One Stamp, Five Ways: Grateful Florals
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday, and please join me in welcoming back special guest Suzy Plantamura to our blog with our latest edition of One Stamp Five Ways, which means…. another month is just about in the books! WOW! Read on to learn more about these 5 beauties, and enjoy!
I picked the Grateful Florals stamp set from the STAMPtember release for my “one stamp, five ways” guest post today because I illustrated it! It was fun to make 5 projects with flowers I drew. And we all know I love flowers and love to color, so this set worked well for 5 cards. I did make one card with no-coloring required, so stay tuned if coloring is not your favorite thing to do!
This card is 5×7” which is why it looks so big in the photo of the cards together. I cut a piece of Arches Cold Press Watercolor Paper in that size. I embossed the large floral grouping along the left side on the bottom with Antique Gold embossing powder. I then added the individual stamps to fill in the open areas lining them up right beside the others. I water colored the card with Karin Brushmarkers. They are my favorite to use with embossed images as it helps keep the color in place. They are very reactive, so when you get them wet again, the color moves. I wet the images to pull color onto the outside for a soft wash. I used my paintbrush against the tip of the markers for the background on the left side, so it was darker and filled in the open areas.
I embossed a sentiment from the stamp set with Antique Gold embossing powder and die-cut it out with the matching dies. I attached that to the bottom right corner with foam tape behind it. I added some gold and red Nuvo Drops around the flowers.
You may recognize this card as it was in the SSS STAMPtember banner. I stamped the large floral grouping with Latte Ink on white cardstock. I then colored it in with various Copic Markers. I went back with colored pencils and added some detailing and shading. I die-cut it out with the matching dies.
I embossed the Basic Weave embossing folder with white cardstock. I sprayed it with Tim Holtz Fossilized Amber Distress Spritz Spray giving it a beautiful sheen. I attached the floral bundle over it letting it hang over the edges (you could trim them if you wanted the card to fit in an A2 envelope. I stamped the sentiment with Terracotta PSInk and die-cut it out. I attached it to the top of the card with foam tape beneath it. I added some Terracotta and Zest Embellishment Mixes around the sentiment.
I stamped the large floral grouping stamp on a piece of white cardstock with black ink. I colored the flowers and leaves in with colored pencils this time. I then colored the background with the Gold Sharpie that was in my LE Stained Glass Christmas Religious Kit. They sell them on the SSS set with a silver one also. I want them both! I went over the gold areas twice to get better more even coverage. It looks so pretty in real life! I cut it down to A2 card size which meant I cut off some of the leaves!
I embossed another sentiment from the stamp set with Antique Gold embossing powder and die-cut it out with the matching dies. I attached that to the bottom left side of the card with foam tape behind it. I added various sequins and pearls around the background to match the flowers.
I die-cut the Large Rounded Tag Die out of Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper. I painted it with Catherine Wheel Nuvo Shimmer Powder. I stamped the 3 individual leaf/flower images with Latte Pawsitively Saturated Ink. I colored them in with colored pencils. I find pencils work the best for no-line coloring. I die-cut them out with the matching dies.
I stamped the sentiment with Terracotta PSInk and die-cut it out. I added that to the top of the tag. I arranged the flowers and leaves around the rest of the tag using foam tape beneath just the large flower. I added some Zest and Terracotta Sequins around the tag. I tied some trim I had on hand and a piece of twine through the top of the tag.
I wanted to show a card that you could make without coloring outline stamps. I am in love with two 6×8” paper pads by 49 and Market called Gardenia Painted Foundations and Spectrum Gardenia Classics. I stamped the three individual stamps multiple times on scraps I had from these pads in blues, purples, and greens using black ink. Not only do the papers have cool little details even on the solid colors, but they are also thick like cardstock, so they were perfect for this technique. I die-cut them all out with the matching dies.
Now, I will admit that I couldn’t leave it at that. I did try. And they looked fine this way! But I added some shading with colored pencils. The paper gave me a great start though making the coloring easy! I cut a piece of the same papers for the card background. I arranged all the flowers and leaves around the card front using foam tape behind just the middle large flower and tucking the rest under and around it. I didn’t attach the edges of the leaves and small flowers so they would float. I stamped a sentiment with black ink on another scrap of the paper and die-cut it out. I added that to the top right corner. I used some Pink Fresh Glitter Drops in Lagoon and Amethyst.
