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Hi everyone!

We're heading into the second half of our current Dream Factory challenge, and I would like to briefly remind you about it.

 

Love Actally

Love, Hearts, and/or Valentine's Day

The movie poster inspired me to create the pattern in the heart - luckily, I had a suitable stencil. 

I punched out a large heart. From this, I punched out a smaller one. I slightly shifted the two hearts and glued them together. Stamped the cat, cut it out, and glued it onto the hearts. 

I splattered black ink onto a blank card and glued the hearts and cat onto it. Punched out a very small heart from red glitter cardstock, glued it to the cat's paws, and finally stamped the sentiment.

Movie Poster

Thanks for stopping by.

And maybe you'd like to join us...

Linked up with:

Cut It Up - My Heart

Crazy is our Frame - Stencils are our Game - Use a Stencil w. opt. theme: Anything with Four Legs

Shopping our Stash - Love Me Do

Try it on Tuesday - Add some Text

Creative Knockouts - Something to Say

Addicted to Stamps and More - Any Occasion

I used:

Stamps: Cat and sentiment (Stampin'Up); 

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Barn Door (Distress ink);

Dies: Scrap Plaisir

Stencil: Craft Sensations

Red glitter cardstock, black ink,

Grand comme ça!

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at the Dream Factory

Our movie for this month is:

Love Actually

It's actually a Christmas love story,  

but we're using it for our first challenge of the year.

So, for the next 4 weeks, 

it's all about 

Love, Hearts, and/or Valentine's Day!

I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day, but once a year I can convince myself! Haha 

The background of my card is dry-embossed with small arrows and hearts -- hard to see, but it is! 

I added a strip of washi tape under the frog's feet als well. 

Frog and hearts are colored with alcohol ink markers and aqua markers, cut out and glued on.

The sentiment says: I Love you this much!

Movie Poster

Linked up with:

Shopping Our Stash - Out with the Old & In with the New (NEW: Hearts, sentiment, embossing folder OLD: Frog and washi tape)

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes, but you must Include an Animal

Paper Rocks Scissors - Anything Goes as long as you use Paper and/or Scissors!

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Frog (Katzelkraft); hearts (Polkadoodles); sentiment (Azza);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Picked Raspberry (Distress Oxide);

Embossing: Dutch Crafts

Alcohol ink markers, Aqua markers,

Paris

Hi everyone! 

I still had an Eiffel Tower left over from the last card swap. 

I used it today to make a romantic card.

 

I used the paper piecing technique on the girl and the umbrella. I stamped the girl on different patterned paper or paper scraps and cut out the parts I needed. I put them together and stuck them next to the Eiffel Tower. 

The background is again one of those pre-made ones. Behind the girl I stamped a cloud with the word LOVE in different languages. The word PARIS is from Katzelkraft.

Have a great day!!

Linked up with:

Try it on Tuesday - Romance

Shopping our Stash - Crafty Remnants

Allsorts Challenge - Romance and/or Music

Color Hues - Pink and Red

Inkspirational - Red and Pink

Stamping Sensations - Valentines, Wedding and Romance

613 Avenue Create - Lots of Love

Paper Rocks Scissors - Anything Goes as long as you use PAPER and/or SCISSORS!

We Love Stamping - CAS

A Place to start - Anything Goes

I used:

Stamps: Girl with umbrella (Stampin'Up); Paris (Katzelkraft); Eiffeltower (Craft Sensations); love letter cloud (Scrap Plaisir);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); 

Patterned paper, pre-made background, embossing powder, 

Katzelkraft - Love You!

Hi everyone!

We are entering the second half of our current challenge at the Dream Factory. 

Our Movie: My Sassy Girl  

This month we are inspired by the words: Feminine, Girly and Valentine's Day. 

It also happens to be my Katzelkraft day. So I combined the two ;)

This time I decided to go for Valentine's Day, 

but I think it would work just as well for girly as for feminine.

...and as you can see, my flowery mood isn't over yet ;)) 

First, I splattered a blank card with 3 shades of pink metallic watercolor paint and set it aside to dry.

Meanwhile, I punched out a pale pink heart. I repeatedly stamped branches from the "Foliage" set and cut them out. Ditto for the flower from the "Ginko" set.

I colored everything with alcohol ink markers and then glued the pieces along the edge of the die-cut heart. - I glued the finished heart to the card with the splatters using foam pads.

The sentiments are from a vellum paper pad. I simply tore off the LOVE YOU! and the sentence at the bottom along the writing, then glued them to the card using small dots of glue.

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 image to go to the store and see them in full size.

