STUDIO KATIA

Release Week | September 2018 Release – Day Three

September 20, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, New Release, Sneak Peek

Hello Friends!

Welcome to the Day 3 of the September 2018 Release Preview!

This month we have lots of amazing products for you – stamps, dies, confetti sequins and more chunky confetti glitter! Please note that all new products will be available on Friday, September 21st at 7am EST. Be sure to visit our blog every day this week and join us this Friday (TOMORROW) for the NEW RELEASE BLOG HOP filled with tons of inspiration, fun and giveaways!

Today we are introducing new floral sets. A Cup of Thanks Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies and You’re So Sweet Stamp Set with Coordinating Dies.

Rubeena created a beaitiful watercolor card using our new A Cup of Thanks stamp set . Coordinating dies also includes two word dies: Thanks and Tea. She used Thanks die cut and combined it with a sentiment. Added a new Clear Round Drops – Mix Two to finish up the card.

Galina’s card is so bright and cheerful!

Erum ‘s card is Sweet and elegant. She finished it with our new Silver Polka Sequins.

Kristina ‘s watercolor card is finished with Crystal Clear Sequins and July Crystals.

Now, it’s a GIVEAWAY time! Leave us a comment telling us which is your favorite product from this post by September 22nd at 5:00pm and we will randomly pick one winner for the stamp set!

Make sure to come back tomorrow, Friday September 21st for the full Release Reveal and a Blog Hop filled with incredible inspiration from our Design Team and Guest Designers!

Thank you so much for all of your lovely comments and messages, they mean so much to us!

Katia

Release Week | September 2018 Release – Day Two

September 19, 2018 / CATEGORIES - New Release, Sneak Peek

Hello Crafty Friends!

Welcome to the Day 2 of the September 2018 Release Preview!

This month we have lots of amazing products for you – stamps, dies, confetti sequins and more chunky confetti glitter! Please note that all new products will be available on Friday, September 21st at 7am EST. Be sure to visit our blog every day this week and join us this Friday for the NEW RELEASE BLOG HOP filled with tons of inspiration, fun and giveaways!

Today we would like to introduce you to not just one but two new stamp sets. Holiday Village Stamp Set (Coordinating Dies available) and Kobi’s Ice Day Stamp Set with Coordinating Dies.

Both of these sets were illustrated by Zlatina Gocheva.

Svetlana created a whimsical winter scene. She used the largest frame from the new Dotted Patterns Set 3 Creative Die. For the background she created a custom stencil using the largest dome frame from Scallop Square Creative Die and added Majestic Confetti to finish.

Laura created a fun Ice Day scene card, she used trees from the Holiday Village stamp set, created snowy hills from our new Border Trimmings Creative Die. To create a snowfall Laura used our Confetti Creative Stencil.

Ilda used the largest oblong circle die from our Dotted Patterns Set 3 Creative Die to create a background nightly sky window. She used our new Iridescent Ice Flakes gems to create a starry sky. (trees are from Winter Kobi Stamp Set)

Natalia created an interactive card using Kobi’s Ice Day Coordinating Dies. This set contains two slider dies that are perfect to use with this stamp set. She combined Simple Borders Dies and new Trimmings Borders Dies to create the perfect snowy hills. For the background she used Halftone Dots Cover Die. How cute are these penguins?

Tomorrow we have another fun sneak peek to show you! Now, it’s GIVEAWAY time! Leave us a comment telling us which is your favorite product from this post by September 22nd at 5:00pm and we will randomly pick one winner for the stamp set! Make sure to come back tomorrow, Thursday September 20th for our next sneak peek post!

Thank you so much for all of your excitement for our sneak peek week! Your comments and messages mean so much to us!

Katia

Release Week | September 2018 Release – Day One

September 18, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Halloween, Sneak Peek

Hello Crafty Friends!

Welcome to the Day 1 of the September 2018 Release Preview!

This month we have lots of amazing products for you – stamps, dies, confetti sequins and more chunky confetti glitter! Please note that all new products will be available on Friday, September 21st at 7am EST. Be sure to visit our blog every day this week and join us this Friday for the NEW RELEASE BLOG HOP filled with tons of inspiration, fun and giveaways!

Today we would like to introduce you to the: Monster Bash Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies. This set was illustrated by Zlatina Gocheva.

Here are some fabulous examples from our design team.

Dana create a fun scene using our new Spider Web Creative Stencil and Scallop Oblong Creative Die, she finished it with new jewels Midnight Blue Crystals.

Tracy used our new Spider Web Creative Stencil to create a spooky background. She added Googly Eyes make these monsters come alive. Which is so adorable. She used glow in the dark embossing powder for the sentiment.

Rowena used decorative pieces from our older Halloween set Kobi the Grim Reaper we just love how she added white loops cover using our Loops Creative Die to make it pop.

