Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula for SimonSaysStamp.com and thanks for joining me today.
Welcome to another episode from my by-monthly Yippe For Yana video series!
In today's episode I'm sharing a masculine Valentine's Day card featuring several Spellbinders
dies!
I want to incorporate a galaxy background into my card as I feel like galaxy prints
aren't going away anytime soon and are still hugely popular!
Heck, I want to have a galaxy wall painted in our apartment!
So I'm going to start by watercoloring a simple galaxy background.
I've shared several videos in the past showing how to watercolor a galaxy, so I'm not going
to focus on this part much in today's video, but I will walk you through the process in
case you are new to watercoloring a galaxy background.
I have a hard board here - I'll use it to tape my watercolor piece onto this board and
it's helpful to have some sort of surface that you can lift up easily and that you can
apply heat to without the fear of ruining that surface.
So a cutting mat is not a good surface, but inexpensive board like this - is perfect.
I have a sheet of Arches Hot Pressed watercolor paper here - I love this paper for all things
watercolor.
I'm going to tape my paper onto the board - I used any low tack tape I can find, in
this case it's my old washi tape and taping the paper onto the board helps it to stay
as flat as possible.
I'll be adding lots of water here so I need to make sure my paper is not going to warp
too much.
To paint my galaxy I'm going to use Daniel Smith watercolors today, here I have an excluesive
Daniel Smith watercolor dot chart - this chart features 18 of my favorite colors to color
with and I'm going to use several colors from here to paint the galaxy - Indigo, Lunar Blue
and Ultramarine Turquoise.
I have my watercolors set up in a palette so I'm going to use them from there, but you
can also use watercolors from the dot chart, there's enough watercolor there to paint a
background like this.
I plan to die cut several items from by background using my dies so I simply planned for my galaxy
background to be slightly larger than the dies I plan to use to make sure I'll have
enough background to cut from.
I've started painting by wetting the entire surface of my paper with water.
I used a large flat brush for this and not I'm using my round, Black Velvet brush #8
to add color to this background.
I'm going to speed this part up.
I first added Indigo around the edges letting the water carry the pigment towards the center
of my paper and also added this same color onto 3 sections, again letting the water distribute
the color.
You want to pre wet your paper so that the color you drop onto the paper doesn't just
sit there, you want it to move and interact with other colors.
I'm also adding Lunar Blue, this is another color I used very often, especially for galaxies
and finally I'm adding Ultramarine turquoise here.
I'm going to come back and add more Indigo and Lunar blue until I'm happy with my background.
Really you can use other colors to watercolor a galaxy, you can easily add light or dark
purple, light blue, pink and even black.
I love blue, indigo especially so this is why I picked theses colors for my galaxy today.
Next to speed things up I'm using my heat tool, you can let it air dry, but why wait
- so I'm just making sure it is completely dry and here's the benefit of using this board
- I don't have to be afraid of melting my work surface when I am heat setting my background.
Now to add white which will mimic stars I'm just going to use white acryllic paint - I've
added a bit onto a clear block and going to use my smaller round #4 brush to pick up some
of that paint, my brush is wet, and add it onto my galaxy.
I'm just tapping on the brush with my finger to create little splatter.
I love the way Kristina Werner adds splatter to her watercolor paintings, its a much more
controlled way and the white paint doesn't get everywhere on your desk, but I am yet
to be successful adding it that way, so I just keep on tapping on my brush to add white
stars onto my galaxy.
Finally, I want to add some shimmer, well lots of shimmer so I'm going to use Distress
Mica Spray in Brushed Pewter - you need to shake the bottle to get the shimmed mixed
with the liquid and will spray it generously onto my background.
Again using my heat tool to dry this piece and finish working on my galaxy background.Here's
what it looks like - lots of shimmer and the best part is that the shimmer doesn't come
off, its permanently set there.
Here's btw another galaxy background I painted earlier, some weeks ago, I used rough watercolor
paper for this and added some moкe white and there's also a bit of gold there too - so
you can see how different these two galaxies look
I'm using several dies from Spellbinders to do my die cutting today and to cut elements
for my card.
I have the dies I panned to use sitting on my Main Attraction - it's a pretty magnet
that is also a desk asseccory that helps you keep your loose dies in one place - its helpful
to have one on your desk as you are working with multiple dies to keep them all in one
place and also to search for them and pick them all up from your messy desk area.
I also have one of those in my bathroom - I use it to keep all of my hair pins together.
So I'm going to use Spellbinders Near Or Far stamp and die set, there are sentiment stamps
that go together with this map of the US, but I'm just using the map today and I love
that this map has 2 pieces to it - there's an actual map and a mat to it, I'm going to
cut the actual map out of this galaxy paper.
I'm also going to die cut a love letter from the Love Letter Die set out of this paper
and this die is a solid die that adds debossing onto your piece, in other words it pushes
the paper in, instead of out like with embossing.
And finally I'm going to die cut several little hearts, there are also from the near or far
set.
I'm taping my dies down onto my paper to make sure they don't move and cut exactly where
I've placed them and I always do this, saves me a lot of time and frustration and paper.
To die cut the mat piece of the map I'm using new glitter paper from Simon Says Stamp - this
is fantastic paper as the glitter doesn't come off, and the paper is die-cutttable.
I'm using a black glitter paper today, although Simon has lots of different other colors of this glitter paper.
