Yippee for Yana Feature Celebrates Send A Card To A Friend Day
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Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula and thank you for joining me today.
February 7th is the National Send a Card to a Friend day so I wanted to encourage you to make some cards or use those that you’ve made in the past and mail them to your friends.
I thought it would be appropriate to share a video tutorial today showing how to make some quick and easy friendship cards for friends who live far away. Most of my crafty friends live far, some across different US states, others are are outside the US so I wanted to make a few clever cards to highlight some of places where they live.
As I was going through my stash looking a perfect sentiment I came across this Sending and Wishing You stamp set from Simon. One of the sentiments there reads Wishing We Lived Closer Because I miss you. And this is the perfect sentiment for the kind of cards I had in mind.
I also needed to stamp some sort of a map or a city skyline to complete the look I was going for. I found a few stamps in my stash that worked wonderfully with this sentiment. I used a US map background cling stamp from Hero Arts – this one is a big stamp that covers the entire front of an A2 card and it can be stamped just partially onto a card to leave some room for a sentiment.
Other stamps that I really wanted to use for these cards are the Hero Arts Destination stamps.
I wanted to do some quick coloring on my cards, simple ombre coloring and I used Tonic Nuvo Creative Pens – these are alcohol based markers, very affordable and they come in packs of 3 so you get 3 shades of one color which is very handy if you don’t want to spend a lot of time deciding and exploring which colors work well together for perfect blending. These markers are double sided, on one side you have a broad tip that is great for coloring large sections quickly and on the other side you have a fine tip for coloring detailed images.
After my coloring was done I foam mounted my panels onto A2 top folding landscape cards created out of Simon’s glimmer cardstock – I used a few colors of cardstock here to coordinate with my coloring – I was going for a simple monochromatic look.
To finish these cards I used Nuvo Drops is several colors and I just added a few dots here and there to complete my projects.
Have fun stamping!
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this is a great idea to personalize cards to send out to friends.
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
These are so cute for friends far away!
Great cards! :)
Wonderful – I love her cards and ideas and can’t wait to see what she has to share in the future – I am loving these location cards! I miss good old fashioned happy snail mail!
Oh, these are so pretty… I love Yana’s style. :o)
Such beautiful ideas. And it’s a great way to stay in touch with those far away.
Wow great card ideas for keeping in touch with far off friends:)
Such clever and creative cards! Love Yana’s style!
What fun cards, and I adore the sentiments!
Love these cards and such a cool idea!
Very cute cards Yana! Awesome as always!
I had no clue that today is Send a Card to a Friend Day. I’ll have to get mailing!
What a lovely set of cards! The Parisian one is my favourite!
What a fun set of cards and a fun way to personalize, Yana. I didn’t know that today was such a fun “holiday.” I love any reason to stamp!
beautiful cards, colors and composition. Love those destination stamps!
Didn’t know about Send a Card to a Friend Day, but I like the idea, and the cards are beautiful!
Love the title for her series and the sweet sentiment on the cards.
Such FUN cards, great ideas!!!
I really love the Yana style of doing things !
What a cool idea to keep in touch with family and friends that are far away. Love this, TFS!
I like the stamps you used for these cards.
Great cards Yana I love those Hero Arts destination stamps. I definitely will check those out. Thanks for sharing this awesome idea.
These cards are just so lovely. I really like the final result of your technique. Thanks so much for the great design ideas.
Great cards! I need this sentiment set!!
LOVELY CARDS, YANA! I LOVE ALL of your tips & tricks! Yes, this is EXACTLY how I am feeling today! I MISS MY FRIENDS! LOL I will HAVE TO MARK THE CALENDAR for this day to always remember it & get busy at my craft desk today too! THANK YOU YANA!!! ;)
Wonderful miss you cards. Congrats to the winners.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Very cute! I really like the use of the Nuevo Drops to highlight the states on the map.
These cards are so wonderful. I can´t say which one is my favorite. All of them are very cute. Thanks for new inspirations!
Great cards and I really like the Sending and Wishing stamp set. Perfect for sending cards to my grand kids who I do miss so much!
Love the cards!
Great cards! Just what I needed for inspiration.
Great ideas to use some supplies that I have! Thanks Yana!
What great cards, love the idea! TFS
Very pretty cards! Love the ombre coloring you did, and your simple yet fabulous design!
Congrats to all the winners!
These are awesome looking cards, beautiful in their simplicity and the occasion is the best. Often we take our friends for granted!
We all love blog candy. Hana, beautiful cards, as usual.
I LOVE these city skyline stamps! Wow!
Love these card ideas. The Tonic markers look great. I love their tools, Nuvo drops, and embellishment mousse.
These cards are fantastic! Love the designs with the city skylines!
Beautiful, I need to get those city scene stamps!
I think these cards are fantastic. Like someone else said, I miss snail mail.
Awesome set of cards!
These are great! Love the idea ♥
Love today’s cards, Yana! I’m in the middle of mailing my Valentines–1/2 went to the PO yesterday & the rest will go today. Too bad Send a Card to a Friend isn’t in another month. For me, it doesn’t matter, as I send cards to friends every month. Thanks for all your tips!
Great ideas for these fun cards! Thanks so much for sharing!
Beautiful cards and such a sweet idea.
what a great idea for this type of card. i didn’t even know there was such a day as “send a card to a friend day” LOL. it’s also my wonderful husbands birthday.
These cards are great! I love the ombre coloring on the destinations :)
Fabulous global cards!
Wonderful cards Yana, love all the colors used in these cards.
Yana, I just don’t know anyone that wouldn’t love a card from you! This set is so darling! I made something very similar about a year ago with sweet stamp shop sets of seattle and Orlando and such! So cute! Thanks for the video