Thank You Cards

Floral heart, masking technique + Video

August 13, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Galina with you today and I want to share with quick way how to create a big focal point element with one small stamp 🙂 Below you can find a video tutorial.

For this card I used one smal flower and sentiment from the FLORAL WREATH stamp set. I create a mask with sentiment and two flower masks. How I create this card you can see in this video

To decorate my card panel I used base die and heart die from SCALLOP HEARTS COVER. I adhere hearts on the card panel with strong liquid glue from Studio Katia

Also I add few crystals. The picker tool is very helpful when you need to embellish your card with crystal or sequins.

Hope you like this card and will try masking technique with small stamps from your stash 🙂

Have a great day!

Supplies

Jewel Picker Tool | Marvi Uchida

GLUE

Floral Garden Thank You Friendship Card with Ilda

July 26, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello sweet friends, Ilda here!

I hope you are all enjoying your summer. Today I am sharing this beautiful Floral Garden Thank You Friendship Card. This card makes me think of the beautiful flowers of the season.

I began this card by stamping out the image from the FLORAL GARDEN set onto Neenah paper and colored them in using Copic markers.

Once the panel was all colored in I used the frame from the SCALLOP HEARTS COVER to die cut the panel. I then die cut the word thanks from the center of the floral design using the thanks die from the A CUP OF THANKS DIES. I also die cut 3 more thanks dies using black cardstock that I stacked and glued together and then glued it back in place in the center of the panel and added the finished colored layer to the top.

To make the thanks Sparkle, I added a layer of Liquid Pixie Dust and once that was dry I added glossy accents to the top.

To finish off the card I stamped “my friend” from the ALOHA onto black cardstock and heat set it with white embossing powder. I also added some Majestic Fusion Sequins for some added sparkle.

Thank you for stopping by and until next time… Happy crafting my friends!

SUPPLIES:

Thanks a bunch with Natalia

July 23, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Shaker Cards, Thank You Cards

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. Today I want to share with you a card made with beautiful Studio Katia supplies – POTTED PLANTS, CACTUS HUGS, SWEET LATTE.

First, I stamped the cute images from the POTTED PLANTS, CACTUS HUGS, SWEET LATTE. Colored with copic markers and cut out using scissors. I made highlights using white and silver pen.

Next, I blended some distress inks onto white piece of paper. After that I cut the panel out of white cardstock using frame die from SCALLOP HEARTS COVER and cut out 2 frames of foam to make a shaker, which I filled with 3M CRYSTAL RAINBOW.

I placed all the elements on the white paper panel using double-sided foam tape and heat embossed the sentiment from POTTED PLANTS stamp set using white powder.

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

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Kind Bouquet with Liliuska

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

Hello Everyone,

Liliuska here today. I made a card featuring Kind Bouquet Stamp Set. This is one of my favourite flower sets and I keep coming back to it.

For today’s card I heat embossed the image with platinum embossing powder and coloured it with watercolour pencils. Even though I love purple colour, I rarely create with it. This time I was inspired by Studio Katia’s JUNE CRYSTALS.

Once my image was dry, I added some splatters in the same colours that I used for colouring. I waited for the splatters to dry and decided to use a die from SCALLOP HEARTS COVER set to add a pretty frame around my coloured image.

For the sentiment I decided to make a raised inlaid sentiment using MINI THANK YOU DIES. I added three die cuts from white card stock under the watercoloured die cut. I love the special look this technique creates! I adhered the panel onto grey card base and added a few of those beautiful June Chrystals.

Hope you enjoyed today’s inspiration! Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:

Jewel Picker Tool | Marvi Uchida

GLUE

purple tape

Juicy citron shaker card with Galina

July 9, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Shaker Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello everyone! Today I want to share with you a shaker card with some juicy fruits.

I start with stamping fruit border on a watercolor paper with waterproof black ink. I colored images with distress markers and distress inks. I added white dots with white gel pen when images were dry. I cut out the fruit border with scissors.

Next I cut out a square panel and in the centre I cut out a half circle window for my shaker. Also I cut out a yellow square border using pierced square die and a card base from the green cardstock.

I attached a transparent sheet of the accetate sheet behind the white panel, I added multicolored sequins and foam mount my shaker to the card base.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a juicy day! 🙂

Supplies

Cards for Teachers by Erum

May 31, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Back To School Cards, Cards, Other, Thank You Cards

Hi there everyone! Erum here. I have a fun colourful card set to share with you today. I actually made these for my nephew to give to his teachers on his last day of his current class.

I have actually “copied” one of my previous card designs and replicated the background but switched the stamps.

I started by adhering the die cut panel out of the Halftone Dots Cover Die to a plain cardstock panel of the same size. After the glue was dry, I applied watercolour to the panel and left it overnight to dry and straighten under heavy books.

I used the stamps from Kobi Loves School and used a mixed of watercolour and marker colouring to colour the images. I also added glossy accents to the balloons and the apple that Kobi’s holding.

Had so much fun making these cards and because giving these sort of handmade cards is still not as common here where I live, these were a hit among everyone!

I hope you like them too!

Thank you for stopping by.

