Birthday Cards

Ocean birthday card with Kaja

August 8, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I made a sweet summer birthday card!

Take a look:

The first thing I did was the background. I used watercolor paper on which I applied three colors of distress inks: Chipped sapphire, Salty ocean and Tumbled glass. I made an ombre look, so I went from the darkest at the bottom towards the lightest at the top.

Then I used Brush stroke waves stencil and white pigment ink to make it even more ocean like.

Next, I die cut the background with Dotted patterns: Scallop frames die and trimmed it at the left side, so I got an interesting look at the end.

Next up was the coloring. I stamped out two fish and a squid from Under the sea set and colored them in using alcohol markers. I placed them over my ocean background and I felt like something is missing so I added the seaweed at the bottom. I die cut everything using it’s coordinating dies.

Then I glued everything the background using liquid glue.

After that I added the sentiment. Birthday greetings set has a lot of great birthday sayings, but I ended up using ‘Have an awesome birthday!’. I stamped it in black on a white paper and then I trimmed it to a small rectangle that I popped up using foam tape.

I felt like my animals need some air bubbles, so I used Clear drop mix to make them. I glued them down using liquid glue.

The last thing I did was glued down the ocean background and I used double sided tape to do so.

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 – Dotted patterns: scallop frames

Studio Katia stencils – Brush stroke waves

Studio Katia embellishments – Clear drop mix

Birthday Shaker Card with Rowena

August 1, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, Shaker Cards

Hello friends! Rowena here today sharing a fun birthday shaker card. Hope you all are having a wonderful summer full of sunny and warm days. So lets get started!

I’ve been admiring all the beautiful alcohol backgrounds on instagram for sometime now. So, I finally succumb and bought some inks to try.

For my background I used a combination of blues, greens, and a bit of purple to create my watery background. It’s literally mixing the colors and adding the blender solution on your paper. And I can’t believe its that easy and you end up with amazing backgrounds. There are ton of youtube tutorials online.

To create the window of my shaker, I used Scallop Window – Creative Die. I just love the shape of this die and it’s perfect for creating shaker cards. Then I added a singe layer of foam tape to my window. For my shaker elements I used the following: Sparkling Sea confetti, Majestic confetti, Sparkling crystal, and Mint Dream crystal.

I colored the cute birthday turtle from Shell-ebration stamp set and the corals, fish, and seaweed from the Under the Sea stamp set. I colored my images with my colored pencil and used the coordinating dies( I actually colored this during the coloring challenge that was hosted by Kathy Racoosin back in June). I added glossy accent to the coral, seaweed, and the turtle shell for added dimension.

To finish my card I used one of the sentiment from the Birthday Greetings stamp set (I absolutely love this set), stamped it using onyx black ink.

That’s it for me today! Till next time 🙂 Happy crafting!!

Hugs,

Rowena

Supplies Used:

Shell-Ebration stamp and die set

Scallop Window – Creative Die

Under the Sea stamp and die set

Sparkling Sea Confetti

Majestic Confetti

Sparkling Crystal

Mint Dream Crystal

Birthday Greetings stamp

Sea You Soon with Kristina

July 25, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS

Hello everyone! It’s Kristina here! Today I want to share with you two fun cards in similar technique that I made with Under The Sea stamp set.

I started by watercoloring a background with distress inks on a watercolor paper, then splattered it with water and added some splatters with the same inks.

After my background was dry, I stamped the sentiment with black ink.

Next, I stamped the images from Under the Sea stamp set, colored then with Copic markers, die cut with coordinating dies and adhered all images with foam tape onto my panel.

To finish my card, I added sparkling sequins.

The second card is very similar to the previous one, only I used a stingray as the focal image.

That’s all for today!

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

SUPPLIES:

Under the Sea-Clear Stamp Set

Under the Sea-Coordinating Dies

Cute summer birthday card with Kaja

July 23, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hi there,

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

Take a look:

Before I started on this card, I knew that I want it to be summer themed, since we are in the middle of summer. So, I stamped out a bunch of images from Under the sea and Shell-ebration stamp sets and I colored them using alcohol markers. Then, I used the coordinating dies to die cut them to give them a nice finished look.

I decided to make a round window for my animals, so I used white card stock to die cut the big circle from Dotted patterns: Fancy circle die set.

My animals needed a background, so I ink-blended two colors of distress oxides together: Faded jeans and Black soot. Before gluing everything together, I added some water splotches to the panel, so it looks more like the ocean.

Then, I cut down a piece of gray cardstock and made it slightly smaller than my card base. I used a white gel pen to add a white line across the gray square and glued everything together using liquid glue.

Of course my card needed a sentiment, so I heat embossed one of my favorite SK sentiments: ‘May your birthday be as awesome as you are’ from Birthday greeting set. I popped it up using square foam.

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 – Shell-ebration

Studio Katia dies – Shell-ebration

Studio Katia dies – Dotted patterns: Fancy circle

Studio Katia – Brithday greetings

Birthday Fishes with Tracy

July 7, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hey lovelies, Tracy here with you today as we continue this weeks showcasing of the Under The Sea Stamp set from the last release.

I have always loved the sea so got so excited when Katia released this set as it is so much fun.

I started off with the idea of a shaker card but as you can see that didn’t happen ! The background I created with Distress Oxide inks in Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers & Mermaid lagoon. I then added some “sun rays” from the top with squeezed lemonade, although you can hardly see them so I’m not sure id do that again if I was to recreate this card. I added some water splatter for some texture too.

I stamped all the pieces from the set onto some Neenah Solar white and coloured them with Polychromo Pencils and added some white gel pen details after I’d used the co coordinating dies to cut them all out.

For the frame and outer piece I used two of the dies from the Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frame Die set.

I worked out where I wanted all the elements and then heat embossed the sentiment.

I then adhered all the pieces down, using foam tape on a couple for some dimension.

I then added some foam tape to the frame and adhered this to main piece which I then added to a A2 card base.

At this point I decided it still needed something so I went a little bit crazy with the Iridescent bubbles….although I don’t think you can ever have enough of these on a card 🙂

This really is such a fun set and SO much fun to colour and play with.

I hope you like the card I created.

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Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you have a great day.

Supplies:

Under The Sea Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies

Darling Ribbons & Dotted Frames die set

Iridescent bubbles