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Theme Week | Easter Cards – Day 4 with Galina Filippenko

/ CATEGORIES - Easter Cards, Floral Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Galina. I want to share with you two different cards using one stamp set –  Floral Cross.

For my first card I die cut a purple and white panel using Dotted Patterns: Set 2. 

On the inner pannel I stamped only floral corners of the Floral Cross stamp. And clored them with distress markers. From a dark pink cardstock I die cut a sentiment using die from the Spring Bouquet Coordinating Dies. And I decorated my card with Iridescent Stars.

For my second card I used same die set to create a mindow in my card panel. Iswde of this windom I stamped Floral Cross and colored it with distress markers.

I used small die Script Easter to create a sentiment. I cut sentiment twice, from yellow and green cardstock. Green one I used as a shadow fr my sentiment. To decorate my card I add few green drops.

Have a great day!

Galina

Supplies:

Floral Cross Stamp

Dotted Panel/Set 2

Script Easter

Iridescent Stars

Spring Bouquet Coordinating Dies

Theme Week | Easter Cards – Day 3 with Tracy

/ CATEGORIES - CAS, Easter Cards, Floral Cards

Hey lovelies, I hope you’re all having a great week.

What a fantastic release this one has been ! what is your favourite item ? I simply cannot pick one and think Katia has done an AMAZING job with this release.

This week the design team are showcasing the Floral Cross from the new release. This is a very pretty stamp and as Erum showed it looks amazing when not coloured.

I wanted to create a fairly clean and simple design and I coloured the Floral Cross using Polychromo pencils.

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I stamped and coloured the stamp onto some white card and then I used the new Simple Dotted Borders dies, I have used the straight one that also cuts and used it along each edge of the piece.

I then stamped the sentiment Easter Blessings which comes with the Floral Cross Stamp using Clear ink and then heat embossed it with white detail embossing powder. I also decided to add some extra detailing with a white gel pen.

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Once that was all done I adhered it to a light blue card base…I will confess once I did this I nothing an ink stain and it wouldn’t budge even with my sand eraser so out come the Majestic Confetti 🙂

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Thank you so much for stopping by today. Don’t forget to share your Studio Katia creations with us on our Facebook Group or on instagram with the #studiokatia.

Happy Crafting!

Tracy

SUPPLIES:

Studio Katia Floral Cross Stamp 

Studio Katia Simple Dotted Border Dies 

Majestic Confetti Mix

Theme Week | Easter Cards – Day 2 with Rowena

/ CATEGORIES - Easter Cards, Floral Cards, Theme Week

Hello friends! It’s Rowena here and it’s theme week here once again! All week long the entire design team is showcasing the ‘Floral Cross‘ stamp set. So be sure to visit the blog all week long for an entire week of inspirations and ideas from the team.

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For today’s project, I wanted to create a bold and bright background for my main focal point. For this I used Picked Raspberry and Wild Honey distress inks, focusing mainly on the bottom of my panel. Then I splattered some clean water to create a distress look, I trimmed my panel using ‘Dotted Panels/Set 2‘ to frame my floral cross.

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I stamped my image in a copic friendly ink and colored them with copic markers. Then with the same ink I stamp the cross one more time and colored it with copic as well.  The image is big enough so I did some fussy cutting around my floral image and my additional cross. Once all my images are colored, I’m ready to assemble my card. I heat embossed my sentiment in silver and added foam tape for extra dimension. I also added foam tape to my panel onto an A2 size card.

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To complete my card, I added wink of stella on all the flowers as well as some glossy accent, and white gel pen to add extra details to the flowers. Then some ‘Iridescent Bubbles’ to add the finishing touches on today’s card.

I hope you all enjoyed today’s card and got inspired! Make sure to visit us all week long for more inspirations and ideas. Have a wonderful day and happy crafting!!

Crafty Hugs,

Rowena

Lists of Supplies:

Floral Cross Stamp

Dotted Panel/Set 2

Iridescent Bubbles

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Throwback Thursday | Happy Women’s Day!

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards

Hello Friends!

Today we have another Throwback Thursday for you filled with inspiration from our talented Design Team. Today is March 8, it’s International Women’s Day! We’d like to wish you Happy Women’s Day!

It is March already, but many of us still see a lot of snow outside. What is the best way to brighten up a snowy day in March when everyone is so ready for Spring to come? With beautiful and colourful bouquets. For crafters that translates into floral stamps and beautifully coloured images. 😉

Studio Katia Thank You So Much Stamp Set watercoloured by Erum Tasneem @pr0digy0

Don’t forget tomorrow is MARCH 9th!!!!! NEW RELEASE is only one sleep away!

Hugs!

 

You make me so happy – card with Olga

/ CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Shaker Cards

Hello everyone! Olga here and I am back with a new shaker card to share with you. For today’s post I made a card with charming Together We Bloom stamp set and Dotted Patterns: Loops dies.

