Je voudrais un bonhomme de neige

Translation: I would like a snowman

Hello everyone!
It's saturday and I want to introduce you to the our new challenge at 52CCT.
This week we want to see Non-Traditional Colors on your cards.

First I made a background with a stencil and Distress Oxide inks. Then I stamped the snowman with its little one, colored them with alcohol markers and cut them out. 

I put the snowman on the background but I didn't like it at all. - Too much color!!

Then I thought if I cut it into strips, it might be better...

...but I didn't cut it up, I tore it up! It looked better right away, and now I like it a lot. 

I glued the strips on white cardstock, shifting them a little bit. - The herringbone pattern reminds me of firs.

I stamped the snowman on the spot and then glued the pieces of the first one on it. Originally the sentiment was just black lines, but it seemed too empty to me. So I filled the inside of the letters with black, and I like that much better now! I cut the sentence into individual words and stuck them on the card. Done!

Now it's your turn! Have fun!

Linked up with:
Stamplorations - May Stencil challenge
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes
A Place to Start - Create A Custom Background - Do Not Use Designer Papers

    

Stamps: Snowmen and sentiment (Scrap Plaisir)

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers and Seedless Preserves (Ranger Distress Oxide);

Stencil: Craft Sensations

Alcohol markers

Frog Jumping Day - DotMCC Challenge #15

Hello everyone!
It is time for a new challenge at Day of the Month Card Club!
After the rats and mice, now it's the frogs' turn! - The theme for this month is...

Frog Jumping Day

Celebrated on May 13th

Frogs have great jumping capabilities and are the best jumpers among all vertebrates given their size.

According to several sources, the unofficial holiday celebrates a short story named Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog by Mark Twain. In the story, a compulsive better named Jim Smiley trains a frog to jump and bets with a man that his frog can jump higher than any other frog in the town. The man dupes Jim Smiley and wins the bet. It is, however, unclear why the inventor of this day chose May 13 as the date for this “hoppy” holiday.

How to Celebrate?
- Jump around like a frog. - Frog jumping is a fun and competitive pastime for kids as well as for adults!
- Go see frogs jump at your local aquarium or pond and learn more about frogs and their habitats.
- Read Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog and other works by Mark Twain.

But the best of all is to create a card and link it to our challenge blog!! 😉

Great! I finally can use some more of these Katzelkraft frogs I got a few weeks ago! So far I've only made a single card with one them - I really had a lot of fun making this one!

The bridge and the trees in the background were drawn by hand. I masked the bridge all around with Washi tape and paper and stamped then a wooden pattern on it. I stamped two more frogs in the pond and then colored everything with alcohol markers.  

The frog, which looks a bit frightened, is actually a mix of two frogs. I combined the upper part and the left foot of one frog with the foot of the jumping frog (see the picture below) - as you can see it worked perfectly! Because he looks really pitiful, I drew the frog a swimming hoop as a little extra, colored it, cut it fussy and adapted it! ...if you look closely, you'll see that I've also changed the frog's eyes so that it looks where it should look!

I stamped the flies on white paper, colored them, cut them fussy and then glued them on.

As a final touch I added some black and white accents around the frogs and the pillar.

The sentiment is also from Katzelkraft. 

Have fun jumping!

Linked up with:
2 Crafty Critters - Anything Goes with a Critter
Fab 'n' Funky - Cute Critters
Krafty Chicks - Stamp Act (must have a stamp/digi image on card/project)
Challenge Up Your Life - Tiere
Animal Friends - Insekten
Crafty Animals - Anything Goes with Animals

    

      

Stamps: Frogs and sentiment (Katzelkraft); Flies (Penny Black); Bridge and trees are hand-drawn; Wooden pattern stamp (BoBunny);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Alcohol markers

Happy Holidays

Hello everyone!
Saturday is 52CCT day and I'm here today with our new challenge.
This week we play with a sketch. (see below)

I wanted to keep it CAS and made a super simple card! 

First I embossed the card to create some texture. Then I cut out a strip of Christmas design paper, cut it off at a third and rounded the inner corners. I repeated the whole thing a little bit bigger with black glitter foil and backed the design paper strips with it. I attached a mini brad to the upper strip and hung a lamp on it. 

