Thank You Cards

Grapeful for Your Friendship Card by Ilda

January 31, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Thank You Cards

Hello sweet Friends, Ilda here with you today! I have been dying to play around with this gorgeous Citrus Trimmings stamp set for the longest time and today I finally get to share my results. As you may know already if you have been following my work, I love all things rainbow so I thought I would use that as my color inspiration for this slimline citrus card. Gahhh, isn’t it so pretty and yummy looking!?! Summer can’t get here soon enough!

To start, I began by cutting a watercolor piece of paper 9 X 5 inches. I then stamped out one of the Citrus Trimmings stamps along the bottom of the panel using watermark ink and then heat set it with gold embossing powder. I then took the other citrus stamp and slightly overlapped the image with the previous one and stamped it out again with the watermark ink and sprinkled on the gold embossing powder. This time before I heat set the powder I took a small paintbrush and brushed off any of the overlapped embossing powder that transferred on to the previously stamped image. This just avoided masking the first image.

Next, I used Mijello Mission Gold watercolors to paint in all the images in. Since they were heat embossed it made adding water in the wells super easy to color in as it prevented color bleeding to occur. I began with the purply pink color on the left which I like to think looks like a blood orange fruit and then ended the watercolored citrus edge with the limes. As you can see I added quite a few layers of color to the images to add dimension and texture to the fruit. To do that I simply allowed each layer of color to dry before adding more color.

Once the images were all colored in and dry, I added some splatters of color using the same colors I painted with. I then trimmed the card panel to fit on to an 8.5 x 4-inch slimline card.

On a piece of black cardstock, I stamped out the sentiment in white pigment ink and heat set it with white embossing powder. I then used the small frame die from the Dotted Patterns Set 2 to die cut the sentiment. Since I wanted the sentiment strip to cut smaller than the die itself I lined it up with the top of the sentiment first and then die cut it again lining it up with the bottom ensuring that the dots all lined up before running it through the die cutting machine again. This is a great way to stretch out your dies and add that extra dotted detail around sentiment strips.

I then finished off the card by gluing on Dazzling Celery, Radiant Pinaple, and Summer Fusion sequins to the card front.

Hope you were inspired by this Grapeful for your Friendship card. I truly am “grafeful” to all that stopped by here today!

Until next time… Happy Crafting,

Ilda

SUPPLIES:

CITRUS TRIMMINGS

DOTTED PATTERNS SET 2 DIES

SUMMER FUSION

DAZZLING CELERY FUSION

RADIANT PINEAPPLE FUSION

STUDIO KATIA GLUE

TRIANGLE TRAY

A Cup of Poinsettia Wishes Christmas Card by Ilda

November 12, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello my friends, Ilda here!

Today I have a Christmas card to share with you, done in a non-traditional Christmas color palette. I wanted to use the Poinsettia Trimmings Stamp set but wanted to have fun with coloring them in other than red. I am also participating in Kathy Raccosin’s 30 Day Coloring Challenge and used this as an opportunity to learn from my coloring. I’m sure this would card would have turned out beautifully as well done in a red and green Christmas palette, but this way you can see all how fun the poinsettias look done in a variety of colors.

To make this card I began by stamping out the teacup from the Cup of Thanks set and masking off the top. I then removed the mask and did some partial stamping of the Poinsettia Trimmings stamp, by only inking the areas I wanted to stamp out and wiping off ink of any adjacent flowers before stamping out the image. Next, I used Copic Markers to color in the cup of poinsettias and then used the cup of thanks coordinating die to do a partial die cut of the cup. I then fussy cut the poinsettia area and the space in between the cup handle that I had drawn in to connect the lines that were missing. I then finished off the images by adding some silver detailing on the rim of the cup with a silver gelly roller pen and then added some silver crystals to the saucer. To the center of the poinsettias and berries, I added glossy accents.

The background was made using the Halftone Dots Cover Die and gluing that piece onto Silver Glitter cardstock.

The Silver embossed sentiment strips come from both the Cup of Thanks and the Holiday Village Stamp sets.

To complete the card, I adhered all the elements onto the card base using foam tape.

I hope you enjoyed this Cup of Poinsettia Wishes Christmas Card. Thank you all for stopping by and until next time… Happy Crafting!

Ilda

SUPPLIES:
POINSETTIA TRIMMINGS
A CUP OF THANKS

A CUP OF THANKS DIES
HOLIDAY VILLAGE | STAMP SET
HALFTONE DOTS COVER | CREATIVE DIES
STUDIO KATIA GLUE
SILVER | CRYSTALS

Thank You So Much with Rubeena

October 19, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Good morning, Studio Katia friends! Rubeena here with a simple card using lots of florals from the set, Floral Trimmings. What I love about this set is how versatile it is. It includes many images that would be perfect for border stamping, masking and covering a card base to mimic a “background stamp” or using each stamp on its own.

