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Glittery Starry Sky with Olga

/ CATEGORIES - Hello Cards, New Release, Theme Week

Hello Studio Katia friends! Today I am sharing a card I made using Studio Katia Sparkling Stars Confetti Glitter. Don’t you love those tiny iridescent stars glitter? I am in complete awe with it! It can embellish anything with these stars!

I was inspired to make a starry sky background for the images from Whimsical Town Stamp Set. And I absolutely love the result I got. You can see every single star in the background which makes this town scene just magical.

I started working on my card by stamping three houses, a tree, a bush, a trash can, a mailbox and three clouds onto white paper. I colored all these images with alcohol markers and die cut them with Coordinating Dies.

To create glitery background for my card I wanted to do something special, something magical. First I ink blended a panel with pink and purple shades and die cut an oval out of it using Dotted Ovals Creative Dies. I wanted to make it look like a window, so I cut off a bit at the bottom.

Now time to do some magic! I covered oval panel with water-based glue and sprinkled it with star glitter. I let it dry and cleaned off the excess. So simple to make, but what an impressive look it created!

Next I foam mounted all of the images to create a town scene.

Do you like this card? Let me know what you think.

Have a great day!

Olga

Supplies:

Sparkling Stars | Confetti Glitter

Whimsical Town | Clear Stamp Set

Whimsical Town | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Ovals | Creative Dies

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Whimsical Town with Galina

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Hello Cards

Hi guys!

Today I want to share with you two cards with same scene but different color combo. For both cards I used Whimsical town stamp set.

First one with dusk scene.

I started with stamping two houses on the left corner of my white card panel. I drew a hill by hand, using black copic liner. Also I stamped small details such as birds, little ship etc. I used memento black ink for all images, because I wanted to color them with alcohol markers.

I created sky with sun using few colors of distress ink, I used distress inks to colour the hill, too. Only the sea was colored with copic markers.

Using biggest oval die I die cut a window in other card panel and glued it onto my background with foam adhesive.

My second card I created in the same way but with different colors. I tried to create soft dawn scene.

Supplies:

Whimsical Town | Clear Stamp Set

Mini Stamping Block | Essentials

Mini MISTI by My Sweet Petunia

Dotted Ovals | Creative Dies

 

Oh, hello paw-some friend! with Olga

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Hello Cards

Hello, friends! Olga here. I have a fun project for a friend to share today. I was playing with the Best Friends Stamp Set I and created a picture with these cute furry friends which looks like a framed artwork hanging on the wall.

To create this image I used black ink and my MISTI tool to stamp all furry friends onto white cardstock. Then I colored the images with my Copic markers.

Next, using Dotted Patterns: Set 2 Creative Dies I die cut a white and craft frame for the image, as well as the image itself. I combined all die cuts together and voila! my framed artwork is done.

I foam mounted my framed image onto a card base and added a sentiment at the bottom and two little phrases on the sides of the frame.

I added Gold Crystals in every corner of the frame to imitate the look of nails holding the picture on the wall. Also, I just had to add googly eyes to make my card look cute and fun.

Thank you so much for joining me today! I hope I was able to inspire you!

SUPPLIES:

Best Friends | Clear Stamp Set

Dotted Patterns: Set 2 | Creative Dies

Gold | Crystals

Best friends with Natalia

/ 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 of all I stamped this set on paper for alcohol markers and colored everything in brown shades with Copic Sketch and Touch Twin. Cut everything of with usual scissors by contour.

Next I inked the panel with distress inks in pink, peach and yellow shades. I cut out a panel using Dotted Patterns Set – 1 and heat embossed a sentiment with white embossing powder on the top of my inked panel once it was completely dry.