First I stamped flower images and colored them with ZIG markers. I wanted to make a bouquet of flowers. I used masking technique and fussy cut the bouquet once it was done.

The last step was to make the shaker. I die cut a window panel using Dotted Patterns: Loops dies. Next I made a shaker using foam tape and filling it with Cupid’s Kiss Crystals Mix, Tropical Forest sequins Fusion, Clear Round Drops Mix.

I’ve added a sentiment from the Happy Stamp Set. Voila, the card is ready.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

SUPPLIES:

Together We Bloom | Clear Stamp Set

Dotted Patterns: Loops | Creative Dies

Cupid’s Kiss Crystals | Mix

Tropical Forest Fusion

Clear Round Drops – Mix

Happy | Clear Stamp Set

Mother’s day card with Kaja

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I made a card for my mum. In Slovenia we celebrate Mother’s day on 25th of March. I decided to make a card for that occasion in advance. 🙂

Take a look:

First, I stamped the Floral trimmings images onto a watercolor paper and colored the flowers with ZIG real brush markers. I used blues and purples since these are my mum’s favorite colors.

I wanted the card to be special, so I decided to die cut the colored piece with beautiful stitched nested creative rectangle die. It adds just enough detail to make a card more interesting.

I knew from the begging that I will make this card for my mum, so I stamped the ‘Happy’ from Duo talk in the center of the creative rectangle and then I used the ‘Mother’s day’ from Happy stamp set to finish the sentiment that now reads ‘Happy Mother’s day’.

Next, I cut a piece of gray card stock and glued it directly onto a card base. I added white stitching with a white gel pen and this goes nicely with the stitching of the rectangle with flowers.

Then, I popped the rectangle in the center of the card with some foam tape.

The last thing to do was gluing down some embellishments. I used Snow crystals mix and put it on the bottom left and top right corners.

That’s it for today! Thank you so much for joining me! See you next time.

SUPPLIES:

Studio Katia stamps – Floral trimmings

Studio Katia stamps – Happy

Studio Katia stamps – Duo talk

Studio Katia dies – Stitched nested creative rectangles

Studio Katia embellishemnt – Snow crystal mix

Cover Plate: 4 Ways with Natalia

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Hello Cards, Shaker Cards

Hello, everyone. Natalia here. I love using cover plate dies in my projects and today I want to share with you four fun ways of using Dotted Patterns: Loops | Creative Dies. There are many more ways to use this die, but today I would like to show you my favorites.

1. Frame

This die set includes a frame die, which I like to use separately from cover plate, because this frame can be used by itself in any project. In this project though I used a frame die from Dotted Patterns Set – 1 | Creative Dies set to create a frame with windows. For this card I inked a panel with blue shades of distress inks. Next I cut the frame out of grey cardstock. I stamped Together We Bloom | Clear Stamp Set on vellum with white and golden embossing powder and die cut everything using coordinating dies. I heat embossed the sentiment from Blooming Bunch | Clear Stamp Set on black cardstock using white embossing powder and cut it out with scissors. I adhered everything together and decorated with Clear Round Drops.

2. Using negative

First I inked the panel with mint and pink shades of distress inks of mint. Next I heat embossed images from Floral Trimmings | Clear Stamp Set using white embossing powder. I die cut circles using cover die from Dotted Patterns: Loops | Creative Dies and a smaller white panel using die from Dotted Patterns Set – 1 | Creative Dies. I glued circles to the white panel and adhered it onto a card base. I heat embossed words best and ever from Best Ever | Clear Stamp Set on a light grey cardstock and word friend on black cardstock using white embossing powder. To finish it off I added some Clear Round Drops.

3. Shaker

I inked a panel with different shades of distress inks. Next I stamped images from Hello Alice and colored it with alcohol markers. I stamped puddle image onto a piece of vellum using silver embossing powder and die cut all the images with coordinating dies.

Next I die cut a window panel using cover plate from Dotted Patterns: Loops | Creative Dies from both inked panel and white foam. I filled my shaker with gorgeous Studio Katia embellishments.

I have put all the elements of my shaker together and added a white on black heat embossed sentiment from And The Fox Says | Clear Stamp Set.

4. Partial die-cutting

I inked a panel with mint shades of distress inks. Next I marked a middle on the cover die from Dotted Patterns: Loops | Creative Dies with washi tape, which helped me to cut windows only in lower part of the panel. I created a shaker using white foam and filled it with 3MM Majestic Sequins. Next I heat embossed a bouquet image onto a piece of vellum using white embossing powder and fussy cut it by hand. I heat embossed a sentiment from And The Fox Says | Clear Stamp Set using silver embossing powder on grey cardstock and adhered the image and the sentiment strip onto my card.

