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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I love how that sky turned out.
A lovely, peaceful look. I love the soft shading of the deep blues in contrast to the white.
Love that you show the process video to demonstrate what to expect and kinda keep the faith until the end :). Beautiful card!!!
Wow this is absolutely stunning ?
Gorgeous card!! Love the amazing background!!
wow love how you created the amazing night sky – I am so inspired and shall give this a go:)
Wow!!! Really Stunning card Yana!!! Love it!!!
I love the colors!
this card is spectacular! I’m going to weaken and order that stained glass word set! Thanks, Yana!
This is so beautiful!!! Your background is so fabulous!
Beautiful Card! It really did look like a dark mess when you were watercoloring but was great in the end. I think the spatters and the pine beaches really pulled it together.
Beautiful card!!!
Simply stunning. Thanks for including the video.
YIPPEE for Yana alright!!!! I cannot wait to try this! I don’t know how you do it Yana but you NEVER disappoint, this is truly gorgeous!
Ohhh that’s gorgeous!
This card is so striking, Yana! It certainly shows that persevering with your paints even when you are not happy with a project pays off. A delightful festive card!
Love how the background turned out! Using watercolor paints really gave it such a soft feel. Beautiful card!
Gorgeous card! The night sky is so pretty.
Love everything about this card. Initially I wasn’t sure about the Stained Glass Words stamp set, but seeing it against the darker background is quite striking, and has made me change my mind.
This card is simply gorgeous! I love using blue on Christmas card, this is perfect!
Simply gorgeous!
Your card is just Beautiful!
Beautiful sky and the pine boughs were a great addition. I recently received the 238 dot chart and will try out the colors you suggest.
Love the evening sky… so serene and beautiful!
Yana’s card is so, so pretty. I love blue and white together for winter. Those new large Christmas sentiments are growing on me. :-)
Gorgeous card! Love the background.
Stunning background, although halfway I thought that had be verry dark, but it came out gorgeous.Thanks for making and showing!
This is gorgeous! Love this card concept and am going to try it with some large Christmas sentiment stamps I have! I recently received your Daniel Smith palette and can’t wait to try these colors. Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful card. I love how the sky turned out. Thanks for sharing.
This is just gorgeous, Yana! Love the beautiful bg you created – I’ve got to get those Stained Glass Greetings!!
What a STUNNING card!!
This card is so very elegant!
Your card is fantastic !!
Lovely snowy night scene on your card.
Oh, my! Gorgeous! And I do love water coloring that doesn’t require staying in the lines! :o)
I love the dark winter stary night sky on today’s beautiful Christmas card.
Beautiful Card.
What a beautiful card. Love the background. Thanks for sharing….
I can’t wait to try to recreate this beautiful night sky! Lovely card!
An absolutely gorgeous card! Love the watercoloured night sky.
So So Beautiful!
Love the font & background!
This is a stunning Christmas card!
I love this card, Yana. The blue and white are stunning!!!!
Yana, your card is stunning! I love your night sky!!
Wow, it looks so magical. Love it.
Beautiful night sky Yana! I enjoyed your video! TFS
How lovely! Thank you for sharing your coloring process!
Beautiful embossing
and watercoloring.
Carla from Utah
Love this card and really enjoyed watching you watercolor! So happy you now have your own dot card!! I watched your video for watercolors a few days ago and was happy to see some of your favorites were mine as well. I have slowly invested in Daniel Smith WC too. I have several dot cards and love them, but really enjoy the full size colors to make my own palette but boy are they expensive!! Thanks so much for sharing!!
I love night sky cards!