STUDIO KATIA

DESIGN BLOG

Two square cards with Olga Moss

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Halloween, Winter Holidays

Hello there! Olga here, and today I want to show you two simple yet very cute cards.

Have a meowy Halloween! I love this sentiment from our last release. I decided to make a background using this sentiment. I stamped it with light orange color all over background except for one, which I stamped in black. I also stamped, coloured and cut out a cat, two spiderwebs, two pumpkins, a small lamp and a bottle. I adhered all images using foam tape. Lastly, I added few sequins from Vintage Sheer Fusion. The accent on the spiderwebs – silhouette of a cat – is a sequin from the Wicked Fusion.

My second project for today is a quick and simple card using stamps from Winter Kobi set.

I started working on this card by stamping Kobi, his hat and Christmas lights. I colored and die cut the images.

To create a background for my card I dry embossed a circle frame using a die from the Dotted Balloones Creative Dies set on white cardstock and inked the inside of it with Distress Cracked Pistachio. I adhered this panel onto a card base and foam mounted Kobi holding Christmas lights.

I stamped a Joy sentiment from Sweet Holiday stamp set on a small white banner from Dotted Paterns: Scallop Frame creative dies and foam mounted it onto my card. Finally, I embellished the card with some Iridescent Clear Crystals.

Have a great day!

Olga

SUPPLIES:

Meowy Halloween | Clear Stamp Set

Winter Kobi | Clear Stamp Set

Sweet Holiday | Clear Stamp Set

Winter Kobi | Coordinating Dies

Meowy Halloween | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Balloons | Creative Dies

Dotted Patterns: Nested Squares | Creative Dies

Dotted Patterns: Scallop Frame | Creative Dies

Iridescent Clear Crystals | Mix

Vintage Sheer Fusion

Wicked Fusion

Meowy Halloween with Kristina

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Halloween

Hello everyone! Kristina here, and today I want to show you two cards I made with Meowy Halloween stamp set.

For my first card, I started by stamping a few pumpkins, using masking technique. Next I used wet on wet watercolor technique, I applied pink and blue colors where the sky should be, above the pumpkins. When it was all dry I moved to the bottom part of the background and applied green and brown colors.

 

While my background was drying I stamped the cat and few more pumpkins, cut them out with coordinating dies and colored with Copics. Once all the images were ready I’ve adhered them using foam tape and mounted the whole panel on a kraft card base. To finish my card I’ve added a small Boo speech bubble from Kobi the Grim Reaper set.

For my second card, I blended purple, blue and yellow distress inks on white paper onto the panel and sprinkled it with water. I also colored Kitty and pumpkins with Copics. I stamped the sentiment with white embossing powder on a strip of black cardstock and added the moon from Kobi the Grim Reaper stamp set.

 I’ve adhered it all using foam tape and mounted the panel on a white card base.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Kristina

SUPPLIES

Meowy Halloween | Clear Stamp Set

Meowy Halloween | Coordinating Dies

Kobi the Grim Reaper | Clear Stamp Set

Kobi the Grim Reaper | Coordinating Dies

Save

Trick or Treat Card with Laura

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Halloween

Hello everyone! It’s Laura here, with a fun Halloween card I made using images from the Kobi the Grim Reaper stamp set.

To start off my card I stamped my images on some Neenah Solar White cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and colored them in with my Spectrum Noir markers. I then cut them using coordinating dies. I also used my craft knife to cut some slits around Kobi’s paws, so that I could slide the scythe right through.

For my background I did some ink blending on a piece of heavyweight white cardstock with Distress Oxides: I used Faded Jeans, Seedless Preserves, Worn Lipstick and Wild Honey. I created a distressed look by adding some water splashes. For the outside frame I cut some black cardstock using the Dotted Patterns – Fancy Square die and did some more ink blending with Distress Oxides in Iced Spruce and Black Soot. I stamped a little spider on the background, as if it was hanging from the frame, and adhered everything in place using some white glue.

And that’s it for today’s card! I really hope you like it and hope I inspired you to create a fun Halloween card using the Kobi the Grim Reaper stamp set!
Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day!

Laura

 

SUPPLIES

Kobi the Grim Reaper | Clear Stamp Set

Kobi the Grim Reaper | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Patterns – Fancy Square | Creative Dies

Kobi the Magician with Svetlana

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Halloween

Hi, Svetlana here and today I have a magical interactive card, Magician Kobi and his magical hat. He casts a spell and pulls a cute kitty out of the hat.
To create this card I used three sets: Kobi the Grim Reaper, Meowy Halloween and Hello Alice. I started by stamping all the images on cardstock and coloring them with distress markers. I used coordinating dies to die cut the images. For my background I blended purple and yellow distress inks and added splashes of water.

Next I started adhering images onto the card. I used craft knife to cut out the ‘channel’ for the cat’s movement. And I’ve put everything together in such a way, so that when you pull the small tab on the top of the card, magician Kobi will pull a kitty out of the hat.

