Hi, friends! I’m delighted to be part of Studio Katia’s 2nd Anniversary celebrations! Studio Katia has just released 6 new Clear Stamp Sets and 4 sets of Coordinating Dies, 4 new stand alone Creative Dies, 2 new Stencils and new Embellishments. There has been so much inspiration from the Studio Katia design team on their blog and social media. You’re about to see so much more in this two-day Anniversary Blog Hop!




I made two cards using five of the new products. Both share the same colours but look entirely different. It’s easier and convenient for me to keep creating once I have my colours picked!




This first one features Lovely Blooms, Stitch Borders and Birthday Greetings. I stamped the blooms on watercolour cardstock with black pigment ink and heat embossed the image with clear embossing powder.




Then I watercoloured with distress inks, all of which are listed below. These blooms are absolutely stunning and therapeutic to colour! I’m pretty sure these will end up on loads of cards.

To create the background, I used all four of the greens I used for the foliage and smooshed them on to a large acrylic block, misted the ink and smooshed the block on to a panel of watercolour cardstock. 




After the panel dried, I used the largest of the Stitch Borders dies and die cut two rows at both ends of the panel. To finish, I heat embossed a sentiment from Birthday Greetings, one which fit nicely into the little nook created by the blooms.



My second card features the Kobi Bearing Gifts stamp set and coordinating dies. As I mentioned earlier, I heat embossed the images and watercoloured them with distress inks.

Then I used the same colours and sponge daubers with the Bubbles Stencil to create the background, which was die cut with the Dotted Patterns – Set 1 die set.

I sponged around the top left- and bottom-right corners of the card base using the same six colours before adhering the popped up frame and inside panel.

I also added adorable and super shiny Crystal Stars Sequins to the ground to anchor Kobi.

Here’s the full hop list for today:

Studio Katia is giving away TWO $100 CAD Gift Certificates on both days of the Blog Hop! That’s FOUR chances to win. The winners will be chosen randomly from comments left on ALL blogs of the Blog Hop. To enter, simply leave a comment on all blogs on both days, follow Studio Katia on Instagram, and Like Studio Katia on Facebook. The more you comment, the higher your chances of winning! Comments must be left by 11:59pm EST on Saturday, June 2, 2018. All winners will be announced on the Studio Katia blog on Sunday, June 3, 2018.

Thanks so much for hopping with us!

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121 thoughts on “{Studio Katia} 2nd Anniversary Blog Hop: Day 1 + Giveaway!”
  1. Both your cards are so beautiful, totally different styles, yet I love them both! If I had to choose only one, however, I think I'd go for the first floral design – such a beauty!

  2. Love both your card designs – the way you used the die with the floral card is a very cool touch. The other card is very cheerful and fun – thanks for sharing your creativity and designs and how exciting that SK is celebrating 2 years.

  3. About halfway through this hop and I can see that this floral spray is going to be wonderful no matter how it's colored. I love the colors you chose and the shading is beautiful. I am so in love with that bear, too, and the stars in the shaker are terrific! Thank you.

  4. Fantastic cards! That flower card is so retty , and the bear is adorable. I create multiple cards when I have my stuff out, switching the layout, colors etc.

  5. Your Kobi card is absolutely adorable! The Lovely Blooms is so beautiful with the gorgeous coloring! Love that this stamp eliminates a lot of masking! Awesome cards!!

  6. So lovely cards, thank you for sharing them! Love that stenciled motives are going on through the frame…
    Happy 2nd anniversary Studio Katia!

  7. Youโ€™ve elevated the Lovely Blooms to stunning with your colouring! As for Kobi: only sensationally adorable! The starry step: such fun! Thank you for the smiles!
    ~carol

  8. Your cards are very different but both are beautiful ! This Kobi stanp is so cute ! And at first I thought it was a shaker card … I love the result very much ๐Ÿ™‚

  9. LOVE both of these cards! So beautiful and creative! And it was so neat to see how you chose to pop out only some of the holes from the cross stitch die – that is such a clever way to really stretch the life of the die beyond cross stitching! Thank you for sharing ๐Ÿ™‚

  10. Such different cards and both so fabulous! Love the colouring of the flowers on your first card, and the fun Bubbles stencil and cute bear on the second one!

  11. Emily, just love both of your cards…and thanks for the great tip of making two cards once you have the colors picked out! Genius! You've really showcased the new Studio Katia release in beautiful and unique way. You made their awesome new products shine!

  12. I am just amazed by your first card! I just love the background and those flowers looks so real! The 2nd card is super cute. (Out of all the cards these are my favourite so far!) Such talent!

  13. Emily I really enjoyed both your cards. the bubles on the backgound of the bear card were so cute-Ilove the way the were on the frame as well as the back of the shaker portion.

  14. Oh those flowers look so pretty on the green background! I love the way you die cut the stitched border dies. Kobi looks adorable with all his brightly colored presents and the bubbles in the background. How fun!

  15. You've made great backgrounds on these cards with as much to see as the foreground. Love Mr Kobi Bear so much, does he have a face in other sets do you know ? All the colours you've used make his card really pop x

  16. Your cards are both stunning. Love all the fun little elements you included in both cards to give such nice finishing touches. Love the way you coloured both of your cards, they are both fabulous.

  17. Your cards are lovely. I really like to colour choices and not popping out all the circles in the Stitched Border die has a very neat effect.

  18. These cards are great! I really like the fun background on the first card. It is very interesting to look at with only some of the holes open to the black background.

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