Eine schöne Weihnachtszeit...

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. 

The theme of this week is

Snow Globe

and since we're celebrating  

Snow Globe Day

at the Day of the Mont Card Club,

I'm combining my reminder card with the 52 CCT challenge. 

I stamped the snow globes on Bristol paper, colored them with watercolors and cut them out. Added a piece of string to each one and placed them on a shelf that I punched out of a piece of design paper. 

Underneath I stamped garlands, which I colored with colored pencils and a beautiful Christmas sentiment. As a finishing touch, I added a few splashes of blue and a little Wink of Stella.

Linked up with:

Cardz 4 Galz - Christmas Card

C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas the last Strech

Crafty Chicks - Christmas

Christmas Craft Creations - Christmas Decorations 

Christmas Kickstart - If it's Christmassy, Link it Up!

My Time to Craft - Christmas Holiday Cards w. letter S items 

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes w. opt. Twist: Any Winter Holiday

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

 

Stamps: Snow globes and garlands (Scrap Plaisir); ); sentiment (Stampin'Up);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine);

Watercolor, Wink of Stella, colored pencils, 

It's a wonderful time

Hi everyone!

Time for a new challenge at the Dream Factory

The movie for this month is

Cobalt Blue

In this movie, we are only interested by the title, i.e. the color Blue.

In other words, Anything Goes with the color Blue

The background was created using the negative of a stencil.

I applied Mermaid Lagoon (Distress Oxide) to the stencil, sprayed with water and made a print on a blank card - if you look closely, you can see the stars left by the stencil. 

I then stamped the scene, the stars and the text. I colored the scene very lightly with watercolor, adding a touch of red and brown. Backed the ATC with black cardstock. That's it!

Have Fun! 

Linked up with:

ATC Around the World - Winter Wonderland

Creative Knockouts - Snow Much Fun

Crafty Gals Corner - 'Tis the Season

Shopping Our Stash - Whatever the Weather

Cupcake Inspirations - Winter Wonderland

Crazy is our Fame - Stencils are our Game - December Stencil Fun

Stamps: Scene (Stampin'Up); sentiments (Lora Bylora); 

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

Watercolors,

Katzelkraft - You are Amazing

Hi everyone!

It's Katzelkraft day :)) 

Today's card shows a funny lizard. It comes from one of the eight stamp sets that have recently been released and that you have probably already seen on the Katzelkraft webside and on social media. 

As the lizard's belly can be seen, I wanted to place it behind a window. 

To do this, I punched an opening in the card cover and glued a sheet of acetate behind it. 

I attached die-cut leaves to the left side. The right side is stamped with leaf veins and flowers. 

The inside of the card is stencilled with a leaf pattern.

I colored the lizard with alcohol ink markers, cut it out and glued it behind the acetate. 

He is lurking on some fat bees, which I stamped with StazOn and colored with alcohol markers. 

The sentiment is from the Ataraxia set

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.

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:

Happy Little Stampers - December Stencil Challenge

Crazy is our fame - Stencils are our game - December Stencil Fun

Simon Says - Use Dies

Happy Little Stampers - December Anything Goes with Dies 

A Place to Start - Anything Goes w. opt. twist: New   (New stamp)

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Stamps: Lizard, sentiment and flowers (Katzelkraft), bees (Penny Black); leaf veins (Stampin'Up);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Jet Black (StazOn); Lemon Lime Twist and Pear Pizzazz (Stampin'Up); Fluorecent Pink (Deco Time)

Dies: Stampin'Up

Stencil: Craft Sensations,

Alcohol ink markers, acetate, gel print scraps,

Joyeux Noël

Hi everyone!

Today starts a new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. 

I hope you enjoy this color combination....

Purple + Gold  or Silver

I opted for purple and silver and only used die-cuts. 

I cut out lots of stars in different sizes from silver glitter cardstock, 

which I then put together to form a Christmas tree. 

Gosh, that was a fiddly bit of sticking on! ...but I like the result :))

I then lightly brushed white ink around the triangle to highlight the Christmas tree.

On the edges of the panel, I dabbed on a darker purple to get a slight shading. 

I die cut the "Joyeux Noël" from a piece of silver card and used it as a trunk. 

Trimmed the panel and pasted it on a white blank card.

Have Fun!

Linked up with:

Cut It Out - Use more than one Die

Simon Says - Use Craft Dies

Time Out - Sparkly

I Spy with my Little Eye - Sparkle and/or Shine

Christmas Kickstart - If it's Christmassy, Link it Up!

613 Avenue Create - Anything Christmas Goes w. opt. twist: Any Winter Holiday

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Inks: Seedless Preserves (Distress Oxide);

Dies: Scrap Plaisir

Purple cardstock, silver glitter cardstock,

Let it snow

Hi everyone!

Today starts a new challenge at the Day of the Month Card Club! 

This month we are celebrating 

 Snow Globe Day

Tag der Schneekugel

I recycled a used up roll of adhesive tape to make this snow globe.

 I covered the outside of the roll with washi tape and glued it to a light blue die-cut circle.  I then glued a second circle behind the blue one, adding the back of the base and an eyelet for hanging the ball in between.

To add depth to the wintry scene, I used several layers of self-adhesive foam pads to distance the punched fir trees from each other. - There was enough space for this, as the width of the roll is about 2 cm.

I glued a few die-cut stars in the background and added dots with a white Posca pen. Scattered artificial snow in the ball and closed it with a circle punched out of acetate and a paper ring also punched out. 

I attached the second part of the base and decorated it with a narrow self-adhesive silver chain.  

Finally, I added the snowman, the snowflake and the embossed sentiment. Attached a small ribbon to the hanger.

Hope you like it :)

Have Fun!! 

Linked up with:

Fab 'n' Funky - Snowmen

Creative Knockouts - Snow Much Fun

Simon Says - Use Craft Dies

Tic Tac Toe Challenge - I chose the bottom row across: Free, Embellishment, Die Cut

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Stamps: Sentiment (Yixuan)

Dies: Snowman, Christmas trees and stars (Scrap Plaisir); Snowflake (Marianne Design); Circles (Deco Time); 

Washi tape, artificial snow, ribbon, half pearl, embossing powder, acetate,

Let it snow

Hi everyone!

I have the great honor to be guest designer for The Paper Funday Challenges this month. 

In case you want to do some crafting and work on your last Christmas cards for this year, this is the challenge for you! 

The theme is: Use Snowmen and/or Birds - I'm sure you have plenty of them in your stamp collection...... 

The sentiment and Christmas trees are stamped directly onto the background, which is made up of two differently embossed pieces and lightly sponged in blue. I colored the fun snowman and his friend the bird (both from Yixuan) with alcohol ink markers, fussy cut them and added them to the card. I brushed the snowman and lower part of the card with wink of Stella - this gives it a nice shimmer, but does not show up well on the photo. Finally, I cut the panel to size and pasted it on a blank card.

I hope you like this. Thanks for stopping by! 

...and don't forget to link up your card with The Paper Funday Challenges!

Linked up with:

Fab 'n' Funky - Snowmen

I Spy with my Little Eye - Sparkle and/or Shine

Shopping Our Stash - Whatever the Weather

Happy Little Stampers - December Christmas Challenge

The Four Seasons - Anything Goes Winter

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Stamps: All (Yixuan), except the fir trees (Scrap Plaisir)

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

Embossing: Stampin'Up

Alcohol ink markers, Wink of Stella,