Floral Card with WOW Clear Embossing and Studio Katia (Blog Hop & Giveaway)

2018-11-192018-11-19 / Rosali / 28 Comments

Hi there! How are you doing today?

Just in case you need some craft inspiration to take your mind off the fact that it’s Monday … 😉 I have a lovely floral card to show you! And it’s part of a collaboration blog hop between WOW Embossing and Studio Katia so there is plenty of wonderful cards along the hop as well as some prizes to win! Isn’t that a great start to this week!

If you are already hopping along, you should have arrived from Kristina Pokazanieva and Olga Lukaseviciene is your next stop!

MY FLORAL CARD WITH NO LINE COLORING

I have a floral card for you that I made with one of the beauuutiful flower images from Studio Katia’s “You’re So Sweet” stamp set. They seemed perfect for coloring with colored pencils and that is what I did – using a no line coloring method. I stamped the image with a very light dye ink that isn’t visible anymore now that I added my coloring.

I used a mixture of Caran d’Ache – Luminance Pencils and Chameleon – Color Tones Pencils. The brands are a bit different to work with and also when it comes to their prize point but I honestly like them both! You can get great results with both kind of pencils, I think!

For my background I stamped the Studio Katia “Mandala Flower” in a light mint ink and used the same ink for ink blending from the bottom of my panel. I added splatters with green ink to match the leaves from my flower image. A few of the gorgeous blue crystal embellishments picked up the color of my blossom coloring.

HEAT EMBOSSING IN CLEAR

While I chose a simple black color for my sentiment (to add a bit of contrast to the background) I heat embossed it with WOW clear embossing powder. I really find that using that glossy embossing powder on a sentiment adds just that bit of extra to a card design! Black embossing powder can get a bit messy but by choosing a black pigment ink like Versafine and WOW’s “Clear Gloss Super Fine” embossing powder I got a perfectly embossed sentiment. Here’s a close-up look of the card:

BLOG HOP LIST:

If you get lost you can find the full hop list below!

Studio Katia
Ankita Agrawal
Laura Volpes
Dana Gong
Jaine Drake
Tracy Freeman
Jo Herbert
Laura Sterckx
Kaja Vezenšek
Raluca Vezeteu
Galina Filippenko
Riikka Kovasin
Kristina Pokazanieva
Rosali B. <= YOU ARE HERE!
Olga Lukaseviciene <= YOUR NEXT STOP!
Natalia Zubkova
Yaz Diaz
Ilda Dias
Zsoka Marko
Liliya Rytsar
WOW! Embossing Powder

GIVEAWAY

You can win TWO $25 CAD Gift Certificates to Studio Katia Store and 6 WOW! Embossing Powders of your choice along with a WOW carry case to store you powders safely in.

To enter:
– Leave a comment on this blog post and on every stop of the Blog Hop
– Follow Studio Katia and WOW! Embossing Powder on Instagram
– Like Studio Katia and WOW! Embossing Powder on Facebook
– Make sure to leave all the comments by Sunday, November 25, 2018 11:59 pm GMT

Winners will be randomly chosen from the comments left on ALL THE POSTS and announced on WOW & Studio Katia Blogs on November 27, 2018.

I hope you like my floral card with the no line coloring and heat embossed sentiment!

Have an amazing week! ♥

Rosali
If you like this post, be sure to follow my blog via email or Bloglovin’ (buttons are in the sidebar on the right / down below if you’re on a mobile device). ♥

USED SUPPLIES FLORAL CARD:

Stamps & dies:

Studio Katia – You’re So Sweet Stamps & Coordinating Dies
Studio Katia – Mandala Flower Stamps

Embossing powder:

Wow Embossing – Clear Gloss Embossing Powder Super Fine

Paper:

Neenah Solar White (Classic Crest) Cardstock – 80 lb and 110 lb
Black & White Striped Paper

Inks:

Tsukineko – Versafine Onyx Black
Lawn Fawn – Minty Fresh Dye Ink & Green Dye Ink

Other supplies:

Colored Pencils (Caran d’Ache – Luminance Pencils / Chameleon – Color Tones Pencils)

Embellishments:

Studio Katia – September Crystals

“Hootiful” Cards with Heffy Doodle Owls (Blog Hop & Giveaway)

2018-10-262018-10-26 / Rosali / 42 Comments

Hi there and welcome!

