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Slimline Ocean Scene with Laura

July 9, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here, and today I am back to share with you a slimline ocean scene card and a video tutorial showing how to make it!

The images I used for today’s card are part of the Jawesome and Under the Sea stamp sets. So fun and perfect together! I stamped them with Spectrum Noir Flagstone Ink and I colored them with Illustrator markers.
Here is a list of colors I used

Sharks: BGR1, BGR3, BGR5
Pufferfish: PP5, PP3, PP1, BG3, BG1
Jellyfish: LV3, HB3, HB1
Sea Horse: GT1, GT3
Tiny Fish: OR1, CT4, CT1
Yellow Fish: OR1, BO1, CT4, CT1, LV3, HB3, HB1, BG3, BG1
Starfish: MG5, MG3, MG1
Seaweed: AG3, AG1, CG1
Rocks: BG1, BG3, BG5
Coral: PP5, PP3, PP1

Once I was done coloring the images, I die cut them with the coordinating dies.

For the background I die cut some watercolor cardstock using the Dotted Slimline Set 2 dies.
I left the background panel as is and ink blended the scalloped rectangle with Distress Oxides

I used Speckled Egg, Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire. I added some droplets with water, my Distress Oxides and, for added sparkle, with my Gansai Tambi Starry Colors.

For the sand bank I die cut some more watercolor cardstock. I combined the Dotted Slimline Set 2 with the Trimmings Borders dies. I ink blended the panel with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress Oxides and added some droplets with my inks and my Gansai Tambi Starry Colors on this panel, too.

I adhered all the images in place and I used the Flourishing Notes coordinating dies to create my sentiment.

I finished off the card with some Iridescend Bubbles and Tiny Iridescent Bubbles and some details with a white gel pen!

And here is the video tutorial I created for you! I really hope you like it and, if you do, make sure to subscribe to the Studio Katia channel for more inspiration!

Thank you all for stopping by and have a great day!

Laura

SUPPLIES

A Flourishing Note Hello Friendship Card

July 8, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Hello Cards, New Release, Other

Hey everyone, Ilda here!

Today I am sending you all a Flourishing Hello. Love this new FLOURISHING NOTE stamp from Studio Katia, it is so pretty and it makes for such a beautiful friendship card!

CARD DETAILS

To begin this beauty, I stamped out the image from the FLOURISHING NOTE and colored it in using Copic markers. I then used the coordinating FLOURISHING NOTE DIES to cut out the image as well as the Hello die 3 times from black cardstock that I will use later on.

For the background, I first used the inside of the SCALLOP HEARTS COVER to die cut the hearts from the white panel. I then used the largest scallop frame from the DOTTED PATTERNS SET 4 to finish off the card panel.

Behind the heart openings, I glued a piece of pale pink cardstock to add another layer of color. I then die cut another layer of blue hearts using the SCALLOP HEARTS COVER to add a blue edge to the white hearts, I then popped the hearts back in place with foam tape and glued the Flourishing Card Stamp in place.

TIP: I also used the same blue cardstock piece that I die cut the blue heart edges from to glue onto the card base as the center of the panel gets covered up and won’t be seen.

For finishing touches, I added some new BLUEBELL PEARLS and then added the hello that I had stacked and glued together from the FLOURISHING NOTE DIES and then added Glossy Accents to.

Wishing you all a wonderful day! Thank you for stopping by and until next time… Happy Crafting 👋

Crafty Hugs, Ilda

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Cacti Hugs by Tracey

July 6, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Hello Cards, Other

Hi there, it’s Tracey here today this past week for an exciting week in both Canada and the U.S. celebrating Canada Day and Independence Day. As we enter the 5th month of the pandemic it may have been a more subdued celebration than normal. So if you can’t enjoy fireworks you can make a card and today I have a cute slimline cactus card.

I stamped out 5 cactus images from the Studio Katia Cactus Hugs stamp set and coloured the images with Copic markers adding shading on all the images. I added adding a bit more interest to the cacti with a white gel pen. Using my Copic blender I created some spots to the succulent on the far right. Once done I die cut the images with the Studio Katia Cactus Hugs Creative Dies.

I have five Cacti on the font of my card so I wanted my heading to reflect multiple cactus. I cut the letters to spell Cacti using the Studio Katia Chunky Alpha Creative Dies in black.

I die cut a panel of Neenah Solar white cardstock using the large rounded rectangle from the new Studio Katia Dotted Slimline Set 1. To ground my images I lightly blended Tea Dye and Crushed Olive Distress Inks to the bottom of the panel with my Studio Katia Blending Brushes. Then I flicked a bit of watered down Ground Expresso Distress Ink on to the panel.

