Queen Kat Designs

New Release Mrs.Dashwood Gift Set

2009-12-01T13:00:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! Happy December 1st! I can't believe the year is almost at an end. The last new releases of the year will be available tomarrow! Yesterday for the first peek at the new releases, I shared the first part of a gift-set I made as a Christmas gift. You can see that HERE. Today I'm sharing my 2nd piece to the giftset, a cute little matching fridge magnet. I used one of the new releases for tomarrow (Mrs. Dashwood) in each piece of my set.

For the magnet, I stamped & colored the image with copics, than punched the portion I wanted on my magnet. I than mounted that on a piece of patterned paper cut with a scalloped circle punch and added a magnet to the back.

Instead of attaching a magnet, you could also run the finished project through a Xyron with the magnet/laminate cartridge, than simply cut out with scissors or a punch,

Make sure to check out Anita's gorgeous card for today down below! And make sure to stop back tomarrow for the 2nd new release blog hop & the addition of the new releases to the QKD store!

Hugs- Kelly

12/1 Happy Tuesday and Happy December everyone

2009-12-01T01:59:00.002-07:00

I participated in a QKD challenge and it was to create a card using an inchie. My inchie is at the center of my stamped leaf image. I just adore this Harvest Time stamp set. Be sure to check it out in the store. I couldn't find my glossy card stock to make the background paper so I used a sheet of photo paper and my trusty brayer and Kaleidacolor autmun leaves stamp pad.
Be sure to check back and see what Kelly has in store for us.
Hugs,
Anita

Royal Kat Monday

2009-11-29T23:59:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Royal Kat Monday New Release blog hop! Today we are previewing some of the fabulous designs which will be available at the store on Wednesday. Make sure you look at all the blogs, because you will not want to miss a single one.

This month, I got to work with Mrs. Dashwood. I just fell in love with her. I colored her in with copics, and I sprayed the background using glimmer mist and a mask. I used Basic Grey Lime Rickey paper. The sentiment is from the Joe the Monster set.

This week, we are also having a sale!

Cyber Days Shipping Sale
Save on shipping rates!
Spend $20 get $2 shipping...
Spend $50 get FREE Shipping...
Spend $100 get FREE shipping & a FREE stamp set!
(Good today through 12/1/09)

Thanks for stopping by! Now hop on over to Alex's blog to see which new release she had to work with.

And don't forget to come back Wednesday for the rest!

Here's the list of blogs:
QKD blog
Alex's blog
Vicki's blog
Kelly's blog
Helene's blog
Penny's blog
Meredith's blog
Linda's blog
Anita's blog
Sara's blog
Ashley's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Sundays are for Stampin' - November 29th

2009-11-29T12:07:00.004-07:00

G'day everyone and welcome to another Sundays are for Stampin'!! Here's hoping you had a fantastic Thanksgiving, whether you celebrated or not *grin*!! We are going to head out in a few minutes to take the kids swimming at the rec center, then later on I shall be Sunday Stampin'!

Please don't forget to drop by this here blog all week, and individual blogs too, because we're bringing to you lots of wonderful Christmas and holiday projects to inspire!!

The project I have for you today is yes, another beautiful Green Fairy project!

I had a fun time creating the Green Fairy projects, and I hope you've enjoyed them this month! For December I'll be bringing you some belated birthday projects - True Confessions: I think I forget more birthdays than I remember, and I don't get a card sent soon enough, so the belated birthday projects I have for you are perfect for those forgotten birthdays for which you still want to create something special and even whimsically amusing!

Thanks for reading and have a very blessed Sunday!!

♥AlienAnessa♥

Scraps on Sunday

2009-11-29T01:50:00.000-07:00

Hi peeps!

How is your weekend coming along? The days off are just too few don't you think.
I made this card to show you the wonderful set Christmas Greetings, I love to emboss sentiments, mostly it makes them pop.

I like this sentiment very much, it kind of speaks to me, anyway, there are a lot of people going to receive a card with this sentiment from me this year.

There are 6 stamps in this set! And it is even on sale now!

xx Linda

Stampin' Saturday Part II

2009-11-28T09:20:00.003-07:00

Wow Helene's card makes me want to go and buy the Russian Dolls stamp set! Love it Helene!!!

