Winter Holidays

Penguin Party with Tracey

January 17, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Other, Winter Holidays

Hi there it’s Tracey here with a fun little penguin party. Once the Christmas holidays are over I start to build up my winter birthday card stock supply. My Dad loves penguins so I am giving this one to him for his 92nd birthday.

I stamped the penguins and iceberg from the Kobi’s Ice Day stamp set and then die cut the images with the Kobi’s Ice Day co-ordinating dies. I coloured the images with Copic markers with some very simple two-shade colouring. The trees are from the Holiday Village Stamp set and they were cut with the Holiday Village co-ordinating dies, also coloured with Copic markers.

To create my icy water background I swept some Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink on to my glass mat and spritzed it with some clean water. Then I swept a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock over the ink on one quick motion.

Once the inked background was dry I attached it to the card base using Studio Katia white foam adhesive. The iceberg, penguins and trees were attached with a combination of adhesive tape and white foam tape.

The sentiment in the bottom right corner is from the It’s Your Birthday stamp set and was white embossed on black cardstock. To finish the card off I glued some Iridescent Crystals to the card front and it is done.

Now is time to announce a winner from the Giveaway that we had on my previous post. And the winner of a $15 Gift Certificate to Studio Katia Online Store is…

SHARON GULLIKSON

Congratulations!! Please email studiokatiagiveaway@gmail.com with a subject New DT Member Giveaway to get you prize.

Thanks so much for stopping in today!

SUPPLIES

Kobi’s Ice Day stamp set
Kobi’s Ice Day co-ordinating dies
Holiday Village stamps set
Holiday Village co-ordinating dies
It’s Your Birthday stamp set
Studio Katia white foam tape
Iridescent Crystals

Winter Wishes with Tracey | Welcome New DT Member!

January 7, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello Everyone! We have amazing news to share with you today! We have new designer joining our team – Tracey McNeely. We are very excited and are looking forwards to seeing all her wonderful creations with Studio Katia products! Leave comments for her under this post in order to win a $15 Gift Certificate to Studio Katia Store.

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Hi there it’s Tracey here today and I am so excited to be joining the design team at Studio Katia! My blog is In My Creative Opinion and I would love to see you visit me over there. I hope that I can inspire you to have some fun with your Studio Katia products and maybe even show you a few tips on how to use what you have in new and different ways!

To get things started I have a card for you today that could work for any occasion during the winter months!

I started out by ink blending a 5 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ panel of cardstock using Distress Oxide inks using the Studio Katia Blender Brushes to create a two colour blend using Cracked Pistachio and Evergreen Bough Distress Oxide inks. Next I flicked some gold watercolour paint on to the panel by tapping two paint brushes together and set it aside to dry. Once it was completely dry I die cut the Studio Katia Elegant Oval Die out from the blended panel.

I placed the blended panel over a white top folding card base without gluing it down just so I could see where I needed to stamp the sentiment so it would show through the window. The sentiments from the Studio Katia Poinsettia Border stamp set were stamped with clear embossing ink and then embossed with gold pearl embossing powder.

To make the shaker component I adhered a piece of clear acetate behind the window on the front blended panel. Then I added two layers of foam tape to the back of the same blended panel. Two layers gives my shaker bits room to move around. For the contents of my shaker I used the Studio Katia Iridescent Ice Flakes. I placed them them right on top of the embossed sentiment on the white card base and spread them out. The top blended panel was added to the card base so that the window reveals the sentiment and the pretty shaker contents inside.

Thank you so much for stopping in today, I hope you enjoyed my first post with Studio Katia.
We’ll see you again next time.

Tracey

SUPPLIES:

Studio Katia Blender Brushes
Studio Katia Elegant Oval Die
Studio Katia Poinsettia Border
Studio Katia Iridescent Ice Flakes

Happy New Year 2020 Balloon Card

December 31, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Winter Holidays

Happy New Year’s Eve Everyone!!!

I am back again today to share with you my final card of 2019 because tomorrow starts off a brand new DECADE! Can you believe it?

For today’s card, I wanted to create something fun and festive to celebrate the occasion and Balloons came to mind, so that’s what I used for inspiration. This would also make a great Birthday card too!

To begin, I blended out some balloons along the edges of the card panel using the BIRTHDAY BALLOONS DUO STENCIL and BLENDER BRUSHES. I worked my way down the panel in somewhat of rainbow order. See the list of Distress Oxide inks used in the supply list below.

I then die cut the panel using the frame from the DARLING RIBBON & FRAMES set.

Next, I die cut the balloons for the card front using the DOTTED BALLOONS DIES and the SHAKER BALLOON DIE using Bristol paper that I also ink blended out with the BLENDER BRUSHES. I also die cut the little bow using gold foil paper to add to the largest balloon later.