Today I am very excited to be part of the Heffy Doodle Blog Hop celebrating their new, 5th release!

I made two cards with the super cute owls from the “Hootiful” stamp set and also used their new double (inside and outside the cutting line) stitched rectangle dies to create sort of a window frame for my basic scenes.

The rectangle dies from Heffy Doodle that I am using are also in EU size! The largest cut stitched rectangle fully covers an A6 (EU standard size) card front. Therefore it measures approximately 10,5 x 14,8 cm. I have not seen a rectangle die like this before, very useful for us European crafters! 😀

MY “HOOTIFUL” BIRTHDAY CARD

For my first card I used the UnbeLEAFable stencil together with some acrylic paste and Distress Ink for the background as well as the Happy die for my sentiment. The owls are stamped, colored with Copics and die cut with the coordinating dies.

SECOND CARD: OWLS & LUCKY STARS

For my second card I used the new Starfall stencil over dark blue cardstock. Then I added the moon and some extra stars from the Hootiful stamp set and heat embossed them in gold. The moon and heart are also filled with a hint of glitter from a Wink Of Stella pen. I used a bit of masking paper to place two owls next to each other on the branch making it look as if one is hugging the other (at least that’s what I was going for lol). Then I fussy cut around the masked images with my Cutter Bee scissors.

GIVEAWAY, COUPON CODE & A PROMOTION!

No celebration without a giveaway, right? 😉 There is a £50 voucher to the Heffy Doodle Store up for grabs. You just have to leave a comment on each stop of the hop.Comments will close on October 31st, and winners will be announced on November 1st on the Heffy Doodle Blog.

But there is MORE! We know that not everyone can win, so we have an exclusive coupon for the blog hop readers. It will give 15% discount to the store. Code expires 28th October, and is only valid in Heffy Doodle products (not valid for vouchers or items in the Craft Essentials category).

The coupon is: 58YbSx3L

AND if you decide to order right away you can also take advantage of a promo that is going on over on the Heffy Doodle store. Orders over £30 (before shipping fees and after any discounts are applied) will automatically get a FREE exclusive Dinky Dinos stamp set! Those who spend over £45 will get the matching dies as well.

BLOG HOP LIST:

Heffy Doodle
Rosali B. — THAT’S ME 🙂
Mona Toth — YOUR NEXT STOP!
Jessica Frost – Ballas
Gemma Campbell
Kaja Vezenšek
Carissa Wiley
Heather Hoffman
Francesca Vignoli
Koren Wiskman
Isha Gupta
Laura Volpes
Nichol Spohr
Amy Rysavy
Caly Person
Amanda Korotkova
Ilda Dias
Laura Sterckx

So, which one of my cards using the same design do you like best? I would love to hear from you in the comments. 🙂

Have an amazing day! ♥

Rosali

If you like this post, be sure to follow my blog via email or Bloglovin’ (buttons are in the sidebar on the right / down below if you’re on a mobile device). ♥

USED SUPPLIES BOTH CARDS:

Stamps, dies and stencils:

Heffy Doodle – Hootiful Stamp Set + Die set
Heffy Doofle – Happy Die
Heffy Doodle – Metric Stitched Rectangles Dies (EU Size)
Heffy Doodle – Starfall Stencil
Heffy Doodle – UnbeLEAFable Stencil

Paper:

Color Copy – 300 g Copy Paper
Dark Blue Cardstock
Black Cardstock

Other supplies:

Ranger / Tim Holtz – Distress Ink (Cracked Pistachio)
Transparent Acrylic Paste
White Pigment Ink
WOW – Glow In The Dark Embossing Powder
WOW – Rich Gold Embossing Powder
WOW – Bright White Embossing Powder
Copic Markers
White Gel Pen
Wink Of Stella Glitter Pen (Clear)

Cherry Blossoms Card for Ruby’s Crafty Anniversary (Blog Hop & Giveaway)

2018-08-272018-08-27 / Rosali / 178 Comments

Hello and welcome!

