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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Beautiful card!
This is a gorgeous card!
This is a beautiful card!
Wow! Magical winter scene!!! Love it!!!
Very beautiful and love the design!!
Beautiful starry night background!
Such a beautiful card Yana! I love the background.
Absolutely stunning
Love your background..and that is one of my favorite stamps. Beautiful card.
Such a spectacular card. Absolutely beautiful.
This is absolutely breath taking!!
This is stunning! I love the snowy night background!!
This is such a beautiful card! I love the background and the phrase/pine branches look great in white :)
Beautiful card.
Very gorgeous card!!
Oh, my, that card is beautiful. So much was done to make it just right. Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous water coloring!!
Yana, I always enjoy your posts, this is so beautiful!! I love the color so pretty. TFS.
Those watercolors look very pretty!
Wow, that glows. Gorgeous. Hugz
Wow, what a beautiful card! Your background is amazing!
Beautiful card! Love the background!
What a gorgeous card! The night sky background is absolutely stunning and just grabs and holds my attention! And this stamp and die sentiment set is a favourite of mine. Love it! It just goes amazingly well with any and everything, it seems. It’s at the top of my wishlist
So gorgeous! Just love seeing how the colour builds up. Playing with watercolour is so much fun! ?
Stunning! Thanks you for another gorgeous project ❤
Oh dear Yana
your BG is stunninngggg
I really love that blue sky at night on your card
and so great sentiment too
love love your card so much
big hugs from Germany
Monika
Your cards are always so beautiful. Love the sky background.
Another winner from Yana!!
Yanna – I have to say STUNNING! Stunning, stunning creation – TFS
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I have got to try this. Very impressive how it turned out. Love it
Beautiful card,I love it.
Absolutely beautiful card. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Stunning background! Enjoyed watching the process and seeing the transformation as you kept working with the watercolors.
I love the card and your process. Would you tell me the difference between hot pressed water color paper and cold pressed? The functional difference. I don’t care how they are made. =) Thank you.