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Studio Katia Fall + Winter Release Blog Hop + Giveaway!

/ CATEGORIES - Blog Hops, Cards, Floral Cards, New Release, Winter Holidays

Hello and welcome to our Fall + Winter 2017 Release Blog Hop!

We are very excited to finally reveal all new products which are now live and available for purchase in the store! This release includes 7 new clear stamp sets and coordinating dies, 4 new stand alone Creative Dies and 9 new embellishments!

Our team had such a blast playing with all these new products, we are sure our customers will love them just as much or even more! And if you can’t decide what to pick, the Team’s fabulous creations will sure help you pick your favourites from this release.

Let’s start with Rowena’s Christmas Card.

Hi it’s Rowena here sharing a watercolored Christmas Card.
First I used a watercolor friendly ink and stamp the ‘Merry Poinsettia‘ onto a watercolor paper. I then colored the flowers with various of reds. Then die cut all the images with the matching dies.

For the card base I added an acetate to create a window. I adhered the flowers and leaves on the card and added the be merry sentiment from the same set.

Splattered white paint all over and drew a black line for added interest. I also added a few Majestic Fusion sequins and that finishes the card for today.

To celebrate our New Release, Studio Katia is picking 3 winners to win their choice of stamp set combo (combo includes: clear stamp set + coordinating die + any 3 embellishments)! Winners will be chosen at random from all the participating blogs.

You have up to 3 chances to qualify to win!
To enter:
– Leave a comment on this blog post and leave a comment on every stop
– Follow us on Instagram
– Like us on Facebook
– Make sure to leave all the comments by Friday 22/09/2017 11 PM EST.
All winners will be announced on September 23, 2017 on the Studio Katia Blog.

Ready to get hopping? Make sure to visit all the stops as you also have a chance to win a $35 GC to Studio Katia at every stop on the hop!
Here’s the complete Blog Hop List and you should be heading to our lovely Guest Designer for this Blog Hop – Michelle:

Studio Katia Blog <– You are here
Michelle
Erum
Kaja
Laura
Natalia
Tracy
Svitlana
Svetlana
Galachko
Kristina
Amanda
Liliuska
Olga

 

 

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Fall + Winter Release Preview – Last Day!

/ CATEGORIES - New Release, Sneak Peek, Winter Holidays

Hello and welcome to Day 4 of our Fall+Winter Release Preview Week.

Today is the last Preview Day before the Big Reveal tomorrow and our New Release Blog Hop. We are so excited about all the new products coming to the store on September 15th! Enjoy more fabulous stamp sets today and fantastic creations from our Design Team. They had a blast playing with all new stamps, dies and embellishments.

These Fall and Winter themed products will be available On September 15th!

Laura
I started off by stamping and colouring images from the Sweet Holiday set and die cutting them with coordinating dies. For the background I cut out scalloped rectangle die, heat embossed the sentiment using white embossing powder and starry sky with clear glitter embossing powder. I created snowy hillsides by cutting out scalloped rectangle from white cardstock and cutting hillside shapes out of it.

For my card base I layered heavyweight white cardstock cut to 4 1/4″ by 5 1/2″ with red cardstock cut to 4 1/8″ by 5 3/8″. I thought this would help me frame my scene and tie in the red elements in the stamped images with the rest of the card. I then glued everything to my card base, and, for a finishing touch, I added a few of the newly released Snow Crystals around the sentiment.

Natalia
Winter holidays are my favorite, so there was no question about what I want to create with the Sweet Holiday set. I like making shakers for every season, especially winter. I started with die cutting a scalloped frame for the shaker. I inked the background, stamped, coloured and die cut images for the scene. I covered the background scene with acetate, that way sequins won’t touch the house, nor the snow banks in the background. Now I just need to arrange the characters and – my favourite part – fill the shaker with sequins. I used Iridescent Magnolia Fusion; Vintage Sheer Fusion; Majestic; Silver Dust Seed Beads and Clear Dust Seed Beads.

 

Kaja
As soon as I saw the new Friends of winter set I fell in love! Thats why I decided to stamp all of the images and colour them with my alcohol markers. In the end, I only ended up using the Santa on this card, but I will use the others on another project. I wanted to keep the card quite simple so I blended only two colours of ink in the background. I left the bottom part of the card white.

While the colours were still wet I used some perfect pearls on top of them for a lovely shimmer. The last thing on the background were the white splotches that I made with white paint. I just had to try new Dotted patterns – scalloped frames die, so I put it as a focal point behind my Santa. I trimmed the background just a bit for a nice white border around the edge. It looks like the white splotches are snow so I stamped the sentiment that says Let it snow from Friends of winter set to finish off the card.

Olga

Olga created fun and colourful wobbler card for today’s preview. Those googly eyes are just perfect to add to the images as another fun detail.

We hope you have enjoyed this look at Sweet Holiday Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies and Friends of Winter Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies! Come back tomorrow for the Big Reveal of our Release and a Blog Hop filled with fabulous and inspiring projects!!

Fall + Winter Release Preview – Day 3

/ CATEGORIES - New Release, Shaker Cards, Sneak Peek, Winter Holidays

Hello and welcome to Day 3 of our Fall+Winter Release Preview Week!

Today we continue revealing new products and show off fabulous creations from our designers. We have many fabulous stamp sets coming to the store this Friday, September 15th, as well as new dies and lots of sparkly embellishments which you are sure to spot in our designers projects.

These Fall and Winter themed products will be available On September 15th!

