Yippee for Yana: Simplistic Christmas Cards
Hi friends! Happy Saturday! Welcome to the latest edition Yippee for Yana with the fantastic Yana Smakula and the continued celebration of our latest release, Fun & Festive! I personally LOVE this simple design by Yana because it’s beautiful but also because it would be relatively easy to recreate for mass sending! Be sure to check out the video and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
Lately, I am all about simple and doable card making and also cards that feature very basic and beginner techniques. So for today’s video, I have a simplistic Christmas card idea what features just some heat embossing and ink blending for stunning results.
The card that I am sharing today is using just the sentiment stamps – “Joy, Love, Peace, Believe, Christmas” message that is shaped like a Christmas tree from the Christmas Wishes stamp set and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” from the Tiny Words Christmas set.
My idea here is to gold heat emboss these images using Antique Gold embossing powder from Simon Says Stamp on Green Leaf panel that’s cut to 4 1/2 by 5 ½”.
Once my heat embossing was done I added ink blending to the edges of the panel to help the embossing pop. I used Evergreen ink to blend darker green color around my heat embossed tree in the center of the panel. I want the edged to be darker and direct the eye of the recipient to the center of the card where the focal point is.
You can do this on white cardstock, but it is so much easier to blend this kind of look on colored paper. Because my paper already has a color I don’t have to do additional blending and add a base color to it, a light green. If you were to heat emboss this on white and add ink blending on top, you’d have to start with the light green first to have that spotlight in the center where the
heat embossed tree is.
To darken the edges, even more, I used Hero Arts Navy ink pad, this is very deep blue color and I added a bit of this color around the edges. You can also try using black. I adhered my panel onto an A2 white side folding card base and dressed the tree up using some Clear Jewels from Pretty Pink Posh. Less is more on cards like this.
I hope you guys will give this idea a try. If you do make a card inspired by this video, we’d love it if you shared your project and tagged us on social media – we always enjoy seeing what you make!
Have fun stamping!
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This card is simply beautiful. As a beginner card maker with limited time, I really appreciate the tips and inspiration.
What a beautiful card! Very elegant! Love the blending onto the colored cardstock.
I love all the Emboss Resist cards you have been sharing, Yana! They are so so pretty!
Very beautiful and elegant card. Love the idea of using coloured cardstock. It cuts down on so much time and effort!
What a STUNNING BACKGROUND! I love this card!
This card is so pretty!! Love the idea of using coloured cardstock and inking on top of it
Gorgeous inking – love that depth of colour and the elegance of gold embossing on top.
So simple and elegant! Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful and elegant CAS christmas card! Thanks for sharing info about Spellbinders ink blending pads too.
Oh Yana! I absolutely LOVE these green backgrounds with the gold. How stunning!
GORGEOUS WORK, Yana!!!!!!!!! ;) I WANT THAT STAMP! LOL ;)
Love this card, Yana.
So elegant and beautiful. Deceptively simple
What a gorgeous card! Thanks for the inspiration Yana!
Elegant and stunning! Such a great idea, blending on colored card stock! very inspiring!
Very pretty indeed Yana!! Can envision this in so many colors!
Very pretty – I actually like the before and after cards.
Pretty! Love this card!
Your card was so simply done but has a wonderful highlighting effect in the center that is so beautiful! What a pretty stamp set!
Absolutely stunning! So elegant. An amazing card!
Beautiful card! Love the colors!
Very pretty with the embossing and ink blending.
The result after the ink blending is stunning!Thanks for this cool idea Yana!
Love your card. It is beautiful.
Absolutely gorgeous! I will be trying this soon. Thanks so much.
Like the sparkle & shine of the Christmas tree word card.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
So pretty and classy
I love this gorgeous card!! Beautiful design, wonderful background! :)
Very pretty card, I really like the clear drops used as ornaments. I too use the Spellbinders sponges with my mini ink blending tool. Ranger seems to have put a thinner backing on their foam disks and don’t work as well for me anymore.
Very nice and easy to create many cards!
Love the simplistic cards you’ve been doing lately. They are just beautiful and this one is as well. The ink blending packs a punch since you did it up and around the tree but not the tree itself so the tree standouts so much more, very clever! I always love your ink blending and this card is just gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!!
Beautiful card! I love the simple design!
This card is so stunning!!!
thanks for sharing this simple card – love how the tree ‘glows’!!
Stunning card! Love the ombre effect with the highlight on the gold embossed tree. So simple, so elegant!!
I love this card. It’s so elegant.
Love the simplicity of your holiday card. So gorgeous.
Thanks for sharing…
The shading of the background
is fabulous. the tree made
with the gold sentiment looks
so rich. there is a glow
to this card. thanks for
sharing
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Stunning pretty much sums it up…. Your blending is so good. Really love this stamp set. Nicely done.
What a beautiful card! I love how you ink blended around the outside edge of the panel. I’ll have to try this technique on my next card. :)
Gorgeous design with that stamp!
So wonderfully elegant!
This is gorgeous Yana and a great tip about the coloured paper, never thought of. Thank you so much and have a nice weekend.
Love the green and gold together. Very pretty. :)
This is beautiful and a wonderful idea for creating stunning cards when we have less time!
So elegant!!
Stunning Card… so beautiful! I love the Fun and Festive release!!!!!
Simple but beautiful.
Great color combination! I love cards that feature sentiments!
Stunning! Love it big time!