Using foam tape, I adhered cut out “friends” to the inked panel. I mounted the panel on some foam to add more dimension to my card. And that’s it, card is ready.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

SUPPLIES:

Best Friends | Clear Stamp Set

Dotted Patterns Set – 1 | Creative Dies

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Cover Plate: 4 Ways with Natalia

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Hello Cards, Shaker Cards

Hello, everyone. Natalia here. I love using cover plate dies in my projects and today I want to share with you four fun ways of using Dotted Patterns: Loops | Creative Dies. There are many more ways to use this die, but today I would like to show you my favorites.

1. Frame

This die set includes a frame die, which I like to use separately from cover plate, because this frame can be used by itself in any project. In this project though I used a frame die from Dotted Patterns Set – 1 | Creative Dies set to create a frame with windows. For this card I inked a panel with blue shades of distress inks. Next I cut the frame out of grey cardstock. I stamped Together We Bloom | Clear Stamp Set on vellum with white and golden embossing powder and die cut everything using coordinating dies. I heat embossed the sentiment from Blooming Bunch | Clear Stamp Set on black cardstock using white embossing powder and cut it out with scissors. I adhered everything together and decorated with Clear Round Drops.

2. Using negative

First I inked the panel with mint and pink shades of distress inks of mint. Next I heat embossed images from Floral Trimmings | Clear Stamp Set using white embossing powder. I die cut circles using cover die from Dotted Patterns: Loops | Creative Dies and a smaller white panel using die from Dotted Patterns Set – 1 | Creative Dies. I glued circles to the white panel and adhered it onto a card base. I heat embossed words best and ever from Best Ever | Clear Stamp Set on a light grey cardstock and word friend on black cardstock using white embossing powder. To finish it off I added some Clear Round Drops.

3. Shaker

I inked a panel with different shades of distress inks. Next I stamped images from Hello Alice and colored it with alcohol markers. I stamped puddle image onto a piece of vellum using silver embossing powder and die cut all the images with coordinating dies.

Next I die cut a window panel using cover plate from Dotted Patterns: Loops | Creative Dies from both inked panel and white foam. I filled my shaker with gorgeous Studio Katia embellishments.

I have put all the elements of my shaker together and added a white on black heat embossed sentiment from And The Fox Says | Clear Stamp Set.

4. Partial die-cutting

I inked a panel with mint shades of distress inks. Next I marked a middle on the cover die from Dotted Patterns: Loops | Creative Dies with washi tape, which helped me to cut windows only in lower part of the panel. I created a shaker using white foam and filled it with 3MM Majestic Sequins. Next I heat embossed a bouquet image onto a piece of vellum using white embossing powder and fussy cut it by hand. I heat embossed a sentiment from And The Fox Says | Clear Stamp Set using silver embossing powder on grey cardstock and adhered the image and the sentiment strip onto my card.

A friendship card with Laura

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Hello Cards

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here, with a friendship card I made using the Hello Alice stamp set and the Dotted Patterns Fancy Squares Creative dies. Because the kitty image in this set is so cute – and because I am a bit of a cat lady 😉 – I thought it would be fun to create a card with a crowd of sweet cats. So I stamped a bunch of kittens as well as the little girl in the set on some Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored them with Spectrum Noir and Copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut out all the images.

I then cut some watercolor cardstock using the Dotted Patterns Fancy Squares Creative dies. I blended Distress Oxides in Faded Jeans and Salty Ocean on the inside panel, and for some extra interest I added some water splashes and some white droplets.
For the outside frame I used Distress Oxides in Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserves. In order to add some fun details I repeatedly stamped the hearts trio in the Hello Alice stamp set using Seedless Preserves.

Finally, I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder on some black cardstock and adhered everything on a square card base.
And that’s it for today! I really hope you liked this card, and I hope I inspired you to create using the sweet Hello Alice stamp set. Thank you all so much for stopping by, and have a great day!

Laura

SUPPLIES

Hello Alice | Clear Stamp Set
Hello Alice | Coordinating Die Set
Dotted Patterns: Fancy Square | Creative Dies
Round Stamping Block

Hello There Mini Shaker with Svetlana

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Hello Cards, Shaker Cards

Hi there, I have a floral card for you today. I can’t wait for spring. How about you?I started by stamping the floral from Blooming Bunch onto the watercolor paper. I used ZIG markers to color the image. These markers are great to use on large florals, they are easy to use and it’s doesn’t take a lot of time. To add a little more detail to the card I decided to create a mini shakers, I die cut 3 hearts from Mini Tags Set 1.

Filled the shaker with Silver Dust Seed Beads and Clear Dust Seed Bead. Added the sentiment Hello There from the same stamp set and adhered it to the card. To finish off the card, I added Clear Round Drops 4MM and 5MM.

Thanks for stopping by, Svetlana!

SUPPLIES:
Blooming Bunch | Clear Stamp Set
Mini Tags 1 | Creative Dies
Seed Beads
Clear Round Drops

Floral Trimmings With Tracy

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

Happy New Year everyone ! I hope you all had a lovely festive season.

For today’s card I wanted to share a card I created using the Floral Trimmings Stamp Set.

This set is utterly gorgeous and so versatile. I wanted to show that you don’t need to colour the stamped image for it to be beautiful.

I started off creating an A2 card out of Simon Says Stamp Fog card and then I stamped straight onto the card base using Clear ink and heat embossed the stamp pieces using Rose Gold embossing powder.

As you can see due to the detailed stamp they look beautiful just stamped.

I then die cut the Hello die from the You’re So Ranunculus set. To give more dimension and to also add a shadow detail I die cut one piece from rose gold card and the rest from White Neenah card. I used Matte Adhesive to adhere them together, making sure to slightly offset them to give the shadow detail.

When it was dry I adhered it to the card and used the You’re So Lovely stamp from the You’re So Ranunculus stamp set and stamped in grey under the die cut piece.

To finish off I added some Rose Gold Sequins.

I love how this turned out and it can be used for so many occasions and the colours can be changed to suit….although I am obsessed with Grey and Rose Gold together at the moment.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope I have given you some inspiration and once again Happy New year.

Happy Crafting!

Tracy

SUPPLIES:

Floral Trimmings | Clear Stamp Set

You’re So Ranunculus | Coordinating Die Set

Rose Gold Fusion

Spectacular Hello with Svetlana

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Hello Cards

Hi everyone!

Today I’ve prepared a card with some of my favorite stamps. I used Thank You So Much with coordinating dies and for the background I used Brush Stroke Stripes.

To start I’ve stamped the floral image twice using MISTI to the front and to the inside base of the card and colored inside image with COPIC markers.

I’ve used MISTI stamping tool again to make the stripe background on the top panel of the card, once it was stamped I use a coordinating dies from Thank You So Much set to die cut the floral window.

For the sentiment I die cut Hello sentiment from the You’re So Ranunculus coordinating die set, and added a You’re Spectacular sentiment from And the Fox Says… stamp set.

To finish off the card I’ve added a few Clear Round Drops.

The card is complete, thank you for stopping by.

Svetlana

 

 

Five Ways to Use Kobi the Birthday Bear with Kelly

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, Guest Designer, Hello Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi Folks! I’m Kelly from Notable Nest. I was excited to meet Katia at Creativation this year, as I think she has one of the hottest new lines of stamps in our industry! It’s always exciting to see new companies come on to the scene, and even moreso when they have such fun and fresh products.
One of the stamp sets I was dying to play with is the Kobi the Birthday Bear set. My personal goal this year is to make more birthday cards for all the littles in my life (nieces, nephews, cousins’ kids, friends’ kids), and this set is perfect for that. I was happy to find there are many other options available, so I decided to collect them together for a “5 Ways” post. Let’s take a look!
 5 WAYS TO USE KOBI THE BIRTHDAY BEAR

