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Striped Birthday Square Cards with Valentyna

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS, New Release

Hello everyone!
Valentyna is here and the celebration of the summer with Mini Release continues.
For my card, I chose images from Birthday Lions Clear Stamp Set, Birthday Lions Coordinating Dies, Kobi the Birthday Bear Stamp Set, and Brush Stroke Stripes  for the background. The background stamped in SSS Duckling, Willow, and Thistle.

The Lion


SUPPLIES:
Birthday Lions Clear Stamp Set
 Birthday Lions Coordinating Dies
Kobi the Birthday Bear | Bundlet
Brush Stroke Stripes Clear Stamp Set
Majestic Fusion
Round Stamping Block
MISTI Stamping Tool

Few layers of stamping with Duckling ink. Sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and Majestic Fusion sequins.

The background was stamped with SSS Thistle ink and I added banners in upper corners. Everything else stays the same.
For the Kobi
Didn’t want this lovely green background to be left sitting on my desk. I used Kobi the Birthday Bear Stamp Set and matching die to create one more birthday card.
Hope you like them too!
Thank you for stopping by!
Have a great day!
Valentyna

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Mini Summer Release + Mini Giveaway!

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, New Release, News, Valentines Day Cards

Hello Everyone!!

It’s finally here the coordinating dies that you’ve been asking for. This Mini June Release includes 1 new Tropical Forest Fusion (which includes the 3/4mm clear round drops), 5 NEW seed bead colors, 3 New shades of floral sequins, 3mm sequins and of course COORDINATING DIES for Foxes, Birthday Lions and Together We Bloom sets.

Now let’s hear it from our Design Team!

Hi Svetlana here, and I can’t tell you how Happy I am that my beloved lions now come with coordinating dies.

SUPPLIES:

Birthday Lions Clear Stamp Set, Birthday Lions Coordinating Dies, Majestic Fusion, Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames Creative Dies

Today I have an interactive slider card for you! Just pull the gift up and the lion begins to move.

Olga here with another card featuring Birthday Lions Coordinating dies.

SUPPLIES:
Birthday Lions Clear Stamp Set, Birthday Lions Coordinating Dies, Majestic Fusion, Dotted Hexagons Creative Dies
It’s so much easier now to create fun scenes with coordinating dies. No more fussy cutting!

Kristina here and I’m happy to show you today a card with simple watercolor background and charming foxes that now come with coordinating dies.

SUPPLIES:
Foxes Clear Stamp Set, And the Fox Says … Clear Stamp Set, Foxes Coordinating Dies, Crystal Rainbow Fusion

I’ve also added a sentiment inside my card “I Love You” with a little foxy paw I thought it was so cute.
Thank You all for stopping by and have a Crafty Day!

★GIVEAWAY!★
To celebrate this Mini June Release We are giving away two $50 Gift certificates to the store to two lucky winners 🙂  Leave a comment for your chance to win!
The winners will be announced on July 1, 2017 over on the Studio Katia Blog!

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Hello Lovely with Erica

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, New Release, Other

Hello lovely! Erica here with a bright, cheery card celebrating the arrival of summer.

As a flower lover and florist, I ADORE flower stamps of all kinds and the You’re So Ranunculus is just dreamy. It has a matching creative cut but if you know you want both the stamp and the coordinating die, you might as well grab the bundle. Just saying 🙂

For this card I wanted to try something different and not my usual A2 sized ones. I cut a piece of water colour card stock, Strathmore Bristol Vellum as always, in an 8″x4″ shape. The idea was to stamp the flowers along the bottom, much like a flower bed and then colour them with my Gansai Tambi 36 pack. I decided to heat emboss the flowers so I started out by sprinkling the card stock with my anti-static tool and then placed the stamp in my MISTI (because I’m utterly incapable of stamping anything without it since I got it a couple of years ago) The stamping and heat embossing I did in batches to make sure nothing overlapped as I didn’t bother with a mask for this card. Next time I think I will though, that means I can get all the stamping done and dusted in one go.

Once all the heat embossing was done I got the water colours out and got to work. I used mostly yellow for the flowers as I intend to send this card to a friend of mine and she loves yellow. I also blended in a little bit of orange to create a peach colour for some of the blooms and then finished off with a few pinkish ones. All the stems and leaves were coloured in with greens and then I added a fainter shade of the same green around the stems to fill in the gaps a little. I still thought it needed a little something else after that so I shaded the stems with a little more green and then added some little drops all around the flowers. This is one of my favourite ways of adding some interest to a panel without adding embellishments.

