What an amazing group of gorgeous cards, all colors and from one stamp set! Thanks for the inspiration.
Fabulous! Love all the great ideas with a single set!! :) Thanks!
Really Wonderful cards!!! So festive!!!
These are so festive & fun & beautiful! Not happy with my Nuvo drops as drops, but I’m going to try using them to color. Thanks for the inspiration!
Wow, so many different ideas!! These cards are out of sight!! I love learning new ways to use different products. It’s fun!!
Wonderful cards! Thanks for all the different ideas, very inspiring!
Love seeing how stamps can be used many ways. Beautiful!
I always enjoy trying to design multiple cards with one stamps so this is awesome!! It is always fun to learn about different new products and how to use them – thanks.
These are darling. I love, love, love all the texture on the cards. Those glittery ornaments are awesome!
Great ideas!
It’s always fun to stretch the imagination and these are all beautiful. My favorite is the red and gold! :)
They all look like you wanna touch them…
These are such great cards. I’ve learned so much from your tutorials to make the variations on the ornaments. tfs
I love all of these … But I think the purple one is my favorite!
So many fun ideas!
Beautiful! That cactus flower IS an amazing color!
LOVE all the beautiful cards!
Thanks so for the inspiration.