Yippee for Yana: Stamped Floral Pattern Cards
Happy Sunday, friends! Welcome to the latest edition of Yippee for Yana with the always amazing Yana Smakula. Read on and don’t miss the video for details on this floral trio! Enjoy!
Hello friends, this is Yana and welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! In today’s episode I decided to go back to basics and what that means for me – is creating stamped patterns using individual stamps. I used to stamp all sorts of patterns using my clear stamps in the past and while I still do that from time to time I kind of miss doing it more.
Today I’m sharing my favorite way to stamp a floral pattern to create several cards. My trick is very simple, instead of stamping a background onto an A2 size card front I stamp it onto a larger sheet. In this case, I took a letter sheet of Neenah cardstock and I cut it in half to 5 1/2 x 8 ½” and stamped my floral pattern onto this entire half sheet instead of stamping it onto a card front.
You can also stamp a pattern onto a full letter sheet if you want or even onto a larger paper size if you have larger paper size and than trim it down to A2 card fronts or use that large paper to wrap a gift for example.
You can use a multitude of images and stamp sets to create patterns such as this one. I decided to use the new Bold Flowers stamp set. I would suggest using solid images for your stamping unless you want to do a lot of coloring.
It’s been a long time since I’ve used pigment inks for my stamping so I reached out for the Avery Elle pigment inks for this tutorial. I love to use pigment inks, they are fantastic for ink blending, for letterpress techniques and they are great for stamping, the only downside to these inks is that they take a bit longer to dry, but that is nothing that can’t be fixed with the help of a heat tool.
The colors of inks I picked to stamp today are Mimosa, Orchid, Raspberry, Jungle, Lemongrass, and Bamboo. The way I created this pattern is by stamping clusters of images. Each cluster consists of 3 flowers and several leaves.
Once my stamping was done I cut my panel into 2 pieces to create 4 1/4 x 5 ½” card fronts. I also cut one of those on a diagonal to make 2 partial patterns. I also stamped additional flowers and leaves using same colors as before and cut them out using coordinating dies.
I decided I needed to add a skinny strip to my diagonal cut cards to help separate the stamped pattern from the background. I made it by using my pink ink pad and white paper. I used tape to adhere the stamped patterns onto A2 white side folding card bases, I also used tape to adhere the skinny pink strips. To add a bit of dimension to my cards I used foam squares from Scrapbook Adhesives to foam mount the die cut flowers and have them go outside the stamped patterns.
I stamped sentiments in black ink – I used Versafine Onyx Black and messages from the Emphatic stamp set. I stamped them either directly onto the patterns or onto the white card base. I used glue to adhere the leaves and I made sure to shape each leaf with my fingers before adhering it down. Lastly, I used Nuvo Drops in clean and added a bunch of clear drops onto the cards as one finishing touch.
Have fun stamping!
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Gorgeous card, with a unique background style and these flowers stamps and dies set are just amazing
Awesome handmade patterned paper!!! Your cards are Awesome!!!!
Pretty colors on these floral cards.
Beautiful floral cards! Love the gorgeous Spring colors!
I’m trying to iind ways to make my crafting time more efficient, and this sounds like a great plan to do just that.
Three beautiful backgrounds. Your color and stamp choices are just perfect.
Yana makes the prettiest cards and does the best videos. I already follow by email.
Brilliant way to do multiple cards at one time. Love your videos Yana. :)
Like the cards. Since I have the flower set, I will make some of these cards. Just ordered the sayings. What is Blog candy?
Love those stamped backgrounds! Stamps, too!
lovely cards … great video
this is beautiful, i love pigment inks too.
Like the flowers & the panel separation look.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Very creative cards!
Very pretty! Love the designs.
Very Pretty!!
The card today is beautiful. I love the green, pink and yellow color combo.
So many inspiring ideas. So little time. Another one to pin to remember! Thank you!
Always love to see Yana creating on video. This technique for creating 3 cards by way of a large stamped sheet is brilliant. tfs
These are such beautiful cards! What a great way to make the backgrounds for all 3 of them.
Such pretty cards Yana! Great tip to stamp a larger background piece to cut up. Beautiful colors and images.
Such lovely cards Yana!! I love the colors!
These floral cards are beautiful! I love the vibrant colors.
Yana these are all so pretty, this is a great way to make beautiful backgrounds. All of your cards are really lovely, well done.
Gorgeous cards. Thanks for sharing…
Really gorgeous cards – I love this idea to make your own pattern!
Beautiful cards Yana! You truly know how to stretch your stamps! Thanks for the inspiration!
Bright and beautiful floral cards!!
Great cards and wonderful ideas.
very happy to see this demo since I just bought the bold flower stamp & die last night!
Great inspiration for making one’s own patterned paper and lovely card designs. Thanks Yana!
Yana’s color choices are gorgeous!!! Wow!
I love these pretty ideas!
Pretty floral cards.
wonderful set!!!!
Cristina
thehouseoftheblackbirds.blogspot.it
lovely colors
Just so lovely! A nice, fresh color palette and fun sentiments–great pairing! Wonderful tip on floral stamping.
Great idea to mass produce cards. Thanks for the great video.
Such pretty cards! I would never have chosen the pink, yellow, green colours, but they look gorgeous – new colour combo for me!
Beautiful cards, and a lovely stamped background and colour combination!
So fun to watch this video and see it come together! Beautiful card and terrific idea!
I love the backgrounds!! I always love the backgrounds you create when you when do this, but this is the first time I’ve seen you use pigment inks and I, like you, love the Avery Elle Pigment inks, I have them all, minus maybe 5 of them I think? Not many people use pigment inks and I wish more bloggers would so people that do like to use them could see them in action more. Thanks for sharing your beautiful cards!! Love them!!
Love this. That Bold Flowers set is so pretty. We were without power yesterday, so I colored some florals in a color book I purchased. They came out better than I expected and I plan to use these for some backgrounds for my cards. Power is back!!! Thanks, nicely done.
Great job Yana, loving all the different designs you made with this fun color palette and great floral stamps!
Pretty cards! Thanks for your tips on creating a background!
Thanks for another inspiring video! Always looking for unique backgrounds for my projects. Have tons for flower stamps so going to try this idea for sure.
Free-range stamping (as Cathy Zielske calls it) still kind of scares me, but I really appreciate you taking us through the steps! It’s helpful to see how you plan through it. Thanks for sharing!
BEAUTIFUL!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!!
BEAUTIFUL cards!
LOVE your designs, sentiments and colour palette, feeling INSPIRED and really APPRECIATE you creative tips – thank you for sharing :)
Great technique…especially when you need several quick cards or a set of cards (which I love to gift in Happy Mail!) Thanks for sharing your beautiful cards and tips!