Okay, now to my tag -- that is right, I did a tag for today. I love Melia's dragons and when I saw the Christmas Tree Dragon Stamp, I had to have it!

I colored him with purple and teal to make him a little more whimsical and then add purple and pink to his Christmas tree! He is all ready for Christmas! Wish I was!!!

Hope you have a great Saturday!!!

Penny

Stampin' Saturday

2009-11-28T08:32:00.010-07:00

Hi QKD Bloggers! Not much left of the turkey feast here in the USA. That means it's time to really start gearing up for the next holidays. Since I celebrate Christmas, I'm busy making cards, gift tags, and other craft items. Here's a card I made for my cousin. I'm partial to the QKD Russian Dolls stamp because I have two sets of the real wooden dolls made in Poland. When I work with this stamp, I just feel connected to my heritage. I paired the stamp with a sentiment from the QKD Christmas Greetings stamp set. I used both sides of 2 patterned papers from the Graphic 45 Renaissance Faire collection. The Russian Dolls stamp, Copic markers I own, and patterned paper colors went perfectly together. Don't forget to check out the QKD store. There are so many great kits and stamps there along with some fantastic sales. Penny used the Christmas Dragon stamp for her holiday tag. QKD has so many choices! Hope you have time today to settle in and scrap a lot! Helene

Black Friday!!

2009-11-27T11:35:00.003-07:00

Here we are!! And don't know if you know this already but Queen Kat is having a HUGE sale. So don't forget to check out what's in the store.

20% off Queen Kat Design Stamps
20% off the Supplies Category
(Stamp exclusions: Custom stamps & separate stamp category)
Through November 30th

Buy 2 stamp sets, get 1 separates stamp free.

Now in honor of it being Black Friday & all, here's what I made for you. I used Hello Honey which is on SALE!!

Priority Travel

2009-11-27T00:01:00.002-07:00

I saved a luggage tag from hubby's luggage and fully intended on using it on a layout. I wanted to document how it feels to be the wife of someone who works in the airline industry.

Journaling:

At first I was going to write about how being married to someone who works in the airline industry is far from a "Priority" travel experience or lifestyle. Sure we get to travel in business class. But it's a panicking feeling I feel knowing that we are always the last priority to board. Still it feels a little ungrateful to complain about that.

And then there's the people who make remarks, snide, envious or otherwise, how "easy" our life is because we travel. Come back to me when you're a stay-at-home mom and homeschooler who has to endure weeks without a husband.

But the truth is, I didn't even expect to still be traveling at all. When we married, AR wasn't in Philippines Airlines yet. And I had resigned myself to think my travel days were over.

So what is so wonderful about travel? Truthfully? It's that for the duration of it, no matter how long or short it is, you have that feeling that you've taken a temporary break from the ordinary and everyday routine. And that makes any complaints or snide comments more than worth it.

* I used Queen Kat Designs Going Postal Stamp Set for this.

Happy Birthday!!! oh, and Thanksgiving too..

2009-11-26T01:06:00.000-07:00

Hi all!!! Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me... la la la la la la.... Happy Birthday to me. oh, wait, I think it's Thanksgiving today too. I hope everyone is enjoying the day with the people they care about the most.

For today's post I wanted to show you a fun little pumpkin I made for a Thanksgiving challenge. I took a piece of orange paper and stamped it with the fancy swirl stamp. Then I cut them into one inch strips. Punch a hole at the top and bottom of each strip and attach them together with a brad. Fan out the strips and they make a ball.

Then I curled some green paper and attached it to the top. Isn't it adorable?? Cute pumpkin that won't be made into a pie!

I hope you enjoy!!
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Lara

Blog hopping Tuesday

2009-11-24T00:01:00.004-07:00

And it's time for another Wednesday blog hop. Since it's Thanksgiving week, we are blog hopping a day early. We hope you are inspired. This week the challenge was to take inspiration from this photo.

Ah the colors of a beautiful winter day. That is the inspiration for this card. My Green Fairy looks lovely in blue, so I created a card especially for her. Hope you like her.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Pattern Paper:
Stamp: Queen Kat
Markers: Copics
Brad: Rusty Pickle
Card: Cricut, Wild Card cartridge
Other: Machine stitching, staples

Don't forget to check out everyone's creations this week:
QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Andrea's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Queen Kat Royal Monday

2009-11-23T16:22:00.000-07:00

Welcome to QKD's Royal Monday! This week, our designers had this inspiration piece to work with:

Are you ready to get started? Hop on over to Alex's blog
to see her creation!