Using white glue I adhered the word Cacti on to the panel slightly to the left. I stamped the word Hugs just below the word Cacti on the right side . I added the five images with Studio Katia Double Sided Foam Tape on to the panel. The whole panel was added to a bright green 3 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ folded card base. I finished it off by adding a few of the new Studio Katia Moss Green Pearls using Studio Katia Glue and the Studio Katia Embellishment Wand. I have been obsessed with these new shiny pearls in three different sizes. The tiny ones are my favourite!

SUPPLIES
Studio Katia Cactus Hugs stamp set
Studio Katia Cactus Hugs Creative Dies
Studio Katia Chunky Alpha Creative Dies
Studio Katia Dotted Slimline Set 1
Studio Katia Blending Brushes
Studio Katia Double Sided Foam Tape
Studio Katia Glue
Studio Katia Embellishment Wand

Hello Shaker Card with Isha Gupta

July 1, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Other, Shaker Cards

Hello everyone! Isha here with you today with a fun shaker card with no-line water color technique. I used all the products from our newest release, if you haven’t checked them yet, please do. You are going to love it 🙂 For today’s card I used Black, White &Rainbow paper, Craftastic stamp and dies, Dotted Patterns set 3 dies along with Vanilla Luster fusion sequins.

I started by creating a white card panel. I then adhered a stripe of rainbow pattern paper to the left side. I then die-cut the oval, sponged scattered straw, spun sugar and tumbled glass distress oxide to it. Adhere it to the card. I also adhered the delicate frame around the oval piece. Stamp the image onto watercolor cardstock using antique linen distress ink. I then colored the image using faber castell watercolor markers and daniel smith watercolors. Let it dry and die-cut it. Die-cut the center to create the shaker. Place the image where it will come on the card and adhere the center die-cut negative piece. Adhere a piece of acetate behind the image. Now add 3D foam all around the opening on the back side. add some sequins and adhere to the cardbase.

Stamp the sentiment and adhere to the card. To finish, add some sequins. Thank you for dropping by!

Have a nice crafty day!

Isha

Slimline Crafty Hugs Friendship Card

June 26, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Hello Cards, New Release, Other

Slimline, Crafty Hugs, Friendship Card, Studio Katia, Card Making, Stamping, Die Cutting, handmade card, ilovedoingallthingscrafty, Stamps, how to, Craftastic, Studio Katia pearls, rainbow

Hello, again my Friends, Ilda here!

I am back today with another card featuring products from the New Release. If you missed the news, make sure you click on the link to join the Studio Katia June Release Blog Hop, lots of inspiration and prizes to be won!

I was so excited to see some slimline dies and a 6X6 paper pack in the New Release which has lots of rainbow pattern goodness (which happens to be my favorite). Plus you know I love all things crafty, so I absolutely love the CRAFTASTIC set that I used in today’s card.

CARD DETAILS

To begin this card I actually began by die cutting the cup of crafty tools out first using the CRAFTASTIC DIES. The die is solid which makes it harder to line up with a stamped image. It was designed this way because it cuts inside the stamped area. But by die cutting it first, I now knew where to stamp the image from the CRAFTASTIC set and line it all up.

TIP: If you use the negative piece of the die-cut and line it up in your stamp positioner you can then center the stamp in the die-cut area. Test out the alignment by using a post-it under the die-cut opening, and then once it is lined up, add your die-cut piece back in place and stamp. This is a great way to stamp multiple images for mass production.

I then just colored the images in using Copic markers and stamped the “you inspire me” sentiment on the front of the mug.

Next, I die cut center dotted frame from the DOTTED SLIMLINE – SET 2 and stamped out the sentiments from the CRAFTASTIC set.

I then die cut the scalloped layer using a rainbow pattern cardstock from the new BLACK, WHITE, AND RAINBOW PAPER pack. I taped used 2 pieces of the paper together to create the length for the Slimline Scallop Die that comes again from the DOTTED SLIMLINE – SET 2.

Beneath the scalloped rainbow layer, I also added the largest dotted frame from the DOTTED SLIMLINE – SET 1. I then assembled the card using FOAM TAPE and Studio Katia Glue.

To finish off the rainbow-inspired Slimline Crafty Hugs Friendship Card, I added a variety of pearls in various colors of the rainbow. See links below for all the new pearls.

I hope you love this card as much as I do, and are inspired to create something similar to send to a crafty friend that inspires you!

Thank you for stopping by and until next time… Happy Crafting!

