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Winter wishes with Kaja

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I made a cute winter card! Let’s take a look how I made it! 🙂

The card looks like this:

First, I made the background. I decided to do some ink blending and the easiest way for me to do so is with distress oxides. I used three colors of ink, the lightest shade is Tumbled glass, the medium shade is Broken china and the darkest shade is faded jeans.

Once the background was all covered in ink I die cut it using the rectangle from Dotted patterns set 3 die set. Then, I sprinked it using clear water to get some light splotches and after that I used white paint and made some more splotches, that now look like snow.

I stamped out Kobi the bear from Kobi’s ice day stamp set and I masked off the bottom part of his ice-skates, so it looks like he is wearing boots. After that I stamped out a house, some trees and a snowman from the new set called Holiday village. I colored everything in using alcohol markers and then I die cut it using it’s coordinating dies.

Next, I decided to make a snowy hill, so I die cut another rectangle from the same Dotted patterns set 3 die set, but this time I used a normal white card stock. Then, I used Simple dotted borders die to cut down two hills from it that fit perfectly on the background.

The only thing left to do was to add a sentiment and I decided to use a simple ‘winter wishes’ saying from the Holiday village stamp set. I stamped it in black on a piece of white cardstock that I trimmed down using my paper trimmer.

Then, I glued everything together using Studio Katia glue and some double sided foam rectangles.

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

SUPPLIES:

Studio Katia – Kobi’s ice day

Studio Katia – Holiday village

Studio Katia dies – Dotted patterns set 3

Studio Katia dies – Simple dotted borders

Studio Katia dies – Kobi’s ice day

Studio Katia dies – Holiday village

Studio Katia – Glue

Shining Poinsettia with Svetlana

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi everybody!
Do you like extraordinary cards? As for me, I adore them. Here’s my new card with poinsetti Christmas tree. I made it with help of special triangle stencil and Studio Katia’s ” Poinsettia Trimmings” set of stamps.

The stencil is made from a sheet of paper. Using it, I stamped out flowers and drew the lines. The tree is painted with Copic sketch markers. The space around the tree is coloured with yellow distress ink like it’s shining around and the darker one is made with dark blue distress inks.

 I added embossed sentiment, white splashes and some sequins.

Hope you like the card! Enjoy your day and may all your crafty dreams come true!

Colorful Holiday Village by Ilda

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello! Ilda here from I Love Doing All things crafty,  and welcome back to the Studio Katia Blog.

Today I have a fun little winter scene card to share with you featuring the new Holiday Village Stamp and Die set from the September Release. I’m a huge rainbow fan, so when I can I will go with rainbow colors in my creations 🙂

  • To begin, I stamped out all the village images out and then colored them in using Copic Markers and then die cut them out using the coordinating dies.
  • Next, I used the large frame from the Dotted Patterns Set 2 to start building the frame for the scene. I then ran that die cut piece along with the largest rectangle from the Darling Ribbons and Frames die to add the dotted stitching to the outer edge. I then stamped out the greeting from the Holiday Village. Under the frame, I added foam and popped that onto the card base. To the smaller rectangle die that resulted from the Dotted Patterns Set 2 I used the Light Ray Stencil to add some rays of glimmer paste to the top part of the rectangle. Set that piece aside to dry.
  • I then began working on the inside of the framed area. I wanted to create some hills for the houses to sit on, so I used the new Trimming Borders die as it is wavy and has the same dotted detail to cut out some hill-like shapes. Then using the largest frame again from the Dotted Patterns Set 2 I die cut the hills to the same width of the rectangle frame.
  • Now that the piece I added the glimmer paste rays was dry, I used it as the base to build up the scene. I first played around with the layout of the houses and hills and then once I was happy with it I glued everything in place using foam tape to pop up some pieces. I used double foam tape on the bottom hill to make that my highest piece, which allowed me to be able to add dimension throughout the scene behind that point. Finally, once the pieces were all glued down in place I added the little colorful holiday village to the inside of the frame on the card front.

For some final details:

  • I added some white gel pen marks to the windows and added some silver dots to the trees.
  • I also added some footprints to the snow with a light grey Copic marker.
  • Glossy accents were added to all the windows and hanging Christmas lights.
  • And of course, had to add some of the Iridescent Ice Flakes for more sparkle!

Here is a close up of this fun winter scene and all it’s little details.

Hope this card has inspired you today, and thank you all for joining me!

