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Birthday Wishes with Kaja

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Floral Cards

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I made a bold glittery card that is actually really easy to make! Take a look:

 

I decided to go full glittery today, so I started by cutting out a piece of silver glitter paper. I cut it down to a size that is slightly smaller than the card base, which ensured that there will still be enough contrast on the card.

Then, I stamped out a floral image from Kind bouquet stamp set in black Copic friendly ink. First, I wanted to use red for the blooms, but I felt like it would be too Christmassy, so I ended up using dark blue shades. To make the coloring easier I used the no blend technique, where all you do is apply three shades of colors without blending.

 

I used the same coloring technique for the leaves, the only difference is that I used green shades for them.

The bloom is big enough that fills quite a lot of the background, so I decided to add a small sentiment that won’t cover too much of the remaining glitter. I went with ‘Birthday wishes’ stamp that can be found in Blooming bunch stamp set. To make it stand out, but still correspond nicely to the card, I used black ink on a piece of white paper.

I positioned the sentiment towards the right bottom side and the bouquet towards the left bottom side and glued everything together using Studio Katia glue.

That’s how simple this card is! Thank you so much for joining me! Let me know if you like making glittery cards or not. I must say that I usually forget about glitter, but when I use it I always love the result!

Hugs,

Kaja

 See-through florals

/ CATEGORIES - Floral Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Galina. Today I want to share with you a bright slimline shaker card I made using Peony Trimmings stamp set and Dotted Slimline Set 2 die set.

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

I stamped beautiful flowers twice on a piece of acetate sheet. I stamped using Stazon black ink. I cut out a white frame using a smallest and scallop dies from Dotted Slimline Set 2. I attached the acetate sheet on the back of this frame.

I applied distress inks and inks from Karin brush markers on a water color paper. I blend colors with water and paint brush. With same inks I add a lot of colorful splatters.

I cut out a black slimline panel using a largest die from the set. I glued it on a white card base and then I attached a colorful background on it. I put a Summer Sequins, Rainbow Clay dots and a few gold crystals on the card and covered them with a white frame. I used a thine foam stripes to add a dimension to the frame.

I heat embossed a sentiment on a black cardstock using a white embossing powder. I cut it out with a coordinating stripe die and attached to the card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies


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

 

 

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

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

 

 

Happy Holidays Set with Olga

/ CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello, friends. Olga here to share with you a small festive series with poinsettias from POINSETTIA BORDER stamp set. When I sat down to color these gorgeous flowers, I realized that I could not simply make one card. So I made a souvenir shaker magnet, a gift tag and some beautiful wonderful stickers that can be used to decorate envelopes, or be used to secure wrapping paper on the gifts.

First, I stamped a lot of poinsettias on coloring paper and on sticker paper and colored all the flowers with alcohol markers. It took me a while, but it was so much fun. I die cut out two poinsettia borders for the card using POINSETTIA BORDER DIES.

Next, I created a bright green background. I wanted to add snow to my background, so I used CONFETTI STENCIL and white embossing paste for that. I heat embossed a sentiment from the GIFT TAG GREETINGS: WINTER stamp set with golden embossing powder. With all the pieces ready, I could now assemble the card. To embellish the card I used GOLD SPARKLE CRYSTALS and ICY SPARKLE CRYSTALS.

To make the stickers I used simple circle die and small dotted circle from the FANCY CIRCLE die set.

For the heart shaped shaker magnet I used FANCY SCALLOP HEARTS DIES. I filled the shaker with the IRIDESCENT BUBBLES, GOLD DUST seed beads and Green seed beads. I used image from Poinsettia Border for the background of my shaker.

After making the heart shaker, I had a leftover negative die cut, so I decided to use it to make a tag. To decorate it I die cut a mini scallop heart tag and glued it onto the negative die cut from scallop heart. I embellished the tag with GOLD SPARKLE CRYSTALS and ICY SPARKLE CRYSTALS.

This whole set looks very bright and elegant. I am sure that whoever would receive this, will love all the details of this beautiful set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Olga

SUPPLIES

POINSETTIA BORDER

POINSETTIA BORDER DIES

GIFT TAG GREETINGS: WINTER

FANCY CIRCLE

FANCY SCALLOP HEARTS DIES

IRIDESCENT BUBBLES – TINY

GOLD DUST

GOLD SPARKLE CRYSTALS

ICY SPARKLE CRYSTALS

CONFETTI STENCIL

Merry Christmas with Natalia

/ 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

/ 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! 🙂 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

Merry Christmas (Buzz) with Natalia

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

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. Today I want to share with you my card using beautiful Studio Katia products – HONEY BEES , POINSETTIA BORDER and MERRY POINSETTIA stamp sets. First, I stamped the cute images from the HONEY BEES , POINSETTIA BORDER and MERRY POINSETTIA stamp sets. Colored with copic markers and die cut with coordinating dies and scissors. I made highlights using white and silver pen. Next, I blended some distress inks onto a white piece of paper. I attached flowers to the slider. Using circle die I made the window for shaker. Then I made the place for shaker using fun foam and filled it with SPARKLING CRYSTALS, ROUGE PINK CRYSTALS, PINEAPPLE DELIGHT CRYSTALS, PINK CARNATION CRYSTALS, MALLOW CRYSTALS, CRYSTAL CLEAR CONFETTI, CRYSTAL RAINBOW CONFETTI, 3M CRYSTAL CLEAR and CLEAR DUST. After that I cut the panel out of gold glitter cardstock using circle die. Next, I adhered all the elements on the ink blended paper panel using double-sided foam tape. I die cut out the words Merry out of a gold glittered cardstock using a die from MERRY POINSETTIA DIES and adhered it in the middle using double-sided foam tape.

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

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

HONEY BEES

HONEY BEES DIES

POINSETTIA BORDER

POINSETTIA BORDER DIES

MERRY POINSETTIA

MERRY POINSETTIA DIES

SPARKLING CRYSTALS

ROUGE PINK CRYSTALS

PINEAPPLE DELIGHT CRYSTALS

PINK CARNATION CRYSTALS

MALLOW CRYSTALS

CRYSTAL CLEAR CONFETTI

CRYSTAL RAINBOW CONFETTI

3M CRYSTAL CLEAR

CLEAR DUST

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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