Yippee for Yana: Floral Card for Mom
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please welcome back the fantastic Yana Smakula to our blog as a special guest in her bi-monthly Yippee for Yana series. Today, Yana made a gorgeous card for her Mom “just because”, but this would also be a perfect design for Mother’s Day (which is May 12th in the USA)! Be sure to watch the video, and enjoy!
Hello friends, this is Yana and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! In today’s episode, I’m making a floral card for my Mom using some new and some old products from Simon.
I, like many of you, I’m sure, have my all time favorite stamps and one of those stamp sets is the Mom and Dad Icons set. I just love the font that was used for the Mom and Dad words – it’s a great font for coloring so I reached for this set for my card today. If you don’t have this set, you can also use Simon Says Stamp Stitched Alphabet set – it features the same font and has every letter, obviously, that would let you spell any other word you might want. For example Sister, or Aunt, or Cousin or Grandma.
I started by stamping letters onto white cardstock in Simon’s Intense Black ink. I knew I wanted to color them with Copics so that dictated the paper and ink choice for today’s card. I grabbed new Bold Flowers set and stamped a number of images in various bright ink colors. The idea was to create a floral garden around the word “Mom”. The colors of ink I used were Jellybean, Willow, Wisteria, Velvet Orchid, Doll Pink, Sunshine, Hollyhock and Twirling Tutu.
I also stamped a background for my card using the new Reverse Polka Dot Background stamp – I’ve been using it a lot lately, it’s just a fantastic background that lets you create the look of patterned paper with minimum effort. I went with Barely Beige ink color for my background – I love the softness of this ink, its like it’s not even there, yet it is and it adds a nice subtle detail to your background. There are coordinating dies available for all of these images and what I love the Bold Flowers stamp set for is that coordinating dies cut everything out and they cut flowers separately from the stems. So that gives us more use out of these images.
I used my Copics and colored letters. I used purples and went with V17, V15 and V12 colors and colored each letter to create a gradient from the darkest at the bottom to the lightest at the top. I arranged my die cuts the way I liked and foam mounted them in place. I heat embossed the sentiment that reads “So Happy You’re My Mom” in white embossing powder onto a black cardstock strip and I adhered it onto my card right in the middle of my cluster. I also added several clear droplets from Pretty Pink Posh and that finished my card!
Have fun stamping!
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I am sure your Mom will just love it! Cheers.
very nice!
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Love the soft cors
Beautiful card!
Love your fine colourchoices! A great card for a mum!
Yana, such a lovely card!! I hope your flight home was good.
Such a pretty card! Love the layout of your elements..and the colors are dreamy ♥
This is beautiful, Yana. I love the flowers
and I really love the faux stitched ‘Mom’.
Very pretty coloring, too.
What a pretty card. Love the stitching on the outside of the letters!
What a beautiful, beautiful card! Love all the layers, and the gorgeous subtle background!
What a beautiful card and lovely font for coloring!
What a beautiful floral card!
Ooh, so pretty and colourful. Love the dinensions.
Great card!
Beautiful card. Thanks for sharing….
I love the background stamp! Great card!!
Such a beautiful, wonderful card! I love the layers of letters and flowers. Any mom would love to receive a card like this!
Thanks for sharing this card and video, Yana. I especially like the “garden” you created for your “MOM”. The dotted background stamp looks to be so versatile for creating background that will match/compliment ink colors used with other stamped images on a card. Great!
A beautiful card for your Mom, Yana! I am sure she will love it. I love the softness of the colors.
Beautiful card, Yana! Thank you for the inspiration!
Love this card! I love the subtle background of polka dots!
The Bold Flowers went onto my wishlist the first time I saw them & I see now that was the right decision! Your card is just gorgeous!
Love what she creates; she is so talented
Perfect card for any Mom. Beautifully done
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Gorgeous cards!!!
Congrats to the winners!!!
This is so beautiful! I love how you’ve tucked the flowers in among the letters!
Sadly, my parents have long passed, but your card is lovely! I do make Mother’s day cards for my sisters though!
Julie, I am sorry to hear of your parents passing. The reason for my reply is that the people of Altenew are having a card drive to get Mother’s and Father’s Day cards for those in nursing homes, etc. I am humbly suggesting you participate as a great way to honor your parents!
Gorgeous card! I wish my mom was still here, so I can make her a card like this.
Lovely work TFS
Very beautiful card!!!
Very pretty!
Created with such love and talent.
I’m sure your Mom will just love your beautiful card! Fabulous coloring and layout.
I love the flower detail on this card, my parents are gone but I think I will make this for my aunt – just need to change the lettering, the sentiment and the floral are just perfect!
Really like your card! Pretty colors.
Gorgeous Mother’s Day card!
wow this card is so pretty – thanks for the ideas:)
This is a beautiful card and I’m sure your Mom will love it. I do like that stitched alphabet look! Of course, you set it off perfectly with your floral design! :)
Another homer! Wow!!! I was touched you shared a personal card with your audience. Thank you!
Awesome card, I love how the letters are popped/tucked/layered on the flowers!
I start my day by checking my email. I usually find myself sucked in looking at all the beautiful cards you all make. What a wonderful distraction.
Love these colors
Gorgeous card, I love the spring colors!
Love the pretty colors on this card!
Always love your cards! This one is no exception — just beautiful.
I make Mother’s day cards for an aunt….my mom would have loved a card like this. It is beautiful!
What a gorgeous card! Great idea for Mother’s Day.
Beautiful Card!
Very pretty MOM card.