Honey Bees

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at the Dream Factory

Our movie for this month is:

 

The Beekeeper

Create something with BEES on it

For this ATC, I embossed a sheet of yellow-speckled paper using a hexagon embossing folder. 

To add more depth to the honeycomb pattern, I added darker shades of yellow and red to some of the hexagons. On others, I stamped tiny dots. Once I was happy with the result, I tore off a piece and glued it onto the ATC, which I had cut out of the remaining yellow-speckled paper. Outlined the hexagons with a white Posca marker.

I then stamped and colored the bees and the droplets, which actually went quite quickly. 

I brushed the bees’ wings with Wink of Stella, though as usual, you can’t see it. Cut everything out with scissors and glued drops and bees to the honeycomb.

Finally, I stamped a few numbers and other elements onto the ATC, 

and then added “HONEY BEES” using small alphabet stamps. Hope you like it :)

Dream Factory - Movie Poster 

Thanks for stopping by!

Linked up with:

ATC Around the World - Monochromatic

Four Seasons - Inspiration Photo/Summer season

We Love Stamping - Summertime

I Spy with my Little Eye - Something with Wings

Can You Handle The Pressure - Anything Goes + must use an embossing Folder

Ellibelle's Garden Party - Anything in (or) from a Garden

Tag-along (and ATC's) - Anything Goes

Allsorts - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Bees and drops (Katzelkraft); background stamps (Studio Light (Essentials by Marlene)); hexagone dots (Doocrafts); small alphabet stamps for the words Honey Bees (AVEC);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Wild Honey and Fired Brick (Distress Oxide);

Embossing: Stampin'Up

Alcohol ink markers, Wink of Stella, white Posca pen,

Hakuna Matata

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at 613 Avenue Create! 

The theme is Anything Goes w/optional twist: "Lots of leaves".

(create something featuring foliage or paper)

I'm not in the autumn mood yet and wanted something fun for this challenge. 

While browsing, I came across this purple cow. It's a leftover from this card I made for a card swap.

First, I brushed the background with Mowed Lawn and Salty Ocean (Distress Oxide). Then I stamped lots of leaves in the area where the cow would later be placed.

I also found a chicken that was already finished and cut out, and placed it on the cow's back. The chicken is looking at an insect that I colored with glitter pens. It shimmers quite nicely, but unfortunately you can't see it in the photo. 

Next, I stamped and fussy-cut some flowering plants and tufts of grass and glued them to the bottom—a rather fiddly job, but I like the result.

As a final touch, I added tiny red liquid pearls to the taller blades of grass and then stamped the sentiment.

Hope to see you play along with 613 Avenue Create 

HAKUNA MATATA !

Linked up with:

We Love Stamping - Make it Cute

Snippets Playground - Use Snippets (cow and chicken)

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes / must include an animal

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Foliage, cow, chicken and insect (Katzelkraft); sentiment (alphabet stamps (AVEC));

Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine); Rustic Wilderness, Mowed Lawn and Salty Ocean (Distress Oxide); Tranquil Tide (Stampin'Up);

Alcohol ink markers, white gel pen, liquid glue dots,

Katzelkraft - Ataraxia

Hi everyone!

I'm back with a new Katzelkraft project.

...and again with flowers!

It's funny. You don't do paper piecing for months, and then you use it twice in a row! 

It is the flowers and the tulip leaf for which I have applied this simple but very effective technic. They were a little fussy to cut out, but I think it was worth it.  ....I like the result. 

I drew the watering can myself and colored it with watercolor paints. As it seemed a bit massive compared to the flowers, I decided to stamp the text on parchment paper and stick it over the watering can. Right next to it I stamped a grasshopper silhouette from the new Frog and Friends set. 

The flower pots and the wall behind the watering can are a very old Katzelkraft stamp, which is no longer on sale. The stenciled background is from the stash.

If you would like to see more of my Katzelkraft creations, 

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

Hope you like it. See you next Tuesday with a new Katzelkraft inspiration! ;)

I used:

 

...just click on the images to go to the store and see them in full size.

Linked up with:

Daisy Chain Challenges - Flowers

Try it on Tuesday - Hearts and/or Flowers

Triple B - January 2024 - Birds, Blooms and/or Butterflies

Crazy is our Fame - Stencils are our game - February Stencil Fun + opt. Love/Hearts

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes 

 

Stamps: All (Katzelkraft);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Turquoise Temptation (SU); StazOn; 

Stencil: AVEC

Patterned paper, watercolors, alcohol ink markers, vellum, 

Katzelkraft - Butterflies

Hi everyone, 

Today is Katzelkraft day and I'm back with a new project. This time with a double ATC.

I had the gel print for the background in my stash for a long time, but didn't quite know how to use the large letter pattern. But today I had an idea that I honestly really like!

I simply stamped different images onto the gel print using three Katzelkraft stamp sets:

Metamorphosis, Nature and Flowers (French version) and Flowers & Nature (English version).

 Jazzed up a few spots with white gel pel. 

Cut it in half and sponged the edges with Black Soot (Distress Oxide).

Hope you like them. - See you next Tuesday with a new Katzelkraft inspiration! ;)

I used:

...just click on the images to go to the store and see them in full size.

Linked up with:

Crafting from the Heart - Anything but a Card

Path of Positivity - Anything Goes POSITIVE with Opt. Twist: Design a Creation Inspired By NATURE

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

We Love to Create Mixed Media - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything goes

Stamps: All (Katzelkraft);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine);

Stencil: AALL&Create

Alcohol ink markers, gel print for the background, white pen

Katzelkraft - Always look on the bright side of life

Hi everyone!

Today is Katzelkraft day. I played with the Metamorphosis set and made two ATC's. 

As a base, I used a small piece of background I made with the gel press and a leftover from a stamped lace border. I stamped the bugs and light bulbs on bristol paper, colored them with alcohol markers and cut them out. The moth I stamped on a scrap of homemade background paper, cut it out as well and lightened a few spots of the wings with white gel pen. Added a few mixed media designs from the other new Katzelkraft sets and stuck washi tape on one of the ATC's. Then I adhered the light bulbs, insects and sentiments and backed the ATC's with dark green cardstock.

Hope you like them! - See you next Tuesday with a new Katzelkraft inspiration! ;)

I used:

...just click on the images to go to the store and see them in full size.

Linked up with:

Dragonfly Dreams - Outdoors

Bastel-Traum - Things with Wings 

Sparkles Monthly - Things with Wings 

Tag along with Isa - ATC - frame it!

Path of Positivity - Anything Goes Positive

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes 

Stamps: All Katzelkraft

Inks: Onyx Bkack (Versafine); Atelier Shark Tooth White (Katzelkraft);

Gelpress, acrylic paints, white gel pen, washi tape,