Katzelkraft Calendar

Katzelkraft Calendar - August

Hi Everyone,

I am back with my weekly Katzelkraft post.

I am having so much fun with my Katzelkraft calendar. I am sure you can tell....

August is dedicated to summer and not only humans like to eat water melon, but the rats and insects love it, too!

Now this big snake sneaked in somehow. It's not from Katzelkraft, but it is an old stamp by Hein Design. Unfortunately no longer produced. I wonder why. Such a great stamp - it actually comes in 3 pieces, the head, tail, a curved piece and a straight one. I did not use the straight one here. Anyhow with that you can make it any size and go in any direction. Pretty clever, right? The ants are by Cats on Appletrees.

I started with the water melon, which I drew and colored with water colors. Cut it out. Sponged the background. I stamped the snake and rats, colored them with Copics and cut them out. The insect is stamped directly onto the background. Added the ants. Added white highlights.

The stamps I used are from the following sets:

Les Rats des Villes - KTZ179, Les Nounounes - KTZ234 (FRANCE)

Katzelkraft City Rats - KTZ179, Bugs and Insects -KTZ234 (USA)

Hope you liked this - I'll be back next Wednesday with more Katzelkraft inspiration.

Thanks for visiting!

Happy Stamping!

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