Today I am going to show you three examples of a technique I thought would be fun - using only ONE stamp in a stamp set to create a background for a card. This is another way to stretch your stamp sets! I've shown random stamping many times where you use ALL or most of the stamps in a set to create a card background. But this time I challenged myself to use only ONE stamp to do the same. For all of these cards, I embossed the stamp with white embossing powder and then watercolored over it. Here is the darling stamp set I'm using today called Pretty Pink Posh Friends Forever. These little people kill me with their... Read more →
My name is Suzy Plantamura. I live in sunny Orange County, California by the beach. I have three kids, one grand baby, and two dogs. I draw watercolor cards and design stamps for Simon Says Stamp. I have a blog series called "one stamp, five ways" that I post to two times a week. I want to motivate and inspire others to use their stamp sets more and learn new techniques. I love designing products and making cards to share with others!
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March 17, 2017
"One Stamp, Five Ways" - SSS Artsy Flower Parts
I'm (((finally))) back with a "one stamp, five ways" posts today! I LOVE working on these - especially with stamp sets that I love which are usually flower stamps! It's fun thinking of different ways to use one set. But I have noticed that I am repeating similar ways to use stamps in each of these posts. So take note that I have taken note that I need to take note to come up with some new ways to use stamps if I want to teach others anything at all! haha Today I am sharing a very new stamp set by Simon Says Stamp called Artsy Flower Parts. There is also an Artsy Flower Parts Die Set (with quite a... Read more →
March 14, 2017
Simon Says Stamp - April 2017 Card Kit
Today Simon Says Stamp released their monthly card kit for April called Wild and Colorful. My favorite items in the kit are that adorable Wild Cuddly Critters Stamp Set and the new Fresh Fruit Cube Ink Set. I really want to use this stamp set for a "one stamp, five ways" post, but as you can probably tell from my blog posts lately - I've been a little busy! And I'm designing a new set of watercolor cards for Mother's Day, so my desires to stamp FIVE WAYS per set have been overcome with deadlines! But I promise my feature WILL be back soon! This kit includes 5 white and 5 kraft tags, so I decided to use the tags... Read more →
March 10, 2017
Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop - NEW Beginnings
Hello Blog Hoppers! Today is the Simon Says Stamp Blog Hop for their brand new Spring release called New Beginnings. I love SO many things in this new release, but today I am going to be focusing on my newest set of watercolor cards called In Full Bloom. Here is an image: I blogged about these watercolor cards yesterday HERE if you are interested in reading more about them and seeing a few more of them colored and made into cards. Today I will be sharing the rest of them all dolled up. I purposefully left salutations off of these card fronts so that you could add your own. This gives you a chance to use some of your other... Read more →
March 09, 2017
Pretty Pink Posh New Product Release Blog Hop
Today is the first day of the Pretty Pink Posh New Product Release Blog Hop (tomorrow is day 2). If you haven't seen their new products yet, they are all available at Pretty Pink Posh HERE. Today I have three cards to share with you using some of these new products. All three of my cards I'm going to share today use the same technique. If you have visited my blog before, you are probably used to my random stamping technique I use on all my "one stamp, five ways" posts. I thought it would be fun to try it with some of these new adorable stamps. So here we go - let's get started! Card 1: I used the... Read more →
March 08, 2017
My Newest Watercolor Card Set at Simon Says Stamp - Spring Flowers
Today Simon Says Stamp has a brand new spring release called New Beginnings full of all kind of beautiful floral designs. I have a new watercolor card set as part of this release called Spring Flowers. Here is an image of the 12 cards: I decided to make them a little bit different than my past sets by not adding salutations to them. I thought that way, you could add sentiments from stamp sets on die-cuts so they are more unique and have dimension. I hope you all like this new type of card! There is a stamp set called Hand Lettered Encouragement in this new release that has all salutations in beautiful brush lettering. I thought they would work... Read more →
March 01, 2017
Pretty Pink Posh - YOU Are Amazing
Today Pretty Pink Posh released several new stamp and dies sets, two stand alone dies, a few new sequin mixes, and six new colors of seed beads. All of their stamp sets are just adorable! I made several cards using them for a blog hop on the Pretty Pink Posh blog tomorrow and another card I get to share with you today. But first, let me show you my two favorite new stamp sets: Here is a sneak image of the four projects I made for the Pretty Pink Posh blog (posting on March 2nd). They are having a 30 Day Coloring Challenge Blog Hop tomorrow. And here is a card I made using the new Easter Friends stamp set... Read more →