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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 ...

Hi Everyone, affection is the word over at CASology. Here is my card for this theme. The sentiment is in German and it says "wonderful to have you around". The cute bird and the sentiment are from Heindesign - a German company. The frame is an ancient wood stamp from Imaginations. Not sure if that company is still around. I just colored it in a bit. I hope you liked this. Thanks for visiting. Happy Stamping! Linking up with: CASology - Affection The Paper Players - Love and Friendship  

Hi Everyone, welcome our fourth  Day of the Month Card Club challenge ! This month we are celebration "Hug your Cat Day". Now I am sure a lot of people can relate to that. We also have a Guest Designer with us - it's the fabulous, creative and oh so funny Darnell from djcardkreations ! You can't miss her cute card - so don't forget to check out the blog post! On my last visit to Germany I could not resist to pick up this grumpy looking cat from Hein Design - a German company. I thought it would be perfect for this challenge. The background is made with a Tim Holtz stencil, the sentiment is from Honey Bee Stamps. Now I hope you will have time to  play along! I am counting on you! You have until the end of the month (6/30) to do so. This is a voting challenge - the winner will be determined by vote. Everybody can vote, even if you didn't play along. Voting starts on the first of the following month - June first.  Th...