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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I love the glamour of the card.
Soooo Beautiful Yana!!!
Very pretty and quite elegant.
Beautiful, Yana, & thanks for the tip about using blue around the edge of the panel. Love the look!
Gorgeous card Yana! Perfectly simple and elegant.
Love the quicky card. Feeling buried already on getting cards made for the holiday. I remember when I made them all year long. Life got busy and now I am behind. :(
I need to keep your videos bookmarked, Yana, to remind me to keep it simple! This is gorgeous, and now I’m searching through my stamps to see how I can recreate this sort of look easily. Thanks for the fabulous ideas!
Gorgeous, love the green/gold combo :)
So elegant, this simple technique allows the lovely tree of words to take centre stage. Beautifully done. ?
That was surprisingly easy for such a beautiful and elegant card. It blew me away seeing how clear the embellishments were once the glue dried! Wow!
I love the richness the gold on the green backgrounds gives, Beautiful!
Thank you Yana for another wonderful creation – always like viewing your work
These cards may be simple but the result is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing the technique video.
Love the simply beauty of this card! :)
Beautiful and simple.
The card is indeed elegant, love the “word tree” and the shading enhances the cards’s beauty. Thanks, Yana.
This is so much fun and creative! Yipee, Yana!!!!!
Really enjoying this series of simpler card designs, so thanks!
Love the rich, warm green colour with the gold embossing, and the extra ink shading is lovely.
This is so simple, yet so Elegant! Just lovely Yana! ?❤️✨
Lovely card and the tip about inking on colored card-stock is a great one I will have to try.
Very pretty!
Love the touch of the clear jewels!! So pretty!
Beautiful card and
the embossing and
colors are so pretty.
Carla from Utah
Stunning. I love the use of the ink blending on the coloured cardstock.
Gorgeous cards! Love the easy steps to make gorgeous cards!
I really love the green and gold blend on the card because it makes it look so elegant. I also love the placement of all gems on the card.
Such a pretty card – yet so simple. Just lovely.
Beautiful work. Love the green and gold together
Classic and elegant! Timeless beauty.
I always love your card designs, Yana. The gold embossing makes this tree so elegant. Beautiful!
I love how you achieved the spotlight affect by starting with a coloured card base.
Wow!!! It’s so wonderful!!! And very elegant!!!
These look super magical. Love it :)
Absolutely lovely! You are a master at blending Yana. Thanks for the video & the tip about putting blue around the panel edge.
Such an elegant card. LOve it!
Simple but very effective. Absolutely gorgeous one layer card.
Lovely card—great ink blending!
Great technique and video! LOVE this card!!!!
The darkened edges and little jewels really draw the attention to the beautiful embossed tree! So lovely! :)
A stunning card!
What a great color combo! I love the green background!!!
BEAUTIFUL CARD!! THANKS for sharing!!
I’m a big fan of Yana’s. I think anything she does is fantastic and this is no exception. I have seen how she has been blending ink into colored paper and I think it’s gorgeous. This green is beautiful as well. I love the sentiment embossed in Antique Gold. This is a beautiful Christmas card!!
What a stunning and FABULOUS card!! Amazing!!
Beautiful card!
Love that beginners can do this with few supplies!!
These are so gorgeous!!! The gold and green color combos are so elegant!
That green and gold together looks amazing!
I love CAS-cards and this one is a beauty!
So simple and chic. Just love it! Cheers.