Ilda

 

SUPPLIES:

HOLIDAY VILLAGE | STAMP SET

HOLIDAY VILLAGE DIES

LIGHT RAY | CREATIVE STENCIL

TRIMMINGS BORDERS | CREATIVE DIE

IRIDESCENT ICE FLAKES

DOTTED PATTERNS: SET 2 | CREATIVE DIES

DARLING RIBBON & FRAMES | CREATIVE DIES

STUDIO KATIA GLUE

 

Sweet Holiday Wishes

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

I am about to mention the C word….Christmas. It is fast approaching, It feels just like last week was January and yet we are already midway through August !

I love working with the smaller stamps that come with a lot of stamp sets and often think they are really over looked. Today I have created a card using the candy cane stamps that are part of the Sweet Holiday Stamp set which is being retired and is on sale ! So grab a bargain.

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I started off stamping and heat embossing the sentiment onto some Ranger Kraft card. I then took the candy cane stamps and mounted them onto my stamping block and randomly stamped them across the card panel.

Once I was happy I then coloured them using Polychromo coloured pencils and added some detail with white gel pen.

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I then used the Dotted Patterns Scallop Frame and die cut the whole piece out and adhered it to a red card base.

I decided it needed something a bit more so I added some of the Silver Foil Crystals.

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There is something I love about red, white & kraft as a color combo, especially for holiday cards.

What’s your favourite holiday card colour combination ?

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

Happy Crafting.

Supplies:

Sweet Holiday Stamp set

Dotted Patterns Scallop Frame

Silver Foil Crystals

stamping block

 

Ho Ho Ho Pop Up Card with Svetlana

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi everyone!

Today I have a pop-up box card that I’ve created from scratch. Box measures 10x10cms.  I die cut the window using one of a squares from Dotted Patterns | Nested Squares. Inside the box I’ve added hills and positioned the winter friends.

The trees are from the Winter Kobi stamp set and the Santa and Moose from the Friends of Winter. These go great together.

I used distress markers to color all the images. Thank you for stopping by I hope you like this cute pop up card.

Svetlana

 

SUPPLIES:
Winter Kobi | Clear Stamp Set

Friends of Winter

Two stand along cards with Merry Poinsettia

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello friends! Olga Moss is here. And today I want to show you romantic winter cards series. I really like our Merry Poinsettia stamp set, so I wanted to do something festive, elegant and unusual with it. So I made these stand along die cut cards.

So, I cut out two forms using Stitched Nested Creative Rectangles Creative Dies and Stitched Nested Creative Squares Creative Dies for each card. To put them together, I cut out an additional form of the middle die. Next, I bent them on the sides and glued them between large shapes. There were two standing bases. It reminds me of the shape of the vases.

Then I prepared the flowers. I stamped them, colored using Copic markers. Then I cut them all out using coordinating dies. And glued them to the bases.

Now I have decorated them with Golden Seed Beads.

I also die cut the sentiments Joy & Merry of gold paper and stuck them on top.

Now I need to glue the form of the card. For this, I folded them and glued the top part. So we got a standing card.

For efficiency, I tied a piece of lace from above.

Thank you to joining us. See you soon… Olga. Xo

Supplies:

Merry Poinsettia | Clear Stamp Set

Merry Poinsettia | Coordinating Dies

Stitched Nested Creative Rectangles | Creative Dies

Stitched Nested Creative Squares | Creative Dies

Seed Beads

Theme Week | Last Minute Christmas Cards: Day 5 Merry & Joy with Katia

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Happy Friday Friends!

Today I have created a couple of quick shaker cards featuring gold embossed Brush Strokes Stripes and Merry Poinsettia Dies.

To start on my background, I used MISTI to position the the stripes, I’ve placed 4 stripes close together used versamark ink and gold embossing powder. Then i turned the card base around and stamped the other portion of the base. I’ve repeated this for both cards. It’s really easy and fast if you need to create lots of cards.

For my first card I used a dotted doily circle die to cut the shaker window and I also heat embossed the thin border in gold embossing to create a more finished look. I couldn’t find any clear acetate therefore I used vellum for both cards instead. I really like the look of vellum in shaker cards.  Especially for Holiday Cards it creates this frosted look. Filled the shaker with Gold Foil Fusion, Gold Foil Stars and I thought it needed a little bit of silver so I’ve added 3MM Silver Foil Sequins and Silver Dust Seed Beads for shaker noise. Since my window is so large,  I only used one layer of foam tape so my sequins don’t move as much. For my next card, I cut the shaker window using the dotted square and die cut the stripe base with largest frame from Dotted Patterns Set 1. Originally I was planning to adhere it to the white card base but then I thought there was too much white and decided to use the same red cardstock. I trimmed down it a little bit to have a thin white board around the edges. I used the same filling for the shaker as the first card.