QKD blog
Alex's blog
Vicki's blog
Kelly's blog
Helene's blog
Penny's blog
Meredith's blog
Linda's blog
Anita's blog
Sara's blog
Ashley's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Sundays are for Stampin' - November 22th

2009-11-22T12:00:00.000-07:00

Good Sunday to you, and welcome to another Sundays are for Stampin' - as we head into Thanksgiving week, I'd like to pause and say on this glorious Sunday that I'm grateful for so many things, Queen Kat Vicki being the one who has given me this chance to be on a great design team! Y'all are tops!!

Why not share a 'thank you' card to lead us into Thanksgiving?! This was my very first creation with Green Fairy:

She is stamped with VersaFine Graphite onto 120lb watercolor paper, then colored with watercolor pencils (K-I-N) and Odorless Mineral Spirits. She's also got some Stickles and Shimmerz strategically placed on her. She has some K&Company bling for her necklace and earring -- dare I say of course! =)

Please don't forget that it's still free stamp month!! Check this out:

Now through November 30th
Buy 2 stamp sets get 1 separates stamp free
Buy 3 separates stamps and get 1 free
($3.99 value or less)

For every 2 stamp sets you order
you get 1 separate stamp for free! The more you
order the more free stamps you'll receive.

Thanks for reading and have a very blessed Sunday!!

♥AlienAnessa♥

Scraps on Sunday

2009-11-22T03:24:00.001-07:00

Hi peeps!
Another Sunday, I love sundays, being home with the family, in this season, I mean in the Netherlands it is rainy and getting colder, so more reason to stay home and make some cards!
I've made this Christmas card, I love the sentiment, this one belongs to the Chester the mouse set, not just a 'cute' stamp but very nice sentiments too!
I stamped it with Versafine and head embossed it, so it gets even more Christmas 'feeling'
I think it is a perfect card for people who do not like the more 'cute' ones.

December Royal Kit

2009-11-21T19:18:00.003-07:00

Hey everyone! Thanks for making this past week such fun. I'm happy to say we survived all the fun and chaos here in the office. :) I've got something uber fun to share with you right now. The December kit is here and it's Rockin!

Get ready for some holiday cheer with this kit it's got the best 2009 Christmas papers in it along with the best stamp set ever from your favorite stamp company!!! I'm proud to present the last Royal Kit of the year....

Included in the kit:1: Stamp set 5: Patterned Cardstocks (12"X12") by SEI, 4: Cards & Envelopes, 3: Cardstocks (8.5" X 11"), 2 yards of Ribbon, 1 yard of Fiber, 1 yard of Velvet Ribbon, 1 yard Lace, 10: Glittered Brads, 1 Pinch of Gold baubbles, 1 Pinch of Gold baubbles, Micro Beads Sampler, Misc. pieces of Vanilla Icing Die Cuts from SEI, 5 White Iron On Velvet Snowflakes from SEI, 3 Snowflake Ghost Shapes from Heidi Swapp, 6 Epoxy Stickers "Merry Christmas".

As you can see this kit is jam packed with holiday goodness. I'm excited to tear into mine!! (tomorrow) I'll have lots of fun ideas to share with you tomorrow night!! So make sure you come by my blog and see what I've cooked up for you. For now, I'll leave you with some yummy close ups of parts of the kit so you can drool!

Take care and see you soon.

Stampin Saturday!

2009-11-21T10:10:00.003-07:00

Wow, did you enjoy the QKD birthday week!!! Three years of fabulous QKD designs and fun!!!

I wanted to share a layout that I did using Bunny Chan. This is such a cute stamp!! In fact, my nine year old daughter is off stamping and coloring it right now!! She loves it!

And here's a closeup!

This post was perfect for today because have you checked out the Whimsical Ink Sorority Saturday Challenge! Ashley has this great challenge on Saturdays on WIS. Make sure you check out the challenge and play along! We would love to see your creations!!!

Happy Stamping!!!