I also want to die cut an envelope and for this I'm using fabulous Burnished Rose paper
from Tonic Studios.
Going to set up my die cutting machine and will go ahead and cut these piece out.
I'm using my Platinum 6 Die Cutting and Embossing machine from Spellbinders, I also have a larger
Platinum machine sitting off to the side and that's the machine that I usually use, but
the larger one doesn't fit in my video frame so I'm using smaller machine on video.
They are both equally good machines.
The machine comes with a platform and on that platform you have a cheat sheet that tells
you exactly how you need to position your plates to cut or emboss.
Very helpful and you don't have to check the machine's manual all the time. To make sure you arranging your plates the correct way.
So I'm going to send all of my pieces through the machine to cut - here I have the love
letter with the fabulous debossing, I love how it turneoud out and I love that added
detail to this piece, it's not just a rectangle, but it really does look like a mini love letter.
Here's my map all nice and cut - not a single problem die cutting this glitter paper and then
the rose gold enevelope - I'm using my tool 'n one here to push the die cut through the
die to help me to get it out - I use this tool all the time when I'm die cutting, its'
also very helpful for cleaning your dies from the negative die cut pieces.
Now what's awesome about the envelope is that it's designed in such a way that there's a
slit that lets you insert the letter through - so it looks like you've assembled the envelope
and here I have the letter peeking from the inside when all you did really was just cut it out,
no assembly needed.
I love clever dies like this.
Now the map die cut can be embossed - you can see there's a bit of a metal edge to the
cut edge - that is indicative that you can emboss with this Spellbinders die.
I'm going to place my die cut back into the die, will tape it in place just in case and
will send through the machine to emboss and here you can see that nice edge that was added
this this die cut, so just another little detail that makes this piece unique.
I die cut some more little hearts for my card and that finished (almost finished) the cutting part of this
video. I'll go back to my die cutting machine one more time.
Time to assemble the pieces.
I'm going to use this fabulous woodgrain paper from Hero Arts - I love it for all things
clean and simple, and Simon also has this paper in their store from Simon brand and from other manufacturers as well.
It really is fantastic paper for simple cards with a lots of white space.
I want to foam mount my map galaxy die cut onto the glitter die cut but I want to use a solid
layer of foam adhesive, to so that I'm going to add double sided sticky sheet onto the
front and back of a sheet of fun foam and will die cut the map once again out of this
fun foam piece.
Obviously you can use foam adhesive here, but I like to pop things up on my projects with the solid layer of fun foam
this is why I'm creating that additional layer of fun foam to pop my die cut.
The trick here is to use thin adhesive like these Adehsive Sheets from Scrapbook Adhesives,
or Stick it Adhesive from Ken Oliver and I'm also using regular white fun foam - you can
see I cut it no problem in my die cutting machine using that map die.
And I've cut fun foam like this with adhesive on both sides using even very detailed and
intricate dies and I never have any problems.
Going to adhere the galaxy map onto the fun foam map - and this is why I added adhesive
to this piece - so that I was able to easily adhere things together, I don't like to fuss
around with glue when I work with these kinds of things and going to adhere this onto the
glitter map and will adhere the entire piece onto the wood grain panel.
I want to next layer an envelope with the love letter inside, but before I do that I
want to add black writting to the debossed area - so I'm just using a black pen and outlining
that debossed section on this letter die cut, I don't have to freehand anything, I'm just
placing my pen into the groove and coloring the debossed section in black.
You can also color it white or gold or silver.
Any color you like.
Going to insert my letter into the envelope and will foam mount both on the card.
Now I need to work on a sentiment for this project and I want to heat embosse Be Mine
from the new stamp set from Hero Arts, it's from thier Valentine's Day release and I'm
also want to heat emboss Please Deliver By Feb 14 and this message comes from an older set
also from Hero Arts - I'm heat embossing both of these in white embossing powder onto black
cardstock strips.
This kind of card can be a long distance Valentines day card for a guy or it can be just a Valentine's
day card and the map can signify that the letter is just being delivered by post.
Even though I have a lot of shimmer and even use glitter this design works well for a guy
card I think.
So I've heat embossed my messages, I'm not adhering the little die cut hearts onto the
panel above and below the map and will use black foam tape for foam mount the sentiments
onto this card.
Finally I adhered my panel onto an A2 side folding card base made out of white cardstock
and thart finished my project.
As a variation of this design you can also die-cut a door and hide a secret message on
your card.
Here I have the exact same card design, but the map the of the US opens and revels a hidden
message.
Here's how you can make this.
Before adhering the map onto a background panel Die-cut an identical map in the panel
but make a partial cut, here I am placing my top cutting plate onto the panel just partially,
I'm not covering the entire die and by doing so I will force my machine to make a partial
cut only.
Where the plate is not covering the die the cut will not be made and therefore my die
cut map will remain attached onto the card or onto the panel.
Next I'm using my scoring board and adding a score like and to make it easier for this
map piece to fold and open.
Here I heat embossed that secret message on a black cardstock panel, I adhered this panel
so that you can see the message when you open the map and that will adhere this onto the
card base as usual.
And here's what this other card idea looks like.
So this finishes this video. I hope you will give this idea a try. I you do, please tag Simon Says Stamp
and me on social media, so we take take a peek at your projects.
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Thanks so much for joining me today. I'll see you next time. Bye.
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