Today I am so happy and honored to be part of my crafty friend Rubeena’s Crafting Anniversary 2-Day Blog Hop with a pretty card using Pretty Pink Posh’s “Cherry Blossoms”! 🙂

If you are hopping along, you should have come from Svitlana Shayevich. Your next stop is the lovely Dana Gong.

LET’S CELEBRATE CARDMAKING!

With this blog hop, we are celebrating not only four years since Rubeena first discovered cardmaking but also crafting in general. And I think there is a lot to celebrate! Since I discovered stamping and cardmaking around September of 2014 – which happens to be almost the same time as Ruby did – it has enriched my life in so many ways, I would have never guessed it beforehand. It has brought crafting and creativity back to my life, it helps me to unwind when life is crazy and calms me down. And finally, I have met so many wonderful people through this little hobby of ours I still have a hard time believing it myself. ♥ This started when I joined Instagram and shared my first cards there. I worked up the courage to ask another cardmaker who I admired if she wanted to be my card penpal (we still exchange cards to this day). Through commenting, chatting and Kathy Racoosin’s coloring challenge I got to know many other crafters from all over the world and some of them have become close friends, which I am so thankful for!

The power of handmade mail showing up in your mailbox is amazing. Especially when it’s unexpected and a friend sends you a card “just because”… That always means so much to me! We can all use a little ray of sunshine sometimes, don’t we? 🙂 That’s why I chose a “Thinking of you” card for today’s hop. Here it is:

MY CHERRY BLOSSOMS CARD

I combined a few of my favorite techniques on this card. First: ink blending! And splattering over it to give it more interest. 🙂 I like to use water to splatter over ink blended backgrounds but also ink or watercolor for colored splatters. Here, I used Distress Oxide Ink (Shaded Lilac) and Distress Ink (Spun Sugar). Second: die cutting! To me, adding die-cuts makes a card look extra special and professional. 😀 I chose a “Scallop Frames” die from Pretty Pink Posh. And third: loose watercoloring! At least that’s what I call it lol … What I mean is putting on some watercolor without filling in the whole image. Even if you add a second layer like I did it’s rather fast and you don’t have to worry at all about shading. 🙂

The flower images are from Pretty Pink Posh’s “Cherry Blossoms” stamp set and the sentiment is from their “Bee Friends” set. To finish my design off I added a couple of Nuvo Drops to my flowers and the background.

LOOSE WATERCOLORING CLOSE-UP

BLOG HOP LIST DAY 1:

GIVEAWAY!

In celebration of this anniversary, we have several amazing sponsors. Let’s thank them for their generosity! Winners will be randomly selected from comments left on all the blogs. The winners will be announced by Wednesday, September 5 on this page.

Look at all the fantastic prizes:

Studio Katia – $50 gift card

Hello Bluebird – $50 gift card

Altenew – $50 Gift card

Pinkfresh Studio – $30 gift card

Gina K. Designs – $50 gift card

Clearly Besotted – £25 gift card

Simon Says Stamp – $25 gift card

Spellbinders Card Kit ($55 value).

Jennifer McGuire – $50 Simon Says Stamp gift card

Winnie & Walter, LLC – $40 gift card

Mama Elephant – $25 gift card

Hero Arts – $25 gift card

Nichol Spohr LLC – Custom-sewn rainbow pencil case filled with brand new Spellbinders dies

Danielle Flynn – $25 Simon Says Stamp gift card

Picket Fence Studios – four $25 gift cards

Ellen Hutson – two $25 gift cards

Pretty Pink Posh – two $30 gift cards

The Stamp Market – July 2018 Release (estimated $100 value)

Indigojade Art Shop – $50 gift card to Art Prints & Gifts Shop

Flora & Fauna – a 4×6 stamp set

Waffle Flower – $25 gift card

Power Poppy – $50 gift card

I would love to hear if you like the look of loose watercoloring! Have you tried it out yourself yet?

Have an amazing day! ♥

Rosali

If you like this post, be sure to follow my blog via email or Bloglovin’ (buttons are in the sidebar on the right / down below if you’re on a mobile device). ♥