Yippee for Yana: Christmas Lights in Blue and White
Hi friends! Happy Saturday! Thanks so much for stopping by today! Please join me in welcoming back the amazingly talented Yana Smakula in her bi-monthly Yippee for Yana series! Antique Gold embossing on black cardstock really packs a punch! 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 bi-monthly “Yippee For Yana” video series! In today’s episode I wanted to go back to pencil coloring on black cardstock, but offer a simpler & easier to make and color idea.
I decided to use a fun background stamp from Hero Arts – Christmas Lights Bold Prints and I heat embossed it in Simon’s Antique Gold embossing powder onto Simon’s black cardstock. This cardstock is smooth, but still has a bit of tooth to it and it’s crucial to make sure your paper has some tooth as this is what will effect your coloring with colored pencils.
For my coloring I picked Polychromos pencils from Faber Castell, you can also use Prismacolors. I used 2 blue – a light and dark and 2 white – a white and light gray pencils for my coloring. If you watched some of my previous videos where I shared pencil coloring on black cardstock and felt intimidated – this is a much much simpler version, the same approach, the same look, but really a simpler version of a colored background. I encourage you to give this idea a try – if you don’t have this particular background stamp, look through your stash – maybe you have a similar stamp, or just a string of lights that you can heat emboss multiple times and go ahead and color. It’s fun and it’s relaxing.
Quick tip of you – if you make a mistake and accidentally color where you aren’t suppose to -you can erase some of the pencil with a pencil eraser. I’m not sure if this will work on white cardstock, but this has worked for me a few times on black and it’s been very helpful.
My coloring process took about 20 minutes and I was really happy with how this background turned out. This card idea was actually inspired and prompted by a card I did earlier using same stamp set – I was writing a blog post for it and I thought about coloring these lights with pencils and as soon as my post was done I went and tested my idea out and it worked!
To create a sentiment for this card I used one of Simon’s Peace on Earth set and heat embossed a long skinny sentiment that reads Wishing You The Happiest, Merriest, Brightest, Most Fun Filled Christmas Ever. Next, I foam mounted my background and my sentiment onto a card base. To spice this card up I colored each light using a Wink of Stella Glitter Pen and finally coated each light with Glossy Accents. This really made my card pop and pulled the entire project together. I hope you’ll give this idea a try. Have fun stamping!
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Yet another fantastic post. Yanna is a fantastic artist and teacher. Thank you so much for sharing her on your blog.
Beautiful card, love it!! Love your coloring on cardstock “series” great inspriation
Beautiful card…always look forward to seeing Yana’s work. Cheers.
Need to try this technique.
I love Yanas work!! Thank you for sharing!
stunning background – really POPS:)
Beautiful card.
Fabulous! Yana’s work always is oh so very inspiring!
Gorgeous! I love that the lights have so much texture!
Just Beautiful! Love the texture
Wonderful Yana! Love this card & it’s simplicity and elegance.
WOW Ya na, this is truly gorgeous. You always blow me away with your amazing backgrounds and I can hardly wait to give them a try, each and every time!
Fabulous card!!! Background is great!!!
This is so lovely with Glossy Accents!
Wow, very festive, love the combo of black background and the bold sentiment!
How pretty!
Yana has done it again! LOVE this card and she makes it look so simple. Thanks for the video, Yana.
Wow!! This is stunning!! I love the idea of adding glossy accents! so so pretty.
Old fashion lights in blue and white, who could ask for more!! Beautiful card♥
Yana, This card is beautiful. I love the background and the embossing is so cool. Love it.
This is a really lovely design, and i Love the sentiment!
Love the colors!
Pretty card. Love the colors!
Ooooooh – I love this so much! My favourite light combination is blue and white – I remember my grandparents doing that a few times on their tree and that was always my favourite!
Absolutely stunning!!!
This is BEAUTIFUL!
lovely card, thank you for the inspiration!
Love that background! Beautiful card!
Simply gorgeous and definitely case worthy.
The lights have wonderful dimension.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
This card is beautiful! I have this stamp, thank you for the inspiration, I am going to give this a try.
What a great card, Yana–absolutely love it! I can never get GA to go on smoothly like you did, so I’m sure I’d ruin my panel. That final touch does make for a fabulous card!
Those lights look absolutely amazing!! Such a stunning card!!
This is beautiful. It looks simple but a closer look reveals wonderful details. It is elegant as well and I’m looking through my supplies to see what i have so I can try this technique! Thanks Yana for another great “Yippee For Yana” post!
Just beautiful! I love the dimension on the little bulbs! Yana always makes something fabulous! Thanks for the video!
This is such a beautiful card! I love the look of colored pencils on dark cardstock! I also love how you finished off the light bulbs :)
WOW such a gorgeous card!!!
Absolutely gorgeous, need to break out my black cardstock now.
Beautiful card and love your color choices. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
These lights are amazing! I love this card. Yana outdid herself :)
The card is beautiful. Yana does a great job with those black backgrounds!
This is STUNNING! I am really liking stamped and embossed
images on very dark card!
Love the card and really like the sentiment!
Yana’s posts are some of my favorite!! I LOVE how she created this!
Fabulous card Yana :)
Fantastic card! Love the coloring on black!
I really like this stamp and love how it turned out. Tana always has the neatest videos. I have watched everyone she has done. This would be awesome to work with. Thank you for the chance to win. Happy Thanksgiving.
Gorgeous card. You always do such wonderful backgrounds.
Thank you Yana for another gorgeous card. I’m now tempted to buy the polychromos like the ones you use but will have to wait for it.
Wow!!! Stunning!!! I just can’t get enough of these cards keep them coming!!!