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Coloring the dry embossed cupcake on a birthday card with Distress Inks

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS

Hello everyone!

Galina with you today and I want to share another way of using your dies. Almost every die cutting machine on the market can emboss with dies. The only thing you may need is a silicon mat, some brands may provide it with a starter kit. I picked a cute CUPCAKE SHAKER DIE, it has a lot of cue and emboss lines, so it will be fun to emboss and color it.

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

I cut out a small panel using a die from Dotted Patterns Set 1 from a watercolor paper. I embossed the cake on a watercolor paper and colored it with distress ink. I pressed the ink pad to the glass mat to have some ink to color with and I added a small amount of water over it.

After I dried the colored cupcake I put small dots of liquid glue on the top of the cupcake and covered it with a clay SPECKLED SPRINKLES .

To create a sentiment I used two stamps from the HAPPY CELEBRATIONS Stamp set. I heat emboss the sentiment on a piece of vellum with white fine detailed powder.

I finished the card my addien a few SPARKLING ROUND GEMS on the card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies


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Card backgrouds using clay e,bellishments. Video

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS, Thank You Cards

Hello everyone!

Galina is here and I want to show you how I made the card backgrounds using clay envelopesΒ  and Large polka doe Stencil πŸ™‚

How to quickly and easily embellish the card with small clay embellishments you can watch here or on Studio Katia Youtube channel.

For my first bee-mail card I add envelopes randomly on the ink blended card panel. I cut out the panel using the biggest die from Dotted Patterns set 1. Also I cut out the envelope from whiteand silver cardstock using Envelope Shaker die.

I stamped two bees from the Honey Bees Stamp set and colored them with alcohol based Copic markers. I stamped a sentiment from the same stam set with dark blue ink.

For easier clay envelope positioning use a Stencil with repeatable pattern like – Large Polka Dot Stencil.

You can embellish the card with clay envelopes in different shapes and directions. I made a rectangle frame with envelopes using a Large Polka Dot Stencil as a guid.

 

And for sure you can create a full pattern of envelopes on a card background.

Thanks for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies

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Double stenciled birthday spooky card

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS

Hello everyone!

It’s Galina. I made a bright spooky birthday card using a few stencils at once. This fun technique will with any stencils with large openings like Balloon Duo Stencil.

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

 

I combined a Balloon stencil with a Spider Web stencil to create a fun Hallooween theme Birthday card. I cut out a little label from black cardstock using Dotted Shaker Tag 2 – Creative Dies And I heat embossed custom made sentiment on it. I combined small sentiment stamps from MEOWY HALLOWEEN – Studio Katia and KOBI MAKES A WISH.

Also, I stamped tiny spooky images from those stamp sets.

I decorate the card with COLOR BURST PEARLS. To adhere them use liquid glue from Studio Katia.

Thanks for stopping by.

Galina

Supplies

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Alcohol ink colored shells

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS

Hello everyone!

Today I have a simple but fancy card to share with you. It’s all about shell-ebrations! πŸ™‚ For this card I used a beautiful die caled SEASHELL SHAKER and a sentiment from a super cute small stamp set – SHELL-EBRATION.

How I made this card you can watch here or on Studio Katia channel.

Card details

I created 3 colorful backgrounds with alcohol inks. You can create your background with watercolor or inks as well. I cut out 3 shells from a gold mirror and white cardstock.

I attached my die cuts on colorful backgrounds using a small amount of liquid glue.I cut out a thin white frame using Loops die set. I attached all 3 shells on a grey cardstock and covered them with a thin frame.

I foam mount the card panel on white A2 card base with a regular white foam tape and for sentiment I used a black foam tape.

I embellished the card with a lot of clear bubbles. I attached them with liquid glue from Studio Katia.

Thank so much for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies

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Dimensional floral card background. Video

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS, Floral Cards

Hello everyone!
It’s Galina with you today. I want to share with you how I made a pretty card background with small flowers. I was creating a birthday card with cute little bees from the HONEY BEES Stamp Set and I decided I needed to add fancy details.

How I made this card you can watch here or on the Studio Katia Youtube channel.

Card Details

I stamped a lot of small flowers on a bright white paper. I colored them with Arteza watercolor markers. But I didn’t make any blending with water. I used this medium because of high pigment ink in markers and I want to have bright red flowers on my card.

I cut out a panel using a rectangle die from and covered all the flowers with Glossy accent medium. I stamped teo cute bees on a same paper and colored them with Arteza markers. I cut out those images with a round die from the Dotted Patterns 1 die set. I foam mount them, on a card and heat embossed the sentiment on a black paper.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Galina

Supplies

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Shaped jewel crystal frames

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Hello Cards

Hello everyone, it’s Galina.

Today im going to show you how to create shiny crystal frame using small dies and your favorite crystal embellishments.

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

I cut out a white panel using Dotted die set 3. I applied few colors of ink on it. I used blender brushes to apply light shades of each color. If you want to get a brighter background – add a second layer of ink or apply inks with hard hand and pick a lot of ink on your brush.

Next I cut out 3 windows using a small hexagon die. Next I applied a small amount of liquid glue close to the cut edge and then placed the biggest crystals. I combined pink, green and blue transparent crystals.

I heat embossed flowers on a piece of vellum and attached it behind the card panel. I heat embossed a sentiment on the black cardstock and cut out with a coordinating stripe die. I foam mount it under the die cut windows.