Erum
I stamped the single flower and several leaves from the Marry Poinsettia Stamp Set. I was going for a no-line watercolour look. I embossed a panel for the card front and popped on Dotted Shaker Tag using foam tape. I then die cut my flowers and leaves using the coordinating dies for the Merry Poinsettia Stamp Set and arranged them on to the tag. In the end I die cut the word Merry in silver and glued it on the tag. For some bling I added beautiful Majestic Fusion Sequin Mix and for pop of colour I added some home made enamel dots in red.
Isn’t it just a beautiful stamp set?! And you get THREE flowers with beautiful sentiment stamps.

Galachko
I used a stamp set Merry Poinsettia and a die sentiment from coordinating dies. I colored flowers using alcohol markers and decorated middle of the flowers with gold beads. I cut out few phrases using black cardstock and glued several diecuts to get a nice pop-up embellishment. I cut a panel using Fancy Square dies and painted the frame with gold paint.

Svetlana
For today’s preview I have a fun wintery shaker card featuring Winter Kobi stamp set. First I’ve stamped and coloured Christmas lights for the background. Next I’ve stamped Kobi, Santa’s sack and sleigh, coloured them and die cut the images using the coordinating dies. I made a frame for the shaker and filled it with new Iridescent Veil, Majestic Confetti, Clear Round Drops and Silver Dust beads. This turned out to be a very fun scenery card.

 

We hope you have enjoyed this look at Merry Poinsettia Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies and Winter Kobi Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies! Our designers sure had lots of fun playing with these. Let us know what you think and remember to stop by the blog tomorrow! It will be our last preview day before the Big Reveal and New Release Blog Hop!

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Fall+Winter Release Preview – Day 2

/ CATEGORIES - Autumn/Fall Cards, Cards, Floral Cards, New Release, Shaker Cards, Sneak Peek, Thank You Cards

Hello and welcome to Day 2 of our Fall+Winter Release Preview Week! We continue revealing some of the newest products and sharing with you fabulous creations of our talented designers. Today enjoy new beautiful fall stamp set and spot some more dies and embellishments which will be fully revealed and available for purchase this Friday, September 15th.

Now let’s see what our designers prepared for you. 😉 Make sure to stop by their blogs for more pictures and details!

Svitlana

For today’s card I decided to make the pumpkin white, I love white pumpkins a lot. So elegant. I colored flowers and die-cut the image using matching dies. I cut a panel using a die from Dotted Patterns – Scalloped Frames and cut a window inside using a die from the same set. To finish off the card I added a sentiment die cut with a die from the Giving Thanks Die Set.

Kristina

I’m so excited to show to you my Thanksgiving shaker card for today’s post! I coloured stamped images in fall colours and used coordinating dies to die-cut them. I made a shaker using dies and iridescent sequins from new release. I die cut the Thanks sentiment, which also comes with an outline and really makes the sentiment pop.

 

Tracy

This set is so pretty and can be used in so many different ways! I kept my card fairly simple. I used new Dotted Nested Square dies and die cut some plaid paper and some vellum. For the sentiment I went with a simple thanks and used the die from the Giving Thanks set and die cut it from some gold card stock. I adhered the panel onto a Kraft card base and popped the coloured piece up using some foam tape. I finished off with the really pretty new foil confetti.

And here is today’s featured stamp set:

We hope you have enjoyed this look at Giving Thanks Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies! Remember to stop by the blog tomorrow. We will have more new products and fabulous projects to show you!

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Fall + Winter Release Preview – Day 1!

/ CATEGORIES - Autumn/Fall Cards, Halloween, New Release, Sneak Peek

Hello and welcome to Day 1 of our Fall+Winter Release Preview Week. This release includes 7 new clear stamp sets and coordinating dies, 4 new stand alone Creative Dies and 9 new embellishments! Yay!

During next four days we will reveal some of the newest products and our designers will be sharing with you their gorgeous creations using stamps, dies and embellishments which will be fully revealed and available for purchase this Friday, September 15th.

These Fall and Winter themed products will be available On September 15th!

And now enjoy beautiful creations from our fabulous designers!

Hi it’s Rowena here and I’m very excited to have my very first post as a design team member for Studio Katia. Today I created a fun Halloween card featuring ‘Kobi the Grim Reaper’ stamp set illustrated by Zlatina Gocheva.

I stamp all my images with memento tuxedo black ink and colored them with copics. I then fussy cut each images, this set came with matching dies but I wanted to make them stand out from my background.

For the night sky I blended some distress inks. I used: abandoned coral, seedless preserves, chipped sapphire, and black soot. I cut a black cardstock to use as my ground. Adhered everything with foam tape and that finishes the card. Thanks for stopping by and till next time!!

 

Hello Studio Katia fans, Amanda here today with my very first project as a Design Team member. I can honestly say my eyes lit up when I saw this amazing Meowy Halloween Stamp and die set.

I started by working on the background for my card. (You can read all the details on how I achieved the night sky look on my blog.) Once that was finished, I stamped, die cut and Copic colored and glued down all my images from the Meowy Halloween stamp set. I wanted to put these cute kitties in a big spooky pumpkin patch!

I then stamped a sentiment from Meowy Halloween onto the banner die that comes in this new release die set, Dotted Patterns Scallop Frames, and popped it up with some foam tape. Lastly I added some of the green sequins from the mix, Witches Cauldron Sequin Fusion for a bit of extra sparkle.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my card, stay tuned for more inspiration during this preview week here at Studio Katia!

We hope you have enjoyed this look at Kobi The Grim Reaper & Coordinating Dies and Meowy Halloween & Coordinating Dies! Remember to stop by the blog tomorrow as we’ll have more new products and fabulous projects to show you!

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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!