Good morning! I am so excited and honored to be a stop on the 1st Birthday Celebration Blog Hop for Studio Katia! Even though she’s relatively new Katia has made quite the impact on her first year in the crafting community! I had the opportunity to chat with Katia when we were arranging a collaboration for A Blog Named Hero and I love her cheerful, supportive, and generous spirit! And I am so excited to help her celebrate her first year! I hope Studio Katia celebrates many MANY more birthdays! 🙂 Here’s the shaker card I created for the hop!
This is definitely the opposite of a flat card but I love the dimension! I started by stamping the gorgeous peony from Thank You So Much onto watercolor paper three times and heat-embossed it with gold tinsel embossing powder. Then I watercolored it with carmine red and light carmine zig clean color real brush markers and a damp paintbrush. After I laid down the initial wash of color I added additional shading with the same markers. I knew I was going to be layering the flower so I only colored the layer I needed on each flower. Then I fussy cut each flower: once around the whole flower, once around the second inner layer, and once around the center of the flower. Then I went over the edge of the flowers with my RV23 copic marker to make sure there were no white edges. I adhered the the middle of the second layer of the flower with regular adhesive and then popped up the petals with foam mounting tape. Then I adhered the center of the flower with foam mounting tape. I love the dimension you get from layering the flower!
To create my shaker card I stamped the peony from Thank You So Much twice onto a panel of white cardstock and heat-embossed it with gold tinsel embossing powder. I also stamped the sentiment and heat-embossed it with the same embossing powder. Next I die-cut the inner rectangle from Dotted Shaker Tag 1 twice to create an accent around my sentiment. Before I created the shaker I lined up the panel on my cardbase and adhered the pieces I had die-cut onto the card base so they would show through the shaker windows once the card was finished. Then I adhered acetate to the back of the panel, built up a shaker frame with foam mounting tape, and filled it with the Majestic Fusion sequin mix! Finally I adhered the card base to the back of the shaker to finish the card!
Again, happy birthday to Studio Katia and many thanks to Katia for inviting me to be part of the hop! Best wishes for the years to come! 🙂
Katia is offering several prizes to celebrate her first birthday! First off, you can win a $20 gift card to Studio Katia at EVERY stop on the hop! Make sure to leave a comment by Sunday, May 7th for your chance to win! The more blogs you visit, the greater your chances of winning.
You can also win a Simon Says Stamp goody bag or a set of Kuretake ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Pens (80 color set)!! The winners will be chosen randomly from all the comments along the hop! 😉 All comments must be left before 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, May 7th and winners will be announced on May 10th.
Studio Katia is also offering 15% off all purchases to their online shop using the code “SKTURNS1” through Sunday, May 7th at midnight EST.
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This is beautiful! I love the colors!
I love the use of the simply embossed flowers combined with the beautifully colored and die cut flower. So nice!
This card is stunning!
This is stunning in every way!
This card is so dimensional. Love your work and the lovely script. Kat is has lots to be proud of and surely more success in the years to come. Thanks for sharing this lovely.
This is beautiful! Love the little shaker cut outs in the background. Adds a special touch to it!
Awesome card! Love the gold embossing and those little shaker windows rock! The flower is so pretty! Thanks for sharing! Happy Birthday Studio Katia!
So very very pretty-love your card!
Gorgeous card. That flower is a knock out!
Your card is stunning! I love the gold embossing throughout the card and especially with the red peony. And I love that you layered the peony, it looks so textural and real. I also love that the bottom layer of the shaker square line up with the embossed peony on the top layer. An amazing card
How brilliant Jess! Love how you tied the shaker element right into the design so you get the added sparkle but how you got it in there isn’t so obvious!
Love all these great window dies. Beautiful card!
Beautiful card and colors. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Such a great shakercard! It really pops of my screen and still is such a clean design!
Love your card! the colors are Great
Gorgeous!!
Love the dimension on your card! Beautiful!!
Such a unique shaker. Lovely card.
absolutely stunning
Beautiful!!
Gorgeous card! Really love the pop of red alongside the gold accents!
Stunning, bright card!
Gorgeous – love your design and the colors. Outstanding.
Creative design. Beautiful card.
What a gorgeous card! That flower looks even more stunning when layered and I love the ingenious square shaker windows you added – just amazing. Thanks so much for sharing!