STUDIO KATIA

Hello!

May 14, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Hello Cards

Welcome back to my next challenge this month of not using any stamps!

I added an element to my challenge this time around – I tried to create this card in under 10 minutes.

Spoiler alert – I succeeded!!

I cut out half inch strips of colored cardstock and glued them down in the lower half of my card.

Using the Fancy Scallop Heart die, I cut out a heart element from black cardstock and glued it down to the left side of my card so that some of it was hanging off the edge.

I trimmed off the part that was hanging off the edge, and then glued down a die cut “hello” from the Fancy Scallop Circle die set.

Boom! Done! I bet it took you less than ten minutes to read this tutorial, too?!

Give yourself a challenge and see if you can make a card in under ten minute without using any stamping!

See you next time!

Kelly

Citrus Trimmings Friendship Cards by Ilda

May 13, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards

Hello my sweet friends, Ilda here!

Today I am sharing a couple of colorful Summer inspired Citrus Cards. I had recently colored the images during Kathy Raccosin’s Daily Coloring Challenge and thought they would make some fun Friendship cards.

CARD DETAILS

Like I said I had previously colored the CITRUS TRIMMINGS images in, but before I colored them with ARTEZA BRUSH PENS, I stamped them out onto Bristol paper and heat embossed the lines using gold embossing powder. Once the images were colored and dry, I fussy cut the Citrus images out.

Next, I created the backgrounds. On this first card, I chose 4 different color cardstock that matched the colors of the oranges I had colored. I then stacked, rotated, and flipped a few of the layers to end up with this colorful lattice-like background. I then glued them all together and attached it to the front of the card base.

I then popped up the Orange Citrus trimmings in the center of the card using FOAM and then stamped out the sentiment onto a tag I die cut from the PEONY TRIMMINGS Die set. I then finished off this card using BUBBLEGUM and RIPE PERSIMMON PEARLS.

For the Lemon/Lime version of the Citrus Card, the process was pretty much the same with a few exceptions.

This time I only used two colors of cardstock to create the background, and I glued the Citrus Trimmings along the bottom of the card without using foam tape.

I stamped the sentiment on to a banner from the DOTTED PATTERNS SET 4 and adhered it in the center of the card using foam tape. Finally, to finish this one off, I added GOLD FOIL PEARLS. I also added some glossy accents to the center sections of the fruit, but I didn’t like how it lost the detail of the watercolor painting I had done, so I did not add accents to the previous card. If you look closely you will see the difference.

Hopefully, you were inspired by this bright and colorful Citrus Trimmings Friendship Cards. I had so much fun designing these.

Thank you for stopping by and until next time… Happy Crafting my friends!

Ilda

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SUPPLIES

CITRUS TRIMMINGS

HALF STRIPED COVER

PEONY TRIMMINGS DIES

DOTTED PATTERNS SET 4

RIPE PERSIMMON PEARLS

Video: 3 cards one stamp set

May 12, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Hello Cards, Other

Hello everyone! It’s Galina. Today I’m sharing 3 cards featuring a little cute stamp set – Star Date from the Last Chanse section. Don’t forget to take a look at this section, there are a lot of nice deals and once they are gone they are gone.

How I made my cards you can watch here or on Studio Katia Youtube channel.

For my first card I decided to create a watercolor sea background with some extra dimension. I tried to create waves on the card panel. Using some watercolor markers I aplied blue and dar blue paints on the wet watercolor paper and blend them with a big amount of water. I dried the paper with a heat gun. Next I run the paper with DOTTED SQUARE FRAME DIE through my die cutting machine and I adhere all pieces on a blue card base. The main frame die cut I adhered using foam tape to create aditional diminsion on the card panel.

I stamped the stars and bubbles using Memento black ink. I colored images with a copic Markers and cut them out using coordinating dies Star-Dates Dies Also, I covered my stars with a liquid glitter using Wink of Stella pen. This pen adds a bit of shine on eache star.

To embellish the card I add white and blue pearls. I attached them them using Studio Katia glue.

For my next two cards I used this stamp set with a INK SPLASH STENCIL. I decided to keep them clean and simple and show other options with this stamp.

For the right card I cut out a white panel using the biggest die from DARLING RIBBON & FRAMES die set. I stamped stars on the right side of the panel and I colored them with a Copic markers. I applied a bit of Studio Katia glue on the bottom of the each star and covered them with CHUNKY SPARKLE GLITTER.

Next I covered some stars with a masks and applied different colors of Distress inks throughout the INK SPLASH STENCIL. To apply ink I used 3 blender brushes from Studio Kata they are perfect for ink blending with stencils.

For my last card I used a same blending technique, but this time I didn’t color my images with a copic markers, instead I added color on the stars with inks and stencil. I stamped and blended directly on the card base, so this card is super easy and fits perfectly an envelope.

That’s all for today.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies

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Happy Bee-Day with Dana

May 11, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards

Happy Monday, everyone!

