Yippee for Yana: Floral Thank You Cards
Hi friends! Happy Friday! Thanks for stopping by today! We’re back with the latest edition of Yippee for Yana! Be sure to watch the video, read on, 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! In today’s video I’m showing you how to create simple floral Thank You cards for friends using products from Simon Says Stamp, WPlus9 and Altenew.
Whenever I use supplies from different manufacturers, products, where styles are a bit different I always try to tie them together using color. In today’s video you’ll see that by using similar or identical colors I’m able to bring 3 different stamp sets into one harmonious card design.
The 3 stamp sets I am using today are Filled Alpha by Altenew and I’ll use it to spell out word “Friends”. I am also using Friends of Life by Simon Says Stamp; I will be using smaller sentiments from here. And the last stamp set I will be using for my project is from WPlus9 and it is called Freehand Florals.
I started working on my cards by stamping the main word out – Friends. I decided to use my stamp positioner and mount all of the letters at once to save time. You can stamp each letter individually if you’d like the spacing between letters to be smaller, but these stamps fit together rather nicely and don’t have huge gaps in between letters.
I used Simon’s Black ink for my stamping and double stamped each image to have a nice black outline. I added a tiny Thank You message at the bottom of my panels and one additional message to each card. I used different sentiment and stamped “Friends Give Off a Fragrance of Love”, “Friends Are What Fill Life’s Garden” and “Friends Are a Beautiful Gift to be Cherished”.
The cool thing about Filled Alpha stamp set is the ability to add color and texture to every letter. This stamp set has additional filler shapes that are meant to be used to add color to the stamped images. Of course letters can be used without them, but I couldn’t resist using these to add a pop of color to my projects.
I added inserts to every letter and stamped them in Teal and Twirling Tutu ink colors from Simon. I not only used solid shapes to add color, but also vertical and horizontal stripe shapes.
I really love how modern and versatile this stamp set is and I think it’s going to be one of my favorite alpha sets. I am looking forward to stamping just the solid shapes on their own to create unique background pattern.
I added several stamped leaves onto each of my panels using Spring Rain and Teal ink colors from Simon Says Stamp and Freehand Florals images.
To create flowers I had to do some die cutting first. I used my Spellbinders Platinum 6 die cutting and embossing machine and die cut flower shapes out of white cardstock. Lately I prefer to do die cutting first and stamping later, but with this stamp set, with the Freehand Florals, you actually need to cut a shape out first to be able to align images as intended (that is if you plan to cut your image out, if you do not plan to cut it out – you simply stamp the image as usual). For my stamping I used Twirling Tutu, Hollyhock and Hot Lips.
As I finished stamping my flowers I decided I needed to add some additional images onto my background to make the floral arrangement a bit fuller. I stamped another element using Hollyhock and Hot Lips and after I finished foam mounting my flowers, I also stamped a few smaller leaves.
I foam mounted every panel onto an A2 top folding white card base and added Nuvo Crystal drops onto each. I went with different colors to make each card slightly different. I used Strawberry Coulis, Morning Dew and White.
One last thing I did – I added natural twine and tied it into a bow under the sentiments.
Have fun stamping!
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Yana’s card creation is so very lovely!
Beautiful card!
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As always, simply gorgeous!
Wow Awesome cards ! The colors look fab :) Thank you for the video .
Beautiful cards! Your ideas are always good!
Always enjoy seeing what Yana makes! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Very pretty! Love these stamps!
Love how Yana has used various products and tied them on these beautiful cards <3
Oh Yana, how I love your designs! Another set of excuisite cards!
Beautiful card! thanks for sharing.
Another lovely card!
Well done in combining all of those sets, the colors are beautiful! LOVE those florals!
beautiful, Yana!
So lovely!
Yana’s cards are always gorgeous, love these colors!
Gorgeous!
Beautiful cards! Thanks for the video.
You always have the most stunning cards!!!
Such a pretty card set! I really love that alpha set!
Just Beautiful!
What an awesome and CAS card design, love it!
So pretty. I love the flower and the coloring. Gorgeous!
Stunning card!
Thank you for the video…
Beautiful cards, Yana! Love the design & how you added more stamping to make the bouquet fuller!
Beautiful cards!! Lovely design and flowers!!
Beautiful card, lovely colors
Beautiful cards! Love the colors and the design! Thanks for the tip of tying the sets together on the card using color!
Love how you varied the coloring
of the Friends. Very pretty card.
thanks for sharing.
Awesome, very pretty!!
WOW, these cards are so beautiful as are the stamps you used. This video is FILLED with tips Yana. Thanks so much for sharing them!
Awesome card!!! Great work Yana!!!
Great card!
I am new to stamping. This is something I want to learn. The cards turned out great! I keep adding more items to my wish list!
Simple design yet so elegant. Not to say there was not a lot of work involved and of course talent! Beautiful as always.
Love the card!
Beautiful cards.
Pretty card!
I enjoy Jana’s informative videos. I love the simple but elegant style she demonstrates.Beautiful crds.
Such beautiful cards!
Great card!
Love the dimension and colors! Pretty card!
This is gorgeous, Yana! LOVE ♥
Stunning card!
Really Beautiful cards!!! I love the letters!!!
Beautiful–I like how you tied everything together with color.
Beautiful
Yipee for Yana! Cute card!
Oooh Yana, these are gorgeous!
Yeah Yana , so beautiful!
Always enjoy seeing your work! Such a lovely card – love the pop!!