Happy New Year

May the year bring you much happiness. Thank you very much for your support over the past year. We have big things in store for 2009. Check back soon for some fun things. We have a new release party happening January 7th.

Happy New Year

Queen Kat Royal Wednesday

Happy New Years Eve! Any big plans for tonight? Not me going to lay low, cook a nice dinner and pop open some wine.

Welcome to our next edition of Queen Kat Royal Wednesday. You may have seen the craze of shorties lately so I decided to make this week's challenge a "shortie" challenge. You need to make a shortie or a few and add them to your card. What is a shortie you may ask? Well you've heard of inchies, but those darn things are way too small. So shorties are a still small but a little bit bigger. Your shortie should measure 1.5" X 1.75" . My sample is a little sneak peek at what is to come during the January release, it's from the Home set.

Come play along for Royal Wednesday and post your awesome creations in our forum at Paper Craft Planet.

Let's get ready for an awesome 2009 and lots more fun with Royal Kat Wednesday and all the challenges with the Royal court and friends. Invite all your friends to come play.

A great way to collect Queen Kat stamps is to join one of the awesome kit clubs, that way you will get new stamps automatically each month. It's a no brainer go check it out in the store HERE I want to hear about what kit you sign up for!

Remember...

How many of us have that one friend that we have known for years, rarely see or talk to, but when we do it's like nothing has changed?!?! I met "my person" (a little Grey's for ya hehe) about 9 years ago. At the time, we were very young and lived in different states, but somehow through letters and email we grew closer and closer. I made this card for "my person" to say hi and I'm still thinking about them.



On this card, I used the Friends Forever Stamp Set and a new release set called Home. Look for it at the blog party on January 7th!! I love the color combo of red, black, and white so that was the easy part. I used my Cricut to cut out the jagged black circles, pop dotted the stamp on the white circles, did some layering.... and TA DA!!! What a perfect card to send to an old friend to say "HI"!!

Happy Tuesday!!

New kits!!

The new January kits are in stock now. The quantities are very limited!! Get yours now. We are taking you to the spa with our Take 3 kit for January! There are only 2 Take 3 stamp kits left!
Feast your eyes on this sweet treat! The Royal kit for January features the Color Me Pink papers from 3 Bugs in a Rug and the oh so yummy stamps from QKD. There's only 1 left! It's a 12X12 kit so act fast.

In January we are changing the Get Inked! kits from featuring an ink a month to featuring a color a month! January is blue. We also have a new GI! kit stamp designer.. Irene Tan! She's worked up some fun samples with the kit. Visit the gallery to see them. There are only 3 Get Inked Kits left for January. Once they are gone we will open up the wait list. Info on getting on the list will be posted once it's open. So hurry and get your 12 month subscription now!

Happy New Year of kits!!

aren't you sweet!

Here is another card I designed with the same darling flower stamp set from Queen Kat Design. This set is due for release on Jan 1st, and is toooo sweeet!!! I did use the aren't you sweet sentiment on the outside of this one so everyone could see. This set does include 2 sentiments, and the flower stamp. Also right now the Queen Kat store is having a huge sale, you will have to go and check it out!! Have fun tooo!

On this card I did stamp the flowers in craft black ink and used clear embossing powder, and then heated. I used real red su marker to make polka dots in a few of the flowers. And pretty in pink in the others. I also used certainly celery to go over allt he steams, and leaves. I used my large marvey punch to punch out the flowers, and then just mounted that on black and cut it out. The dp is double sided, and sooo sweet! I then just stamped the sentiment on the bottom, and added my ribbon treatment to the top, with a white heart shaped button!

Thank you for looking, and hope you have a wonderful day!!!

Stamps can be found here on Jan 1st, also you can check out all the sweet sales here too!!


Hugs,
Cheryl

Dust off . . .

Okay, now it is time to dust off those past Royal Kits and pull them out and play with them! Yes, you! You know you have them sitting there; you started working with them and then got busy and pushed it to the side when the new kit came in and then the cycle just continued!

LOL, if you don't have any of the past kits, then why not? Right now is a great time to purchase past kits at 20% off! Check out what is still available!

Now, check out a past Royal Kit -- the June 2008 kit.



Now add in a new stamp set -- the Many Thanks set


And you get this fun card:



Head on over to QKD and pick up a couple of kits!

Sale...

Now through December 31st save 25% when you purchase QKD stamps.

Let the THANK YOU's begin!

Okay...so...how did your Christmas go? Did ya get a lot of neat stuff?? I always LOVE to hear what people got for Christmas! That brings me so much joy to hear the joy of others!

I got a neat HP personal photo printer! Color me VERY happy! Need to get more ink so I can print more pics but you better believe I'll get lots of use out of that bad boy....I can print wallet, passport size, 4x6 and even 5x7...oh...and it will do 4x12 panoramic too! Not to say that I'll use it for EVERY photo that I want, but sure is convenient to have it here for that 'perfect' page right!?

So....along with the gifts I bet there are some people you wanna give a special 'Thank You' to, isn't there? Well, who wants to go out and buy some premade Thank You cards when you can MAKE them! That personal added touch that tells them not only 'Thank You' but one right from the heart! One made BY you to them!