I love to color, so I often pick stamps that allow me to color for my 5 card posts. But I do think there are lots of other ways to use outline stamps without coloring if that’s not your thing. There are a lot of great uses of this stamp set in the STAMPtember Gallery that don’t use coloring. You should check it out for even more inspiration with this Grateful Florals stamp set. Thanks so much for visiting and Autumn Greetings to all! -Suzy
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Mixed Media with Shari Carroll: Rag-Rug Rope Tree
I’ve got a different spin for the holidays for you today. It’s shabby, fun, and funky!! This is made from Tim Holtz Colorblock fabric for a fantastic no-sew Christmas tree.
Our family is doing a handmade Christmas this year and I promised to step out of my wheelhouse. I’m making something for everyone that uses the rag-rug fabric wrapping technique that I used in this project.
The fabric is cut into 1″ strips and wrapped around clothesline rope. I used my multi color wrapped rope to create a non-traditional, colorful tree. Tim Holtz Colorblock fat-quarters are amazing for these smaller projects.
Try coiling these ropes to make ornaments or even funky stars!
To see the full process, check out my video below. Enjoy!
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Yippee for Yana: Easy to Mail + Elegant Christmas Cards: Reprise
Hi friends! Happy Monday! If you’re anything like me, this gorgeous card design by Yana Smakula will make your jaw drop! Originally shared previously, it’s too gorgeous to not share again! Elegant, gorgeous, and honestly relatively easy to mass produce! The one-layer design makes it ideal for mailing too! Be sure to read on to learn more and enjoy! (Please note; our dear friend Yana is Ukrainian, to show support to our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, please see Yana’s post HERE.)
Hello, crafters, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says stamp! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! In this video, I am showing how to create elegant Christmas cards that are easily mass-produced and easy to mail, too.
I’m working with a new stamp set from Simon called Glistening Snowflakes. This stamp set is filled with beautiful snowflake imagery. If you want, you can also get a coordinating die set to cut these images out and I love that there’s a die for every single snowflake in this set. It makes it very versatile as you can use these snowflakes on many other projects.
There are no sentiments in this set, so I brought in another set, called Simple Holiday Greetings – just like the name says, these are simple font sentiments and they go well with the complexity of the snowflakes and complement them nicely.
My plan for these cards is to heat emboss the image in the center of dark colored cardstock panel using metallic color embossing powder and darken the edges of the panel using an ink blending to bring the eye of the viewer to the center of the card and the beautiful snowflakes.
First, I stamped the image in clear embossing ink and covered it with Antique Gold embossing powder. I love this color of powder from Simon, I come back to this color every time I create Christmas cards. Next, I warmed up my heat tool and heat set the powder to melt it. The trick is to keep the heat tool moving otherwise if you keep it in one spot for too long, the paper might warp affecting the look of the finished card. Mine warped a little bit, it is expected when you do this kind of technique.
Next, I gave the powder a few seconds to cool off, you want to make sure to do that, otherwise, you might smear the hot powder on the paper, I have done that many times because of my lack of patience. Once the powder is cool, and it takes just 5 seconds for it to cool off, I used my pencil eraser and removed and leftover anti-static powder on the panel.
To add wow to this card, I ink blended dark green and black ink around the edges of the panel, staying away from the embossing.
Next, I wanted to add gold embossing around the edges to make it look as if the panel was dipped in gold paint. I love this technique, it always gives very beautiful and elegant results. When doing this, you don’t want to pour the powder directly onto the panel because it will stick to any area that is wet. Instead, add a little bit of powder onto scrap paper, and then just dip the panel into the powder. Imagine you are dipping the panel into the paint. And you can control how deep you want to go in, meaning how much or how little embossing powder you want to get on your panel. And you can also use a paintbrush and knock any excess embossing powder if you feel like you have too much there.
Next, I used the heat tool and heat set the powder in place to create that beautiful gold-dipped edge. Lastly, I want to decorate my card with gems – I added Opal Gems from Spellbinders to the center of each snowflake and colored some snowflake section white using a white pen. Have fun stamping!
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