December Release Day

It's December and that means it's time for a new Queen Kat Designs release. Are you ready for it??? I am!


Today I have the privlidge of revealing a big secret project that Maigan from the Whimsical Ink Sorority and Queen Kat have been working hard on. It's a new stamp of the month club. Each month you will receive a new never been released before mermaid or fairy by Maigan with 1-2 cute accessory stamps and 3-4 different word stamps to match. This kit is so fantastic. I get to share a beautiful sample from Queen Kat today with you. Here's January's kit of the month.... Our mermaid is named Cordelia. How pretty and fitting is that name? I hope you'll all run to sign up for the club. It's priced fantastically at only $14 for USA customers with FREE shipping!!! and $18 for international customers with FREE shipping!!! Our new kits will begin shipping on January 10th with all of our monthly kits. Sign up now, there's a limited amount of spots! Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you enjoy the release day hop. All of our new stamps are in the store now ready for your ink pad! Hop over to Shannon's blog for more fun.


Here's today's hop list.
QKD blog -- you are here
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Don't forget to check out this week's sale at the Store!

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 12/5/09)
These are USA rates only

Happy shopping and creating.

New Release Mrs.Dashwood Gift Set

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!!

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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.