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I love you – Using scraps

April 17, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hey lovelies, Tracy here with you today sharing a card I created that is a great way to use up those scraps.

I have used glitter card scraps but any will work.

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I started off trimming down a piece of white card stock and then using the Sweet Heart Candy die I die cut 6 heart windows.

I then trimmed another piece of card down to be slightly smaller and covered it in adhesive. I then took the thin scrap pieces I had (if yours aren’t like this then just trim them down, it doesn’t have to be exact) and adhered them going diagonally across the piece of card. Once this was done I trimmed off any excess.

I then took a sentiment from the Jawsome stamp set and stamped it at the bottom of the card. The next step I adhered the glittered piece behind the hearts, making sure to line it all up correctly.

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I then created an a2 top folding note card and used some foam tape to adhere the panel to the card. I was tempted to add some gems or sequins but wanted the glitter pieces to be the focal point so I decided not to.

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This was a fun card to make and is GREAT for using up those scrap, it can be done with most dies so why not have a look through your dies and see what you can create.

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

Happy crafting.

Items used-

Sweet Heart Candy die

Jawsome stamp set

Jawesome Card with Laura

March 27, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here and today I am back with a card featuring the new Jawesome stamp set! Stay tuned until the endo of this post, as there is a video tutorial showing how to make it!

As a first step I started working on the ocean background. I die cut some Canson XL watercolor cardstock with the scalloped rectangle die in the Scallop Hearts Cover set and did some very quick watercoloring with Gansai Tambi watercolors.

I also created a sand bank by die cutting some more watercolor cardstock with the Darling Ribbon & Frame dies and the Trimmings Border dies. I painted it with Gansai Tambi Watercolors and I started working on my images.

The stamp set I used for today’s card is the new Jawesome stamp set. I stamped the images with hybrid black ink on Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock and colored them with Spectrum Noir markers. I then die cut them with the coordinating dies.

Next, I die cut the ocean background with the Scallop Hearts Cover set. I created an inlaid die-cutting effect by adhering the ocean background to a white base using one layer of foam tape. The white base was die cut with the Darling Ribbon & Frames dies.
I created my scene and glued all the elements in place, raising the sharks on some foam tape.

I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder and added some final details with a white gel pen, a Spectrum Noir Clear Overlay Pen and some Nuvo Drops in Morning Dew.

And that’s my card for today! As I mentioned at the beginning of this post I recorded a video tutorial for you, showing how to create this fun ocean theme card. You can watch it down below or directly on the Studio Katia channel.

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

Laura

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Birthday Card for a Boy with Laura

March 14, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here with an easy birthday card perfect for a boy!
The stamp set I used is the Kobi Bearing Gifts stamp set. I stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock and colored them with Spectrum Noir markers. I then die cut them with the coordinating dies.

For the panel where Kobi is standing I used Ranger Alcohol inks in Turquoise and Cloudy Blue and one of the dies in the Dotted Patterns Set 3 dies.

I used the same die set as well as the Dotted Ribbon and Frames dies to die cut two panels out of white cardstock. I adhered them to each other with one layer of foam tape. I also used foam tape to glue the images to my card front.

I heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder over some black cardstock and trimmed a thin strip around it. I finished off the front of the card with a scattering of May Crystals.

I mounted everything on a top-folding A2 card base and I decorated the inside by stamping more balloons and the sentiment happy birthday from the Kobi Bearing Gifts stamp set. You can have a peek at the inside of the card in the video tutorial linked below.

And that’s my card for today! As I mentioned, I filmed a video tutorial showing you how to create this cute birthday card. You can watch it down below or directly on the Studio Katia channel.

And that’s it for today! I really hope you like this card and enjoyed the video! Thank you all so much for stopping by and have a great day!

Laura

SUPPLIES

Kobi Bearing Gifts Clear Stamps
Kobi Bearing Gifts Coordinating Dies
Darling Ribbon & Frames Creative Dies
Dotted Patterns Set 3 Creative Dies
May Crystals
Studio Katia Glue

Merry Poinsettia Cards by Erum

March 12, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Other

Hi there everyone! Erum here today and I will be sharing two cards with you featuring Merry Poinsettia Stamp Set.

I actually didn’t plan on making two cards. But I stamped three of the single Poinsettias in the Merry Poinsettia Stamp Set and a lot of leaves. I coloured this while catching up on some tv shows. By the time I was done, I was left with enough images to make two cards.

So I started by colouring the images with Artist Markers and then used the coordinating dies to die cut them.

Next, I worked on the background. For that, I added a light colourwash of green watercolour and tried to get a dry-brush watercolour look.

I adhered all the images with foam tape and added my sentiment. To finish, I adhered a few April Crystals.

I followed the same steps to create the second card but kept this a little bit more clean and simple.

The sentiments on both the cards are from the Blooming Bunch Stamp Set.

I hope you liked my cards! I love this stamp set, I have used this so many times to create non-Christmas cards 🙂

Thank you for stopping by!

SUPPLIES

Merry Poinsettia Stamp Set

Blooming Bunch Stamp Set

April Crystals

Thank you- Alcohol Ink Card

March 11, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hey lovelies, Tracy here with you today, I hope you all had a lovely weekend ?

I love alcohol inks, I had them many years ago but then I parted with them when I gave up crafting for a few years and then last year I got some again and just love working with them, one of the things I like about them is that you can make a card so easily with them.

I created a background onto some Yupo paper and then added a die cut word and a heat embossed sentiment and you have a pretty impactful card.

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I wanted quite a vibrant card so used pinks and purples for the background and then left it to dry overnight.

I then used the main die from Dotted Patterns set 1 to die cut the panel and at the same time I used the Thank you word die from Thank You So Much set to cut out some gold glitter card.

