Yippee for Yana: Shouting from the Rooftops

Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Welcome to the first edition of Yippee for Yana for 2018! Today the fabulous Yana Smakula is back with a gorgeous skyline card. Read on and be sure to check out the video for more info and enjoy!

Yippee for Yana
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula and I’m excited to bring you another episode from my bi-monthly “Yippee For Yana” video series! In today’s episode, I’m sharing a Miss You card incorporating watercolor and Copic coloring!

Yippee for Yana: Shouting from the Rooftops

I started to work on my card by stamping cityscape image from Simon’s From The Rooftops stamp set in black ink onto white cardstock. I stamped this image several times as I wanted to build depth and dimension on my card and I needed more than just one row of skyscrapers for this.

I used Simon’s Intense Black ink for my stamping as I planned to color images using Copic markers; this ink is alcohol friendly and will not bleed when it comes in contact with alcohol. It’s also waterproof so it can be used for all things watercolor.

Yippee for Yana: Shouting from the Rooftops

After stamping I cut my image out using a coordinating die and started coloring. I wanted to have my houses on a dark sky background, a galaxy background. I had a galaxy background ready, I painted it some time ago when I was working on another project.

I have shared how to paint a galaxy several times already so I’m not going to focus on that today. Check these videos to learn how you can create a galaxy background here, here, and here.

Yippee for Yana: Shouting from the Rooftops

If you don’t like watercolor or you don’t feel comfortable enough watercoloring a galaxy background for your card you can create a simple ink blended background using Distress Inks or Distress Oxides. If you want – you can do a watercolor ombre background with the top portion of the panel being the darkest, almost black and the bottom portion lightest, a very light blue.

The colors of my galaxy background dictated the colors of markers I used to color my skyscrapers. I didn’t want to use something that would look odd so I made sure to pick the colors that went well with the background.

Yippee for Yana: Shouting from the Rooftops

I used several color combos and I didn’t color every house in a different color, instead, I had 2-3 houses painted using same colors. I used C9, C7, and C5 – that ended up looking almost black and I love it, it really popped up against that night sky. I also colored several houses dark blue using B39, B99, and B45. I also used warm gray colors for some of the skyscrapers – W5, W3, and W1. I didn’t use any purples for my background, but I felt like I could bring a bit of dark purple to my coloring, so I used BV08 and BV04 to color some of the buildings. I also kept some of the building almost white and only added shading using a C5, C3, and C1.

To add a bit of bling and shine I used Aqua Shimmer Pen from Tonic Studios and coated my black houses with the shimmer. I also stamped a speech bubble with the echoing “Miss You” and white heat embossed “Shouting from the rooftops” on black paper.

I foam mounted my images onto the galaxy background, foam mounted the background onto an A2 card base and that finished my card!

Have fun stamping!

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Thanks for reading, and thanks to Yana for being our guest!

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  1. Beautiful card, Yana. When I get my new craft room put together in a couple months, I am going to learn a galaxy BG from you! :-)

  2. Love the popped-up skyline. Thanks for sharing a great tip for adding dimension and multiple use of a die and stamp. Looks like a fun set for many occasions.

  3. Card turned out great. Love the coloring done on the buildings and the background really makes the card pop.

  4. What a beautiful and stunning card. Love the shades of blue and the city skyline. Thanks for a great tutorial.

  5. Such an awesome card! The pointy building reminds me of the shard in London, one of my favorite memories. Those sentiments really work well with the images on this set.

  6. Love your galaxy background and what a great addition of all those skyscrapers and the wonderful sentiment. Thanks for sharing !

  7. That is a terrific technique to get a deeper set of buildings. Thanks for the great idea. Love the color scheme as well.

  8. This is spectacular! Wonderful project made by such a talented cardmaker, the colours and design are perfection! I totally get Yana’s satisfaction in using something she created before, it’s so satisfying! Thanks for the inspiration ?

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