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Shaped jewel crystal frames

December 29, 2020 / 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

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?id=f5e8378456858c916708

Merry Christmas with Natalia

December 18, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. Today I want to share with you my card using beautiful Studio Katia products – POINSETTIA BORDER and MERRY POINSETTIA stamp sets.

First, I stamped the cute images from the Merry Poinsettia Clear Stamp Set. Colored with copic markers and die cutting them with coordinating dies.

I blended some distress inks onto white piece of paper. 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 from 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 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

CLEAR DROPS MIX TWO

Quick and Elegant Christmas Card by Tracey

December 9, 2020 / 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

December 7, 2020 / 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! 🙂 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:
• Studio Katia – CACTUS HUGS
• Studio Katia – POTTED PLANTS
• Studio Katia dies – ELEGANT SCALOPPED OVAL
• Studio Katia dies – CACTUS HUGS
• Studio Katia – GLUE
• Studio Katia – DOUBLE SIDED TAPE

Poinsettia on vellum with Kaja

November 25, 2020 / 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

SUPPLIES:

Studio Katia – POINSETTIA TRIMMINGS
Studio Katia dies – CHUNKY ALPHABET
Studio Katia – GLUE

CAS Slimline Merry and Bright Holiday Card

November 12, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Winter Holidays

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Hey Everyone!

You know what I love? Slimline cards and the amazing scenes you can create with all the extra real estate! You know what I hate? Taking photos of them especially for Instagram purposes because they don’t fit nicely in the IG grid! Oh well, I guess it will be a love-hate relationship!

So enough venting, and let’s get on with this fun rainbow inspired CAS Slimline Holiday Card.

CARD DETAILS

To begin, I die cut two of the Slimeline frames using the DOTTED SLIMLINE – SET 2, the scalloped one from white paper, and the larger one from a silver glitter paper.

I then placed the scalloped frame in the Misti and did some repeat stamping of these darling twig trees from the HAPPY SNOWMEN stamp set in rainbow colors using Distress Oxide Inks.

Next, I stamped out the greeting by combining a few sentiments from the HAPPY SNOWMEN and the CRAFTASTIC stamps sets.

To finish off this pretty Merry and Bright card, I added coordinating rainbow pearls along the trees. See links below for the complete list of colors used.

I really love how this colorful card turned out. Plus, the best part was how simple this card was to make!

Thank you for stopping by and until next time… Happy Crafting!

xox, Ilda

Connect with me also on my Blog, Facebook Page, Instagram, and YouTube

SUPPLIES

DOTTED SLIMLINE – SET 2 Shop at: SK	HAPPY SNOWMEN Shop at: SK	CRAFTASTIC Shop at: SK	BUBBLEGUM PEARLS Shop at: SK
RIPE PERSIMMON PEARLS Shop at: SK	LEMON BURST PEARLS Shop at: SK	MOSS GREEN PEARLS Shop at: SK	BORA BORA PEARLS Shop at: SK
BLUEBELL PEARLS Shop at: SK	AMETHYST PEARLS Shop at: SK	TRIANGLE TRAY Shop at: SK	EMBELLISHMENT WAND Shop at: SK
STUDIO KATIA GLUE Shop at: SK	FOAM TAPE – WHITE Shop at: SK	BLACK FOAM TAPE Shop at: SK	Cardstock SILVER GLITTER Shop at: SSS
Neenah 80 LB SOLAR WHITE Shop at: SSS \| AMZ	GEMINI JR. DIE CUTTER Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SB	ORIGINAL MISTI Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SB \| HBS	Oxide Ink Pad PICKED RASPBERRY Shop at: SSS \| SB \| HBS
Oxide Ink Pad FOSSILIZED AMBER Shop at: SSS \| SB \| HBS	Oxide Ink Pad CARVED PUMPKIN Shop at: SSS \| SB \| HBS	Oxide Ink Pad MOWED LAWN Shop at: SSS \| SB \| HBS	Oxide Ink Pad PEACOCK FEATHERS Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SB \| HBS
Oxide Ink Pad SALTY OCEAN Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| HBS	Oxide Ink Pad WILTED VIOLET Shop at: SSS \| SB \| HBS	ARCTIC WHITE POWDER Shop at: SSS \| IO3	ATELIER SHARK TOOTH Shop at: SSS \| IO3

Happy Birthday with Emily

November 4, 2020 / 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

November 3, 2020 / 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

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?id=f5e8378456858c916708

Kobi says ‘Congratulations’ with Kaja

October 29, 2020 / 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:

Studio Katia – PEONY TRIMMINGS
Studio Katia – KOBI’S HUGS & KISSES
Studio Katia – POTTED PLANTS
Studio Katia dies – KOBI’S HUGS & KISSES
Studio Katia dies – RECTENGULAR DOTS COVER
Studio Katia dies – DOTTED OVALS
Studio Katia – INK BLENDING BRUSHES
Studio Katia – DOUBLE SIDED TAPE – WHITE
Studio Katia – GLUE

Let It Snow – Snowflake Card

October 28, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Winter Holidays

Hello Friends, Ilda Here. I hope you are having a wonderful week so far.

Have you had your first snowfall yet? Here in Edmonton, we have and it looks like it may be here to stay. So as the song goes “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!” and as you can see it was my inspiration for today’s card.

CARD DETAILS

To begin, I began by blending out the background using the SNOWFLAKE STENCIL and a few inks from Ink On 3 with the INK BLENDER BRUSHES.

Next, I stamped out the SNOWFLAKES in a random pattern onto the background using a Sticky Embossing Powder and sprinkled the SPARKLE GLITTER to stick to the areas.

Now that the background was done, I then stamped out one of the cute snowmen from the HAPPY SNOWMEN colored him in using Copics, and then die cut him out using the coordinating dies.

To finish this Happy Card I repeat stamped the sentiment and then die cut it with one of the banners from the PEONY TRIMMINGS DIES, added some glossy accents to the button and the nose.

Hope this cute winter card inspired you today. Thank you for stopping by and until next time… Happy Crafting!

Hugs, Ilda

Connect with me also on my Blog, Facebook Page, Instagram, and YouTube

SUPPLIES

SNOWFLAKE STENCIL Shop at: SK	SNOWFLAKES Shop at: SK	HAPPY SNOWMEN Shop at: SK	HAPPY SNOWMEN DIES Shop at: SK
PEONY TRIMMINGS DIES Shop at: SK	INK BLENDER BRUSHES Shop at: SK	SPARKLE GLITTER Shop at: SK	STUDIO KATIA GLUE Shop at: SK
FOAM TAPE – WHITE Shop at: SK	ORIGINAL MISTI Shop at: SSS \| SB \| HBS	Neenah 80 LB SOLAR WHITE Shop at: SSS \| AMZ	BLACKOUT INK Shop at: SSS \| HBS \| IO3
COPIC SKETCH Shop at: AMZ	GEMINI JR. DIE CUTTER Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SB	Sticky Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SB	ATELIER TRINITY TEAL Shop at: IO3
ATELIER SWEET PETUNIA Shop at: IO3	GLOSSY ACCENTS Shop at: SSS \| SB \| HBS