Joyeux Noël

Hello everyone!

Today is the third Saturday I'm hosting the challenges at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. So welcome to this new one! This week's theme is...

In a Jar

I have several stamps of these tiny jars and so I got the idea to make a shelf for them.

The background is stenciled in gray - a kind of a starry sky.

Under the die cut border that serves as the shelf, I stamped some wintry text. 

To finish it off, I added a black strip with an embossed "Merry Christmas" at the bottom. Hope you like it.

Linked up with:

My Time to Craft Christmas - Inspirational Image

Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes Christmas

Merry Little Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes

The 12 Month of Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes

       

Supplies:

Stamps: All stamps are from Scrap Plaisir

Inks: Iced Spruce (Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine);

Dies: AVEC

Stencil: Deco Time

Life is better at the beach

Hello everyone!

Today starts our new challenge at Dream Factory. 

The movie for this month is:

The Birds

Keyword: Birds ...funny, quirky, cheeky, cute or not - no matter what they look like! 

You'd think I don't have any other stamps than Katzelkraft ...

I have, but no matter for which challenge, the ones from Katzelkraft always magically attract me! I almost have to fight not to stamp them on every card! - I tell you, I am addicted to them!

Our theme is birds, so no chance getting past the feathered things!

I stamped the birds, palm tree, coconuts and sun, colored with alcohol markers and fussy cut everything. I turned the birds' eyes into sunglasses.

The stenciled background had been waiting on my craft table for a while, I just sponged it with some more blue Distress Oxide to add to the vacation feel. For the beach, I used sandpaper and pasted all the prepared pieces onto it. I put a few shadows here and there with alcohol markers - very carefully so as not to roughen up the tips! Lastly, the sentiment and the card was done!

Linked up with:

Paper Shelter - Animals

Passion for Markers - Something beginning whit "B" (Birds and Beach)

Stamping Sensations - Stamp of the moment (I have so many favorite stamps, but usually the ones from Katzelkraft win! So no exception for today's card, the birds are one of my favorites!)

We Love to Create - Anything Mixed Media Goes

Addicted to Stamps and More - Any Occasion

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

      

  

Supplies:

Stamps: Birds (Katzelkraft); Palm tree and coconuts (Scrap Plaisir); Sun (Stampin'Up); Sentiment (Craft Sensations);

Inks: Mermaid Lagoon (Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine);

Stencil: 13@rts

Alcohol markers, sandpaper, 

Be brave...

Hello everyone!

I'm back with a new Katzelkraft inspiration. Today with a potion of herbs and mushrooms.... 

Fire red and tipped over - Pabo has either tasted too much of the extract, 

or the mixture didn't turn out quite well! Ha ha ha

Lots of masking and sponging to fill the bottle with all the scrumptious ingredients, 

then masking again to stencil the background and spong the floor. 

I stamped pabo and the drops separately, colored them, cut them out and then glued them on. 

The sentiment is embossed on black cardstock, cut to size and adhered.

I hope Pabo will recover quickly from his unfortunate experiment....

See you next Tuesday with a new Katzelkraft inspiration! ;)

I used:

        

HERBES FOLLES                               WHIMSY MUSHROOMS                   LES BOUTEILLES                            LES PABOS - AVIATEUR

Linked up with:

Time Out - Brave

Simon Says - Fun with Stencils

Cardz 4 Galz - Stencils

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes + option: School Daze 

Crafter's Castle - Anything Goes

Arty Divas - Anything Goes

            

Supplies:

Stamps: All Katzelkraft, except the sentiment (Stampin'Up)

Inks: Wild Honey, Seedless Preserves and Mermaid Lagoon (Distress Oxide); Barn Door (Distress); Tranquil Tide and Lemon Lime Twist (Stampin'Up);

Stencil: Deco Time

Alcohol markers, white embossing powder,

 

Thank you

Hello everyone!

We're celebrating World Gratitude Day at the Day of the Month Card Club and I want to remind you with a simple thank you card. After all, this day is all about expressing your gratitude or appreciation to someone.

