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Distress Oxide Thank You cards with Erica

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Hello, it’s the birthday girl Erica on the blog today! Happy birthday to me, I’m 25 today, whoop whoop!! Admittedly, it’s something like the 13th time I’m 25 but honestly, who’s counting? I’m not one of these ‘let’s grow old gracefully’ kind of gals, nope, not me. Kicking and screaming is more my style. And when that fails, denial. Oh, and then drown my sorrows in cake! I have never denied being a bit of a drama queen when it comes to ageing.

The birthday cards and presents have been trickling in for a little while so I thought I’d best make some thank you cards to send out to people for making me feel special. One of my early birthday presents from my sweet husband was the full set of Distress Oxide inks and I decided to try some of these out for today’s cards.

The Distress Oxides are super smooth and so easy to ink blend (which I will most likely be doing on a card in the near future) but I thought I’d try some easy ink smooching on both white and black card stock to see how it came out. I did watch some tutorials by Tim Holt himself before I started because to be honest, I kinda had the ‘need the full set syndrome’ before even having tried a single one and told The Man who prompted me to get them. Which I did right away as the dutiful and obedient wife that I am….*I nearly managed to write that without falling off my chair laughing, lol*

Anyway… *still snickering to myself*… I picked out Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade and Fired Brick as my colour combination. These I rubbed directly onto my craft mat and then spritzed some water on it to ‘activate’ the oxide process. Then it was a simple-ish procedure of putting a piece of card stock down on top, smooch-smooch-smooch and flip over. I used my heat tool to help the drying process along and watched the magic. My first piece was white card stock and it looked amazing!

Moving on to the black card stock, I did the same thing in the same ink puddle. This didn’t work out as great. In hindsight, I should have started from scratch with this one too but, not one to give up, I dried it with the heat tool. Once it was dry, it had a really unique and fun pattern on it so I decided to use it anyway. Next time I will use less water and more ink on dark card stock though.

As these were going to be thank you cards, I grabbed the ‘Mini Thank You’ stamp set which has been a freebie with qualifying orders but will be released on its own in June. On the black card I decided to heat emboss it in white to make it stand out, I thought just stamping it with white ink might make it disappear. Before I stamped it with VersaMark ink, I sprinkled the card base with my anti-static tool to avoid those pesky stray bits of embossing powder sticking where I didn’t want them. On the bright coloured card I decided to go with black ink and not heat emboss it. When I look at it now, I think I should have said yes to heat embossing on this one too but you know, you live and learn.

Even with the fun backgrounds I thought the cards looked a bit plain. What’s that? Me? A sequin addict?? Where is that coming from?! *erm, totally guilty* So, yeah, it should come as about ZERO surprise that I grabbed some sequins to add some pizazz to these cards. One of my favourite fusions is the Crystal Rainbow mix and I got out some yellow, orange and hot pink ones in different sizes. These I added in a ‘meteorite shower’ kind of pattern across the card, yellow sequins on the yellow ink, orange sequins on the orange ink and hot pink ones over the red ink.

 

These cards are actually quite quick to make, especially once you get the hang of the Distress Oxides and how much water to add etc. They are even quicker when you don’t stop and faff as much as I sometimes do whilst making a card!

If you take the plunge and get these inks, take some time to get to grips with them and play around. You never know what might come out of it, and having ready made backgrounds are always a time-saver for those times you need to make a card in record time.

Well, that’s it for me for today, I’m off to celebrate the rest of my birthday with The Man and The Cheeky Chicas. And most likely a big piece of cake or four, since birthday calories don’t count.

Happy crafting from Erica

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I Miss You Friend! with Valentyna

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Hello friends,
Popping up this rainy day to share another card with cute Studio Katia Hello Alice stamp.
I did make a watercolor card before with this adorable girl. This time I decided to color the image with Chameleons.
I stamped and colored girl with Chameleons, as you can see in very bright colors. Cannot stand this gloomy sight outside of my window. I wanted to make purple my dominate color and made a purple card base. The rain drops and the paddle are shaded with a little gray color. To add a dimension I adhered the girl using 3D foam tape and added some clear rain drops.