SUPPLIES:

You’re So Ranunculus | Bundle

You’re So Ranunculus | Clear Stamp Set

You’re So Ranunculus | Coordinating Die Set

Mini MISTI by My Sweet Petunia

ZIG Kuretake Gansai Tambi – 36 COLOR SET

To finish off the card I used the word dies that comes with the coordinating die, ‘hello’ and ‘lovely’, which are lovely and flowy.

I cut them out in gold glitter card stock and added to the top of the panel at an angle. For the card base I used a Lawn Fawn card stock called Sunflower, it’s bright yellow and I thought it perfect to frame the card as I cut it just 1/4″ bigger than the panel itself. I adhered the panel to the card base using my beloved foam tape to raise it up a little bit, which is another favourite crafting trick of mine.

Here is the full card and that’s it from me for today.

Happy crafting and shopping from Erica

Theme Week | Masculine Cards: Day 4 – with Erica

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS, New Release, Other, Theme Week

Hi guys! Erica on the blog today. Here at Studio Katia we are doing something different and fun for the summer: theme weeks where we all have to make a card that suits that theme. This week’s theme is something I struggle with… Masculine cards. Oy, that’s my crafting Everest! Bling, flowers, pretty, cute? No problem whatsoever. Bring it on! Masculine cards on the other hand. Erm… no. Not good. No mojo, man. I had several hair-pulling moments before I came up with a half decent idea.

SUPPLIES:

Happy Clear Stamp Set
Foxes Clear Stamp Set
Brush Stroke Stripes Clear Stamp
Elongated Dotted Hexagons Creative Dies
Googly Eyes

I started out by stamping one of the foxes from the aptly named Foxes stamp set on Strathmore Bristol Vellum water colour paper and proceeded to colour him in using my Zig markers. When he was dry I cut him out using the coordinating die which will be available to purchase in July. My idea was to make him look like a dad reading a book to his kids so I wanted to add some googly eyes to make him a bit fun.

As I’m rubbish at masculine cards I wanted to keep the background simple and not overly fussy but how to avoid it being boring at the same time? Well, that was the million dollar question and I toyed with the idea of making a striped background using the new Brush Stroke Stripes stamps but instead went with cutting out some Elongated Dotted Hexagons in both a black linen textured card stock as well as foam to raise up the shapes from the card.

These shapes I arranged on the card in a “blocky” way and then I popped the fox at the bottom of the card, inside the biggest shape. Up until this point I felt it was going ok but here I faltered again… now the question was whats sentiment to use and where to put it??

In an attempt to make it more manly I stamped the big happy sentiment from one of the new stamp sets on a blue star patterned paper in a dark grey ink and then cut out out, leaving a wide boarder to make sure the stars showed still. I adhered this to the card over the shapes and then stamped ‘birthday’ in black ink just off to the side.

The card wasn’t looking very manly at all so I tried adding some dark grey enamel dots to the card but it didn’t really make it any more macho. Accepting defeat is never easy but at this point it was either adding sequins or calling it quits. I chose quit. Oh well, you win some, you loose some.

Trying to redeem myself a little bit I made a second card but kept it SUPER simple. Grey card base, that happy stamp set again and with the help of some VersaMark, grey and black ink and my MISTI I stamped it three times in gradient colours. I also added a few dots for interest and then stamped ‘Father’s Day’ in grey ink on a thin strip of white card stock which I adhered to the card using foam tape.

Well, that was my attempt at making masculine cards. Not my best work but perhaps not my worst either. That Father’s Day card I can send to my dad or father in law, neither one of them will appreciate the artistry nor the angst that went into making these cards, lol!

Even though I am not 100% percent happy with these cards I hope I have inspired you to try something out of your comfort zone, even if it doesn’t work out the way you had planned it’s good to challenge yourself every now and again.

Have a great June and happy crafting everyone!

