Theme Week

Glittery Starry Sky with Olga

April 28, 2018 / 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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There is no Place Like Home with Natalia

April 23, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Theme Week

Hello, everyone. Natalia is here. And today I want to show you a card I made using Whimsical Town set. Without exaggeration, this card is one of my favorites. Also, I just love this stamp set!

First of all, I stamped and colored all images from the set on a paper recommended for alcohol markers. Next I die cut it using coordinating dies. I inked a background panel with Distress inks. Next I cut a panel out of white catdstock and die cut windows using Dotted Patterns: Loops die. I adhered two panels together with adhesive tape.

I die cut a “ground” for my houses out of grey cardstock using Dotted Patterns: Simple Borders die and heat embossed a sentiment on it with white powder.

I mounted my hill on some foam tape and started adhering houses, trees and otger images.

My cute card is ready.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

Whimsical Town | Clear Stamp Set

Whimsical Town | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Patterns: Loops | Creative Dies

Dotted Patterns: Simple Borders | Creative Dies

Guest Designer | Floral Trimmings with Laurie

March 24, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Guest Designer, Theme Week

Hi everyone!! Laurie here and I’m super excited to be a guest on SK blog today!! The theme is feminine or Mother’s Day cards. This was the perfect theme for me as I needed a card for my sister! My sister is truly my best friend and has helped me out tremendously lately so I wanted to make a card to thank her for everything.

The perfect set for this card is the Best Ever stamp set and matching dies. This set will let almost anyone know that they are “The Best Ever”. To give it a feminine flare, I used the Floral Trimmings which is absolutely gorgeous.

I started by embossing the florals with some Silver Pearl Embossing powder onto some Mixed Media paper. I choose several colours of Distress Inks to colour the flowers.

I stamped twice but only ended up using one. Here’s how the colouring turned out…

I fussy cut around the entire image because at this point I wasn’t 100% sure of what I wanted to do 🙂

I cut down some white cardstock with the largest die from the Dotted Patterns Set 1 Die Set for a mat on my blue card base. I used the same die to cut around the floral image. This gave me one larger floral piece along with a skinny piece.

For the sentiment, I die cut the “best” and “ever” scripty dies out of white cardstock and layered them onto the same colour of cardstock of the card base. I adhered the larger floral piece onto the bottom of the white panel and the skinny piece to the top with foam adhesive.

I also foam mounted the word dies and stamped “sister” directly onto the white panel. I finished the card of with a generous helping of the Sparkling Crystals Mix.

I already gave this card to my sis and she loved it!!

Thank you so much to Studio Katia for having me as a guest today and thank you for stopping by!!

Stay crafty, my friends!!

Laurie

SUPPLIES:

Floral Trimmings | Clear Stamp Set

Best Ever | Clear Stamp Set

Best Ever | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Patterns Set – 1 | Creative Dies

Sparkling Crystals | Mix

Theme Week | Feminine/ Mother’s Day Cards – Day 5 with Erum + Video

March 23, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Theme Week

Hello friends!

Erum here today with a floral card. I also have a how-to video to share with you. You will find it at the end of this post.

This was an unplanned card. I actually have another card that I wanted to share but that will have to wait. I started by stamping the flower from Japanese Peony Stamp Set on watercolor paper and pencil shaded it with Prismacolor. I then die cut all the stamped images with the help of coordinating dies.

My card front is actually a leftover piece from my Mandala Stencil card that I shared HERE. I used gesso to create my original card, I then used the stencil as a stamp and stamped the leftover gesso onto a spare piece of cardstock and left it to air dry.

I used Chipped Sapphire distress stain as watercolor onto my background. Once it was dry, I added black paint splatters.

After adhering my flower and leaves, I popped my sentiment “you’re the best” with foam tape covering the floral image partially.

In the very end, I added Shimmering Ice Fusion and Iridescent Bubbles to the card front.

You can watch the video below or in HD on YouTube.