It’s Dana here and I hope you had a lovely weekend. Today, I’m sharing a sweet honey bee card and here is what I came up with.

To start, I dry embossed an A2 sized white card stock with Micro Hexagon Cover Die. I then die cut it using Fancy Scallop Hearts Dies and ink blended the piece using dye inks and Ink Blender Brushes.

I’m so in love with these blenders and even I can’t imagine how I’ve distressed my cards so far without them!

Next, I stamped Honey Bees and colored them in with Copic and alcohol markers.

I gave highlights and shiny effect to some of them with white gel pen and clear sparkling pen. I then die cut all of them using Honey Bees Dies.

For background, I die cut an A2 sized white card stock using Scallop Honeycomb Cover. I then stamped ‘xoxo’ from Gift Tag Greetings : Valentines using light grey dye ink as shown in the picture.

I took a piece of yellow paper and die cut it with label die from Peony Trimmings Dies. I then heat embossed a sentiment from Honey Bees in silver.

To finish off, I assembled all elements using Glue and popped up heart panel using Double Sided Foam Tape-White.

Hope you enjoyed this card. Happy crafting!

Dana

::: Supplies :::

HONEY BEES
HONEY BEES DIES
GIFT TAG GREETINGS: VALENTINES
SCALLOP HONEYCOMB COVER
MICRO HEXAGON COVER DIE
FANCY SCALLOP HEARTS DIES
PEONY TRIMMINGS DIES
INK BLENDER BRUSHES
GLUE
DOUBLE SIDED FOAM TAPE – WHITE

Wishing you the best day ever! with Natalia

May 9, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Shaker Cards

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. Today I want to share with you my card with HONEY BEES stamp set.

First, I stamped the cute images from the HONEY BEES and FLORAL WREATH sets. I colored them with copic markers and die cut out with coordinating dies and scissors. I made highlights using white and silver gel pen.

Next, I ink blended a background using some distress inks and a white piece of paper. I cut out a panel out of white cardstock using frame die from MICRO HEXAGON COVER DIE.

I cut 2 frames out of foam to make a shaker. I filled it with SPARKLING CRYSTALS, POSEIDON CRYSTALS, RIPE PERSIMMON PEARLS, LEMON BURST PEARLS, SEAFOAM PEARLS, 3M CRYSTAL CLEAR, MAJESTIC, CLEAR DUST.

I adhered all the elements on the white paper panel using double-sided foam tape. I heat embossed the sentiment from HONEY BEES stamp set using white embossing powder.

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

Supples:

MICRO HEXAGON COVER DIE

SPARKLING CRYSTALS

POSEIDON CRYSTALS

RIPE PERSIMMON PEARLS

Crafty Hugs!

May 8, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Hello Cards

Hello and Welcome!

For this month on the blog, I am challenging myself to make some projects without any stamping. It was definitely a challenge, but I’m excited to share the results with you!

So because these projects only involved diecutting or using scraps, they were pretty simple – which is always a plus, am I right?!

I began by using up some scrap colored cardstock, and just cutting 1/2 inch strips. I glued them down (at a diagonal angle) to a cut and scored 4.25 x 5.5 inch card panel, and then started the focal element of the card.

Using black cardstock, I cut out the frame piece and the two words, “crafty” and “hugs” using stand alone word dies and the coordinating die from the Artsty Trimmings set. I also used the same frame die to cut a piece of white cardstock, and used the two negative spaces to put in the center of my frame.

Then, using that frame die one last time, I cut a piece of green cardstock, and used the two skinny frames to line the inside of the open frame pieces on the black cardstock frame element.

I glued all those pieces down to the center of my card, centering the two words in the two open frame areas, and called it a day!

Join me next time for my next challenge of using no stamps on a card!

Kelly

Pink watercolored floral card with Kaja

May 7, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Hello Cards

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I am here with a simple floral card.

Take a look:

I must admit that I am making mostly simple cards these days and the reason behind is that I want to send as much of them out as posibble in the time of the pandemic.

I started this card by coloring the floral image with watercolors and I went with a simple pink flowers that have green leaves. I made sure that the shadows are a bit darker in color and the highlights are brighter, but beside that the coloring is really simple. I used the beutiful stamp that can be found in Kind bouquet set.

Then, I die cut a sqare from white cardstock using the Dotted nested squares and stamped a sentiment on top that reads ‘Hello there’ from the words from Floral wreath set.

The last thing I added was a dark pink background on which I stenciled white lines using the Brush stroke waves stencil. I wanted to make sure that the colors from the background match with the colors on the colored image.

I glue everything together using Studio Katia glue and foam tape and the card was all finished!

Thank you for joining me!

Kaja

SUPPLIES:

Studio Katia – KIND BOUQUET
Studio Katia – FLORAL WREATH
Studio Katia dies – DOTTED NESTED SQUARES
Studio Katia stencils – BRUSH STROKE WAVES
Studio Katia – GLUE
Studio Katia – DOUBLE SIDED TAPE – WHITE

Celebrating You by Tracey

May 6, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hi there it’s Tracey back again today with a card and video using the Birthday Balloon Duo Stencil and a sentiment from the Studio Katia It’s Your Birthday stamp set!

