Cards

Emboss Resist Watercolor with Laura

June 24, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here, and today I am back with an elegant card I created with the new Studio Katia Floral Garden stamp set and the emboss resist watercolor technique. This set is part of the latest Studio Katia release – if you haven’t checked it out yet, you can have a look at it here. It’s truly fabulous!

To start off the card I heat embossed the Floral Garden image with gold embossing powder. I then painted the images with Distress Inks. To see the painting process in more detail, make sure to watch the video at the end of this post.

Once my painting was ready and completely dry, I die cut it with the Dotted Patterns Set 3 dies. I then layered it over some dark grey cardstock, that I had die cut with the Darling Ribbon & Frames Dies.

For the sentiment I used greetings in the Kind Bouquet stamp set. The cardstock I used is the same gray that I have on the card base, and I heat embossed the word kindness in gold, and the word matters in white.

I glued everything to my card base, and added some Sparkling Crystals as a finishing touch.
And here you can see all the shine around these gorgeous florals!

As I mentioned, I uploaded a video tutorial for you, showing how I created this elegant card using the Studio Katia Floral Garden stamp set. And don’t forget to subscribe for more cardmaking inspiration!

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

SUPPLIES

Best Day Ever Card by Isha Gupta

June 21, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, New Release

Hello everyone! Isha here sharing floral card using this gorgeous stamp from the new release.

I started by stamping the floral garden stamp onto watercolor paper and embossed it using white embossing powder. I then used daniel smith watercolors to color in the images. This set is so much fun to color. Let this dry.

Die-cut a circle from the colored panel and adhere it to the pink square cardbase. I then stamped and embossed the sentiment onto black cardstock, cut a stripe and adhere to the card.

To finish, I added some sequins from the Summer Fusion mix.

Thank you for dropping by! Have a nice crafty day!

Isha

Supplies

Floral Garden Stamp

It’s Your Birthday Stamp set

Summer Fusion Sequin Mix

Triangle Tray

Studio Katia Glue

Happy Birthday Balloons!

June 20, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today sharing some inspiration using the new Horizontal Balloons stamp set. I love how semi-translucent balloons pick up the colors around them, and I tried to emulate that with my project today! We have been having so many thunderstorms in my area lately that it was hard to take a good photograph of my project for today. The light was just not my friend! It looks prettier and more vibrant in real life haha! Let’s get started with the details.

I began by heat embossing the Horizontal Balloons stamp set and the It’s Your Birthday stamp set onto some Arches Cold Press watercolor paper using White Satin Pearl embossing powder. I then used a fun watercolor technique to add some ethereal mottled color to my card front: wet-on-wet watercolor. I began by wetting my entire panel of card stock, then dropping in very diluted drops of pink, purple, teal, and blue watercolors. I chose colors that would work well together, because they were all going to meld and blend together, and I wanted to avoid a muddy mess! After my initial layer had dried, I went back in with some more concentrated watercolors and added more shading to the balloons, using the colors from the initial layer as a guide for my color placement.

After my balloon watercoloring had dried, I added a bit more concentrated color over my white embossed sentiment to make it pop a bit better, as well as some sparkly watercolor medium to the balloons. I then added some Pastel Rainbow Confetti to add to the festive look.

Well, that’s all for me today! I hope you’ve enjoyed the new release inspiration. Have a marvelous day!

Happy Birthday to You Balloon Shaker Card by Ilda

June 18, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, Shaker Cards

Hey Friends, Ilda here today!

So what did you think of Studio Katia’s Birthday Release? So much birthday goodness to keep you making birthday cards for this next year, right!? Loving all of it!

For my card today, I started by blending out some Balloons using Distress Oxide inks onto a card panel using the BIRTHDAY BALLOONS DUO STENCIL. I then die cut the panel out using the frame from the DARLING RIBBON AND FRAMES DIES and then die cut the window for shaker using the larger die from the FANCY CIRCLE DIES. To the back of the panel, I glued a piece of ACETATE and added foam tape to the edges and all along the window frame.

Onto the card base, I stamped out the birthday greeting from the IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY stamp set using watermark ink and heat set it using silver embossing powder.

I then added a little mound of the PASTEL RAINBOW CONFETTI to the center of the greeting and glued the top panel to the card base, securing the sequins in the window.

To finish off the front, I die cut the little ribbon from the SHAKER BALLOON DIE and heat set it with the same silver embossing powder. Then just drew in the balloon string with a silver gel pen.

I hope you liked this fun birthday balloon shaker card. I had fun with this simple design. Thank you so much for stopping by and until next time… Happy Crafting!

Ilda

SUPPLIES:

IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY

SHAKER BALLOON DIE

DARLING RIBBON AND FRAMES DIES

FANCY CIRCLE DIES

BIRTHDAY BALLOONS DUO STENCIL

ACETATE

PASTEL RAINBOW CONFETTI

STUDIO KATIA GLUE

I Miss You Card with Natalia

June 17, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. Today I want to share with you my card using beautiful Studio Katia supplies: potted plants and cactus hugs stamp sets.

First, I stamped the cute images from the potted plants and cactus hugs. I colored them with copic markers and die cut out them with coordinating dies. I added highlights using white and silver pen.

Next, I blended some distress inks onto a white piece of paper. After that I cut the panel out of white cardstock using frame die from GRID COVER and DOTTED PATTERNS SET 3

I placed all the elements on the paper panel using double-sided tape and foam tape. I heat embossed the sentiment from JAWSOME stamp set using silver embossing powder.

