Thank You Cards

Sweet Peas and Polka Dots!

April 19, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today sharing a pretty in pink card with lots of texture and color. It finally feels like spring here in the Midwest, so I thought I’d celebrate with some pretty pink flowers! Let’s get started with the details.

I began by stamping and die cutting the blooms from You’re So Sweet using Copic-friendly black ink onto some white card stock, then colored it with my Copic markers and die cut them.

On the white A2 card base, I used the Large Polka Stencil and some pretty pink ink to add a bit of pattern on the background. I die cut a vellum oval using the Nested Ovals dies, as well as a black Thank You die cut using the Mini Thank You dies. I arranged the flowers over the oval, then adhered them to the oval and added some foam adhesive behind them, hiding the adhesive behind the die cuts.

After I’d added all of the die cuts to the card front, I added some beautiful Cupid’s Kiss Crystals to add some sparkle, and a bit of Glossy Accents to the die cut sentiment to make it stand out even more.

Well, that’s all for me today! I hope you’re having an awesome week. Thanks for stopping by!

Floral Wreath Shaker Card with Liliuska

April 12, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Shaker Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello Everyone! Liliuska here and today I’d have a shaker card to share with you. I made it using gorgeous FLORAL WREATH stamp set.

I started with stamping the wreath image with a very light ink, as I wanted to avoid black lines for this card. I coloured the image with coloured pencils and fussy cut it with scissors.

I die cut out a panel out of white cardstock using largest die from DARLING RIBBON & FRAMES and ran it through my die cutting machine making with an embossing mat and a BRUSH STROKE WAVES STENCIL to do dry embossing. I like that it added just a little bit of texture to my card and didn’t overwhelm the background, as I wanted to keep the focus on the coloured image.

To make a shaker I needed to cut out a window in the wreath image and was pleased to discover that a circle die from DOTTED PATTERNS SET 1 matches perfectly!

Next, I used Studio Katia GLUE to adhere acetate to the back of the wreath image. I have been using it for shakers lately and love how well it adheres acetate to the paper. I filled the shaker with GOLD FOIL CONFETTI and GOLD CRYSTALS. I used GOLD FOIL CONFETTI to embellished my card a little as well.

All I needed now was a sentiment. I die cut it out of white and gold glitter cardstock and glued together a little off so that the white was visible under the gold and would give the word thanks a little bit of a shadow. I adhered the sentiment on top of the shaker window using Studio Katia GLUE, it is my favourite liquid glue!

Hope you enjoyed my card today. Have a wonderful weekend!

Supplies:

FLORAL WREATH

DOTTED PATTERNS SET 1

DARLING RIBBON & FRAMES

A CUP OF THANKS DIES

BRUSH STROKE WAVES STENCIL

Sunset Colored Peony… with Emily

April 3, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Shaker Cards, Thank You Cards

Hi there! Emily Midgett back with you today to share a project combining some old and some new products from the Studio Katia lineup. Now, if you’ve ever visited my blog, you’ll notice something…. flowers and coloring are my jam. I can’t get enough of pretty blooms (which Studio Katia luckily has in spades), nor can I get enough of numerous coloring mediums. I am fortunate to own many different watercoloring mediums, including the Ph Martins Liquid Watercolors, which I’ve used on today’s project. I painted this peony during the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge, and couldn’t wait to use it on a project! Let’s get started with the details.

I began by stamping and clear embossing the main peony image from Japanese Peony onto some Arches cold press watercolor paper. I then used my Ph Martins liquid watercolors to add shades of coral, pink, and fuchsia purple to the peony, first by wetting the peony completely with clean water, then dropping in very diluted color for my first “layer” of color. (I am all about layers!) After the first layer had dried, I then went back in with more concentrated watercolor to add shading and shadows. Having that first layer of multiple mottled colors helps to add some variety and uniqueness to the image.

Next, I worked on my background. I began by blending two A2 sized panels using bright fuchsia, hot pink, and deep coral inks (trying to match the colors used on the flower itself). I die cut one of the blended panels using the new Grid Cover die, backing it with some acetate and foam tape to create a shaker. I then filled my shaker with Luminous Lavender Flowers, Iridescent Dust Seed Beads, Luminous Lavender Fusion sequins, and adhered it to the other blended panel.

After my shaker had been completed, it was time to add the flower and a greeting to the front. I added the Japanese Peony to the bottom of the card front, trimming off some of the foliage that hung over the edge and placing it around the top of the peony (waste not, want not!), then white embossed a greeting from Cup of Thanks onto some strips of black card stock and added them to the card front using liquid adhesive.

Well, that’s all for me today! I hope you enjoyed a bit of summer in my post today…. I’m so enjoying these longer days with more sunlight!! Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a marvelous day!

