Back To School Cards

For My Teacher with Olga

August 16, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards

Hello everyone! Really happy to see you here because I made very cute card for you! For this card I combined a few products.SUPPLIES:
Foxes | Clear Stamp Set
Teacher’s Apple | Clear Stamp Set
Clear Round Drops – Mix
ZIG Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolor

I started with the cutest foxes from Foxes clear stamp set. I stamped them outlined images with Wild honey Distress ink on watercolor paper. Then I covered them with a mask and stamped a lot of pencils from Teacher`s Apple stamp set in a chaotic manner in the background with Antique Linen Distress ink. And I colored pencils and foxes with ZIG Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolor.

I also added the “For my teacher” sentiment. And I finished my card with adding Clear Round Drops.

Wish you a great day and good luck!

Olga

Back To School | Theme Week – Day 4 with Erica

August 10, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards, CAS, Theme Week

Hello, hello!

This week we are doing another theme and it’s ‘Back to School’. In many countries schools are starting up again and I’m sure there are a lot of mixed emotions about it. Relief, stress and excitement depending on whether you are a student, teacher or parent.

When I first joined Studio Katia’s design team I made a card with the Teacher’s Apple stamp set and I thought I’d CASE it for today’s post. Naturally I can’t find the blog post nor a single photo of the card itself so you are gonna have to trust me when I say it looked something like this:

The original might have had a few more apples on it and I think more of them were red but for this one I went greenish.

I stamped up the apple from the stamp set several times directly onto a white water colour card stock panel, using Moss Green distress ink. To colour them in I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 pack water colours. I blended some yellow shades with a couple of greens and added both orange and red to create different shades on their peel.

One single apple I stamped on a separate piece of card stock and fussy cut it once it had been coloured and left to dry. This I added to the pile of apples with foam tape to raise it up a little and add dimension.

To finish the card off I simply stamped ‘You’re a good apple’ directly on the card panel in black ink. A few clear, sparkly sequins from the Majestic fusion mix were added with glossy accents and that’s that!

This card is very quick and can easily be mass produced if need be as they will need some time to dry, which gives you time to move onto the next card and so on. Using the Mini MISTI will make it a breeze to get the sentiments stamped too.

Not even I, Miss Blabber-mouth, can drag this out any further. It really is THAT simple a card.

Happy crafting everyone!

Love from Erica

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Back to School | Theme Week – Day 2 with Svitlana!

August 8, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards

Hi friends!

Svitlana is here. This week is another theme week here at Studio Katia and this time we are celebrating Back to School!

I’m a big fan on chalkboard theme in general. And when it came to creating a school themed card of course my first thought was to create a chalkboard. Which would carry a sentiment.

Teacher appreciation card. Stamps from Studio Katia. Card by @craftwalks

SUPPLIES:

Teacher’s Apple Stamp Set

Kobi The Birthday Bear Stamp Set

Smarty Pants Stamp Set

To make a chalkboard piece I first cut a black cardstock panel.

As far as sentiment goes I wanted that part of it to be kind of written with a chalk, and another part is written with a finger onto a covered with chalk residue area. I used Teacher’s Apple Stamp Set to make the sentiment. For the first part it was simple – I just stamped it with white pigment ink. For the word teacher, which I intended to have written with finger, I first clear embossed it. Then I grabbed a paper towel, rubbed against a white ink pad, to get some ink onto the towel. And then I rubbed the panel with it transferring the white ink from the towel onto it. I rubbed in different directions to mimic the look of real chalkboard. And I especially paid attention around the word teacher, to rub more ink around it and make it more stood out. Next I ironed off clear embossing to remove the relief embossing creates.

Teacher appreciation card. Stamps from Studio Katia. Card by @craftwalks

I stamped, watercolored and cut out an apple using a stamp from the same stamp set and adhered it onto the chalkboard panel. I also stamped Kobi from Kobi The Birthday Bear Stamp Set and modified it a bit by adding a hat and nerdy glasses from Smarty Pants Stamp Set as well as mustaches from Teacher’s Apple Stamp Set. Fun fact – after adding mustaches it became looking more like a dog that a bear lol. Then I watercolored it as well and cut out using scissors. Teacher appreciation card. Stamps from Studio Katia. Card by @craftwalks

I cut a couple more panels out of orange and yellow patterned paper and adhered all panels onto a white card base crooked one along another, then the Kobi was foam mounted in the right bottom corner and several enamel dots finishing off the card.