Galina used Spider Web Creative Stencil and a sentiment from Monster Bash Stamp Set to create a fun spooky Birthday card. She finished it with new jewels Midnight Blue Crystals.

Tomorrow we have another fun sneak peek to show you! Now, it’s GIVEAWAY time! Leave us a comment telling us which is your favorite product from this post by September 22nd at 5:00pm and we will randomly pick one winner for the stamp set! Make sure to come back tomorrow, Wednesday September 19th for our next sneak peek post!

Thank you so much for all of your excitement for our sneak peek week! Your comments and messages mean so much to us!

Thank You Card with Laura

September 17, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Other, Thank You Cards

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here, and today I am back with a fun thank you card I created using the Studio Katia Best Friends stamp set.This stamp is super cute and this would be the perfect thank you card to send to an animal lover 🙂

As a first step I stamped the image in the set on Neenah Solar White Cardstock and colored it with Spectrum Noir markers.

I then cut the front panel and the background panel out of white cardstock.
For the front panel I used the Dotted Patters Set 1 Creative Dies together with the Dotted Ovals Creative Dies. I used a light grey ink and the Brush Strokes Stamps to add interest to the panel.
For the background I repeated the same steps, this time using the Darling Ribbon & Frames Dies and the Brush Strokes Stripes Stamp Set.

For the sentiment I used the Giving Thanks coordinating dies. I cut the sentiment out of black cardstock and the outline out of white cardstock. I pressed the white die cut on my grey ink to add color and texture, and I glued it on my card front. Unfortunately this set is now retired – I didn’t realize as I was making this card, and I apologize for that- but, if you don’t have it, you can use the coordinating dies to the Mini Thank You stamp set for an equally pretty result. 🙂

I mounted everything on a top-folding A2 card base, and that finished off my card.
And that’s it for today! I really hope you enjoyed this post, and I hope I inspired you to create with the cute Best Friends stamp set.
Thank you all so much for stopping by, and have a great day,

Laura

SUPPLIES

*Retired – in alternative you can use the
Mini Thank You | Coordinating Dies

Stitched Quilt Inspired Card by Ilda

September 15, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello dear friends, Ilda here from I Love Doing All things crafty!
My card today is dedicated to all of you that inspire me on a daily basis. I am so thankful for all the crafty friends I have made and met because of this crazy Card Making/Papercrafting Community! YOU are all so amazing! I am inspired daily by all that I see from you on Facebook, Instagram, everywhere I look, there is SO much talent and inspiration.

So with that said, today I am sharing with you this stitched quilt card. This was definitely a labor of love to create as it took me most of the Summer to complete. The card was hugely inspired by the one and only Jennifer McGuire, the cardmaking Goddess!!! I have always loved her stitched cards but have never found time to try them. I now know why she does these types of cards while on vacation. Well, this Summer I spent 4 weeks in Portugal visiting my family. So to keep from having any crafty withdrawals, I took along with me some card panels that I had die cut with various patterns, embroidery needles, and a variety of colorful thread. The kids and I were so busy that I was only able to complete a couple of the panels as the only downtime I had was when we were at the beach. I just LOVE how this card turned out, and it was definitely worth all those beach hours!

To make this card:

I ran the small square stitch die from the Stitch Border Die set through the die cut machine 20 times!!!
Four times along the top and five rows down.
I used masking tape to hold the square in place while running it each time through the machine.
I eyeballed the spacing, so my squares aren’t perfect. If you want perfect, use a ruler to divide the card panel first.
Next, find yourself a beach, LOL… or a somewhere where you have plenty of time. Start stitching away!
I worked on one square at a time. I began with one color along the outer square and then switched colors for the middle square. To the inside, I used a flower like a stitch by always stitching from the center. (Sorry, not sure what these stitches are actually called, haha!) I also had all my needles threaded with different colors to save on threading them each time.
Once all my colorful squares were completed, I then used a white thread to connect the squares together. Looks like some fancy stitching but it was stitched the same way as the smaller squares I promise. The spacing just makes it look that way!
Once the inside was all done I then stitched along the outside of the panel, finishing off the edges.
To the bottom, I created a little fringed trimmed edge by looping doubled up thread and tying it in knots. To keep the knots from unraveling I added a small amount of multi-medium matt glue to each of them.
On a scrap piece of black cardstock, I stamped out the “you inspire me” sentiment from Japanese Peony set and heat set it with a white embossing powder.
I then used the long stitched border strip to die cut the holes along the top and the bottom of the sentiment strip.
Next, I attached the sentiment strip to the card, trying to line up the holes as best as possible as I stitched it into place.
To attach the Satin Vinca flowers I used a clear thread and a sewing needle, I also used a Silver Dust Seed Bead in the center of each flower. Since I placed the flowers where no holes were pierced I made new holes with the needle as they would not be seen and covered up by the flowers.
Now that the panel was complete, I added multi-medium glue to the entire threaded back and glued that to another piece of cardstock that I had trimmed a little smaller than the panel. I then placed it under a heavy book and set it aside to dry completely flat.
Once it was dry I adhered the panel to a black card base.
To the inside I finished it with the Thank You stamp from the Thank You So Much stamp set.