Also, I listed below some other little dies, which you can use for this technique.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies

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Merry Christmas with Natalia

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there! It’sΒ NataliaΒ here. Today I want to share with you my card using beautiful Studio Katia products – POINSETTIA BORDERΒ andΒ MERRY POINSETTIAΒ stamp sets. First, I stamped the cute images from theΒ Merry Poinsettia Clear Stamp Set. Colored with copic markers and die cutting them withΒ coordinating dies. I blended some distress inks onto white piece of paper. Β I cut out a window in the upper panel using paper knife. Placed all the elements on the white paper panel using double-sided foam tape. Die cutting word Merry fromΒ Merry Poinsettia Clear Stamp Set. I stamped word Christmas gold heat embossed. I mounted my panel onto white card base using foam and finished my card. I added some Β CLEAR DROPS MIX TWO for a finishing touch.

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

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

POINSETTIA BORDER

MERRY POINSETTIA

MERRY POINSETTIA DIES

Β CLEAR DROPS MIX TWO

Quick and Elegant Christmas Card by Tracey

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards

Hi crafty peeps, it’s Tracey here today and I have a really quick and easily reproducible Christmas card to share. We are getting to crunch time now and it seems no matter how early I start making Christmas cards in the year, I never seem to have enough.

I used the Poinsettia Border stamp set to create my card today using some coloured cardstock, embossing and ink blending. Simple design but also very elegant.

I started with a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of red cardstock. I used my anti static tool all over the red cardstock so that I could prevent stray embossing powder sticking where it shouldn’t. Next I stamped and white embossed the poinsettia border in the upper left corner of my card. The sentiment from the same set was built with the “Merry” script stamps and Christmas in the sans serif font from the same in the bottom right.

My very simple card design was pretty, but it seemed to be missing something. I added some dimension by ink blending Black Soot Distress Oxide ink in from the corners on the red embossed panel using Studio Katia Blending Brushes. I used a very light hand to build to shading up slowly. Remember to can always add more but you can’t take it away.

To add a bit of sparkle to the front of the card I sprayed it with Sparkle Shimmer Spritz. It didn’t want to smile for the camera, but trust me it added a bit of elegance. To add a bit more to the card front without going overboard I added some Studio Katia Wine Berry Pearls over top of the berries on the poinsettia using Studio Katia glue. I used the two smallest pearl sizes and grouped them in three.

Thank you so much for stopping in today. Good luck getting those last minute cards done!

Supplies:
Poinsettia Border stamp set
Studio Katia Wine Berry pearls
Studio Katia Blending Brushes
Studio Katia Embellishment wand
Studio Katia Round Stamping block
Studio Katia glue

Clean and simple masculine card with Kaja

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I decided to take a break from Christmas cards and make a masculine card for a friend.

Take a look:

It has been a while since I made a clean and simple card with a masculine feel to it, so it was about time to make one! πŸ™‚ I started making this card by stamping out and coloring the cacti from Cactus hugs stamp set. I used three different shapes of cactus which will then help me creating a simple scene. To color it in, I used typical colors, so the card looks even cleaner.

Next, I ink blended my background for which I used three colors of blue distress oxide ink and wonderful Studio Katia brushes. I started with dark color at the top and then blend it out with the middle and lightest shade. Once I was happy with the ombe that I got, I sprinkled some white paint on to, to make sure that the background goes nicely with my card.

Then, I took a piece of white card stock in the size of my card base and die cut an oval from Elegant scalopped oval dies set. I positioned it towards the top of the paper, which ensures that I have a big amount of white left at the bottom. I then glued the die cut piece directly over the ink blended background.

The last thing I added to this card was a sentiment that reads ‘Thinking of you’ and can be found in Potted plants stamp set. I used black ink on white card stock, so the sentiment doesn’t pop up too much.

The only thing left to do was to glue everything together using glue and double sided foam tape!

This finishes up this clean and simple masculine card! Let me know in the comments which SK stamp set do you use most for these kind of cards!

Hugs,

Kaja

SUPPLIES:
β€’ Studio Katia – CACTUS HUGS
β€’ Studio Katia – POTTED PLANTS
β€’ Studio Katia dies – ELEGANT SCALOPPED OVAL
β€’ Studio Katia dies – CACTUS HUGS
β€’ Studio Katia – GLUE
β€’ Studio Katia – DOUBLE SIDED TAPE

Poinsettia on vellum with Kaja

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I created a card with a technique I haven’t used in a while. Can you guess which one?

Take a look:

I started making this card by stamping out the Poinsettia trimmings stamp on a piece of vellum. Since vellum doesn’t really absorb the ink and it takes for ever to dry, I put some clear embossing powder over the stamped image and heat set it. I made sure that I was using a very thick vellum that doesn’t worp a lot when being heat set.

After preparing the stamped image, I started coloring it on the back side of the vellum. You could do it on the either side, but I wanted to have a really soft colors so I decided to color on the back. I used two shades of red and a green alcohol markers to do so. Once the image was colored in, I decided to trim around it using my scissors. I felt like something was missing, so I added some white gel pen details which make the finished image more interesting.

Next, I put a piece of dark red cardstock on the background on which I draw a white edge using a white gel pen. I then glued the vellom piece on to the background using liquid glue. Since there is many things going on, you can bearly see the glue that I used. My only recomendation here would be to make sure that you are putting the glue directly over the colored part, since the liquid glue applied directly on the clear vellum can show quite a lot.

The last thing I added was the sentiment and this time I went with a simple ‘Merry Christmas’. I used the Chunky alphabet dies for the word ‘Merry’ and then I embossed the word ‘Christmas’ from the Poinsettia trimmings stamp set directly into the background using white embossing powder. I used white color for both words to ensure enough contrast on my card.

I then glued everything together using liquid glue and the card was finished in no time!

Thank you so much for joining me!

Kaja

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