Ilda

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SUPPLIES

CRAFTASTIC

CRAFTASTIC DIES

DOTTED SLIMLINE – SET 2

BLACK, WHITE AND RAINBOW PAPER

BUBBLEGUM PEARLS

RADIANT ORCHID PEARLS

WHITE – EMBELLISHMENT WAND TIP

TRIANGLE TRAY

FOAM TAPE – WHITE

STUDIO KATIA GLUE

Video. Large background stamp: stamping and embossing tips

June 23, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hello everyone! It’s Galina and I want to share with you some tips and ideas of using large background stamps. For my cards I used a beautiful big stamp called Floral Garden, also I used Floral Wreath stamp set to add some details and sentiments. Full supplie list you can find below.

How I made this cards you can watch here or on Studio Katia Youtube channel.

I love to use a bright colors on my cards and for my first card I used picked respberry, carved pumpkin and mustard seed Distress inks. I heat embossed a large floral image on the ink blended background using super fine detail embossing powder from WOW.

To add more interest to the panel I colored some petals with the same distress inks I used for the ink blending.

With a same stamp I made a heat embossing on the pink card stock. I cut out the panel using scallop rectangle die and put a clear sheet behind the widow. I added heat embossed sentiment on the card base and a lot of pink crystals.

I foam mount the card panel on the card base and my shaker is done. To finish the card I attached a light pink color oval frame on it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a greateday

Galina

Supplies

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?id=f5e8378456858c916708

Two tags using DOTTED SHAKER TAG 1. Video

June 16, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hello everyone! It’s Galina and today I want to talk about pretty additions to the presents – tags. For today’s tags I used a same tag die – DOTTED SHAKER TAG 1 and some other dies and stamps.

How I made these tags you can watch here or on Studio Katia Youtube channel.

I started with die cut a basic shapes of tags. For the blue tag I used small rectangle die to cut out the window, this rectangle die is included to DOTTED SHAKER TAG 1 die set. For the second tag I decided to cut an oval window using nesting oval die set.

To add interest on the yellow tag I cut out a small piece with hexagons from the light yellow cardstock using MICRO HEXAGON COVER DIE. I stamped and colored with Copic markers a cute little bee. I placed a red crystal heart into her hands. Also I add a heat embossed sentiment.

On a black cardstock I stamped a sentiment using a small stamp from the PEONY TRIMMINGS stamp set, I stamped with a embossing ink and covered it with hite embossing powder. I cut out this sentiment with a coordinating stripe die.

The blue tag is all about crafty wishes 🙂 On the bottom of the central rectangle piece I stamped images from ARTSY TRIMMINGS stamp set, on the top I stamped a sentiment from BIRTHDAY GREETINGS stamp set. I colored images with Copic markers and to finish the tag I added transparent sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?id=f5e8378456858c916708

Working with inky mistakes

June 12, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hey lovelies, Tracy here with you today talking about inky mistakes.

If you have ever tried to create inky backgrounds/ink blending then you know no matter how good you are at it there will always be times when things go wrong. I am aiming to create a lot less waste as a crafter so when I sat down to create my DT cards for today and I was NOT having a good inky day I decided to roll with it. These are SUPER simple and easy ways to still use those inky panels.

The first mistake is one I think we have all done and that’s a patchy background, I was aiming for a nice smooth background which was going to be lovely and smooth with some beautifully stamped snowflakes…that didn’t happen, I totally messed up by watching what my dog was doing and ended up with patchy blending.

There is a few ways to fix this, you can just layer, layer & layer and you will end up with a nice solid inked card, but if like me you have joint issues this isnt always a easy fix. So what I tend to do is use sparkle splatter, you can create your own with water and mica powder, I use my Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens, the more splatter the better. The reason this works is it creates a slight grungy feel and the sparkle also distracts from the blending so much.

Mistake 2 was on the same card, I decided to use the same ink to stamp snowflakes to give a nice subtle look and I messed up the main snowflake by not applying enough pressure to the stamping block. I actually ended up doing this twice !! What I then did was take a smaller snowflake and some silver pigment ink and stamped into the centre area so ended up covering the missed stamping.

The above “fixes” resulted in a totally different card that I was going for, but I actually like how it turned out and it meant less waste. Please excuse the dark photo the weather has been awful here the last few days.

I will confess this next mistake I did a few weeks ago and its been sitting on my desk waiting to go into the recycling bin.