Supplies:

Japanese Peony Stamp Set

Cup of Thanks Stamp Set

Grid Cover Die

Iridescent Dust Seed Beads

Luminous Lavender Fusion

Creating Hawaiian Pattern with Galina

March 25, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Galina with you today and I am in a summer mood already! 🙂 So I have a bright pattern on the card. I was inspired by Hawaiian shirts when I was creating this card. Let’s take a look.

For this car I combined few stamps from new release. For the sentiment I used die from previous release, I love that font very much. So I started with stamping and coloring bunch of flowers, leaves and surfing boards. I colored all images with Copic markers and I use dark red pencil on flowers to add more details.

I made few clusters with those images and adhered them into blue card panel using 3d foam tape. Also I cut a black stripe and die cut a sentiment from glitter cardstock and attached them over the pattern.

With white gel pen and light blue copic markers I add accents on my pattern and my card is done!

Hope you like it! Have a great day!

Supplies:

ROUND STAMPING BLOCK | ESSENTIALS

GLUE

A Cup Of Thanks

February 20, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hey lovelies, Tracy with you today sharing a card I recently created using the A Cup Of Thanks stamp set.

I used the sentiment thanks a latte as the mug I use for my latte is actually really similar to this one so it seemed kinda fitting.

I started off stamping the image into some Neenah Solar white cardstock and then coloring it with Spectrum Noir Triblend Markers. Once it was done I used the matching die to cut the piece out.

I trimmed down some Neenah and added a very light area of pink ink to the centre and stamped the sentiment. I also added some white gel pen detailing to the flowers for added extra.

I picked out some colored card and patterned paper from my stash and trimmed them all down so that they would leave borders around the edges.

I then set about assembling the card and added some Majestic sequins to finish it card off and add some sparkle.

This is a beautiful stamp to color and I love how it turned out.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you have a great day.

Happy crafting.

Supplies used –

A Cup Of Thanks Stamp set & Die Set

Majestic Sequins

One Layer Floral Card with Erum

February 12, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hi everyone!
Erum here today with a one layer floral card!

For my card today, I have used the Lovely Blooms Stamp Set. And today I used alcohol markers to colour my image.

I started by stamping the image with alcohol marker proof ink and I also did a bit of masking to add more leaves. This made the image a lot more fuller.

Next, I coloured the images and after that, I drew a black border to show as if it was behind the floral bouquet. I do this a lot just to ground my florals.

To add a bit more interest, I used a graphite pencil, a normal writing pencil to add a bit of shadow to the floral image and then blended it out with a blending stump.

To finish off, I stamped the sentiment from A Cup of Thanks Stamp Set.

That is all for today. I hope you liked my card.

SUPPLIES:

Lovely Blooms Stamp Set

A Cup of Thanks Stamp Set

Grapeful for Your Friendship Card by Ilda

January 31, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Thank You Cards

Hello sweet Friends, Ilda here with you today! I have been dying to play around with this gorgeous Citrus Trimmings stamp set for the longest time and today I finally get to share my results. As you may know already if you have been following my work, I love all things rainbow so I thought I would use that as my color inspiration for this slimline citrus card. Gahhh, isn’t it so pretty and yummy looking!?! Summer can’t get here soon enough!

To start, I began by cutting a watercolor piece of paper 9 X 5 inches. I then stamped out one of the Citrus Trimmings stamps along the bottom of the panel using watermark ink and then heat set it with gold embossing powder. I then took the other citrus stamp and slightly overlapped the image with the previous one and stamped it out again with the watermark ink and sprinkled on the gold embossing powder. This time before I heat set the powder I took a small paintbrush and brushed off any of the overlapped embossing powder that transferred on to the previously stamped image. This just avoided masking the first image.

Next, I used Mijello Mission Gold watercolors to paint in all the images in. Since they were heat embossed it made adding water in the wells super easy to color in as it prevented color bleeding to occur. I began with the purply pink color on the left which I like to think looks like a blood orange fruit and then ended the watercolored citrus edge with the limes. As you can see I added quite a few layers of color to the images to add dimension and texture to the fruit. To do that I simply allowed each layer of color to dry before adding more color.

Once the images were all colored in and dry, I added some splatters of color using the same colors I painted with. I then trimmed the card panel to fit on to an 8.5 x 4-inch slimline card.

On a piece of black cardstock, I stamped out the sentiment in white pigment ink and heat set it with white embossing powder. I then used the small frame die from the Dotted Patterns Set 2 to die cut the sentiment. Since I wanted the sentiment strip to cut smaller than the die itself I lined it up with the top of the sentiment first and then die cut it again lining it up with the bottom ensuring that the dots all lined up before running it through the die cutting machine again. This is a great way to stretch out your dies and add that extra dotted detail around sentiment strips.