The sentiment is stamped on small, black framed labels. It says: We wish you happy holidays

I traced the Stars with yellow micro pen, added a bit Wink of Stella and stamped a few tiny black stars here and there.

May sketch - 52CCT

Linked up with:

Christmas 24 - Snowflakes
Happy Little Stampers - Anything Christmas Goes + optional: Ornaments
Merry Little Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes
Just Add Ink - Just chose two: stencils, pencils and/or patterned paper

 

  

Stamps: Sentiment and tiny stars (Stampin'Up); Lamp (Scrap Plaisir);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); 

Embossing: Stampin'Up

Design paper, mini brad, yellow micro pen, 

Mirror, mirror on the wall...

Hello everyone!
A quick reminder and a little inspiration for our current challenge at the Dream Factory. This month's movie is

Minions

I had a great time creating this card! 

This time a "yellow" bimbo, apparently looking in a mirror. Here it was guys, for a fun birthday card!

I found the girlie and the text on Pinterest and copied everything by hand using tracing paper ....nothing with printer and all!! 

Glasses, mouth, bra, hands and shoes are copied twice and colored with alcohol markers. The skirt is copied on design paper. I fussy cut the outfit and gluded it onto the Minion. I added some blue as a background and a bit shadow for the ground.

The text, which I also copied by hand, says:

You stand in front of the mirror and think, "Oh, that's actually good," and then you put the glasses on... 😁

Hope you like it...  

Have FUN ...and stay well!

Linked up with:

Crafty Sentiments - For Girl

Ike's World - P is for Paper Piecing (the skirt is cut out from Design paper - the remaining elements of the outfit were copied on white paper, colored and then fussy cut).

Cute Card Thursday - Feminine

Addicted to Stamps and More - Make your Mark

Little Red Wagon - White (or any color) space

    

        

Merry Christmas with the Herringbone Technique

Hello everyone!
It's saturday and I am here with a new challenge on 52CCT!
This week there is a technique challenge - we are looking for Christmas cards with the .....

Heringbone Technique

Please watch this video or this video if you need some help

I first had to find out about this technique. I know the herringbone pattern, but I have never heard of how to use it for card making. ...we never stop learning!
Actually, the technique is very simple. Simply stick more or less wide strips in a certain order on a card and make sure that the strips are neatly edge to edge! Cut off the protruding ends - you can use them for the shorter lengths.
After all strips were glued on, I cut my panel to size and backed it with black glitter foil. Finally I stamped a Christmas tree and added an embossed label.
As you can see, this is a very good technique to recycle leftovers!

This is a "lighter" version with only a small piece of the herringbone pattern.
I wanted to try out the technique with Washi tape and used it for this one. - Looks good too, but it is not as handy as paper!


I hope I could inspire you! Have fun trying it out!

Linked up with:

Stamps: First card: Christmas tree and label  (Craft Sensations), second card: Deers (Cats on apple trees)

Enjoying every moment...

...that's what it says on the tag.

Hello everyone!
I made this card a few month ago for a card swap and I have to show it now, otherwise it will get lost among all the cards that pile up here! LOL
Seriously, I've been pushing it aside for a while now because there's always another card taking its place!

The requirement was a tag on a card. 

The butterfly is punched out of paper which I dyed with yellow and orange ink and some brown splashes.
The tag is cut out from a remnant of an old piece of paper that I had made using the smoothing technique with green and gold ink - supplemented with a mix of different stamps.

It is glued to an embossed background which is backed with black paper and then glued to the card base. 

...I really love the wooden look!

In total I made 9 of them...

Have a nice time and stay safe!!

Linked up with:

Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes with Dies
Cardz 4 Guyz - Use Dies as Main Feature
Ellibelle's Corner - Bugs, Blossoms and/or Butterflies
Krafty Chicks - All Occasions
Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions

    

   

Stamps: All stamps (from Scrap Plaisir); 
Inks: Pumkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Tranquil Tide (Stampin'Up);
Dies: Butterfly (Scrap Plaisir), tag and frame (Craft Sensations);
Embossing: (Stampin'Up)
Twine

Joyeux Noël

Hello everyone!
It's saturday and I want to introduce you to the our new challenge at 52CCT.
This week we want to see Forest & Deer(s) on your cards.

