Simon Says Stamp | Mixing Stamp Sets to Tell a Story. Video

Hello and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! One of the things I love to do the most when creating handmade cards is using my stamps in a nonconventional, nonintended way. I love to take images from several completely different sets and bring them together on a card in a way that they tell a story.

In this video, I’ll show you how I pull images from various stamp sets in my stash to create a unique card.

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CARD DETAILS

Here’s the plan for this card: the base image is the convertible from the Tied The Knot stamp set. This is not a Christmas set, yet I am using it to make a Christmas card. I’m going to take this car and decorate it with various Christmas imagery to have it work for a Christmas project.

This stamp set has a “Just Married” banner, I’m replacing that with a string of Christmas lights from an older stamp set from Simon – Winter Scene. Next, my car holds a pretty large gift and that comes from the Gift Wrap stamp set.

BTW, I recently used the Gift Wrap set to create a modern Christmas card, check it out in THIS POST:

I also have Christmas trees sticking out from the back and these come from the Merry Christmas Trees set. I also used a sentiment from the Good Cheer stamp set from CZ.

You can take pretty much any stamp set you have in your stash and with a little bit of tweaking, make it work for a different occasion. In this case, I’m tweaking a wedding car to work for a Christmas card.

The same car could be tweaked for a Birthday card, for a Thanksgiving card, for Valentine’s day card, and more. And also other images, you’ll need to look for a larger image, which can be tweaked to suit a different occasion.

I stamped and colored my images using Copic markers in the following colors:

• R27, R24, R22, R20 (car, tag, poinsettia)
• C9, C7 (tires)
• C7, C5, C3 (exhaust pipes)
• C5, C3, C1 (bumper)
• BG32, BG11, B000 (gift, lights)
• YG17, YG03, YG01 (trees, lights)

I cut a slit just under the windshield using a kraft knife and inserted the gift and Christmas trees into the car. The license plate and the lights string were foam mounted on top.

I stamped sentiments in VersaFine Onyx Black ink onto Simon’s Sea Glass cardstock panel and added white snow details using Story Time Paint Pen from Jane Davenport.

Instead of foam mounting the car, I used an action wobbler to add interactivity and movement to this project. You stick one end onto your die-cut and another end onto the background and voila – you have a movable object. It adds so much cuteness! Every time I give someone a card with an interactive element made using an action wobbler – they can’t stop playing with it!

Finally, coated the brake lights and the Christmas lights with glossy accents!

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 Tied the Knot Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamps and Dies Tied the Knot Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Tied the Knot Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS	Cz Design Clear Stamps Good Cheer Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Clear Stamps Gift Wrap Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamps and Dies Gift Wrap Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Gift Wrap Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Merry Christmas Trees Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamps and Dies Merry Christmas Trees Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Clear Stamps Winter Scene Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Winter Scene Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS
Tsukineko Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: SSS	Mini MISTI Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS	Action Wobble Springs 12 Pack Wobblers Shop at: SSS	Action Wobble Springs 6 Pack Wobblers Shop at: SSS
Ek Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS	Ranger Glossy Accents Glue Dimensional Adhesive Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Jane Davenport Snow Queen Story Time Paint Pen Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker R22 Light Prawn Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker R20 Blush Pink Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker R24 Prawn Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker R27 Cadmium Red Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YG01 Green Bice Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker YG03 Yellow Green Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YG17 Grass Green Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker B000 Pale Porcelain Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker BG11 Moon White Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker BG32 Aqua Mint Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker C1 Cool Gray Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker C3 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker C5 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker C7 Cool Gray Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker C9 Cool Gray Grey Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Mega Thick White Cardstock 130LB Shop at: SSS
Jewel Picker Tool Shop at: SSS	Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at:	Bearly Art Mini Precision Craft Glue Shop at: SSS	White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS
Wagner Precision Heat Tool Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Clear Fine Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS