Winter Holidays

Pile of gifts with Kaja

October 26, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika Crafts and today I have a cute Christmas card for you!

If you know my cards, than you probably know that I just love cute critters and I couldn’t resist making a Christmas card with our lovely Winter Kobi.

First, I stamped him out along with a bunch of presents that I masked off so I got a huge pile of gifts. I colored everything with alcohol markers and added some details with my white gel pen.

Next, I made a background. I decided to use two colors of distress oxide – Broken china and Cracked pistachio. I find it super easy to blend Distress oxides and sprinkling it with some water makes it even more beautiful. I wanted the effect of snowing, so I added some white splotches and the background was finished.

I die cut the ink blended piece with Stitched nested creative rectangles, to give it a finishing touch. I felt like my Kobi needed a ground, so I die cut the same rectangle in white and made a hill using my scissors.

The last thing I added was a sentiment ‘Merry Christmas’ from a set Sweet holiday. I stamped it in black on a white card stock and I fussy cut it out with my scissors.

I glued everything together with my double sided tape and some foam squares. This finished up the card!

Thank you so much for joining me! See you next time.

Kaja

SUPPLIES:

Winter Kobi | Clear Stamp Set

Winer Kobi | Coordinating Dies

Stitched Nested Creative Rectangles | Creative Dies

Sweet holiday | Clear Stamp Set

Hey, cookie! with Galina

October 25, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi everyone! Galina here. Today I want to share with you a card with cute cookie, northern lights and falling stars. 🙂

For this card I made northern lights background using copic markers. I colored Mrs Cookie and her house with same medium. 🙂 I die cut a square frame from the red shimmer cardstock using two biggest dies from the Dotted Patterns: Nested Squares, I glued another frame on it, which I die cut from the glitter cardstock, I used middle frame from the Fancy Square die set to create this glitter border on the red frame.

I glued frame and images onto a piece of acetate using foam adhesive. I filled the shaker window with Studio Katia gold stars, confetti and tiny beads.

I glued all the elements on A2 card base and added a sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

Galina

SUPPLIES:

Dotted Patterns – Fancy Square | Creative Dies

Sweet Holiday | Clear Stamp Set

Sweet Holiday | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Patterns: Nested Squares

Gold Foil | Confetti

Gold Dust Seed Beads

Silver Dust Seed Beads

3MM Golden Copper Sequins

Golden Copper Stars – Sequins

Gift Parcel Cards with Tracy

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

I was recently looking through my box of Studio Katia dies and the bow from Dotted Patterns Set 1 caught my eye, Katia has designed several die sets with bows and they are gorgeous but I always overlook them. Next to that set was my Dotted Patterns Nested Squares dies and I came up with the idea of creating some clean and simple holiday cards using the smallest square die and the bow die to create a gift parcel.

The fab thing about these cards is you can use up any card or paper scraps that you have (if you are like me who hoards them you probably have a ton)

I grabbed some paper scraps I had from a patterned paper pad, this would work just as well with plan paper though and die cut them all using the smallest square.

I also had some scraps of silver glitter paper which I used for the die cut bows.

The case bases are all just smaller than A2 and are top folding, I used Neenah card to die cut the rectangle from the Dotted Patterns set 1 and adhered this flat to the card base.

I then took the Merry Christmas sentiment from Sweet Holiday Stamp set and stamped is on all 3 cards.

For the parcels I propped them up using foam tape and adhered the bows using Ranger Multi Medium Matte in the centre and lifted the bow tails up to give some extra dimension.

To finished the cards off I added some Silver Foil Crystals.

These were so easy to make and would be great if you need to bulk created some cards, they could easily be used for birthday cards too and it is a great way to get some more use out of those basic shape dies.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, Happy Crafting

Tracy

SUPPLIES:

Dotted Patterns Set – 1 | Creative Dies

Dotted Patterns: Nested Squares | Creative Dies

Sweet Holiday | Clear Stamp Set

Silver Foil Crystals | Mix

Gingerbread Cookies with Svitlana

October 23, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi friends!

Svitlana is here today. I want to share a fun card using the cutest ginger cookies from Sweet Holiday Stamp Set. They’re extremely adorable and in my opinion are must haves if you like gingerbread theme and cute stamps 😉

I have a very strange muse, sometimes it’s hard to get along with her. I know many crafters can get inspired by a product or color combo or just sit down and make a wow card. My cards often start with an idea. Or an image I want to turn into a card.

For the card today I wanted to create a look of wooden table with flour spread onto it and some ginger cookies scattered around.

Ginger cookies on a flour covered table. Card by @craftwalks

I started making my card by trimming a piece of design paper with wood planks design to a size of an A2 card base front.

Then I clear embossed the sentiment in the right bottom part of it. Following by spraying it with a white spray. I tried to spray it in a way that it would looked like flour.

Clear embossed sentiment created resist effect and I got this look like it was written with a finger in the flour. The only problem was is that clear embossing created that raised relief. Which you won’t see in real life of “written in flour words”. So I removed this relief by ironing it off.