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I then took a sentiment from the Japanese Peony set and stamped and heat embossed it onto a strip of black card and adhered this across the panel and also adhered the die cut word.

I then created an A2 top folding black card base and adhered the whole piece to it, I thought it needed something else so I added a couple gold crystals to finish the card off.

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A quite bold card which can be used for a few different occasions. Also a great way to make those word dies the focal point of the card.

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

Happy Crafting.

Supplies used-

Japanese Peony stamp set

Thank you so much matching die set

Dotted Patterns set 1

Gold Crystals

Studio Katia Glue

Sea You Soon! with Natalia

March 5, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Other

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. Today I want to share with you my card with UNDER THE SEA and SHELL-EBRATION stamp sets.

First, I stamped the cute images from the UNDER THE SEA and SHELL-EBRATION. Colored with copic markers and die cutting them with coordinating dies. I made highlights using white and silver pen.

Next, I blended some distress inks onto white piece of paper. Placed all the elements on the paper panels using double-sided foam tape. Heat embossed the sentiment from UNDER THE SEA using white powder.

Decorated everything with CLEAR DROPS | MIX ONE

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

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

UNDER THE SEA STAMP SET

Under the Sea | Coordinating Dies

SHELL-EBRATION STAMP SET

Shell-ebration | Coordinating Dies

CLEAR DROPS | MIX ONE

Sympathy Card

March 4, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hey lovelies, Tracy here with you today. I hope you all had a nice weekend 🙂

I think we can all agree that sympathy cards are probably one of the hardest to create and I know I see a lot of posts online from people asking for people to recommend a stamp set for sympathy cards and the one I recommend is the You’re So Sweet stamp set. The reason I like this stamp set is because it has sentiments for most occasions.

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I started off with this card by stamping the largest floral stamp onto Neenah cardstock and then coloured it using Ice Grey Spectrum Noir Markers. I then used the matching dies to cut the image out.

I die cut another piece of Neenah and added some silver splatter using a silver pigment ink.

Once the ink was dry I stamped the sentment and started to assemble the card.

I added some foam tape to the back of the floral image for some dimension and for a little something extra I added some clear drops.

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I think greyscale is often overlooked in card making and it is a good neutral colour scheme to go with and I always love how it looks.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you have a great day and stay tuned for our new release which is coming VERY soon.

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Supplies used-

You’re So Sweet Stamp Set & Matching die set

Clear Drop Mix

Studio Katia Glue

Money Envelopes with Erum

February 28, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hi there everyone! Erum here today and I have floral, watercolour, money envelopes to share with you.

I started by heat embossing the Lovely Blooms Stamp Set partially, in gold embossing powder.

Then I used my distress inks and Ecoline watercolours to watercolor the images. The watercolour was done by adding tons of water to the image and then dropping in colour. When the petals dried somewhat, I went back in to add darker pigment to show depth.

I added a lot of splatters before adhering the panel onto a handmade envelope. Next, I punched a label and glued it down onto one side. This is where the name will go.

To finish off. I adhered Gold Crystals to the flower centers.

I hope you liked the envelopes. I made these on order for someone who liked the original design (which came from one of my cards).

SUPPLIES

Lovely Blooms Stamp Set

Gold Crystals

There is no Place Like Home with Svetlana

February 26, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hello everybody!

I dream of a house with a garden full of flowers. I made a card inspired by this dream of mine. I stamped a garden using image from Floral Trimmings stamp set and coloured it with watercolor zig markers.

The house is from Whimsical Town stamp set. I stamped it, cut it out with coordinating die and coloured. The background was made with markers, too. I added some splashes there.

I put everything into an oval frame cut out using Dotted ovals die set. I added a sentiment and some crystals as well to make the card look complete.

Thanks for your stopping by. Have a nice day and may all your dreams come true!

Svetlana

SUPPLIES:

Floral Trimmings | Clear Stamp Set

WHIMSICAL TOWN | STAMP SET

DOTTED OVALS DIES

SPARKLING | CRYSTALS

Blooming Bunch with Liliuska

February 21, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Other

Hello Everyone!

I was playing with some flower stamps and watercolour paint few days ago and decided to make one of the panels into a card, which I’d like to share with you today. I used Loops Die set to make a card and just had to share with you how easy it was to make a card with coloured image by using a frame die from this set.

I stamped an image from Blooming Bunch onto some watercolour paper using brown ink and had lots of fun colouring these pretty flowers. I decided not to die cut the bouquet and added a light blue around the flowers. I stamped the image using MISTI and kept the stamp in it so I could stamp the image again with embossing ink and add gold embossing. This way I avoided staining my embossing with watercolour paint.

I wanted to add shiny frame around my watercoloured panel. Loops die set has a perfect frame die for that. It cuts out a panel and a pretty pierced frame. No need to measure anything. Just use the die on your panel and glitter cardstock to get a perfectly framed image.

Because I used watercolour paper and heat embossed it after colouring, it warped quite a bit. What I did to fix that is cut out two panels with frames out of a white cardstock using the same die and glued three panels and three frames together with Studio Katia Glue. It worked like magic! Straightened warped paper and didn’t add too much volume to the card.

Next, I needed a sentiment. I decided to add yet another golden element to my card. I die cut word THANKS out of white and glitter cardstock (same as the frame) and glued them together slightly off to have a bit of a white shadow. In order to make the sentiment stand out more, I cut a strip out of light weight vellum, heat embossed a sentiment with white embossing powder, wrapped the strip around the panel only and then glued the word THANKS above the heat embossed sentiment. I wasn’t very happy with the red flower, and that’s what helped me decide where to place the vellum strip and the sentiment.

Since I chose white shadow for the word THANKS and white embossing powder for the sentiment, I adhered the panel onto white cardstock and added some Snow Chrystals, which tied all white elements together.