For the accents I’ve added some Sparkling Crystals.

Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

Svetlana

SUPPLIES:

Kobi the Grim Reaper | Clear Stamp Set

Sweet Holiday | Coordinating Dies

Meowy Halloween | Clear Stamp Set

Meowy Halloween | Clear Stamp Set

Hello Alice | Bundle

Hello Alice | Clear Stamp Set

Hello Alice | Coordinating Die Set

Sparkling Crystals | Mix

Majestic Fusion

Holiday Cards with Guest Designer Michelle

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Guest Designer, Halloween, Winter Holidays

Hello there, Michelle here and I am delighted to be Guest Designing with Studio Katia. I have two cards to share with you today. My first card uses the adorable Meowy Halloween Stamp Set and coordinating dies.

I started off by stamping the kitty from the set on to white cardstock. I coloured her using Copic Markers and then cut her out using coordinating dies. I took a panel of white cardstock and cut an aperture from it using one of the dies from the Dotted Pattern: Scallop Frames Die Set. I then stamped the sentiment below the aperture with black ink.

On to a piece of Bristol cardstock, I blended over purple and black Distress Inks to create a background. This piece I then adhered to the front of a black A2 card base. Next I added window panel on top with foam tape. I added the kitty to the centre, also with foam tape. To finish off, I adhered few Clear Round Drops.

—————-

My next card uses the adorable Winter Kobi Stamp set and coordinating dies. Plus, the Dotted Pattern: Scallop Frames Die Set.

I started off by stamping Kobi, his sleigh and presents on some white cardstock using black ink. The images were then coloured using Copic Markers and cut out using the coordinating dies. I took a piece of white cardstock and cut it using the largest scallop die from the Dotted Pattern: Scallop Frames Die Set. I freehand cut a mask for the snow and added this to the bottom of the panel. I then blended over Broken China Distress Ink to create a soft sky background.

Next I removed the mask and added Kobi, his sleigh and presents on to a panel with foam tape. I stamped a sentiment from Friends of Winter Stamp Set using black ink. I then adhered the whole panel on to a white A2 card base with foam tape. To finish off, I added few Crystal Rainbow Confetti.

Thank you so much for visiting the blog today! I hope you have a great day!

Michelle

SUPPLIES:

Meowy Halloween | Clear Stamp Set

Meowy Halloween | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Patterns: Scallop Frame | Creative Dies

Winter Kobi | Clear Stamp Set

Winter Kobi | Coordinating Dies

Friends of Winter | Clear Stamp Set

Clear Round Drops – Mix

Crystal Rainbow | Confetti

Scary Twins with Galachko

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Halloween

Hi everyone! It’s Galina. Today I want to share with you this cute and scary couple 🙂

I use distress inks to create this background. First I cut out round mask and applied yellow ink to create a Moon, after that I removed mask and applied blue colors of distress ink.

I stamped two kitties from Meowy Halloween set and colored them with copic markers. I cut them out using coordinating dies.

I cut out a window from a dark blue panel using Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames Creative Dies. I added white outline with white gel pen. I stamped first part of the sentiment with white pigment ink on the front of the card, and second part of the sentiment – inside of the card.

Thanks for stoping by!

Have a great day,

Galina

SUPPLIES:

Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames Creative Dies

Meowy Halloween

Meowy Halloween Coordinating Dies

Save

Boo! Halloween shaker card with Natalia

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Halloween, Shaker Cards

Hello, everyone. Natalia is here. Today I want to share with you a Halloween card with a cute kitten.

My today’s card is pretty simple. But thanks to sweet stamped images and beautiful sequins it looks spectacular. Or should I say spooktacular? 😉

First of all I used Dotted Patterns: Scallop Frame Creative Dies and cut 2 background panels. One panel I’ve inked with purple distress ink and cut out a window in a top right corner. This is going to be a shaker window. Second panel I’ve inked with orange distress ink (I want my die cut window to look like a Moon).

Next I stamped images from Meowy Halloween set using Memento ink. I also stamped pumpkins, spider and “Boo” from Kobi the Grim Reaper set. I colored everything with Touch Twin Brush alcohol markers and die cut using coordinating dies. I arranged and adhered all die cut images to the front panel and filled the shaker with Crystal Clear Confetti and Majestic Sequins. And my super cute and beautiful shaker card is ready.

Thanks for stopping by.

Natalia

Halloween Shaker Card with Rowena

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Halloween, Shaker Cards

Hello there!

Rowena here with a fun Halloween shaker card featuring the ‘Meowy Halloween’ stamp set. I just had to make another Halloween card, as it’s fast approaching! This set is way too cute!

To start, I colored the cat, web and pumpkins with my copic markers. I used a copic friendly ink (memento tuxedo black ink) and then die cut the images using coordinating dies. The die for the kitty cuts the hand so it could hold any item, just like the cute pumpkin pail. The stamp set comes with so many tiny images the kitty can hold! Too cute right?!