Whenever I create a design where I am stenciling layers or only stenciling individual images I find it easier to create a mockup sketch so that I know which images I am using and to help me determine the order of my layers. Today I am using the Birthday Balloon Duo Stencil set which is two separate dies that work together. I marked my stencils as #1 and #2 with a black sharpie for easy identification. I will be using only four different balloon shapes, 2 each from each stencil. Using a piece of copy paper I trace the inside of my balloons where I want to put them on my card from and write the number of the stencil inside the balloon.

I chose four colours of Distress Oxide inks to use for my balloons–Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade and Twisted Citron. I taped my panel to my media mat with purple tape and then using Post-it tape to tape my stencil down before blending. I am running low on Post-it tape and of course I ran out of my pink tape when I cut the first piece. I am also almost out of my green tape too, but I will need to wait until things start opening back up again before I can get some more. So I taped the stencil down and then used Post-it notes to cover over the parts of the stencil that I didn’t want to accidentally ink blend over.

I began to blend the images starting with the balloons that were to appear at the back and moving forward one balloon at a time moving the Post-it notes around to cover the openings where I didn’t want ink.

Once the ink blending was done I tapped some clean water over the balloons and used a paper towel to remove some of the ink to add some interest. The strings on the balloons were hand drawn with a fine tipped black pen. In the end I was happier with the pencil strings I sketched onto my mockup panel, isn’t that always the way?

The sentiment is from the Studio Katia It’s Your Birthday stamp set which I white embossed on to black cardstock. I taped my panel to a white card base and added the sentiment near the bottom.

To finish the card off with a bit of sparkle I tucked a few Carmine Red Crystals and Peridot Crystals around the balloons with Studio Katia glue and the card is done. Just in time for my hubby’s birthday which is this week!

Thank you so much for joining me today. I hope you are staying well and hoping that this will all be over soon. Have a good day!

SUPPLIES:
Birthday Balloon Duo Stencil
Studio Katia It’s Your Birthday
Carmine Red Crystals
Peridot Crystals
Studio Katia glue
purple tape
Distress Oxide Candied Apple
Distress Oxide Spiced Marmalade
Distress Oxide Squeezed Lemonade
Distress Oxide Twisted Citron

Jaws The Two Of Us

May 5, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS

Hey lovelies, Tracy here with you today sharing my latest card that I made.

I have used the super fun Jawsome stamp set to create a card for hubby. Sharks are something I have always loved and we was very lucky to swin with them once so it seemed like a perfect theme for this card.

I started off stamping and masking the sharks. I penciled in where the Fancy Scallop Hearts Die edge was so I knew about placement and inking. Once I was happy I used Spectrum Noir Water Reactive Inkpads along with Studio Katia Ink Blender Brushes to create a sunset, I removed the masking along the bottom to add some blue for sea.

Using my Spectrum Noir Markers I coloured in the sharks, adding some waves and shading to the sea area. I also added some birds to the sky and using a white gel pen I added some sea foam.

I decided to add a touch of sparkle to the sea and the hearts using Spectrum Noir Clear Sparkle pen.

Using the die I then die cut it out and also trimmed down some Neenah and die cut the heart from that also. I stamped the sentiment on the front of the card and then added foam tape to the back of the white piece and adhered it to a card from. For the coloured piece I added some adhesive to the back and stuck this into place.

Another fun card to create and I love this stamp set and its possibilities.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you are all staying safe and staying well.

Happy Crafting

Supplies –

Jawsome Stamp Set

Fancy Scallop Heart Dies

Ink Blender Brushes

Video. Dimensional diamond heart. Die cutting tips

May 4, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hello everyone! It’s Galina. Today I want to show you two classic die cutting cards using Shaker Heart Die Set, SPRING BOUQUET DIES and NESTED SQUARES dies.

How I made this card you can watch here or on Studio Katia Youtube chanel

I want to create a diamond heart on the card because I need a special card for my friend. And we all know good friends are like diamonds – precious and rare 🙂 And I was so inspired with this them! I found in my stash a perfect cardstock sheets for this project: white glitter, silver mirror and holographic cardstock.

With all those beautiful cardstock sheet I die cut a heart and also I cut out a few additional elements from a white cardstock to create a dimensional elements on the card. All dimension parts are sticked together 3-4 die cuts. My first card I decorate with a shiny crystals from Studio Katia, they look like diamonds too!

From the previous cars I got a lot of leftover die cuts and I decided to create one more card. From smaller square frame I made a shaker element. I add a piece of an acetate sheet on it and a foam tape on all frame. On the card base I put a iredesents crystals, but I removed the biggest ones, because they will not move well in my shaker and I don’t want to add an extra layer of a foam tape on the card.

That’s all for today!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies

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