You’re so wonderful with Rowena

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards

Hello crafty friends! I’m back today with a colorful card that reminds me of spring colors. Oh how I wish winter is over already! Lol! Anyways, here’s how I created today’s project.

On a piece of watercolor paper, I white embossed my floral pattern using the ‘Floral Trimming’ stamp set.

Then, I blended evergreen bough, marigold, shaded lilac, and picked raspberries distress inks. Once that’s complete with a wet paint brush, using clean water I moved the colors around. Added more colors to add depth and texture. I also added some splatters using the same colors.

I added the cute fox from ‘Foxes’ stamp set to complete my scene. It’s an oldie but goodie, it’s still one of my favorite set. I colored my images using copic markers.

To finish my card, I used one of the sentiment from the ‘Blooming Bunch’ stamp set. Added some bling using ‘Majestic Fusion’ one of my fav. That completes my card for today! Till next time friends.

Crafty Hugs,
Rowena

SUPPLIES:

Floral Trimmings | Clear Stamp Set

Foxes | Clear Stamp Set

Blooming Bunch | Clear Stamp Set

Foxes | Coordinating Die Set

Majestic Fusion

You’re So Kind with Tracy

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards

Hey guys it’s Tracy here. I hope you are all having a great week ?

One of my all time favourite Studio Katia sets is Together We Bloom, it was the first Studio Katia Set I ever owned and I truly lovely working with it.

I am a colorist, that is my main passion but i do understand not everyone is and that people often overlook sets like this if they aren’t colourists.

So for todays post I wanted to show that you don’t need to be a colourist to work with a set like this.

I am going to be working with alcohol inks but this technique also works with dye inks, you just need to leave them longer to dry.

To create this look I used alcohol inks onto Vellum, nothing fancy i just used a blending tool and covered the sheets with it. I did want quite a soft color tone so what i then did was stamp onto the BACK of the coloured vellum, if you want a stronger colour stamp onto the front, but make sure it is fully dry with no sticky areas.

I used white detail embossing powder from Simon Says Stamp to heat embossed these, remember when working with heat embossing and vellum to be care, vellum is brittle so I tend to heat the paper in short bursts making sure not to keep my heat tool on the vellum too long.

Once this was all done I used the coordinating dies to cut the pieces out.

I used a sentiment from the You’re So Ranunculus stamp set and heat embossed it onto a strip of black card stock. I then lined up two of the dies from the Dotted Ovals die set onto some gold card to create a frame and die cut the piece out.

Once I had all my elements I went about constructing the card, I adhered the oval frame using foam tape for dimension and then adhered all the other pieces around the inside, again using foam tape on a couple for dimension. Once I was happy I adhered this to the A2 top folding card base and added a sprinkle of Mint Dreams Crystal mix.

This is such an easy technique with so many different possibilities you can use various mediums and also really play around with your alcohol inks.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you have a great day.

Happy Crafting!

SUPPLIES:

Together We Bloom | Clear Stamp Set

You’re So Ranunculus | Clear Stamp Set

Together We Bloom | Coordinating Die Set

Dotted Ovals | Creative Dies

Mint Dream Crystals | Mix

Chalkboard with Together We Bloom

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards

​Hi friends,

Svitlana is here. Today I want to share a card replicating one of my favorite looks – chalkboard. I was using amazing Together We Bloom Stamp Set here.

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I started by cutting a panel out of black cardstock. It’s better to use a cardstock that has some texture for this technique. I was using pencils for coloring and they work better on a textured one.

Next I stamped an oval wreath using stamps from the set and white pigment ink. When I was working on the wreath after stamping each element I was covering them with masks, to prevent stamp overlapping.

After that I moved to coloring. First I colored two flowers in red using pencils. For each petal I was filling its inside area with a white pencil, then colored with two shades of red (I did very basic coloring, from dark to light) and then traced the petal outlines with a white gel pen.

I want to point out that tracing petals is kind of important to do for each one right after coloring it. These flowers are not very big and some petals are pretty fine, outlines on the other hand are quite thick. If you cover all petals with pencil coloring it will be quite difficult to see where each petal is. It would rather look like a solid colored image.

Studio Katia Together We Bloom. Card by @craftwalks
After I colored a flower completely I added some details with a white gel pen. And by “some details” I mean that I covered petal with white strokes almost completely lol.

For the rest of the wreath I used a light version of the technique described above, skipping the red pencil coloring. First I covered all of them with a white pencil, then traced outlines with a white gel pen and added strokes with the pen as well.

Next I went ahead and blended some white ink in the middle part of the wreath. And white embossed a sentiment on top using stamps from Best Ever Stamp Set.

Lastly I adhered the panel onto a white card base.

Have a wonderful day!

SUPPLIES

Together We Bloom Stamp Set

Best Ever Stamp Set