Winter Holidays

Sweet Holiday Wishes

August 15, 2018 / 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.

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.

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.

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

December 22, 2017 / 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

December 21, 2017 / 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

December 8, 2017 / 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

December 7, 2017 / 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

– SUPPLIES –
Happy Snowflakes | Clear Stamp Set
Friends of Winter | Clear Stamp Set
Sweet Holiday | Clear Stamp Set
Merry Poinsettia | Coordinating Dies

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

December 5, 2017 / 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

December 4, 2017 / 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

Be Merry with Kaja

December 1, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there,

It’s Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and I have another Christmas card that I want to show you. 🙂

I made an elegant Christmas card using Merry poinsettia stamp set. I decided to color it in with my alcohol markers, so I stamped three of the Poinsettias on a piece of white card stock. I used some masking tape to combine two stamps in one image. Next, I used different shades of red markers to make the image more dimensional.

I didn’t want to make a one layer card, so I partially die cut the bottom of the flowers using it’s coordinating dies. For the straight line at the sides, I used my craft knife to cut it with some help of a ruler to make it straight.

To the lower part of the card I added a kraft paper and I drew white stitching at the edges to make it more finished.

I stamped the sentiment from the same Merry poinsettia stamp set with black ink directly in the center of the card, above my middle poinsettia. Next, I popped up the white panel with some foam tape and glued it on my card base.

To finish the card off I added some wink of stella shimmer in clear color on my flowers and glued some sequins from a Rose gold sequin fusion all over the card.

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

Kaja

SUPPLIES:

Merry poinsettia | Clear Stamp Set

Merry poinsettia | Coordinating Dies

Rose gold fusion

Three Interactive Christmas Cards with Natalia

November 30, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello, everyone. Natalia here. Today I would like to show you three different interactive holiday cards.
First card is a see-through shaker.

For this card I stamped characters from Friends of Winter, Winter Kobi, Foxes and Hello Alice sets, colored them all with alcohol markers and die cut them using coordinating dies. Next I die cut two panels using frame die from Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames and blended both using distress inks and stencils. I die cut windows on the top panel using Stitched Loops die and made couple die cuts from white cardstock.

I made a shaker using foam tape and acetate and filled it with Pink Winter, Crystal Rainbow Confetti, Majestic 3mm, Clear Dust. Next I adhered everything together and added a grey banner with silver heat embossed sentiment from Origami Winter set. Interesting fact – I used puddle image from Hello Alice set to make a carpet under the Christmas tree.

For my second card I used Winter Kobi and Friends of Winter sets.

I added splashes on ink blended background panel using clear and white glitter pens.
Here I turned the puddle image from Hello Alice into ice, which I heat embossed on an acetate with silver embossing powder. Next I cut out the track for Kobi’s moves on ice.

I added a white heat embossed sentiment “HoHoHo” from Friends of Winter set.

I used foam tape and regular double sided tape to adhere all the elements onto a card. And voila, Kobi slides on ice.

For the third card I used Christmas trees and sleigh from Winter Kobi set and Kobi Kobi The Birthday Bear set. I kept this card very simple with a lot of white space thanks to all the snow banks.

Kobi riding down the hill on his sleigh. Here I ink blended background panel with distress inks. Next I made some snow banks out of white cardstock. I cut out a track for Kobi to be able to move down the hill.

I adhered all the elements using double sided tape and a foam tape. I added a white banner with silver heat embossed sentiment from Origami Winter set and embellished the card with Majestic Fusion sequins.

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

Friends of Winter | Clear Stamp Set

Winter Kobi | Clear Stamp Set

Hello Alice | Clear Stamp Set

Foxes | Clear Stamp Set

Origami Winter | Clear Stamp Set

Kobi the Birthday Bear | Clear Stamp Set

Darling Ribbon & Dotted Frames | Creative Dies

Stitched Loops | Creative Dies

Pink Winter Fusion

Crystal Rainbow | Confetti

3MM Majestic Sequins

Clear Dust Seed Beads

Majestic Fusion

Sweet Cookie Cards and Tags with Olga

November 27, 2017 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello, friends and welcome back for another Olga Moss‘ post! This time I am sharing Christmas cards created using my favorite Sweet Holiday stamp set.

First, how often do you use coordinating dies not for their intended purpose? For my cards today I used them to create a textured background. And I’d love to hear what you think?

I started working on these projects by dry embossing the shape cookies onto light craft cardstock. Then I stamped, colored and die-cut cookies with candies. For the coloring I used my Spectrum Noir markers. Also to complement the kit figure cookies I made a cracker in the shape of a circle. For this I used Doily die from Dotted Balloons dies set. I sponged it with the brown inks and stamped the image of confetti. And pierced holes.

Once all of my pieces were ready I foam mounted them onto card base. I heat embossed “hey, cookie! Joy!” sentiment in white embossing powder onto craft cardstock and foam mounted it onto my card. Lastly, I added several Crystal Rainbow sequins. I think that came out perfectly!