Winter Holidays

From our home to yours with Natalia

January 15, 2021 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. Today I want to share with you my card using beautiful Studio Katia supplies KOBI’S ICE DAY stamp set, HOLIDAY VILLAGE stamp set and RECTANGULAR DOTS COVER.

First, I stamped the cute images from the KOBI’S ICE DAY and HOLIDAY VILLAGE stamp sets. Colored with copic markers and die cut with coordinating dies and scissors. I made highlights using white and silver pen.

I took two panels of white and grey cardstocks. I cut out a window in the upper panel using paper knife. I inked the lower panel with Distress Inks. I added some splatters to the upper frame panel using colors of the lower panel inking.

I adhered the image onto my background panel using double-sided foam tape. Cut 2 frames out of foam to make a shaker. Filled it with SPARKLING CRYSTALS, PINEAPPLE DELIGHT CRYSTALS, 3M CRYSTAL CLEAR, SILVER DUST, MINT DREAM CRYSTALS, POSEIDON CRYSTALS, SPRING GREEN CRYSTALS, CRYSTAL CLEAR CONFETTI, 3M CRYSTAL RAINBOW.

Placed all the elements on the white paper panels using double-sided foam tape.

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

SUPPLIES:

RECTANGULAR DOTS COVER

SPARKLING CRYSTALS

PINEAPPLE DELIGHT CRYSTALS

SPRING GREEN CRYSTALS

CRYSTAL CLEAR CONFETTI

3M CRYSTAL RAINBOW

Beautiful Stenciled Christmas Cards by Tracey

January 11, 2021 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Happy New Year! Hi there, it’s Tracey and before putting your holiday crafty supplies away, take a bit of time and make some cards to get ready for next holiday season.

I made two sets of cards using the Studio Katia Snowflake stencil and the Floral Snowflake stencil. I used them along with Distress Oxide inks and Distress Oxide Sprays to create what are my favourite card designs this year!

I used the Studio Katia Snowflakes stencil for this first set of cards. I began with a panel of Bristol Smooth cardstock. I sprayed the back of the Snowflake stencil with Pixie Spray, it makes keeping your stencils flat and in place so easy. I adhered the stencil, sticky side down, to panel so the snowflake is off the edge. I began by blending Scattered Straw Distress Oxide ink in the centre of the snowflake. Then working out from the centre I blended Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar Distress Oxide inks with the Studio Katia Ink Blender Brushes until I was happy with the blend. I intentionally did not cover the entire panel with ink, I let the Spun Sugar just fade off.

Each panel ended up a bit different depending on my ink blending, I wasn’t too worried about getting the stencil spotless between each card.

While cleaning off the stencil on my media mat I noticed the ink colours were seeping under the stencil. It looked like watercolour on the back, so I quickly grabbed another panel of Bristol Smooth and dropped the stencil on it. I wish I could have been able to get a better photo for you but this one turned out so fun. My favourite Christmas card I made!

Once all of the panels were dry I die cut them using the stitched rectangle from the Darling Ribbons & Trims die set. This gives a nice finish to the edge of the panel. The sentiment, Peace on earth, from the Poinsettia Border stamp set, was stamped and heat embossed with Wow Gold Pearl embossing powder on all the cards.

Six cards and a bonus 7th!

For the second set of cards, I used Distress Oxide ink and Distress Oxide Sprays and with the Snowflake stencil and the Floral Snowflake stencil.

The first group were all made with the Snowflake stencil. Just like I did with the last set of cards, I cut nine panels of Bristol Smooth cardstock. I sprayed the back of the Snowflake stencil with Pixie Spray, adhered the stencil to the panel and put it into my Spray box. I sprayed Distress Oxide Sprays on to the panels one at a time using a variety of blues Distress Oxide Sprays–Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon, Faded Jeans and Cracked Pistachio. So fast, so fun and so pretty.

The next two cards are a bit different the first card uses Twisted Citron and Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Spray along with the Snowflake stencil.

The teal card was made by spraying Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Spray using the Floral Snowflake stencil. I damaged the panel but rather than tossing it into the recycle bin, I used a large circle die to cut the snowflake out and stock the circle onto a teal card base. The sentiment was embossed with Wow Gold Pearl embossing powder.

For these next two cards I started by blending some Tumble Glass Distress Oxide ink onto the two panels just around the edge and keeping the centres mostly white. I used the Floral Snowflake stencil using Abandoned Coral and Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Sprays.

Once all of the panels were dry I die cut them using the stitched rectangle from the Darling Ribbons & Trims die set just like I did with the first set. All the sentiments were from the Gift Tags Greetings: Winter stamp set. Once everything was assembled I sprayed the panels with clear Glimmer Spray for extra shine and set them aside to dry.

A couple hours in my studio and I ended up with 16 Christmas cards!