For the background, I blended black soot and dusty concord distress inks. I die cut the square panel to create the shaker portion using ‘Dotted Pattern-Nested Square’ and added Halloween sequins.

I adhered my images and added a sentiment using white heat embossing directly on the card. That finishes my card for today!

Hope you all got inspired and till next time!

Happy crafting,

Rowena

SUPPLIES:
Meowy Halloween | Clear Stamp Set

Meowy Halloween | Coordinating Dies

Wicked Fusion

Fall + Winter Release Preview – Day 1!

/ CATEGORIES - Autumn/Fall Cards, Halloween, New Release, Sneak Peek

Hello and welcome to Day 1 of our Fall+Winter Release Preview Week. This release includes 7 new clear stamp sets and coordinating dies, 4 new stand alone Creative Dies and 9 new embellishments! Yay!

During next four days we will reveal some of the newest products and our designers will be sharing with you their gorgeous creations using stamps, dies and embellishments which will be fully revealed and available for purchase this Friday, September 15th.

These Fall and Winter themed products will be available On September 15th!

And now enjoy beautiful creations from our fabulous designers!

Hi it’s Rowena here and I’m very excited to have my very first post as a design team member for Studio Katia. Today I created a fun Halloween card featuring ‘Kobi the Grim Reaper’ stamp set illustrated by Zlatina Gocheva.

I stamp all my images with memento tuxedo black ink and colored them with copics. I then fussy cut each images, this set came with matching dies but I wanted to make them stand out from my background.

For the night sky I blended some distress inks. I used: abandoned coral, seedless preserves, chipped sapphire, and black soot. I cut a black cardstock to use as my ground. Adhered everything with foam tape and that finishes the card. Thanks for stopping by and till next time!!

 

Hello Studio Katia fans, Amanda here today with my very first project as a Design Team member. I can honestly say my eyes lit up when I saw this amazing Meowy Halloween Stamp and die set.

I started by working on the background for my card. (You can read all the details on how I achieved the night sky look on my blog.) Once that was finished, I stamped, die cut and Copic colored and glued down all my images from the Meowy Halloween stamp set. I wanted to put these cute kitties in a big spooky pumpkin patch!

I then stamped a sentiment from Meowy Halloween onto the banner die that comes in this new release die set, Dotted Patterns Scallop Frames, and popped it up with some foam tape. Lastly I added some of the green sequins from the mix, Witches Cauldron Sequin Fusion for a bit of extra sparkle.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my card, stay tuned for more inspiration during this preview week here at Studio Katia!

We hope you have enjoyed this look at Kobi The Grim Reaper & Coordinating Dies and Meowy Halloween & Coordinating Dies! Remember to stop by the blog tomorrow as we’ll have more new products and fabulous projects to show you!

Save

Spooky Shaker Cards with Erica!

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Halloween, Shaker Cards

Boo!! Erica on the blog today with a couple of spooktacular shaker cards.

There is a fabulous sequin fusion mix in the Studio Katia shop called Witches Cauldron Fusion and I knew I had to use it for something as soon as I saw it. These two cards both have these sequins in the shaker parts.

asset-92x-100

I started by cutting out two pieces each with the Femme Frames from Mama Elephant, in black and purple, each size in opposite colours. Taking the Stitched Loops creative die I used the same black and purple card stock and cut out six pieces in each colour as well as one in water colour paper. For this piece I used distress inks and blended two purple colours on it as well as splattered a bit of water for that lovely dotted look.

The rest of the shapes, bar one each, I glued together and set aside. The last one I used as a guide and stamped with some sentiments from the Spooky Duo Talk stamp set around it in VersaMark ink and then added clear embossing powder which I set using a heat gun. Even on dark card stock I use my anti-static powder tool to avoid random bits of embossing powder going where I don’t want it to go. This you can wipe off once you have heated up the embossing powder.

image006Turning the smaller panel upside down, I added lots of foam tape to the back and adhered it to the bigger piece. Once stable, I added the glued together pieces to the front. This will create a pocket/compartment where your sequins will go. Making a shaker card this way is a great way to avoid wonky parts.

Using the negative cut on the card stock from where I cut out the Stitched Loops Die, I traced the shape on acetate and cut that out using scissors. This piece I glued to the last shape left, this part will be the ‘roof’ of the shaker compartment. After adding a good sprinkle of sequins to each compartment, I glued on the top part.

image008

To make it even spookier, I also added six pairs of 4mm Googly Eyes all over the cards.
Finally, the finished panels were added to card bases. I used black card stock for the bases and cut out a white piece of card stock to go inside so you can write a message.

I hope these cards have inspired you to get some Halloween crafting done. Have a spooktacular Halloween and don’t eat too many sweets!

Trick or treat!

Erica

Artboard 2

Witches Cauldron Sequins Fusion

Stitched Loops Creative Dies

Spooky Duo Talk Clear Stamp Set

Googly Eyes

 

 

Save