Simon Says Stamp | Mixing New & Old Stamp Stamps. Video

Hello and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! I love to combine my new stamp sets with my all-time favorite old sets and so in today’s episode, I am sharing a Vacation Time card featuring Simon’s new Be a Mermaid stamp set, I did feature it in my previous video, but I really adore this set and I have so many ideas for using it, I can’t put it down just yet. And I am also using my older stamp sets from Simon – the Vacation Time set for the sentiment and also the Tropical Leaves stamp set to help me set the scene.

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CARD DETAILS

I started working on my card by stamping the leaves from the Tropical Leaves stamp set using a mini MISTI stamping tool onto Neenah Solar White 80lb cardstock. I love the Tropical Leaves stamp set because it is a very simple set, yet it is a layering set and I love myself a well-designed layering stamp set. I’ve picked 2 colors of ink – a light green and a dark green to stamp these leaves. The light green I am using is Willow from Simon.

Having stamped the leaves using the Willow ink I removed the stamps that have a second layering layer to them. I kept just those stamps that have one layer. I did this because I wanted to partially ink these up using a dark green color, in my case, Forever Green from Hero Arts. Next, I used the 2nd layer stamps for the layering leaves, I positioned those and stamped them in that same dark green, Forever Green ink from Hero Arts.

I used coordinating dies and cut all of these leaves out in my die cutting machine. Next, I used the mermaid tail images from the new Be a Mermaid stamp set and stamped 4 in Simon’s Intense Black ink on the same white cardstock.

My plan was to use a light blue cardstock panel, Mist from Hero Arts, and create a scene using the mermaid tails and tropical leaves. The mermaid tails, of course, had to be colored. I used YG93, YG95, and YG99 Copic markers to color them.

To add interest and detail to mermaid tail I used 2 pens from Tonic Studios, a Glitter Gloss, and Midas Touch shimmer pens. I first applied the Midas Touch pen to the shadow areas and then blended the gold shimmer out using the Glimmer Gloss pen giving my mermaid tails a gold and silver shimmer.

Next, I stamped the sentiment that reads You Deserve This – Vacation Time in black ink on Hero Arts MIST cardstock. I used foam adhesive squares and foam mounted the mermaid tails in place, framing the sentiment.

Next, I added leaves building my scene. I used both liquid glue, I like to use Simon’s Craft Tacky Glue and foam adhesive squares to keep building that dimension on the scene. I overlapped the leaves and mermaid tails quite a bit to create a cohesive scene. Any excess that was hanging off the panel was cut off.

Next, to embellish this card I once again used my white pen and added dots onto the blue background. I coated most of the dots with Nuvo Drops in Sea Breeze and also added a bunch of various size bubbles onto the blue background mimicking water.

I wanted to create flowers and add pops of color to this scene, and to do that I used Nuvo Drops in pink and yellow, I used colors Carnation Pink and English Mustard and added various size dots, in groups of 3 for the most part, onto my card. You can stamp and add actual flower images to this scene, but I felt like using Nuvo Drops was easier and it looked really fun too.

Have fun stamping!

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 Clear Stamps Be a Mermaid Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Be a Mermaid Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamps and Dies Be a Mermaid Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Clear Stamps Vacation Time Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Clear Stamps Tropical Leaves Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamps and Dies Tropical Leaves Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS
Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Hero Hues Premium Cardstock Mist Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS	Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: SSS
Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Misti Mini Black Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Willow Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Forever Green Ink Pad Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker YG93 Grayish Yellow Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YG95 Pale Olive Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YG99 Marine Green Shop at: SSS	Tonic Carnation Pink Nuvo Drops Shop at: SSS
Tonic English Mustard Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS	Tonic Sea Breeze Nuvo Jewel Drops Shop at: SSS	Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo Shop at: SSS	Tonic Midas Touch Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo Shop at: SSS
Sakura Classic White Gelly Roll Pens Set of 3 Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Craft Tacky Glue Shop at: SSS