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Under the Sea with Laura

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Theme Week

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here, and for the Red, Blue and White Theme Week I am sharing a card I created using the Under the Sea stamp set.
For the background of this cute underwater scene I used the Brush Stroke Waves stencils and Distress Inks. I also cut the ocean panel with the rectangle die in the Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames set to create a dotted edge on the short sides.

All the images in this card come from the Under the Sea stamp set, were colored with Spectrum Noir Markers and die cut with the coordinating dies. In order to stick with this week’s theme I used only shades of red to color in my critters, and I created a color chart for your reference.

For the card base I combined the Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames set with the new Halftone Dots cover die to cut some white cardstock and create a subtle tone on tone effect with my white card base.
I popped up the ocean panel with some foam tape and composed the scene.

The sentiment is heat embossed with white embossing powder, and, as a final detail, I added some Clear Drops near these adorable critters.
And that’s it for today! I really hope you liked this card and I hope I inspired you to create with the cute Under the Sea stamp set.
Thank you all so much for stopping by, and have a great day!

Laura

SUPPLIES

Under the Sea | Clear Stamp Set
Under the Sea | Coordinating Dies
Dotted Patterns: Darling Ribbon | Creative Dies
Halftone Dots Cover | Creative Die
Brush Stroke Waves | Creative Stencil
Clear Round Drops – Mix

 

 

Red/White Card by Rowena

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, Theme Week

Hello crafty friends! It’s theme week and here’s my take on this week theme. With so many adorable stamps from the recent May release, I finally got to play with this adorable Kobi Bearing Gifts stamps! So, lets get started.

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I first created my background by blending Picked Raspberry distress ink on a water color paper.  Focusing mostly darker around the outside and lighter towards the middle of my panel. I splattered clean water as well as some inks to create more interest to my background.

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I used the Dotted Patterns – Set 2 creative die to create my window panel. I also added a plain white cardstock and trimmed it using Halfttone Dots Cover plate to add more interest.  I added foam tape to my panel and adhered it to a A2 size card base.

I then stamped my image twice, on one image I colored only the presents and Kobi’s hand. On the other stamped image, I colored the bottom half of Kobi.  I then fussy cut the presents and added foam tape to add dimension. I then die cut the other image using its coordinating die. You can see on my photo how I put everything together.

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To finish my card I white heat embossed my sentiment on a black cardstock from the Birthday Greetings stamp set. I just love all the different and unique saying on this set!!!

Thanks for stopping by and till next time! Happy crafting everyone!!

Crafty Hugs,

Rowena 

 

Supplies:

Kobi Bearing Gifts and Coordinating Die

Halftone  Dots Cover Plate

Dotted Patterns – Set 2 Creative Die

Birthday Greetings Stamp

Congratulations Card with Tracy

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS

Hey lovelies, Tracy here today and I am sharing a stencil card with you. This week is Theme week and we are creating cards with red/white/blue theme to them.
This was actually hard for me, blue is one of my favourite colours but I rarely use in it card making along with other colours.
I decided to do a card using the Bubbles Creative Stencil.

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I used Distress Inks in Salty Ocean and Candied Apple and kinda like that you get a purplish tone when they cross over.
Top tip when you use a stencil I have found best way to keep it in place is to stick it from the back as shown below.

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I find this keeps the paper firmly in place and doesn’t get in the way of any inking you do.
I used the Label Messages to stamp the sentiment in Navy ink and then used the co ordinating dies to cut that out. To add some dimension I adhered this with foam tape.
To finish off and add some sparkle I used Silver Foil Stars…If you don’t have any of Katia’s Foil stars I highly recommend them, they are great for adding some sparkle to all cards and work well with masculine cards too.

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I was going to add this to a white card base, but to keep with the theme I went with a navy card base and I am glad I did.

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Thank you so much for stopping by today. Don’t forget to share your Studio Katia creations with us on Social Media.
Have a great week and happy crafting!

Supplies:

Bubbles Creative Stencil

Label Messages Stamps & Dies

Silver Foil Stars

Messy Red Roses with Erum

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Theme Week

Studio Katia Spring Bouquet | Erum Tasneem | @pr0digy0

Hello!

Erum here today with very messy Red and White card with a bit of black using Spring Bouquet Stamp Set.

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I started by stamping the floral bouquet with Versafine Ink in Onyx Black onto watercolour cardstock. Next I clear embossed it so that I could do some quick watercolouring without worrying about details or paint bleeds. After the watercolour was dry, I used the coordinating die to cut out the bouquet.

