Katzelkraft - Notebook

Hi everyone! A notebook that I've made to show today for Katzelkraft using stamps KTZ91, KTZ93, KTZ 94 and KTZ96 and which I'm entering into the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge which has a theme of distressed/torn edges this week, hopefully distress means sanding and sponging the edges which I've done on the covers using walnut stain distress ink.

The notebook covers  are chipboard covered with card that I stamped on. The front cover image was coloured with copics and pencils and the title is handwritten. The card for the inside and back covers was inked with distress ink, sprayed with perfect pearls and water, sanded and then  sponged around the edges, then glued to the covers. I've painted the covers with a layer of gloss medium to protect them as I'll be keeping the notebook in my handbag. The book was put together with some printer paper cut to size using my binding machine.

Katzelkraft stamps are available exclusively in the UK at the Craft Barn and from Katzelkraft Stamps in France.

Enjoy your day!

Faberge inspired butterfly

Hi everyone! Hope your weekend was good. It's my day on the Katzelkraft blog today and I've made a wall hanging inspired by Faberge which I'm entering into the challenges of 'twine' and the colour challenge of 'red and gold' at Gingersnap Creations (that's if I'm allowed to enter both with one piece, not sure), hope you'll pop over there as they have some lovely challenges, gorgeous art and techniques etc. 

I've used  the lovely 'Physalis et Petits Oiseaux' plate which is a versatile set and great for making backgrounds. My butterfly is a piece of chipboard cut on my die cutting machine, then covered with white stamping card and it's about eight inches wide. I stamped the flower and embossed with gold powder then sponged with fired brick and wild honey distress ink to fit in with the colour theme. There's twine to hang the butterfly from and also for the antennae to fit the twine challenge at Gingersnaps. To try and get the Faberge jewelled look  I added some die cut swirls sprayed with gold cosmic shimmer spray, a prima enamel style flower, gems large and small and lots of pearl pen dots. 

The stamps are available at Katzelkraft Stamps in France and in the UK at the Craft Barn.

Enjoy your day!

Paris

Hi everyone, hope you've had a good day. I've made a tag to post today using the gorgeous Katzelkraft Paris KTZ 35-01 stamp plate which I love. The background of the tag was made using the faux batik technique (embossing the stamping with clear powder, sponging with distress inks and then ironing the embossing powder off.) After that I stamped over with the Paris sentiment and outlined it with white gel pen. I've added a punched border round two sides of the tag, lots of swirls made with pearl pens, a punched butterfly, flowers and the Sizzix Alterations mannequin die cut shape which is stamped in black with the script stamp from the set. 

I'm entering my tag into Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge where it's 'anything goes' this week. Ribbon Carousel and a challenge of 'Shabby Chic', hopefully the Paris theme is chic :) and I've used pretty ribbon. Papertake Weekly is 'Fancy a Punch' (punched border and butterfly). 

Katzelkraft - Studio L3 - Simon Says Stamp and Show

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend. A tag to show today for the Katzelkraft blog,  Simon Says Stamp and Show where the challenge this week is to use a Tim Holtz technique and also for Linda's Studio L3 Grungy Monday challenge where the Tim Holtz technique this week is texture fades and distress.

I've used stamps from Vinci Joconde, 'Paris KTZ35', Butterflies 04 and Cage et Chandelier to make the
scene with horse disappearing into the shadows of the trees courtesy of the texture fades and distress technique :). To decorate I made a rosette from inked, spritzed and crumpled printer paper and I dyed some cotton fabric strips to match the colours I used to sponge onto the tag. The filigree photo corner has had the white rub 'n' buff treatment to change it from gold and theres a bit on the edges of the rossette and around the tag too.

The stamps are available at Katzelkraft Stamps in France and in the UK at The Craft Barn.

Have a good day today and thanks as always for your comments, I very much appreciate them..