That is all from my side 🙂

Supplies:

Japanese Peony Stamp Set

Japanese Peony Die Set

Mandala Stencil

Shimmering Ice Fusion

Iridescent Bubbles

Theme Week | Feminine/ Mother’s Day Cards – Day 4 with Laura

March 22, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Theme Week

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here, and for day 4 of our Theme Week I am sharing an encouragement card featuring the beautiful Japanese Peony Clear Stamp Set.
To start off this card I stamped my images on some watercolor cardstock and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder. I then used my Distress Oxides to do some watercoloring: I used Aged Mahogany and Tattered Rose for the petals, Squeezed Lemonade and Fossilized Amber for the inside of the flower, and Bundled Sage and Forest Moss for the leaves. Once I was done painting I die cut everything with the Japanese Peony Coordinating Dies.

I then created a window for my card base. For the window background I did some ink smooshing with Distress Oxides in Tattered Rose and Squeezed Lemonade on some watercolor cardstock.
For the window frame I cut some vanilla cardstock using the Dotted Patterns: Darling Ribbon Creative Dies in combination with the Dotted Patterns: Set 2 Creative Dies. The Dotted Patterns: Set 2 | Creative Dies cut both the window opening and a thin frame that I inked up with some Distress Oxide in Aged Mahogany.

I raised the window front over the background with some foam tape and coated it with acetate. I then heat embossed the sentiment on a strip of black cardstock andcut it with the Label Messages Coordinating Dies. As a final step I added a few Crystal Clear Confetti on my card base and inside the window.
And that’s it for today! I really hope you liked this card, and I hope I inspired you to create with the gorgeous Japanese Peony Clear Stamp Set. Thank you all so much for stopping by and have a great day,

Laura

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Theme Week | Feminine/ Mother’s Day Cards – Day 3 with Svitlana

March 21, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Theme Week

Hi crafty friends!

Svitlana is here. I’m sharing today a Mother’s Day card featuring recently released the Spring Bouquet Stamp Set. Katia’s floral stamps are amazing and this one is not an exception. So beautiful and dainty.

I started making the card with creating the floral element. I white embossed the bouquet onto a watercolor paper and watercolored it. After that I die-cut it using the matching die.

I die-cut a dotted panel out of light gray cardstock using a die from Dotted Patterns Set 1. Then I wrapped some hemp twine around it, tying a bow on the right side.

After that I popped up the panel onto a dark gray card base using a sheet of foam.

The spring bouquet was foam mounted onto the panel.

I white embossed a sentiment from the set onto a stripe of dark gray cardstock and foam mounted it onto the card.

Several Snow Crystals finished off the card.

I think this bouquet looks very beautiful in blue. And I like how it stands out against the gray panel.

Have an amazing day!

Svitlana

SUPPLIES:

Spring Bouquet Stamp Set

Spring Bouquet Die Set

Dotted Patterns Set 1

Snow Crystals

Theme Week | Feminine/ Mother’s Day Cards – Day 2 with Kristina

March 20, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Theme Week

Hello everyone! It’s Kristina here and today I have a floral feminine card for you that I made using Spring Bouquet stamp set.

First, I stamped the flowers from Spring Bouquet stamp set with black waterproof ink on watercolor paper and colored the image with watercolor paint. Once my coloring was done, I added some shading using prismacolor pencils and die cut the image using coordinating die.

Next, I die cut a panel out of white cardstock using die from Dotted Patterns Set 1 and stamped a sentiment onto the panel using black ink.

Next, I made few Friend word die cuts out of white cardstock and glued them together to create more dimension and to make it stand out on my background.

Then, I trimmed a panel out of mint cardstock and added an embossed grid using a bone folder and scoring board.This adds a more interested look to the background. Lastly I mounted everything onto a white card base using foam tape and added finishing touches using sequins and Clear Nuvo Drops.

Thank you all for stopping by!

Kristina

SUPPLIES:

Spring Bouquet | Clear Stamp Set

Spring Bouquet | Coordinating Dies

Dotted Patterns Set – 1 | Creative Dies

Shimmering Ice | Fusion

Theme Week | Feminine/ Mother’s Day Cards – Day 1 with Kaja

March 19, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Theme Week

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts here today, with a card I made for my mom.

