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Watercolor floral birthday card with Kaja

December 10, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Other

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts here with you today and this time around I decided to take a break from Christmas cards and made a watercolored floral birthday card.

Take a look:

First, I stamped out the images from the You’re so sweet stamp set on a piece of watercolor paper. Then, I colored everything in using markers from the Marvy Uchida Le plume II – Natural marker set. I only used two colors and with the help of watercolor brush I got a nice shading.

Once everything was colored in, I used the coordinating dies to die cut all the images out.

I love the colors used on the flowers so I decided to keep them as the main focus. I added a piece of striped black and white patterned paper to the left hand-side of the card which goes nicely with the black outline of the flowers.

The card isn’t really finished without a sentiment, so I die cut a banner from the Dotted patterns: SET 2 and heat embossed ‘Happy birthday’ from Birthday greetings on top. I used a fine white embossing powder so the sentiments can be read without any problem.

I glued the paper and the colored images down using Studio Katia liquid glue. For some dimension I poped up the sentiment using the double sidded foam rectangles.

The last thing I added were some Onyx Crystals which I glued down randomly around the banner.

Hope that you like this card and thank you so much for joining me!

Kaja

SUPPLIES:

Studio Katia – You’re so sweet

Studio Katia – Birthday greetings

Studio Katia coordinating dies – You’re so sweet

Studio Katia dies – Dotted patternes: Set 2

Studio Katia embellishments – Onyx crystals

Studio Katia – Glue

Getting more from your dies

December 5, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hey lovelies, Tracy here with you today sharing a card that I had had the idea sitting in the back of my head for a while now.

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Co-ordinating dies can be costing, so it is nice when you can use them standalone too.

I have used the coordinating dies from the Whimsical Town Set to create this skyline style Christmas card.

I started off creating the background using Distress Inks and added some white flecks using acrylic paint.

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Whilst that was drying I die cut the little houses with some black card, I did try adding window details and it ended up a hot mess, so I started again and just added some highlights instead….you can skip this step. I also used the tree die from the Holiday Village Co ordinating dies.

I played around with the arrangement a few times and then when I was happy I adhered some with foam tape, and some flat and trimmed off the excess.

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I LOVE the Midnight blue crystals and thought they worked really well with this night sky look so added some of those for sparkle.

To finish off I adhered the panel to a black card base.

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I highly encourage you to look through your co-ordinating dies to see what ones you can create with…you might be surprised.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you have an amazing day.

Supplies used-

Whimsical Town Dies

Holiday Village Dies

Midnight Blue Crystals

Travel-Sized Photo Album with Erum

December 4, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hi there everyone!

Erum here with a very colourful, travel-sized photo album to share.

This is something I made for my business page. These are pretty popular among my customers since they are travel-sized and they look absolutely adorable.

I have used Kobi Hugs and Kisses, Kobi the Birthday Bear, and Loops Die to create my project today.

First, I watercoloured a panel in rainbow colours and adhered the die cut piece from the Loops Die. I love how cool this die looks especially over an inked background!

Next, I watercoloured my images and I also added a wee bit of glossy accents onto them.

I adhered everything on foam tape.

The inside has heavyweight pages, to which I added watercolour splatters in various colours. I also created a pocket to place tags in.

At the very last page, the backside of the cover, I added a small piece of blank mat to write something on.

I hope you liked my project! I made so many of these travel-sized journals for my exhibition and people loved them!

Thank you for stopping by!

Supplies:

Kobi Hugs and Kisses

Kobi the Birthday Bear

Loops Die

Floral Christmas Card with Laura

November 24, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here, and today I am back with a floral Christmas card I created with the gorgeous Poinsettia Trimmings stamp set.
As a first step I heat embossed both borders in the Poinsettia Trimmings stamp set with Oyster embossing powder and did some very quick watercoloring with Distress Inks. I then added some depth and definition with a red Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker.

