Happy STAMPtember® 10 Year Anniversary!!!
Join us in celebrating the 10th Anniversary of STAMPtember®! Today we are revealing the products we’ve designed to inspire and delight you in making your projects. All are available exclusively at Simon Says Stamp.
STAMPtember® is defined by Simon Says Stamp as an event intended to inspire, educate, and celebrate the fun of rubber stamping. Simon Says Stamp was founded in 2002 selling rubber stamps. However, it didn’t take long until we became a One Stop Shop with so much more!
Now STAMPtember is so much more than stamps! This year is extra special as it is our 10th Annual STAMPtember! You’ll see a focus on many other exciting products like enamel pins, dies, and some other fun surprises. We hope to enhance your stamping experience! Rubber stamps remain the heart of our business, and we are celebrating by also releasing exclusive products with many of the industry’s finest brands.
Be sure to visit our blog as the home base for the festivities! Trust me when I tell you that the excitement this year is over the TOP, and we are planning fun surprises to keep you on your toes all month long! Speaking of surprises… check out this AMAZING prize we are giving away with FIVE chances to win…..
Check out this video to see the amazing Laura Bassen take you through the entire collection of new goodies and keep scrolling to see it all!
STAY TUNED! We have a HUGE blog party link up with inspiration and fun surprises tomorrow!
Thank you for joining us today! We appreciate being able to celebrate with YOU!
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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Color Coordinates: Bold and Beautiful!
Welcome everyone to another edition of my Color Coordinates series. I’m starting to look at bolder colors as we start to inch into fall. One-color I like to introduce into my fall line up is Purple! I’ve paired Simon Says Stamp Deep Purple and Hydrangea with some blue and green tones of Deep Sea, Evergreen, and Willow.
This is a card for my son, I think it’s manly, bold. and well… beautiful! I’ve used a repeating stamp image HBD from the Cathy Zielski Stop Drop Party stamp set for a clean and simple look while showing off a range of colors.
Each image was stamped twice for maximum boldness, using a Misti to keep the stamp in place. I just love our inks for their quality of softening into the paper leaving a creamy but crisp finish.
If you are interested in printing out the Color Coordinates and creating a swatch book, I have the downloadable templates available below.
- Book template and past Color Coordinates
- May 2018
- July 2018
- August 2018
- October 2018
- January 2019
- March 2019
- April 2019
- May 2019
- June 2019
- July 2019
- August 2019
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