Yippee for Yana: Center Cut Heart Love Card
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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Beautiful! It doesn’t even look like it was colored with pencils. You did a great job!
Beautiful card! I love the pink, kraft, white color combo!
Beautiful card! I love the center cut heart background stamp!
Wow, what a awesome card. I love the white embossing on the kraft cardstock and will give this definitely a try. Thanks Yana for this great idea!
What a beautiful card both from design and color stand point. Thanks for the tip about coloring with pencils first and then embossing!
Beautiful! I don’t think the center heart needed coloring, it would have taken away from the LOVE sentiment.
Gorgeous and so feminine. I love the kraft heart in the center. The Love die and roses are perfect!
Absolutely breathtaking and stunning! I love your coloring and wish I could color half as good as you do! The recipient of this card will definitely feel loved! TFS!
Gorgeous card. Love the delicate coloring — I never use the white colored pencil, but you’ve inspired me to try.
Beautiful, so elegant and delicate. I really like the effect you achieved! ?
Love this.
What a gorgeous card! What an excellent idea of making your own little piece of cardstock to match when you didn’t have one ! Lightbulb moment for me! I feel silly I never thought of this ! Thank you for the inspiration!
Absolutely beautiful card! I love white on kraft, too, and loved how and where you colored.
Lovely card and I love that use the pencils to blend, I’ve tried some of the other ways to blend, even using blending pens and such, sometimes it makes the paper pill so just using the pencils seems like a good idea. Thanks for another great video Yana!
Sooooo Beautiful Yana!!!! Love the pops of pink!!!
be still my heart …
She is so talented; this is a beautiful card.
Simply beautiful!
Yana, your cards always inspire me to break put my pencils.
Beautiful white on kraft. Love the use of colour pencils.
Absolutely gorgeous!
I always love your background coloring. Did you leave the heart on right bottom part uncolored on purpose?
I love the pink on kraft!! Beautiful!!
Hi Jana, Love your soft and feminine card. I think it is perfect just the way you have created it. I wouldn’t change anything. So pleased you only used one rose as I think more would have taken right away from that fabulous background. Thanks so much for sharing your techniques.
I just love your work Yana!! So beautiful with the pink on the kraft!! Gorgeous
This is such a sweet card! I love the soft pinks with white.
Just beautiful, Yana! White, kraft and pink is a fabulous color combo – and your shading is wonderful. Love the dimension, too.
Ah! Absolutely perfect!
So pretty! I love the pretty burst of colour with the white embossing!
This turned out so soft and pretty Yana, love the pink and white on kraft card stock! I like it with the kraft heart, I think if you’d colored it in with one of the pencils the sentiment might not have shown up as well.
Beautiful card Yana! I love the little tips you shared!
Very elegant card. Beautiful coloring. I love that stamp.
Ohhh that is so pretty! Love Love Love your colour combo :)
Beautiful card ♥
I forgot that I did a gold on black background like this after watching Yana do that! It must still be on my desk somewhere! It turned out really pretty. Now I want to try the white on kraft! Thanks for teaching me something new!
Lovely card, beautiful coloring, great creation!
This is sooooo Pretty!
Love the softness & colors!
{another reason to get the stained glass set!}
Absolutely Stunning Yana! I have to try this! Just got the Polychromos and love them.
I think this is just stunning! I love the stained glass greetings set and plan to purchase it soon!
I love the look of coloured pencils on Kraft cardstock. I should give this a try.
Beautiful card! I love the coloring.
Wow, what a beautiful “love” card. I love the softness and dimension of this card.
That is definitely a wow card. What a great stamp.
Such a beautiful project, the Kraft color looks so stunning with white and red!
What can I write but “STUNNING”.
Pretty card!
LOVE this beautiful stamp and card!!
Love the card and the color you chose!! I love my Polychromos pencils, I’m hooked!! I have Prismas, but the Polychromos are so much better and I have you to thank for that :) Never knew that just changing a brand of pencil could do that, LOL!! Thanks for sharing and inspiring us to trying something new!!
This is just so lovely and beautiful! I love that you used Kraft paper for this. The embossed lines perfectly compliment your gorgeous selective coloring and blending. Love the added touch of the shimmer pen.
GORGEOUS card! I love the minimal pencil coloring!