Creating the Illusion of Dimension in an Almost One-Layer Card: Yippee for Yana

Hi friends! Please join me in welcoming back the oh-so-talented and amazing Yana Smakula! (Please note: our dear friend Yana is Ukrainian. To show support to our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, please see Yana’s post HERE.)

Hello, crafters, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says Stamp! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! Today I’m creating a (almost) one-layer card full of faux dimension with the Simon Says Stamp Tucked Hearts stamp set. Join me!

The Tucked Hearts stamps a unique background filled with large overlapping hearts. I stamped it using Intense Black ink onto Neenah Solar white 80lb cardstock. I trimmed my panel to 4 ¼ x 5 1/2 “ making sure I had one heart exactly in the center. I colored that center heart red using R27 and R39 Copic markers. I was inspired by the colors of my living room (green walls and red posted) and went with green and red color combination which is so common for Christmas but isn’t used much outside of the Holiday season. The rest of the hearts were colored using G94 and G99 – I made sure to add shading everywhere where the hearts overlapped to create the illusion of a dimensional panel. I love the end result!

I added a simple skinny strip sentiment overlapping the red heart (I didn’t want to cover much of the background). The sentiment was made using the brilliant EZ strips – these are so easy to make and give you a bunch of sentiments in a single pass through the die cutting machine.

And lastly, I embellished my cards with Rainbow Splash drops. Yay! I hope you’ll try this background stamp, regardless of the color combo you use!

Have fun stamping!

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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Yana for being our guest!
This is fantastic, Yana. I would not have thought to use olive-ish green for the background, but it’s complementary to the reddish-pink heart, so of course it works well. I should have thought of that combo before. Love the look – faux layer.
Lori S in PA
Wow!!! Gorgeous card!! Super cool illusion!!
This is so cool