KTZ Christmas Challenge S2 C2

Week 2's recipes are:

1 use some metal

2 use white, grey and a touch of another colour

3 heat embossing

K follow a step-by-step by Christelle here

 

I had an idea for card 2 so I started with that. Using only white and grey meant it had to involve snow so I used a KTZ snowman.

 

I stamped him in Brilliance starlite black (which is a soft grey) on scrap card, double embossed his scarf and cut him out. The background is some grey paper with a slight pattern. I stamped some snowflakes in Brilliance moonlight white and heat embossed them with clear glitter powder. I tore some white card to make some snowy ground and added a grey embossed sentiment. This was mounted onto a white card blank.

 

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This week's challenge on the Less Is More blog is to use newsprint. I used a Marianne die to cut the bird and branch from an old book page. Coloured in the leaves and branches with coloursoft pencils and made a background with a tiny amount of yellow Brusho (hope it's CAS enough). The sentiment is from a tiny clear stamp set.

Katzelkraft Monthly Challenge - October

Ok all of you who don't like my scary monkey stamp, look away now...

This month's theme for the Katzelkraft monthly challenge is 'Distress It' and I have given scary monkey an airing. I have just managed to complete my entry before the deadline of the 25th. This is a page of a journal I bought ages ago. When I use a stencil or have any excess ink I wipe it on a page of this book. In addition to scary monkey I have used the clock and the large splatter stamps from the same set and stamps from other KTZ sets. The circle was cut with 2 framelits dies and stamped with the KTZ woodgrain stamp. The alpha used is Sizzix's stencilled die. Click on the pic to see the background more clearly.

KTZ Card Sketch 1

One of the many new challenges on the Katzelkraft forum is a card sketch (see below). I made a quick card using a Kraft base, a gold embossed KTZ stamp and an embossed mat. The sentiment is a piece of washi tape on a strip of card.

Quotes & Lyrics - Nowhere and Childhood Catch-up

Get your air guitars ready for the 21st entry in the Craft Barn's Q&L Challenge! The words are 'Nowhere' and 'Hug' and it was a lyric week for me. 'Hug' just seemed too saccharin for the mood I am currently in so it had to be 'Nowhere'. Having The Beatles on my mind this month I immediately thought of 'Nowhere Man' and then the 'Road to Nowhere' (Talking Heads) but I wanted something different... METALLICA! This song is on their Death Magnetic album and is called The Unforgiven 111. It has the line 'How can I be lost if I've got nowhere to go?' It made me think of all the displaced children in the world at the moment. I've used this image of a child behind a barbed wire fence before and thought it fitted well - I find her face quite haunting.
I sprayed 2 shades of Glimmer Mist over TH's shatter stencil and then some random stencilled dots. I highlighted the barbed wire over the image with a silver Sharpie and extended the wires over the page. Added some stamped circles and some black enamel dots. The text is computer generated and 'nowhere' is cut from Sizzix's blocktalk die. I brushed ink over the top half of the letters and like the ombré effect it created. I felt the page needed a lift of colour so added a KTZ splat in red.
Edited to add: I've just noticed that Pauline from the Craft Barn DT has used the same quote. Great minds...

And now for something completely different:

I finally managed to catch up with my missing page for Challenge 18. The words were Childhood and Easier. I was away on holiday and had chosen a quote but couldn't manage to actually do the page until now.
The Childhood quote I've chosen is by Elizabeth Lawrence and reads:

There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colours are brighter, the air softer and the morning more fragrant than ever again.

I wanted to create a slightly magical, unreal scene with bright colours. I started with a background of brushed corduroy, peeled paint and broken china DIs and the stamped some Darkroom Door flowers. The brightly coloured flowers are from a Hero Arts set which I stamped on scrap card, cut out and stuck over some of the stems. The child is an old photo stamp I bought in a secondhand sale which I coloured with DIs. I printed out the quote and added some butterflies stamped onto a leftover scrap of Brusho'd card.

Katzelkraft Christmas Challenge - S1 K

The Special K card this week is to be inspired by a card created by Karola Witczak (see below) respecting the round shape and doing some stamping in the background. I decided to make a card that could be hung up as a decoration. I cut a circle with a framelits die and used a smaller die as a mask to outline the edge. The snowflake stamps are by Non Sequitur. I cut a Mariane bauble and used spotted fabric tape behind it. The other bauble was embossed and highlighted with brushed corduroy DI. I made a bow with more fabric tape and added punched snowflakes and some dots of enamel accents. A couple of brads finished off the piece. Whilst these are not traditional Christmas colours I do like the blue and brown colour scheme and will think about using it again soon.

KTZ Christmas Challenge - S1 C3

A card that had to have some embossing on it. This is one of my original Cuttlebug embossing folders and I have used it a lot. The same goes for this KTZ robin stamp which comes on the winter plate. I coloured the image with coloursoft pencils and added some glitter for the snow. The aperture was cut with a framelits die.