Creating the Illusion of Dimension in an Almost One-Layer 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! Today I’m creating a (almost) one-layer card full of faux dimension with the Simon Says Stamp Tucked Hearts stamp set. Join me!
The Tucked Hearts stamps a unique background filled with large overlapping hearts. I stamped it using Intense Black ink onto Neenah Solar white 80lb cardstock. I trimmed my panel to 4 ¼ x 5 1/2 “ making sure I had one heart exactly in the center. I colored that center heart red using R27 and R39 Copic markers. I was inspired by the colors of my living room (green walls and red posted) and went with green and red color combination which is so common for Christmas but isn’t used much outside of the Holiday season. The rest of the hearts were colored using G94 and G99 – I made sure to add shading everywhere where the hearts overlapped to create the illusion of a dimensional panel. I love the end result!
I added a simple skinny strip sentiment overlapping the red heart (I didn’t want to cover much of the background). The sentiment was made using the brilliant EZ strips – these are so easy to make and give you a bunch of sentiments in a single pass through the die cutting machine.
And lastly, I embellished my cards with Rainbow Splash drops. Yay! I hope you’ll try this background stamp, regardless of the color combo you use!
Have fun stamping!
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Create and Share Reprise: Artist Trading Cards
Hi friends! Happy Monday! This post originally shared last year bu special guest Cheiron Brandon was just too cute not to reshare – and the perfect time of year for it! Have you ever made ATC’s (Artist Trading Cards)?! It’s kind of like Baseball/Sports card trading but with our crafty friends and if you go to a crop you can come back with a gorgeous assortment of ATC’s from new and old friends! Cheiron is showcasing a really lovely design she made using the Love Notes design! Read on to learn more and enjoy!
Hi there crafty friends, it’s Cheiron Brandon here with another Tim Holtz project for you. This month I am joining an ATC (Artist Trading Cards) swap with some other artists, and I thought it would be fun to show you how my ATCs came together! What is an artist trading card you might ask? It is a small piece of art that is traded by artists either in person or online. There is really only one specification for these cards and that is that they are sized 2.5″ x 3.5″.
I wanted to play around my Tim Holtz Love Notes set and make a set of cards that I hope would be inspiring to other artists as well. To create my cards I cut the bases of my ATCs from Distress Black Heavystock. It is possible to get 10 cards from one sheet of 8 ½ x 11 cardstock if you cut your paper in three strips lengthwise. One strip will be 3 ½ inches wide and the other two will be 2 1/2 inches wide. (Remember, the dimensions of ATCs are 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches). Next, cut four 2 1/2 inch pieces from your 3 ½ inch strip. Cut three 3 ½ inch pieces from each 2 ½ inch strip. You’ll have just a tiny piece of extra paper at the end of each strip.
I cut 10 white cards to go on top of the black ATCs from Distress Watercolor cardstock and made these 2 3/8 x 3 3/8. To add color to my Distress Watercolor Cardstock I sprayed some Speckled Egg Distress Stain and some Snow Flurries Distress Mica Stain onto my glass mat and sprayed it with water using a Distress Sprayer. I picked up the color by pressing my paper into the mat, drying it with a heat tool and then picking up some more color and drying again. You can do this until you are happy with the layers.
Once all my cards were dry, I stamped a sentiment from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Love Notes stamps. Then I inked the edges of each card with Black Soot Distress Ink using a foam blending tool and then adhered them to the Distress Black Heavystock. To finish my cards, I stamped one of the hearts from the Love Notes set with Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide and then embossed it with Picked Raspberry Distress Embossing Glaze. I cut all of the hearts out and adhered them to the ATCs with foam squares. Now all that is left to do is sign the backs. Have you traded ATCs before? I hope you will try these out for yourself!
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Brand NEW Mixed Media Card Idea inspired by Tim Holtz featuring our February 2025 Card Kit!
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! We’re delighted to bring you even MORE unique inspiration featuring our fabulous February 2025 card kit, Distressed Vintage Notes! Please join me in welcoming back special guest Laura Bassen to take another look at the fabulous contents of this mega valued (retailed at more than $75!) card kit by Laura in case you missed the reveal last week, along with some fresh inspiration inspired by the one-and-only Tim Holtz! Watch the video for all the details and enjoy!
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