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Guest Designer Emily Leiphart

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS, New Release, Thank You Cards

Hi, it’s Emily here and I’m absolutely delighted to be guest designing with Studio Katia today! It’s a pleasure to discover new companies and amazing talents, especially Canadian ones. 😉 Studio Katia’s latest release is an incredible one and I loved playing with the new stamps, dies and embellishments! My first card is a birthday card featuring Kobi the Birthday Bear stamps and coordinating dies. He’s so adorable and I’m in love with those numbered candles!

 

I used a total of eight images from that set, along with their coordinating dies. I used fun foam to pop up the candles and balloon since it was the easiest way to layer small areas. I stamped all of the images with black pigment ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder, then used distress inks to colour everything. I used the Clear Round Drops Mix on the balloons.

My second card features the You’re So Ranunculus stamp set, Mini Thank You dies and Dotted Patterns Set 1 dies. I stamped the flowers with watermark ink and heat embossed with gold tinsel embossing powder. Then I watercoloured the image with distress inks.

After the panel dried, I dry embossed the largest frame using Dotted Patterns Set 1. You can see the details in the close-up photo below.

To create the sentiment, I watercoloured a die cut from Mini Thank You and layered it, first, with black cardstock and fun foam.

Aside from the tans and browns I used for the bear and cake, I used the same bright colours on both cards. The ranunculus card is busier and more saturated with colour and shine, while the birthday card is clear and simple in comparison. I love using the same colours on two very different cards to show versatility.

I hope you enjoyed today’s projects. Please visit my blog for a full supply list. Thanks so much for stopping by!

May Release Design Team Blog Hop

/ CATEGORIES - Blog Hops, New Release

Hello and welcome to our May Release Design Team Blog Hop. This release includes 5 new clear stamp sets, 2 new stand along die sets and introducing new coordinating die sets. Yay!

Erica here and for today’s card I decided to use the You’re So Ranunculus stamp set and the Matching die (you can also buy these in a stamp and die bundle) No surprise about using the flower stamp I’m guessing, considering what a flower lover I am.

I dusted my Strathmore Bristol Vellum water colour paper generously with my anti-static tool before stamping it with VersaMark ink and heat embossing it in white embossing powder. Once all set, I grabbed my Zig markers and coloured it in vivid colours. Instead of sticking to just one colour, I used pinks and yellows to create a very colourful bunch of flowers and different shades of green for the leaves and stems.
When I was happy with the flower colouring, I set the piece aside to dry and started on my background panel. For this one I used RangerInk water colour card stock as I wanted a crisp white border around my colouring. To create this I used masking tape and covered about .5cm of the card stock on each side when I taped it down to my old Sizzix cover plate (which I use as a portable easel for stability whilst painting) Grabbing my Gansai Tambi 36 pack and splish-splashed some of those gorgeous, creamy colours around.
Here I had a brilliant idea and decided to do something which I thought would make the flowers stand out a bit more than my original idea which was to do green for thudded e bottom and blue for a sky. Instead I used greens for the bottom where grass and bushes would be (admittedly part of the original plan but work with me) and then to contrast the flowers I used yellow and dark pink on the opposite spot on the background to where the flowers were. If that makes sense? If not, don’t worry, I barely understood that part myself when I read it back and I wrote it…! To help with this I die cut the flowers out using the matching die and then used it as a guide as to where to add which colour. I used my heat tool to set the colours once I was done and then gently peeled off the masking tape. I must admit I LOVE that little white border around the background colours, it really helps making it pop and adds interest without actually doing anything. Clever, huh??
As for sentiments I decided to go for one of the ones that comes with the flower stamp set ‘You’re so Kind’ and I heat embossed this in a gold embossing powder on a strip of vellum. It was a bit tricky to wrap this around the flower die cut and keep it straight, which in the end I didn’t manage at all. Oh well, onwards and upwards, eh? My trusted must-have foam tape came out and I added a generous amount to the back of the cut out before adhering it to the background (I had already adhered the background to a white card base at this point)
To cover up the wonky vellum bit I added some sequins to it in the hopes the bling would make up for the wonky-ness. These are from Majestic Sequin Fusion and are so versatile as you get both flat and cupped in the mix. I used only cupped for this card though, I tend to use the flat ones for shaker cards mostly.
Well, that was it for this card. Now for the fun part!
GIVEAWAY:
To celebrate our May 2017 Release, we’re giving away (1) $100GF and (2) $50GC to the store to three lucky winners. All winners will be announced on June 3rd, 2017 on the Studio Katia Blog. Please visit all the blogs some of the girls are hosting their own giveaways!
To Enter:
Lease a comment on this blog post:
Make sure to leave all the comments by Tuesday June 1, 2017 11PM MT.
Ready to get hopping? Here’s the compete Blog Hop and you should heading towards the lovely Laurie next!
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May Release Preview – Day 5 with Kristina

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Hello Cards, New Release, News, Sneak Peek

Hello and welcome to our May Release week Preview. This release includes 5 new clear stamp sets, 2 new stand along die sets and introducing new coordinating die sets. Yay!