Thank you so much for join me today, have a great day!

SUPPLIES:

DOTTED PATTERNS SET 3

JAWSOME

Watercolored wreath with Kaja

June 7, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS, Floral Cards

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I will show you how to make a simple floral birthday card!

Take a look:

You know I love both, flowers and watercoloring, so today I took the gorgeous Floral wreath stamp set and I stamp the image on the watercolor paper. Then, I took ZIG watercolor markers and color in the flowers in four different colors. The main two were soft and dark pink and then I added just a small amount of purple and blue. I wanted to have some shadowing in the middle cirlce, so I used a gray marker.

Then, I stamped out the sentiment that reads ‘Happy birthday to my crafty friend’ from the Birthday greetings stamp set. I possitioned it dirrectly in the center of the gray circle.

Next, I took a piece of gray paper and I trimmed it down to a size of the card base. I wanted the background to connect nicely to the image, so I sprinkled some white paint over it.

Once everything was dry I used Studio Katia liquid glue to put everything together.

Thank you so much for joining me!

Kaja

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Spread Kindness Card with Ilda

June 6, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards

Hello my sweet Crafty FRIENDS, Ilda here!

Today I am back with you to spread some kindness with this beauty! I am so in love with how it turned out. If you have been following me on social media, you can probably tell from my last few posts I am on a rainbow kick so why mess with a good thing? Rainbows brighten my day and I hope they do the same for you!

To begin I stamped out the background of the card panel using the KIND BOUQUET stamp using Blackout Ink onto watercolor paper. Rather than fussy cutting the stamped image, I die cut a few masks using the KIND BOUQUET dies to cover up the stamped images as I covered up the card panel. The little lines that didn’t connect because of the die cut mask I drew in by hand with a fine line marker.

I then used Zig Clean Color Brush markers to the Roses in colors of the Rainbow.

Once the background was dry I die cut the entire panel out using the frame from the DARLING RIBBON AND FRAMES DIE set. I then stamped out the Kindness onto the floral design and then used the coordinating KIND BOUQUET DIES to die cut the sentiment. I also die cut 3 more layers to add under the Kindness from black cardstock to pop it off the card base.

To make the sentiment stand out, even more, I added a coat of Glossy Accents to it.

To finish the Kindness greeting I stamped out the “spread” onto black cardstock and heat set the letters in white and popped the strip up with foam tape. For embellishments, I added some of my favorite IRIDESCENT BUBBLES.

Hope this card has brightened your crafty day and inspired you a little today! Thank you for stopping by and until next time keep on spreading Kindness and… Happy Crafting!

Hugs,

Ilda

SUPPLIES:

KIND BOUQUET

KIND BOUQUET DIES

DARLING RIBBON AND FRAMES DIES

IRIDESCENT BUBBLES

STUDIO KATIA GLUE

Hello Friend with Natalia

June 5, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Hello Cards

Hello everyone! Natalia is here. And today I would like to show you simple but very attractive card made with the Best Friends Set.

First, I stamped the cute images from the Best Friends Set. I colored the images with alcohol markers and die cut out them using coordinating dies. I added some highlights with white and silver gel pen.

Next, I blended some distress inks onto a white paper panel. For the panel to look more interesting, I added some splatter and once the panel was dry I added some dots with silver gel pen.

Another piece of green cardstock I die cutting with TRIMMINGS BORDER dies.

I foam mounted all the elements onto ink blended panel and heat embossed a sentiment from FLORAL WREATH using silver embossing powder. I embellished the card with some IRIDESCENT STARS.

Thank you so much for join me today, have a great day!

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

Best Friends Set

TRIMMINGS BORDER dies

FLORAL WREATH

IRIDESCENT STARS

Alcohol ink card background

June 4, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS, Floral Cards

Hi everyone! It’s Galina with you today and I want to share clean and simple card using one of my favorite mediums – alcohol inks.

I cut out a card background for Yupo paper, special paper for alcohol inks. I add a bit of Blending alcohol solution over a panel and next I add few drops of purple, blue and light blue alcohol inks. I blow air through a plastic straw to move and blend all colors.

After the card panel is completely dry I stamped flowers with archival black ink. Next I heat embossed a sentiment with regular white powder on a piece of black cardstock, I attached a strip with sentiment onto piece of a glitter cardstock and then onto the card panel.

At last I add few Nuvo drops to e,bellish my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies

LOVELY BLOOMS

CACTUS HUGS

Cards for Teachers by Erum

May 31, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards, Other, Thank You Cards

Hi there everyone! Erum here. I have a fun colourful card set to share with you today. I actually made these for my nephew to give to his teachers on his last day of his current class.

I have actually “copied” one of my previous card designs and replicated the background but switched the stamps.

I started by adhering the die cut panel out of the Halftone Dots Cover Die to a plain cardstock panel of the same size. After the glue was dry, I applied watercolour to the panel and left it overnight to dry and straighten under heavy books.

I used the stamps from Kobi Loves School and used a mixed of watercolour and marker colouring to colour the images. I also added glossy accents to the balloons and the apple that Kobi’s holding.

Had so much fun making these cards and because giving these sort of handmade cards is still not as common here where I live, these were a hit among everyone!

I hope you like them too!

Thank you for stopping by.

SUPPLIES

Kobi Loves School

Halftone Dots Cover Die