Winter Holidays

Three Interactive Christmas Cards with Natalia

November 30, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello, everyone. Natalia here. Today I would like to show you three different interactive holiday cards.
First card is a see-through shaker.

For this card I stamped characters from Friends of Winter, Winter Kobi, Foxes and Hello Alice sets, colored them all with alcohol markers and die cut them using coordinating dies. Next I die cut two panels using frame die from Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames and blended both using distress inks and stencils. I die cut windows on the top panel using Stitched Loops die and made couple die cuts from white cardstock.

I made a shaker using foam tape and acetate and filled it with Pink Winter, Crystal Rainbow Confetti, Majestic 3mm, Clear Dust. Next I adhered everything together and added a grey banner with silver heat embossed sentiment from Origami Winter set. Interesting fact – I used puddle image from Hello Alice set to make a carpet under the Christmas tree.

For my second card I used Winter Kobi and Friends of Winter sets.

I added splashes on ink blended background panel using clear and white glitter pens.
Here I turned the puddle image from Hello Alice into ice, which I heat embossed on an acetate with silver embossing powder. Next I cut out the track for Kobi’s moves on ice.

I added a white heat embossed sentiment “HoHoHo” from Friends of Winter set.

I used foam tape and regular double sided tape to adhere all the elements onto a card. And voila, Kobi slides on ice.

For the third card I used Christmas trees and sleigh from Winter Kobi set and Kobi Kobi The Birthday Bear set. I kept this card very simple with a lot of white space thanks to all the snow banks.

Kobi riding down the hill on his sleigh. Here I ink blended background panel with distress inks. Next I made some snow banks out of white cardstock. I cut out a track for Kobi to be able to move down the hill.

I adhered all the elements using double sided tape and a foam tape. I added a white banner with silver heat embossed sentiment from Origami Winter set and embellished the card with Majestic Fusion sequins.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

Friends of Winter | Clear Stamp Set

Winter Kobi | Clear Stamp Set

Hello Alice | Clear Stamp Set

Foxes | Clear Stamp Set

Origami Winter | Clear Stamp Set

Kobi the Birthday Bear | Clear Stamp Set

Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames | Creative Dies

Stitched Loops | Creative Dies

Pink Winter Fusion

Crystal Rainbow | Confetti

3MM Majestic Sequins

Clear Dust Seed Beads

Majestic Fusion

Sweet Cookie Cards and Tags with Olga

November 27, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello, friends and welcome back for another Olga Moss‘ post! This time I am sharing Christmas cards created using my favorite Sweet Holiday stamp set.

First, how often do you use coordinating dies not for their intended purpose? For my cards today I used them to create a textured background. And I’d love to hear what you think?

I started working on these projects by dry embossing the shape cookies onto light craft cardstock. Then I stamped, colored and die-cut cookies with candies. For the coloring I used my Spectrum Noir markers. Also to complement the kit figure cookies I made a cracker in the shape of a circle. For this I used Doily die from Dotted Balloons dies set. I sponged it with the brown inks and stamped the image of confetti. And pierced holes.

Once all of my pieces were ready I foam mounted them onto card base. I heat embossed “hey, cookie! Joy!” sentiment in white embossing powder onto craft cardstock and foam mounted it onto my card. Lastly, I added several Crystal Rainbow sequins. I think that came out perfectly!

I made a second card that’s very similar.

In addition to the cards, I made little tags with cookies. They came out so cute!

Here’s another close up.

Have a great day!
Olga

SUPPLIES:

Sweet Holiday | Clear Stamp Set

Sweet Holiday | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Balloons | Creative Dies

Crystal Rainbow Fusion

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Friends of Winter with Rowena

November 24, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Winter Holidays

Hi crafty friends!! For today’s card I wanted to share another fun and easy holiday card. I figured with the holidays coming, I could hopefully inspire you to create something similar or copy today’s project. So let’s get crafting!

For this card, I wanted to keep it simple and keep it one layer.

I started by stamping all the cute images from ‘Friends of Winter’ in copic friendly ink. I masked a couple of the images that I wanted to be in the front, the Santa and the snowman in this case.

