Yippee for Yana: Shouting from the Rooftops
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Welcome to the first edition of Yippee for Yana for 2018! Today the fabulous Yana Smakula is back with a gorgeous skyline card. Read on and be sure to check out the video for more info and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula and I’m excited to bring you another episode from my bi-monthly “Yippee For Yana” video series! In today’s episode, I’m sharing a Miss You card incorporating watercolor and Copic coloring!
I started to work on my card by stamping cityscape image from Simon’s From The Rooftops stamp set in black ink onto white cardstock. I stamped this image several times as I wanted to build depth and dimension on my card and I needed more than just one row of skyscrapers for this.
I used Simon’s Intense Black ink for my stamping as I planned to color images using Copic markers; this ink is alcohol friendly and will not bleed when it comes in contact with alcohol. It’s also waterproof so it can be used for all things watercolor.
After stamping I cut my image out using a coordinating die and started coloring. I wanted to have my houses on a dark sky background, a galaxy background. I had a galaxy background ready, I painted it some time ago when I was working on another project.
I have shared how to paint a galaxy several times already so I’m not going to focus on that today. Check these videos to learn how you can create a galaxy background here, here, and here.
If you don’t like watercolor or you don’t feel comfortable enough watercoloring a galaxy background for your card you can create a simple ink blended background using Distress Inks or Distress Oxides. If you want – you can do a watercolor ombre background with the top portion of the panel being the darkest, almost black and the bottom portion lightest, a very light blue.
The colors of my galaxy background dictated the colors of markers I used to color my skyscrapers. I didn’t want to use something that would look odd so I made sure to pick the colors that went well with the background.
I used several color combos and I didn’t color every house in a different color, instead, I had 2-3 houses painted using same colors. I used C9, C7, and C5 – that ended up looking almost black and I love it, it really popped up against that night sky. I also colored several houses dark blue using B39, B99, and B45. I also used warm gray colors for some of the skyscrapers – W5, W3, and W1. I didn’t use any purples for my background, but I felt like I could bring a bit of dark purple to my coloring, so I used BV08 and BV04 to color some of the buildings. I also kept some of the building almost white and only added shading using a C5, C3, and C1.
To add a bit of bling and shine I used Aqua Shimmer Pen from Tonic Studios and coated my black houses with the shimmer. I also stamped a speech bubble with the echoing “Miss You” and white heat embossed “Shouting from the rooftops” on black paper.
I foam mounted my images onto the galaxy background, foam mounted the background onto an A2 card base and that finished my card!
Have fun stamping!
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This is a really great card that would be fantastic for just about anyone who received it! I love that background compared to the beautifully colored buildings. I enjoyed reading about your color selection of markers—I recently received my very first Copics and am trying to learn everything that I can about using them!!
Love the galaxy background with rooftops, the detailings are amazing!
Absolutely love this! Thanks for the great video
Great card – love the colouring of the sky
Stunning scene card!!! Love the repitition sentiment.
Love this card and the colors!! It is so awesome how you mix copic colors against watercolors and have them match so well!!!
Great card and I love the background!
This looks amazing!!! Such a fabulous night scene!!
I love the galaxy background
i LOVE THESE CITY TYPE CARDS!
Awesome nighttime skyline Yana!
Great card especially for a guy. Love the dimensions.
Such an amazing creation.
Awesome card!
Such a gorgeous creation!!
A perfect masculine card!
Fantastic shading.
Love the concept.
The echo is fun.
thanks for sharing.
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I like your background and the careful way you chose to color your buildings. I always enjoy your posts.
Awesome card Yana!! I’ve been trying to decide whether to purchase that stamp & die set! I think you’ve convinced me to get it!!
Great card. I love the gorgeous background.
Wonderful sky. I also like the layering of the die cuts
Awesome scene! Love the sky!
Beautiful evening cityscape and gorgeous shading
Love this card! Thanks for the helpful video!
Love this. Thanks!
Playfully wonderful. Love this set and its sentiments.
Gorgeous! I love your night sky and the beautiful cityscape! I love how you layered the buildings!
Yana I saw this beautiful card over on your blog, I love it and love that background.
Wonderful night scene skyline! Thanks for the video!
Awesome card! Love that background.
What a great card! Love the gallaxy background & your coordinating skyscrapers!
Fabulous design for a masculine card!
Love the background and the city is wonderful.
Love the blues and grays and nighttime feel of this card creation … very lovely!
Fabulous clever card design! love this!
great card – awesome background:)
These blues are swoon worthy!!! Gorgeous card. So fun too.
WOW Yana, this is so cool with all of the dimension, what an impact it makes. Very nicely done!
The colours on this card are so well-coordinated. Such a clever stamp to have the sentiments “echoing”. Thanks for the inspiration.
You have a great talent to make everything look beautiful, I so so love that night sky here, thanks for sharing your beautiful work!
Fantastic card, I can see it with fireworks for a New Years card or 4th of July, very versatile.
What a beautiful scene you created. Love that it would be great for a guy.
Stunning card, Yana! I love the background and I especially love the coloring and shading on the buildings. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
Awesome card, Yana! What a great way to get double duty of the city scape on the same project. I love that! Thanks SSS!
The card is fabulous! I love the palette, the sentiment and your techniques for creating this!
Hi Yana! I always like to stop at SS and see what you have been up to creating – love, love this card and the buildings with the sentiments – a shout out to you – TFS
I love your night scene Yana! Beautifully colored! TFS
Beautiful card. I like your style. Thanks for sharing. I always learn something new.
Fabulous work on
this card. Love
the cityscape.
Carla from Utah
Love the background and I love the Copic colors you used on the buildings! Love the card!! Thanks for sharing!!