Hello Friends, How was your week? Its FriYAY and I am back for another hop … it’s been a busy but, super fun month.
Welcome to the Studio Katia Blog Hop to celebrate the December release. Flowers!! Yes please! I will never get tired of coloring beautiful flowers especially these “Merry Poinsettia“. To start at the beginning of the hop go to the Studio Katia blog. If you are coming from Svitlana Shayevich blog you are in the right place.
I whipped up some plaid backgrounds with a ruler and my markers. Check out my video to see how easy this is. (by the way Simon Says Stamp has 25% off everything Copic! YAY! .. use the code COPICSALE”
Shaker cards are fun to make especially when you mix in some crystals. I love that shakers are interactive & fun for the recipient. The card on the right … underneath the shaker mix is the stamped sentiment.
After creating my stripes with a ruler I used some copic blending solution to add texture with a rag. I love the “Dotted Patterns Scallop” on the card and circle. Check out this die set so versatile.
The sentiment was stamped in the background for a little extra surprise when you pull the card out of a envelope.
Addling random sparkle accents with these markers for a little glimmer and shine. Using this large grid pad really helped me line up my ruler.
Thank you for your visit today and have a lovely weekend. Next on the hop is the oh so talented Olga Moss. See you next week. Hugs, Kathy
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Creating a background with scraps for the Lily Pad Palette
What a stunning idea, I love this – your talent has no limits! Gorgeous, gorgeous cards! 🙂
Your plaids are just gorgeous! I really love the
green one. And all the little details you do are
stunning.
I enjoyed your how-to video of making your lovely cards! It never would have occurred to me to make my own plaid background like that, and your tip to use the grid paper to help is great. I was also glad to see how you fixed it when you put the card together a little crooked b/c I need all the tips I can get—I’m forever having to figure out a way to fix something I’ve done wrong 🙂
Amazing thanks for sharing the video!
I loved the plaid bgs, thanks for sharing the video:) beautifully coloured flowers ! Both the cards are wonderful.
Wow! This is gorgeous!! Awesome plaid background and super pretty florals!! Love your coloring as always 🙂
When I grow up I want to color just like you. Ugh I am already older than you. Beautiful cards.
Such stunning cards, Kathy! You can’t go wrong with Poinsettias at Christmas and I just adore the way you have coloured them!
What a cool idea! Your cards are gorgeous, I love them.
Your shaker cards are so much fun. Thanks for sharing.
Festive and fun shakers. Brilliant DIY plaid technique.
I envy your ability to do such wonderful
things with color.
Love plaid paper – would be great to make
my own.
thanks for sharing.
stunning!
love it!
happy holidays!⛄
hugs , Fiki
Gorgeous plaid backgrounds! Thanks for the wonderful video!
Beautiful poinsettias and pretty backgrounds! Love these beautiful cards!
Fabulous stamping in making
the plate backgrounds. Very
pretty.
Carla from Utah
Your backgrounds are so pretty and done so quickly! You have certainly inspired me. 🙂
Simply gorgeous!
Lovely cards and great tips! So sorry I don’t send pics because haven’t managed to figure that out.
So beautiful!
Oh my!!! Your shakers are absolutely stunning!!!
Plaid and poinsettias!! Too awesome!
Lovely shaker card and plaid!
so happy to see a truly approachable way to do a plaid with no equipment and a ruler (for the straight-line challenged)..Of course the flowers turn it into a gorgeous card but the plaid technique rounded it all out.
WOW! gorgeous plaid background! Beautiful cards!
Such gorgeous backgrounds Kathy! Plaid is my all time fave for backgrounds and I love how easy these are to do!
Fabulous cards! Love the backgrounds!
WOW You make it look so easy. Love your coloring Kathy.
Merry Christmas
Beautiful cards and I love how you made the plaid background. Thanks for sharing…
Kathy, you make this so easy but I think it is a great design and technique. Thanks as always!
Kathy Merry Poinsettias is really pretty. Your coloring gives them such depth. Nicely done. Merry Christmas.
