Simon Says Stamp | Shouting From The Rooftops – Miss You Card

Hi everyone! Welcome back for another episode from my by-monthly Yippee For Yana video series for Simon Says Stamp Blog! In today’s episode I’m sharing a Miss You card incorporating watercolor and Copic coloring!

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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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CARD DETAILS

I started to work on my card by stamping cityscape image from Simon’s From The Rooftops stamp set in black ink onto white cardstock. I stamped this image several times as I wanted to build depth and dimension on my card and I needed more than just one row of skyscrapers for this.

I used Simon’s Intense Black ink for my stamping as I planned to color images using Copic markers; this ink is alcohol friendly and will not bleed when it comes in contact with alcohol. It’s also waterproof so it can be used for all things watercolor.

After stamping I cut my image out using a coordinating die and started coloring. I wanted to have my houses on a dark sky background, a galaxy background. I had a galaxy background ready, I painted it some time ago when I was working on another project.

I have shared how to paint a galaxy several times already so I’m not going to focus on that today. Check these videos on my channel to learn how you can create a galaxy background.

If you don’t like watercolor or you don’t feel comfortable enough watercoloring a galaxy background for your card you can create a simple ink blended background using Distress Inks or Distress Oxides. If you want – you can do a watercolor ombre background with the top portion of the panel being the darkest, almost black and the bottom portion lightest, a very light blue.

The colors of my galaxy background dictated the colors of markers I used to color my skyscrapers. I didn’t want to use something that would look odd so I made sure to pick the colors that went well with the background.

I used several color combos and I didn’t color every house in a different color, instead I had 2-3 houses painted using same colors. I used C9, C7 and C5 – that ended up looking almost black and I love it, it really popped up against that night sky. I also colored several houses dark blue using B39, B99 and B45. I also used warm gray colors for some of the skyscrapers – W5, W3 and W1. I didn’t use any purples for my background, but I felt like I could bring a bit of dark purple to my coloring, so I used BV08 and BV04 to color some of the buildings. I also kept some of the building almost white and only added shading using a C5, C3 and C1.

To add a bit of bling and shine I used Aqua Shimmer Pen from Tonic Studios and coated my black houses with the shimmer. I also stamped a speech bubble with the echoing “Miss You” and white heat embossed “Shouting from the rooftops” on black paper.

I foam mounted my images onto the galaxy background, foam mounted the background onto an A2 card base and that finished my 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 Clear Stamps From the Rooftops Shop at: SSS	Simon Says From the Rooftops Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: SSS
Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS	Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS
ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS	Daniel Smith Indigo 5ml Shop at: SSS	Daniel Smith Lunar Blue Shop at: SSS	Silver Black Velvet Brush Size 8 Round Shop at: SSS	Scrapbook Adhesives Thin White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS
Jack Richeson 9 X 12 Inch Hardboard Panel Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker BV08 Blue Violet Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker BV04 Blueberry Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker B45 Smoky Blue Smokey Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker B99 Agate Dark Blue Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker B39 Prussian Blue Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker W1 Warm Gray Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker W3 Warm Gray Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker W5 Warm Gray 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	Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS
White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS	Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS	Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS	Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo 2 Pack 888n Shop at: SSS	Arches Watercolor Pad Rough 9×12 Inches Shop at: SSS

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