Supplies:

Studio Katia Snowflake stencil
Floral Snowflake stencil
Studio Katia Ink Blender Brushes
Darling Ribbons & Trims die set
Poinsettia Border stamp set
Gift Tags Greetings: Winter
Scattered Straw Distress Oxide ink
Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide ink
Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink
Spun Sugar Distress Oxide ink
Twisted Citron Distress Oxide ink
Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide ink
Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Spray
Salty Ocean Distress Oxide Spray
Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide Spray
Faded Jeans Distress Oxide Spray
Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Spray
Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide Spray
Wow Gold Pearl embossing powder
Pixie Spray

Hello 2021 with Emily

December 24, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Winter Holidays

Happy Holidays, my crafty friends! It’s hard to believe that it’ll be New Year’s Eve in one week. I still remember going into lockdown for the first time back in March and wondering how we will survive this. Then my mom passed away in April and the year changed forever. Currently, my dad is not doing well so I hope my family can still enjoy the holidays before we’re burdened with more sadness. I feel like 2020 was such a waste of a year but, at this point in my life, I’m sad to have lost that valuable year. It’s hard to feel encouraged about a fresh start but making this card certainly helped lift my spirits.

That being said, I love making New Year’s cards so I pulled out the You’re So Ranunculous stamp set which has a gorgeous large image, perfect for covering an entire card and is so relaxing to watercolour.

I stamped the image with watermark ink on watercolour cardstock and heat embossed it with sparkle embossing powder. Since I wanted to create a soft look, the sparkle in the powder helps makes the image pop. After the panel was dry, I used the largest frame from Dotted Patterns Set 1 to dry emboss the panel and trimmed it down to 4″ x 5.25″ so the toffee card base would create a frame.

Next, I die cut the scripted hello from You’re So Ranunculus Dies and 2021 from Chunky Numbers both in heavy white cardstock and glitter gold cardstock. Using Stick It Adhesive, I layered the white and gold layers together and adhered them to the watercolored panel for a bit of dimension.

To finish, I adhered the panel to the card base using a tape runner and added a few vanilla lustre fusion sequins using liquid glue and an embellishment wand. I really enjoyed making this card and hope you feel encouraged heading into the New Year!

Please visit me on my blog, Instagram and YouTube channel for more inspiration. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:

You’re So Ranunculous

You’re So Ranunculus Dies

Chunky Numbers

Dotted Patterns Set 1

Vanilla Lustre Fusion

Glue

Embellishment Wand

Happy Holidays Set with Olga

December 21, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Floral Cards, Winter Holidays

Hello, friends. Olga here to share with you a small festive series with poinsettias from POINSETTIA BORDER stamp set. When I sat down to color these gorgeous flowers, I realized that I could not simply make one card. So I made a souvenir shaker magnet, a gift tag and some beautiful wonderful stickers that can be used to decorate envelopes, or be used to secure wrapping paper on the gifts.

First, I stamped a lot of poinsettias on coloring paper and on sticker paper and colored all the flowers with alcohol markers. It took me a while, but it was so much fun. I die cut out two poinsettia borders for the card using POINSETTIA BORDER DIES.

Next, I created a bright green background. I wanted to add snow to my background, so I used CONFETTI STENCIL and white embossing paste for that. I heat embossed a sentiment from the GIFT TAG GREETINGS: WINTER stamp set with golden embossing powder. With all the pieces ready, I could now assemble the card. To embellish the card I used GOLD SPARKLE CRYSTALS and ICY SPARKLE CRYSTALS.

To make the stickers I used simple circle die and small dotted circle from the FANCY CIRCLE die set.

For the heart shaped shaker magnet I used FANCY SCALLOP HEARTS DIES. I filled the shaker with the IRIDESCENT BUBBLES, GOLD DUST seed beads and Green seed beads. I used image from Poinsettia Border for the background of my shaker.

After making the heart shaker, I had a leftover negative die cut, so I decided to use it to make a tag. To decorate it I die cut a mini scallop heart tag and glued it onto the negative die cut from scallop heart. I embellished the tag with GOLD SPARKLE CRYSTALS and ICY SPARKLE CRYSTALS.

This whole set looks very bright and elegant. I am sure that whoever would receive this, will love all the details of this beautiful set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Olga

SUPPLIES

POINSETTIA BORDER

POINSETTIA BORDER DIES

GIFT TAG GREETINGS: WINTER

FANCY CIRCLE

FANCY SCALLOP HEARTS DIES

IRIDESCENT BUBBLES – TINY

GOLD DUST

GOLD SPARKLE CRYSTALS

ICY SPARKLE CRYSTALS

CONFETTI STENCIL

Merry Christmas with Natalia

December 18, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. Today I want to share with you my card using beautiful Studio Katia products – POINSETTIA BORDER and MERRY POINSETTIA stamp sets.