Penny

Party Hangover

2009-11-20T11:38:00.003-07:00

The party's over. The stamps are released. Now what? Don't forget the challenges from this week can get you FREE stamps. Including the one I used on my card today.

Stamps: Tree Girl
Ink: Memento London Fog
Paper: Memory Box ?, Prism SSW
Extras: Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Nestabilities, Hero Arts Jewels, Copics

It's our Birthday!!

2009-11-18T23:59:00.002-07:00

Toot toot goes the party horns! We are cheering for joy and celebrating our 3rd birthday today!! 3 years ago today I released the first Queen Kat Designs stamps. Man, we have grown so much. I can not believe how far we have come.

We are welcoming a new stamp designer today on our 3rd birthday. Her name is Kelly Kost. She has some fun and funky designs for us and the royal court has cooked up some fantastic projects for you today. So lets just jump right into the hop!!

OH! Wait.. remember to be at our crop night tonight! It's from 8pm EST to 10pm EST. Click here to come over and play with us. There are prizes and challenges and lots of fun!

In fact today's challenge is a spin on the Featured Stamper Challenge. You create your own feature stamper instead it will be a Featured Gallery... ours. Go here and choose someone's card to CASE. Here's the one I choose to CASE, it's by the first on the hop today Ms. Alex. I channeled my inner Tim Holtz for this one.

You have until Monday 23rd to upload a sample of your work using the keyword QKDSR04. If you upload to your blog too then you can get an extra entry. Just make sure you put you add a link to your blog here once you’ve done it so we can count you.

It's now time to hop over to Alex for our first release.

The hop list for the day is:
QKD Blog-- You're here
Alex
Meredith
Penny
Jules
Kelly B
Sara
Anessa
Lara
Linda
Anita
Nancy
Steph
Helene
Vicki
QKD Store

It's another Royal Kat Wednesday blog hop

2009-11-17T21:48:00.001-07:00

And it's birthday week. This week's color challenge from Queen Kat was to use the colors: purple, pink, grey, white. This is my creation. Have you been playing along? You can be winning free stamps.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Prism
Pattern Paper: Prima
Stamps: Queen Kat
Markers: Copic
Punch: Fiskars
Other: Machine Stitching

SOOO are you playing along? There are FREE stamps involved here!! How can you not be playing? Today's challenge is be inspired by our own resident artist Maigan Lynn.

What will you win? You ask...

I'm glad you asked. This beautiful piece by Maigan Lynn, Arctic Blue. I mean she's just gorgeous. I really have to get me some of these. To find out more about the details for your challenge you have to go to the Whimsical Ink Sorority Blog but make sure you come back here to let us know that you did it. You have until Monday 23rd to upload a sample of your work using the keyword QKDSR03. If you upload to your blog too then you can get an extra entry. Just make sure you put you add a link to your blog here once you’ve done it so we can count you.

So start your blog hop by visiting Shannon's blog and see what she has create.

QKD blog <---YOU ARE HERE Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Andrea's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Use coupon code BL10 in the store at check out and receive an additional 10% off your purchase!! This includes kits, clearance, stamps, and well.. EVERYTHING in the store!! (If you're purchasing a kit subscription, the discount applies to the first month only.)

AND don't forget to check back tomorrow for QKD birthday releases.

Day 2 - Sketch Challenge

2009-11-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

We are still partying hard this week. Today's challenge is a sketch made up by our Queen Vicki.Isn't it cool? She's so talented. This girl can work a sketch.

I will be giving away as a prize for my challenge one of the new stamps. That’s right NEW STAMP!!! You don’t have to use a Queen Kat Stamp if you don’t have any but we’d appreciate it if you do.

You have until Monday 23rd to upload a sample of your work using the keyword QKDSR02. If you upload to your blog too then you can get an extra entry. Just make sure you put you add a link to your blog here once you’ve done it so we can count you.

Here's my take on the sketch:

Alright it's your turn. Show me what ya got!!

RKM, Challenge & Birthday week!

2009-11-15T23:59:00.001-07:00

Welcome to Royal Kat Monday! It's QKD's birthday week! Because of this, we had a special color challenge this week, to make a creation using the official QKD colors: pink, purple, gray, and white.

