Yippee for Yana: Center Cut Heart Love Card

Yippee for Yana

Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Welcome to the latest installment of “Yippee for Yana” with the super talented and awesome Yana Smakula! As we get closer to Valentine’s Day, it’s all about L-O-V-E! In my opinion, it should be all about love all the time! :D Be sure to read on for all the details on creating this gorgeous kraft card and watch the video! Enjoy!

Yippee for Yana: Center Cut Heart Love Card
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 episode I’m sharing a delicate Love You card featuring selective pencil coloring.

Yippee for Yana: Center Cut Heart Love Card

I’ve already showcased the technique I’m using for this card in one of my previous videos, be sure to watch it if you haven’t yet seen it. I am still very much fond of pencil coloring, so I decided to play with this technique once again and do some partial coloring.

I started to work on my card by stamping a beautiful Center Cut Heart background stamp in watermark ink onto Neenah Desert Storm cardstock to have a faint impression on my paper, I wanted to heat emboss this background in white embossing powder, but I also wanted to color parts of this background with my colored pencils and to make it easier for me to color I first stamped the image using a stamp positioner tool, colored it while there was no embossing powder and later added embossing powder over the coloring.

Yippee for Yana: Center Cut Heart Love Card

I was going for a very soft, feminine look and for my coloring I used just two pencils – White and Rose Carmine (there are Polychromos pencils). I’ve mentioned this many times in the past – I simply adore these pencils and I use them all the time.

I have a smaller 36 set of pencils and in that set there’s only one hot pink an no lighter pink. When I color I like to have a light and a dark shade of one color to have nice gradual transitions. So I used white pencil instead and I blended the hot pink into a lighter pink and finally into white with the help of the white pencil only.

Yippee for Yana: Center Cut Heart Love Card

I didn’t want to color the entire background as a), that would have taken too long, and b), this is not what I had in mind for this card. I wanted to have a lot of kraft, a lot of white and also hints of pink.

What I love a lot about Polychromos pencils is that they are erasable in a way. You can take a regular pencil eraser and erase some of the color if you made a mistake. It’s a very cool and valuable quality of this product, I think. Sometimes I change my mind, or the coloring doesn’t look the way I want it to look or I’ve accidentally colored over something I wasn’t planning to color so I just use pencil eraser to correct my coloring.

Yippee for Yana: Center Cut Heart Love Card

Once my coloring was done I heat embossed the background image in white embossing powder. I also created several additional elements for my card following the same technique. I used a rose image from the Best Mom Ever stamp set and also the word LOVE from the Stained Glass Love stamp set.

Yippee for Yana: Center Cut Heart Love Card

I trimmed my background to 4 x 5 ¼”, foam mounted it onto an A2 side folding card base, foam mounted the word “Love” and also foam mounted the pencil colored rose.

I wanted to add “You Forever & Always” part of the sentiment but I wanted to heat emboss it in white on pink. I didn’t have any pink cardstock that matched in color to the pink coloring, so I made my own little piece of pink paper by coloring a piece of kraft paper using my pencil.

Yippee for Yana: Center Cut Heart Love Card

I always do this with my Copic markers and sometimes do this with my watercolors so why not do it with the pencils? Right? It matched perfectly, I heat embossed the sentiment and trimmed it into a skinny strip using my Tonic Trimmer, foam mounted onto the card. Lastly, I coated the flower using my Tonic Studios Aqua Shimmer pen and that finished my project.

Have fun stamping!

WATCH THE VIDEO:

SUPPLIES:

Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp CENTER…
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Simon Says Clear Stamps STAINED GLASS…
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Simon Says Stamp STAINED GLASS…
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Simon Says Clear Stamps BEST MOM EVER…
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Faber-Castell POLYCHROMOS COLORED…
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Faber-Castell POLYCHROMOS COLORED…
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Spellbinders PLATINUM 6 Die Cutting…
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Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad…
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Neenah Environment 80 LB SMOOTH…
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Neenah Classic Crest 110 LB SMOOTH…
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Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun…
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Hero Arts WHITE EMBOSSING POWDER…
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MINI MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping…
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ScraPerfect PERFECT CRAFTING POUCH…
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Tim Holtz Tonic Craft STAMP PLATFORM…
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Tonic SPRING-CUT FINE TIP DETAIL…
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Tonic Studios 8.5 INCH PAPER TRIMMER…
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Scor-Tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape
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9 x 12 WHITE FUN FOAM 12 Pack 118711
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Scrapbook Adhesives 3D 217 WHITE FOAM…
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Tonic AQUA SHIMMER PEN Nuvo 2 Pack 888N
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Thanks so much for reading, and thanks to Yana for being our guest!

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  1. This is really beautiful Yana and I love the center as it is, without colour. It really makes your beautiful sentiment pop. I too love kraft and white together, it really makes for a showy card, in my opinion. Thanks for the colouring tips with these beautiful pencils.

  2. Yana,
    Love your card today, it is so pretty! The coloring is beautiful! Hard to say what color to do the large heart in? White may be too overpowering, but the sentiment blends in a little, but that adds to the soft look. I love it the way it is!!

  3. Your card is so beautiful, Yana! Thanks for the tutorial! I’ve learned so much from you. Colored pencils are one of my favorite mediums (I have Prisma’s) and you have helped me kick it up a notch.

  4. Yana your card is just gorgeous! I love it just the way you created it. Thank you for the great tip on embossing after you color.

  5. Beautiful card with subtle color. I enjoy watching you color with colored pencils. You have made me want to use mine more. The card looks beautiful as is without the heart colored in. Good tip about the embossing. Thanks.

  6. Wow! The heart stamp looks amazing! I first thougth that it was the paper. You’re great with pencil coloring ♡

  7. Wow! The heart stamp looks amazing! I first thougth that it was the paper. You’re great at pencil coloring ♡

  8. I love your card, simple but beautiful. You taught me a new technique in that you colored first and then heat embossed. Sure made it very neat doing it that way. Thanks for sharing! You’re always so interesting.

  9. Love the card on the craft paper and the pink and white colors. I think it turned out awesome without the center heart being colored.

  10. Love your card! I personally like the kraft heart in the middle! Love ghe idea of coloring your sentiment strip with your colored pencils to match the card!

  11. I am always awestruck at what beautiful cards Yana does. This one is just perfect for Valentine’s Day. Love the use of pencils with the stamp. Never thought to color first before embossing. Thanks so much for that tip!

  12. This is a truly beautiful card, Yana. Love it just the way it is. Thanks for the tip of coloring a background for an embossed sentiment for a perfect color match.

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