I hope this card has inspired you today just as Jennifer McGuire has inspired me with this creation.
Thank you all for stopping by, until next time… Happy Crafting!
Ilda

Rainbow Word Dies

September 14, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Other

Word dies are hugely popular in crafting at the moment, I have to confess to having a huge weakness for them and own a lot. But we often use them to accompany an image, or in place of a sentiment, they can however be used on their own to create some really fun cards.

Today I am sharing a card I created using the Friend word die from the Spring Bouquet co ordinating die set. this is lovely flowing font and a nice size die too.

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When creating a card like this I like to use card stock with a slight texture, I tend to use Core’dinations but there is plenty of different brands that offer textured cardstock.

I wanted to go with a rainbow type theme so repeatedly die cut the die from different colours. I trimmed down some Neenah card to just under A2 size and then worked out roughly where i wanted each die and started adhering them into place.

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Once they was all done and dry I trimmed all the excess off, you want to make sure that some go off the edge of the card as this gives a better finished look to the card.

I used a sentiment from the Japanese Peony Stamp set and heat embossed it onto a strip of black card which I adhered to the panel with foam tape and then I adhered the whole piece to a pink card base.

A quick and simple way to use those word dies and this can be done in so many ways, you could use all white card stock for a soft white on white look or even use metallic or inked pieces of card there really is many possibilities.

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I hope I have given you some inspiration for your word dies. Thank you so much for stopping by today.

Have a great day and happy crafting.

Products used-

Spring Bouquet Die set

Japanese Peony Stamp set

Core’dinations card

Die cutting Machine

WOW Embossing Powder

Meowy halloween with Kaja

September 13, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Halloween

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I have a cute halloween card prepared for you! 🙂

Take a look:

First thing I did was the background. I used my watercolored paper and stamped out three houses and a tree from Whimsical town stamp set. Then, I made them masks from masking paper since I will be doing some ink blending on top. I decided to make a halloween background, so I used Distress oxides in Curved pumpkin and Vintage photo colors. For a bit of extra interest I sprinkled some clear splatters on the ink blended panel.

I removed the masks from my stamped images and since halloween is supposed to be scary, I used black alcohol marker to color everything in.

Then, I stamped out the cat from Meovy halloween stamp set and some pumpkins from Kobi the grim reaper set. I used alcohol markers in traditional halloween colors to color everything in and once it was colored I used coordinating dies to die cut them.

The last thing I added was the sentiment. I decided to go with ‘Have a meawy halloween’ that can be found in Meovy halloween stamp set. I stamped it in black on a piece of white cardstock which I trimmed down using my paper trimmer.

The only thing left to do was to glue everything on the card base. I use some liquid glue along with foam tape for the cat.

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

SUPPLIES:

Studio Katia – Meowy halloween

Studio Katia dies – Meowy halloween

Studio Katia – Kobi the grim reaper

Studio Katia dies – Kobi the grim reaper

Studio Katia – Whimsical town

Card with foxes

September 12, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Hello Cards

Hello everyone! Today I want to share with a cute card I made for my mom.

For this card I used a square die to create a card background. I applied distress inks on it through self made masks.

Next I stamp foxes using orange ink and add shadows ( just a little bit) with colored pencils. As for flowers, I stamped them on a watercolor paper and colored with distress markers.

I cut all images with coordinating dies and foam mounted them on a card panel. I cut a card base bigger then my panel from white cardstock and glued panel on it.

Have a great day!

Galina

Supplies:

SCALLOP SQUARE | CREATIVE DIES

Foxes | Clear Stamp Set

Foxes | Coordinating Die Set

Together We Bloom | Clear Stamp Set

Together We Bloom | Coordinating Die Set

Colorful Blooms with Kristina

September 11, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Kristina here. Today I made a colorful watercolor card featuring Spring Bouquet stamp set.

First, I stamped the flowers from Spring Bouquet stamp set onto watercolor paper with black waterproof ink.

Then, I quickly watercolored the flowers and added some details with Prismacolor pencils.

Next, I stamped the sentiment with black ink and adhered my card on a light grey card base with foam tape and embellished it with Majestic Fusion sequins.

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

Kristina

SUPPLIES:

Spring Bouquet | Clear Stamp Set

Majestic Fusion