Play along with us for a chance to win a stamp set! If you make a card using this color combo and link us to it here on Mr. Linky's widget below in this post, you'll get 1 entry. If you post your card on PCP or SCS using keyword QKDSR01 you'll get another entry. Just post the links to your card and the link to your blog post where we can verify your entry. The prize is.... a Birthday Cake stamp set.

So, hop on over to Alex's blog to see what her creation is.

And don't forget to come back here tomorrow for some more birthday fun! There's prizes all week long. Thursday we will have a special new release!

Use coupon code BL10 in the store at check out and receive an additional 10% off your purchase!! this includes kits, clearance, stamps, and well.. EVERYTHING in the store!! (If you're purchasing a kit subscription, the discount applies to the first month only.)

Here's the whole list:

QKD blog - You're here

Alex's blog

Vicki's blog

Kelly's blog

Helene's blog

Penny's blog

Meredith's blog

Linda's blog

Anita's blog

Sara's blog

Ashley's blog

Queen Kat Designs Store

This week @ QKD.. It's our 3rd Birthday!

2009-11-15T23:30:00.000-07:00

Welcome!! Thanks for coming for the celebration. QKD is turning 3 officially on Nov 19th. We are so excited to share this event with you. We have a fun week planned just for you!!

Here's the schedule of events:

Monday:
Royal Kat Monday Blog hop: QKD Blog
Color Challenge: Our group @ PCP

Tuesday:
Sketch Challenge: Our group @ PCP

Wednesday:
Royal Kat Wednesday Blog hop: QKD Blog
Inspiration Challenge: Our group @ PCP

Thursday:
Royal Blog Hop: @ QKD Blog
"Crop" night: Our group @ PCP 8-10 pm EST
-We will have random prize drawings for those who come participate
-There will be special challenges with prizes
-Chat time with the QKD Royal court including Queen Kat.

Friday:
Thanksgiving Challenge: Our group @ PCP

All Week:
Sale at QKD: Use the coupon code: BL10 and get 10% off your entire purchase. You can save up to 65% in the store with this coupon. All clearance items are already 55% off.

This includes everything in the store. If you use this coupon to subscribe to one of our monthly kits, the coupon discount is good only on the first month.

Sundays are for Stampin' - November 15th

2009-11-15T11:59:00.002-07:00

Hi there, gorgeous!! Ya you!! =) Welcome to the Queen Kat Designs blog AND Sundays are for Stampin'! It snowed here in northern Colorado, and that means......???......yep! Stampin'!! Before you leave the QKD blog today, PLEASE scroll down and check out my Sundae Posting Sistah Linda's card!!

So now let's go right to the project!

I'd like to share with you a creation that comes courtesy of Green Fairy turned purple! It has been a load of fun to create with this image!

I hope I'm succeeding in my goal so far, to show you that a novice-to-these-stamps can come up with interesting projects too! ;-)

Thanks for reading and have a very blessed Sunday!!

♥AlienAnessa♥

Scraps on Sunday

2009-11-15T02:11:00.001-07:00

Hi there sunday bloggers!
How is your weekend, flying by like mine?

I thought it would be fun to show you one of my Christmas cards, this one is with Chester the mouse don't you think he is fun? There are 4 awesome stamps in this set.

Go and check out the store, there are many many more stamps!

xx Linda

Stampin' Saturday

2009-11-14T12:04:00.000-07:00

It's Saturday!! Hopefully this wonderful Saturday finds you spending time with your friends and family and remembering how thankful you are for them! Yes, it is getting time for Thanksgiving here in the States, and I must say Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday (yes, even more than Christmas!). QKD has some great stamps for Thanksgiving as well. Of course, my favorite one is the fun Thanksgiving Dragons Stamp Set.

Okay, the project that I want to share today is my first attempt at playing with alcohol inks. I wanted to have a marble effect with them without it being so dark. I stamped Bunny Chan on a tag and then let her dry over night to make sure nothing smeared. Then I pulled out my husband's shaving cream and put some in a paper plate. (shhh, don't tell him why it is low!). Then I dropped in a couple drops of alcohol ink and then used a Popsicle stick to swirl the colors.

After that I placed the tag down on top of the shaving cream and ink mixture, making sure that it was covered. I then rinsed off the extra shaving cream and let it dry for a day.

Thanks for stopping by!