Yippee for Yana: Stamped & Watercolor Pattern with Nuvo Aqua Flow Pens
Hi friends! Happy Friday!! Welcome to the latest edition of Yippee for Yana with Yana Smakula! I love the brightly colored watercolor card design she came up with! Please be sure to watch the video and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula and I’m excited to bring you another episode from my by-monthly “Yippee For Yana” video series! In today’s video I’m combing fruits and flowers to create a stamped and watercolor pattern for a card. For my watercoloring I am going to use new-to-me product – Nuvo Aqua Flow Pens. I have found these to be fun and convenient for some quick coloring.
I started working on my card by creating masks for the 4 main images I planned to group into a cluster. I stamped images onto post it notes and cut out with the help of scissors. Next, I started working on my pattern. Because I knew I’d be doing lots of watercoloring I used Arches Hot Pressed watercolor paper for my stamping. I love to use paper from Arches and whenever I plan to do a lot of stamping (and later watercoloring) as Hot Pressed paper performs best; it is nice and smooth and allows for crisp stamped impressions even without the use of a stamping tool like MISTI or similar.
I used images from Dancing Fruits (Lemon), Sketch Ranunculus (2 ranunculus flowers and filler images) and Handwritten Floral Greetings (Large Leaf) sets. If you don’t have these exact stamp sets look for similar images. You’ll need a fruit, two large flowers, a leaf cluster, and some additional floral branches.
I stamped 3 nearly identical clusters onto my panel and added some filler images coming in from the sides to create the illusion of a continuous pattern. Next, I watercolored my pattern with the help of Nuvo Aqua Flow Pens and Black Velvet Silver Brushes #2, #4 and #6. Watch my video tutorial for details.
After my coloring was done I used Simon’s Believe in the Season stamp set; stamped and die-cut the word “Believe” and also heat embossed a sub sentiments that reads “You Can and You Are Halfway There”.
Lastly, I coated several of the watercolor images with Nuvo Crystal Glaze for a pop of shine and dimension.
I hope you’ll give this a try. Have fun stamping!
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Oh wow, Yana’s creation always stunning!
I love the colors and the mix of lemons with the flowers. How unique is that! Beautiful card.
Yana has such lovely creativity … great design and color!
Beautiful!!
Gorgeous card!!!
So bright and cheerful – love those bright colors!!!
What a nice card. Thank you for sharing your video.
So bright and gorgeous!! I love it!
What a bright happy card. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Absolutely beautiful!
I love the bright colors and easy use of color with these markers!
Really beautiful, I love the clusters!
Love this very cool card Yana, just gorgeous, perfect for this yucky humid PHX monsoon weather. Are you enjoying monsoon season?
Beautiful and summery, love the lemons and florals!
So beautiful Yana. Love your color choices. These Nuvo pens look marvelous.
Nice card.
Love this card Yana! I’ve never even a demo of the Aqua Flow Pens before. Lovely results!
How lovely! I hadn’t heard of these pens before – you’ve made beautiful use of them!
So summery and cool!
bright and happy, th elemons look “solarized” that’s a filter in Photoshop ;-) cool technique
What a great summer card! All jammy!
Great card, lots of useful colouring tips, and LOVE that “Believe” stamp set!
Love the combinations of images on this card
Yana is SO talented!!!
such beautiful color … so vibrant
YIPPEE for YANA is right! I so enjoy these videos. Yana your card is beautiful and your water colouring tutorials are very helpful.
This is very pretty, Yana. Love these colors.
I think I am in love with some new markers. Today’s card is just stunning and the coloring technique is awesome.
Love those colors! Beautiful card!
Really beautiful card! Love the colors!
Wow! Awesome card and coloring!!!
Neat card. I haven’t got any of those new pens yet.
Gorgeous, love the design and colours! Go Yana!
Love the masking and the way you do the grouping. I would love to try the hot press watercolor paper.
Beautiful watercoloring – lovely background! TFS
I love how effortlessly you made the watercoloring look. I bought some of the watercolor brush markers (another brand) and have used them only once. Will get them out and try them more often. Liked your tip on mixing the colors to attain what you are looking for for a shade. Thank you.
I love the look of this technique and ordered the auqa flow pens! Yana, thanks for your inspiration!!! LOVE this card!
Fabulous colors!
I really like the way you used “believe” slightly off the card….so attractive with all the alive, colorful possibilities!
This is so pretty!!!!! Love it:)
BEAUTIFUL Card!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Look of the New Water Color Pens!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)
I love the stamp combined combo and wow! the color!
Very pretty colorful card. Love the coloring.
Beautiful happy card, love those colours!
Your card is beautiful and I really enjoyed seeing how you created your own color by mixing the two you already had. I like those aqua flow pens and seeing how they work.
This is so BEAUTIFUL, I love the colors you picked they are so bright and sunny.
I love those vibrant colors and the sentiment is perfect.
I love this technique, and the card is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful project! Thanks for the video!
Oh Yana , that’s Beautiful ..