Since this is my first time using the set, I decided to keep it simple. I stamped one of the images on each side of a sheet of white cardstock. I colored the flowers and leaves with alcohol ink markers.

I added some details with a white gel pen for highlights. I thought the sentiment “thank you” and “so much” from Thank You So Much would be perfect. I stamped it in the center with black pigment ink and heat-embossed with clear embossing ink for added effect. I trimmed down on the sides and mounted the panel over a black folded cardbase. I finished it off with some Iridescent Gems.

I hope you were inspired to create today. Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂

SUPPLIES

Floral Trimmings | Clear Stamp Set

Thank You So Much | Clear Stamp Set

IRIDESCENT | CRYSTALS

Flowerville Card with Natalia

October 16, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

“In a fairy town called Flowerville live Shorties – little people, who never grow taller than a small cucumber.” N. Nosov

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. I want to share with you my card using You’re So Sweet stamp set.

First I stamped the cute image from the Whismical Town and beautiful flowers from You’re So Sweet stamp sets. Colored with copic markers and die cut them with coordinating dies.

I blended some distress inks onto white piece of paper. Another piece of glitter cardstock I die cut using Dotted Patterns Simple Borders dies.

I foam mounted all the elements onto white paper panel and heat embossed the sentiment from You’re so Sweet stamp set using white embossing powder. Decorated everything with Clear Drops Mix One.

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

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

YOU’RE SO SWEET | STAMP SET

YOU’RE SO SWEET DIES

WHIMSICAL TOWN | STAMP SET

WHIMSICAL TOWN | COORDINATING DIES

SIMPLE BORDERS | CREATIVE DIES

CLEAR DROPS | MIX ONE

Altering Stamps with Erum

October 5, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Other, Thank You Cards

Hi there everyone! Erum here with a new card. Today, I will use the A Cup of Thanks Stamp Set and alter it a bit to use it differently.

If you hopped along with us during the release, you must have seen THIS card of mine where I used the same stamp set differently by stamping the image again and selecting just the florals from the second image to add to my card.

This time too, I stamped the image twice. Next, I coloured just the flowers with Prismacolor pencils. After I was done colouring, I fussy cut the flowers out only and layered the two pieces in a way to build a floral bouquet.

I wanted all the focus on the flowers so I kept my card base very simple by adding fine black paint splatters and stamping the sentiment “Thanks”.

I adhered the flowers onto the card base with foam tape and in the end, I added a few, very gorgeous, Midnight Blue Crystals with the help of my new best friend the Studio Katia Glue and the Jewel Picker Tool. This glue dries clear (and fast) AND it’s NOT glossy! This is why it’s my new best friend!

If I had not mentioned which stamp set this was from, you would’ve not guessed it at first glance. You have already seen two very different cards with this stamp set from me and the design team has made quite a few samples as well. A Cup of Thanks is quite a versatile stamp set! You need to add this to your collection STAT!

See you all soon lovelies! Thank you for stopping by.

Erum

SUPPLIES

A Cup of Thanks Stamp Set

Midnight Blue Crystals

Studio Katia Glue

Jewel Picker Tool

A Cup Of THANKS with Natalia

October 1, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. Today I want to share with you my card with A cup of THANKS stamp set. Unbelievably wonderful set inspired me to make this watercolor card.

First I stamped sweet bunch from A Cup of Thanks stamp set on the watercolor paper. Next I colored it with watercolor paints and added splashes using brush.

Die cutting the piece of paper with cup and bunch with Dotted Patterns Set 3 | Creative Die. Glued it on light grey piece of paper. Heat embossed the phrase A Cup of Thanks on grey cardstock and placed it on card using foam tape. Decorated everything with Majestic | Fusion.

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

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

A cup of THANKS stamp set

Dotted Patterns Set 3 | Creative Die

Majestic | Fusion

You’re So Sweet with Kristina

September 26, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Kristina here with another floral card! 🙂

For today’s card I used gorgeous new A Cup of Thanks stamp set. First, I stamped the flowers with black waterproof ink onto watercolor paper. I used masking paper to cover up the tea cup.

Then, I watercolored the images with watercolors and added details with colored pencils. Next, I die cut the word Thanks from A Cup of Thanks coordinating die set out of gold cardstock and adhered on top of my panel.

I stamped the sentiment from You’re So Sweet stamp set with black ink and finished my card with Majestic fusion sequins.

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

Kristina

Supplies:
A CUP OF THANKS | STAMP SET
A CUP OF THANKS DIES
YOU’RE SO SWEET | STAMP SET
MAJESTIC | FUSION

Autumn mood with Svetlana

September 25, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello everybody! Today I want to show you a watercolor card. It’s has autumn mood and feel to it. To create it I used “A Cup of Thanks” set of stamps.

I stamped flowers on watercolor paper and colored them and made a colourful background around the image with zig markers.

I cut out the word on the card first and made few die cuts from another sheet of paper and glued them all together and adhered the thick die cut thanks to the card.

