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Thank You So Much with Liliuska

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Hello, Everyone!

Liliuska here and I would like to share with you two thank you cards. I love creating black cards using heat embossing and coloured pencils. They have nice elegant look. And today I made two cards for your inspiration.

And even though you do need some time for stamping, heat embossing and quick colouring, I would say that these are pretty quick cards to make if you need to make something for next day.

For the first card I used white pencil and added some details and shadows on the flowers and around the sentiment. I love adding little touches and here I decided to use some drops and white sequins. It makes cards look more interesting.

SUPPLIES:

Together We Bloom | Clear Stamp Set

Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames | Creative Dies

Frosted White Fusion

For the second card I decided to use red pencil and lightly colour flower petals with it. I also added a bit of white shadow around the sentiment to imitate writing on a blackboard.

SUPPLIES:

Thank You So Much | Clear Stamp Set

Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames | Creative Dies

Rose Gold Fusion

Hope you will get inspired to create cards with beautiful StudioKatia products. Share your work with us!

Have a wonderful day!

Liliuska

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Mandala Marathon with Erica

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Hello, Erica here!

I have another big project to share with you today. These were actually not planned at all but rather an after-thought. Or more a necessity to use the eight mandalas I had coloured. Yep, you read that right; eight. Sometimes I like sitting down just to colour and the Mandala stamp is so fun to try different colour combinations on.

SUPPLIES:

Medium Mandala Clear Stamp Set

Hello Alice Clear Stamp Set

Duo Talk Clear Stamp Set

Gansai Tambi 36 Set Watercolours

 

All of them are heat embossed in white on Strathmore Bristol Vellum water coloured paper as I wanted to use my Zig markers. It actually started with just the one but I didn’t like how that one turned out, I went with the wrong colours and it annoyed me so much that I had to try redeeming myself. So what started as a quick redemption colouring ended up a colouring marathon. I stamped up another one and another one and another one.. I was on such a roll that I ended up with eight coloured mandalas. At least they are all somewhat different from each other. After that first fateful one, I decided to stick to the same colour for each one, just varying the shades of it and that worked out much better. I think that might have been the turning point as well as the starting point of the colouring marathon.

Well, at some point I managed to rein myself in and stop with the stamping and colouring. I fussycut them all out and decided to do small square note cards with the mandalas. Using white backgrounds didn’t really work, I thought they were too boring. Ink blending was too big a job after my marathon. It really is too bad that colouring isn’t counted as cardio! I’d be fit as a fiddle!

Back to the backgrounds: I cut out stitched squares in water colouring paper and got the Gansai Tambi 36 pack out as well as a short bristled paint brush. Matching the droplet colours to the mandalas I got splattering like a mad woman. I love doing this, every single piece looks different and unique. The one for the pink mandala got sweeping pink brush strokes too as the pink looked way too red. Whilst letting the panels dry, I decided on sentiments for the cards. I thought it would be overkill to use the same one for all eight so I divided them up relatively evenly colourwise.

At this point I thought these might make a nice present for someone and having generic but useful sentiments would be the best way to go. I chose ‘Thanks’ from Duo Talk for half of them.

 

For the other half I went with ‘Just a Note’ from Hello Alice. These I stamped in black ink in the bottom right corner.

On my white card bases I adhered the backgrounds with foam tape and then the mandalas were added using slightly thinner foam tape. I love foam tape, it just adds a little something to a card without the addition of embellishments and the likes. Not that I didn’t toy with the idea of other embellishments but you will be surprised to hear I decided against it. Miracles happen, right?

Well, that’s it from me today. Happy crafting and see you soon again!

Erica

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Watercolour Cards with Liliuska

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Hello everyone!

Liliuska here and I’d like to share with you few watercolour cards. For these cards I used my favourite technique – masking a stripe with washi tape for the sentiment and stamp around it. With this you can go as simple and quick as you’d like, or spend more time on your images and enjoy some watercolouring time.

SUPPLIES:

Mandala Flower | Clear Stamp Set

Thank You So Much | Clear Stamp Set

Together We Bloom | Clear Stamp Set

Hello Alice | Clear Stamp Set

Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames | Creative Dies

Sparkling Crystals – Mix

Majestic – Sequins Fusion

Space Silver – Sequin Fusion

I spent more time on this card, since I did some masking and heat embossing to arrange my flowers and add leaves. For the background I did a quick water wash of the watercolour panel and added colour around edges of stamped images. Next I grabbed a wet brush and “painted” with water from borders to flowers pushing the pigment towards heat embossed edges.

This card was the quickest to make. I simply masked a strip with washi tape, stamped and embossed Mandala image and quickly coloured with ecoline markers. I made simple watercolour background and added few splashes along with sparkling sequins.

My last card is similar to the previous. I masked the flower to add some leaves. I decided to make a warm grey background which worked perfectly with grey sequins.