Next I stamped ginger cookies onto a white cardstock, colored them with COPICs and die cut using matching dies.

I covered frosting areas with white gel pen and added some highlights to hearts and apples.

Lastly I adhered them onto the “table” and called it a card. Hope you liked my idea and maybe will give it a try!

Svitlana

SUPPLIES:

Sweet Holiday | Clear Stamp Set

Sweet Holiday | Coordinating Dies

Winter Kobi Christmas Card

October 19, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello Studio Katia fans! Amanda here today with a Christmas card I’ve made using the super sweet Winter Kobi stamps and coordinating die sets! I started by stamping all my images and Copic coloring them. Then I cut a snow hill from a die in my stash and the background panel using the rectangle from Dotted Patterns Set 1. I distress inked my sky using Stormy Sky and Chipped Sapphire. I stamped this pretty Merry Christmas sentiment in the Sweet Holiday Clear Stamp set and I thought it fit perfectly!

I was concerned to try and draw my rope leading from Kobi to the sled, so I noticed that the balloon string on Kobi The Birthday Bear stamp set would work perfectly. I assembled and glued down my scene and found some pretty red paper to use as my base on top of my card layer. I added some Majestic Confetti around the scene to add a little more shine!

Thanks SO MUCH for joining me today!

Amanda

SUPPLIES:

Winter Kobi Clear Stamp Set

Winter Kobi Coordinating Dies

Dotted Patterns Set 1

Kobi the Birthday Bear Clear Stamp Set

Sweet Holiday Clear Stamp Set

Majestic Confetti

Thank You / Fall Cards | Theme Week – Day 1 with Tracy

October 2, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Thank You Cards, Theme Week, Winter Holidays

Hello, Everyone!

This week we have a great Theme Week for your inspiration: Thank you/Fall Cards. Our designers will inspire you to create beautiful Fall cards and creative Thank you cards. Just like today’s Thank you card from Tracy – different and very cute winter themed thank you card.

Hey guys Tracy here, I hope you are all having an awesome week.

I am sure lots of you are like me and like to get the most out of your craft supplies, I often use seasonal stamps for non seasonal cards by combining them with other stamp sets.

For today’s card I have used the super adorable Sweet Holiday from the latest release along with Duo Talk Sentiment set to create this fun and slightly different thank you card.

I started off by stamping and colouring the little cute gingerbread image with Prismacolor pencils. I then die cut the image out using the co ordinating dies.

For the background I used Distress Oxide Inks in Cracked Pistachio and Worn Lipstick and smooshed them onto my craft mat and added some water using my water sprayer. I then took some acetate and used the ink smooshing technique to create the background, I’m not that good at this but I love it as a technique and find it so much fun.

Once the background was dry I die cut it using the rectangle from Dotted Patterns Set 1.

I used some Patterned paper from Simple Stories and trimmed it to size to fit the front of an A2 top folding notecard and adhered it flat.

I stamped the sentiment “I give awesome hugs” from the Duo talk set in the bottom corned using Simon Says Stamp Intense black ink and adhered the panel to the card.

To add some dimension I used foam tape to adhere the coloured image to the card and of course I couldn’t resist adding some sequins. I used sequins from the Pink Winter Fusion mix and Magic Mint mix to finish the whole card off.

I hope I have inspired you to stretch those stamp sets a little further.

Have a great day and happy crafting,

Tracy

SUPPLIES:

Sweet Holiday | Clear Stamp Set

Sweet Holiday | Coordinating Dies

Duo Talk | Clear Stamp Set

Dotted Patterns Set – 1 | Creative Dies

Pink Winter Fusion

Magic Mint | Fusion

Holiday Cards with Guest Designer Michelle

September 29, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Guest Designer, Halloween, Winter Holidays

Hello there, Michelle here and I am delighted to be Guest Designing with Studio Katia. I have two cards to share with you today. My first card uses the adorable Meowy Halloween Stamp Set and coordinating dies.

I started off by stamping the kitty from the set on to white cardstock. I coloured her using Copic Markers and then cut her out using coordinating dies. I took a panel of white cardstock and cut an aperture from it using one of the dies from the Dotted Pattern: Scallop Frames Die Set. I then stamped the sentiment below the aperture with black ink.

On to a piece of Bristol cardstock, I blended over purple and black Distress Inks to create a background. This piece I then adhered to the front of a black A2 card base. Next I added window panel on top with foam tape. I added the kitty to the centre, also with foam tape. To finish off, I adhered few Clear Round Drops.

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My next card uses the adorable Winter Kobi Stamp set and coordinating dies. Plus, the Dotted Pattern: Scallop Frames Die Set.

I started off by stamping Kobi, his sleigh and presents on some white cardstock using black ink. The images were then coloured using Copic Markers and cut out using the coordinating dies. I took a piece of white cardstock and cut it using the largest scallop die from the Dotted Pattern: Scallop Frames Die Set. I freehand cut a mask for the snow and added this to the bottom of the panel. I then blended over Broken China Distress Ink to create a soft sky background.

