Yippee for Yana: Selective Pencil Coloring
Hi friends, Happy Tuesday! Welcome back to the latest edition of Yippee for Yana with the always awesome Yana Smakula! Read on, be sure to watch the video, and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula for Simon! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
Today I’m sharing a card and a technique that is my favorite when it comes to background stamps and colored pencils. Over the last few months I’ve several videos showing how to color using Polychromos pencils from Faber Castell, however, if you are a beginner in card making or coloring those might have seemed a bit intimidating. For today’s video, I decided to go back to basics and do a simple selective background coloring.
I picked the Center Cut Kaleidoscope background stamp for my project, you can also use other background stamps. It’s best to use a stamp that has a bit of a pattern to it, something not totally random. I started to work on my card by covering a piece of black cardstock with anti-static powder. This is an important step in heat embossing and something that shouldn’t be skipped if
you aim for a clean heat embossed look.
Next, I stamped my image Versamark ink and covered with new Hero Arts Gold Glitter embossing powder. I’ve been wanting to try this product and I absolutely loved it – this might be my new favorite gold embossing powder ever. By the way, Hero Arts also has the same glitter embossing powder in Silver.
I used just 2 pencils to color today. Both are Polychromos from Faber Castell – #163 Emerald Green and #264 Dark Phthalo Green. Both of these come in the 36 pencil set. Coloring a background like this on black paper is a good place to start with colored pencils if you’ve never used them before. Why? Because this black paper is forgiving and it doesn’t take as much time or as much hand pressure to have nice colored surface. This pretty much is how I started using and getting to know my pencils – I colored on black paper. From there I slowly moved onto other colors of paper such as kraft and gray.
When you color the background like this it’s up to you to decide which section you want to color and which you’d like to keep as is. You can even color all of it if you like, I love to do just simple selective coloring and have a lot of black in the background for the contrast.
To create a sentiment I heat embossed Thanks from the Big Thanks Words stamp set onto black paper using same Gold Glitter embossing powder. To have even more sparkle I’m actually double heat embossed it. I cut Thanks out using a coordinating die and also die-cut a fun foam layer out of black adhesive foam to pop this element up a bit. I also wanted to add another skinny strip with another message. I used my pencil to color a piece of black paper in the same color as the coloring on the background and heat embossed my sentiment over it in Antique Gold embossing powder. I used “Never Change Who You Are” sentiment from the You Got This stamp set.
Have fun stamping!
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Wow! Amazing, stunning card!
I love the card! Yana is so talented, such a beautiful card!
Honestly Yana, this could not be more stunning! Your pencil colouring always blows me away. This is such a gorgeous stamp for it too. Love it!
YAY! What a way to start my day!!! Congratulations to the other winners too. I’ll email Reed now, thank you!
Oh my goodness, so beautiful and vibrant!!! And boy oh boy do I ever love that sentiment!!! :) Thanks for the wonderful inspiration!
Congratulations to all of the winners, too! :)
Stunning! Color pencils on black is so striking, but the gold embossing takes it to a whole new level. Love the cards. x
This is really pretty! :) I love the colors you used with the gold embossing powder.
WHOA! This is amazing! Time to get my colored pencils out!
The effect is amazing! I wouldn’t think that the green would stand out so well. I really like the gold embossing, too. Nice job!!
Always love Yana’s pencil work!
Very nice coloring!!
I like this design. It would be great for a Christmas card, too. Maybe just change the color scheme a little bit, and it would be Christmassy. You come up with some cool designs.
Wow! That is gorgeous!
What a gorgeous card this is!! Love the gold embossing a lot!! And Yana’s coloring is amazing always!
I’ve never worked with colored pencils, but your video has given me the inspiration to try them. Beautiful cards!
Beautiful cards! The coloring is fantastic.
The heat embossing & pencil coloring is wonderful looking.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Fabulous card! Thanks, Yana, for the technique video. Always helpful and an inspiration.
Yana is so talented.
Stunning!
Love this idea!
Wow I am blown away. Gorgeous!
Prety card. Thanks for sharing the coloring technique with pencils.
Super cool technique and fantastic cards!
Yana’s cards are always beautiful! Gorgeous pencil colouring!
Beautiful cards Yana! I remember buying the leaves background stamp after seeing one of your videos. You always inspire me! TFS
Love that gold embossing powder. So pretty. Looks totally elegant yet doable. :)
Wow!!! Amazing card!!! Great technique!
Congrats to all the lucky winners!!!
Beautiful color combo!
Great ideas and hints for colouring newbies! I’ll have to remember that and finally bust out my polychromos
Soo beautiful!
Awesome look on the dark background!
WOW these cards are so gorgeous Yana!!!!
You’ve totally inspired me, Yana! I never color, but now I want to give it a try! I actually bought one of the SSS background stamps because of another video you did some time back. Time to use it!
Yana, I have said this before, but I love listening to you talk! Also, I love your videos too!
Thanks for the video, Yana. Hadn’t thought to emboss patterns on black cardstock so I really appreciate seeing your creation. Especially like the gloss touches on your previously made card…I’m thinking stained-glass effect…so, again, thanks!
Really beautiful cards! I’ve been a bit wary of using black paper cards, but this is definitely inspiring me to do so. Thanks for sharing!
Great idea….beautiful results!!
I’m Addicted to colored pencils on dark cardstock!!! This is Beautiful!!
Such an elegant design. Love it :)
I think I need and want the Faber Castell pencils! The coloring is beautiful!
Vibrant and different – I like it.
Congrats to all the winners x
Absolutely gorgeous card. Love the gold embossing powder.
Thanks for sharing…
Your coloring is so perfect!
Very pretty!!
Beautiful card Yana. This is a technique I will definitely try.
Love this technique! I tried it the last time you showed it and was so pleased my results. If I ever find it on my desk again, I will use it on a card.?
What a vibrant card! full of glitter and unconventional colors…fine stamping and the green looks yummy :)
I am loving the strong Slytherin vibe coming from this card ???
Yana, what a gorgeous card!! It is very different and I have never seen anything quite so vibrant! Love it!
Awesome card! Your coloring is amazing!
Thanks for sharing.
Incredible card! Thanks for sharing it with us!