Yippee for Yana: Christmas Night in Watercolors
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Thanks for stopping by today! Please welcome back special guest Yana Smakula with her second edition of Yippee for Yana in October! She made a gorgeous Christmas card featuring a chilly night sky and a bold sentiment. Be sure to watch the video for more details and 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! Today’s episode is all about watercolor! I’ve always been a fan of dark, bold colors so to create the card I’m sharing in this video I picked my favorite Lunar Blue and Indigo colors from Daniel Smith and watercolored a background.
I used Stained Glass Greetings stamp set from the latest release from Simon Says Stamp To create a sentiment for this card – “Wishing You Love, Peace & Joy at Christmas”. I heat embossed it in white embossing powder onto Arches Hot Pressed watercolor paper.
Next, I pulled out my watercolors (I used colors you can find in my exclusive Daniel Smith Yana’s watercolor palette) and watercolored a night sky. Be sure to watch my video tutorial to see the process from start to finish.
I also added lots of pearlescent splatter onto the background mimicking snow. I used my Finetec watercolors for this and also later added a lot of white dots onto the upper part of the card using a white gel pen.
Once my coloring was done I heat embossed several pine branches from the Holiday Boughs stamp set from WPlus9 at the bottom part of my card. You can go all the way around your sentiment and frame it with these heat embossed branches or you can also stamp branches in black ink for a silhouette look.
I trimmed my background to 4 x 5 ¼” and foam mounted onto an A2 side folding card. While this card took quite a bit of time to make (the watercolor process took about an hour) I had a blast making.
I hope you’ll give this idea a try. Have fun stamping!
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AWESOME card !! The night sky with watercolor looks fabulous:)
A beautiful card! Love that background!
So pretty! Your card and video inspired me to get my watercolors out today and make some night skies!!
Beautiful card!
Simply stunning. Cheers.
So Beautiful!!
Awesome as always!!
Literally picking my jaw up off the floor because this card is stunning! The background is so dreamy and the elegant sentiment makes this probably my favorite holiday card I’ve seen yet! You’re watercolor skills are unparalleled :) Thank you SO much for sharing! This brightened my day.
A lovely card, especially the deep blue background. Your use of pearlescent paint for snow gives a very nice effect.
Yana, the background is absolutely fabulous! But even more than that is the background photo board you made! I don’t know if others are aware of that. Beautiful card, and a beautiful photograph. Truth be told, I love the whole package (she smiles). I recently looked at the Lyndsey James website and saw she has several darker boards available. Love your work!
Wow beautiful watercoloring technique and gorgeous Christmas card Yana! I love your videos. Thanks for sharing your creative process. You inspire me to go create!
This card is so beautiful! You are very creative! Thank you!
Beautiful card and I love the background!!
The card really speaks cold and winter.
Beautiful.
thanks for sharing.
Absolutely beautiful card! The background is amazing.
Very rich, deep and beautiful sky. Love the card.
So beautiful. Love your night sky.
Wow! This is an amazing technique and what a stunning card.
So beautiful! Yana is very talented!
AWESOME night sky card! I love how a seemingly hot mess can turn out so GORGEOUS!
So beautiful!
There’s not a lot of cards that make me click from my email to the blog post but WOW WOW, your card is just the most beautiful ever! The background is stunning—can’t wait to watch video!
Absolutely beautiful watercolouring!
Amazing background, it looks really starring-stunning !
What a stunning card! Love that night sky you created!
SO worth stopping by today. Your card is fabulous, Yana.
Gorgeous card, Yana. It was amazing to see how the ‘hot mess’ turned into this beautiful background.
I loved watching you create the beautiful, deep, dark night sky!
This card brings back ice skating after dark, and waiting for Christmas. Amazing artwork (as always) from YANA!!!!!
Fantastic winter card!
Gorgeous card! Love the colors!
WOW! You were right that your watercoloring looked bad but what a beautiful card you turned out. I love it. Just goes to show you that what you said about keeping working on a project produces beautiful results. Thank you so much!
Gorgeous card – love the color combo.
Just love the white embossing with the dark watercolors! The SS word stamps are a wonderfully designed product. Thanks!
Wow, what a stunning card, it looks so gorgeous! LOVE IT!
This is SO LOVELY, YANA!!!!!!!!!! ;)
Absolutely gorgeous card! Thanks for showing how to make the sky in your video.
Always love watercolours
Stunning….. so much like a dark sky with lovely soft snow. I also love that stained glass sentiment, but, I am having trouble getting one. Every time it is back in stock I can’t get there fast enough to get it…. eeek! Maybe this week will be my lucky week
Absolutely stunning creation!
Beautify winter sky background!! Thanks for sharing the technique!
Such a stunning card!!!
Absolutely gorgeous background. Love the dark, deep blue colours which really make the white sentiments pop off the card.
Beautiful card Yana. Night and galaxy skies always surprise me because I never know how they will turn out but they end up being awesome.
Wonderful artsy splattered background.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Such a beautiful card. Thank you for the inspiration
Serene and beautiful! Yana has such an incredible style. I love her work!
I love the way this came out! Looked like so much water on there, but the colors came out beautifully. Thanks for sharing your video!!
Really gorgeous card. And the video is very helpful.
This is gorgeous!