I added some sequins for accents.

Hope you like my card! Thanks for your attention!

Thank You Card with Laura

September 17, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Other, Thank You Cards

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here, and today I am back with a fun thank you card I created using the Studio Katia Best Friends stamp set.This stamp is super cute and this would be the perfect thank you card to send to an animal lover 🙂

As a first step I stamped the image in the set on Neenah Solar White Cardstock and colored it with Spectrum Noir markers.

I then cut the front panel and the background panel out of white cardstock.
For the front panel I used the Dotted Patters Set 1 Creative Dies together with the Dotted Ovals Creative Dies. I used a light grey ink and the Brush Strokes Stamps to add interest to the panel.
For the background I repeated the same steps, this time using the Darling Ribbon & Frames Dies and the Brush Strokes Stripes Stamp Set.

For the sentiment I used the Giving Thanks coordinating dies. I cut the sentiment out of black cardstock and the outline out of white cardstock. I pressed the white die cut on my grey ink to add color and texture, and I glued it on my card front. Unfortunately this set is now retired – I didn’t realize as I was making this card, and I apologize for that- but, if you don’t have it, you can use the coordinating dies to the Mini Thank You stamp set for an equally pretty result. 🙂

I mounted everything on a top-folding A2 card base, and that finished off my card.
And that’s it for today! I really hope you enjoyed this post, and I hope I inspired you to create with the cute Best Friends stamp set.
Thank you all so much for stopping by, and have a great day,

Laura

SUPPLIES

*Retired – in alternative you can use the
Mini Thank You | Coordinating Dies

Stitched Quilt Inspired Card by Ilda

September 15, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello dear friends, Ilda here from I Love Doing All things crafty!
My card today is dedicated to all of you that inspire me on a daily basis. I am so thankful for all the crafty friends I have made and met because of this crazy Card Making/Papercrafting Community! YOU are all so amazing! I am inspired daily by all that I see from you on Facebook, Instagram, everywhere I look, there is SO much talent and inspiration.

So with that said, today I am sharing with you this stitched quilt card. This was definitely a labor of love to create as it took me most of the Summer to complete. The card was hugely inspired by the one and only Jennifer McGuire, the cardmaking Goddess!!! I have always loved her stitched cards but have never found time to try them. I now know why she does these types of cards while on vacation. Well, this Summer I spent 4 weeks in Portugal visiting my family. So to keep from having any crafty withdrawals, I took along with me some card panels that I had die cut with various patterns, embroidery needles, and a variety of colorful thread. The kids and I were so busy that I was only able to complete a couple of the panels as the only downtime I had was when we were at the beach. I just LOVE how this card turned out, and it was definitely worth all those beach hours!

To make this card:

I ran the small square stitch die from the Stitch Border Die set through the die cut machine 20 times!!!
Four times along the top and five rows down.
I used masking tape to hold the square in place while running it each time through the machine.
I eyeballed the spacing, so my squares aren’t perfect. If you want perfect, use a ruler to divide the card panel first.
Next, find yourself a beach, LOL… or a somewhere where you have plenty of time. Start stitching away!
I worked on one square at a time. I began with one color along the outer square and then switched colors for the middle square. To the inside, I used a flower like a stitch by always stitching from the center. (Sorry, not sure what these stitches are actually called, haha!) I also had all my needles threaded with different colors to save on threading them each time.
Once all my colorful squares were completed, I then used a white thread to connect the squares together. Looks like some fancy stitching but it was stitched the same way as the smaller squares I promise. The spacing just makes it look that way!
Once the inside was all done I then stitched along the outside of the panel, finishing off the edges.
To the bottom, I created a little fringed trimmed edge by looping doubled up thread and tying it in knots. To keep the knots from unraveling I added a small amount of multi-medium matt glue to each of them.
On a scrap piece of black cardstock, I stamped out the “you inspire me” sentiment from Japanese Peony set and heat set it with a white embossing powder.
I then used the long stitched border strip to die cut the holes along the top and the bottom of the sentiment strip.
Next, I attached the sentiment strip to the card, trying to line up the holes as best as possible as I stitched it into place.
To attach the Satin Vinca flowers I used a clear thread and a sewing needle, I also used a Silver Dust Seed Bead in the center of each flower. Since I placed the flowers where no holes were pierced I made new holes with the needle as they would not be seen and covered up by the flowers.
Now that the panel was complete, I added multi-medium glue to the entire threaded back and glued that to another piece of cardstock that I had trimmed a little smaller than the panel. I then placed it under a heavy book and set it aside to dry completely flat.
Once it was dry I adhered the panel to a black card base.
To the inside I finished it with the Thank You stamp from the Thank You So Much stamp set.

I hope this card has inspired you today just as Jennifer McGuire has inspired me with this creation.
Thank you all for stopping by, until next time… Happy Crafting!
Ilda