Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways

Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways. Video

Hi everyone! I’m excited to bring you another episode from my by-monthly Yippee For Yana video series for Simon Says Stamp Blog! In today’s video I’m showing how to stamp a belated Birthday card. I am sharing one card 3 ways – from a very simple one layer mail friendly project to a slightly more layered dimensional card.

Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

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CARD DETAILS

The stamp sets I picked for these cards are Enjoy The Journey from Hero Arts and Big Perfect Shapes from Simon. As for the colors of ink I went with Lake Shores, Winter Sky, Cloudy Sky, Audrey Blue and High Dive.

I started working on my cards by creating a background. I used a circle stamp and stamped a random looking pattern using all 5 ink colors. Each color was stamped 3 times. You’ll notice my images overlap a lot – this is the look I was going for.

After my backgrounds were done I used my mini MISTI and stamped the ship as well as the “Oh Ship!” message in Versafine Onyx Black ink. I also added an additional “We Forgot Your Birthday” sentiment at the bottom and I curved it for a more interesting look.

CARD OPTION #1 – ONE LAYER, PENCIL COLORED SAILS

Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways

Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways

From here I finished each card slightly different. The one layer stamped card front was left almost as is – I used a white Prismacolor pencil and whitened the sails of my ship.

CARD OPTION #2 – WHITE CUT OUT PAPER SAILS

To complete my 2 and 3 cards I trimmed my panels down to 4 by 5 1/4 inches and adhere them onto A2 top folding card bases. I also stamped 2 more ship images and an anchor onto a separate piece of cardstock. I used my Simon’s Intense black ink this time as I knew I’d be coloring these images later.

Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways

Using coordinating dies I cut out one of the ships and also an anchor and I set those aside to use for the 3rd card. To complete my 2nd card I cut out the individual sail sections with scissors and adhered them onto the stamped sails on my panel. That took a bit of time, but the sail images aren’t detailed, so they weren’t difficult to cut out at all.

Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways

I used my Crystal Katana tool to pick up and move the cut out pieces and my Tonic Deluxe adhesive to add glue. I really loved the way this ship turned out – the white sails added a lot to the overall look and made the image pop off the colorful background. Because they were cut out and adhered they also added a little bit of dimension to this card without actually adding any physical dimension to the project.

I also used a C3 and C1 copic markers along with a colorless blender and added a bit of shading to each white piece to make it appear a bit more realistic.

CARD OPTION #3 – LAYERED DIE-CUT & COLORED SHIP

To complete my 3rd card I colored my die cut ship using Copic markers. The colors I picked were dictated by the colors I used for my background stamping, I wanted my ship to match in color as much as possible. I used BG18, BG15 and BG32 markers to color the sails.

Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways

For the hull of the ship I picked cool grays. You’d expect it to be brown since the hull of that kind of ship would be made out of wood, but I didn’t want to introduce additional color to these monochromatic cards, so I went with gray instead and I think that turned out rather nice. I used C9, C7 and C5 colors.

Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways

Using foam adhesive I adhered the ship and the anchor onto my last panel.

So here are 3 completed variations of one card – the one layer pencil colored one, the one with the white cut out sails and the 3rd card with the colored, cut out and foam mounted ship and anchor.

Simon Says Stamp | Oh Ship! We Forgot Your Birthday! Belated Birthday Card 3 Ways

I am curios to hear which one you like best. My favorite is the 2nd one, but I do love that added dimension on the 3rd one as well.

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 Stamps and Dies Big Perfect Shapes
Simon Says Stamps and Dies Big Perfect Shapes
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Simon Says Clear Stamps Big Perfect Shapes
Simon Says Clear Stamps Big Perfect Shapes
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Simon Says Stamp Big Perfect Shapes Wafer Dies
Simon Says Stamp Big Perfect Shapes Wafer Dies
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Hero Arts Clear Stamp Enjoy the Journey
Hero Arts Clear Stamp Enjoy the Journey
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Hero Arts Frame Cuts Enjoy the Journey Dies
Hero Arts Frame Cuts Enjoy the Journey Dies
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Hero Arts Enjoy the Journey Clear Stamp and Die Combo
Hero Arts Enjoy the Journey Clear Stamp and Die Combo
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Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink
Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink
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Simon Says Stamp Cloudy Sky Dye Ink Pad
Simon Says Stamp Cloudy Sky Dye Ink Pad
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Simon Says Stamp High Dive Dye Ink Pad
Simon Says Stamp High Dive Dye Ink Pad
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Simon Says Stamp Lake Shores Dye Ink Pad
Simon Says Stamp Lake Shores Dye Ink Pad
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Simon Says Stamp Audrey Blue Dye Ink Pad
Simon Says Stamp Audrey Blue Dye Ink Pad
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Simon Says Stamp Winter Sky Dye Ink Pad
Simon Says Stamp Winter Sky Dye Ink Pad
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Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine
Spellbinders Platinum 6 Die Cutting Machine
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Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock
Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock
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Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock
Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock
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Mini Misti Stamping Tool
Mini Misti Stamping Tool
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Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink
Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink
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Uni-ball Pen Signo Gel White Two Pack
Uni-ball Pen Signo Gel White Two Pack
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Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Mixed Media Pick Up Tool
Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Mixed Media Pick Up Tool
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Copic Colorless Blender Marker
Copic Colorless Blender Marker
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Copic Sketch Marker BG32 Aqua Mint
Copic Sketch Marker BG32 Aqua Mint
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Copic Sketch Marker BG15 Aqua Blue
Copic Sketch Marker BG15 Aqua Blue
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Copic Sketch Marker BG18 Teal Blue
Copic Sketch Marker BG18 Teal Blue
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Copic Sketch Marker C1 Cool Gray
Copic Sketch Marker C1 Cool Gray
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Copic Sketch Marker C3 Cool Gray Grey
Copic Sketch Marker C3 Cool Gray Grey
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Copic Sketch Marker C5 Cool Gray Grey
Copic Sketch Marker C5 Cool Gray Grey
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Copic Sketch Marker C7 Cool Gray
Copic Sketch Marker C7 Cool Gray
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Copic Sketch Marker C9 Cool Gray Grey
Copic Sketch Marker C9 Cool Gray Grey
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Be Creative Tape 3mm Sookwang
Be Creative Tape 3mm Sookwang
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Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue
Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue
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Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares
Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares
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Prismacolor Colored Pencil White
Prismacolor Colored Pencil White
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7 Comments

    1. I really do like them all Yana but I have to pick the third one, probably because of the dimension the little bit of colouring adds on the sails.

    1. These are great! I really love the Oh Ship! sentiment; it makes me giggle all the time!. I love how card #2 turned out! Thanks for sharing!

    1. They are all sweet! I also like the second one with the white sails. Love your videos! Keep them coming! Thanks Yana!

    1. Stunning cards! Love the colors! Great tips on stretching a stamp set to easy get different look.

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