SUPPLIES:

Hello Alice Clear Stamp Set

Duo Talk Clear Stamp Set

And the Fox Says … Clear Stamp Set

Rain Drops

For the sentiment, I combined I miss you! from And the Fox Says stamp set with Friend from Duo Talk. Looks kind of sweet :)!
This stamps set has also a cute tiny cat, hearts, and ball. which could be used alone on the CAS cards and as the elements to build a scene.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!
Valentyna

PS: Stay tuned for the winner announcements later today.

COPIC Coloring Over Distress Smooshing Background

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hi friends,

Svitlana is here today sharing a card made using Together We Bloom stamp set. This set has several very beautiful floral images and you know me – floral stamps are my favorite to work with.

SUPPLIES:

Together We Bloom Stamp Set

Thank You So Much Stamp Set

Clear Round Drops – Mix

 

To start my card off I created an distress ink smooshing background using Worn Lipstick, Mustard Seed and Moved Lawn onto a Tim Holtz watercolor panel. I pressed each ink pad onto a sandwich bag, sprayed them with water and placed the panel on them. Then I turned the paper with the bag over and with my fingers smudged inks as I wanted it all over the panel.

Then I stamped floral cluster using COPIC friendly Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink. I used masking paper to create masks for my flower to stamp them not overlapped. I tried to stamp flower over yellow and pink inks smooshing, and leaves over green. On the other hand I didn’t try to be very precise, which was almost impossible even if I’d try. I got parts of flowers stamped over green ink, and leaves over pink and yellow. As you can see in the end result – it didn’t really matter.

The flowers and leaved then were colored using COPIC markers. The flowers stamped over yellow ink I colored with yellow markers, used red markers to color over pink ink and leaves were colored with green.

After I finished my coloring I trimmed the panel to 3.75 x 5″. For the sentiment I choose very beautiful Thank You from Thank You So Much Stamp Set which I also stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink. This was an epic fail decision as my sentiment blended in with stamped florals. This happens with me all the time – after so much work put into a card I can ruin it with the last action. Of course I didn’t want to discard this card and all that work I invested in it. So I added shadow to the sentiment using white gel pen and this seemed to improve the situation. With the same pen I also added several dots around the florals. Along with color droplets, which I made with the same inks and small brush (just diluted some ink with water, picked up with brush and sprinkled all over the panel).

Also I covered the floral images with Clear Wink Of Stella. Of course it’s not visible on photos, but it is in real life.

I added several clear droplets of different sizes. Sometimes people as me what adhesive I use for these transparent droplets. I always use Ranger Multi Medium Adhesive in Matte finish. It dries clear and is not visible through clear droplets. Plus – this is very strong adhesive. I always use it for small non paper embellies like sequins, dots etc.

Lastly I foam mounted the panel onto a white card base I made out of Neenah Solar White cardstock. To  mount my panel I used a piece of white fun foam, cut a bit smaller then the panel, which I adhered with very strong Tombow Xtreme adhesive (it works great for stubborn surfaces, like foam or watercolor paper).

Have a wonderful day!

Svitlana

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Hi My Fine Feathered Friend with Laurie

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Hello Cards, Other

Hello and Happy Monday!!  Laurie here to share a fun little card made using some stamps and dies that were released awhile ago!!
I went through my stash of SK goodies and came across the Pink Winter stamp set.  This set is technically a Winter/Christmas themed set but the builder sentiments and flamingo image can be used year round!! The dies I chose to use were the Elongated Dotted Hexagons.  These are such a cool shape and the dual dotted detail is awesome!
I die cut the largest hexagon out of some Lawn Fawn patterned paper…I love their paper pads, as they give so much inspiration for colour!! I also cut this same die out of some pink fun foam to give the entire piece dimension.   I die cut the medium hexagon out of white cardstock to layer on top.  Before adhering my flamingo to that hexagon, I lightly blended some Scattered Straw Distress Ink to bring in some yellow from the patterned paper.  I then adhered the flamingo using foam adhesive.
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For the sentiment, I used words from the Pink Winter stamp set to create “my fine feathered friend” and stamped those onto the banner die from the Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames Creative Die Set. For the “hi” part of the sentiment, I used the Duo Talk stamp set.  I simply stamped the “hi” in a pink ink and fussy cut it out.
Before adhering all the pieces, I wanted to jazz up the cardbase.  I used the Falling Snow Stencil from Simon Says Stamp and a light grey ink.  I also used the cute little heart image that is part of the Duo Talk stamp set in the same pink ink I used for the word “hi”.
I trimmed down my cardbase by 1/2″ to make a smaller card.  The fact that it is the exact same width as the banner die is a complete fluke 🙂  I also foam mounted the “hi” onto the banner to give a litter more dimension.
To finish off, I added Glossy Accents to the flamingo’s beak and eye and also the HI, and some glitter pen to the dots on the background.
I think this card is pretty cute!  I hope you enjoyed!
Until next time….
Laurie