The background is stenciled with Distress Oxide Wild Honey and Iced Spruce, backed with black glitter foil and pasted onto a white blank card. I embossed the flower in black, colored the white spaces with different shades of gray, cut it out and used foam pads to attach it to the card. I added a simple thank you sentiment and a few enamel dots. Hope you like it.

Have Fun with the challenge!

Linked up with:

Cardz 4 Galz - Stencils

Simon Says - Fun with Stencils

Incy Wincy - Dots or Stripes or Checks

Crafting Happiness - Anything Goes

Stamps & Fun - Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers - September Stencil Challenge

           

  

Supplies:

Stamps: Flower (Scrap Plaisir); Sentiment (Stampin'Up);

Inks: Wild Honey and Iced Spruce (Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine);

Stencil: Deco Time

Enamel dots, glitter foil, alcohol markers

Peace on Earth

Hello everyone!

New Saturday and new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. This week we want to see

3 Shades of Blue

Using 3 different blue aqua markers, I scribbled large stripes on acetate, sprayed with water and pressed it onto white cardstock. While this was drying, I die cut the village, trimmed it and stamped the sentiment, using 3 colors of blue.

I backed the panel with silver glitter cardstock, pasted it to the blank card, and then added the village.

Have Fun!

Linked up with:

CRAFT Challenge - Christmas

Krafty Chicks - Christmas

Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes

Lil Pach of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes

       

Supplies:

Stamps: Sentiment (Stampin'Up);

Inks: 

Dies: Stampin'Up

Aqua markers, Glitter cardstock, 

Thank you so mush

Hello everyone!

Tuesday is my Katzelkraft day. The card for this week is made with the awesome "Numbers" and "Herbes Folles" stamps from the new relese - but I had also treated myself to a couple of Katzelkraft stamps that I really wanted to use!

Today also marks the start of a new challenge at the Day of the Month Card Club, so I've combined both into one post! This month we are celebrating

World Gratitude Day

This day could actually be every day, 

because there is always something to be grateful for - not only on World Gratitude Day!

The days are getting shorter and the nights fresher - you can feel autumn coming...

They say there are many mushrooms this year. That's good because first, it was going to be a thank you card, and second, it was these whimsical fungi that I really wanted to use today.

After stenciling the background and sponging it with various Distress Oxide inks, I stamped the numbers, textures and some grasses. Splattered bleach on it to make it more vibrant.

I stamped the mushrooms separately, colored them, cut them out and adhered them. 

The word "mush" is die cut from foam and added to the heat embossed sentiment. 

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

I used:

         

NUMBERS                                              HERBES FOLLES                               WHIMSY MUSHROOMS                 MINI BACKGROUND

   

Linked up with:

Challenge Up Your Life - Glückspilze

Everybody Art - Herbst

Passion For Markers - Autumn Colors

Ike's World - Anything Goes Fall

The Four Seasons - Anything Fall, Autumn Goes

World Wide Open - Anything Goes

          

Supplies:

Stamps: All Katzelkraft, exept the sentiment (Stampin'Up); 

Inks: Wild Honey, Mermaid Lagoon (Distress Oxide); Barn Door, Spiced Marmalade (Distress); Onyx Black (Versafine); Atelier Shark Tooth White (Katzelkraft); 

Dies: Joy Crafts

Alcohol markers, Foam, Bleach

   

'Tis the season

Hello everyone!

Today starts a new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. This month it's my turn to guide you through the challenges.

As always, we'll start the month with a sketch. (See below)

I sponged the background with Distress Oxide (my favorite technique) and splattered it with white ink.

Otherwise, I only used stickers - hope you like it. After all, they have to find a place too, don't they?

The deer jumps to the right, so I flipped the sketch to the left so it wouldn't jump out of the card! :))

The oval of vellum behind the deer, is attached with two strips of washi tape. 

...and as a little extra, I added three little fir trees. 

Have Fun!

September Sketch - 52 CCT

Linked up with:

CRAFT Challenge - Christmas

Merry Little Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes

The 12 Month of Christmas - Anything Goes

Craftyhazelnuts - Anything Christmas Goes

      

Supplies:

Stickers; 

Inks: Salty Ocean (Distress Oxide); Night of Navy (Stampin'Up); Nuit Blanche (Scrap Plaisir);

Washi tape, Vellum