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Birthday Wishes

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Floral Cards

Hey lovelies it’s Tracy here with you today

I hope 2021 is being kind to you all so far ? Now the festive season is over I need to start working on birthday cards for this year and couldn’t resist using my favourite floral set Japanese Peony, along with my favourite stencil Brush stroke waves

I started off by heat embossing the main image and two of the leaves onto some watercolour card, I wanted a gold theme so I used Simon Says Stamp fine detail gold powder.
I then used Spectrum Noir Aqua pens to do some basic watercolouring on all the peace’s and left to one side to dry.
I cut a piece of watercolour card to A2 size and taped the stencil to the card. I used Nuvo Glimmer paste and applied going from one side of the card to the other with a pallet knife giving a faded effect going across the card.
I then left this to dry overnight

I then used the matching dies to cut the floral pieces out and using foam tape I arranged them on the card, I also heatt embossed a sentiment onto some black card stock and at this point decided to add some black ink splatter, once I was happy with the whole arrangement I adhered everything down and used a black card base to tie it all together and added some Onyx crystals to finish.

Really happy with how this turned out and hope you like it and it’s given you some inspiration.
Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you have an amazing day and happy crafting.
Supplies used –

Japanese Peony Stamp Set

Brush Wave Strokes Stencil

Peony Trimmings stamp set (sentiment) –

Onyx Crystals

Simon Says Stamp Gold Embossing Powder

Spectrum Noir Aqua Pens

Spectrum Noir Watercolour card.

Nuvo Clear Ink Pad

Nuvo Gold Glimmer Paste

 

 

One layered vellum shaker card

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Shaker Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Galina. I have a soft birthday card to share with you. I combined two my favorite techniques to get this delicate background using Floral Garden stamp set.

How to make this card you can watch here or on Studio Katia’s Youtube chanel.

At first I cut out an oval mask using a die from Nesting ovals die set, I out it on a large piece of vellum and stamped a floral background with clear Versamark ink. I covered it with fine detail embossing powder and melt it. In a centre I heat embossed a sentiment, but I used a regular white embossing powder, because of wide line in the stamped sentiment.

I flip over the vellum and applied pigment inks om all flowers. Then, I attached the vellum to a kraft card panel and put some confetti between vellum and paper. I attached the panel to a card base using strong double sided adhesive tape.

I embellished the card with tiny pink crystals using the embellishment want and a small amount of liquid glue from Studio Katia.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Galina

Supplies

Happy Birthday with Emily

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS

Hello, crafty friends! I hope you all had a lovely weekend! Mine was super packed and busy but it was nice to have plans and get things done. Alas, weekends are never long enough. I’m sure you will agree! Plus, it snowed last night so I thought I’d make something bright and cheery.

I used the Party Balloons Stencil and Ink Blender Brushes with distress inks on watercolour cardstock to create the balloons. Then I splattered the panel with shimmer spritz for a beautiful shimmery confetti effect. I dried the panel with my heat tool before heat embossing the balloon strings in gold and the sentiment with sparkle embossing powder. Both the balloon strings and sentiment are from the It’s Your Birthday mini stamp set.
To finish the card, I cut a strip of gold glitter cardstock, adhering it to the left side of the card base. Then I attached the panel and embellished the card with Gold Sparkle Crystals.

Please visit me on my blog, Instagram and YouTube channel for more inspiration. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:
Party Balloons Stencil
It’s Your Birthday
Ink Blender Brushes
Gold Sparkle Crystals
Embellishment Wand
Glue

Gometric birthday card

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS

Hello everyone, it’s Galina. Today I want to share with you a fun idea of making a simple geometric card using basic supplies. To create this pattern I used HALFTONE DOTS CIRCLE DIE set.

How to make this card you can watch here or on Studio Katia Youtube channel.

I have cut out a white card panel using a slimline die. You can work with regular a2 card panel. But I love to have more space to play with this technique and a size of slimline panel is a perfect to create a full geometric pattern. Next, I’m going to create my pattern with circles using HALFTONE DOTS CIRCLE DIES. At first, I m going to cut out a biggest circle on the top and the bottom of my panel.

On a white cardstock I applied different colros of distress oxide inks. I cut out thsoe patterns using coordinating circle dies from the same set. I foam mount them behund the panel.

