Studio Katia birthday blog hop
Posted: June 14, 2019 Filed under: floral garden, grid stencil, it's your birthday, Studio Katia | Tags: Peerless Transparent Watercolors, Ranger Distress inks, Studio Katia 77 Comments
Hello and welcome to Studio Katia 3rd Anniversary Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from May Sukyong Park‘s blog. I am excited to be celebrating with Studio Katia and to be featuring this gorgeous stamp, ‘Floral Garden‘. It’s a beauty and perfect for a range of different techniques. This new release includes 5 new Clear Stamp Sets and 1 set of Coordinating Dies, 1 new Stand Alone Creative Die, 2 new Stencils and lots of new Embellishments!
I used the emboss resist technique for one panel and no-line colouring for another. The stamp is a large square so I had the option of creating a big square card or a smaller rectangle card with a portion of the stamped design. I embossed the outline stamp in gold powder on hot pressed watercolour paper then did all the painting with my Sennelier watercolours. I’ve talked about colour choices on the blog before especially about keeping the colour count low to keep things looking cohesive.
I started by painting the tulips in red straight from the pan but all the other colours are mixed, usually with a bit of the original red, that way they work well beside each other. I used a green paint mixed with a little red, a purple/red mix on the roses then a blue/purple mix on the tiny flowers.
I trimmed the panel down and matted it with gold cardstock to match the embossing then layered it on a panel stenciled with festive berries ink through the SK grid stencil . I added a sentiment in dusty concord archival ink using a little stamp from the new ‘Its your birthday‘ set.
The no-line watercolour panel I stamped in antique linen on hot pressed watercolour paper. I used distress inks as paint by pressing them face down on my glass mat. I used wild honey and carved pumpkin inks for the tulips then mixed some wild honey with festive berries for the roses. As I kept my panel in the stamp positioner while painting I was able to ink the roses lightly with festive berries after I’d done some painting and re-stamp the outline for added definition. I painted the little flowers in wilted violet ink and over-stamped with the same ink so the outlines would be a little darker. I used two greens (iced spruce and bundled sage) for the leaves mixing them into darker and lighter tones. The tiny bell flowers around the edges are painted in antique linen. I also blended antique linen around the edges of the panel.
The sentiment is from the same ‘It’s your birthday’ set and I love that pretty lettering! I stamped in monarch versafine clair ink, clear embossed then stamped again in versamark and embossed once more in clear powder to make it extra shiny. Thanks for joining me today; keep reading for all the ways to win during this blog hop which runs today and tomorrow. Studio Katia has provided a $25 gift certificate for me to give away. Just leave a comment below to be in the running.
For more chances to win visit all the stops along the hop. Your next stop is with the wonderful Laura Bassen. If you get lost you can find the full hop list below or visit Studio Katia Blog!
There will be a $25 Gift Certificate offered at each stop of the Blog Hop
Heather Telford 
Beautiful cards!! 🙂
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Those are stunning!
Beautiful – love the use of the stenciled grid frame on your first card and the explosion of flowers on your second!
Awesome release, Gorgeous creations, I especially love the yellow tulips on the second card!
I always enjoy your watercolors and I admire your skill.
these cards are awesome!!
Beautiful floral stamp!! I love how you colored the cards. They are gorgeous!!
Heather these cards are fabulous – I can’t pick a favourite. Happy Birthday Studio Katia! – Love the new products in this release.
Beautiful work What watercolors do you use?
I used distress inks for the no-line panel and sennelier watercolours for the embossed panel.
Beautiful cards. I love gold embossing, but no-line watercoloring
is my favorite. And you do it so very well.
WOW!!! Beautiful!!
Wow stunning work.. I love it!
Gorgeous cards! The watercoloring is beautiful.
Wow! Beautiful.
both are so so pretty. I like the use of embossing powder on the first…
Beautiful card. I love the large sentiment stamp!
Both of your cards show off your creative coloring talent. This Floral Garden stamp set is my favorite of the whole bunch.
Gorgeous flowers! Love the color combos. TFS on the hop.
Lovely watercolouring, great cards.
Gorgeous card. I love the Floral Garden set and your colors (and coloring) are amazing.
I always love seeing your projects every day – but you’ve knocked it out of the park with these 2 cards for the Studio Katia birthday! Gorgeous colours, and amazing technique.
Gorgeous colors!!
Wow, that stamp is huge! Your colored it beautifully both ways!
Beautiful cards there. I didn’t know that we can stamp with versamark again on the heat embossed image and then again embossed it. New to me, will try next time, thanks for the tip
Wow.. Wonderful cards..Love your watercoloring..
