Yippee for Yana: Floral Pattern Friendship Card
Hi friends! Happy Thursday! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Yana Smakula to our blog! Read on and be sure to watch the video for more information! Enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula, welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! One of my favorite ways to use floral stamps is to build my own custom floral patterns. Today I’m using one of Simon’s new floral clusters, from the Best Friend Ever stamp set, to create a custom floral pattern for a friendship card.
This is a simple-to-make card using an oldie but goodie technique. I invite you to join me and make a card like this using the supplies I am using today or similar products you might have in your stash!
Follow these steps to re-create this card:
- Using a MISTI stamping tool stamp the floral cluster coming in from the corners of the panel to fill the entire 4 ¼ x 5 ½” panel. I needed to stamp the image 4 times to fill the background. I also stamped 3 partial impressions in the gaps where I felt I had too much space.
If you’d like to create a one layer card, begin by stamping the sentiment first. Next, build the floral pattern around it. This way the sentiment will look as if it is nestled in between the florals.
- Color the pattern using Copic markers. I used RV34, RV11, and RV00 to color most of the flowers pink; BG45 and B000 to color the large leaves teal; G99, G94, and YG63 to color the small leaves green and Y15 to color the smallest flowers yellow.
- Add white highlights to the images using Sakura gelly roll pen.
- Die-cut a circle from white cardstock. Stamp sentiment using sentiments from the Inside Friendship Messages stamp set. Stamp the main sentiment in VersaFine Onyx Black ink and the sub-sentiment is light gray.
- Foam mount sentiment circle onto the card.
- Stamp another floral cluster onto a piece a scrap paper. Color just the section with the yellow flowers. Cut the image out using a coordinating die. Cut the edge using a circle die and foam mount partial cluster over the sentiment circle.
- Decorate the flower centers using Nuvo Drops in white.
- Let dry and enjoy!
Have fun stamping!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Yana for being our guest!
Love You and Love You, Too Blog Hop WINNERS!
Hello, friends! Have you seen our Love You and Love You, Too Simon exclusive releases? These wonderful product lineups are full of lots of products to share the love! Included you’ll find tons of beautiful floral stamps (a customer favorite), an array of hearts and Valentine-themed stamps, dies, and stencils, dies for dimensional projects, mini slimline envelopes, clever sentiment dies, and a dash of luck for St. Patrick’s Day! No matter your style, you’re sure to find an item or two (or way more!) that need to be in your craft arsenal. There are some wonderful new products from CZ Design, and a brand new set of Suzy’s watercolor cards, too! We are so excited for you to play with all of these awesome new products!
To celebrate this phenomenal release, we hosted two amazing blog hops! The hops featured many talented designers and each one created wonderful projects to inspire you. If you missed either of the hops, you can find the direct links here: DAY ONE and DAY TWO.
A BIG thank you to all of YOU who joined us for the hops! We enjoy hearing from each of you, and your words of encouragement and appreciation to each of the designers mean so much to us here at Simon and to them. It’s our tradition to give away gift certificates to random commenters on each blog stop, and today we are revealing all of the winners! So without further ado, I present to you our winners!
DAY ONE HOP WINNERS:
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Denise Ward!
from Jennifer McGuire’s blog: Kathy Blair!
from Cathy Zielske’s blog: Veronica Donnelly!
from Nina-Marie Trapani’s blog: Christine Craig!
from Nichol Spohr’s blog: Mayumi O!
from Caly Person’s blog: Stacey Kowbel!
from Yana Smakula’s blog: Melissa Baskin!
from Suzy Plantamura’s blog: Esther!
from Amy Rysavy’s blog: Cindy Aguirre!
from Lisa Addesa’s blog: Patty!
from Heather Ruwe’s blog: Beth Merrill!
from Sidnie Des Jardins’s blog: Lhyden1!
from Cheiron Brandon’s blog: Yolanda Scott!
from Barb Engler’s blog: Kristen Snoozy!
from Lea Lawson’s blog: Sandra Baggarly!
from Jo Nevill’s blog: Jennifer Whitehurst!
DAY TWO HOP WINNERS:
from Simon Says Stamp’s blog: Kathy Corbeill!
from Laura Bassen’s blog: Connie G!
from Debby Hughes’s blog: Judyann Walker!
from Amanda Korotkova’s blog: Sherry M.!
from Yoonsun Hur’s blog: Tricia Davis!
from Heather Hoffman’s blog: Giselle!
from Bibi Cameron’s blog: Donna de Gale-Kalloo!
from Anna-Karin Evaldsson’s blog: Amelia Fleck!
from Bobbi Lemanski’s blog: Dianna Durbin!
from Vicky Papaioannou’s blog: Kenya!
from Keisha Charles’s blog: txmlhl!
from Kath Stewart’s blog: Stamps and Paper!
from Kim Hamilton’s blog: April!
from Dilay Nicar’s blog: Natasha V!
from Lorraine Aquilina’s blog: cottagerca!
from Misty Elam’s blog: Yolanda Gonzalez!
If you see your name listed above, CONGRATULATIONS! Please email [email protected] and let him know that you are one of our Love You and Love You, Too Blog Hop winners! You’ll receive a $25 Gift Card. ???
Thanks again for hopping along with us! We hope you enjoy our fantastic Love You and Love You, Too release and that they give you creative enjoyment for months to come!
Winning ROCKS, and so do you!
Making the Cut: Picture Book Valentine’s
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! And welcome to the extra sweet January 2021 version of our monthly Making the Cut blog feature with Nichol Sphor where we share the love of die cutting! Today, Nichol has made FOUR gorgeous cards showcasing our more newly released Mini Hearts Party die and Mini Interactive Envelope dies as well as some super fun critters like our Picture Book Love Bear, Picture Book Sweet Cat, Lovable Sloth, and Big Picture Book Puppy with Big Picture Book Big Body!
Take an up-close look at each of these adorable cards, and be sure to watch the video for all the details on how to make them!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Nichol for being our special guest!
