Katzelkraft S2/C3

My final card for this week was inspired by a picture (see below). I had never attempted a picture inspired card until I started doing the Katzelkraft challenges and I do quite enjoy them but this one hasn't turned out as I wanted it to. I thought I'd go through my thought process for this card.

Quite clearly the card needed to be black and white but also contemporary not traditional in style. There are straight, clean lines but also curves. I spotted the lampshade on the table and the overlapped edges sort of reminded me of a Christmas tree so I went with that idea. Looking at the picture again the hanging lampshade could be a flying bird or butterfly. I drew a rough conical shape, tore it out and then tore it across into several pieces. I reformed the tree shape by overlapping the pieces to give the ruffled effect of the lampshade. The semi-circular wire basket looked quite industrial so I used a Katzelkraft stamp that echoed that and the gingham floor covering. My first idea was to make a background of overlapping rectangles with different patterns inside but I couldn't get them to fit or look right so I went with these punched shapes which sort of look like snowflakes and echo the patterns on the chair and back panel. The star on the tree is waste from the punch. I had doodled on some black paper with a white pen for my original idea and decided to punch some proper snowflakes with this paper to fill in the gaps in the background.
So that's week (semaine) 2 completed. I only hope I can manage to keep up as the weeks progress.

Katzelkraft S2/DT

This week's DT card for the Katzelkraft challenge is to look at DT member Neil's work and cardlift one of them. Neil (who is also a Craft Barn DT member) has done many interesting pieces but the one that caught my eye is this one:

I have this KTZ stamp set and while I love the plum and green colours I thought I would make it in a more traditional palette of red & green. I also have some small (4"x4") scalloped card blanks which I bought this year for my overseas Christmas cards (postage is exorbitant now). Adirondack red pepper & meadow were the inks I used. The central motif is a Paula Pascual stamp embossed with holographic powder, mounted on foam pads and with a snowflake brad added.

Katzelkraft S2/C1

We had to put a window on this card for week 2 of the Katzelkraft challenge. I've used a Memory Box die with a few tiny windows, some snowflake patterned paper from K & Co and a Crafty Individuals santa & sleigh stamp.

Katzelkraft S2/C2

This is the second card for week 2 and the instructions are to use some paper with text. Well it must be at least a fortnight since I last used the Alice Palace crowned bunnies by Crafty Individuals and they look so good stamped on book pages. The pages in question are a law book my son was getting rid of and I helped myself to a few pages before it was consigned to the recycling bin (it was very old and out of date so no use to anyone except me). The star is a jumbo punch glittered with something called fool's gold and the embossing folder is sunrays by Craft Concept. The text is a line from the carol 'We Three Kings'.
The recipes for this week's cards are:

1. Use a window.

2. Use some paper with text.

3. An inspiration picture.

DT. Take inspiration from a piece of artwork by DT member Neil.

Katzelkraft S1/DT

An additional feature of this year's Katzelkraft Challenge is that a member of the DT will make a card each week which we can make instead of or in addition to the other cards of the week. This week's card is by Fabien (see below) and the additional card we make has to feature colour blocking.

I used post-it notes to mask off strips of card and brushed on barn door, wild honey, mowed lawn and peacock feathers DIs. I heat embossed the KTZ reindeer with gold and added a small banner with text by Paula Pascual.

Katzelkraft S1/C3

For this card we had to draw inspiration from the poster below. I would have liked to have used a variety of fonts but I couldn't get the Christmas text stamps I had to fit together properly. I decided to use an old CB embossing folder and the colours on the poster.

Katzelkraft S1/C2

The second card this week had to use 5 pieces of scrap paper. I wish I had cut a larger card blank so that there was more white space on this but it's too late now. I stuck some torn scraps of patterned paper onto a piece of scrap card and die cut a Marianne Christmas tree. This was then edged with DI and embellished with some stick-on pearls and a tiny star gem. The BG is brushed with barn door and fired brick DIs and stamped with one of my favourite KTZ stamps. I find this script so useful it is the BG stamp I tend to reach for first. The Sizzix frame was cut out of a leftover piece of gold paper.