 

I had a lot of fun making these cards! I like matching watercolours with different embossing powders and embellishments. Hope you enjoyed what I prepared for you today.

See you next time!

Liliuska

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Multi Color Embossed Mandala

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Hi there.

Svitlana is here today sharing another card using Mandala Flower Clear Stamp Set.

I’m not a big mandala person, as I already mentioned before and don’t know much about them. When I think “mandala” I usually have two types of images in my head. Black and white one, made for therapeutic coloring. And a colorful one (apparently already colored lol).

So I decided to went with colored one.

SUPPLIES:

Mandala Flower Clear Stamp Set

Thank You So Much Stamp Set

This card was pretty fast, easy and fun to make. All you need are embossing powders of different colors.

So I simply was stamping the mandala onto a black panel using Versamark ink and pouring embossing powder of one color onto a part of it. Then I was stamping again (I was using my mini MISTI to stamp each time to the same spot) and adding another color.

First I thought that I wouldn’t need to stamp several times, as Versamark ink stays wet for pretty long time. But I didn’t take into consideration that I will be heat setting each color and this would dry Versamark stamping as well. It still was sticky, but a bit less. And I wasn’t getting good coverage when poured powder over.

Of you don’t have MISTI or other stamp positioning tool you still can achieve this look. You just need to add all colors of embossing powder at one time. Maybe using a small spoon, in order to not pour too much powder. As all excess in this case will mix together and most likely you’ll need to discard it.

After I finished embossing the mandala flower I red embossed a sentiment from Thank You So Much Stamp Set.

Then I thought my card was missing something and added dots here and there using fine point of Versamarker and also added powders of different colors to them.

Finally I adhered my panel onto a white card base made out of Solar White cardstock (I use 110 one, it’s nice and thick, live using it for card bases).

I really like this stamp and have a couple more ideas for using it, which hopefully I’ll show later this month 🙂

Have a great day!

Svitlana

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Mandala Flower Thank You with Svitlana

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Hi friends.

Svitlana is here. Today I’m quickly popping in to share a simple and elegant card using Mandala Flower. Mandalas are very popular now. There is something magical in their lines and dots.

For the card I’m showing today I went for an elegant and kind of lacy design. It was very quick to do.

SUPPLIES:

Mandala Flower Clear Stamp Set

Thank You So Much Stamp Set

Frosted White Sequins Fusion

 

First I cut a vellum panel and after prepping it with anti-static powder white embossed several mandalas on it. As well as a sentiment from Thank You So Much set.

I then adhered the panel onto a parchment card base. I also white embossed on a vellum piece one more mandala, hand cut it and adhered onto one on the panel.

Lastly I added several Frosted White sequins.

This was very easy and quick card to make, I like how it turned out. So soft and gentle 😉

Have a wonderful weekend!

Svitlana

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Thank You Card with Laurie

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Hello and Happy Monday!!  Laurie here to share a very simple card using mostly die cutting.   Studio Katia has amazing dies, from stitched dies to my favourite, the dotted detail dies!

SUPPLIES:
Thank You So Much Stamp Set
The Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames Die Set
Elongated Dotted Hexagons
Stitched Notebook Die Set
Majestic Sequin Fusion
Space Silver Fusion Sequins
Mini Misti

I started by using the largest frame die from the The Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames Die Set to cut a panel of white cardstock. I then took the middle die from the Elongated Dotted Hexagons to cut a “window” in the centre of this panel.  To create a frame for my window, I nested the middle and the largest of those same dies, taped them together and ran them through my die cutting machine with some light grey cardstock.

I traced the opening with pencil onto my cardbase so I knew where to stamp the sentiment.  The “thank you” comes from the newly released Thank You So Much Stamp Set.  Using my Mini Misti, I lined up the sentiment and stamped in black ink.

To show the recipient a lot of love, I plastered the front of the card with die cut hearts using the stitched heart die from the Stitched Notebook Die Set.  This helped me use up some of my scraps!
And to make this sparkle, I used a combination of the Majestic Sequin Fusion and Space Silver Fusion Sequins.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by!!  Have a fabulous week and see you soon!!

 

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Thank You Card by Kathy

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Hello friends, it’s day 17 of the #thedailymarker30day and I’m so thrilled to see Kathy’s no line coloring technique used on beautiful flower from Thank You So Much Stamp Set.

Click HERE to read the entire post. Make sure to stop by Kathy’s Blog and learn more about the The Daily Marker  #thedailymarker30day and for your chance to win some great prices.

Thank You!

Have a wonderful weekend.

Katia

Layered and Vibrant with Erica

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Hello everyone! Erica on the blog today with a vibrant thank you card using the lovely big flower from the Thank You So Much  set which has just been released.