First, I stamped the cute images from the Merry Poinsettia Clear Stamp Set. Colored with copic markers and die cutting them with coordinating dies.

I blended some distress inks onto white piece of paper. I cut out a window in the upper panel using paper knife.

Placed all the elements on the white paper panel using double-sided foam tape. Die cutting word Merry from Merry Poinsettia Clear Stamp Set. I stamped word Christmas gold heat embossed. I mounted my panel onto white card base using foam and finished my card.

I added some CLEAR DROPS MIX TWO for a finishing touch.

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

Natalia

SUPPLIES:

POINSETTIA BORDER

MERRY POINSETTIA

MERRY POINSETTIA DIES

CLEAR DROPS MIX TWO

Watercolor Holiday Cards with Dana

December 16, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

It’s Dana here and I’d like to share two watercolor holiday cards today. It’s easy and fun and let’s get started!

For my first card, I pulled out cold pressed watercolor paper with Floral Snowflake Stencil. I ink blended watercolor panel using distress inks with Ink Blender Brushes. Then, I smoothed the image with clean water using paint brush. After it dried completely, I splattered distress inks here and there as shown.

Next, I die cut some alphabets and dots from metallic gold paper using Chunky Alphabet and Chunky Numbers. Before I foam mounted them, I stamped ‘joyeux’ from Snowflakes in black. I then mounted watercolor panel onto A2 sized blue card stock and embellished it with hemp cord.

For my next card, I created watercolor looks using same technique with first card. I used Snowflakes stamp set for snowflakes and Poinsettia Border for sentiment.

After it dried, I die cut ‘peace’ directly from watercolor panel and put them aside for next step. I took an A2 sized kraft card stock and mounted metallic silver paper and watercolor panel step by step.

Then, I adhered mini pop dots to negative pieces and mounted them as shown in the picture. I embellished Icy Sparkle Crystals and finished off this card.

Hope you enjoyed today’s cards. Happy crafting!

xoxo,

Dana

Supplies

FLORAL SNOWFLAKE STENCIL
SNOWFLAKES
POINSETTIA BORDER
HAPPY SNOWMEN

CHUNKY ALPHABET
CHUNKY NUMBERS

INK BLENDER BRUSHES
GLUE
ICY SPARKLE CRYSTALS

Happy Pawlidays Christmas Card

December 10, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Happy Pawlidays, Christmas Card, Studio Katia, Card Making, Stamping, Die Cutting, handmade card, ilovedoingallthingscrafty, Stamps, how to, Pets, family photo, Holiday Card,Copic Markers,Ink Blending,

Well hello, friends, Ilda here!

This fun card is for all my animal lovers out there. I was inspired by a recent photo I saw of some friends with their furry pets. So I thought it would be a great idea to recreate it as a Christmas card.

CARD DETAILS

To begin, I stamped out all my images. The cute children and furries come from the LOVE FOR PAWS BUNDLE. To both kids, I added the Santa Claus hat that comes from the WINTER KOBI. The images were then colored using Copic Markers and then die cut with the coordinating dies.

Next, I stamped out the LOTS OF GIFTS TRIMMINGS on the background panel. I then colored the gifts very simply using a variety of red markers. I then added gold details with a gel pen. To the top of the presents, I first stamped out a tree from the HAPPY SNOWMEN set and then blended it a little to give it a glowing appearance. I then used a few INK BLENDER BRUSHES to blend out the top area of the panel used Distress Oxide inks.
Moving along, I trimmed down the panel and then glued the background to the scallop frame that comes from the DOTTED PATTERNS SET 4. I then popped the images back into the center of the scene using FOAM TAPE.

The sentiment comes from the HAPPY PAWLIDAYS Set, that I then die cut using the banner from the PEONY TRIMMINGS DIES.

Here is how I finished off the inside of the card. The sentiments also come from the HAPPY PAWLIDAYS stamp set.

Sending family photo cards at this time of year is very common, so maybe sending a handmade card personalized to look like you and your furry pets may be another option and a cute surprise for your recipients.

Hope this Happy Pawlidays Christmas Card inspired you today. And since I don’t post again until after Christmas. I just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas however you are celebrating it this crazy year! Thank you for stopping by and until next time… xoxo, Ilda

