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Video: Color Layering Holiday Cards | Color Layering With Yana Series

Oct 08, 2018 Yana Smakula

Hello Hero Arts fans! Welcome back for another episode of the Color Layering video series!

In this video & episode I am taking a closer look at the Holiday Color Layering sets to create simple and easy to replicate/mass produce Christmas cards! 

Watch the video tutorial below to learn how I made the cards I'm sharing today.

 

If you’re having a problem viewing this video, please try watching it HERE in HD on YouTube.

The two sets I will be working with today are Color Layering Trimmings and Color Layering Poinsettia. Both are fabulous Color Layering stamp sets that are great for quick and easy Christmas cards.

Wishing You Joy This Season Card by Yana Smakula for Hero Arts
I wanted to make simple cards that wouldn’t be hard to replicate and if needed would be easy to mass produce and so I settled on my favorite card layout - a framed one.

This basically comes down to stamping whatever image you want to use on the perimeter of the card going slightly outside the edge creating a frame for a beautiful Holiday message in the center.

Wishing You Joy This Season Card by Yana Smakula for Hero Arts
I used Moss and Forever Green ink to stamp pine branches and Ombre Brown ink to stamp pinecones.

Wishing You Joy This Season Card by Yana Smakula for Hero Arts
Once my frame stamping was completed I stamped a sentiment using new Peace Love & Joy set to stamp in Navy ink for the word "Joy" and white heat embossed "Wishing You" and "This Season" on red cardstock. 

Wishing You Joy This Season Card by Yana Smakula for Hero Arts

I also used sequins from the Poinsettia sequins mix and I added a bunch of small and medium sequins in red onto my card mixing them in with the the pine cones.

This card took less than 10 minutes to make and if you are looking for easy Holiday cardmaking ideas to mass produce - this card is a good example plus it doesn’t use a lot of supplies.

For my second project for today I used the color Layering Poinsettia stamp set.  This is also an easy project, but not quite as easy as the previous one as the poinsettia image has 3 layers to it plus there’s 2 leaves with 2 layers each.

Wishing You Joy This Season Card by Yana Smakula for Hero Arts

Here I went with my favorite color combo for red poinsettias - Pale Tomato, Red Royal and Mulled Wine. This poinsettia comes with 2 leaf images and the way they are designed you don’t have to do any masking to stamp them next to the flower to create a seamless look - they fit perfectly in-between specific petals.

Wishing You Joy This Season Card by Yana Smakula for Hero Arts
I used the same Love, Peace Joy stamp set to stamp a sentiment for this card and here I did so in black ink. This actually was a one line sentiment “May your holidays be filled with”, but that didn’t work for my card, so I cut it into pieces that made more sense for this particular card design.

Wishing You Joy This Season Card by Yana Smakula for Hero Arts

I adhered my background panel onto an A2 white side folding card base, foam mounted the sentiment strip on top and dressed this card up using several gold and white sequins from the Champagne sequin mix.

Have fun stamping!

 

 

19 Responses

conniecrafter

conniecrafter

October 20, 2018

Both are just beautiful!

Beth Buss

Beth Buss

October 15, 2018

I have been looking for inspiration for some Christmas Cards. These are fantastic, Iove how easy to make they are as time around the holiday’s precious. I love the 2 color idea for the leaves and the 3 color stamp pads are really handy. Thanks. Keep the easy cards coming. Love them.

Barbara S

Barbara S

October 10, 2018

I love, love, love these cards. The colors you chose for the poinsettia are beautiful. Thanks for sharing your art, I appreciate it.

cyndi morris

cyndi morris

October 10, 2018

The poinsettia layering stamp is gorgeous. I love your framed stamping technique. Both cards are beautiful.

Connie

Connie

October 10, 2018

Really love the poinsettias! Will have to give this set a try.
I have been wanting to do some pink ones.
As always, Yana, Great Work!

Jennifer Williams

Jennifer Williams

October 10, 2018

This is amazing!! I love the pine branches and I have now decided on my Christmas card for this year. Thanks Yana!!

Lagene

Lagene

October 10, 2018

Awesome cards, I especially love the poinsettias!

Marianne

Marianne

October 10, 2018

Beautiful cards! I will be making several. Thanks for the video.

Elaine Pierce

Elaine Pierce

October 10, 2018

I really like the layered poinsettia! It truly looks 3-D. My problem is that I have such a problem lining up my stamps…what blocks do you use?

Tina

Tina

October 10, 2018

Beautiful, easy to do cards! Perfect for holidays. Thank you for the video!

Mary Sanders MacFadyen

Mary Sanders MacFadyen

October 10, 2018

Beautiful cards, Yana.

Debbie

Debbie

October 09, 2018

Yana, Both cards are beautiful! You make it look so easy!

Cathy

Cathy

October 09, 2018

Your cards are beautiful! You make it look so easy! Love your videos too!

Karthikha Uday

Karthikha Uday

October 08, 2018

Beautiful cards!

Cindy C.

Cindy C.

October 08, 2018

Both so gorgeous and beautifully done! I am inspired to CASE you Yana!!

Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith

October 08, 2018

Beautiful cards.

Henriëtte

Henriëtte

October 08, 2018

Beautiful cards Yana, I love both of the stamp sets, they are gorgeous. Thank you so much for showing and sharing.

Barbara-Jean

Barbara-Jean

October 08, 2018

Beautiful cards and coloring!

Carla vdM

Carla vdM

October 08, 2018

Hello Yana,
Your cards are gorgeous.
Alas youtube does not give a video either.

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