kareN stampZ : My INKredible Journey: Studio Katia

8 April 2024

Cake Inspiration

Playing along with Just Add Ink's latest challenge which is an inspiration photo which is good enough to eat and the DT have come up with some fab cake cards which truly are even scrummier plus lots of lovely flowers. It's also a really nice colour palate to play with. I've been inspired by the "cake" and the colour palate; I see cream, mint green, freesia purple and a darker purple in the image.

I actually only own 2 cake stamps one from a Simon Hurley Class kit and one from Studio Katia (Mini Birthday Cake). I went with the latter as it has a matching die. I did use the wee stencil of Simon's from the class kit which is a prototype/smaller stencil of the released Flip Flop Circles (stencil). I ink blended through the stencil Fresh Freesia ink (SU!) and then turned the stencil over and used a glitter paste I created with Fairy Dust stencil paste (LF) and Mint re-inker (PFS). I Copic coloured up my image in the following shades:

Greens: G05/03/02/000
Violets: V17/15/12
Yellow-reds: YR23/21/20/31/30

The sentiment comes from MFT's Itty Bitty Celebrations. I've also added a Just Double-Stitched Rectangle (LF) pattern to my card to add a subtle bit of detail.

Hopefully you can see the homemade glitter paste in this snap better, but it is very pretty IRL. I love minty greens.

Just a very quick post and card as I happy to report that I have adopted a rescue cat ~3months old and it is day 2 of being "mum" but she is quite lost and lonely at the mo but seems extremely smoochy so will post some pictures soon of her.

I'd also like to play along with Colourful Options who are challenging us to use "PASTELS" in April.

And also entering at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - where this week the theme is "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"

Thanks for popping in.
✿Karen✿

8 February 2023

I had to play again.

I had so much fun with my card yesterday I thought I would try another colour combo, yes I bought a few more Lunar Pastes after the freebie in my SCT Cardmaking event box. At the time there were no "gold" Simon Hurley ones available for sell in NZ which is why I bought the Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer gold one.

It was actually interesting playing with the 2 brands in such a short time my gold one was a much thicker paste and easier to work with, but maybe it's dried up more as today's card uses a brand new unopened pot of Simon Hurley's Bee Sting, but as you will see I had much more run with today's card, so note to self attach stencil more firmly. I saw a good tip to add a layer of glad wrap to our pots so they don't have too much air but it's quite messy. I think I just need to use it all up making fab backgrounds but a little goes a long way.

I loved my teal and green combo but I wanted something brighter and pinker but didn't have any pink pastes (yet) so settled on Sweet Sorbet ink (Stampin' Up!) and Bee Sting Lunar Paste (Simon Hurley) and a cake and candles stamp so I could play along with Just Add Ink's latest challenge and another entry for AAA birthday card challenge.