Studio Katia Spring Bouquet | Erum Tasneem | @pr0digy0

I used distress inks to colour my image and I was super random at adding colour. For the background, I did a light colour wash of grey and added a lot of splatters of grey and black.

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I stamped the greeting from Birthday Greetings Stamp Set and then popped my image with foam tape.

Studio Katia Spring Bouquet | Erum Tasneem | @pr0digy0

In the end I used Silver Foil Fusion for bling.

Messy watercolouring allows you to complete a card super fast and the technique is also super fun. I hope you liked my card. See you soon.

Bye 🙂

 

SUPPLIES:

Spring Bouquet Stamp Set

Spring Bouquet Coordinating Die

Birthday Greetings Stamp Set 

Silver Foil Fusion

 

Guest Designer | Birthday Cards with Maria

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Floral Cards, Guest Designer

Hello everyone,

it’s Maria from @a_country_home. I’m very delighted to be a guest on the Studio Katia Blog today. A big thank you to Katia and Liliya for inviting me! I create three cards for today. It’s not a secret that I prefer watercoloring to other medium, it is the best way for me to relax after a long day at work. And here is what I came up with.

For my first card I die cut two panels using rectangle die from the Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames Creative Dies. Then I die cut one of the panels again with the decorative frame which is included in the Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames Creative Dies. Next, I stamped beautiful Lovely Blooms Stamp Set on both the frame and the panel. The Original Misti Stamping Tool is very helpful for this. Then I watercolored flowers and leaves and stamped the sentiment from the Birthday Greetings Stamp Set. When both panels were dry I adhered them together using foam tape for dimension. Then I mounted them on a light grey card base and embellished the card with the Cupid’s Kiss Crystals and May Crystals.

For my second card I used again the Lovely Blooms Stamp Set. I stamped it on a piece of water color cardstock with a light brown ink to create a watercolor card in no-line coloring technique. After all blossoms and leaves were colored I masked them and added some ink splatters in black. I used again one of the awesome Sentiments from the Birthday Greetings Stamp Set and stamped it on black cardstock then heat white embossed. I mounted my water colored panel on a dark grey cardbase using foam tape. Then I added the Sentiment also using foam tape. Some of the beautiful Cupid’s Kiss Crystals gives the final touch.

My third card I created with the cute Kobi Bearing Gifts Stamp Set in combination with the Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames Creative Dies. I stamped the tiny stamps all over a white die cut panel using beige ink. Then I stamped sweet Kobi with all his gifts on a piece of watercolor cardstock. I colored the gifts in all rainbow colors, such fun. I die cut Kobi with coordinating dies. I mounted the stamped panel onto a kraft card base, added Kobi in the middle and heat embossed the sentiment from the Birthday Greetings Stamp Set on a piece of pink cardstock using white embossing powder. I embellished the card with some April Crystals.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a lovely day!
Maria

Supplies:

Lovely Blooms | Clear Stamp Set

Birthday Greetings | Clear Stamp Set

Kobi Bearing Gifts | Clear Stamp Set

Kobi Bearing Gifts | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Patterns: Darling Ribbon | Creative Dies

Cupid’s Kiss Crystals | Mix

April | Crystals

May | Crystals

Stitched Birthday Card with Kaja

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I have a super fun Birthday card for you! 🙂

The first and the most time consuming thing was the stithcing. I die cut the biggest die from Stitch borders die set three times positioned horizontally on a paper in a size of my cardbase.

Then, I stitched everything using the normal cross-stitch where I used three shades of blue to make a nice ombre look to all three die cuts. Since the stitching gives such a nice look, I decided to keep the rest of the card quite simple.

I stamped and colored some animals from Under the sea stamp set and die cut them using the coordinating dies. As said, I wanted my stitching to be the star of the project so I only used a few of the animals in the set.

After positioning all of the images on the card, I glued them down. I usied liquid glue bacause I wanted to make sure that they stay firmly glued on the thread.

The last thing I had to add was a sentiment. I decided to go with the ‘May your birthday be as awesome as you are’ from Birthday greeting set since it has a nice length and it fitted perfectly in the layout I already had. I embossed it with white embossing powder over a black card stock to make it stand out even more. In the end, I poped it up using some foam tape which added that little extra dimention I wanted on the finished card.

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

SUPPLIES:

Studio Katia – Under the sea

Studio Katia dies – Under the sea

Studio Katia – Birthday greetings

Studio Katia dies – Stitch borders

Framed No line Lovely Blooms Watercoloring with Ilda

/ CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Other

Hello Everyone!

