Yippee for Yana: Spring Inspired Thank You Card
Hi friends! Welcome to the latest installment of Yippee for Yana with the always inventive Yana Smakula! Please read on and be sure to watch the video for some great tips and tricks and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula and
I started working on my card by stamping a sentiment that reads “Thank You For Being Who I Needed the Most”. As I work on this card you’ll see me change my mind and replace the sentiment with the one stamped in black ink on white cardstock (watch video for details).
I started with the sentiment here first as I needed to see how much room it would take on my card, my idea was to use beautiful flowers from the Moments of Grace stamp set and stamp a floral frame around the sentiment coming in from the edges.
When I was planning this card I knew I wanted to try and color these images with my Copic markers so I picked Simon’s intense black ink for stamping these images. This ink has many fabulous properties including being alcohol resistant so it makes it the perfect choice for this particular project.
I picked a few images from the Moments of Grace set and stamping them in black ink forming the frame. I didn’t use my stamping tool here such as
The key to stamping a frame like this, where your images are almost all identical in size, is to stamp them one by one next to each other.
For this project, I also pulled out most of the clear blocks from my stash and I mounted each image onto its own separate block. This is vital to stamping efficiency, and also to clean fingers. If you use just one or two blocks and stamp a multitude of images you end up having to remove the image from the block a bunch of times and if you are like me, if you don’t clean your stamps, you run the risk of getting your fingers dirty and thus leaving an inky fingerprint on your card.
Once my floral stamping was done I also used a heart image from this same stamp set and stamped it several times in the background filling any gaps. Later, I once again changed my mind about the black hearts, I didn’t like how dark they looked and I replaced them with colorful enamel hearts instead.
Before I started coloring my panel I used the scrap pieces of this cardstock to test the Copic marker colors I was planning to use. Alcohol markers are translucent, meaning they will not give you opaque coverage, you’ll be able to see the color of your surface from under the coloring. It’s always best to use these kinds of markers on white cardstock
I love to have non white background for my cardsand this prompted me to try and color with these markers on colored cardstock.The colors will not be the same as they would be on white paper, they will beduller, but they can still be used to color with.
I used RV14, RV13
I also covered each of the black stamped hearts with enamel hearts. The black looked
Finally, I had fixed the sentiment (watch
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Beautiful card Yana and it looks fabulous on the grey cardstock.
Lovely card. I have never thought of stamping on grey or another light neutral colour. Looks just terrific. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Beautiful coloring, Yana! I love your spring inspired card… I’m so ready!
Love this pretty card!
Beautiful card. Thank you for including how you changed directions on the sentiment and changed it up a bit. It is definitely something I can relate to!
Beautiful card. Love the pale cardstock and the way the bright images pop.
Love Yana’s cards!
As every time; I like your colours! Great card!
A lovely, fresh card! So pretty!
Lovely card, I love your placement of the stamps for the background and lovely coloring!
Your colouring is so amazing Yana! And I love the sparkle.
This is gorgeous! Thank you for the video! Just beautiful coloring!
Love this pretty card!
Such a pretty card! Love the matching yellow envelope.
Thanks for sharing.
Sophisticated brilliant idea to stamp on grey!
I like the stamp set with the cursive writing on it. Card is ver pretty.
I cannot get this beautiful card off my mind. Can’t wait to try this myself and the stamps you used on it are perfectly sized for just such a card! Well done (AGAIN) Yana!
Very pretty card Yana. I like the fixes you made and thanks for leaving those in the video!
Beautiful Yana, thanks for the inspiration.
Yana is so talented; I love what she created.
Wonderful card for a cold, blustery
day. Such pretty flowers.
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This card is so pretty!!
You always create such fabulous cards. This one is absolutely stunning!!
Really beautiful card! I really want to try coloring on different colored cardstock now! Thanks for the inspiration!
I love this card. A wonderful sentiment, and the sparkle really makes this special.
Very pretty Yana! It’s hard to make ourselves try something different sometimes. We get in a rut and do the same thing all the time. Thanks for showing us a new way of stamping and coloring.
Beautiful and cheerful card :)
Beautiful Spring inspired card! Thanks for sharing your creation process. I love when a card speaks to you and tells you to do something different.
Wow–your perfect placement of all the images is amazing! I love this kind of design, but I seem to end up with problems before I finish. Gorgeous card!
Beautiful card…love the stamping on fog cardstock.
Beautiful card, Yana! I know I’m definitely ready for spring!
Yana, thank you for sharing such a gorgeous card! I love the color scheme and how clean and delicate this card is. Beautiful work!
Such a beautiful card, love the pretty colours!
The little hearts add so much to this already beautiful card. The flowers look wonderful.
Such a Beautiful card Yana!!!
I really like that you show the whole process when you change your mind about something on a card your making, these are great tips. Beautiful card!
The flowers, and little bit of shine, look really nice. I like the sketchy look of the flowers.
I love the beautiful spring flowers in your card! The leaves are so bright and green and it all feels really fresh and pretty!
Such a lovely card! Thanks for explaining how you arrange the stamped images!
I love the look of coloring on grey cardstock. I even bought some recently. Your coloring (& the colors you used) is beautiful and love the stamped all over design.
Love the colors!
Oh this is just gorgeous!!!! I love how it turned out.
Love this darling flower card!!!
Lovely card and some great tips there! Thanks for sharing, Yana!
As always, so lovely, Yana! Great color choice and nicely balanced. Love it!
Wow, what a beautiful spring card! I love the coloring.
Yana, I love this card. This is wonderful. Thank you for showing how you change your idea as you go.
Beautiful card! The bright colors look gorgeous on the grey background! Thank you for the tip about trying your alcohol markers on a variety of light colored card stock to get different results.
So pretty.
I’m always in awe of Yana’s gorgeous backgrounds, and this one is amazing. I don’t have Copics, but I think this would be beautiful with colored pencils. I’ll be giving it a try.