SUPPLIES:

Thank You So Much Clear Stamp Set

Dotted Balloons Creative Die

Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames

Jet Black Fusion

I am an absolutely sucker for flower stamps! I love, love, love them! Flowers are by far my favorite image to colour.  One thing I’m not very good with though, is red. Anyone who read my blog post Pink Birthday with Erica will be aware of this already… and the fact I thought it was a bad idea to try things I’m bad at when I’m on a deadline. Well, this one I started on back in mid Feb, just to see what might come out of it when I had plenty of time to come up with something else if this turned into another big red blob rather than a flower.

After stamping up the flower on some copic friendly paper, I picked up some red copics, not without feeling a little bit adrift and unsure, red really isn’t my colour at all. I mean, I can’t even wear red without looking like a sickly ghost!

I always start with a light colour and for this one I went with R81 and flicked that all over all of the petals. This part isn’t about making it perfect so don’t worry if it doesn’t look too good whilst at this stage. Then I moved on to my darkest red, R46, and started at the outside of the petals, flicking the colour inwards. The contrast will be stark but don’t fret, by using several shades you can easily blend the colours in. If that’s the look you want. It can look very dramatic and spectacular by not blending too well but this is entirely up to you. I go both ways, sometimes I’m all about the blending and getting it super smooth looking and other days, it’s flick, flick, done ✅.

Back to the flower, my third colour was RV29 and with this one I mainly filled in any gaps I might have missed at the end of the petals and also pulling the colour down a little into the light pink areas. This is probably the colour I used the least. My fourth and final colour was R32 and with this one I went over almost the entire flower and filled in every single petal. You might wonder what’s the point in going over it with the R81 to begin with if it’s all going to get covered up anyway? Well, to be honest, I didn’t know that’s what I would end up doing. I thought the light pink would be nice but it was a tad too light and too pink, hence the R32. I went over the light pink bits very quickly and lightly to avoid it getting too dark.

As I had managed to go outside the lines a little bit in several places, I decided to colour in the outside of the flower with C-9 which is a very dark grey colour Copic marker. It’s not black but close.

Out of this card the colouring bit took the longest. The rest of it was a piece of cake!

As the flower is very vibrant and colourful, I decided on a monochromatic colour scheme for the rest of the card. When I use white as a card base I like using a lovely linen textured card stock I have. It gives the card a little something without adding anything or distraction from the focal point. For the actual base I used the A2 sized diecut from the Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frame and set aside. I then cut out another piece using a Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle die that would fit perfectly inside the dotted frame on the A2 panel. The idea was to cut out a circle and then place this panel on top of the flower piece so the flower peeks out of the hole.

I ended up using the middle die in the Dotted Balloons which isn’t a balloon, it’s a wavy circle and it was just about the perfect size! With foam tape, which I can’t craft without, I adhered the die cut panel to the flower piece. Then the double sided tape came out and was added to the back of the whole shebang. Carefully placing this on top of the A2 panel I stuck it down.

Originally I had planned on stamping the sentiment on top of the diecut panel but I forgot to do it so I decided to heatemboss the sentiment ‘Thank you’ from the stamp set on black linen textured card stock and add that with foam tape too. This would make four layers in total!

Before I stamped the sentiment with VersaMark ink, I dusted the cardstock generously with my anti-static tool. It will show and look a mess on black or dark card stock but don’t worry, this you can easily wipe off once your heat embossed sentiment has set and cooled down. I used scissors to cut out the sentiment and added it right under the flower on the card.

Then it was time for final touches and as per usual, I didn’t go simple… nope, that’s something you can almost always count on.. First the sequins came out, Jet Black Fusion and I used two different sizes. These I adhered with Glossy Accents. Aaaaaaaaaand, while I had the Glossy Accents on hand, I dotted it all over the flower. The idea was to make it look like dew drops on the petals. I may (read ‘definitely and every time!’) have gone slightly over the top…

Oh well, it looks lovely and it feels great when you run your finger tip over them! I love cards with texture on them. Whilst I adore what other people make in the CAS style, I’m really not a ‘clean and simple’ kind of girl myself. I can’t stop before it goes overboard! Maybe it’s something to challenge myself to this year?

Well, if you are still with me at this point, you deserve a cookie! Without much further ado, here is the whole card.

I hope you are enjoying this new release and have found some inspiration today!

Happy crafting from Erica

 

 

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February Release Preview – Day 5 with Katia

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Happy Friday Everyone!
It’s our last day for the preview, our February release will be available in just two days!

SUPPLIES:

Mandala Clear Stamp Set – Coming Soon

Thank You So Much Clear Stamp Set – Coming Soon

Mini MISTI

Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames Creative Die

For the background I used NUVO Glimmer Paste with SSS Stencil, it gives a nice sparkle to the project. I’ve stamped and heat embossed the Mandala flower  with sentiment using Mini Misti on to Neenah Desert Storm 100lb paper. I didn’t want to spend too much time coloring it, so I used copic markers and used white pen to add little dots all over the flower.

I die cut using the dotted frame set from the Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames. Thank you all for joining us this week as we previewed a few projects from the new release. Make sure to join us on Monday for a full Release!

Have a lovely weekend!

Katia