Katzelkraft - The best is yet to come

Hi everyone!

I'm back with another Katzelkraft card. 

Confetti, firecrackers, glitter, champagne... 

hope you have everything ready for this New Year's Eve! 

I used some older Katzelkraft stamps for this very simple New Year's card: 

I heat embossed the beautiful Background halftones stars in gold. The small stars are actually snowflakes, 

but they look good as stars too, don't they! - Tried to symbolize fireworks with them. 

I then stamped the quote and the tiny happy new year. I cut the panel slightly smaller than the blank card, glued it on and drew a fine gold border around the panel.

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

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.

I used:

...just click on the image to go to the store and see it in full size.

Linked up with:

CAS on Friday - New Year

C.R.A.F.T. - NEW/Anything Goes

Path of Positivity - Anything Goes Positive w. Opt. Twist of: Power of Words…FAITH/HOPE

A Place to Start - Anything Goes w. Opt. Twist of: Happy Holidays (Any Holiday)

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

We Love to Create Mixed Media - Anything Goes Mixed Media

I used:

Stamps: Background halftones star, Christmas snowflakes and Adventure begins (Katzelkraft); tiny sentiment (Stampin'Up;);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Metal Gold (IZINK/Aladine);

Gold embossing powder, gold gel pen,

Katzelkraft - Happy New Year

Hi everyone! 

Happy New Year 2024.

Wishing you a year full of sparkling highlights, filled with joy, health and success.

May every day be a step towards your biggest dreams!

My first Katzelkraft post of the new year :))

I stamped the fireworks in the colors Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio on a sheet of Bristol paper. "Happy" and "Year" are die-cut from glitter card and glued onto torn vellum. The word "New" is stamped on white paper, cut out and glued on as well.

I colored the crocodile and the party hat with alcohol ink markers, cut them out and glued them on.  

Tiny glitter cardboard confetti pops out of the hat.

I used:

...just click on the image to go to the store and see them in full size.

Linked up with:

Incy Wincy Designs - New &/or Lets Celebrate

Paperminutes - Etwas neues/Something new

Creative Crafting Uncles - Christmas and / or Happy New Year

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes, but you must Include an Animal

Ally's Angels - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Stamps: Crocodile (Katzelkraft); firework and party hat (Craft Sensations); 

Inks: Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio (Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine);

Dies: Deco Time

Alcohol ink markers, glitter cardboard, vellum, glitter pen,

Besinnliches Weihnachtsfest

Hi everyone, 

I'm back with another Katzelkraft card. Today in an elegant style.

I embossed a sheet of light blue cardstock and splattered it with black ink. 

I heat embossed the tiles in gold and cut them out, leaving a narrow black border all around. 

I adhered the tiles to the blue sheet and stamped the sentiment (Stampin'Up). 

I covered a blank card with gold holographic foil. 

I cut the blue sheet a little smaller than the card blank and glued it on. 

 

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

I used:

...just click on the image to go to the store and see it in full size.

Linked up with:

Allsorts Challenge - Add some Texture

Can You Handle The Pressure - Anything Goes using an embossing folder

Happy Little Stampers - Christmas

The Holly and Ivy - Anything Christmas Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

Stamps: Tiles (Katzelkraft); sentiment (Stampin'Up);

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine);

Embossing: Craft Sensations

Gold embossing powder

Katzelkraft - Chinese New Year

Hi everyone!

I'm back with a new Katzelkraft project. Today, with a Chinese touch.

Chinese astrology, also called "Shengxiao" is divided into cycles of twelve years. Each year is represented by an animal and an element. This year's animal is the water rabbit, an animal that is supposed to bring peace and harmony. 

Let's hope so!

I sponged the left part with Wild Honey, stenciled lanterns with Barn Door and stamped some more lanterns in black.

The Trinity 福 - Fú - Luck, 禄 - Lù - Prosperity, 寿 - Shòu - Longevity, I wrote by hand.

I stamped, watercolored and fussy cut the fun rabbit from the Dainius collection and added it. 

Scribbled some shadows under the rabbit and stamped/embossed a tiny Happy new year from SU.

Hope you like it. - 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:

Fab 'n' Funky - New Beginnings

Everybody-Art Challenge - Neu

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

Path of Positivity - Anything Goes Positive

A Place To Start - Anything Goes

Stamps: Rabbit (Katzelkraft); lanterns (Craft Senastions); Sentiment (Stampin'Up);

Inks: Wild Honey and Barn Door (Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine);

Stencil: Craft Sensations

Watercolors, embossing powder

Katzelkraft - Wheelwork

Hi everyone! 