To finish of both cards, I die cut the sentiments from silver glitter cardstock Joy and Merry and added a few Silver Foil Crystals.  Once I added the Merry sentiment to the first card I thought it needed Christmas sentiment, I used Christmas from Pink Winter stamp set and heat embossed it in silver. It’s really hard to see in silver perhaps I should have used white heat embossing.

Thank You for stopping by have a great weekend!

Katia

 

– SUPPLIES –
Brush Stroke Stripes | Clear Stamp Set
Pink Winter | Clear Stamp Set
Merry Poinsettia | Coordinating Dies
Dotted Patterns: Set 1 | Creative Dies
Dotted Patterns: Nested Squares | Creative Dies
Dotted Balloons | Creative Dies
Silver Foil Crystals | Mix
Gold Foil Fusion
Gold Foil Stars
3MM Silver Foil Sequins
Silver Dust Seed Beads
MISTI

Theme Week | Last Minute Christmas Cards: Day 4 Joy with Rowena

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Theme Week, Winter Holidays

Hey there!
It’s my turn today to share a quick and easy Christmas card project…. and trust me it’s quick and easy, perfect for any last minute card that you may need.
To start, I randomly stamped snowflakes from ‘Happy Snowflakes‘ and the tiny snowflakes from the ‘Friends of Winter’ stamp set to create my background. I used gray ink for the subtle look.
Next, I choose images from ‘Friends of Winter‘ and ‘Sweet Holiday‘ stamp. I used friendly copic paper and ink. I did a very simple coloring around the images.
This technique was inspired by the talented Sandy Allnock. She did a project using watercolor to color her background and leaving the images white. I decided to color mine with copics instead. Thanks Sandy for the inspiration!!
Once the coloring was done, I trimmed my images to 4 tiny squares to fit my card. I added foam tape and finished my card with a die cut sentiment JOY from the ‘Merry Poinsettia‘ coordinating die.
That finishes my card for today! Thanks for stopping by and till next time.
Happy crafting,
Rowena

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Theme Week | Last Minute Christmas Cards – Day 2 Let it Snow with Tracy

/ CATEGORIES - CAS, Winter Holidays

Its that time of year where time is limited so our theme week is last minute christmas cards.

For my card I went for a super quick CAS card using the Happy Snowflakes Stamp Set and the Snowflake embellishments .

The good thing about the card I created is I started off covering a large piece of card with distress oxide inks in different tone of blue and adding some water splatters, now if you work on a large piece than you need then you will have plenty left over for more cards.

I then stamped some of snowflakes onto some white card whilst the inked piece was drying. I heat embossed the snowflakes with white embossing powder and then adhered the panel onto a light blue top folding A2 notecard.

Once the inked piece was dry I trimmed it down to fit and stamped the Let It Snow sentiment onto it using Black Ink and adhered this to the card.

To finish off I added some of the snowflake embellishments.

This card took around 10-15 mins but having the inked piece already there means any other cards I create using it will probably be even quicker.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope I have inspired you to get creating some last minute cards. Don’t forget to share you Studio Katia creations with us on social media.

Also a little birdie told me there might be a new release coming very soon……

Happy Crafting

Tracy

Theme Week | Last Minute Christmas Cards: Day 1 with Svitlana

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, Theme Week, Winter Holidays

Hi friends!

Svitlana is here today. This week is a theme week here at Studio Katia blog and we;re sharing ideas of last minute Christmas cards.

Many of you can relate, that no matter how many holiday cards you made starting for example from July – when it’s time to send them out you always need more.  And if you started making holiday cards only in September – the situation can be tougher. And that’s where quick and last minute card ideas comes in handy.

I want to share one design, which is quick to make and suitable for mass producing.  For the card I’m showing today I used Merry Poinsettia Stamp Set and the set of matching dies.

First I white embossed poinsettias onto a red cardstock and leaves onto a green one. If you don’t have color cardstock you can make one by blending some ink onto a white cardstock.

Next I die-cut all elements using Merry Poinsettia Die Set. I made an A2 card base out of white cardstock and stamped a sentiment onto it using red ink. Lastly I foam mounted poinsettia flowers and leaves onto the card base.

This was a very quick card to make. Merry Poinsettia set is great for both coloring and using outlined images as is. They’re quite detailed and very beautiful. This design can be modified using different colors and papers. For example you can white emboss flowers on vellum and adhere onto a raft or dark card base. You can make a quite watercolor wash background and use it to make poinsettias out of. You can alternate colors of flowers and backgrounds getting totally different looks from the same design.

Hope you like my idea and have a great week!

Svitlana

SUPPLIES

Merry Poinsettia Stamp Set

Merry Poinsettia Die Set