Simon Says stamp | Stamp Surgery Isn’t Painful. Joyful Christmas Card

Unless, of course, you manage to cut your finger while cutting the stamp. I didn’t (at least not this time). After posting THIS card, with the die-cut Ho Ho Ho, I was inspired to try this design again, but using stamps, not dies. Luckily, I have plenty of large, beautiful word stamps in my collection. Simon’s Holiday Greetings Mix 1 stamp set was still sitting on my desk from previous projects I made this week (here’s a moment of truth – I don’t really put my stamps back into bins where they are normally stored, not until the point my craft room reaches disaster status, at which point I am forced to drop everything and clean, but aren’t most of us like that?) so it is the one I used.

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CARD DETAILS

I went the easy route when stamping this card. First, I stamped the bottom middle “JOY” in Simon’s High Dive ink. I didn’t want to have to clean my stamp after each impression, so I figured I needed to stamp all the other High Dive “JOY”s before switching to another color. To do that, I added horizontal grid lines to my panel sectioning it. That allowed me to easily stamp all of the teal “JOY”s on the panel. Next, I stamped all of the “JOY”s in Green Apple ink and finally all in Willow ink finishing the background. I didn’t cover the entire panel with stamping but left the bottom part free as this is where I was planning to stamp my sub-sentiment.

I wanted the sentiment on this card to read “Wishing You a Joyful Christmas and a Happy New Year”. But there was a problem. The background said “JOY”, not “JOYFUL”. So I had to come up with a solution and this is where stamp surgery came into play. The Holiday Greetings Mix 1 stamp set has a stamp that reads “Cheerful”, I figured I could cut the “ful” of “cheerful” and stamp it in black next to the main “JOY”. So that’s what I did. I used Versafine Onyx Black ink for stamping “ful” and the rest of the sentiments on this card.

I adhered my panel to A2 white side folding card base, it is a one layer card. Something was missing. So I die-cut tiny poinsettias from Spellbinders Sunday Drive with Santa die set from red and leaves from green and added 3 poinsettias to my card along with silver jewels (I am all out of gold jewels so this is why I am mostly using silver, I’m trying to use what I currently have in my stash, plus silver looks really nice).

I love the look of overlap stamping – the black over the green. I find this look to be very modern. I’m curious to hear what you think? Is this a yay or a nay card design? What would you do differently?

SUPPLIES

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Simon Says Clear Stamps Holiday Greetings Mix 1 Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Sunday Drive With Santa Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp Green Apple Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Schoolhouse Red Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Misti Regular Black Shop at: SSS	Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS
Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Willow Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Green Apple Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp High Dive Dye Ink Pad Shop at: SSS
Tonic Gloss White Nuvo Drops Shop at: SSS	Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS	Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Craft Tacky Glue Shop at: SSS
Pretty Pink Posh Metallic Silver Jewels Shop at: SSS