Find your Wild

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at the Dream Factory

Our movie for this month is:

Fantastic Mr. Fox

This month we're going underground! 

Foxes, rabbits, rats, mice, dogs, badgers, hamsters, moles etc, 

are digging an underground tunnel system to escape some angry farmers. 

Today I did a little masking again to create this one layer card. 

As the new Dream Factory challenge is about foxes and other animals, I decided to spotlight this beautiful fox. The stamp was recently available at Action and it was just too cute to pass by. 

I surrounded the fox with flowers and foliage from Katzelkraft. 

The sentiment + moon and stars are a fragment from a large background stamp. (see below)

The background I brushed with Mermaid Lagoon and Seedless Preserves (Distress Oxide) and then splattered it with black ink. Finally, I colored the fox, flowers and moon with alcohol ink markers and stamped the foliage/grass with Rustic Wilderness (Distress Oxide).

Movie Poster

Have Fun!

Linked up with:

Daisy Chain - Animals

I Spy with my Little Eye - No Design Paper

Unicorn Challenge - Boys/Men

Path of Positivity - Anything Goes Positive w. Opt. Twist of: Make a Creative Project You Wouldn’t Normally Make

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes, but must Include an Animal

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps:Flowers and foliages (Katzelkraft); Fox (Disa/Action); sentiment and moon (Woodware);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Rustic Wilderness, Mermaid Lagoon and Sesdless Preserves (Distress Oxide); 

Alcohol ink markers, liquid pearls, gold gel pen,

Katzelkraft - Life is a Zoo

Hi everyone!

It's Katzelkraft day :)) 

For today's card I used lots of different sets of animal stamps as well as foliage stamps for the background.

I usually don't do "this" much stamping and masking to create a card.... 

...but today I did and I'm really pleased how it turned out :)) 

First I stamped the animals around the edge of the card and masked them. Next, I stencilled the sunrays and stamped the sun (Fossilized Amber - Distress Oxide). Brushed the spaces between the sunbeams with Mermaid Lagoon and the lower part of the card with Mowed Lawn (Distress Oxide). 

I then stamped the foliage and removed the masks. 

I colored the animals with alcohol ink markers and finally stamped the quote.

Hope you like it. - See you next Tuesday with a new Katzelkraft creation! :)

Wanna see more of my Katzelkraft creations? 

...just click on the Katzelkraft label at the end of the post, or here.

I used:

 click on the image to go to the store and see it in full size.

Linked up with:

Daisy Chain - Animals

Path of Positivity - Anything Goes Positive with the Opt. Twist of: Make a Creative Project You Wouldn’t Normally Make

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes w. Opt. Twist: Add  a sentiment

I ♥ ProMarkers - Anything goes or wings or tails

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes, but must Include an Animal

We Love Stamping - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps:All (Katzelkraft);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Fossilized Amber, Mermaid Lagoon and Mowed Lawn (Distress Oxide);

Stencil: 13@rt

Alcohol ink markers, 

Katzelkraft - Winged

Hi everyone!

It's Katzelkraft day :)) 

For today's project (an ATC) I used the beautiful Winged - Butterfly stamp set and some foliage and background stamps. 

First, I created a background with alcohol ink on Yupo paper. I don't do this often, but it happens.

I then cut out a piece of it the size of an ATC and stamped the dragonflies, foliage and background designs on it. 

I coated the wings of the large dragonfly with pearl glimmer gel and added some glitter glue here and there. 

Finally, I wrote the quote (found on Pinterest) on a piece of parchment paper, tore it off along the writing and stuck it on with double-sided tape. Cut off the excess.

Hope you like it. - See you next Tuesday with a new Katzelkraft creation! :)

Wanna see more of my Katzelkraft creations? 

...just click on the Katzelkraft label at the end of the post, or here.

I used:

 click on the image to go to the store and see it in full size.

