Simon Says Stamp | Desert Island Scene Card. Video

Hello everyone! When I first stamped a few images from the Tropical Leaves stamp set from Simon Says Stamp and saw the cute little bear from the Summertime Animals set I immediately wanted to create a skirt for him out of tropical leaves.

This might sound a bit weird lol, I bet it sounds a lot weird, but I had that idea in my head and I just needed to re-create it on paper. I’m loving the result and hope you’ll love it too!

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VIDEO TUTORIAL – TROPICAL BEAR CARD

I filmed a video tutorial where I share the process of how this card came together. Watch it here or on my Youtube channel.

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CARD DETAILS

I started by stamping the bear and pineapple in Simon’s Intense Black ink onto Copic-friendly paper. Both images were colored with Copic markers, but I only did flat one-shade coloring (I should have done a better job in terms of coloring the bear, but every time I try to add shading I just mess things up).

Like I mentioned, I wanted to have a tropical bear and I wanted to cover his underpants up with tropical leaves. I intentionally didn’t color that part of the image, the underpants, instead I extended the brown color from his feet up so no white would show through.

To create the tropical skirt I used images from the Tropical Leaves stamp set and stamped the smallest leaf 3 times using Willow and also a large leaf using Sunshine. I also did a lot of additional stamping – I wanted to create a palm tree or an illusion of lush tropical vegetation on this card, so I stamped a bunch more leaves using Catkin, Willow, Mint Candy and Duckling.

To create the scene, and by the scene I mean the island I used Simon’s Stitched Ovals die set and die cut the largest out of Sunshine cardstock, that created a perfect hill for my bear to stand on. I blended Mint Candy ink onto a panel of white cardstock to create ocean and sky. My island die cut was foam mounted onto the ink blended panel, I also stamped a Summer sentiment in Slate ink.

The bear was foam mounted onto the panel, so was the pineapple. I also foam mounted the sun die cut and clustered a bunch of leaves around it to create the look of the tropics.

Finally I adhered my panel onto a Chocolate card base and added clear droplets from Pretty Pink Posh to finish this card.

SUPPLIES

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

Simon Says Stamps And Dies WARM WEATHER ANIMALS Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp WARM WEATHER ANIMALS Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Clear Stamps SUMMERTIME ANIMALS Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Clear Stamps TROPICAL LEAVES Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp TROPICAL LEAVES Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamps And Dies TROPICAL LEAVES Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Sunshine Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Duckling Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Catkin Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Willow Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Mint Candy Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp Hybrid Ink Pad Cube Set KARMA Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Sunshine Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Dark Chocolate Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Ranger .5 Oz. Multi Medium Matte Adhesive Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Artisan X-plorer Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp STITCHED OVALS Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS
Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS	Ranger Mini Round Foam Refils Shop at: SSS	Pretty Pink Posh 4MM Clear Droplets (small) Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker Y17 Golden Yellow Shop at: SSS	Copic BLENDING CARD X-Press It Paper Shop at: SSS	Sakura QUICKIE GLUE ROLLER PEN Shop at: SSS
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