Layered Stamping to Create a Beautiful Autumn Cascade Card: Yippee for Yana
Hi friends! Please join me in welcoming back the oh-so-talented and amazing Yana Smakula! (Please note: our dear friend Yana is Ukrainian. To show support to our brothers and sisters in Ukraine, please see Yana’s post HERE.)
Hello, crafters, this is Yana Smakula for Simon Says Stamp! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
In this video I’m creating an autumn Thank you Card with the Simon Says Stamp Autumn Cascade stencil. The Autumn Cascade is a 2 part layering stencil, it is beautiful! I am also using the Thankful and Grateful Stamp set with the coordinating dies to make the sentiment for this card. My color combo today is not the most traditional one, I am using yellow, orange, and gray.
This is an easy project, it can be a one-layer if you want, by stamping the sentiment directly onto the background, or a two-layer card if you want to die cut the sentiment out and pop it up with foam adhesive.
I used Neenah Solar White 80lb cardstock, cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2″. The leaves in this stencil are all placed in a curve, or in an arch. I need to ink blend this twice to have an almost full background for my card. So I’ll have a leafy arch at the top of my panel and another leafy arch at the bottom of my panel, and they will form almost a circular leaf frame on my card if you will.
My idea is to blend each leaf with a different color of ink and I’m just using 3 ink colors – Citrine, Mandarin, and Earl. I have a blending brush for each color and I rotate through these 3 colors to ink blend the leaves. The gray color is probably somewhat unexpected here, it does look odd, but in the end, this color combination works beautifully.
There is a 2nd layer to this stencil and that adds detail and veins to the leaves. I picked just one ink color for the detail layer, it is dark gray Charcoal. This dark grey works really well with yellow and orange and of course the lighter gray. Yellow and gray always make a great color combo and adding orange here easily turned the yellow and gray color combo into a perfect fall combo.
To create the sentiment I stamped the word Thankful using orange ink and I cut it out using the coordinating die. Next, I added additional stamping to the background in Charcoal ink.
Lastly, I used a white gelly roll pen and I added white dots onto each of the berries to create a teeny tiny highlight, I also added some Aura sequins from Spellbinders to hide some of the ink smudges I ended up having on my cards. Have fun crafting!
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Glow-In-The-Dark Halloween Decor
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! I’m always delighted to welcome back special guest Anna-Karin Evaldsson! She’s make this gorgeous piece of decor to share today! Let’s dive in and see how she did it!
Hi everyone! I am happy to be back here today with a Halloween tutorial. I always have such fun making Halloween decorations and to display them every year. I am going to share a really fun and easy mixed media project which glows in the dark.
As a child I had two small glow-in-the-dark figurines next to my bed. I was very fascinated with them and still like glow-in-the-dark items, which is why I was happy to see Tim Holtz new Glow Grit Paste. This stuff is so cool! I created a trick and treat scene on my project with several different details which glow.
As a base I used Sizzix Little Sizzles Mat Board and Simon Says Stamp chipboard. Cut a piece of mat board to 6 x 9 in. Cut a piece of chipboard which is slightly larger. Glue together with Distress Matte Medium and place under a heavy book.
Coat with gesso. Let dry.
Paint with Distress Paint using blue shades combined with grey and black. Mist with water to blend.
When dry stamp here and there with Simon Says Stamp Crackle Background and Jet Black Archival Ink.
For the ground, cut a piece of watercolor paper. Smear Black Soot Distress Ink on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and press the paper into the ink. Immediately emboss in Tim Holtz Reptile folder.
When dry, add more black ink and tear the upper edge.
Apply Distress Black Opaque Texture Paste through some of the words on Tim’s Halloween stencil. Mask off the neighboring words with Simon Says Stamp Very Very Low Tack tape to avoid getting paste there.
Place Simon Says Stamp Snowfall and Banks stencil on the project and apply Glow Grit Paste through the stencil to create stars. I also added some Glow Grit Paste along the base of the panel.
Die cut the moon from Tim’s Moonlight set from heavystock paper.
Ink with Antique Linen using an ink-blending tool.
I wanted the shadows on the moon to be darker and inked the base with Pumice Stone.
Apply Glow Grit Paste to the moon with a palette knife. I tested the Glow Paste on a whole bunch of inky backgrounds first to see how the ink colors would affect the glow. Different colors and shades of ink give a different effect to the Glow Grit Paste, since the paste will pick up some of the ink. Thus, you can create a very cool shadow glow effect on the moon.
Apply a thin layer of Black Opaque Texture Paste to Simon Says Stamp black cardstock. Let dry.
Die cut the three Halloween Night silhouettes from the paste paper. This will give them an interesting texture. Let dry.
Apply a little Sizzix Silver Luster Wax to the figures, to create the appearance of reflections from the moonlight.
Die cut their pumpkin bags from heavystock paper.
Ink with Spiced Marmalade.
Cover with Glow Grit-Paste.
Glue the pumpkin bags to the figures and adhere to the background with Matte Medium.
Die cut bats from the Moonlight die set from black kraft stock paper. Shape a little and glue to the background.
Stickers from Tim Holtz Halloween 2023 sticker book were used as additional sentiments.
You can die cut the figures from black cardstock instead, but the Black Texture Paste gives them a pretty cool finish.
I placed one bat on the moon, which shows as a shadow when the moon glows.
Here you can see the glow effect on the moon, with the two different shades of Distess Ink.
One of the words was almost invisible on the dark background and I added Silver Luster Wax to it to make it more visible.
The kids dropped some sweets on the ground, from Tim Holtz Halloween Confections.
The glow effect is hard to photograph, but here you can see the moon, the stars, the pumpkins and the spots on the ground.
I hope this tutorial inspired you to create Halloween ornaments and to play around with Glow Grit Paste.
Thank you so much for looking! Happy crafting! –Anna-Karin
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Color Blended Die Cuts for a TWEET result: Amore Laurafadora
Hi friends! Happy Saturday! I’m delighted to welcome back special guest Laura Bassen with this mega TWEET inspiration showcasing our brand new (and super popular) Layered Berry Bird die set backed with with super cool Wooden Plank embossing folder. Laura really brought our little birdie to life using a gorgeous assortment of Pawsitively Saturated Inks, and finished the card off with some Moonshine sequins and a sweet simple sentiment from our new Fresh Air Fall Flowers stamp and die set! Be sure to watch the video for all the details, and enjoy!
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