I had inked up this background and was so happy with the blend on it and then there was a droplet of water on my mat from where I wiped it down and it soaked into the card in not just one place but two ! it was so bad no splatters were even saving it, I decided to cover it affectivly would be best to add a long strip down the centre but couldnt figure out how to add the snowflakes, I really didn’t want to mess up again so I went for something thats so simple yet affect and that is using white pigment ink for stamping. When you stamp with this over water reactive ink the pigment ink will asorb some of the colour so it ends up looking more tonal and its so so simple, which is great if you are having a day of everything going wrong like I was. Once I was happy with the stamping I trimmed down a strip of white card and stamped the sentiment. I knew I was this card to be clean and simple but still felt it needed something so I took some glitter card and trimmed down two thin strips and adhered them along the edge of the white card, this is a great and simple way to add some sparkle.

So there you go a couple of very easy ways to fix/hide inky mistakes. I hope they have helped you cut down on your waste, this is something I want to work on so if you would like to see more posts on this then please let me know.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, happy crafting.

Supplies

Ink Blending Brushes

Snowflakes Stamp set

Artic Breeze Pearls

No-Line Coloring with Laura

June 11, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hi everyone! It’s Laura, here and today I am back with a thank you card featuring the Japanese Peony stamp set and the no-line coloring technique. Don’t forget to check out the video at the end of this post for a step-by-step tutorial on how I created this card!

As I mentioned, the image I used is part of the Japanese Peony stamp set. I stamped it with Fadeout no-coloring ink and colored it with Karin Brush Markers Pro. Once the coloring was over, I die cut it with the coordinating dies.

For my card background I die cut some lilac cardstock with the Darling Ribbon and Dotted Frames Dies. I then created a second panel out of some vanilla cardstock, using the Dotted Patterns Set 3 and the Mini Polka Dot Cover Die.

I created a focal point with the Scallop Oblong dies and glued everything to the card base.

For the sentiment I used the A Cup of Thanks coordinating dies and I finished off the card with some Exotic Onyx Pearls.

As promised, here is the video tutorial for you, showing how to create this floral thank you card with the no-line coloring technique! I hope you like it!

Thank you all for stopping by and have a great day!

Laura

——— S U P P L I E S ———
• JAPANESE PEONY
——— https://ldli.co/e/g0zee4
• JAPANESE PEONY DIES
——— https://ldli.co/e/4nyz5k
• Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames
——— https://ldli.co/e/373d23
• MINI POLKA DOTS COVER DIE
——— https://ldli.co/e/56493m
• DOTTED PATTERNS SET 3
——— https://ldli.co/e/0o4llz
• SCALLOP OBLONG
——— https://ldli.co/e/6gykk6
• A CUP OF THANKS DIES
——— https://ldli.co/e/2k3146
• GLUE
——— https://ldli.co/e/mp3zoe
• EMBELLISHMENT WAND
——— https://ldli.co/e/e6e3dl
• TRIANGLE TRAY
——— https://ldli.co/e/qp4n3d
• EXOTIC ONYX PEARLS
——— https://ldli.co/e/j5oxn1

Interactive birthday card

June 9, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hello everyone! It’s Galina with you today and I’m going to show you how to add a more interst on your card using intercative die from Studio Katia. For this card I used a lot of cute critters from Under the Sea stamp set and some dies – Simple round tag die and Dotted Paterns set 1.

How I made this card you can watch here or on Studio Katia Youtube channel.

To create the colorful background for this card I used distress oxide inks- Shaded lilac, Tumbled Glass and Scattered Straw. I add water and white paint drops on it as well as white bubbles. I applied white pigment ink through the Confetti stencil to create those white bubbles. I cut out the card panel and a central elements using two dies from Dotted Patterns set 1.

Using the smallest die from Simple round tag die I cut out a small flap in the central die cut.

I foam mount the colorful rectangle panel on the white card base. Next I add the central piece, but before I applied a bright green color underneath. I applied distress oxide ink on the card base, the color called twisted citron.

Using a sentiment stamp from Under the sea set I stamped it behind the door on the green spot.

To finish my card I added a lot of TINY IRIDESCENT BUBBLES and ICY SPARKLE CRYSTALS.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Supplies

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FLOURISHING NOTE Shop at: SK	FLOURISHING NOTE DIES Shop at: SK	SCALLOP HEARTS COVER Shop at: SK	DOTTED PATTERNS SET 4 Shop at: SK
EMBELLISHMENT WAND Shop at: SK	BLUEBELL PEARLS Shop at: SK	STUDIO KATIA GLUE Shop at: SK	FOAM TAPE – WHITE Shop at: SK
NEENAH SOLAR WHITE 110 Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| HBS	ORIGINAL MISTI Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SBC \| HBS	BLACKOUT INK Shop at: SSS \| IO3	COPIC SKETCH Shop at: AMZ
GEMINI JR. DIE CUTTER Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SBC	GLOSSY ACCENTS Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SBC \| HBS	Uni-Ball Impact Gel Pen Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SBC