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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Great layout, choice of colors and stamps! Nice!
Such a cute card, I love the stamps you’ve used.
Beautiful card, love the colours and the combination of products used!
So pretty. I like the colors and dimension.
Such a pretty card, and a great layout of florals with the focus on the sentiment. A card that should make the recipient very happy!
This is a very pretty card. Love these flowers and the colors.
Such a pretty card. Really lovely.
Beautiful card. Love all the flowers and colours. I,m so glad your going to see your mom.
Is it the colors? The ‘mom’ image? Oh I know…the whole dang thing! How stinking cute is this card!
This is so beautiful! I love it
You know, I didn’t really think about the fact that all your DT work might make it difficult to make cards specifically for someone. I’m so happy you were able to do that this time! Thanks for getting this video all ready while you were in the middle of your move too. I love the ideas and design on this.
gorgeous card Yana and thanks for the video!
Yana what a beautiful card, I love the colors and I love those stitched alpha stamps, I need those in my stash. Thanks.
Such a pretty card! Love the alpha you used!
A truly beautiful card, Yana! Love it!
Beautiful card Yana! You are so right! The soft background adds so much to the overall design, love your choice of colors. TFS
Really wonderful Yana…. Love the flowers and the gradation on the letters. Nicely done.
Pretty card! I love the bright flowers and sentiment against the neutral background! Enjoy your visit with your mom!
Beautiful work!
What a beautiful card for your Mom Yana! I was sad to see you leave Phx, I live here and never had a chance to meet in person. I hope your journey is good and that you can get settled and back to creating great stuff soon!
Love the different layers on this card. It’s beautiful!
Pretty card. Love the layering of all the pretty pieces.
Beautiful card. I love to send just because cards, they are happy mail. I already follow by email.
Love this card. Thanks for sharing.
Very pretty card! I love the bright colors of the flowers and Mom against that subtle background.
Love this! But you really need an “MUM” for those of us across the pond!
Really Beautiful card!!! Any mom would love to get this!!
Yana, your Mom will love this! Gorgeous nestling the flowers and leaves with the Mom and sentiment! Great tutorial and video!! So sweet!! Love the purples matched with the dollhouse pink flowers! And congrats to all the winners too!
It’s a beautiful card and I’m sure she’ll love it. I hope you have a wonderful visit with her and please give her an extra hug for me. My mom is no longer with me and I miss her every single day.
so lovely …
Pretty card, Yana! Your mom will love this! Best wishes with your move!
Today’s card is beautiful for Mother’s Day
Such a lovely card Yana!! I love it!!
This is Beautiful! I love all the layering, tucking and overlapping. The letters ARE great—I’ll have to add those to my next shopping trip!
Great card!
So very pretty
Beautiful card and a great idea. I don’t have the “Mom” and “Dad” stamps but I do have the Alpha set so I can use them for cards for my son and daughter-in-law for Mother’s and Father’s day!! They are first time parents since December 30th for this year will be special since it will be their first :) . Thanks so much for sharing, the card is just stunning .
That card is just so pretty
What a lovely mothersday card. And I really, REALLY need to have that polka dot background!!!
This card is just soooo beautiful! I lovvvve it!
Love this Yana and I am sure your Mom did as well. The flowers are beautiful.
Congratulations to this weeks winners.
I would love to receive this card
from my daughter. The dimension
of the design is wonderful.
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Beautiful Card! Perfect for mom!
Beautiful card and hope that your visit with your Mom is wonderful like you!
Beautiful card
Your mom will really love this card -I know I did with those touches of purple.
This is so very lovely for mom!
WOW – your card is EVER-SO-BEAUTIFUL!
I LOVE making special cards for my Mum and feel SO INSPIRED => THANK YOU for sharing :)
Such a gorgeous card! and the colors are so lovely.
Beautiful, fun card. Loved the video.