Yippee for Yana: Vacation Time
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Please join me in welcoming Yana Smakula back as our special Yippee for Yana bi-monthly blog series! Read on and watch the video for more information! Enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula, welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video! I love to combine my new stamp sets with my all-time favorite old sets and so in today’s episode, I am sharing a Vacation Time card featuring Simon’s new Be a Mermaid stamp set, I did feature it in my last video, but I really adore this set and I have so many ideas for using it, I can’t put it down just yet. And I am also using my older stamp sets from Simon – the Vacation Time set for the sentiment and also the Tropical Leaves stamp set to help me set the scene.
I started working on my card by stamping the leaves from the Tropical Leaves stamp set using a mini MISTI stamping tool onto Neenah Solar White 80lb cardstock. I love the Tropical Leaves stamp set because it is a very simple set, yet it is a layering set and I love myself a well-designed layering stamp set. I’ve picked 2 colors of ink – a light green and a dark green to stamp these leaves. The light green I am using is Willow from Simon.
Having stamped the leaves using the Willow ink I removed the stamps that have a second layering layer to them. I kept just those stamps that have one layer. I did this because I wanted to partially ink these up using a dark green color, in my case, Forever Green from Hero Arts. Next, I used the 2nd layer stamps for the layering leaves, I positioned those and stamped them in that same dark green, Forever Green ink from Hero Arts.
I used coordinating dies and cut all of these leaves out in my die cutting machine. Next, I used the mermaid tail images from the new Be a Mermaid stamp set and stamped 4 in Simon’s Intense Black ink on the same white cardstock.
My plan was to use a light blue cardstock panel, Mist from Hero Arts, and create a scene using the mermaid tails and tropical leaves. The mermaid tails, of course, had to be colored. I used YG93, YG95, and YG99 Copic markers to color them.
To add interest and detail to mermaid tail I used 2 pens from Tonic Studios, a Glitter Gloss, and Midas Touch shimmer pens. I first applied the Midas Touch pen to the shadow areas and then blended the gold shimmer out using the Glimmer Gloss pen giving my mermaid tails a gold and silver shimmer.
Next, I stamped the sentiment that reads You Deserve This – Vacation Time in black ink on Hero Arts MIST cardstock. I used foam adhesive squares and foam mounted the mermaid tails in place, framing the sentiment in a way.
Next, I added leaves building my scene. I used both liquid glue, I like to use Simon’s Craft Tacky Glue and foam adhesive squares to keep building that dimension on the scene. I overlapped the leaves and mermaid tails quite a bit to create a cohesive scene. Any excess that was hanging off the panel was cut off.
Next, to embellish this card I once again used my white pen and added dots onto the blue background. I coated most of the dots with Nuvo Drops in Sea Breeze and also added a bunch of various size bubbles onto the blue background mimicking water.
I wanted to create flowers and add pops of color to this scene, and to do that I used Nuvo Drops in pink and yellow, I used colors Carnation Pink and English Mustard and added various size dots, in groups of 3 for the most part, onto my card. You can stamp and add actual flower images to this scene, but I felt like using Nuvo Drops was easier and it looked really fun too. Have fun stamping!
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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Yana for being our guest!
Slimline Picnic Parade Cards
Hi friends! Happy Monday! Please join me in welcoming special guest Nichol Spohr with these darling ( & trendy!!) Slimline cards showcasing components of our August 2020 card kit, Picnic Parade! Be sure to watch the video for more information and enjoy!
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Picket Fence Brand of the Month Inspiration
Hello friends, it’s Nina-Marie Trapani here with you today and I’m bringing you a bit of colorful inspiration using a new (as well as super-cute!) Picket Fence Studios stamp set – Artist Dear!
I love the quirky style of this stamp set, as well as the fact that the illustration is the type that can be customized to look like the girlfriends or family in your life! With just a few color adjustments, I was able to create a Caucasian and African American girl extremely easily. Skin and hair Copic colors used are below for reference.
- Caucasian skin: E40, E42, E43, with R00 and R21 for the cheeks
- Caucasian hair: E25, E27, E29
- African American skin: E43, E44, E47, with R00 and R21 for the cheeks
- African American hair: C4, C6, C8
I’ve been trying really hard to use up my scraps of late (I have SO many and the pile seems to only grow!). So I cut up some pieces of colored cardstock to coordinate with the girls and adhered those along the bottom of the white card panel.
Above the cardstock stripes, I added some glittery polka dots with a Heffy Doodle stencil, Transparent Matte Texture Paste, Simon’s Unicorn Dust glitter and Lawn Fawn Chunky Glitter. For sentiments, I used Simon’s Reverse Happy sentiment strip set.
Want to see how these colorful cards were created? Watch the video below for all the details!
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