Katzelkraft Tag - Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything but a card

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend and a Happy Mother's Day if you're here in the UK. A tag to show today for the Katzelkraft blog and also for Simon Says Stamp and Show where the challenge is 'anything but a card'.

I've used the gorgeous 'Paris KTZ35' plate to make my collage stamped tag which has some wonderful stamps with a Paris theme and lots of options for postal type creations. A gorgeous large text stamp is included which stamps very crisply, another set that will get a lot of use :D. I've stamped and sponged with distress inks and it's looking very green :D, not great light to photograph and all the wild honey ink isn't as bright as it is IRL but the shimmer shows up :D which is something! I spritzed with a green and a cocoa shimmer mist for some sparkle. The metal corner and die cut hinge were embossed with Ranger distress embossing powder in vintage photo and I inked some ribbon to match the colours in the tag.

The stamps are available at Katzelkraft Stamps in France and in the UK at The Craft Barn.
Have a good day today.

katzelkraft Transportation

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend and you're enjoying some nice weather, it's been beautiful here and nice to see some sun for a change.

I have a Katzelkraft project to show today and I've used stamps from the Transportation set which I love and I know I'll be using this a lot for all the male birthdays that I have coming up. 

The plane image is stamped onto three domino size stampbord pieces which I coloured with various distress inks. The stampbord was taped down and butted up against each other before stamping with Archival ink and  I stamped the sentiments over and around the plane without re-inking them each time then scratched in the details and highlights with a scratch tool. The stampbord is mounted on an inked chipboard rectangle and that onto a Sizzix alterations baroque die cut chipboard piece also inked with distress ink. 

Katzelkraft stamps are available in France at Katzelkraft Stamps and in the UK at The Craft Barn.

Enjoy your day. :)

Katzelkraft - Simon Says Stamp and Show - Stars

Hi everyone! A Katzelkraft card today using the new music stamp set and I think this is a great set for cards for the boys/men in our lives with lots of options in the variety of the stamps! I'm entering my card into Simon Says Stamp and Show where this week the challenge is 'stars' and there's some fantastic inspiration as always from the DT.

I stamped the guitar with distress inks, cut it out and stamped the background also with distress inks and various stamps from the set over a spritzed distress inked piece of white card. All the edges are distressed with scissors and after arranging the guitar using glue gel and the star brad I doodled around them in black and sparkle pens.

Katzelkraft stamps are available in France here and in the UK at the Craft Barn here.

Enjoy your day and I'd just like to say thank you for all the lovely comments left on my card on Sunday, they're all very much appreciated :)

Katzelkraft - Simon Says Stamp and Show

Hi everyone! It's may day on the Katzelkraft blog today and I've made a gift set which goes with the canvas I made and posted on Sunday using  the pretty Katzelkraft stamps Oiseau Musique KTZ753 02 which are perfect for lots of projects and great for collage style projects. I'm entering the set into the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge which this week is show some metal and I've made some metal flowers and added a metal clasp to the box so that I can enter that.

I did the top of the box in the same style but with a smaller glass tile for the top of the box using the Katzelkraft stamps onto book paper. The box was painted with crackle paint and painted over with the same colour used to paint the tag. The flowers are made from metal sheet and embossed with a Crafts Too embossing folder then sanded to reveal the metal under the colour, I also did some sanding on the box and  and the tag which was embossed with the same folder. 

Katzelkraft stamps are available in France at Katzelkraft Stamps and in the UK here at the Craft Barn.

Have a good day today.

Katzelkraft - Simon Says Stamp and Show - Ephemera

Hi everyone, I hope you've had a good weekend. Today is my day on the Katzelkraft blog and I've made a tag which I'm also entering into the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge which this week is 'show your ephemera'.  I've used the beautiful dragonfly from the Butterflies 04 plate and sentiments from Art Nouveau and Art Deco plates and together with the crackle painted lock and the vintage style dyed lace and ribbon I hope it has the feel of ephemera :).