Connect with me also on my Blog, Facebook Page, Instagram, and YouTube

SUPPLIES

LOVE FOR PAWS BUNDLE Shop at: SK	HAPPY PAWLIDAYS Shop at: SK	LOTS OF GIFTS TRIMMINGS Shop at: SK	HAPPY SNOWMEN Shop at: SK
WINTER KOBI Shop at: SK	WINTER KOBI DIES Shop at: SK	DOTTED PATTERNS SET 4 Shop at: SK	PEONY TRIMMINGS DIES Shop at: SK
INK BLENDER BRUSHES Shop at: SK	STUDIO KATIA GLUE Shop at: SK	FOAM TAPE – WHITE Shop at: SK	MINI MISTI Shop at: SSS \| SB \| HBS
NEENAH SOLAR WHITE 110 Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| HBS	BLACKOUT INK Shop at: SSS \| HBS \| IO3	COPIC SKETCH Shop at: SSS \| AMZ	GEMINI JR. DIE CUTTER Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SB
Oxide Ink Pad MOWED LAWN Shop at: SSS \| SB \| HBS	Oxide Ink Pad ICED SPRUCE Shop at: SSS \| HBS	Oxide Ink Pad BLACK SOOT Shop at: SSS \| SB \| HBS	ATELIER SHARK TOOTH Shop at: SSS \| IO3
WHITE GELLY ROLLER PEN SET Shop at: SSS \| AMZ \| SB	Gelly Roll Metallic Gel Ink Pen Set Shop at: AMZ	SMALL TIP WATER BRUSH PEN Shop at: SSS \| IO3	LIQUID PIXIE DUST Shop at: SSS \| IO3

Merry Christmas (Buzz) with Natalia

December 4, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Floral Cards, Shaker Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there! It’s Natalia here. Today I want to share with you my card using beautiful Studio Katia products – HONEY BEES , POINSETTIA BORDER and MERRY POINSETTIA stamp sets.

First, I stamped the cute images from the HONEY BEES , POINSETTIA BORDER and MERRY POINSETTIA stamp sets. Colored with copic markers and die cut with coordinating dies and scissors.

I made highlights using white and silver pen. Next, I blended some distress inks onto a white piece of paper.

I attached flowers to the slider.

Using circle die I made the window for shaker. Then I made the place for shaker using fun foam and filled it with SPARKLING CRYSTALS, ROUGE PINK CRYSTALS, PINEAPPLE DELIGHT CRYSTALS, PINK CARNATION CRYSTALS, MALLOW CRYSTALS, CRYSTAL CLEAR CONFETTI, CRYSTAL RAINBOW CONFETTI, 3M CRYSTAL CLEAR and CLEAR DUST. After that I cut the panel out of gold glitter cardstock using circle die.

Next, I adhered all the elements on the ink blended paper panel using double-sided foam tape. I die cut out the words Merry out of a gold glittered cardstock using a die from MERRY POINSETTIA DIES and adhered it in the middle using double-sided foam tape.

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

SUPPLIES:

POINSETTIA BORDER DIES

MERRY POINSETTIA

MERRY POINSETTIA DIES

SPARKLING CRYSTALS

ROUGE PINK CRYSTALS

PINEAPPLE DELIGHT CRYSTALS

PINK CARNATION CRYSTALS

MALLOW CRYSTALS

CRYSTAL CLEAR CONFETTI

CRYSTAL RAINBOW CONFETTI

3M CRYSTAL CLEAR

CLEAR DUST

Cheerful Holiday Card with Dana

November 30, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Winter Holidays

Happy Monday, everyone!

It’s Dana and I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Today, I’m back with a fun holiday card and here is what I came up with.

To start, I stamped Happy Pawlidays onto cold pressed watercolor paper in black. I watercolored them using watercolor paints and paint brush. After coloring, I let it dried and adhere watercolor panel onto white card base.

Next, I took A2 sized red cardstock and die cut it with European Window. I also used this die for window and frame with white & brown wood grain papers. Before I arranged them using masking tape, I flicked white inks here and there on red card stock. Once dried, I applied snow marker where I wanted and heat embossed it using heat tool.

Then, I popped up red panel onto A2 sized white card base using foam tape. For sentiment, I die cut ‘falala’ from golden metallic paper using Happy Pawlidays Dies. As a final touch, I slightly glued them as shown in the picture.

Hope you enjoyed this card. Thank you so much for stopping by!

xoxo,
Dana

Supplies

Singing Snowman by Tracey

November 27, 2020 / CATEGORIES - Cards, Coffee Cards, Winter Holidays

Hi there, it’s Tracey back again today. Are you making you own Christmas cards this year? I am still working on my cards for this year and the Studio Katia Happy Snowman stamps and Studio Katia Happy Snowman dies are so fun to use for some easy card making.

I die cut the largest stitched rectangle from the Dotted Slimline Set 1 die set and blended ink around the edges of the die cut. I added that to the card base. Then I cut the scalloped rectangle from the Dotted Slimline Set 2 die set and adhered that to the card base with foam tape. I used the Snow Fetti Stencil to blend some blue snowflakes on to the background.

I stamped the tree directly to the paper and then I stamped and Copic coloured the snowman and then I cut the images out with the co-odinating Happy Snowman dies! I trimmed the border die cut border off the hat to tuck it on the snowman’s head a bit better. The snowman was added to the card with foam tape.