I am back with a new Katzelkraft creation - Today with a touch of steampunk.

Time never stops running! 

That gave me the idea to create a New Year's card with gears. Hope you like it!

For the background I chose a gel print from my stash. I liked the pattern and the turquoise blue. 

I arranged the gears so that they more or less interlock. To do this, I had to do a little masking in some places to make them fit together! I embossed all the gears with clear embossing powder, which made the black stand out better.

Next, I die cut gears from silver cardstock, colored them with alcohol ink markers and added them. The hole parts of the gears I glued to the centers of the stamped gears.

Lastly, I stamped and embossed the sentiment, colored it with Distress inks, cut it into individual words and added them. I used a black fineliner to draw two lines along each of the labels.

2023 I colored with a silver glitter gel pen. The 2 that falls, I colored gray and aged it a bit. That's it!

Happy, prosperous and healthy New Year to you all!

See you next Tuesday with a new Katzelkraft inspiration! ;)

I used:

...just click on the image to go to the store and see it in full size.

Linked up with:

Incy Wincy Designs - Christmas and/or Movements

Make My Monday - Something New (the gear stamps are new)

Simon Says - Light up the New Year

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

A Place To Start - Anything Goes

Craft Galors Encore - Anything Goes

Ally's Angels - Anything Goes

Stamps: Gears (Katzelkraft), sentiment (Stampin'Up)

Inks: Onyx Black (Versafine); Seedless Preserves (Distress Oxide);

Dies: Gears (Memory Box)

Alcohol ink markers, embossing powder, gel print, 

Katzelkraft - Ganz viel Schwein...

Hi everyone!

I am back with a new Katzelkraft inspiration.

Needed one last new year card and used the pig from "La ferme des animaux".

Next to the chimney sweeps, the toadstool, the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe, as well as ladybugs and frogs, 

the pig is the most popular symbol of luck in Germany and Europe.

I sponged some green at the bottom and some blue in the background. 

Stamped the pig, the lucky clover and the hearts.

The feet of the pig I have omitted by masking and then redrawn by hand.

Stamped two lucky clover leaves, cut them out and pasted one under the pig and one on his hand. 

Colored anything with alcohol markers. Stamped the sentiment, cut it into little labels and pasted them on as well.

The sentiment says: For you! So that you have a lot of pig this year!!!

So, I sent the person a lot of luck!

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

Maybe you are interested in...

- A pig had a high value in the Middle Ages. It meant food, offspring and thus prosperity. 

It then became a lucky pig and there is a custom of passing around a piglet in a basket on New Year's Day.

- The four-leaf clover is a world symbol and is supposed to connect the four cardinal points with the four elements fire, water, air and earth. 

On the other hand, the first leaf stands for fame, the second for wealth, the third for a faithful lover and the fourth for the best health.

I used:

       La ferme des animaux

Linked up with:

Just Us Girls - Inked or Sprayed Backgrounds

Crafty Animals - Anything Goes with an animal

Critter Crazy - Anything Goes with a featured critter

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

A Place To Start - Anything Goes

Supplies:

Stamps: Pig (Katzelkraft); Big heart (Carabelle Studio); Lucky clover, little heart, tufts of grass and sentiment (Stampin'Up);

Inks: Salty Ocean and Mowed Lawn (Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine); 

Alcohol markers, watercolor, white gel pen

Katzelkraft - Happy New Year

Hi everyone!

It's Katzelkraft day and I am back with a new inspiration :)

But first of all, Happy New Year to all of you! Hopefully it will be better than the past two ....

Watson wishes us a Happy New Year, with lucky clover and ladybugs!

To create the background, I smooshed green Distress Oxide on the bottom area. Stamped shamrocks on the entire surface - using less and less ink towards the top. Splattered the whole thing with pink and black ink. 

Watson, his top hat, four shamrocks and the two ladybugs are colored with alcohol markers, cut out and glued on. Stamped the sentiment and added faux stitches around the edges. Pasted the panel onto larger black paper and then onto the blank card. Happy New Year is handwritten.

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

I used:

  

          WATSON L'ÉLÉPHANT                      ADVENTURE BEGINS 

Linked up with:

Time Out - New

CAS on Sunday - Happy New Year

Creative Crafting Uncles - Happy New Year

A Place to Start - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

    

Stamps: Elephant, hat and sentiment (Katzelkraft); Shamrocks and ladybugs (Stampin'Up); Happy New Year is handwritten

Inks: Mowed Lawn (Distress Oxide); Onyx Black (Versafine); 

Alcohol markers, pink and black liquid ink