Kristina here and today is our last day for previews. Who’s excited for tomorrow?

I love this set especially because it’s so gentle and very beautiful. With this set you can create many interesting and elegant projects.

First, I stamped the ranunculus with transparent ink on watercolor paper and embossed it with a white powder. I used no.34. no 50 and no.51 Gansai Tambi watercolor paints to lightly color in the flowers. I’ve trimmed the panel to make it narrow and used foam tape to adhere it to the light grey cardbase.

 

I die-cut the word “hello” from the coordinating set in white cardstock a few times to create more dimension and to make it stand out on a light gray background.

 

Then I glued the sentiment to the card and finished the card with Vintage Sheer Fusion and Clear Round Drops – Mix and the new Frosted Hearts.

Thank you all for stopping by and I hope to see you all tomorrow!

I hope you have enjoyed this look at You’re So Ranunculus Clear Stamp & Coordinating Dies ! And now, it’s GIVEAWAY time! Leave a comment below, to win this stamp set, by TODAY May 26th, and we will randomly pick one winner for this set!

Thank You!

May Release Preview – Day 4 with Erica

/ CATEGORIES - Announcements, Birthday Cards, Blog Spotting, Cards, New Release, News, Other, Shaker Cards, Sneak Peek

Hello and welcome to our May Release week Preview. This release includes 5 new clear stamp sets, 2 new stand along die sets and introducing new coordinating die sets. Yay!

Erica here! It’s Day 4 of the Studio Katia preview week! Today I’m going to show you the Brush Stroke Stripes  stamp set, which is part of the new release and will be available to purchase in just a few days, May 27th! Whoop whoop!

I decided to make patterned paper for backgrounds for my cards for this post. The MISTI as well as the MISTI Creative Corners came in super helpful to line up the stamps and make sure the distances between the lines were the same. I didn’t really have a plan per say about anything but just started stamping and trying colour combinations.  Ombre is a favourite of mine and I ended up doing one in yellow going to orange and pinks, as well as one yellow to orange and back to yellow. Once I was on a roll, I also made a pink-purple-ish patterned panel as well as a yellow and green tartan look. AND a rainbow one. I know, I know.. mad as a hatter, me!

For my first card I cut a piece out from one of the yellow panels I made, out using the rectangle die from the Dotted Patterns Set1 and the colours made me feel very happy and joyful so I decided to stamp the word ‘Happy’ from the Happy stamp set right across the panel. I used black ink and heat embossed it in clear embossing powder to make it pop. No card is complete without sequins so I added a sprinkling of them on both sides of the Happy as well as add a few crystals too. Because #bling, right??

Moving on to the pink/purple panel, I grabbed the whole set of Dotted Ovals and die cut them just off the side of it so they weren’t right in the centre. As a nice contrast, I used a lovely textured purple card stock which shows through as I removed the biggest of the circles. At this point I decided to make shaker card so I also cut the three inner rings out in double sided sticky foam (I’m addicted to this stuff!) and discarded the middle one as that’s where I thought I’d put the sequins. The smallest piece got the stripy part glued on and then to make sure all the bits were lined up I used the the ovals to place them in the right spot. I glued down the middle oval and then added a mix of sequins using a sprinkling each of Luminous Lavender, Siberian Iris and also some Icy Clear Seed Beads around it before glueing some acetate to the third biggest oval and sticking that down on the card. On a small banner I stamped ‘Happy Birthday’ using the single word stamps from the Happy set.

For my third card, I used the pink-to-yellow-ombre panel and started by cutting out an A2 dotted panel by using the Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames. Then I stamped lots of paint brushes using a stamp set from WPlus 9 which I coloured in using Copic markers (for the handles) and then I matched the paint brushes up to the colour stripes and used the ink pads to get the colour exact. I glued them down and added glossy accents to the brush part to make them look wet. For the sentiment I used one from the stamp set, ‘You Color My World’, which I also coloured in used Copics. Because I felt it needed a little something, I added some white enamel accents before adding the sentiment piece to the card using foam tape.

