Yippee for Yana: Spring Bunnies
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Welcome to the latest edition of Yippee for Yana with the immensely talented Yana Smakula! It was purely coincidence that Yana also chose to make a cute card with our Showers & Flowers stamp set! That bunny is just too cute and the cottontail makes it over the top! Be sure to watch the video for the full tutorial 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 making a bunch of Spring cards featuring an adorable bunny from the new Showers & Flowers stamp set from Simon.
Often times when I want to make several identical cards I usually make one and, if I’m happy with the one I made, I make the rest. This is exactly the case with the card idea I am sharing today. I love to create in this way because it allows me to be sure the cards I’m making will turn out the way I like, this also allows me to step up the design if I want to and make slight changes to it if needed.
I started working on my cards by creating 4 ¼ x 5 ½” white cardstock panels out of Neenah 110 LB Solar White cardstock. I used my Spellbinders circle dies and die-cut openings in each. Next, I used stencils from Simon Says Stamp and added embossed details to each of my panels.
Not a lot of people know this, but you can easily emboss with any stencil. The Simon Says Stamp stencils work great for dry embossing because they are nice and thick; the tricker the stencil is, the deeper and more visible the embossed impression is going to be.
To dry emboss with a stencil you’ll need to have a die cutting machine, any die cutting machine will do, and you’ll also need to use a tan embossing mat from Spellbinders. If you have a die cutting machine from another manufacturer you can get this mat separately and dry emboss in your machine, just make sure to check the machine instructions manual to know what sandwich you need to use so that you don’t break it.
I used Medium Dots, Large Dots as well as the Heart Mandala stencils (watch my video to see other dry embossed stencil designs). Next, I stamped and colored the bunny and carrot using Copic markers. I used W5, W3 and W1 markers to add shading and used YR00 to color the inside of the bunny’s ear. For my carrot, I used YR04 and YR07 as well as YG03 and YG17 markers. I cut images out using scissors; they weren’t hard to cut out at all.
Next, I heat embossed a Tiny Dots & Hearts background in white embossing powder onto Simon’s Sea Glass cardstock. I adhered this panel onto an A2 card base and foam mounted my dry embossed panel on top. I foam mounted the bunny and added a Hello Spring sentiment. It comes from the Spring Seeds stamp set.
For the tail of my bunny, I used little pom pom that came with the March 2018 kit from Simon – the kit is sold out, but you can get those pom poms separately, these are from Darice and they come in different sizes, too. I cut about a third of the pom pom off to make it less dimensional and adhered to my bunny using glue.
Finally, I embellished my card using new Jewel embellishments from Pretty Pink Posh in color Aquamarine.
Have fun stamping!
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Holy cow, these cards are beautiful!
TFS this wonderful idea of embossing with stencils!!!
Cristina
thehouseoftheblackbirds.blogspot.it
Yana,
I love your cards today (and everyday!) they are totally cute. That sea glass cs is perfect for spring and I love the embossing!!
I just love the effect of the floating carrot, and the layers. So neat. I am one of Yana’s biggest fans, I just love her cards!
Especially like the cotton ball tails on the bunnies.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
great video, Yana – love the ideas that you shared on dry embossing with stencils:)
Cute bunny cards!
Very cute cards, darling design. Love the adorable tails. Thanks for the embossing tips using stencils.
Super cute and love the dry embossing technique!
Oh my goodness, adorable card!
Thanks for sharing.
Wow! Love your dry embossing with stencils!!! Adorable cards!!!
HI Yana, I just saw this card on your blog post, OMG, this is so ADORABLE !!! Love the tail, lol. Really awesome post, thanks.
The bunny is so cute and his little tail! Anyone would love to receive this card!
Lovely cards! Great stenciling technique. Thank you for your tips!
That bunny is adorable! Fantastic cards!
Darling Spring card. Love the embossing with stencils, will have to give this a try. Thanks for another wonderful video.
Love this little bunny :) He is adorable!
This rabbit in the last kit seems to be hugely popular.
Love the background and the pompom tail is perfect!
Super cute bunny cards for Spring or Easter. I always look forward to Yana’s projects.
Adorable Easter card. Your method of making one, then making a few more f it comes out well sounds like a great idea.
This are adorable! Love the soft blue/white behind the bunny! I have some pompoms for bunny tails that I got last year–need to get them out! Thanks for the inspiration!
What a great idea, using stencils for embossing. Really makes a difference. I will be trying this technique for sure.
So soft and adorable! :)
These cards are so cute! The bunny tail is perfect!
Thanks for sharing. Love more and more ways to use the items from the Monthly Kit!
Very cute cards I love the bunny! And I cannot wait until I can say hello spring!
great cards, Yana! I really like the use of stencils for embossing – it’s a nice way of stretching our supplies, and it’s actually something I do quite often myself :-)
So cute–love the pom pom tail.
Love that fluffy tail!
This is one of my favorite stamp sets! I love the white bunnies!
An adorable set of cards! Thanks for the dry embossing technique!
Adorable cards. I’ve been meaning to dry embiss with stencils. Love the look.
Such sweet, cute cards. Love the bunnies. Thanks for sharing..
Great cards. Thank you for a great video, as always
Super cute cards!! I lvoe those bunnies!!
Love these cards. I have dry embossed with stencils and love the effect. In the Vagabond I haven’t needed a mat….just the sandwich I use for embossing folders…works great.
Adorable and perfect for spring!
Yana, your cards are so sweet. Your design and colors are perfect for Spring. Thanks for sharing with us.
So adorable! Love that bunny, and love how you did the background.
Fantastic cards, sweet way to welcome spring!
Cute card.
Love the pom tail.
thanks for sharing
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Yippee for Yana and her bunnies!
I love these cards – and the explanation of paper weight, etc. is very much appreciated. sometimes that makes all the difference in how our projects turn out – thank you!
I love this stamp set and it seems everyone else does also
wow i didn’t think yana could make this bunny any cuter but somehow she did! i am so happy i subscribe and i got this kit! i am currently painting said bunny!
WOW!!!! What beautiful cards!!!!
More white bunny cards – fab! x
The bunnies are really cute, aspecialy the pompom tail
Oh, I love those bunny tails!! Your cards are so sweet! Un-Du looks like something I will be adding to my craft supplies.