You can totally stamp and mask them in any order that you like your card to be.

I then colored my images with my copic markers, choosing traditional Christmas colors.

I also colored the background with copics and I used a white gel pen to create that snowy look background.

I trimmed my colored panel and added foam tape for added dimension onto a top folding landscape card. I added a Merry Christmas sentiment from the ‘Sweet Holiday’ stamp set.

That’s it for me today! I hope you enjoyed today’s post and got inspired. Thanks for stopping by and happy crafting! Till next time.

Hugs,
Rowena

SUPPLIES:

Friends of Winter | Clear Stamp Set

Sweet Holiday | Clear Stamp Set

Beary Christmas with Kaja

November 23, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I have another cute Christmas card for you! 🙂

I felt like our Winter Kobi wants some company, so I stamped him out along with the original Kobi from the Kobi the birthday bear set. I’ve colored both of them in with alcohol markers and added some details with a white gel pen.

Next, I moved on to the background. I used two colors of distress oxides and blend them onto the piece of square card stock. I wanted to have a bit more interest there, so I’ve sprinkled some water and white paint all over it.

I die cut a dotted square from my ink blended square piece to give it a finished look. I felt like my bears need a ground so I die cut another dotted square, this time from a white card stock, and then I used my scissors to make a hill. Next, I glued it on the bottom of the ink blended one, so it looks like ground.

This way, I got a nice inkblended border around the main scene and I decided to pop it up with some foam tape. I also glued down my two bears on the panel in the middle. For the first one I used a liquid glue and for the second one I used some foam tape.

I’ve glued the main panel directly on my card base and the only thing I wanted to add was a sentiment.

The ‘naughty or nice?’ saying from Winter friends set seemed perfect, so I stamped it and poped it up on a little banner.

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

Kaja

SUPPLIES:

Winter Kobi | Clear Stamp Set

Winter Kobi | Coordinating Dies

Kobi the Birthday Bear | Coordinating Dies

Kobi the Birthday Bear | Clear Stamp Set

Kobi the Birthday Bear | Bundle

Dotted Patterns : Nested Squares | Creative dies

Friends of winter | Clear stamp set

Christmas Window Card with Laura

November 22, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello everyone! It’s Laura here, and today I want to show you a clean card I made with the Winter Kobi and the Origami Winter stamp sets.

To start off my card I stamped the Kobi image on some Canson XL watercolor cardstock with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I colored it with Derwent Inktense pencils, and die cut it with the coordinating dies.
I then cut my card base and the window front from some more watercolor cardstock, using the Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames and the Creative Stitched Window die sets.

For the inside of the window I created a masked scene. I colored the trees with Inktense Pencils and embossed the snowflakes with white embossing powder. I then did some ink blending on the sky and the snow hill using Distress Inks ink in Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass. I coated the back of the window with acetate and used several layers of cardstock to give it dimension.
I stamped the sentiment from the Origami Winter stamp set using Memento ink in London Fog, and added a ribbon to the top of the window. I die cut it using the Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames Creative Dies set and colored with Derwent Inktense pencils.

And that’s it for today’s post! I really hope you liked this card, and I hope I inspired you to create with the adorable Winter Kobi set! Thank you all so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Laura

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Christmas card with Galina

November 21, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Winter Holidays

Hi everyone! It’s Galina. Today I want to share with you a Christmas card in non traditional colors.

To create this big ornament on the card I used Balloon Dotted die and a white negative. I cut a negative with scissors and leave on edge about 0.5 cm.

I made splashes with alcohol ink on the yupo paper and stamped poinsettias using white pigment ink and with white gel pen I added a dots around the stamped images. Also I glued a transparent crystals on some dots.

At last I glued me ornament on the black card base and stamped a sentiment with white pigment ink.

Have a great day!

Galina

SUPPLIES:

Dotted Balloons | Creative Dies

Merry Poinsettia | Clear Stamp Set

Sparkling Crystals | Mix

Origami Watercolour Christmas with Tracy

November 20, 2017 / CATEGORIES - CAS, Winter Holidays

Hey guys it’s Tracy here today sharing with you some cards I have made using Origami Winter stamp set. I love the modern feel to this set and particularly love the tree from the set.