I then finished off the card by gluing on Dazzling Celery, Radiant Pinaple, and Summer Fusion sequins to the card front.

Hope you were inspired by this Grapeful for your Friendship card. I truly am “grafeful” to all that stopped by here today!

Until next time… Happy Crafting,

Ilda

SUPPLIES:

CITRUS TRIMMINGS

DOTTED PATTERNS SET 2 DIES

SUMMER FUSION

DAZZLING CELERY FUSION

RADIANT PINEAPPLE FUSION

STUDIO KATIA GLUE

TRIANGLE TRAY

A Cup of Poinsettia Wishes Christmas Card by Ilda

November 12, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello my friends, Ilda here!

Today I have a Christmas card to share with you, done in a non-traditional Christmas color palette. I wanted to use the Poinsettia Trimmings Stamp set but wanted to have fun with coloring them in other than red. I am also participating in Kathy Raccosin’s 30 Day Coloring Challenge and used this as an opportunity to learn from my coloring. I’m sure this would card would have turned out beautifully as well done in a red and green Christmas palette, but this way you can see all how fun the poinsettias look done in a variety of colors.

To make this card I began by stamping out the teacup from the Cup of Thanks set and masking off the top. I then removed the mask and did some partial stamping of the Poinsettia Trimmings stamp, by only inking the areas I wanted to stamp out and wiping off ink of any adjacent flowers before stamping out the image. Next, I used Copic Markers to color in the cup of poinsettias and then used the cup of thanks coordinating die to do a partial die cut of the cup. I then fussy cut the poinsettia area and the space in between the cup handle that I had drawn in to connect the lines that were missing. I then finished off the images by adding some silver detailing on the rim of the cup with a silver gelly roller pen and then added some silver crystals to the saucer. To the center of the poinsettias and berries, I added glossy accents.

The background was made using the Halftone Dots Cover Die and gluing that piece onto Silver Glitter cardstock.

The Silver embossed sentiment strips come from both the Cup of Thanks and the Holiday Village Stamp sets.

To complete the card, I adhered all the elements onto the card base using foam tape.

I hope you enjoyed this Cup of Poinsettia Wishes Christmas Card. Thank you all for stopping by and until next time… Happy Crafting!

Ilda

SUPPLIES:
POINSETTIA TRIMMINGS
A CUP OF THANKS

A CUP OF THANKS DIES
HOLIDAY VILLAGE | STAMP SET
HALFTONE DOTS COVER | CREATIVE DIES
STUDIO KATIA GLUE
SILVER | CRYSTALS

Thank You So Much with Rubeena

October 19, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Good morning, Studio Katia friends! Rubeena here with a simple card using lots of florals from the set, Floral Trimmings. What I love about this set is how versatile it is. It includes many images that would be perfect for border stamping, masking and covering a card base to mimic a “background stamp” or using each stamp on its own.

Since this is my first time using the set, I decided to keep it simple. I stamped one of the images on each side of a sheet of white cardstock. I colored the flowers and leaves with alcohol ink markers.

I added some details with a white gel pen for highlights. I thought the sentiment “thank you” and “so much” from Thank You So Much would be perfect. I stamped it in the center with black pigment ink and heat-embossed with clear embossing ink for added effect. I trimmed down on the sides and mounted the panel over a black folded cardbase. I finished it off with some Iridescent Gems.

I hope you were inspired to create today. Thanks so much for stopping by! 🙂

SUPPLIES

Floral Trimmings | Clear Stamp Set

Thank You So Much | Clear Stamp Set

IRIDESCENT | CRYSTALS

Flowerville Card with Natalia

October 16, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

“In a fairy town called Flowerville live Shorties – little people, who never grow taller than a small cucumber.” N. Nosov

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. I want to share with you my card using You’re So Sweet stamp set.

First I stamped the cute image from the Whismical Town and beautiful flowers from You’re So Sweet stamp sets. Colored with copic markers and die cut them with coordinating dies.

I blended some distress inks onto white piece of paper. Another piece of glitter cardstock I die cut using Dotted Patterns Simple Borders dies.

I foam mounted all the elements onto white paper panel and heat embossed the sentiment from You’re so Sweet stamp set using white embossing powder. Decorated everything with Clear Drops Mix One.

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

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

YOU’RE SO SWEET | STAMP SET

YOU’RE SO SWEET DIES

WHIMSICAL TOWN | STAMP SET

WHIMSICAL TOWN | COORDINATING DIES

SIMPLE BORDERS | CREATIVE DIES

CLEAR DROPS | MIX ONE