Here are a few cards to get you started! The 'Thanks My Friend' came from the Build A Bird set and the Thanks came from a retired set! (Sorry...one of my favorite stamps!)


I'd love for you to share links to your creations!

Have a great day!

Merry Merry!

On the 12th day of Christmas...

It's here!! It's finally here. Today is the last day of our offerings for you. Today is the last tag that we have from Nikki. 1. Paint swirl grungeboard with picket fence crackle paint, let dry completely.

2. Smoosh faded jeans and broken china ink on a craft sheet spray with water and lay tag on top, dry with heat gun.

3. Stamp flourish with walnut stain ink, ink edges of tag.

4. Stamp snowman and heat emboss in black, cut out, stamp the rest of him using distress inks, glue to tag and stamp arm.

5. Ink chipboard crown with peeled paint and add.

6. Create snow with crystal effects, large flake glitter and white fun flock.

7. Stamp phrase in black, ink with frayed burlap, cut apart, ink the edges with soot add pen marks and glue to tag.

8. Add distress stickles and ribbon.

Thank you for sharing the 12 Royal Days of Christmas with us. We hope you've been inspired to create and try something new in the new year. Take the projects we've shared and turn them into your own creations using different colors, themes, stamps and ideas. Put your spin on them and have a blast!

Merry Christmas from The Royal Court.

Queen Kat Royal Wednesday

Happy Holidays!

It's Wednesday and that means another edition of Queen Kat Royal Wednesday. C'mon play along with us. This week is "Glitter Up". You know you have lots of glitter so take this challenge and put it to use. My favorite glitter would have to be stickles hands down.

Here he is again folks. I just love this guy from the Over the Moon set! He has become my "thing" for each holiday. Watch out you will see if again for the next holiday. This time he is enjoying a scrumptious holiday cupcake. I used stickles for all my glitter and I paper pieced the cupcake holder. The robot was cut out and adhered to a rectangle piece cut from the scalloped nestablities set.

Thanks for stopping by for Queen Kat Royal Wednesday. I hope you will play along. Swing by our forum on Paper Craft Planet and upload your creations so we can all see.

Have a safe and Happy Holiday!

Royal Day 11

We are almost there! Only 1 more day of Royal Christmas creations and it will be Christmas day. But for now.. Lets savor the season and celebrate today with one last card from me. I made this card using a Shortie... I used stamps from the December Take 3 kit as well as from the Royal Kit from QKD.
For this card you will need:
patterned paper
3 cardstocks
dye ink
colored pencils
3 eyelets
card base
adhesive
pop dots

Step 1: Cute a piece of card stock to 4.25" X 5.5" and adhere to card base.

Step 2: Cut a piece of cardstock to 3.5" X 3.75" and adhere to right side of card.

Step 3: Cut a piece of light cardstock to 3.25" X 3.5" and random stamp it and adhere to the cardstock in step 2.

Step 4: Cut a piece of cardstock to 1.5" X 1.75" and stamp on it. This is your shortie. Mat and apply eyelets and adhere with pop dots.

Here's the sketch I used for this card. Check back tomorrow for your last tag from Nikki. Thanks for coming!

The 10th royal day of Christmas with QKD

Burrr it's cold outstide. We are almost there!! Are you done with Christmas things yet?? I'm still working on some. I will probably be finishing things up on Christmas Eve night until midnight or maybe into Christmas morning. haha. Here's today's tag from Nikki...
1. Smoosh peeled paint ink onto a craft mat spray with water and lay tag over it. Dry with heat gun.

2. Stamp harlequin background with aged mahogany.

3. Stamp musical notes with black ink.

4. Use gold metal mixatives o splatter gold over tag.

5. Spray chipboard birds with a spray made with brushed corduroy ink refill and interference green perfect pearls, use a heat gun to dry. Add gold to edges, glue to tag.

6. Stamp and heat emboss in gold the word joy.

7. Heat emboss the edges with gold.

8. Add ribbon and lace.

I'm loving all the blues that she's using on these tags. To me it just screams winter time!!

Come back tomorrow for a fun card from me. :)

Thank You!!

I designed this card with my new set from QKD this set will be released Jan 1st!!!
On this card I stamped these darling flowers in Kiwi Kiss. I then outlined them in different SU pen colors.
Next I did run the 2 different white panels through the cuddlebug with the swiss dots cb folder. I then used the die to cut the one and the other I used as a background for the card. I also used dazzling diamonds on the flowers. And then added a flower button to my ribbon treatment!!
The inside will say" Thanks so much", this saying is also included in this stamp set!!
My hubby just ordered me these Spellbinders Dies. he bought me 2 sets, cant wait to make time to use the other set as well!! Thank You hunny!!!!!

Well thank you for looking and have a wonderful day!!