I used the Dotted Patterns Set 3 dies and my scissors to obtain two separate borders. I used the Dotted Patterns Set 3 dies to cut some white cardstock for my base, and the Darling Ribbon and Frame dies to cut some black cardstock.
For the sentiment I used the word joy from the Merry Poinsettia coordinating dies. I raised the sentiment and the borders on some 3M foam tape, and then moved on to the finishing touches.I added some Glossy Accents on the sentiment, Nuvo Drops in Ebony Black to create the dot on the letter j, and Nuvo Drops in Bottle Green
to the center of the Poisettias.

And that’s my card for today! I really hope you like it and I hope I inspired you to create with the Poinsettia Trimmings stamp set. Thank you all so much for stopping by, and have a great day!

Laura

SUPPLIES

Poinsettia Trimmings | Clear Stamps
Merry Poinsettia | Coordinating Dies
Dotted Patterns Set 3 | Creative Dies
Darling Ribbon and Frame | Creative Dies

Be Merry| Foiling with stencils

November 14, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hey lovelies, Tracy here with you today sharing a slightly different holiday card.

I always think stencils are over looked, they are a great thing to have in your crafting kit as you can do so much with them.

One of my favourite things to do with stencils is foiling, it gives so much impact and is easy to do, you don’t need a laser printer just some Foil Transfer Gel (I use Deco Foil by Thermo web) and a laminator and you can create gorgeous foiling like this….

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I have used Brush Stroke Waves Stencil , which yes was a “summer” stencil, but again stencils are so versatile.

All you need to do is apply a nice even layer of the gel through your stencil…you have to wash your stencil etc immediately. Then leave to dry (the gel goes clear when dry). I always wait at least 12 hours, but honestly it tends to be dry within 2 hours.

Once dry you then lay your desired foil over the top of the gel with the shiny side facing up, If you need to use a carrier sheet with your laminator (I just fold a piece of copy paper in half) then do so and run through your laminator.

Leave the foil to cool before you remove it, and you are done ! This is a technique you can easily do in bulk too.

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To finish my card off I stamped the Be Merry Sentiment from the Merry Poinsettia Stamp set and heat embossed it in gold onto some vellum.

To match the wavy lines I tore along the top edge of the vellum before adhering to the card. I then added foam tape and adhered to a top folding A2 card base.

I hope this has inspired you to give foiling with your stencils a try, be warned though it is addictive !

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

Happy Crafting.

Supplies used-

Merry Poinsettia Stamp

Brush Stroke Waves Stencil

Deco Art Transfer Gel

Simon Says Stamp Red Card stock

Laminator

WOW Embossing Powder

Crafter’s Companion Printable Vellum

Holiday Village with Rubeena

November 13, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Other

Good morning, Studio Katia friends! Rubeena here with a card that’s so fun. I used Holiday Village to create a fun winter scene.

I started by stamping the images from the set several times on watercolor paper. I colored them with Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors and die-cut them with the coordinating dies. For the base, I stamped the snowflakes on watercolor paper with clear embossing ink and heat-embossed in white. I watercolored a night sky and then added white paint splatters once it dried. I adhered the panel to my folded card base.

For the sentiments, I stamped “holiday wishes” and “from our home to yours” on kraft cardstock with clear embossing ink and heat-embossed in white. I trimmed it down and mounted it over the panel.

I arranged the images over the background with foam tape for dimension. How cute, right?!

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

SUPPLIES

Holiday Village
Holiday Village Dies

Winter wonderland

November 9, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Other, Winter Holidays

Hi everyone, it’s Galina! Today I want to share with you a winter card.

At first I cut a card panel in a half using border die. To create card background I used beautiful Mandala stencil, I simply I applied few colors of distress ink through the mask and with second layer I applied transparent Nuvo Glimmer paste.

On the bottom of my card panel I add three color of distress ink using blending tool and heat embossed a sentiment. I used a fine detailed white embossing powder to get nice image with tiny lines.