My card is very simple! I splashed some white ink on a card base of beige cardstock and put it aside. I die cut the stag twice and the Noel once and glued the two stag togehter slightly offset. I cut out a square from a piece of remaining paper and glued a piece of grid (ribbon) on it. Added some gold string and glued the stag on.

Have FUN
...and stay well!

In addition!

I had to slightly modify my card because I missed a detail of the challenge. 
It's the same card - I just added watermarked firs. 

...you see, 
it wasn't that worse!

Linked up with:

Happy Little Stampers - April Christmas Challenge

Happy Little Stampers - April Anything Goes with Dies
Sweet Stampers - Clean & Simple

    

Stamps: Joyeux (Scrap Plaisir);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Nuit Blanche (Scrap Plaisir);

Dies: Deer and Noël (Kesi'art); 

Gold string, ribbon (grid)

R is for Retro

Hello everyone!
Wow, that was really last minute!!!
It's been a while since I played on Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - it really tickled me and just before the end of the challenge I had a brainwave for their "Retro" theme!

I still had some papers I made a few months ago with a Gelli-plate and Distress Oxide inks. I cut a piece and used it as background for my card. I stamped the old car and one of the Pabos (both Katzelkraft) on it. I stamped the Pabos a second time, colored it with alcohol markers, cut it fussy and glued it on the already stamped one. I found the fun sentiment on Pinterest, wrote it on a piece of paper and cut it into small labels. I colored the edges with black felt-tip pen and then glued the words on the card. I sponged the edges of the card with some black ink. 

... "Sir Leopold Bollersbach" from cats on appletrees arrived yesterday - of course he had to pee on the car tyre after such a long journey! Hahaha

I had so much fun creating this card and I hope you like it as much as I do!

Linked up with:

Sisterhod of Snarky Stampers - Retro
A Vintage Journey - It's Gelli Time!

   

Stamps: Old car and pabo (Katzelkraft); Peeing dog (Cats on appletrees);

Inks: Salty Ocean and Mowed Lawn (Ranger Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine);

Alcohol markers, black micro pen

Bananaaaaa!

(Thats Minion for Happy Birthday)

Hello everyone!
We have a new challenge at the Dream Factory.
This month we've chosen a movie that I'm sure everybody's gonna love!

Minions

I love those little yellow guys! Found the image on Pinterest and copied it by hand with help of tracing paper. 

I colored the Minions with alcohol markers, ground and sky with watercolors. Then added confetti by assembling fine-tip markers into a bundle and made dots. The birthday sentiment is from Stampin'Up.

Hope you like it...  

Have FUN ...and stay well!

Linked up with:

Create a Smile - We dare you to create a smile: Mood board

Fab'n' Funky - Spots or Dots

Daisy Chain - Birthday

      

Stamps: Sentiment (SU); 

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); 

Alcohol markers, Felt-tip pens; Watercolor

DotMCC - Challenge #14 - Reminder

Hello everyone!

I want to remind you of our current challenge at Day of the Month Card Club.

This month we have a funny topic:

World Rat Day

...of course mice are welcome too!!

Couldn't resist pulling out the Katzelkraft rats once again!  - Today, they're taking it easy!!

The handwritten feeling says something like: "There must be time for doing nothing!" 

So what could be better than doing this in a sunny garden?!

Hope I made you want to join in...

...stay safe and don't stop crafting!!

Linked up with:

Time Out  - Inspired by Words
Inkspirational - Spring
The Artistic Stamper - In the Garden
Crafter's Castle - Anything Goes
CCEE Stampers - Garden Month

  

      

Stamps: Rats (Katzelkraft); Sun (Jillibean Soupe); Bush (Craft Sensations); Fence and flowerbox (a gift from a crafting friend);

Inks: Alcohol markers, Felt-tip pens, Micro pen