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Birthday shaker card with Erica

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Blog Hops, Cards, Floral Cards, News, Shaker Cards

 

Hello!!

Erica here with my blog post to go with the card I made as part of the 1st Birthday Celebration blog hop for Studio Katia! (You might have seen my card already if you took part in the hop on May 4th but here is the whole shebang in words too.)

As soon as I heard that the prompt for this blog hop was shaker cards I decided to do a see-through vase and fill it with blue and transparent sequins and shaker beads. Adding lots of flowers for the vase was just a bonus. I have done a card in the past when the vase was propped up on the front of the card but for this one I decided to do a flat front and cut the shaker compartment into the back, if that makes sense? I’m reading this back and it just seems like a mad riddle to be honest.. Hopefully the photos will explain better than my words do!

I started out by cutting out a tall and thin card base, 7″ x 4″, in a fabulous linen textured white card stock. In this panel I cut out the smallest of the Stitched Creative Nested Rectangles towards the bottom, leaving enough room to add enough adheisive to make sure no sequins escape the shaker compartment. Using this as a guide I cut out 4 panels in the same size and die cut the ‘vase’ on each one. These I layered up using LOTS of double sided tape and for the top layer I added a piece of acetate to the front panel. This whole lot I set aside for a minute as I wanted to stamp some flower stems on the negative cut (in the white linen textured card stock) before adding this to the back of the shaker compartment. Using the skinniest Brush Strokes stamp I stamped several stems using a green ink. Then to add a little bit extra I stamped some skinnier stems, from a stamp set from The Ton, using a darker ink.

Turning my card panel upside down, I filled the shaker compartment with Clear Iridescent Seed Beads, Icy Breeze Sequins in 4mm size and also some metallic blue 4mm sequins which sadly aren’t available any more so you could use Enchanted Sea Sequins or Light Blue Metallic Star Sequins for a jazzy look. The ‘inside of the vase’-bit I gently added as a lid and then I adhered the final piece of card stock to keep it all together.

Moving on to my flowers I reached for the big bloom in the Thank You So Much set and I stamped up two on Strathmore Bristol Vellum water colour paper and heatembossed them in white embossing powder. Using my Zig markers, I coloured them in rich reds with hints of pink. As usual the florist in me thought ‘this bunch needs greenery and some smaller flowers too’ so I stamped up another flower from the Together We Bloom as well as the biggest leaves. This I stamped two together to make a slightly bigger bunch of leaves. All this also got coloured in using Zig markers. Everything then got fussy cut.

Arranging these into a nice, big bunch I adhered them to the card using foam tape to add some extra dimension. As this is for a birthday it needed a sentiment and to keep things simple, as the rest of the card has a lot going on, I just stamped ‘Happy Birthday’ from the Birthday Lions  in black on a piece of white card stock and cut it down quite small. This I also adhered with foam tape on the top flower and with that, the card was done!

I hope you have enjoyed this post and will enjoy the rest of the hop! There are always some absolutely amazing and breathtaking projects from the rest of the DT and the guest designers, you aren’t going to want to miss it! It also wouldn’t be a Birthday Celebration without a giveaway and some fabulous prizes, right? Don’t worry, although the actual birthday blog hop was a few days ago, there is still time to leave comments on each one for your chance to win.

GIVEAWAY INFO:
– You can win a $20 GC to Studio Katia at every stop on the hop! Make sure to leave a comment by Sunday, May 7th for your chance to win! The more blogs you visit, the greater your chances of winning.
– You can also win (1) Simon Says Stamp goody bag and (1) Kuretake ZIG Clean Color Real Watercolor Brush Pens, 80 Color Set. The winners will be chosen from all the comments along the hop.
– Studio Katia is offering 15% off all purchases to their online shop (link http://www.studiokatia.com) using the code “SKTURNS1” through Sunday, May 7th at midnight EST.

Happy hopping and Happy Birthday Studio Katia!!

Lots of love from Erica

 

 

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Miss You with Liliuska

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Hello everyone!

Liliuska here and I’d like to share with you a one layer card I made using Mandala Stamp. Ever since I received this stamp I wanted to make a card with wobbler. Those are always so much fun!

Since this is a one layer card I decided to add some texture to the card base by scoring lines on it. Next I stamped Mandala in the middle and covered it with a mask. I stamped the image in the top left and bottom right corner and spritzed the card with shimmer spray. Since I used Oxide Inks two corner mandalas look as if they were heat embossed and middle mandala looks nicely crisp.

SUPPLIES:

Mandala Flower | Clear Stamp Set

And the Fox Says | Clear Stamp Set

Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames | Creative Dies

Clear Round Drops – Mix

Crystal Clear Fusion

I stamped mandala on a separate piece of paper, coloured part of it with Polychromos pencils and cut out that part with scissors. I adhered it to the card base on a wobbler. To add sentiments I die cut a black strip using long frame die from Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames Creative Dies and stamped two sentiments. I cut the strip in half and adhered it on both sides of the wobbler. Last touch – crystal clear sequins with clear drops in the middle.

I hope you enjoyed what I prepared for you today. Have a wonderful and inspiring day!

Liliuska

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First Birthday Celebration Blog Hop!

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Hello Everyone & Welcome!

I’m so happy and grateful to see you all here and celebrating our First Birthday Bash Blog Hop!! It has been a wonderful year and I’m so thankful for all your support. I would like to thank my amazing Design Team & Guest Designers from the bottom of my heart, Studio Katia would not be where it is now without each and every one of them.

Erica is up first with her stunning shaker card!

How exciting is it to see such an important mile stone for a young, fledging stamp company? Big, huge congratulations on your achievements so far, Katia!!! I can’t wait to see what this second year will bring!

For today, I’ve got a flowery shaker card. I’ve got a friend who’s turning 30 soon so I made this with her in mind. Her birthday has been and gone by the time this post goes up so no need to worry about spoiling the surprise.

SUPPLIES: Thank You So Much Clear Stamp, Together We Bloom Clear Stamp Set, Birthday Lions Clear Stamp Set, Stitched Creative Rectangles Dies, Sequins

Up next  joining us lovely Rowena. I think Rowena did a FANTASTIC job with her first shaker card.

SUPPLIES: Thank You So Much Clear Stamp, Together We Bloom and Spring Fusion

I better finish this post with a card of my own. This week is Teacher Appreciation Week (which is usually the first week in May) I love making teacher cards. I don’t know what is it about these cards but I can make teachers cards all day long and not get tired.

SUPPLIES: Thank You So Much Clear Stamp Set, Teacher’s Apple, Stitched Notebook Creative Die, Sparkling Crystals

 

What’s a Birthday Hop without some presents 🙂

GIVEAWAY INFO:

You can win a $20 GC to Studio Katia at every stop on the hop! Make sure to leave a comment by Sunday, May 7th for your chance to win! The more blogs you visit, the greater your chances of winning.

You can also win (1) Simon Says Stamp goody bag and (1) Kuretake ZIG Clean Color Real Watercolor Brush Pens, 80 Color Set. The winners will be chosen from all the comments along the hop.

Studio Katia is offering 15% off all purchases to their online SHOP  using the code “SKTURNS1” through Sunday, May 7th at midnight EST.

*Comments must be left before 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, May 7th and winners will be announced on May 10th.

Blog Hop 

Your first stop on the hop is the amazing Shari!

If you get lost along the way you can find the complete list below of everyone who’s participating today:

Studio Katia
Simon Says Stamp
Jennifer McGuire
Svitlana Shayevich
Jessica Frost Ballas
Amy R
Coralynn Murray
Tracy
Valentyna
Liliuska
Laurie
Amy Kolling
Anna Kossakovskaya
Kristina
Svetlana
Olga

Thank You So Much and Let’s get hopping 🙂

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To You with Olga

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards

Hello everyone, Olga is here today with cute card featuring Together We Bloom and Birthday Lions clear stamp sets.

SUPPLIES:

Together We Bloom Clear Stamp Set, Birthday Lions Clear Stamp Set, Duo Talk Clear Stamp Set

Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames Creative Die

Googly Eyes – Large (5mm)

Clear Round Drops – Mix

Crystal Rainbow Fusion

I just love this lion from the set of Birthday Lions very much. I really like his dynamism.

So this time I decided to make him a real gentleman descending from above with a bouquet of peonies. He’s a real romantic, is not he?
I’ve made my card with masking technique.

First I’ve stamped the flowers from Together We Bloom set, one by one, each with a mask. Then I’ve prearranged a place for my lion, and stamped a butterfly. I taped it with a mask and stamped a lion.

After all this, I’ve colored all the images using ZIG markers, stamped the sentiment TO YOU from the set of Duo Talk and added the embellishments – sequins from Crystal Rainbow Fusion, Clear Round drops and Googly Eyes.

Hope, You’ll like it. And have a nice day!

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Hello Friend with Laurie

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Happy Monday, all!!! Laurie here to share my creation for this week!  Today it’s all about a shaped card and coloured pencils, or pencils crayons, as we call them up here in Canada 🙂
My stamp set of choice is the  Hello Alice set.  I stamped out the little girl, the puddle and a few of the raindrops onto some watercolour paper using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.  I did use my Mini Misti for this, as the paper is textured and did require about 3 stampings to get a good impression.
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I use Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils, linked here to Amazon.ca for around $65 with free shipping! I’m really happy with these pencils.  They blend great and they don’t break!!  They are an oil based pencil and an affordable alternative to the pricey Faber-Castell Polychromos.
After all the images were coloured, I cut out each image.  For my cardbase, I used the Stitched Nested Creative Rectangles.  I cut a piece of Neenah Desert Storm cardstock and folded it into a top fold card base.  I placed the largest die on top of the folded cardbase with the top of the die hanging just off the edge (this will allow the die to cut through but NOT where the die is hanging over!)  This creates an already folded, shaped base!
I also cut the smaller die from the set out of the same watercolour paper.  Before adhering my images to the panel, I lightly blended some Tumbled Glass and Peeled Paint Distress Inks for some very subtle colour.
Before adhering my “scene” panel, I stamped the “Hello, Friend” sentiment on the bottom of the cardbase in Versafine Black Onyx Ink.
This card called for a lot of Glossy Accents and glitter.  I added some Glitter Gel pens to the umbrella hearts and raindrops. Then added the Glossy Accents to the hearts, raindrops and the rubber boots.
I think this card turned out super cute and I hope you like it!!  Thanks for dropping by today!
See you soon!!!
Laurie

Together We Bloom with Kristina

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards

Hello everyone,

Kristina here with another floral card featuring Together We Bloom Clear Stamp Set.

SUPPLIES:

Together We Bloom Clear Stamp Set

Mandala Clear Stamp Set

Clear Round Drops – Mix

Pink Winter Fusion

Vintage Sheer Fusion

Sparkling Crystals

I’ve started by stamping the flowers from the Together We Bloom set on white card stock with VersaMark ink with gold embossing powder and colored all the images using Zig Clean Color Real Brush pens and fussy cut all the images.
Next I used the largest frame from the Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames and used Mandala stamp to create a background. First I made the impression in the center with light grey ink, then used masking and made impression on the sides.

I’ve added the sentiment Together We Bloom in black ink and arranged all the images in the center in the shape of bouquet. Using foam tape I’ve adhered everything together and attached it to a white card base, the card base turned out slightly larger than regular 4.25 x 5.5 inches.
To finish off the card I’ve added a few embellishments. This card turned out to be very gentle and elegant, and just incredibly shimmering in the light.

Thank You for stopping by, have a crafty Sunday!

Kristina