I decided to make 3 cards and colour the trees with different shades of green and also use different embossing powders…basically I had a bit of fun playing around 🙂

I started by stamping and embossing the trees onto some watercolour card. The embossing powders I used are Simon Says Stamp Gold, WOW Cloud 9 & WOW Copper.

I used watercolours and for the lighter more citrus green I used with the Cloud 9 powder, the midtone I used Copper and for the darker green I used Simon Says Gold. I did something i never do and let all the watercoloring dry overnight and I’m glad i did, because i went with a loose style they dried lovely.

I die cut all the panels using Dotted Patterns 1 and stamped the Merry Christmas from the same set and then set the panels aside.

The card bases are A2 kraft card and I stamped the tree randomly using Simon Says Clear ink (this is the same as Versamark) You could leave the backgrounds plain as you don’t see much of them but I thought this added just an extra bit of detailing.

I added some twine and a bow to the panels and adhered them to the bases using foam tape. To finish them off I added some Majestic sequins and they was done.

Thank you so much for stopping by. Did you know we have a Facebook group ? We would love for you to join us and share any of your Studio Katia creations.

Happy Crafting

Tracy

SUPPLIES:
Origami Winter | Clear Stamp Set
Dotted Patterns: Set 1 | Creative Dies
Majestic | Fusion

Be Merry Shaker Card with Svetlana

November 17, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi everyone! I’ve created a floral shaker card for your inspiration using Merry Poinsettia stamp set and Creative Rectangle die. I’ve stamped a layer of flowers on top of the card panel and added some berries and leaves. I used distress markers to color the images and added a sentiment.

Next I die cut a window using and adhered the negative onto a card base. I filled the shaker with lots of embellishments. I mounted the frame of the shaker onto a foam tape and adhered few more sequins on the card.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Svetlana

SUPPLIES:

Merry Poinsettia | Clear Stamp Set

Stitched Nested Creative Rectangles | Creative Dies

Silver Dust Seed Bead

3MM Iridescent Veil Sequins

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Inspired Poinsettia in Blues and Greens

November 16, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello Studio Katia fans! I’m so excited to be joining you today with a card I’ve made using the Merry Poinsettia stamp/die set! I recently purchased a 6×6 paper pad that was full of green and blue Christmas papers and I have to admit, it’s influencing the cards I’ve made this week. I so loved that green gingham, I decided to try a non-traditional poinsettia for something different.

I cut out my 5×5 square card base, then white heat embossed my floral images and cut them out with matching dies. I used various shades of blue distress inks to color them. Once dried, I splattered them with white acrylic paint cut 50/50 with water. I cut my leaves out of an apple green cardstock and used a moss colored ink to shade them, then did a water splatter on them for some interest.

I placed my florals around the middle sized die in the Stitched Nested Creative Squares set, then glued it all down. I die cut the Merry from gold cardstock, then placed it within the poinsettias. Lastly I added some Gold Foil Confetti to add a little extra shine!

Thanks SO MUCH for joining me today, I hope you’ve enjoyed my project and it will inspire you while making your Christmas cards!

Amanda

SUPPLIES:

Merry Poinsettia stamp/die set

Stitched Nested Creative Squares

Gold Foil Confetti

Happy Holidays card with Olga Moss

November 15, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello crafty friends! Olga here and I have another project to share using Winter Kobi stamp set which I decided to combine with Kobi the Birthday Bear stamp set. I love how fun they look together!

As always I started by preparing all images and background for the card. I stamped and colored bears, trees, a sleigh, a bag and a hat. Next I needed to make a card background: I ink blended it with blue and purple inks and cut a shaker frame with Dotted Patterns set. I filled the shaker with Snowflakes, Sparkling Crystals, 3MM Iridescent Veil sequins and Silver Dust seed beads. Now that my shaker was ready I could arrange and adhere all the die cut images. I stamped Happy Holidays sentiment to the very bottom of my card.