Simon Says Stamp | Rad Grad Graduation Card. Yippee For Yana Series. Video

Hello friends, welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! Today I have a graduation card to share using some new goodies from Simon Says Stamp!

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.

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CARDS DETAILS

I started to work on my card by stamping “You’re Seriously One Rad Grad” sentiment from the Rad Grad stamp set by Cathy Zielske onto Neenah 80 LB Solar White white cardstock using my mini MISTI in a few colors of ink to create a multi color sentiment. To allow myself to do the multi color stamping I used masking technique and masked parts of the message to reveal one line of text at a time to ink it up and stamp in just one color of ink.

I used Simon’s Dye inks today and the colors are: Smoke, Green Apple, Sunshine and Evergreen. I feel this is a wonderful gender-neutral color combination.

I like to make funny cards, so to add a touch of humor to this card I stamped Octopus from the Under The Sea Animals stamp set. I used Intense Black ink for stamping and colored this image using several Copic markers – YG93, YG95 and YG99. I also added white pen detail once my Copic coloring was completely dry. I stamped a graduation cap using same yellow ink color as before for my octopus to wear and cut all of these images out with the help of coordinating dies.

I love that there are dies for the sentiments in the Rad Grad stamp set. I don’t have a lot of sentiment sets where I have a coordinating die to cut my stamped message out so I am very excited about these new sets from Cathy.

To create a background panel for my card I dry embossed a 4 x 5 ¼” panel of Fog cardstock with the help of Abstract Triangle stencil in my Spellbinders Platinum die cutting machine. I adhered my panel onto an A2 side folding Smoke card base, foam mounted die cut elements on top and embellished this card using several Rainbow Confetti pieces from Simon.

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!

CZ Design Clear Stamps Rad Grad Shop at: SSS	CZ Design Wafer Dies Rad Grad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Under the Sea Animals Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Under the Sea Animals Dies Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stencils Abstract Triangle Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Fog Gray Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Smoke Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Smoke Gray Ink Pad Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp Sunshine Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Green Apple Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Evergreen Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Rainbow Confetti Sequins Shop at: SSS
Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS	Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS	Scor-Tape 1/8 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS
Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS	Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS