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Juicy card with simple masking techniques

August 18, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Galina and I have a super juicy card to share with you. For this card I used CITRUS TRIMMINGS stamp set, DOTTED SLIMLINE SET 2 with a beautiful geometric stencil – GRID STENCIL.

How I made this card you can watch here or STudio Katia’s Youtube channel.

To create a bright and colorful card background I used a masking technique and a bit of stenciling. I covered the stamped image with a mask and and applied blue inks on it. On the corners I applied distress oxide ink through the grid stencil.

I decided to create a two parts sentiment. First part I heat embossed above the lemons and second part – I cut out from white and glitter cardstock using Chunky alphabet dies.

At last, I embellish my card with some yellow and green crystals.

Thanks for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?id=f5e8378456858c916708

Happy bear-thday with Kaja

August 17, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I am up on the Studio Katia blog with a cute birthday card.

Take a look:

I haven’t made a Kobi card in a while, so today I pulled out the Kobi makes a wish stamp set and stamped out the bear holding a cake. I wanted to add some accesories to him, so I stamped out a party hat and a balloon from Kobi the birthday bear stamp set. I colored everything using alcohol markers and once everything was finished I added some white details using a white gel pen.

Next, I took a piece of purple card stock and started ink blending over top using Ink blending brushes and Heart-fetti stencil. I went with purple on purple look and I made sure that the colors match with the colored images.

The background seemed a bit too dard, so I die cut a white square using Scallop square die and I inkblended a sky and the ground towards the right side of the paper using blue and green ink. Once that was done, I stamped out the sentiment that reads ”Happy Bear-thday” that can be found in Kobi makes a with stamp set. I positioned the saying towards the left part of the card, so the scene is nicely balanced.

I felt like something is missing in the background so I added white stitching detail using white gel pen. Then, I glued everything together using SK glue and foam tape and the card was all finished!

Thank you for joining me,

Kaja

SUPPLIES:

Studio Katia – KOBI MAKES A WISH
Studio Katia – KOBI THE BIRTHDAY BEAR
Studio Katia dies – SCALLOP SQUARE
Studio Katia dies – KOBI MAKES A WISH
Studio Katia dies – KOBI THE BIRTHDAY BEAR
Studio Katia stencil – HEART-FETTI
Studio Katia – GLUE
Studio Katia – INK BLENDING BRUSHES
Studio Katia – DOUBLE SIDED TAPE – WHITE

You’re The Winner with Natalia

August 13, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, New Release

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. Today I want to share with you my card using beautiful Studio Katia supplies from the latest release – SPORT-BALLS TRIMMINGS Stamp Set and CHUNKY ALPHABET Creative Dies.

First, I stamped cute image from the PORT-BALLS TRIMMINGS Stamp Set. I colored it with copic markers and die cut with coordinating dies. I made highlights using white and silver pen.

Next, I blended some distress inks onto a white piece of paper.

I adhered the image onto my background panel using double-sided foam tape. I die cut out the word Winner out of a silver glittered cardstock using a die from CHUNKY ALPHABET Creative Dies and adhered it in the middle using double-sided foam tape.

Thank you so much for joining me today, have a great day!

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

SPORT-BALLS TRIMMINGS Stamp Set

SPORT-BALLS TRIMMINGS DIES

CHUNKY ALPHABET Creative Dies

Happy Birthday Slimline Shaker Card

August 12, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, New Release, Shaker Cards

Happy Birthday Slimline Shaker Card, Studio Katia, Slimline Card, Birthday, Shaker Card, Card Making, Stamping, Die Cutting, handmade card, ilovedoingallthingscrafty, Stamps, how to, Rainbow, Mini Birthday Cake, Chunky Alphabet,

Hello, my Friends, Ilda here and Happy Wednesday!

I have a fun Birthday Slimeline shaker card to share with you all today. I love making slimline cards and since this is a birthday card, I thought making it interactive would be fun for the recipient.

CARD DETAILS

To begin I stamped the cute little MINI BIRTHDAY CAKE and die cut it using the coordinating MINI BIRTHDAY CAKE DIE. I then colored the image in using Copic Markers.

The next step was to die cut all the pieces for the shaker card. I first die cut the larger frame from the DOTTED SLIMLINE – SET 2. I then die cut the center of the panel using the oval dotted frame from the DOTTED SLIMLINE – SET 1. Behind the slimline panel, I glued a piece of acetate cut large enough to cover the window. To line the perimeter of the oval opening I used FOAM TAPE that I cut to about half of the width.

On the slimline card base, I glued a piece of rainbow pattern paper from the BLACK, WHITE AND RAINBOW PAPER pack. Since the slimline is longer than the papers, I just extended the pattern by adding another piece of the same pattern that I cut to fit the card base. I then added the VANILLA LUSTER FUSION sequins to the center of the pattern paper and carefully lined up the front panel to create the shaker.

Next, I die cut the Birthday letters using the CHUNKY ALPHABET dies and added small pieces of BLACK FOAM to the back of each letter to add a bit of dimension and then attached them to the card front.

In place of the “A”, I just added the cute little birthday cake that I had previously colored. I also added the “happy” sentiment that comes from the HAPPY CELEBRATIONS set that I heat embossed in white on black cardstock and then fussy cut.

To finish off this fun and festive slimline birthday card, I glued on a few rainbow-colored pearls. See links below for the ones I used.

I hope this card inspired you today. Thank you for stopping by and until next time… Happy Crafting!

Ilda

Connect with me also on my Blog, Facebook Page, Instagram, and YouTube

SUPPLIES

MINI BIRTHDAY CAKE Shop at: SK	MINI BIRTHDAY CAKE DIE Shop at: SK	HAPPY CELEBRATIONS Shop at: SK	DOTTED SLIMLINE – SET 1 Shop at: SK
DOTTED SLIMLINE – SET 2 Shop at: SK	CHUNKY ALPHABET Shop at: SK	RIPE PERSIMMON PEARLS Shop at: SK	LEMON BURST PEARLS Shop at: SK
MOSS GREEN PEARLS Shop at: SK	AMETHYST PEARLS Shop at: SK	RADIANT ORCHID PEARLS Shop at: SK	VANILLA LUSTER FUSION Shop at: SK
BLACK, WHITE AND RAINBOW PAPER Shop at: SK	TRIANGLE TRAY Shop at: SK	EMBELLISHMENT WAND Shop at: SK	FOAM TAPE – WHITE Shop at: SK
FOAM TAPE – BLACK Shop at: SK	STUDIO KATIA GLUE Shop at: SK	NEENAH SOLAR WHITE 110 Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| HBS	COPIC SKETCH Shop at: AMZ
MINI MISTI Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SBC \|HBS	1 Shop at: SSS \| HBS \| IO3	GEMINI JR. DIE CUTTER Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SBC	JUICY INK Shop at: SSS \| IO3
ARCTIC WHITE POWDER Shop at: SSS \| IO3	Grafix Acetate 9×12-Inch Shop at: AMZ	WHITE GELLY ROLLER PEN SET Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SBC	GLOSSY ACCENTS Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| HBS

Video. Dawn scene shaker card

August 11, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Hello Cards, Shaker Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Galina and I have for a beautiful dawn scene shaker card. I used a FANCY SQUARE die set, which is on sale now and fabolous floral stamp set – Together we bloom.

How I made this card you can watch here or on Studio Katia channel

To color those flowers I use a watercolor paints. I applied a dark blue paint on the bottom of each petal and a dark purple color on the top. I blend those color with water and add white splashes. I cut out the flowers with coordinating dies and placed them behind the black frame. Using fancy square dies I cut out one more frame from the gold glitter cardstock.

I fill the shaker base with black crystals and seed beads with beautiful name – gold dust, they made perfect combo for the dawn shaker card.

I cut out one more square panel from the dark blue cardstock in size of 5 inch and I’m attaching the shaker base on it.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Galina

Supplies

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?id=f5e8378456858c916708

Make a wish! with Olga

August 8, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hi everyone! Olga here. You probably know that Studio Katia has a lot of ocean themed products. I thought it was time to make a fun ocean scenic card. I had so much fun creating it!

I started with preparing all the details for my card. I stamped and colored cute images from MERMAID FOR EACH OTHER and UNDER THE SEA stamp sets with Copic markers, die cut them all out with matching MERMAID FOR EACH OTHER and UNDER THE SEA dies. Next, I made a simple ink blended background using Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Ink with Squeezed Lemonade and Broken China Distress Inks and added some splashes with watercolor paint.

For the next step I needed my favourite HALFTONE DOTS CIRCLE DIES. I die cut one big dots circle using Easy-Cut Adhesive from Therm-O-Web and adhered those dots onto my card base. Then, I removed the protective layer from each dot so that they became sticky and covered them with a sheet of Gold Shattered Glass Deco Foil. I carefully smoothed out the panel on top and removed the film. Now my dots sparkle with gold. It’s so fun!

I foam mounted all the images on the card using DOUBLE SIDED FOAM TAPE – WHITE. And added a black sentiment banner using BIRTHDAY GREETINGS stamp set.

Thank you for being with me today! Have a nice crafty day!

SUPPLIES:

MERMAID FOR EACH OTHER

UNDER THE SEA

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS

MERMAID FOR EACH OTHER DIES

UNDER THE SEA DIES

HALFTONE DOTS CIRCLE DIES

DOUBLE SIDED FOAM TAPE – WHITE

Huge cake from Kobi. Video

August 7, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Galina with you today. I want to share with you a fun card with Kobi bear and a huge present from him 😉

How I made this card you can watch here or on Studio Katia’s Youtube channel

For this card I created a heat embossed card panel full of birthday gifts. To add some dimension I cut out a frame with a square widows from the bright yellow cardstock and I foam mount it on the gray panel. I stamped Kobi bear, cake and few additional images with memento black and colored them with copic markers. I cut out all the images with coordinating dies and placed on the card panel.

I decorate my card with a few clear crystals and heat embossed a sentiment. I love how it is 🙂

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day

Galina

Supplies

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?id=f5e8378456858c916708

Slimline ocean card with Kaja

August 5, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Hello Cards

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and I must say I love summer, so I am mostly making summer themed cards these days. I haven’t made a slim card in a while so I was super excited when Studio Katia release them and today I finally made a card with one of the slimline dies!

Take a look:

I started creating this card by ink blending my background on top of watercolored paper using Studio Katia ink blending brushes (that I just love!). I decided to go with blue color scheme, so I used 3 shades of distress inks that go together nicely. Instead of inkblending everything in straight lines, I made the background a bit more dynamic with using the darkest color just in a few small parts.

Once the base ink blending was done, I sprinkled some clear water on top which is bearly seen in the finished project, but adds a nice details to the background.

I still wasn’t 100% satisfied with my ocean, so I added some white embossed air bubbles which can be found in Jawsome and Under the sea stamp sets. To get the bubbles to match with the background a bit better, I went ahead and added some white gel pen dots all over the ink blending.

Next, I die cut my ocean scene out with the biggest Dotted slimline – set 2 die. I made sure that my ink blending is positioned in the middle of the card, so the focus is in the center.

Then, I stamped out some images from Jawsome and Under the sea stamp sets and colored them in using alcohol markers. I used just a few different colors since I didn’t want the images to be overwhelming.

The last thing I added was the ‘Hello there’ sentiment from Whimsical town stamp set. I used black ink for stamping so the colors are nicely connected with one another.

Then, I glued everything together using Studio Katia glue and some foam tape and the card was all finished!

Thank you so much for joning me!

Kaja

SUPPLIES:

• Studio Katia – WHIMSICAL TOWN
• Studio Katia – UNDER THE SEA
• Studio Katia – JAWSOME
• Studio Katia dies – UNDER THE SEA
• Studio Katia dies – JAWSOME
• Studio Katia dies – DOTTED SLIMLINE – SET 2
• Studio Katia – INK BLENDING BRUSHES
• Studio Katia – DOUBLE SIDED TAPE – WHITE
• Studio Katia – GLUE

How to Easily Fix the Challenges of Slimline cards by Tracey

August 4, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Other

Slimline cards are such a popular trend right now, but along with anything new or different come challenges. Today I am sharing a slimline card tutorial and video that is coming later. I am tackling some of the challenges that I have found with these fun and trendy designs. So my post today is a little bit different. I am going to discuss the challenges I have found and offer some solutions as I create today`s card. I used Studio Katia Dotted Slimline Set 1.

CHALLENGE 1: Die doesn’t Fit on Platform
The 8 1.2” or lower slimline dies should fit onto a standard sized cutting mat for either a Gemini Jr. or Big Shot die cut machine.
FIX: You just have to be careful with lining up the die and paper because the fit is very close. Both standard platforms for the Gemini Jr. and Big Shot will cut a 8 ½” long die.

CHALLENGE 2: Paper Warping
My paper seems to warp when I run slimline dies through my electronic die cutting machine. Not a problem because they can still be glued flat but for me little things like that drive me crazy.
FIX: Cutting with my manual die cut machine provided a clean cut without any warping.

CHALLENGE 3: Slimline Dies Use Too Much Paper
Slimlines are fun, but I do find I go through a lot more paper. You cannot cut more than one slimline card base from an 8 1/2″ x 11″ piece of paper. So I looked for a way to maximize the paper when I’m making a slimline card.
FIX: You can cut a 8 ½” x 7” piece of cardstock for a card base and then the remaining paper can be trimmed down to a 8 ½” x 3 ½” rectangular panel that is the perfect fit for the slimline dies.

NOTE: I scored the card base on the short side at 3 ½”, folded the base and used a bone folder to crease the fold really well. I set it aside while I worked on the top panel.

CHALLENGE 4: Stamps Not Wide Enough
Most of my stamp sets are designed to fit on to a standard A2 sized card either horizontally or vertically.
FIX: For my card today I used the Artsy Trimmings stamp set to stamp all along the bottom of my panel with the rounded corners. I stamped the two separate stamps side by side so they look like one continuous row of crafty goodies! You can do this with pretty much all of your stamp sets, just fill in the space and have a bit of fun making a custom design.

CHALLENGE 5: Stamping a Customized Stamp with MISTI
Combining the two stamps together to create one continuous stamp in my MISTI just doesn’t work without resulting in an overhang.
FIX: I stamped the first stamp along the bottom left edge of the slimline die cut. I removed the stamp and lined up the second stamp coming in from the bottom right edge of the slimline die cut. I picked up the second stamp with my MISTI and then I used a piece of 2” Post-it tape to mask off the already stamped image so that I could easily ink up and stamp the second image and not spoil the image already stamped.

CHALLENGE 6: Slimline Die is Shaped
Today I used the Studio Katia Dotted Slimline Set 1 die set and I chose the die with the round diagonal corners which is really cool but makes it very difficult to create a card base the same size.
FIX: I cut my card base as a rectangle with four sharp corners. I dusted off my ‘Corner Chomper’ tool and used the ¼” corner rounder to chomp off the two diagonal corners–Perfect fit.

For the sentiment on my card I die cut the long banner from the Simple Trimmings die set. Then I cut the ‘Crafty’ die from the Artsy Trimmings die set from black cardstock, this is going to do in the centre of the banner. I then used the Trimmings Sayings stamp set to stamp sending to the left of the word crafty and hugs to the right of the word crafty to complete the custom sentiment ‘Sending Crafty Hugs’.

I covered the back of the banner with Studo Katia Double Sided White Foam Tape to give the white on white a bit of pop!

For a finishing touch I added some of the fabulous Studio Katia Pearls using the Studio Katia Embellishment Wand for a bit of fun! I used Studio Katia Moss Green Pearls, Studio Katia Ripe Persimmon Pearls, Studio Katia Stormcloud Pearls and Studio Katia Lemon Burst Pearls. Aren’t they pretty?

NOTE: Remember when adding embellishments that odd numbers usually work best!

I hope I was able to sort out a few of the technical challenges you might encounter with your slimline cardmaking and I hope you consider giving some of these tips a try!

Thanks for stopping by today and we’ll see you next time!

SUPPLIES:
Dotted Slimline Set 1
Artsy Trimmings stamp set
Artsy Trimmings die set
Simple Trimmings die set
Trimmings Sayings stamp set
Studio Katia Glue
Studio Katia Double Sided Foam Tape – White
Studio Katia Embellishment Wand
Studio Katia Moss Green Pearls
Studio Katia Ripe Persimmon Pearls
Studio Katia Stormcloud Pearls
Studio Katia Lemon Burst Pearls

Just a Note to Say Hello with Emily | Welcome New DT Member!

August 3, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Hello Cards

Hello everyone! We are very excited to announce a New Designer joining our fabulous Designs Team – Emily Leiphart!! We are so thrilled to have such a talented and positive new member! We are celebrating by giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to our online store. Check out Emily’s fantastic card she is sharing today and leave a comment under this post by August 14th, 2020 for your chance to win. Help us welcome Emily to the Team!

Hi, this is Emily. I have some exciting news!! I’ve joined the Studio Katia Design Team and today’s my first post on their blog! I’m very honoured to be joining so many of my talented friends on this team and I’m also thrilled to be promoting a Canadian company. Yay!

Today’s card uses several stamp and die sets. I’ve missed travelling so much these last few months and I spent quite a bit of time reminiscing about our trip to Portugal last summer. That trip was the inspiration for this card. I started with the European Window Die to frame my scene and I glued two layers of watercolour cardstock and gave the top layer a wash of pumice stone distress ink.

To create the background scene, I used the Brush Stroke Waves Stencil to create the ocean and the Underwater Sun Rays to create the sunrise. Then I stamped and heat embossed three buildings from Whimsical Town and watercolored them with distress inks.

The potted plant on the windowsill inside the room is from the Potted Plants stamp set and the custom sentiment is from the Flourishing Note stamp set. The bottom of the pot is glued to the window frame and the top is popped up with foam tape.

After the layers were assembled, I added two birds from Whimsical Town and Iridescent Crystals to embellish the soil in the pot and to add shimmer to the ocean waves.