Belated Birthday Cards: 3 Ways
Hi friends! Thanks for stopping by today! Welcome to the latest edition of Yana Smakula‘s bi-monthly feature: Yippee for Yana! This time, Yana is giving three slightly different belated birthday card ideas for you! Please be sure to watch the video and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula and I’m excited to bring you another episode from my by-monthly “Yippee For Yana” video series! 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
Using foam adhesive I adhered the ship and the anchor onto my last panel.
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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.
I am curious 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.
Have fun stamping!
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Great card! I really like the ink colors, masculine but not overly dark!
Hi, Yana: Adorable card – love that background. I am not able to get your links to the products to work!
Hi Maureen! Sorry about that! Where do you seem to be having trouble? I’m not able to replicate on my end.
Thank you!
I think my favorite is option #3, I really like how the sailboat pops off the card. I love all the cards, but #3 is my favorite. Thanks for sharing all the different options.
Oh so fantastic. Love this colors. Great card!!!
Lovely color selection on this Ship card – TFS
Wow! Love your ideas and colors are amazing!!!
CUTE cards! Thanks for the video!
Love ow you made 3 great cards using the same image. So inspiring:)
I like the second card too. Beautiful colors. Love that saying as well
Such a unique card — love it! I’m putting those Big Perfect Shapes stamps on my wish list.
Beautiful cards!
Thank you so much for the chance to win!
Despite my best plans…I always seem to be belated.
Great cards. What a cute stamp set!
Amazing set of cards!
Very cite cards!
I love creating different cards with the same stamp but having them each unique … Yana did a remarkable job with this sentiment and stamp set … love it !!
Wonderful card! Thanks for the video
Love all 3 card designs! Thanks so much for the inspiration! ❤️
Fun card – love the subtle variations of the theme!
Oh lovely!
Lovely cards Yana! My favorite is the third one. TFS
Super cute trio of cards. Love the punny sentiment.
Gorgeous, love the punny sentiment!
This is a great card. I just hate it when I miss a birthday… This would really make up for the blunder. Love that the hero set has both I and We..
Awesome card. Love the sentiment! Love the big circle background. Nicely done!
Love the shades of blue used in the card!
I love all of the cards and especially the sentiment. Such a cut way to say you missed a birthday. My favorite card is the second one, because I like the white sales. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
What a fun card and funny sentiment. Especially like the one with the white layered sails.
Wonderful cards!!! Love the sentiment:)
oh that sentiment made me giggle, so hard, love the layered ships and also the backgorund
I love this! Huge fan of puns
These are all really nice and I love the circles for the background. You are so creative. My fave is definitely the 3rd one. A great job on them as always Yana!
Three fantastic cards, the second one is my favourite! I love the sentiment, so funny!
Lovely mini series, and you ALWAYS need a belated birthday card.
I LOVE this Oh Ship card! It’s so cute and clever! Love the bright blues too!
Take care!
Michele
Wonderful cards!!
Very beautiful card!!!
Cute!
These are fabulous. I love multiple cards that have a different spin on each one!
all three are lovely … prefer the second option with the white sails . . . thanks for showing how simple changes can change a card.
Ha! Funny card! Pretty complimentary tones
All are lovely, but I really love the dimension of the last card.
Wow! Love your work! I think my favorite one is the dimensional ship. I love my layers!
Fun cards…x3!
#1 is my favorite. I like how the sails really stand out.
Great cards, and fun to see the different ways to make it. The sentiment is a hoot.
Hi, Yana! I like the 2nd ship better…the white sails make the whole card stand out more. I love them all, though & thanks for your tutorial!
Hugs!
These are really cool! I love the sentiment ?
Thanks for inspiring me to create.
Such a cute card! Love that sentiment!