"One Stamp, Five Ways" - SSS Beautiful Ride

Today's "one Stamp, Five Ways" post is using a new Simon Says Stamp stamp set called Beautiful Ride. Here is a look at this set:

Such a cute set, right? You might remember it from the recent SSS new products release called SSS My Favorite. So yeah, this set was MY Favorite from the My Favorite release! So here we go - six cards to share with you today!

I painted the background on mixed media paper that I had die-cut into stitched rectangles with MFT Blueprints 13. I then die-cut one of the rectangles into two pieces with the Mama Elephant Landscape Trio dies. I painted that portion gray for cement and the other rectangle blue for sky. I attached these to a white card base overlapping the cement over the sky. Next I stamped all the elements on white cardstock with SSS Intense Black Ink. I colored it all with Copic markers. I stamped the sentiment with Lawn Fawn Fish Tank Ink on a stitched circle using the SSS Stitched Oval Dies. I attached that to the top and the bike and accessories to the bottom. I added some Pretty Pink Posh blue sequins. 

For this card I again die-cut two stitched rectangles out of mixed media paper (nice and thin, but pure white and works great with watercolors). I painted one blue for the sky and die-cut the other into two pieces with the Mama Elephant Landscape Trio dies. I then painted those two pieces green. I overlapped them for grass and attached them over the sky rectangle. I stamped all the elements on a piece of white cardstock with MFT Natural Ink and colored them all with Copic markers (for a no-line stamping look). I attached all to the background. I stamped the sentiment on a stitched banner from MFT Blueprints 2 and placed that on the bottom of the card. I added some coral sequins to finish it.

This card is a little bit crazy busy and I'm not sure I like it. I tried it several ways - with a plain frame, with a yellow frame, and then with this frame with the words stamped all the way around it. For some weird reason I liked this frame the best even thought I am now second guessing that decision! I painted the background with a crazy combo of watercolor paints in corals, pinks and yellows. I then attached the Mama Elephant Framed Tags die-set frame over the top. I attached these to a fuchsia card base. I stamped the bike on watercolor paper with Tattered Rose Distress Ink so it would have no lines. I painted it with watercolor paints and then added doodled lines around it (see, why do I try to do no line stamping when I prefer things outlined?!?!?!). I stamped the word Enjoy on the top of the card and the words "the little things' over and over on the frame (it took me three tries to get them lined up and aligned right, so don't be fooled by my semi-perfection! ha). 

Another totally CRAZY CARD! But this one I really like, in fact, I think it is my favorite since it is so unique. I wanted to make a card without the bike to show the stamp sets versatility. I stamped all the small elements on watercolor paper with black ink and then painted them with watercolors. I painted the background yellow around all the little stamped images. I used a Tombow watercolor pen in yellow (any marker type should work here, but a watercolor marker will blend the best onto the watercolored background) to outline all the elements to add shadows. It makes them pop a little more from the background. I added white dots here and there with a white Uniball pen. I die-cut two small stitched rectangles from my Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle Small Set - one out of white cardstock and one out of black. I stamped the sentiment in two colors of Lawn Fawn ink (Fish Tank and Peacock) . Technique tip here - press stamp onto one color and then press it into another color on just one side. That way when you stamp it you get two colors on the words. I layered the black rectangle under the white one so it appears to have a shadow.

This card also shows a way to use the stamp set without the bike. I used the Pretty Pink Posh Storybook 1 die to create the windows. The background is made with texture paste. I painted the rectangle red and then added dots with a stencil colored a light color of Worn Lipstick and a Swiss Dots stencil with texture paste. I also die-cut the same die with white cardstock and used those inside the windows. I stamped the sentiment on the largest window - had to cut it apart to make this fit. I added the other elements stamped on white cardstock colored with Copic markers. I attached those to the smaller two windows. I tied twine around the bottom of the card.

This card I showed before when I did my blog hop blog post for this new release. I wanted to show it again since it is part of this stamp set. I colored all of the images with Copic markers on Neenah white cardstock. I used my all time favorite black ink that works with both watercolors AND Copics (only one I have found) by SSS - Intense Black. I made the background with watercolor on Ranger white watercolor paper. I die cut the outside with my full card size rectangle from the Lawn Fawn Large stitched rectangle. I then die-cut the inside with a new MFT die called Inside and Out Rounded Stitched Rectangle. Say that one five times fast! I attached all the die-cut images over the background and added some PPP 4mm sequins around them. I stamped the sentiment (yes, I cut it apart first - bad me) right on the background with SSS Intense Black ink.

And there you go friends! I'm on an airplane typing this so please forgive any mistakes I have made. The plane is really shaking! I'll see you again soon with a post using a new MFT set with FLOWERS - yay for flowers! Thanks for visiting! suzy

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Comments

[Kate Dykstra]

This set was my favourite of the My Favorite release too - only my stamps are still unopened!! If only there were more hours in the day...

I always love your One Stamp, Five Ways posts and am especially delighted with this one. Your stamped frame card caught my eye right away (and in a very good way!!) so no more second guessing!! I also love the storybook card. Now I'm thinking I need those dies too!

Thanks for sharing your wonderful creativity. Next week, I plan to rip open my Beautiful Ride stamps no matter what!!

[donna mikasa]

Love them all, Suzy, but the one with the yellow background is my fave! So awesome!

[Jeanne]

Oooh, I got excited when I saw you had posted another one of your amazing 5 Ways posts!! I knew I'd be in for a real treat and I was! What a fun stamp set. I remember seeing the last one, before and thought it looked great. You've had it join a spectacular line up of cards! I think all the ones when the bikes look amazing. I giggle whenever you say you try to do a no-line, then you line it. You keep trying to go against your grain, in those attempts, I'm thinking! :) Do what your heart wants! You are a doodler extraordinaire! Anyway, while the cards with the bikes look fabulous, I really, really kike the one with the random stamping! It looks spectacular! That yellow really helps make it pop, too. I can't imagine the time it takes to watercolor each image in, but I am so glad you take the time. As always, I adore these posts and thank you for sharing! Big hugs. Hope you are having a good trip and that the plane quit shaking!

[Carol L]

Another set of awesome, fun cards! Your backgrounds are always amazing! Your 4th card...how do you get the stamps so evenly placed!! Glad you stamped that one in black and didn't have to hand-outline - HA! I think that is my favorite, but the ones with the bikes are so fun too. Whatever you do, it always looks awesome. All the little doodling you do with your gel pens add so much!! Hope you don't get tired of me asking - would you ever do a video? Thanks for sharing your tremendous talent!!