Take a look:

I started making the card by coloring the gorgeous Spring bouquet stamp. For coloring I used ZIG watercolor brushes. I love using them for flowers, since they blend super easily and they give an awesome result. I went with a red and pink color combination for the flowers and green for leaves. I die cut the bouquet with coordinating die.

Next, I used my paper trimmer to cut the bottom and the left edge of the colored image, since I decided to put a flower in the bottom left corner of the card. Insted of throwing away the pieces I cut off, I decided that I will put them in the right top corner.

I knew that I wanted to make a card for my mom, so I stamped ‘mom’ from Best ever stamp set on a piece of white card stock and fussy cut it out with my scissors. Then, I colored a piece of watercolor paper with the same green I used for the leaves and I stamped ‘you’re the best’ saying from a Jepanese Peony stamp set.

Next, I cut down a piece of white card stock to make it the same size as my card base. I die cut a rectangle from Dotted patterns set 2 directly in the centre and I popped the frame it cut out with some foam tape.

I used the same die from Dotted patterns set 2 on the piece of pattern paper, but I used the inner piece and I glued it directly on the card base.

Then, I glued everything else togerher using liquid glue and some foam rectangles.

The last thing I did, was to glue down some Clear round drops and that finishes up the card.

That’s it for today! Thank you so much for joining me! See you next time.

SUPPLIES:

Studio Katia stamps – Spring Bouquet

Studio Katia coordinating dies – Spring Bouquet

Studio Katia stamps – Japanese Peony

Studio Katia stamps – Best Ever

Studio Katia dies – Dotted Patterns set 2

Studio Katia embellishments – Clear round drops

Theme Week | Easter Cards – Day 2 with Rowena

March 13, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Easter Cards, Floral Cards, Theme Week

Hello friends! It’s Rowena here and it’s theme week here once again! All week long the entire design team is showcasing the ‘Floral Cross‘ stamp set. So be sure to visit the blog all week long for an entire week of inspirations and ideas from the team.

For today’s project, I wanted to create a bold and bright background for my main focal point. For this I used Picked Raspberry and Wild Honey distress inks, focusing mainly on the bottom of my panel. Then I splattered some clean water to create a distress look, I trimmed my panel using ‘Dotted Panels/Set 2‘ to frame my floral cross.

I stamped my image in a copic friendly ink and colored them with copic markers. Then with the same ink I stamp the cross one more time and colored it with copic as well. The image is big enough so I did some fussy cutting around my floral image and my additional cross. Once all my images are colored, I’m ready to assemble my card. I heat embossed my sentiment in silver and added foam tape for extra dimension. I also added foam tape to my panel onto an A2 size card.

To complete my card, I added wink of stella on all the flowers as well as some glossy accent, and white gel pen to add extra details to the flowers. Then some ‘Iridescent Bubbles’ to add the finishing touches on today’s card.

I hope you all enjoyed today’s card and got inspired! Make sure to visit us all week long for more inspirations and ideas. Have a wonderful day and happy crafting!!

Crafty Hugs,

Rowena

Lists of Supplies:

Floral Cross Stamp

Dotted Panel/Set 2

Iridescent Bubbles

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Theme Week | Easter Cards – Day 1 with Erum

March 12, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Theme Week

Hello friends! I have a super simple yet elegant card to share with you featuring the Floral Cross Stamp Set.

I actually wanted to make two cards. One is what I am sharing with you today and the other was blue with gold embossing and pencil colouring. Unfortunately, while I was working on that piece we lost power and by the time it was restored my paper had moved slightly which resulted in double stamping. But I will give it a try once more after a few days.

Anyway, I kept this one super simple. I heat embossed the stamped image with silver embossing powder and then fussy cut the element. This is popped on Dotted Patterns Set 2. Next I added one more mat below it and then popped it over the rectangle from Dotted Patterns Set 1 with foam tape. Lastly, I placed this stack onto the card base, using foam tape.

When all my panels were in place, I die cut the word “Easter” a couple of times in silver mirror cardstock and placed it on the Floral Cross design.

That is all from my side today. I hope you liked my simple, classy card.

Have a great day!

Supplies:

Floral Cross Stamp Set

Dotted Patterns Set 1

Dotted Patterns Set 2

Easter Word Die