Before adhering and popping the balloons onto the card front I stamped out a few sentiments using the HOLIDAY VILLAGE stamp set and the number candles from KOBI THE BIRTHDAY BEAR stamp set. I colored the flames in using Copic markers and then colored in the candles with a gold gelly roll pen.

To embellish this party card, even more, I added 3M CRYSTAL RAINBOW SEQUINS all around and a few ICY SPARKLE CRYSTALS to the white spaces.

I hope my last card of 2019 inspired you today. On behalf of myself and the Studio Katia Team, I wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year and may 2020 be kind to you all! Stay safe tonight, especially if you are going to be partying in the craft room 😅

Thank you for stopping by and until next YEAR… Happy Crafting 👋

Ilda

SUPPLIES:

BIRTHDAY BALLOONS DUO STENCIL

DOTTED BALLOONS DIES

SHAKER BALLOON DIE

KOBI THE BIRTHDAY BEAR

HOLIDAY VILLAGE

INK BLENDER BRUSHES

SPINNING STORAGE CADDY

3M CRYSTAL RAINBOW SEQUINS

ICY SPARKLE CRYSTALS

FOAM TAPE – WHITE

Merry Christmas!!

December 25, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Winter Holidays

Hello Everyone!!

Studio Katia and all our Design Team Ladies hope you had a Wonderful and Joyous Christmas! We wish you that the Joy and Peace of the Winter Holidays be with you today and every day!

And here are some of our favourite winter cards from the past years…

Greetings Of The Season with Natalia

December 23, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Other, Winter Holidays

Hi there! It’s Natalia here and today I share with you my super cute diorama/shadow box card using beautiful Studio Katia supplies from the latest release – HAPPY SNOWMEN.

First, I stamped the cute images from the HAPPY SNOWMEN, KOBI’S ICE DAY, HOLIDAY VILLAGE, KOBI BEARING GIFTS, WHIMSICAL TOWN, WINTER KOBI. Colored with copic markers and die cutting them with coordinating dies.

Next, I blended some distress inks onto white piece of paper. Another 3 gray pieces of paper I die cutting with DOTTED PATTERNS SET 3 CREATIVE DIE, NESTED OVALS and DARLING RIBBON & FRAMES CREATIVE DIES.

This 3 panels had next dimensions: 13.6 x 16.6, 13.6 x 14.6 and 13.6 x 12.6. Panels scored at 3 and 13.6; 2 and 12.6; 1 and 11.6 accordingly and the flaps are glued together after the overlap. Then I diecut windows in decreasing size in the center of each to get more of a tunneled-look to my card. (All dimensions are in cm.)

Placed all the elements on the white paper panels using double-sided foam tape. Heat embossed the sentiment from HOLIDAY VILLAGE stamp set using white powder. I decorated everything with IRIDESCENT ICE FLAKES.

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

SUPPLIES:

KOBI BEARING GIFTS DIES

DOTTED PATTERNS SET 3 CREATIVE DIE

NESTED OVALS

DARLING RIBBON & FRAMES CREATIVE DIES

IRIDESCENT ICE FLAKES

Winter Shaker Card with Laura

December 20, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi everyone! It’s Laura here and today I am back with a Winter shaker card featuring the Ponsettia Border and the Holiday Village stamp set. At the end of this post, you will also find a video tutorial, showing how I made it.

For the window of my shaker I used the Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames Dies. I also used the Simple Dotted Borders on the cardstock panel that I die cut out of the center to create a hill.
I blended Spectrum Noir Silver Midas ink on the hill and I used Rose Gold and Pink Lace on the shaker background. These are metallic pigment inks that will add a shiny finish to my card.

To fill up my shaker I used a mix of Studio Katia embellishments: I used Frost Glitter, Sparkle Glitter, Silver Polka Sequins, Crystal Clear Confetti and Majestic Confetti.
As I mentioned, the images I used are from the Poinsettia Border and Holiday Village stamp sets. I colored them with my Spectrum Noir Illustrator Markers and die cut them with the coordinating dies.

For my sentiment I used the banner die in the Darling Ribbon&Frames dies. I stamped one of the greetings in the Holiday Village stamp set with Silver Midas ink and blended the edges with Pink Lace Midas Ink.

Don’t forget to check out the video tutorial, if you are interested in the step by step process for this winter shaker card!

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

Laura

S U P P L I E S —

• POINSETTIA BORDER
• POINSETTIA BORDER DIES
• HOLIDAY VILLAGE
• HOLIDAY VILLAGE DIES
• Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames – Creative Dies
• SIMPLE DOTTED BORDERS 1
• FROST GLITTER
• SPARKLE GLITTER
• SILVER POLKA
• CRYSTAL CLEAR CONFETTI
• MAJESTIC CONFETTI

Let It Snow with Dana

December 19, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Happy Thursday, everyone!