Hope you the idea and technique I shared here. Have a wonderful week!

Svitlana

Back to School | Theme Week – Day 1 with Laurie!

August 7, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards, Theme Week

Hello and welcome back!! This week we are celebrating Back to School!! There is still some summer left but you can almost “feel” fall coming and that means back to school!! I was always an anxious kind of kid so the first day of school was always a little terrifying for me, really happy those days are over :).

Now onto my cards. Yes, I made two cards but I’ll mainly focus on the second one which I think is better. But I’ll share the first one and you can let me know what one you like better!

I knew right away what stamps I was going to use. I also knew that I wanted to do some paper piecing. Love paper piecing, rarely do it! I started by stamping the pencil and apple images from the Teacher’s Apple stamp set onto a piece of plain white cardstock and also onto some scraps of patterned paper.

I made my own pencil cup by using half of the smallest die from the Stitched Nested Creative Rectangles set. I added a scalloped border on the top and a piece of patterned paper on the bottom. I piled a bunch of the pencils “into” the cup and adhered everything onto a skinny, polka dotted embossed card base.

After everything was cut and glued, I started to work on the background. I cut the notebook page die from the Stitched Notebook Die Set out of white cardstock. I have an old stamp set from Paper Smooches that stamps lined paper so I used that!

For the sentiment, I cut the “hello” from the You’re So Ranunculus Bundle out of black cardstock and stamped “teacher”, also from the Teacher’s Apple set underneath it. I foam mounted the apple and used glue runner to adhere the pencil. I added some black and white bakers twine around the top of the notebook page and foam mounted it to my card base.

The card base is made using the rectangle die from the Dotted Patterns Set 1 Creative Dies. I should also mention that I stamped the A+ in Versamark ink and clear heat embossed to give the base a little something! And of course, that apple HAD to be shiny so it got a generous coating of Glossy Accents!! I also added 3 Jet Black Sequins.

Now let me show you the card that I thought just wasn’t as cute:

Let me know what one is your favorite!!

Stay tuned to the blog this week because there’s more “Back To School” projects to share!!

Have a great week, everyone!!

See you soon!

Laurie

You’re a Good Teacher with Valentyna

April 19, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards, CAS

Hello everyone,
Valentyna here with our second post for today sharing a colorful card for teacher using a wonderful Teacher’s Apple Clear Stamp Set.

SUPPLIES:

Teacher’s Apple Clear Stamp Set

Dotted Shaker Tag Creative Die

I know that we still have more than two months of school ahead. But I think it’s time for me to start getting ready. Looks like the end of the school comes unexpectedly for the last 8 years of my school mom carrier :). I have already decided on the gifts and as you see, started making cards.
How I love the Teacher’s Apple stamp set. Such adorable images and many great sentiments!
I started off my card from making a bright background using a piece of Taylored Expressions Rainbow Brights pad. Then I die cut a tag with Neenah Solar white cardstock and Studio Katia Dotted Shaker tag.
Then the image. I stamped a crayon with Versafine Onyx Black ink into a piece of Ranger Watercolor paper, colored it with Zigs – 024, 025, 050, and fuzzy cut.

To finish off my card I adhered the crayon with 3D foam tape and added the sentiment from the same stamp set. Hemptique natural bamboo cord I added at the end.
Hope you enjoy!
Valentyna

You’re Such a Smarty Pants with Kristina

March 31, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards

Hello Kristina here!

SUPPLIES:

You’re Such a Smarty Pants Clear Stamp Set

I’ve started by stamping all the images on watercolor paper with waterproof black ink. Next, I started working on my background. I used a brown distress ink for my corners and blue in the middle. Using a clean wet brush I started coloring the images inside the lines. As you know, distress ink and water were made for each other. Once the ink dissolved a little, I used a paper towel to take the excess water off. Images became lighter and it created a unique effect. The I’ve sprayed everything with water. Once it was nice and dry I added the sentiment. Ideally, it would have been great to use a red embossing powder but I didn’t have it, so I used a clear embossing powder.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kristina

Thank You Card with Laurie

January 30, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello everyone, and welcome back!! I have a sweet and simple thank you card to share with you today!!

SUPPLIES:

Teacher’s Apple Clear Stamp Set

Brush Strokes Clear Stamp Set

Stitched Notebook Creative Die

Crystal Clear Fusion

Mini Thank You – Coming soon

I always start by gathering up all the stamps and dies I think I will use:

I knew I wanted to use the Stitched Notebook Set, that you can see already die cut on the bottom right. And I also knew I wanted to use the Teacher’s Apple stamp set, especially for the pencil image!!

