Simon Says Stamp | Direct to Paper Abstract Birthday Cards. Video

Hello, crafters. Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! In this video, I’m making colorful abstract background Birthday cards with Simon’s Pawsitively Saturated Inks and Best Year Yet stamp set.

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

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CARD DETAILS

I picked several ink colors to make my backgrounds: Guava, Citrine, Tidepool, and Aspen and Cheeky, Sunbeam, Seafoam, and Aspen. You can do this technique with any color combination you like, I picked bright and cheerful colors as I was making birthday cards.

I used Simon Says Stamp 130lb cardstock for these. It is my go-to paper for anything stamping-related or Copic marker related. This paper is super smooth and that makes it perfect for this technique, but that doesn’t mean you can’t try this on another type of paper, you just want to make sure you aren’t using something with texture. The smoother, the better.

The idea is to use direct to paper application method and simply gently glide your ink across the paper to transfer the ink. Start with a very light hand, don’t press too hard, the harder you press – the more ink will come out, I prefer to go in very light and increase the pressure by just a little bit as I go. Applying ink in this way gives you uneven ink coverage, you get sections that are darker, sections that are lighter, and some might even be without ink at all and that makes it all very unique. 

With the backgrounds created I moved on to the stamping. I wanted to create a shadow for the sentiment in gray ink and have the sentiment itself be heat embossed in white. I first stamped the sentiments in gray, using the Simon Says Stamp Charcoal ink, and, having waited for the ink to dry, I heat embossed the same sentiment on top offsetting it slightly in white detail powder. 

I trimmed each paned to 3 1/2 x 4 3/4″ and I used a layer of white fun foam to foam mount the panels onto A2 card bases. I also foam-mounted additional sentiment rectangles and next, I used the same gray ink to stamp some additional stars onto the background. I also added sequins to some of the cards to add just a little bit of sparkle!

Have fun stamping!

SUPPLIES

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Simon Says Clear Stamps Best Year Yet Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Place and Score Embellishment Wand Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Mega Thick White Cardstock 130LB Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp White A2 Top Fold Scored Cards Shop at: SSS	Mini MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Ink Pad Citrine Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Ink Pad Sunbeam Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Ink Pad Charcoal Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Ink Pad Cheeky Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Ink Pad Tidepool Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Ink Pad Guava Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Ink Pad Aspen Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Ink Pad Seafoam Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp 2 Dot Runner Refills Adhesive Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Dot Runner and 2 Refills Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp White Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS	Fun Foam Sheets Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Aura Opalescent Color Essentials Sequins Shop at: SSS