It’s Dana and I’m sharing a winter season card with you today.

To start, I heat embossed Snowflakes in silver onto white card stock and die cut them out using Snowflakes Dies.

I then ink blended them with Distress Oxide Inks using Ink Blender Brushes. I used Mermaid Lagoon, Chipped Sapphire, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, Seedless Preserves and Shaded Lilac.

I also white heat embossed a sentiment from Snowflakes onto black card stock.

For background, I die cut a cover twice from kraft and white card stocks using Half Striped Cover Die. I adhered kraft one and negative piece from white one onto patterned paper as shown in the picture.

To finish off, I popped up snowflakes using foam tape. Hope you enjoyed this card.

Happy crafting!

Dana

*Supplies*

Snowflakes

Snowflakes Dies

Ink Blender Brushes

Half Striped Cover Die

Peaceful Poinsettias

December 17, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there! Emily Midgett here with you today sharing some last minute holiday card inspiration! I have really been enjoying finding ways to add pops of red into my Christmas cards, as it’s not normally a color to which I’d gravitate, but there’s something about a beautiful, crisp red that just screams Christmas to me! For today’s card, I’ve kept my color scheme relatively simple, with a light gray as the primary color and a few pops of red to keep things interesting. Let’s get started with the details!

I began by die cutting the Mini Polka Dot cover plate die from some pale gray cardstock, then backed it with some bright red cardstock. The contrast between the two colors is fantastic! It would have looked beautiful with some red glitter or foil cardstock behind it, too!

Next, I stamped the main image from the lovely Poinsettia Border stamp using white pigment ink on some more gray cardstock. I then used my Caran D’ache Luminance colored pencils to do some no line coloring, keeping the red, gray, and white theme running throughout the bouquet. I die cut it with the coordinating die.

Next, I red heat embossed a greeting from Poinsettia Border on some more gray cardstock, trimming it down to a small rectangular sentiment strip. I mounted the die cut floral bouquet on a Dotted Oval, die cut from some heavyweight vellum. I love using basic vellum die cuts to soften a patterned background! Finally, I adhered all of the die cut pieces on the card front using foam adhesive for lots of extra dimension.

Well, that’s all for me today! I hope you’re past the holiday hustle and bustle and can just sit and enjoy the pleasant aspects of the season. If not, I hope your to-do list grows shorter by the day! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous holiday!

Foiling using Stencil with Isha Gupta

December 16, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello everyone! Isha here sharing a card using foiling with stencil technique. I really am in love with the Autumn Leaves stencil and find them to be so versatile.

I started by taking a red cardbase. I then created the mat layer for which, I simply applied Deco Foil transfer gel through the stencil. Let it dry for a couple of hours. Once dried, I ran it through the laminator using Amber Watercolor deco foil. I then stamped and embossed the images onto a piece of watercolor paper using Metallic Gold Rich Pale embossing powder by WOW! I now colored them using the zig clean color real brush markers. For shimmer I used Daniel Smith Pearl Shimmer watercolor. Now die-cut them using the coordinating dies.

Stamp and emboss the sentiment onto vellum stripe. adhere to the mat layer. Assemble everything together. Thank you for dropping by! Have a nice crafty day!

Isha

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Merry Christmas card by Olga

December 14, 2019 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello everyone! Olga Moss here with some Christmas inspiration. Christmas is almost on the threshold, and therefore we are all in the midst of preparations for the holidays. But don’t forget about to review the past year, too. Have you been able to accomplish everything planned? One of the most important points of my cardmaking life was – to start actively using forgotten watercolors. And I succeeded! I’m pleased with myself. So today I have this Christmas card with a magnificent bouquet of poinsettias!

For this cars I used our POINSETTIA BORDER stamp set with POINSETTIA BORDER DIES. I started by ink blending Seedless Preserves Distress ink in the upper left corner and the lower right corner. Then, I stamped the large flower image from the set onto watercolor paper and coloured it using Kuretake watercolor paint.

Once I finished my watercolouring each piece, I let it air dry and die cut it out once it was completely dry.

I set the flowers aside while I worked on the background. I stamped the sentiment using Archival Jet Black Ink. Next, I added lots of splatters with white gouache onto both, my background and the flowers.

I wanted to add texture to the background. For that I used CONFETTI STENCIL with Nuvo Glimmer Paste. This game not only nice texture, but also fun sparkles.

I hope you enjoyed the inspiration I had for you today. Thank you for stopping by!

SUPPLIES

POINSETTIA BORDER

POINSETTIA BORDER DIES

CONFETTI STENCIL