SUPPLIES

Kobi Loves School

Halftone Dots Cover Die

Purple Peonies with Emily

May 24, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Thank You Cards

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today to share some inspiration using the gorgeous Blooming Bunch stamp set! I have been experimenting with watercoloring with Distress Oxide inks, and I love the results. They create a wonderful creamy texture that is so fun to play with! Let’s get started with the details!

I began by stamping the gorgeous Blooming Bunch on some watercolor paper and heat embossing it with silver embossing powder. I then used Spun Sugar, Milled Lavender, Seedless Preserves, Spiced Marmalade, Stormy Sky, Lucky Clover, and Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide reinkers to watercolor the beautiful flowers in a pretty magenta, lavender, and pale pink color scheme.

Next, I used the largest Dotted Patterns 3 die to die cut the watercolored panel. I love the little detail that the dots add to the edge of the watercolor panel! I mounted it on a panel of lavender shimmer card stock.

For the greeting, I die cut the Thank You once from glitter card stock and twice more from white card stock, adhering them together to create a dimensional die cut. For a little sparkle, I added some June Crystals using some liquid adhesive.

Well that’s all for me today! I encourage you to try watercoloring with your Distress Oxide inks. It’s such an interesting effect and so fun to try something new with supplies that you already have! Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a marvelous weekend!

Emily

SUPPLIES:

BLOOMING BUNCH

DOTTED PATTERNS SET 3

THANK YOU SO MUCH DIES

JUNE CRYSTALS

GLUE

Thanks a Bunch with Isha Gupta

May 4, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, New Release, Thank You Cards

Hello everyone! Isha here sharing a CAS card using no-line pencil coloring along with stencil and various stamps.

I started by creating a white mat layer. Now, I sponged some distress inks through the stencil and apply a little perfect pearl in gold. I then stamped the circle from the Brush Strokes stamp set in gold ink. I also stamped the splatter using light mint ink. I flicked some black ink to the panel and let it dry.

I then stamped the potted flower using a very light ink and colored it using pencil colors. This image was so much fun to color 🙂 Die-cut using the coordinating die. Stamp the sentiment to a white stripe and cut it diagonally. Adhere the plant pot to this stripe. Adhere this to the mat layer and then the layer to the card base.

To finish, I adhered some gems.

Supplies

Gold Sparkle Crystals

Triangle Tray

Studio Katia Glue

March Release Card Ideas with Liliuska

May 2, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Floral Cards, Shaker Cards, Thank You Cards

Hello Everyone!

Since today is Thursday, and many crafters often do throwback Thursdays, I thought I’ll revisit you some of the cards I made for the March Release Full Release Video.

First card uses fun Studio Katia European Window die. I love that it has a dotted frame and has a very elegant look. You can use it as is, but I wanted to make it into a shaker using acetate sheets, colour matches perfectly. To keep sequins and confetti in different spots of the shaker, I placed foam tape strip in the middle of the window as well. I think it works much better than.

I coloured the images with alcohol markers and adhered them onto the window, popping the cacti image onto a piece of foam tape. I stamped the sentiment on a separate strip which I foam mounted on top of another strip of paper with cut out “fish tales”.

My next card I made using GRID COVER die and ALOHA stamp set. I coloured the image with alcohol markers. For the shaker background I used white woodgrain cardstock and filled the shaker with lots of different sequins and confetti, playing with the colours I used on flowers. I used BLUE SKY, SPARKLING SEA CONFETTI, MAJESTIC CONFETTI and SILVER FOIL STARS.

In order for the sequins to be present on both sides of the flower image, I’ve added a strip of foam tape, hiding it under the image. This way I will always have sequins on both sides of the shaker. I wanted to add a sentiment that wouldn’t stand out too much, that’s why I used 30lb vellum and heat embossed a Thank you sentiment using white embossing powder.

For my next card I used beautiful SHAKER HEART die. I used the middle heart as a template to pop in all the small pieces and added a heart shaped frame around it. I like the look I achieved this way.

I made this into a thank you card by adding a Thank you for kindness sentiment. I didn’t want a sentiment to stand out and take away from the die cut heart, so I used clear glitter embossing powder for the word kindness, I stamped the words ‘thank you for your’ with embossing ink and covered them with golden perfect pearls. It adds very fun look to the card. I wish it was possible to take a better picture of this.

My last two cards I made using SCALLOP HEARTS die, making one into a shaker.

Similarly to the previous two shaker cards I used foam tape strips here, to separate all heart windows and have crystals and sequins move in them separately instead of running all over the card and hiding under the paper. I added thin sentiments, stamping them with the ink that was slightly darker shade of my cardstock, as I wanted them to be visible, but not take away from the shaker windows.

For this card I dry embossed the hearts using the die from SCALLOP HEARTS die set. I embellished the card with die cut heart frames I had left over from the previous card. I stamped xoxo in some of the hears and covered pink heart in the middle with glitter pen.

For the inside I used a negative die cut from SHAKER HEART die and lightly ink blended the middle of it. I stamped Happy Birthday with the same blue ink.

Hope you like all different tips and ideas I shared with you today!

Have a wonderful and inspiring day!

SUPPLIES:

DOTTED PATTERNS SET 1

BLUE SKY

SPARKLING SEA CONFETTI

MAJESTIC CONFETTI

SILVER FOIL STARS

BUTTERFLIES GLITTER

CUPID’S KISS CRYSTALS

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!