Linked up with:

AAA Cards - Anything CAS Goes (Valentine's Day)

Simon Says - Have A Heart

Try It On Tuesday - Add Some Text

The Cutie Pie - Feeling Sentimental

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Stamps: Ginko and Co  (Katzelkraft); The sentiments come from a vellum paper pad;

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Smokey Slate (Stampin'Up);

Dies: Inner heart (Scrap Plaisir);

Alcohol ink markers, metallic watercolor paint (splatters), vellum, 

You are Amazing

Hi everyone!

I have the great honor of being this month's guest designer at Ellibelle's challenge "I Spy With My Little Eye".

The theme is: Hearts and/or Roses

I'm not really the flowery type, but sometimes I can go in that direction. Maybe it's just a lack of practice....

My resolution for this year: Using flowers more often.

I die-cut the rose several times from a piece of Bristol paper that was colored with Merry Merlot and glued them close together on a blank sheet of Bristol paper. ....I saved one rose for later. 

I cut the finished sheet to size and backed it with another, slightly larger piece of white paper. I then glued this onto a blank card, some of the edges of which I colored in light blue. Filled the white gaps between the roses with black dots.

I stamped the sentiment on a strip of Bristol paper and pasted the rose and a few leaves next to it. Unfortunately, one of the roses was right on top of the one on the strip and I didn't like that at all. 

After some thought, I found the solution.... 

I punched out a heart from a die-cut grid and stuck it behind it. Perfect! 

Linked up with:

Die Cut Divas - Never Before Used Stuff (Never used the rose and grid dies before)

Daisy Chain Challenges - No Design Paper

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

Stamping Sensations - Mood Board

A Place to Start - Anything Goes 

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Stamps: Sentiment (Yixuan); 

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Mowed Lawn and Mermaid Lagoon (Distress Oxide); Merry Merlot (Stampin'Up);

Dies: Rose (AVEC); Heart (Scrap Plaisir),

Hello Sweet💖

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at the Dream Factory

The movie for this month is...

My Sassy Girl

Anything Goes

Feminine, girly and Valentine's Day

First, I stenciled hearts in different colors on Brisol paper. I colored some of them again with alcohol ink markers to make the colors stand out better. I rounded off the top of the panel and backed it with black cardstock.

I stamped the cat, colored it with watercolors and cut it out. Sponged the top of a blank card with pink and purple and then brightened up a few hearts using a water brush pen. I then glued on the cat and the panel with the hearts. 

I die-cut the letters for the word SWEET from pink glitter foam and backed them slightly offset with black letters. I added a die-cut heart under the T, so the word sweet became sweetheart. 

HELLO is die-cut from light blue cardstock and has a pink backing. 

To round off the whole thing, I added a strip of washi tape at the bottom of the card and glued three rhinestones to the die-cut heart.

Have Fun! 

Linked up with:

The Cute Pie - Feeling Sentimental

Simon Says - Sparkle and Shine

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - N is for NEW (I bought the cat stamp last week)

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes, but must include an Animal

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Stamps: Cat (Deco Time); 

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry and Chipped Sapphire (Distress Oxide); Pumpkin Pie (Stampin'Up);

Stencil: Heidi Swapp

Dies: AVEC

Watercolors, washi tape, rhinestones, 

Il y a de l'amour dans l'air...

Hi everyone!

We are entering the second half of our current challenge at the Dream Factory. 

Our Movie is: Squared Love 

This month we are inspired by the theme of Valentine's Day. 

Today it's very girly, as you can see. 

I like pink a lot, but I'm not as pink as the tag might suggest! Hahaha 

It's just because I wanted to take on Isa's challenge: 

Monochrome - only one color, no white, no black!

I sponged, stenciled, stamped, heat embossed,

added die cuts and glitter cardstock,

applied gel pens to highlight....

.....used water and bleach to lighten some spots, 

and lastly tied a wool thread to the tag.

The quirky animals are from Katzelkraft.

It honestly wasn't easy working with just one color, 

but I think it's worth looking at. What do you think?

Linked up with:

Tag along with Isa (FB-Group) - Monochrome

Time Out - Inspired by Words (The word LOVE inspired me, it's all over the tag)

We Love Stamping - Favourite Colours

Cut It Up - Love

Path of Positivity - Anything Goes Positive with the opt. Twist:  Word Collage

We Love 2 Create - Anything Mixed Media Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Stamps: Animals "Les Quilles"  (Katzelkraft); sentiment and tiny hearts (Florileges Design); background script (Scrap Plaisir); 

Inks: Picked Raspberry (Distress Oxide);

Stencils: Rebekah Meier and Craft Univers

Dies: Stampin'Up

Glitter cardstock, clear embossing powder, bleach, glitter gel pens,