Merry Christmas

Hello everyone!

As you know, Saturday is 52CCT day on my blog. This week we invite you to play with the following colors

Blue - Kraft - White

I took blue cardstock and a piece of corrugated cardboard, which I tore at the top end. I marked the end of the corrugated cardboard on the  blue carstock and then stamped the firs with Crumb Cake (Stampin'Up). 

Deer and bunny (both from cats on appletrees) are stamped with Versamark and then heat embossed in white. 

I colored the fir trees with a white crayon and added thick but subtle snowflakes to the background. 

I heat embossed the "Christmas" on vellum - then punched the "Merry" out of blue glitter cardstock and glued it on the vellum as well. I attached the vellum to the corrugated cardboard and glued it to the blue card. 

I hope you like the way I used the colors and hope you have fun with them too!

Linked up with:

Fezziwigs Festive Frolics - Textures

Allsorts Challenge - Winter Szene or Snow

Krafty Chicks - Christmas 

Crimbo Crackers - Anything Goes

We Love To Create - Anything Mixed Media Goes

     

 

   

Stamps: Fir trees (Scrap plaisir - now Crea-Plaisir); Sentiment (Stampin'Up); Deer and bunny (cats on appletrees);

Inks: Crumb Cake (Stampin'Up); 

White crayon, glitter cardstock

International Coffee Day - DotMCC Challenge #20

Hello everyone!

Time for a new challenge at Day of the Month Card Club! This month we are celebrating the

International Coffee Day

Always celebrated on the 1st of October

Coffee beans have been scattered around the world for more than 600 years, and humanity has used coffee for many presentations: drinks, candies, medicine, and some ancient civilizations even used it as a currency!

No matter how you take it, coffee can energize you, warm you up, refresh you, keep you awake, 

...and of course it shouldn't be missed on any desk or craft table! ;)

For this challenge I made a quick and simple card - no coloring - just stamped with brown ink. 

I stamped coffee beans over the whole surface of a sheet of beige cardstock.

I cut out two stripes, one white and a slightly wider brown one. I stamped two coffee cups and the sentiment on the white stripe, backed it with the brown one and glued them to the panel. - The panel is glued to a white card base. 

Have Fun!!

Linked up with:

Everybody-Art-Challenge - Monochrome

Time Out - Inspired by words

Heart 2 Heart - New to you (I used a new stamp set)

Simpn Says - Anything Goes

We Love Chocolate Baroque - Anything Goes

    

       

Stamps: Craft Sensations

Inks: Early Espresso (Stampin'Up)

Autumn

Hello everyone!

Today I am Guest Designing over at The Male Room Challenge.

They have a wonderful quote for this fortnight's challenge. (see below)

I chose a Katzelkraft stamp - an image of  Notre-Dame de Paris as it was before the dramatic blaze.

I smooshed the background with Distress Oxide inks, stamped the image and smooshed again. I stamped some leaves, splashed them with red ink and cut them fussy. I tried to give some depth to the image by placing the leaves in the foreground. The sentiment, as well as the leaves are from Stampin'Up.

     

I hope you'll get in on the autumn theme, too - I can't wait to see how YOU interprete this beautiful quote!

Have Fun!

Linked up with:

The Library Challenge - What to Look for in Autumn

Basteltraum - Herbst / Fall

International Art & Soul - Autumn Colors

Pattie's Creations - Autumn / Fall

Stamping Sensations - Autumn Glory

My Time To Craft - Autumnal Colours

     

    

 

Stamps: Notre Dame de Paris (Katzelkraft); Leaves, branches and sentiment (Stampin'Up);

Inks: Fired Brick, Wild Honey and a little Salty Ocean (Ranger Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine); Pear Pizzazz and Early Espresso (Stampin'Up); 

Katzelkraft - Haunted Night

Hello everyone!

It's Katzelkraft day on my blog and today I'll try to frighten you! 😱

Looks creepy, right?! 🎃😁

First I sponged the moon and masked it. Then I stamped the Castle and M. Pabos - Sherlok Holmes and masked them as well. In the next step I sponged the background with Distress Oxide inks and as soon as I was satisfied with the result I removed the masks from the moon and the castle. - M. Pabos remained masked!

I stamped the silhouettes of the trees, the sentiment and the spider - removed Pabos mask and colored him with alcohol markers. To make him look even scarier, I added two vampire fangs and a few drops of blood to his face. 

I placed a cemetery to his left and a bottle of energy drink and a pumpkin to his right. 😁

I hope you're very scared!! - See you next Tuesday with a new Katzelkraft inspiration! ;)

I used:

      

           Les Arbres Silhouettes - UGS : KTZ250          Les Pabos -Sherlock Holmes - UGS : KTZ211

All other stamps and supplies are listed at the bottom of the post.