Beautiful cards. Love them bth!
LOVE the plaid!
Your talent is boundless!! Absolutely love these cards, and I am a sucker for shakers!.,
IS there anything you can’t do? I LOVE that cool background you created. You totally rock my world!!
So cool Kathy! You make this plaid business look so quick and easy–I think what it takes is CONFIDENCE in our abilities and to not be over critical of ourselves. I get asked this often, as I have to trust what my hands feel when I work with my clients. It’s all about confidence–and we are all artists! I did send you a photo–thanks for sharing these marvelous floral stamps with us!
Very nice video! It’s amazing how easy coloring your own plaid backgrounds can be. Thanks for your time and have a Merry Christmas!
love how you made the plaid – so inspiring 🙂
Gorgeous plaid backgrounds, love the shaker cards, Thanks for the video!
I love this plaid. I love the flowers too, but I really have a hard time finding patterned paper and especially plaids that i like. ( I’m picky about my colors, lol) Many of the plaid papers that I have seen people make look great when they do them, but I recently got a striped stamp and could not for the life of me make it work well. I was using all the tricks:, my mistie, good paper, good ink, cpr pressing, light pressing, using versamark on the stamp first, cleaning the stamp, etc and maybe i was just having a bad day, but i ended up using some striped wrapping paper as a backgroud. lol love your card! hugs, treen
Kathy, absolutely thrilled to see you as part of Studio Katia’s hop! Swooning over your lovely plaid backgrounds; the perfect canvases to showcase the pretty poinsettia and sparkly crystals! So creative!
~carol
Kathy this is gorgeous and am in love with the new sparkling crystals!!! This is so fabulous and really adds a LUX to the card!! Love your plaid too!
How simple to make that plaid paper and how stunning is the result! Thanks for this great inspiration!
So lovely, Kathy! Now I’m inspired to create my own plaid backgrounds! I’m going to try it with watercolor markers on Bristol. I think it will work. Hope your Christmas is wrapped in love, dear Kathy!
Thanks for sharing your technique for making plaid backgrounds. I like the idea of making my own backgrounds as you can use the colors you like and doing the plaid like that is perfect. I will give it a try!
Pretty flowers and I like the plaid background.
Love how you created your own plaid background!
I love plaid and your cards are stunning.
Beautiful plaid background.
Great video. Your cards are so wonderful.
I loved your plaid backgrounds. You make it look so simple to create them. Thanks for sharing your time and talent with us!
Wow! Beautiful cards. I. Love watching your videos.
Merry Christmas ,this was such a quick,easy background.I love to learn your different process.Beautiful indeed.
That is such a great idea! Thanks for the inspiration!
great way to create plaid backgrounds ….
Absolutely stunning. Im in love!love love love! Great job. Ur soooo talented!
Beautiful shaker cards. The plaid technique is terrific…thank so much for sharing. Cheers.
Gorgeous florals. Thanks for sharing the technique video.
That’s a great set of cards ! The technique doesn’t seem that hard even to me ! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. (margessw@icloud.com)
These are beautiful! Love the coloring on the flowers!
Such a great idea to create your own plaid backgrounds. I’ll definitely be trying this technique to customize my plaid colors. Your designs work so well with this–especially the shaker dimension. tfs
These cards are lovely Kathy. You really teach me to keep going in my coloring; if I don’t like it, it probably means I’m not done yet. You just keep going and finding ways of adding so much interest and dimension, and I very much appreciate your example. The shaker is a great way of breaking up the plaid so it doesn’t swallow the florals, plus who doesn’t love getting a shaker card? Thank you for sharing you creativity and artistry with us.
The flowers and plaids really complement each other. Good job!
Happy holidays!
love these! thanks for the video!
Very pretty shaker cards with the lovely flowers!!!
Happy December to You, Kathy! I’m a bit late catching up on my fun mail from my favorite blogs! Hope you had a great Christmas. Always love seeing what you do! Xo