For the sentiment, I chose to use the super sweet Mini Thank You set. FYI: this is a sneak peek of a future release!!!! Right now it’s a free gift with purchase on orders $75 and over.

I used my Winsor and Newton Promarkers to colour the pencil. In this case, I wanted it to look more like a pen so I coloured the “eraser” portion the same as the body. Because I am using a light blue base, I added a bit of colour to the strip across the top.

Now here is where I got fancy!! Embossing paste!! What??!! I never use this stuff, and I’m not sure why! I used a diagonal stripe stencil and applied the paste over top, in a messy way. And because the layer was thin, it dried super fast!!

To finish things off, I added a ink blob just below the thank you using the awesome Brush Strokes stamp set. I tied a very thin piece of thread around the top of the notebook die and adhered the “pen” so it looked like it wrote the sentiment. I also added some sequins from the Crystal Clear Sequin Fusion mix.

Thank you for visiting today!! Have a great week!!

Laurie

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You’re a Good Apple by Laurie

January 1, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards

Hello everyone and welcome back!! Laurie here to share a fun little encouragement card. I started by stamping the apple image from the Teachers Apple set onto a piece of masking paper. For this I use the full sticky Post-It Notes from 3M. They work awesome and they’re cheap!!

I stamped three but really only needed two, actually one. I stamped an apple in the centre of a white 4.25 X 5.5 panel. After masking off that first image, I stamped apples beside it and then moving my mask each time, I continued until I had a row of apples.

I decided to use my alcohol markers to color these sweet apples. I was originally going to go for a rainbow theme (which totally would have looked cute) but ended up using greens and reds. After the apples were coloured, I used the new Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames Creative Dies to add the dotted detail around the entire card panel and then to cut out the centre of the panel. These are my new favourite dies!! I absolutely love the dot detail you get on both the positive and the negative cuts!

I decided to use the banner die as well for my sentiment. I adhered the panel directly to my cardbase then foam mounted the fancy frame back into its negative place. I stamped “you’re a good” directly onto the banner die using black ink then stamped the word “apple” with red ink onto a scrap of white cardstock. I then fussy cut around the word so I was able to pop it up on the banner.

As you can see, I added some Clear Wink of Stella to the green apples and the sentiment. I added some white detail with my gel pen and Glossy Accents to the leaves. And look at those eyes!!! These are the Googly Eyes in the 5mm size. So cute!!

And of course some Lipstick Red Fusion sequins!!

Thank you so much for stopping by! See you again real soon!!

Laurie

Teachers Apple

Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames Creative Dies

Googly Eyes

Lipstick Red Fusion

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Crayons Card

November 10, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards

Hello friends,
Valentyna is here today I am sharing colorful crayons card featuring Teacher’s Apple stamp set. Just got my Zig Clear pens on weekend ? and was in desperate need to try them. Looks like bold crayon image from Teacher’s Apple set was the exactly one I wanted.

I stamped few crayons onto Ranger watercolor paper with Versafine onyx ink and colored them with Zigs. Have to agree, coloring with Zigs are the easiest water coloring I have ever tried. If you take a closer look, you’ll see, I used two different techniques, with water on dry paper and without water on dry paper. There is a very good tutorial on Jennifer’s blog.
To finish off my card, I adhered crayons to the white card base with 3D foam tape, stamped a sentiment from the same stamp set, added twine and my card is ready.

Thank you for stopping by!
Valentyna

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Teacher’s Gift Cards

October 13, 2016 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards

Hi everyone, today I’m sharing a simple and fast last minute gift holder cards. As you all remember last week was World Teacher’s Day and I’ve made these cards for Lev to take to his teachers.

For the background I used Perfectly Plaid Fall Paper, such fabulous colors. I used the largest the rectangle die to cut put the base and used a Stitched Notebook Die to cut out the center. The stitched notebook die has stitching all around and it’s perfect for window card.

I used negative space to to cut out the center on all cards, and trimmed off the top to make a straight line.

Then I’ve stamped sentiments from the Teacher’s Apple in matching inks. I used thin foam squares to adhere the back of the notebook. I’ve added the gift cards and Lev added his rock star signature.

Happy Thursday Everyone!

Stitched Notebook Set Creative Die

Teacher’s Apple Clear Stamp Set