Yippee for Yana: Joy To The World Card – Pencil Coloring Over White Heat Embossing
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Welcome to the latest edition of Yippee for Yana! You won’t want to miss the whole tutorial of this festive beauty. Be sure to watch the video 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 episode I want to show a one layer Colorful Christmas card created with the help of stamps and colored pencils and share some coloring tricks (or rather one trick) over white heat embossing.
I started working on my card by heat embossing sentiment from the Peace on Earth stamp set in Hero Arts white embossing powder onto Smoke Gray cardstock panel cut to 4 1/4 by 5 ½”.
I’ve been coloring a lot with colored pencils on black and very dark gray papers with gold or antique gold heat embossing but I never actually tried it with white. And this is where I encountered my problem – as I was coloring images I kept accidentally going over the heat embossed line and coloring the line with my pencil. This probably does happen when you color a gold heat embossed image, but it’s much less visible.
I decided I would do my coloring first and would heat emboss images later. This simple trick really did help to solve the problem. The process ended up being the following – I arranged images I wanted to use for my background on the door of my MISTI stamp positioner (you need to use a stamp positioning tool for this technique unless you are very good at eyeballing and double stamping). Placed my background panel inside the misti and stamped images in light color of ink.
You can use watermark embossing ink, I used Simon’s’ Fog ink. Next, I colored images with pencils as if doing a no-line coloring (I made sure to stay inside the line); repositioned the panel inside the MISTI, prepped for heat embossing, stamped the images that were still mounted on the MISTI door in clear embossing ink and heat embossed in white embossing powder.
This does take longer vs heat embossing and coloring, but it gives a much cleaner look. You can even do this if you find pencils dull the color of metallic embossing powder after coloring. Plus this allows to use highly detailed images like this poinsettia – there are a lot of dashed lined to this image that aren’t that easy to color around, but if they aren’t there when you do your coloring – you don’t have to worry about them.
I used Polychromos Pencils from Faber Castell, you can also use Prismacolors for this. I’ve been enjoying coloring with my Polychromos so this is why I picked those today. Once my background was finished I adhered it onto an A2 side folding card base and that pretty much finished my project. This is a one layer card – perfect to send in the mail!
I hope you’ll give this idea a try. Have fun stamping!
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Beautiful card. Love the red and white colors. Thanks for sharing!
Wow!!! Love Yana’s cards! This is absolutely gorgeous!!!
Very beautiful and elegant card. Love the color combo.
Yana,
Lovely card today!! The red colors turned out gorgeous. I am really enjoying your colored pencil tutorials and hope to see more
wow love the bright colors you have created on this background:)
Gorgeous card, love it!
Incredibly beautiful! Yana’s colouring is stunning!
I’m obsessed with watching Yana’s colored pencil videos – this one is so gorgeous! Love, love, love!
This is stunning! I like everything about it!
This looks lovely, thanks very much for sharing your tip with us also!
This is very beautiful.. thanks for all of your wonderful tips. Hope your Thanksgiving is full of goodness. Thankful for you, I am.
WOW… amazing card! I love it.
So beautiful! Love how the colors POP on the grey – gorgeous!
Thanks for sharing :)
Beautiful card. Love the coloring. Thanks for sharing….
Love these beautiful Poinsettias! Thanks for the video.
This is stunning! I love the effect of the white and red on grey! thanks for another great video!
What a beautiful card.
Yana, this is so beautiful! You make me want to color with my pencils!! Thank you for the inspiration!
Lovely and thanks for the wonderful tips.
Love the coloring! Gorgeous card!
Such a stunning card! What a great tip about lining up the Misti and heat embossing after colouring!!
Such a beautiful technique.
This is such an elegant card! Love the vibrant red of those flowers!
Beautiful holiday card!
Very pretty. Love the vibrant red. Thanks for the tips on using the MISTI for this.
Such a lovely card!
Gorgeous colouring.
WOW such a gorgeous card!!!!
There comes another beautiful creation by Yana! Love her pencil colored cards and this one is super pretty!!
Another beautiful card. The colors are so vibrant and the card is so festive. Thanks for sharing your talents. Stay blessed!
I love how vibrant the coloring looks on grey cardstock
One of my favorite cards, Yana–so festive & gorgeous! Thank you for the great video with all the tips!
Very pretty!
Love this cool technique, great idea!
That settles it … I am giving myself a Misti for Christmas this year! lol I LOVE the white embossing & colored pencils coloring. And my eyeballs are too old so a Misti it is. lol
Your card is so pretty. I love to listen to your voice!!!
Beautiful card! Great idea for sometimes when you just want to color! :) Thanks for the tip about embossing after coloring.
So beautiful. Love to watch Yana color.
Love your foray into pencil crayons. Beautiful card and I love this stamp set :D
This is a gorgeous card! Thanks for sharing the tip about heat embossing after the coloring is finished :)
This is a a gorgeous card! Thanks so much for the tip on embossing. I’ll be trying that soon!
So very pretty!
Gorgeous card, love
the white embossing
and the colors are
beautiful.
Carla fro Utah
I love the bright red and use of traditional colors. Beautiful!
So pretty with the combined coloring and white embossing. I also like the little bit of red in the green leaves.
Beautiful card! Thanx for the coloring tip.
Love the red poinsettias and green leaves on the light gray cardstock. Beautiful card. Thanks for the wonderful video, too.
Beautiful card.
thanks for the video.
Gorgeous reds against the white embossing!! Great card Yana
The red, white and green are so striking against the smoke cs. Just beautiful, Yana.