I stamped a sentiment with black ink and using a beautiful birthday stamp set from SK Cardmaking kit. I cut it out with an oval die from SCALLOP OBLONG die set.

To embelish my card I add a few clear crystals.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies

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Kobi says ‘Congratulations’ with Kaja

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I will show you a cute card featuring the one and only Kobi the bear!

Take a look:

I knew I wanted to use Kobi on my cards for a long time, so today I finally decided to use one and show you that you can easily use stamps all over the year even though the stamp sets is mostly Valentine’s day themed. I stared making this card by stamping out a bear from the Kobi’s hugs & kisses stamp set which is as said a valentine’s day themed stamp set, but can be used any time of the year! I colored the image in using alcohol markers and this time I went with gray colored bear.

I didn’t want my bear to hold a normal bouquet, so I stamped a pot flower from Potted plants and colored it in using alcohol makrers. Then, I die cut both images and the great thing is that the Kobi’s die cuts it’s hands out as well, so you can easily put the pot in his hands!

Next I made the background for which I used the Rectengular dots cover on a white piece of paper. I didn’t want to have just a plain white backdrop, so I used Studio Katia ink blending brushes and added soft pink ink over the dotted rectangles in the center. To make sure everything connects nicely, I also added the same ink over the actual card base to get a soft pink edge.

Then, I added a white oval from the Dotted ovals to the center of the card to ensure that my bear will be seen nicely and won’t get lost in the background.

The last think that I added was a sentiment that reads ‘Congratulations’ and can be found in the Peony trimming stamp set. I used a white card stock and black ink, so the sentiment can be read easily and has a bold look to it.

All the elements were done in no time, so the only thing left to do was to glue everything together using double sided foam tape and the liquid glue.

Thank you so much for joining me!

Kaja

SUPPLIES:

Glitter Birthday Card with Isha

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hello everyone! Isha here with you today with a fun, sparkly birthday card using stencil. I chose some autumn colors to make it perfect for this season 🙂

I started by creating the background panel. I sponged distress oxide inks in wilted violet, abandoned coral, worn lipstick and scattered straw to a white layer. I then put the Confetti stencil and sponged the same colors using the blender brushes. Now, I mixed some Sparkle glitter to translucent embossing paste and applied through the stencil. Remove the stencil and wash immediately. Let this piece dry. I die-cut three tags using the Slider Tag die. One white, one vellum and the third using a yellow cardstock. Adhere the vellum onto the white and then adhere this to the yellow, slightly offset from the bottom part. Stamp the cake image using the Mini Birthday Cake stamp, color using copic markers and die-cut. Apply some spectrum noir clear sparkle pen to the icing.

Adhere the tag to the mat layer. Adhere the mat layer to the card and then using a 3D foam adhere the cake image.Tie an cream and gold twine and the word enjoy. Thank you for dropping by! Have a nice day and stay safe!

Isha

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Textured pattern using acorn die

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Galina. And today I’m going to show you a one layered autumn birthday card. This card design will be perfect for masculine cards also.

How to make this card you can watch here or Studio Katia Youtube channel.

I start by to cut out a several acorns from a white card panel. . I tried place my die on different angels to create an effect of falling acorns from a tree. NExt I aplied a dark blue ink on a panel and brown inks on the acorn parts.

Using detailed stencil called autumn leave stencil I created a background. This stencil is perfect for any seseson card, I have made a lot of summer cards with it, you can check other projects on this blog or  on Youtube channel. So, I applying a light blue color of distress oxide ink. It’s a pigment ink so it will be visible on a dark surface. If you don’t have oxise inks you can use a white pigment ink or a darker color of regular ink. Like super deep blue or even a black color. The pattern will look awesome e anyway.

I inlaid the acorn pieces into the car panel. Ididn’t add the outline die cut to create a nice texture on the card. So im placing each die cut back in to the panel. It’s like putting puzzle together. Very satisfying process.

I heat embosset the sentiment with white embossing powder. I used a small stamp from the big set of birthday sentiments.

To embilsh my card I used a few gold drops from Studio Katia.

Thanks for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies


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NEW! Birthday Cardmaking Kit and Free online class

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS, New Release, News, Shaker Cards

 

Hello everyone! It’s Galina with you today and I want tell you about super cool cardmaking kit from Studio Katia! It’s a special kit which comes with free online class! Clear & Fancy online class is all about making cards with acetate sheets and gorgeous embellishments. The was specially designed for Great Canadian Virtual Scrapbook Carnival hosted by Creative Scrapbooker.