Next I removed the mask and added Kobi, his sleigh and presents on to a panel with foam tape. I stamped a sentiment from Friends of Winter Stamp Set using black ink. I then adhered the whole panel on to a white A2 card base with foam tape. To finish off, I added few Crystal Rainbow Confetti.

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today! I hope you have a great day!

Michelle

SUPPLIES:

Meowy Halloween | Clear Stamp Set

Meowy Halloween | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Patterns: Scallop Frame | Creative Dies

Winter Kobi | Clear Stamp Set

Winter Kobi | Coordinating Dies

Friends of Winter | Clear Stamp Set

Clear Round Drops – Mix

Crystal Rainbow | Confetti

Christmas galaxy card with Kaja

September 25, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts with my first solo post on Studio Katia blog! I am super excited and I hope you will like the card. 🙂

Take a look at what I have created:

I decided to make a cute Christmas card with a galaxy background. First, I cut a piece of white cardstock, that was slightly smaller than the card base and I die cut the Dotted oval shape on the left hand side.

I took my card base and started making the background. I covered the paper with mustard seed, fired brick and seedless preserves distress inks. Then, I took a black soot color and put a light coat of it on top. The colors in the back are now a muted down quite a lot and this helps it look like a galaxy. The last thing that I did on the background were the white splotches that look like stars and this makes our galaxy even more beautiful.

I stamped a cute dear from newly released set called Friends of winter and decided to add a sleigh with some gifts next to him, so it looks like he is delivering gifts all over the galaxy. I colored the stamped images with my watercolor markers.

The last thing I added was Merry christmas sentiment in the top right corner. I glued everything together with some double sided tape and foam rectangles and the card was all finished! 🙂

Thank you so much for joining me! See you next time.

Kaja

SUPPLIES:

Sweet Holiday | Clear Stamp Set

Friends of Winter | Clear Stamp Set

Friends of Winter | Coordinating Dies

Friends of Winter | Bundle

Winter Kobi | Clear Stamp Set

Winter Kobi | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Ovals | Creative Dies

Simple and Adorable Christmas Tags with Amanda

September 21, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Winter Holidays

Hello Everyone! Amanda here sharing some super fun Christmas tags that I’ve started making for the upcoming holiday season! I make lots of tags and attach them to gifts, it’s funny how people often love the handmade tag or card as much as the gift itself!

I started by cutting my tag base using the brand new Dotted Shaker Tag – 2 Dies with some heavy weighted white cardstock. I absolutely love the shape and pierced detail this die offers! Using my round sponge dauber, I applied Broken China Distress ink and a white acrylic paint splatter with a small round paint brush. I always cut my white paint with water 50/50 to thin it out a bit, it makes a perfect snowflake or star consistency on my projects.

I Copic colored and cut out the images from Friends of Winter and Origami Winter stamp sets. I glued down the package and tree, then foam popped the characters up for a dimensional look. To finish off my tags, I tied some eyelash yarn into the diecut circle on top, I love the sparkle this adds to my tags!

Thank you all so much for stopping, I hope you’ve enjoyed my Studio Katia projects and are inspired to make your own handmade tags for the holidays!

SUPPLIES:

Dotted Shaker Tag – 2

Friends of Winter Clear Stamp Set

Origami Winter Stamp Set

Bulk Making Holiday Cards with Tracy

September 20, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello Everyone! I am super excited to share my first solo post with you on the Studio Katia Blog.

I’m not sure about you but no matter how much I plan I always seem to not have enough Christmas cards and end up having to make more. This year I have been looking for ways to create some easy cards that I can create in bulk. The new Friends Of Winter Stamp set is perfect for this, especially the cute little snowman.

I have created these cards using minimal supplies and time.

To start off I stamped the snowmen onto some Bristol Smooth paper and coloured them using Prismacolor pencils, I used only one pencil per colour for quickness. I die cut them out using the coordinating dies and added some Glossy Accents to the eyes and buttons.

Whilst I waited for them to dry I die cut some more Bristol Smooth using the rectangle from the Dotted Patterns Set 1 and using a blending tool I did some basic inking using Distress Oxide in Broken China. I made some sparkle spray by adding some Perfect Pearls to water and spraying the pieces and blotting them off. Once dry I used the Merry Christmas sentiment from the Origami Winter set and stamped it on all 3 panels.

I created some A2 top folding notecards from some Neenah and using some Simple Stories paper in coordinating colours I trimmed them down to A2 and adhered them to the note cards. I added some dimension by popping them up with foam tape and adhered the rest of the card together.

I still thought the cards needed something and the new Snow Crystals are perfect for this type of card to just add that little something, and of course they make the perfect snowflakes 🙂

The 3 cards took me very little time to create and you can cut the time down even further by not using glossy accents, I know these will be my cards for bulk making this holiday season.