Yippee for Yana: Palm Trees and Blue Skies Summer Card!
Hello friends, this is Yana and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! This time I’m making Summer cards! I’m mixing some old and new products from Simon for this card.
I started working on my project by stamping palm tree images from the Warm Christmas Wishes stamp set. This is an older set from 2 or maybe even 3 years ago, but it’s one of my all time favorites! I particularly love the palm trees in this set and I’ve used them many times over the years for my cards, and funny enough I’ve mostly used them for summer cards (see one of the cards on my blog HERE). So even though it is a Christmas set it is a fantastic one for Summer!
I used Intense Black ink, my mini MISTI and Neenah 80lb cardstock for stamping. To color palm trees I used handful of Copic markers and did simple coloring. I used: YG06, YG25, YG17 and YG67 as well as E37 and E79. These palm trees are wrapped in Christmas lights – I colored over them as I knew I’d be using my Nuvo Drops later to bring lights back to life.
I used coordinating dies and cut those out in my Spellbinders Platinum Die-Cutting & Embossing machine. To create a background for my card I used Clouds For Days stencil from Simon – I love how versatile it is and also how easy it is to create a backgrounds with its help.
If you caught my Instagram Story Takeover for Simon yesterday you might have seen a card where I used this stencil along with the leafy frame stencil and layered them together to make a background. You can also see it on this post on my Instagram account.
I wanted to create a faint sky background for my card and I used Maliblue ink and a mini round ink blending tool. To get a different cloud line every time I rotated my stencil 90 degrees and this way I ended up having a completely different cloud look each time. Once I’ve rotated it 4 times I flipped it and continued to rotate – so technically you can get 8 different cloud lines from just one stencil and you also have 3 other clouds cut out in the center of the stencil so you can also use those. It’s a fabulous stencil for Summer and for cards with scenes – I know I will be using this one a lot. Especially with those palm trees!
I foam mounted palm trees onto my background and the way I positioned them is as if the person that is looking at this card is looking up into the sky. Technically I don’t have my clouds stenciled absolutely correctly, but it’s just card, it doesn’t have to be 100% accurate.
To create a sentiment I die-cut a circle out of Hero Arts vellum, heat embossed Summer in white embossing powder and also heat embossed “Sending” and “Your Way” in white detail embossing powder from Hero Arts onto black cardstock.
The reason I heat embossed “Sending” and “Your Way” on cardstock and not on vellum is because I needed something to hide adhesive under to be able to adhere the vellum circle onto my card. I love to use vellum, but it’s tricky to stick it in place without the adhesive being visible, so I always try to find something that I can put on top of velum that would hide that adhesive.
One I had all of the parts and pieces in place I used Nuvo Drops in White and English Mustard and I added white and yellow dots onto my palm tree lights.
Have fun stamping!
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A very cute card and the up side down palm trees is what catches your eye.
What a fun card!
Love the palm trees.
Carla from Utah
Love the flipped trees!! Super cute!!
Cute card, however you look at it!
This is so fun! Love how you have some palm trees upside down. Is this set still available? Perfect for southern hemisphere Xmas!
Fun card.
Love the Nuvo drops as lights. So fun!
Fun card.
I just love the upside down trees, makes it seem more jungle like, and the nuvo drops on them. WOW! What an awesome look!
Such a cute idea for your card! I guess this would be the view from the beach blanket while laying in the sun. I can see why you get so much use out of the palm trees. They look great with the lights on them.
What a lovely card!!
I absolutely love the card and never thought to look at that stamp set as anything but Christmas! I’ll be adding that to my Wish List on Simon so I can purchase that the next time I place an order :) . I am in love with those palm trees !!! I love the card and I love how you put one tree on the bottom and one on top, love that idea, so very cool!! Thanks for sharing!
The upside down image would be a great trick for me to use, cause it happened more than once that I put my card panel the wrong side up on the cardbase ?
Fun summery colors!
This card is so fun!!
Such a sunny dreamy card! Would love to sit there!
Awesome card!!! Love the palm trees!!!
Great card
I love that you used a christmas set in a whole new way!
Love the palm tree image and the cloud stencil! Nice summery card!
Funtastic card.
Love the two views of the trees
and the added dots for lights was
a wonderful idea. Clouds
are great – they are never
perfect either.
thanks for sharing
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This looks like a cool Christmas card design. I think I have to adopt this design for a few of this years Christmas cards, because we are heading to Australia in winter.
Beautiful card, Yana! Cool idea to use a Christmas stamp for a sumemr card! I always enjoy your creativity!
Very cute card Yana!
Love your card Yana, on the first look ad this beauty I thought “it looks like someone is laying down and look to the sky”. After watching the video I know that that was your idea to. Thank you I love this.
This card is adorable and great video. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
What a creative idea of adding the lights to your trees. Fun card!
I absolutely LOVE this card! I swoon over Palm Trees and strings of holiday lights … and these two together make me so happy! LOVE IT!
Another adorable card! Elegant, striking, gracious or cute: you can do them all!!!
Fun happy card, love your palm trees!
Such a fabulous card!
Fun to layout the scene on the card as if seeing it laying down looking up at the sky – very clever! Thanks for the inspiration!
Am so glad you are showcasing this stamp set!! I would not have seen this palm tree with the festive lights!! Great card and LOVEd the Nuvo drops detail!
Awesome card! Love the palm tree lights!
What a fun way to use a Christmas set for summer! Love it!
Gorgeous card – love the background and the up and down trees!
Such a fun card! Love the upside down trees and nuvo drop lights!
funny with the upside down tree..i don;t get it, but it made me smile ;-)
I love different ways of using vellum, and this is awesome.
Adorable card! I love how you used the palm trees.
Another great card from Yana! The palm trees are great and they go along beautifully with the background>
Fabulous card! Love the palm trees. Another great tutorial!
I love, love the details you added to the trunk! Fabulous card! TFS
What a beautiful card, I love the palm trees and puffy clouds!
Awesome card!
Super cute card!
Such an adorable and fun summer card!
Cute card! So tropical!
Love this card a lot, thanks for the video.
Fun card!