Yippee for Yana: Ice Cream Cards
Hi friends! Happy Monday! Welcome to the latest edition of Yippee for Yana with the always fantastic and inventive Yana Smakula! She’s made a few gorgeous designs that having me longing for Summer (or even Spring! :D) Read on, be sure to watch the video, and enjoy!
Hello friends, this is Yana and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! Today we’re stamping delicious Ice Cream and will make 3 yummy and colorful cards. I’ve had my eye on Simon’s So Cool stamp set for a long time and I wanted to stamp ice cream images using ombre inks as ombre makes anything better!
I picked a few ink pads and started stamping images using Hero Arts Pink to Red Ombre ink pad. I inked up my image making sure to pick up the ink just from the 2 lighter parts of the pad. I wanted to have little to no red ink here. Next, I stamped another ice cream image using Hero Arts Ombre Spring Brights and again I wanted to have ink just from the 2 lighter parts of the ink pad.
For my third image I was looking to have a softer yellow and pink mix and I didn’t have an ombre ink pad with the colors I wanted, so I just used individual ink pads and inked up my stamp as if I were to use an ombre pad – first by inking up the top part of the image with the light ink (Hero Arts Dandelion) and next inking up the bottom part of the stamp with pink ink (Hero Arts Soft Pink). You do get a bit of ink transfer on your ink pads when you do this, but it only affects a small area and the ink transfer will be insignificant. If this is something that you do want to happen to your ink pads – maybe avoid doing it and just use the ombre ink pads you have.
For my last ice cream image, I used Ombre Neon Chartreuse to Blue – I love neon ink pads by Hero Arts for super bright and vibrant ink colors. I also stamped popsicle sticks using Soft Brown ink from Hero Arts. I cut my images out using coordinating dies.
Once I had my parts and pieces created I started working on my cards. For my first project, I wanted to create a dimensional ice cream pattern! I used white foam adhesive squares and foam mounted my ice cream images onto an A2 white card base. Once my ice cream pattern was finished I used glimmer paste from Tonic Studios in color Moonshine and applied it mimicking Sprinkles on my ice cream.
Next, I used Nuvo drops in similar colors – Carnation Pink, Bubblegum Blush and English Mustard and added colorful dots onto the background to fill the space in. The background ended up being very busy and colorful, but this is exactly the look I was going for. I added You’re So Cool sentiment from the same So Cool stamp set and I stamped it in black ink onto a piece of white cardstock, cut it out and adhered to the card. I didn’t want to add anything else colorful here and black seemed like the perfect option.
For my card number two, I decided to create a semi-circle made out of ice creams. I foam mounted the ice cream images onto an A2 top folding card base, stamped a sentiment that reads You Are My Favorite Flavor in black ink and embellished my ice cream using flowers.
I wanted to add some florals to this card so I used images from the Bold Flowers stamp set and I stamped them using same colors of ink I used to stamp the idea cream as I wanted everything to match. If you are looking for other ideas to use these ice cream images – think about adding an ice cream to a critter or a group of critters. This, I think, would also make a great card design.
I also made one more card using the leftover die cuts ice creams I had sitting on my desk and here I just went with a simple design – added 3 ice creams in different flavors, added some additional flowers and leaves and of course I embellished the card using same drops and glimmer paste. For the sentiment, I added one that reads You Got This from the You Got This stamp set and this ended up being a fun encouragement card.
I’m looking forward to using this stamp set more in the future – I’m yet to play with the outline images and color these using Copics or my polychromos pencils or maybe even watercolors. Who knows! Have fun stamping!
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Your cards are so cute! I love your color combos!
These cards are
so colorful and
look yummy!
Carla from Utah
I don’t think I would have thought to do popsicles and flowers together, but I really like how those cards turned out. I love the ombre inks with the moonstone paste on top. They do look good enough to lick! Thanks for sharing.
Yummy cards with luscious colors. Great cards, Yana!
Very cool and clever!!
Such fun cards! Love the fresh colors used on both.
Yummy looking card! Love the colors and textures!
Fun cards!
Your cards are so happy! They really make me smile and I get excited when I see you’ve posted something new.
These look great! Love the extra glitz on some of those popsicles.
These cards are so cute!
Beautiful summery cards :)
I scream… you scream… we all scream for ice cream!
What a cute stamp set, I love the cards Yana made too!
Such brightly and happy colored designs!! I really love the technique! Thanks for sharing!
Just love those colors! And the yummy looking treats, too!
I am screaming for ice cream treats and that yummy card – TFS
Great card ideas! Love the ombre inking and the glitter paste.
Super cool cards!
There’s something about lolly pops that are so summery. Great card.
Gosh, Yana, these are gorgeous cards!!The Ombre Chartreuse with the blue is a perfect combination with the Nuvo drops in Carnation Pink, Bubblegum Blush and English Mustard. Am so in love with the colors!!! Yummy!
These cards are so CUTE and FUN:)!!!!!
Loving those ombre inks! So fun! Terrific cards!
Yana has such an eye for color. I already follow by email.
Love your cards. Great job.
These are so fun and colorful, I love that stamp set!
Love these happy colors and the cool technique of adding Nuvo paste to mimic sprinkles. So clever Yana!
Such beautiful and yummy cards! I really like the look of the glimmer paste dripping down the ice creams!
Fun colors. I like the glaze on top of the popsicles.
My favorite thing in the world to eat is ice cream so I am a very big fan of these cards today.
Those Nuvo drops and glitter accessorise your cards perfectly.
I love the popsicles! I’ll definitely be going back and watching your video soon.
So cute, colorful and yummy.
Gorgeous cards! I love these vibrant colors. Thanks for the inspiration.
Really pretty and fun!!!!
These icecream cards are so cute and fun. Perfect for Spring. The color choices were great. I am going to get this set.
Just yummy!
Fabulous cards Yana. Your talent is amazing!
Gorgeous and yummy cards!!! Love them!!!
ABSOLUTELY fantastic! LOVE this.
FABULOUS!
LOVE them ALL, especially your COOL icecreams with the perfectly frosted finish :)
Such a sunny card! Can’t wait ’till summer has arrived!
Love the colors you used to make these beautiful cards! Thanks for the great video and ideas!!
This is lovely, so sweet!
Yummmmmy. Love the cards you made with this set. They don’t look busy at all.
Great cards. Lovely colors used.
They look so sweet and sticky! LOL! Great treat!
Love what Yana created!
So cute and summery looking. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Very nice and yummy cards!!
Wow! Yummy yummy!! <3