I had some left of the panel so I cut the remainder of the strip into a straight piece and then rounded off the top with one of the ‘label shapers’ (for the lack of a better word) from the Dotted Patterns Set1 and also punched a hole with the small circle die from the same set. Fuchsia coloured ribbon and gold thread made a big hassle at the top and that was it!

One last little thing I made was a gift tag out of the yellow/green ‘tartan’ look patterned paper I made. This one was super simple (once the stamping was done) as it was a quick die cut job and add a ribbon (both a die cut one and an actual one) and done!

 

Ok, that’s it from me for today but don’t forget to check in tomorrow for more release teasers and then yet again on the 27th as we are having a a HUUUUUGE release day blog hop with lots of prizes and fabulous projects!

Happy crafting from Erica

You can find me on Instagram here and on Facebook here if you want to see more of my work.

I hope you have enjoyed this look at Brush Stroke Stripes! And now, it’s GIVEAWAY time! Leave a comment below, to win this stamp set, by May 26th, and we will randomly pick one winner for this set!

Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for another great preview.
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May Release Preview – Day 3 with Valentyna

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, New Release, News

Hello and welcome to our May Release week Preview. This release includes 5 new clear stamp sets, 2 new stand along die sets and introducing new coordinating die sets. Yay!

Valentyna here popping in to introduce to you Kobi the Birthday Bear! This wonderful set was illustrated by Zlatina Gocheva. He’s the adorable bear that lives in Canadian Rockies. He loves to make new friends and eat cake!

I hope you have enjoyed this look at Kobi the Birthday Bear & Coordinating Dies. Tomorrow we have another new set to show you! And now, it’s GIVEAWAY time! Leave a comment bellow to win this set by May 26th, and we will randomly pick one winner for this set!

Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for another great preview.
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May Release Preview – Day 2 with Liliuska

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, New Release, News, Other, Sneak Peek

Hello and welcome to our May Release week Preview. This release includes 5 new clear stamp sets, 2 new stand along die sets and introducing new coordinating die sets. Yay!

I am very excited to join May Release Previews this week!

I am showcasing Happy Stamp Set today.

I love how versatile is this set. The handwritten word HAPPY looks beautiful on its own, you don’t even need to add anything, except for some fun background maybe. Which is what I did playing with this set.

First I made a background using alcohol markers. I scribbled on Yupo paper and added some alcohol. Next I put another panel of Yupo to the first one and got two beautiful blue background. I die cut a little smaller panel than my card base, stamped Sending Happy Thoughts and added few sequins. Stamping on Yupo is not an easy task, but I am happy with the result I got.

Next I made a background on photo paper using dry watercolour paints and water. Once it was dry I stamped Don’t Worry Be Happy, die cut it to a bit smaller size and added couple sequins.

Stamping on photo paper is also tricky, but it worked perfectly!

Next I decided to stamp word Happy using few different tones of the same colour and inked my card base with the same inks to match the stamped word. A frame from Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames | Creative Dies made my card look even more elegant. To make the word Happy look even more fun I added some glitter embossing powder.

Next I made a shaker card using heavy weight vellum on which embossed Happy Birthday with gold embossing powder. I added lots of tiny 18K Gold Stars Confetti to my shaker and adhered few inside the golden frame. Since adhering vellum to a card base is always tricky I only added adhesive behind the frame, so nothing is visible.

Last two cards I made using two distress watercolour panels and some Distress Inks. I simply embossed sentiment on the panels and added a little wash of colour on top. I die cut both panels using Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames | Creative Dies. Embossed flowers are also from the Happy Stamp Set. How cute are they!

This set looks perfect on every background! I enjoyed playing with it and am sure you will as well. You can make so many different greetings cards with it.

Have a wonderful day and come back tomorrow for more previews!

Liliuska

I hope you have enjoyed this look at Happy Clear Stamp set. Tomorrow we have another new set to show you! And now, it’s GIVEAWAY time! Leave a comment bellow to win this set by May 26th, and we will randomly pick one winner for this set!

Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for another great preview.
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