Ilda here from I Love Doing All things crafty and I’m back today with a no line watercoloring project featuring the Lovely Blooms  from the latest Release.

I loved how the coloring of these flowers turned out so I just had to frame it! Difficult to see from these photos, but the gentle shimmer is so pretty in real life.

I began by stamping the Lovely Blooms onto watercolor paper using fadeout ink. I then took the time to watercolor these blooms using some Shimmery Watercolor crayons that I had picked up from Michael’s so long ago and hadn’t used them, so it was about time. To turn the crayons into watercolors, I rubbed the crayon onto a watercolor dish, added a drop of water and mixed the pigment with the brush until I was happy with color and consistency of the watercolor.

I’m not going to lie, this watercoloring was a bit time consuming but I really did enjoy the process as I learn a little more each time and I find it very relaxing. Plus, I have been participating in Kathy Racoosins #thedailymarker challenge and this piece, of course, is one of my challenge pieces. I guess you only get better if you keep practicing and for me, I still trying to learn how to use all the different media I have 😉

Other than adding highlights with a white gelly roller pen and some glossy accents to a few of the flowers, that was it for this project. Sometimes less is more. Of course, this could easily still be turned into a card in the future.

Thank you all for joining me today, I hope this Framed No line Watercoloring of the Lovely Blooms with Watercolor Crayons was inspiring for you.

Have a lovely day!

Ilda

SUPPLIES:

Lovely Blooms | Clear Stamp Set

Lovely Blooms and Stitched Background Card with Dana

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards

Hello everyone!
It’s Dana from Dana G.Crafts and I’m back with another post for Studio Katia. For today’s project I’ve picked 3 products from our latest release and here is what I came up with.

To begin, I stamped Studio Katia Lovely Blooms onto bristol paper with Versafine Onyx Black. I colored it with Zig Markers using waterbrush and cut it out with scissors. I took a piece of black cardstock and stamped a sentiment from Studio Katia Japanese Peony with Versamark Ink. Then, I white heat embossed it with heat tool and let it aside to get into next step.

Next, I sandwiched Studio Katia Halftone Dots Cover, A2 sized white card stock and embossing pad between cutting pads and ran them through my die cutting machine to dry emboss it. This is my favorite technique using cover die and I love how it turned out nicely at this time as well.

After dry embossing, I die cut it again with Studio Katia Stitch Borders. Actually, I’m all thumbs when it comes to needle and this is the reason why I haven’t tried any stitching to my cards. But Studio Katia Stitch Borders has various size of stitch panels and borders and it encouraged me to do it! It was big challenge for me, but back stitching with pretty ombre pink threads was not too bad for my first time:)

I mounted flower bouquet and sentiment as shown with glue tape. I then embellished it with Studio Katia Summer Fusion and finished off this card.

Hope you enjoyed this card and got some inspiration. Thank you for joining me today!

Dana

Supplies

Lovely Blooms | Clear Stamp Set

Japanese Peony | Clear Stamp Set

Halftone Dots Cover | Creative Die

Stitch Borders | Creative Die

Summer | Fusion

Rainbow flowers with Kristina

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Floral Cards

Hello everyone! Kristina here and today I want to share with you my rainbow watercolor card using Lovely Blooms stamp set.

First, I stamped the beautiful floral cluster from Lovely Blooms stamp set onto watercolor paper with black waterproof ink.

 

Then I watercolored the image in “wet on wet” technique with distress inks and splattered some inks over the image using wet brush.

Once it’s was dry, I’ve added the highlights with white gel pen and stamped the sentiment with black ink. At last I adhered my card on a white card base with foam tape and finished with sparkling sequins.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great week!

Kristina

SUPPLIES:
Lovely Blooms | Clear Stamp Set
Birthday Greeetings | Clear Stamp Set
Crystal Clear Fusion

Chocolate blossom with Natalia

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards

Hello there. It’s Natalia. And today I would like to show one-layered pencil colored card with Lovely Blooms | Clear Stamp Set.

I took the panel of craft paper and stamped Lovely Blooms | Clear Stamp Set with beige inks. Next I colored everything with alcohol markers and Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils in brown and peach colors.

I heat embossed the sentiment from Birthday Greeetings | Clear Stamp Set with white embossing powder and added few clear drops.

Hope you like my card! Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

Lovely Blooms | Clear Stamp Set

Birthday Greeetings | Clear Stamp Set

Clear Round Drops – Mix