To create the dragonfly I stamped onto white card, coloured with water colour markers  and spritzed with mica mist before drying with a heat gun and cutting out. The tag is embossed with a Cuttlebug stripes  embossing folder, inked with distress inks and misted with mica mists. To decorate I added a punched border, ribbons, a grunge paper flower, die cut and crackle painted lock, brads, dyed lace and the sentiments which I cut from two sentiments from the two sets above.

Enjoy your day and thank you as always for your lovely comments :D

Katzelkraft Vintage

Hi everyone! It's my day on the Katzelkraft blog and I've made a vintage style card using the gorgeous stamps from the 'Mode' A5 stamp plate. The glamorous vintage lady has been stamped onto stampbord and coloured with distress inks and I've stamped the Paris and swirly corner directly onto the Webster's pages 'Hollywood' patterned paper before sanding and distressing the edges. Added a few pearls and hand dyed ribbon to decorate.

Enjoy your day! :)

Katzelkraft - Simon Says Stamp and Show - Embossing

Hi everyone, hope you're all well! My day on the Katzelkraft blog today and I've made a Valentine's card using stamps from the Katzelkraft 'Love' stamp plate. 

The shoe was stamped on watercolour paper, coloured with distress ink, then cut out and embossed all over with crystal embossing powder so it has a lovely sparkle, this means that I can enter my card into Simon Says Stamp and Show some embossing this week :).

I stamped the white paper doily with one of the heart stamps in spun sugar distress ink and this is completely embossed with the crystal embossing powder which has made it slightly translucent and given a very pretty effect. The small nestabilitiy die cut and embossed heart is stamped with the 'Love is in the air' stamp and Victorian Velvet distress ink and the background piece is dry embossed with a cuttlebug hearts folder. I punched some butterflies and spritzed them with pink mica mist which I also did on the flowers and ribbon. To decorate I've added lots of dots to the background, the large butterfly and the doily with a silver pearl pen.

Enjoy your day and thanks as always for your lovely comments, one of these days I'll catch up with returning them!

Katzelkraft - Simon Says Stamp and Show - Gift Box

Hi everyone hope you had a good weekend! My day on the Katzelkraft blog today and I've made a gift box using the new Katzelkraft  'Love' half plate stamps. I've stamped the box after cutting out with three pastel coloured dye inks for an any occasion love gift using the large grunge heart and before folding and gluing the box together. I stamped and cut out an extra heart to make the tag. The rosette is also stamped with the sentiment used on the tag before cutting out and the flower on top is die cut from fabric and inked with mica mist. The box, rosette, tag and rose edges are inked with distress ink.

I'm entering the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge this week where there's a love theme.

Katzelkraft - Simon Says Stamp and Show - Acrylic Mini Book

Hi everyone! I have an acrylic mini book to show today for the Katzelkraft blog using the beautiful stamps from theTransportation half plate, Arbres 02 1/3 plate and KTZ48 Nature.  

The mini book is on the theme of a childhood memory as I'm entering it into the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge of  'a childhood memory' this week.  My memory is of my Grandfather, he had lots of hobbies and I remember being shown how to use a plane in the woodwork shed and lots of other memories of course but don't have photographs of those. So his picture is on the front with his violin (I do remember trying to play that without success :D) with photographs inside of the band he played in during the 1930s. I've also included a photo of me as a toddler sitting in the yard of my grandparents house [love the safety pin holding my play clothes together :)].

The pages are die cut from thick acetate and then stamped with the  flourish, tree leaves and the brick background stamps from the above sets  in permanent white and black ink then I added embossing ink to the edges and embossed with black embossing powder. The vintage car on the last page was also stamped with permanent ink on the acetate and then cut out and glued over the page.

I've also added die cut leaves on the front cover and made a music tissue tape flower with die cut leaves on two inner pages which I reversed on the opposite side using a different tissue tape. There's also a glittered die cut heart, gems, music tape, ribbon and trim to decorate.

Thanks as always for your lovely comments :).