This is a limited edition and our first cardmaking kit. It is only available while supplies last so if you love it—do not wait!

The contents of this kit include:

– 4 random cardstocks from Black, White & Rainbow Pack
– 4 acetate sheets
– 1 Chunky Sprinkles Stencil (not yet released)
– 1 Mini Birthday Greeting stamp set (not yet released)
– 1 Mini Birthday Cake stamp set & Coordinating Die
– 1 Chunky Sparkle glitter jar
– 1 Sparkling Crystals
– 1 Iridescent Crystals
– 1 Chunky Sprinkles
– 1 Rainbow Crystals Mix (only available with this kit)
– 1 ink blending brush
– 20 foam squares

With this kit you can create a bunch of beautiful birthday cards. Here are some examples.

Shaker cards:

Simple coloring cards:

If you want to get inspired more you can watch Clear&Fansy online Class HERE in Great Canadian Virtual Scrapbook Faceboo Group. (You probably should join the group). More about this event HERE.

In this class I show how to create two birthday cards using Cardmaking Kit.

The first card – with a clear box and cake inside + stenciling and heat embossing tips.

Second card – with unusual form of a shaker + simple coloring with Alcohol markers.

I hope this class will help you to get inspired and create fancy cards for your friends and family. Everyone loves shakers cards 🙂

Some of the products from the kit you can buy separately, I’ll link them below, but a big sentiment stamp and stencils you can buy only with kit.

Supplies

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Birthday Card With Isha Gupta

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS

Hello everyone! Isha here with you today with a CAS card using stencil.

I started by creating the background. I sponged some spun sugar, worn lipstick, picked raspberry and wilted violet distress oxide inks to the white cardstock using the blender brushes. I then took the Autumn Leaves stencil and put it on the inked piece. I then applied versamark ink through the stencil. Remove the stencil and dab some perfect pearls to the piece. Die-cut the heart, adhere the positive to the white cardbase, adhere vellum on top. Now adhere the negative part of the layer to the cardbase. Stamp sentiment from the It’s your Birthday stamp set onto vellum using StazOn black ink. Die-cut the word YOU from the Chunky Alphabet die four times from white cardstock. Stack them, apply some clear sparkle on it and add glossy accent. Let dry.

Adhere the word to the heart center. To finish, add some Icy Sparkle Crystals. Thank you for dropping by! Have a nice day and stay safe!

Isha

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Quick and Easy Cards Mini Series Pt 2

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hey lovelies, Tracy here with you for part 2 of my quick and easy mini series. You can find part 1 here.

For todays card we are making a shaker card ! Now anyone that knows me knows I avoided shaker cards because i was awful at them. But this is what I have learnt.

  • Keep them simple until you are comfortable
  • Use GOOD foam tape
  • Don’t overthink them and compare yours to others.

I would always look at others shaker cards and try and go for something fancy and would fail….the good thing with shaker cards is you do not need to go fancy as the card below shows.

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I used the Shaker Balloon Die set which makes it so much easier, I started off die cutting a piece of the new Rainbow paper pad using the Dotted Patterns set 1 along with the shaker balloon die. I used the same die and cut out some black card.

I laid the main piece over some black card and used it as a guide to adhere the balloon and black outline.

To create the shaker I adhered some strong acetate to the back of the main piece and I adhered foam tape to the BASE, this is something I found allows lining everything up so much easier. I then added some Silver Fever Sequins and carefully lined the main piece up and adhered it. I then heat embossed a sentiment from the Birthday Greetings stamp set. To finish off I added the diecut bow along with some silver sparkle over the top.

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If you are going for a more simple shaker like this my advice is too use a nice patterned paper and also some nice coloured sequins as they add that little bit extra something.

Doing this kind of shaker card really helped get my confidence back with shaker cards plus they are super quick.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you like the tips I shared.

Have an amazing day and happy crafting

Supplies –

Shaker Balloon Die set

Dotted Patterns set 1

Black, White & Rainbow Papers

Black Foam Tape

Silver Fever Fushion mix

Birthday Greetings Stamp set