At last I stamped and colored houses, trees and little snow men. I cut all images with coordinating dies.

At last I adhere all elements onto white card base and my card is done.

Have a great day!

Galina

Supplies

HOLIDAY VILLAGE | STAMP SET

SIMPLE BORDERS | CREATIVE DIES

MANDALA | CREATIVE STENCIL

Christmas Card with Laura

November 5, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here, and today I am back with a Christmas card I created with the new Poinsettia Trimmings stamp set and the Friends of Winter stamp set.

As a first step I created my background. I blended Distress Oxide in Candied Apple on some watercolor cardstock, creating an ombre effect. I then used the same Candied Apple Distress Oxide to repeatedly stamp the images in the Merry Poinsettia stamp set. I spritzed the background with water and die cut it with one of the dies in the Dotted Patterns – set 3 dies.

I then stamped the little elf in the Friends of Winter stamp set, and colored him with Spectrum Noir markers. I then used the coordinating dies to die cut the image.
In order to separate the image from the background, I die cut some vellum using another die in the Dotted Patterns Set 3 dies, and used it as focal panel for this adorable character.
I die cut some white cardstock with the Darling Ribbon and Frames, and assembled my card.

I heat embossed one of the sentiments from the friend of winter stamp set with white embossing powder, and created a strip as wide as my card base. As a finishing touch I glued some gold foil confetti using the Studio Katia glue.

And that’s it for today! I really hope you liked this card, and I hope I inspired you to create with the Poinsettia Trimmings and the Friends of Winter stamp sets! Thank you all so much for stopping by, and have a great day!

Laura

SUPPLIES

If you were a monster

October 10, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hi everyone! It’s Galina. If you were a monster in this spooky month or want to tell how cool was you costume here is a card idea for you 🙂

For the card background I used classic halloween colors, I simply I applied distress ink through Spider web stencil and glued this colorful card panel on a white card base. And next I add black frame I made using rectangle die from the Loops die Set.

I stamped few monsters using Memento black ink (marker friendly ink) and color them with Copics. I cut them out with coordinating dies and adhere onto card base. To embellish my card I used green, orange, violet and black sequins from the Wicked Fusion. I adhere them with new Studio Katia’s glue, it dries completely transparent and it holds tiny embellishments very well.

Have a great day!

Galina

Supplies:

MONSTER BASH | STAMP SET

MONSTER BASH DIES

DARLING RIBBON & FRAMES | CREATIVE DIES

LOOPS | CREATIVE DIES

WICKED | FUSION

GLUE

Altering Stamps with Erum

October 5, 2018 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Other, Thank You Cards

Hi there everyone! Erum here with a new card. Today, I will use the A Cup of Thanks Stamp Set and alter it a bit to use it differently.

If you hopped along with us during the release, you must have seen THIS card of mine where I used the same stamp set differently by stamping the image again and selecting just the florals from the second image to add to my card.

This time too, I stamped the image twice. Next, I coloured just the flowers with Prismacolor pencils. After I was done colouring, I fussy cut the flowers out only and layered the two pieces in a way to build a floral bouquet.

I wanted all the focus on the flowers so I kept my card base very simple by adding fine black paint splatters and stamping the sentiment “Thanks”.

I adhered the flowers onto the card base with foam tape and in the end, I added a few, very gorgeous, Midnight Blue Crystals with the help of my new best friend the Studio Katia Glue and the Jewel Picker Tool. This glue dries clear (and fast) AND it’s NOT glossy! This is why it’s my new best friend!

If I had not mentioned which stamp set this was from, you would’ve not guessed it at first glance. You have already seen two very different cards with this stamp set from me and the design team has made quite a few samples as well. A Cup of Thanks is quite a versatile stamp set! You need to add this to your collection STAT!

See you all soon lovelies! Thank you for stopping by.

Erum

SUPPLIES

A Cup of Thanks Stamp Set

Midnight Blue Crystals

Studio Katia Glue

Jewel Picker Tool