Linked up with:

Lost Coast Portal To Creativity - Halloween

Country View - Halloween (Make a scene)

Stempelgarten - Halloween

Crafty Calendar - Halloween

Unicorn Challenge - Spooky and/or cute

The Corrosive Challenge - Anything Goes

    

  

Stamps: Spider, cemetery, pumkin and poison (Scrap Plaisir - now Crea-Plaisir); Sentiment (Stampin'Up)

Inks: Wild Honey (Distress Oxide) and Barn Door (Distress ink); Pumkin Pie and Fresh Figue (Stampin'Up); Onyx Black (Versafine);

Alcohol markers

Oh Tannenbaum...

Hello everyone!

Saturday is 52CCT day on my blog and as always we start the month with a sketch.

I chose one of the characters from the series Pabos-Aviateur by Katzelkraft and gave him a Santa hat, which is also by Katzelkraft. He fiddles "Oh Christmas Tree" with his violin and probably thinks that the little tree grows faster with music. Hahaha

The background is sponged with Distress Oxide inks and accentuated with a few splashes of water. The tree and the fiddler are colored with alcohol markers - the latter was framed with some scribbles to follow the sketch.

Hope you like this fun guy. - Happy SKETCH-ing! 

October Sketch - 52CCT

Linked up with:

Digi Design - Make it Masculine

Allsort Challenge - Cute Christmas

Colour Crazy Craft - Anything Goes Colouring

   

Stamps: Fiddler and Santa hat (Katzelkraft); Christmas tree (Craft Sensations); Sentiment and Sheet music (Stampin'Up):

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

Alcohol markers

Who left the bag of idiots open ?

Hello everyone!

It's half time at the Dream Factory! 

Big, small, thick, thin, cute or not - this month it's all about dragons --- show us all you have!

All dragons are hand drawn using the "drawing with numbers" method - a really cool technique I found on Pinterest.

The sky is sponged with Distress Oxide inks - the sea, as well as the dragons, are colored with alcohol markers. I put some scribbles with crayons in the background, and here and there some accents with white gel pen. The fun sentiment is from Katzelkraft.

Hope you like my hand-drawn dragons.

Have FUN with the challenge!!

Linked up with:

Cardz 4 Guyz - Dragons or Dinosours

Paperminutes - Regenbogenfarben

Sweet Stampers - Things with Wings

    

  

Stamps: Sentiment (Relax, Citations Anglaises - Katzelkraft)

Inks: Fired Brick, Wild Honey and Seedless Preserves (Ranger Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine);

Alcohol markers, White gel pen

Katzelkraft - Smile when it's raining

 

Hello everyone!

Today is Katzelkraft day on my blog and would like to introduce one of their very new stamps.

 A beautiful quote, which actually doesn't need much extra...

...but I wanted to include  the quirky but super cute cat from the set "Les Pabos - Aviateur", and because there's talk of rain, I also added "Les Gouttes D'eau"- a somewhat older stamp set from Katzelkraft.

I made the background with Distress Oxide ink and the acrylic block technique. Than stamped the quote, the cat and the raindrops. I masked the cat and the upper part of the card and sponged the ground with Distress Oxide - added some bleach drops here and there and soaked it up with a paper towel. I colored the cat with alcohol markers - for a funny finish I put a raindrop on its ear.

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

The stamps I used:

           

Smile When It’s Raining - UGS : SOLO158 - Les Pabos – Aviateur - UGS : KTZ212 - Les Gouttes D’eau - UGS : KTZ138

Linked up with:

Creative Craft Cottage - Include an Animal

Show Us Your Pussycats - Furrything Goes

PINspirational - Inspiration Photo (I saw a quirky furry thing - there's a quirky cat on my card)

World Wide Open Design Team - Anything Goes

   

  

      

Inks: Mermaid Lagoon and Iced Spruce (Ranger Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine);

Alcohol markers; Bleach; 

'tis the season

Hello everyone!

Throughout September I had the pleasure of hosting the challenges at 52CCT. I hope you enjoy the partial stenciling technique I chose for the last of my September challenges.

I used three different stencils for this little winter scene - you can see them under the card.

I copied the fir shapes on scrap paper, cut them out and used them as a mask to create the background and to protect the already stencilled areas. 

After the stenciling I drew the contours of the trees with a black micro pen. Stamped the deer, some tiny stars and the sentiment, and added a small strip of washi tape at the bottom of the card.

If you are not familiar with this technique, you can learn it here and here.

Have Fun!!

Linked up with:

Cardz 4 Galdz - One Layer Card

Stinkin' Inkers - 3 of Something

Jingle Bells - Dashing Throught the Snow

Moving Along with the Times - Create a Scene

Art Impressions - Handmade Holidays

Krafty Chicks - All Occasions

  

  

Stamps: Deer (Cats on appletrees); Sentiment and star (Lora Bylora)

Inks: Tranquil Tide and Tempting Turquoise (Stampin'Up); Onyx Black (Versafine);

Stencils: Scrap Plaisir, Stampin'Up and Deco Time

Washi tape