Beautiful colors and I like the techniques you used.
Thank you for sharing both techniques. I really enjoy learning new things. The “Floral Garden” stamp is my favorite of the new releases, but who doesn’t love some bling? Enjoy your life, Shauna from Oregon
That is a beautiful card.
Two gorgeous cards Heather using this Studio Katia stamp which is so pretty and looks so differerent in the two different colour ways Heather, and love the gold framing and stencilled grid background on the first, and the no line colouring on the second with the black mat and a great sized sentiment, so shiny with the double embossing. x
Wow, both cards are beautiful!! Thank you so much for sharing!!
love how you used the grid background with your beautiful florals – and thanks for the coloring tips
Looks like a wonderful set to color. Love the no line coloring card. Beautiful coloring. x
Wow – your cards are STUNNING! The 2nd card is my favorite, spectacular coloring! Thanks for the opportunity to win a Studio Katia Gift Card– I love this new release!
Beautiful floral designs. I love to use no-line coloring as well gold embossing.
Wow… gorgeous floral design and beautiful coloring!
Both cards are unique and beautiful.. thanks for the inspiration.,
Gorgeous floral cards! The embossing really sets it off.
Very pretty cards, nice work
Amazing coloring on your
cards! Love the second
one.
Carla from Utah
I like your beautiful cards! Love the colors and the florals!
I love that Happy Birthday stamp! The floral arrangements are gorgeous and I love the bright colours you’ve chosen. 🙂
These are so beautiful! It’s a gorgeous stamp set, and you coloured the images to perfection!
Such gorgeous cards; love the colors you chose to use for each of them!
Gorgeous floral card and beautiful colouring.
Gorgeous cards, love the colours!
Heather, your cards are absolutely stunning! When I first saw the Studio Katia 3rd Birthday release, I knew I had to get my hands on the Floral Garden stamp. It was love at first sight. Now, after seeing your very inspiring cards, my decision is sealed. This stamp is mine!!! Thank you for sharing your talents.
Beautiful floral cards. It’s my favorite product from the new release 😊U
Beautiful cards. My favorite is the no line coloring. I really like the brighter colors. The embossed one is also great with a totally different look of the more muted colors.
I actually said, Ohhhhh when I saw your cards. Both are beautiful and it’s interesting how different they look from one another, like 2 different stamps. Thanks for sharing your process, interesting!
These stamps are so lovely, and they just lend themselves to water coloring.Thank you.
Beautiful! The first card reminds me of stained glass! Love the grid background
Your florals are beautiful. Happy Birthday Studio Katia
Your florals are beautiful. Happy Birthday Studio Katia
Simply darling! Such creative inspiration on this hop!
such beautiful cards
beautiful cards. you are very talented.
beautiful cards. you are very talented.
(sorry if i commented twice)
so pretty…thanks for sharing
Such a amazing cards! beautiful colouring,like a reál flowers
You created such luscious bouquets! Lovely!
Wow! Your cards are works of art! Beautiful watercoloring and the colors you chose are gorgeous!
Beautiful cards! They look so different I wasn’t sure they were the same stamp. Love the no line coloring.
Love how you’ve created two different looks. The second one is my favourite. Love those fresh colours.
Fabulous cards. Love the floral images and your colouring is fantastic.
Hi Heather 🙂 Glad to meet you! Following you on social media now! Your cards are absolutely stunning!!! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
Beautiful stamp and wonderful cards.
What beautiful cards. I really love the yellow florals. So pretty.
Your great watercoloring skills have caught my eyes, love both your cards, my fav has to be emboss resist!
SWOON!! Such STUNNING Cards!! I LOVE the NEW Products!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!!
Beautiful cards. I love gold embossing with water colors. I always think it just looks so stunning. The stamps are just gorgeous.
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WOW! Your watercolouring elevates these beautiful blooms to stunning! Such pretty palettes on both! Thank you for brightening this pouring-rain Alberta day!
~carol
I often find these full floral stamps a little busy and hard for me to figure out, but I love how you did your watercoloring. You really helped my eye make sense of all those flowers, so thank you so much for sharing!
These are so beautiful! 🙂
[…] Posted: June 23, 2019 | Author: Heather | Filed under: Studio Katia |Leave a comment Thank you for all the kind and encouraging comments on my Studio Katia birthday blog hop post. I enjoyed creating with their lovely stamps and reading your reactions was a treat. I used a random number generator to choose a winner and I’m happy to announce Denise Bryant is the lucky recipient of a $25 gift voucher from Studio Katia. Congratulations, Denise; I’ll be in touch! Denise Bryant June 14, 2019 at 9:53 pm […]