Linked up with:

ATC Around the World - Frühling

Path of Positivity - Anything Goes Positive with the Opt. Twist of: Make a Creative Project You Wouldn’t Normally Make

Little Red Wagon - Tiny Dancer

Stamping Sensations - Hello Spring

We Love to Create Mixed Media - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Large dragonfly, foliage and background stamps (Katzelkraft); tiny dragonflies (Toga); the quote is handwritten

Inks: Jet Black, Emerald City and Chery Pink (StazOn);

Alcohol inks, Yupo, glitter gel, pearl glimmer gel, black permanent marker, parchment paper,

Life is a circus

Hi everyone!

As you may have already noticed in the sidebar, I am now a proud member of the 613 Avenue Create design team! 

I've been thinking about it for a long time and now the time has come!

Here is my first post...

Welcome to the 613 Avenue Create, March Challenge.

The theme is Anything Goes with the optional twist Any Occasion.

This card was initially made for a card swap and was not intended for a special occasion at the time. I'll probably use it as a birthday card. What do you think?

Anyway, I've never shown it before so I'm presenting it for my first post as a member of the 613 Avenue Create design team.

The bear is from Deco Time and his bike actually has two wheels, but I left out the second one because it fit better without it. I drew the umbrella myself. The pennants are from Craft Emotions. I colored everything with alcohol ink markers. The area under the pennants I brushed with Fossilized Amber (Distress Oxide). The quote I stamped with alphabet stamps. It says:

 

“Life is a circus

it's all about balance” 

Play along with 613 Avenue Create and let your creativity run wild!

Linked up with:

I Spy with my Little Eye - No Design Paper

Krafty Chicks - Masculine

Allsorts Challenge - CAS

We Love Stamping - Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

I ♥ Promarkers - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Bear on bike (Deco Time); pennants (Craft Emotions)  Sentiment - stamped with alphabet stamps (AVEC); 

Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine); Fossilized Amber (Distress Oxide);

Alcohol ink markers, 

Be a Unicorn

Hi everyone!

Our current “Dream Factory” challenge, which I would like to remind you of briefly, is now entering its second half. 

This month's movie is

 

Mia and Me

We are in a magical and enchanting world of fairies, unicorns, 

rainbows, fantasy, magic, pink... 

 There's not much to say about this card except that I almost messed it up!

I die-cut the horse three times. Once from black and white cardstock and once from a pre-made, already colored background (from a pad). I glued the remaining colored background onto self-adhesive paper and inserted the white horse into the cut-out, replacing some parts with those of the black horse.  

I then stuck the colored horse on top and brushed it with Wink of Stella. I also drew a unicorn horn, colored it with alcohol markers and cut it out. Glued it to the unicorn and brushed it with Wink of Stella too. 

So far so good!

Now comes the part where I almost ruined my card.

I found the quote on Pinterest but as I didn't have any suitable stamps, I created the sentence on the computer. No problem!

I first printed out the quote on regular paper to see where I needed to place the card to get the quote in the right spot. Unfortunately, I placed the card the wrong way round and the quote ended up upside down. - What a mess! What now?!?! Should I start all over again? ...I was so upset with myself!!!

Luckily, the designs of the pre-made backgrounds from the pad were available several times! So I printed out the quote again - and this time I got it right!

I tore off the part with the quote and stuck it onto the “messed up” card. The card was saved - yay!!!

What's more, I got this irregular white border that interrupts the background, which I really like. :))

Have a wonderful weekend!

Linked up with:

Fab 'n' Funky - Fantasy

Color My Heart Color Dare - Color Dare #641

Seize the Birthday - Anything Birthday + topping: No Stamping - (My card doesn't say “Happy Birthday”, but I designed it for a young girl's birthday who loves unicorns).

Crafty Catz - Anything Goes with optional twist For the Girls

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: No stamps, I created the sentiment on the computer

Dies: Hors (Deco Time);

Alcohol ink markers, pre-made backgrounds from a pad, Wink of Stella, black cardstock,