1. Use all the Accessories
I have to admit, sometimes I get a little lazy and just focus on the main image of a set, but I really do love the look of a card that includes all the secondary images and accessories. If you keep the coordinating dies attached, and line up all the related stamps on your MISTI, you can stamp them and cut them all at once. Really not much more time required. For this card, I think I’m only missing the tiny bee stamp and a slice of cake, but everything else is included.The panel from Dotted Patterns Set – 1 is just the right size to fit Kobi and all of his birthday accessories. The dotted details on the edges give it a nice depth. I cut a second panel from green patterned paper, cut it in half, and layered that on top of the main white panel to give Kobi a place to sit.
I’m also madly in love with the Tropical Forest Fusion sequin mix! I use a lot of greens, so the color is perfect for me, but I also appreciate all the different shades of green and sizes of sequins that are included. For a bag of green sequins, you certainly get your money’s worth here!

2. Turn Kobi into a Polar Bear
Kobi doesn’t always have to be a cute, cuddly brown teddy bear. Just let him be a white polar bear. Not only do you save yourself some coloring effort, but now you have the perfect focal point for your Christmas cards!

The bow from Dotted Patterns Set – 1 looks right at home on this Christmas card when cut from red foil, and is the right size to make Kobi more festive. The sentiments are from the Happy set, which is a great compliment to the Kobi set, as you can see how the secondary words are all the same size and font. 

3. Make a Partner for Kobi in Reverse
I wanted to make an anniversary card, but was stumped on how to do this with a single bear. Stamping another bear was a possibility, but I really wanted them facing each other and interacting, like a couple would be on their anniversary. I remembered my old reverse-a-stamp block, which is just a solid piece of rubber that you stamp on, and then stamp again on your piece of paper. Voila…a reversed image! Since it’s a second generation stamp the lines are often lighter and broken, so I just run over the stamped image with a felt pen. For the die I just stamped on the back side of the die.

In addition to the Kobi and Happy sets, I used the Brush Stroke Stripes to quickly create the yellow background. The Majestic Fusion sequin mix is great to use when I want a little something additional, but don’t want to introduce another color.
 

4. Just Use a Portion of Kobi
As cute as Kobi is, a good way to mix things up is to only use a portion of the image. Here, I’ve just stamped his head on a circle die from Dotted Patterns Set – 1. I made a couple snips along the “DON’T WORRY BE” stamp so I could curve it around the circle, and did the same with the “happy” stamp.
The panel is also worth mentioning …

I made it by lining up the gift card die from Dotted Patterns Set – 1 along a curve and cutting it twice. Who knew, it makes the cutest little scalloped panel?!?
 The fun, iridescent purple flowers dressing up Kobi are from the Siberian Iris flowers.

5. Stamp a Whole Family of Kobis
Finally, why not make a lot of Kobis by stamping and masking? We have 4 people in our family, so anytime I make multiples of a critter I usually make 4 of them to represent everyone in our family. I think it makes more sense for the recipient to see 4 bears when they read the sentiment “you make US happy.”Here’s a quick tip when making multiples from one stamp … make sure to rotate the image slightly in different directions each time you stamp it so they look more like different bears. For the panel on the bottom I forgot to do this for the 3 bears on the right, and you can really tell they are the exact same image repeated. For the top panel I rotated the stamp each time so they look a little more varied.Even though I wasn’t thrilled with the bottom panel, I didn’t want to waste it, so I colored it in quickly and made a simple card from it. On the top card I stamped “happy” several times on the card base before adhering the panel of bears.

Well folks, that wraps up our post showing five different ways to use the utterly charming Kobi the Birthday Bear. And, as you can see, he’s clearly not limited to just birthday cards. In this post we’ve covered birthday, holidays, anniversary, encouragement, and a general thank you. I hope you’ve gotten some ideas on how to create several cards with different looks from this one set.
Thanks very much to Katia for inviting me today! I had a lot of fun!
-Kelly