Simon Says Stamp | Pun Intended Greeting Cards | Video

Hello and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! The cards I have for you today are all extremely simple to make, and each offers some sort of wordplay. These are fun and quirky to give to your loved one, your partner, or even your close friend.

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CARD IDEA

The star of the show for today’s projects is this awesome Light Me Up stamp set from Cathy Zielske for Simon Says Stamp. This stamp set has loads of wordplay sentiments, such as – You Light Me Up, You Are the Light of My Life, Love You Watts and Watts, My Light is Always On, We Are Electric, and more! It also has several images of light bulbs in different shapes. There are additional other images in this set, but we will just be using the light bulbs for the cards I have in mind today.

This stamp set has coordinating dies available, they are sold separately, and I encourage you to pick up the dies as well – they not only cut the images but also the sentiments from this set. Of course, if you have a similar set in your stash – do take it out and play! I urge you to join me and create several punny greeting cards.

In addition to this stamp set, we will also need black cardstock, to symbolize darkness, yellow cardstock to symbolize light, some Copic marker friendly ink, to do our stamping, and a handful of Copic markers to color the light bulbs for our cards.

These cards can’t get any simpler. Begin by stamping the images of the light bulbs on white cardstock in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and do simple coloring.

I used several gray and several yellow markers. I used C5, C3, and C1 gray markers, these are cool grays and they work really well for coloring nonliving things gray. Like this metal part of the light but. Next, color the light bulbs yellow. For this, I used 4 markers – Y11, Y13, Y15, and Y35.

Use your coordinating dies and cut the light bulbs out. With the main element ready, we can build the other elements for our cards. Use black and yellow cardstock, white heat emboss sentiments, and white plastic hearts to pull these cards together.

LOVE YOU WATTS & WATTS CARD:

●      Dry emboss 4 ¼ x 5 ½ black cardstock panel using Scattered Stars stencil. Adhere panel to A2 white card base.
●      Color the white border around the lightbulbs black using a black marker. Foam mount onto the card.
●      White heat emboss “Love You Watts & Watts” sentiment. Cut out with coordinating die. Foam mount to the card.
●      Embellish card with white plastic hearts.

 MY LIGHT IS ALWAYS ON CARD

●      Cut black cardstock panel to 4 ¼ x 5 ½”. Adhere to A2 white card base.
●      Cut yellow cardstock at an angle. Dry emboss using Scattered Stars stencil. Foam mount onto the card.
●      Foam mount light bulb. Stamp black lines under the light bulb.
●      White heat emboss “My Light is Always On” sentiment. Cut out using a strip die. Foam mount to the card.
●      Embellish card with white plastic hearts.

WE ARE ELECTRIC CARD

●      Cut black cardstock panel to 4 ¼ x 5 ½”. Adhere to A2 white card base.
●      Cut 2 yellow cardstock panels at an angle. Dry emboss using Layering Hearts stencil. Foam mount onto the card.
●      Foam mount light bulbs. Stamp black lines under the light bulbs.
●      White heat emboss “We Are Electric” sentiment. Cut out using a strip die. Foam mount to the card.
●      Embellish card with white plastic hearts.

YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE CARD

●      Stamp sentiment, lightbulb, and lines in VersaFine Onyx Black ink onto yellow panel cut to 4 ¼ x 5 ½”. Adhere panel to A2 white card base.
●      Foam mount light bulb onto the card.
●      Embellish card with white plastic hearts.

YOU LIGHT ME UP CARD

●      Cut black cardstock panel to 4 ¼ x 5 ½”. Dry emboss using Layering Hearts stencil. Adhere to A2 white card base.
●      Cut yellow cardstock panel at an angle. Adhere to the card.
●      Foam mount light bulb. Color white border using yellow and black marker to match the background. Stamp black lines above the light bulb.
●      White heat emboss “You Light Me Up” sentiment. Cut out using a strip die. Foam mount to the card.
●      Embellish card with white plastic hearts.

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 Light Me Up Shop at: SSS	CZ Design Light Me Up Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS	CZ Design Stamps and Dies Light Me Up Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Stencil Layering Hearts Shop at: SSS
Simon Says Stamp Stencil Scattered Stars Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS	Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS
Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Sunshine Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: SSS
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Embossing Powder White Detail Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS
Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS	Gina K Designs Black and White Hearts Embellishments Shop at: SSS	Sakura Classic White Gelly Roll Pens Set of 3 Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker Y11 Pale Yellow Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker Y13 Lemon Yellow Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker Y15 Cadmium Yellow Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker Y35 Maize 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	Jewel Picker Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS	White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS
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