Yippee for Yana: Christmas Night in Watercolors
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Thanks for stopping by today! Please welcome back special guest Yana Smakula with her second edition of Yippee for Yana in October! She made a gorgeous Christmas card featuring a chilly night sky and a bold sentiment. Be sure to watch the video for more details 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! Today’s episode is all about watercolor! I’ve always been a fan of dark, bold colors so to create the card I’m sharing in this video I picked my favorite Lunar Blue and Indigo colors from Daniel Smith and watercolored a background.
I used Stained Glass Greetings stamp set from the latest release from Simon Says Stamp To create a sentiment for this card – “Wishing You Love, Peace & Joy at Christmas”. I heat embossed it in white embossing powder onto Arches Hot Pressed watercolor paper.
Next, I pulled out my watercolors (I used colors you can find in my exclusive Daniel Smith Yana’s watercolor palette) and watercolored a night sky. Be sure to watch my video tutorial to see the process from start to finish.
I also added lots of pearlescent splatter onto the background mimicking snow. I used my Finetec watercolors for this and also later added a lot of white dots onto the upper part of the card using a white gel pen.
Once my coloring was done I heat embossed several pine branches from the Holiday Boughs stamp set from WPlus9 at the bottom part of my card. You can go all the way around your sentiment and frame it with these heat embossed branches or you can also stamp branches in black ink for a silhouette look.
I trimmed my background to 4 x 5 ¼” and foam mounted onto an A2 side folding card. While this card took quite a bit of time to make (the watercolor process took about an hour) I had a blast making.
I hope you’ll give this idea a try. Have fun stamping!
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A Fall Lawn Fawn Slider!
Hello crafters! I am popping in this weekend to share a fun and playful slider card featuring some of Lawn Fawn’s fun, interactive products! Have you ever made a slider? They are really quite easy and in the video below I’ll show you how to do it.
I used the super-cute Jump for Joy stamp set (from Lawn Fawn) and colored a few of the images from the set with Copics. My idea was to make this jumping hedgehog slide into the pile of leaves that is included in the set.
Because Lawn Fawn has many die sets that are perfect for creating scenes, building this card was as much of a breeze as building the slider! You’ll notice their Puffy Cloud Borders and Grassy Hillsides dies for the main scene elements.
The Slide On Over dies are where I got the slider track from; and the fun sentiments are created with the Jump for Joy and Push Here stamp sets. Finally, I adhered my entire slider scene onto some pattern paper from the Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Fall collection. This really pulled the Autumn theme of the card together.
Be sure to watch the video to see how I created the card; you’ll see how fun and simple slider cards are! Thanks for visiting with me today… I’ll be back on Monday with a Studio Monday video to share!
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Amore Laura Fadora: Hello Sweet Cheeks
Hi friends! Welcome to the latest edition of our Amore Laura Fadora bi-monthly feature! The fabulous Laura Bassen is back with her cheery rainbow palette using the new Grid Play stencil she designed exclusively for us, along with CZ Design’s Hello You clear stamps and coordinating dies with the best coordinating sentiments! Top it all off with gorgeous Nuvo drops, and what can be better? Be sure to watch the video and enjoy!
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