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Birthday Wishes

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Floral Cards

Hey lovelies it’s Tracy here with you today

I hope 2021 is being kind to you all so far ? Now the festive season is over I need to start working on birthday cards for this year and couldn’t resist using my favourite floral set Japanese Peony, along with my favourite stencil Brush stroke waves

I started off by heat embossing the main image and two of the leaves onto some watercolour card, I wanted a gold theme so I used Simon Says Stamp fine detail gold powder.
I then used Spectrum Noir Aqua pens to do some basic watercolouring on all the peace’s and left to one side to dry.
I cut a piece of watercolour card to A2 size and taped the stencil to the card. I used Nuvo Glimmer paste and applied going from one side of the card to the other with a pallet knife giving a faded effect going across the card.
I then left this to dry overnight

I then used the matching dies to cut the floral pieces out and using foam tape I arranged them on the card, I also heatt embossed a sentiment onto some black card stock and at this point decided to add some black ink splatter, once I was happy with the whole arrangement I adhered everything down and used a black card base to tie it all together and added some Onyx crystals to finish.

Really happy with how this turned out and hope you like it and it’s given you some inspiration.
Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you have an amazing day and happy crafting.
Supplies used –

Japanese Peony Stamp Set

Brush Wave Strokes Stencil

Peony Trimmings stamp set (sentiment) –

Onyx Crystals

Simon Says Stamp Gold Embossing Powder

Spectrum Noir Aqua Pens

Spectrum Noir Watercolour card.

Nuvo Clear Ink Pad

Nuvo Gold Glimmer Paste

 

 

Sweet Valentines Day card

/ CATEGORIES - Valentines Day Cards

Hello everyon! It’s Galaina. And let me show you something super cute 🙂 I made an adorable card using my favorite stamp set called Paws for kindness, and I love it because of sweet pet illustrations 🙂

How I made this card you can watch here or on Studio Katia’s Youtube channel.

On this card I combined two cover dies to create a dotted card background with a scallop frame. I used SCALLOP HONEYCOMB COVER and MINI POLKA DOTS COVER DIE. To create a heart frame I used two frame die cuts I made using SHAKER HEART die. I cut them out from a silver mirror cardstock and a white glitter cardstock.

I made a custom sentiment for this card. I cut out a word forever using a number die and dies from chunky alphabet.

Thanks for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies

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Beautiful Stenciled Christmas Cards by Tracey

/ 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

Dimensional floral card

/ CATEGORIES - Other

Hello everyone! I’m happy to welcome you in 2021! The last year was hard for everyone, but we keep positive thinking! And I want to share with you something fun and bright and I have prepared a colorful card for today.

How I made this card you can watch here or on Studio Katia Youtube chanel.

I made this card using Square brick stencil, Dotted Patterns 3 die set and a beautiful stamp called A cup of thanks. I used only floral part from this stamp 🙂

On a watercolor paper panel I applied yellow, green, mint and light blue distress inks through the brick stencil. Next, I cut out a panel with an oval window using a two dies from Dotted Patterns 3 die set.

On another watercolor paper I stamped flowers with Versamark clear ink and covered them with a gold embossi

ng powder. I heat set the images with my heat gun. To color the flowers I used bgright pigmented watercolor markers. I cuto ut flowers with coordinating die and placed them on the back side of the frame, after that I placed the sloral panel on the ard background.

To create a sentiment, I used letterer dies from Chunky alphabet and I cut out them twice from a green and white cardstock. I stacked green and white letters together to create a nice shade behind the diecuts. Next, I heat embossed a little sentiment using a stamp from Floral Note stamp set.

As a final touch I applied shimmer on the big letters with my Nuvo shimmer per. It will create a sparkle cover on the letters.

Thanks for stopping by!


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Dear friends,

Last year has been a very difficult year for everyone. Studio Katia as a one-woman led company has gone through many challenges that have been overwhelming and difficult to deal with. Close to 200 packages got lost by postal services, keeping our products available for our customers became challenging as well, and keeping up with all the emails and messages was close to impossible for one person. This year wasn’t an easy one for any family, our SK family included. We know that all the interruptions and lack of clarity on what is happening caused a lot of frustration, and we felt that we owed some explanation to our wonderful customers and followers. We truly hope this note from Team answers some questions.

Our Team has taken a short winter break, but we are going to continue bringing you more crafty inspiration to keep everyones spirits high, even though the blog will work on a little slower schedule with fever posts, as members of our Team are also dealing with pandemic challenges in their lives.

We are so grateful for your understanding, your patience and continuous support! Without you it would be even harder to deal with all the challenges the pandemic has brought. We appreciate your patience and ongoing support as Katia and the SK Design Team are working to overcome all the challenges. We truly hope that this new year will be a much better one for all of us.

Many crafty hugs from Studio Katia Family!

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Shaped jewel crystal frames

/ CATEGORIES - Cards, CAS, Floral Cards, Hello Cards

Hello everyone, it’s Galina.

Today im going to show you how to create shiny crystal frame using small dies and your favorite crystal embellishments.

How I made this card you can watch here or on Studio Katia’s Youtube chanel.

I cut out a white panel using Dotted die set 3. I applied few colors of ink on it. I used blender brushes to apply light shades of each color. If you want to get a brighter background – add a second layer of ink or apply inks with hard hand and pick a lot of ink on your brush.

Next I cut out 3 windows using a small hexagon die. Next I applied a small amount of liquid glue close to the cut edge and then placed the biggest crystals. I combined pink, green and blue transparent crystals.

I heat embossed flowers on a piece of vellum and attached it behind the card panel. I heat embossed a sentiment on the black cardstock and cut out with a coordinating stripe die. I foam mount it under the die cut windows.

Also, I listed below some other little dies, which you can use for this technique.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Galina

Supplies

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Hello 2021 with Emily

/ 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

One layered vellum shaker card

/ CATEGORIES - Birthday Cards, Shaker Cards

Hello everyone! It’s Galina. I have a soft birthday card to share with you. I combined two my favorite techniques to get this delicate background using Floral Garden stamp set.

How to make this card you can watch here or on Studio Katia’s Youtube chanel.

At first I cut out an oval mask using a die from Nesting ovals die set, I out it on a large piece of vellum and stamped a floral background with clear Versamark ink. I covered it with fine detail embossing powder and melt it. In a centre I heat embossed a sentiment, but I used a regular white embossing powder, because of wide line in the stamped sentiment.

I flip over the vellum and applied pigment inks om all flowers. Then, I attached the vellum to a kraft card panel and put some confetti between vellum and paper. I attached the panel to a card base using strong double sided adhesive tape.

I embellished the card with tiny pink crystals using the embellishment want and a small amount of liquid glue from Studio Katia.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Galina

Supplies

Happy Holidays Set with Olga

/ 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

/ 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