What do you think??????
Hugs,
Cheryl

And on Royal Day 9...

my true love gave to me.... a sketch and card from Queen Kat. :) Haha.. Ok, so I can't write songs.. But I can make cards! :) Today I will share the best gift of all with you... a handmade greeting card...This card was so fun to make. I just love snowflakes... Except the kind that fall outside and make it soooo cold I can't stand it! (which BTW it's doing right now).

supplies:
3 cardstocks
1 Ribbon
2 eyelets
Crop-a-dile
Jumbo Scallop Scissors
Hole punch
adhesive
pop dots
Dye ink pad
card base
stamps

Step #1: Cut a piece of card stock to 4.25" X 5.5" and adhere to card

Step #2: Cut a strip of cardstock to 5.5" X 2" and trim one long edge with scallop scissors and punch holes in scallops. Adhere to card about 1/2" from edge.

Step #3: Cut a piece of cardstock to 5.5" X 2.75" and random stamp it. tie ribbon across bottom and adhere to card.

Step #4: Stamp sentiment onto cardstock trim and mat as seen in photo. Add eyelets and adhere with pop dots.
Fun, wasn't it? I'm really enjoying sharing these 12 days with you. I hope you're having fun with us. Come back tomorrow for a tag from Nikki!

Snowy Saturday?

Well, it is not snowy here today, it is shorts weather! Of course, last Saturday at this time, I had snow in my yard! But, I thought I would share a "snowy" card with you that I made. It is using the snowflake stamps from the December Royal Kit! There are still 6x6 and 12x12 kits left. Make sure you pick one up. You definitely need a Christmas present for yourself!!!

Of course, I had to put a tag on there with all of the great inspiration that Nikki has been throwing out. Make sure you scroll down and look at all the fabulous projects from the 12 days of Christmas posts!

The 8th royal day of Christmas

Huggy in da house.... or should I say... in da clothes? Nikki used our Huggy monster stamp with the December Take 3 Stamps to make this tag. I flipped when I saw it. I think it's darling. How about you?
1. On a craft mat combine water and Raspberry Sparkle perfect powders paint onto grungeboard, dry with heat gun.

2. Stamp sweater and hat, heat emboss in black. Cut out.

3. Stamp huggy on cardstock, color then cut apart th glue onto the back of the sweater.

4. Smoosh faded jean and broken china ink on a craft mat spray with water, lay tag on top and dry with heat gun.

5. Use silver metal mivatives to splatter tag and add some to the edges.

6. Add snowflakes with white ink.

7. Stamp Brr on another tag ink with weathered wood ink cut apart, add pen marks, and glue to tag.

8. Glue huggy to tag.

9. Create snow with crystal effects, add large glitter flakes and white fun flock over effects.

10. Add ribbon

Today's tag was so fun, don't you think? Stay tuned for tomorrow's feature. We're happy you're here.

The 7th Royal Day of Christmas...

is here! That's right!! We are already on Day 7. I can't believe how fast time is flying. Today I have 2 cards to share with you. They are little 3" X 3" gift cards. You can use them for little just a note cards, thank you cards, just because cards or gift tags.
To make these.. You will need :
Patterned paper
stamps
dye ink
eyelets
cardstocks
card bases folded to 3"X3" (3" X 6" flat)
Ribbon
Stapler with staples

Basically it's all cutting and measuring to get things to fit. It will depend on the size of the stamps that you are using. I used the stamps from the December Take 3 Kit here at QKD. The stamped pieces of cardstock are also known as "Shorties". It's a new trend that trumps inchies any day! Shorties are 1.75" X 1.5". Just a little bit bigger and oh so fun! The Royal Court was challenged by Nikki to make shorties a few weeks ago. They really had a blast. Come to the gallery and check them out. Shorties can be used on cards, tags, gift cards, scrapbook pages and more! Have you made your shortie today?

How fun would one of these be made with the Princess Carriage and castle? fun!!

On the 6th day of Christmas...

We are sharing a fun, funky tag with you. This one comes from Nikki. She's really going to town with tags and the techs from Tim Holtz. 1. Stamp words with jet archival ink. Stamp again on printer paper. Cut out printer paper to create masks. Use temporary adhesive and line up over each word.

2. Stamp harlequin background stamp with brushed corduroy ink. Repeat to cover entire tag.

3. Ink tag with aged mahogany ink.

4. Use gold metal mixatives to splatter over tag.

5. Remove masks and ink entire tag with antique linen ink, ink edged with walnit stain.

6. Add distress stickles and ribbon.

So, are you enjoying the projects we've had so far? Today marks the 1/2 way mark!! That means only 6 more days till Christmas. Is your shopping done?? Are you working on any last minute, fly by the seat of your pants projects? I know I am! Tell us about what you've made this year for gifts and be entered into the drawing on Christmas day!

We'll be back tomorrow.

Royal Day 5

Thanks for coming!! Today is Day 5 of our 12 Royal Days of Christmas. I am going to share a card with you today. I am in love with the December Royal Kit from QKD. It's sooooo pretty! I've made over 20 items with 1 6X6 kit and can still squeeze few more out of it! To see some of the other things I've made check out the gallery.For this card you will need:
1 Patterned paper
3 colors of cardstock
1 ribbon about 12" long to tie
Adhesive
pop dots
dye ink pad
versamark ink pad
1 Card base folded (4.25" X 5.5")

Step #1: Cut a piece of card stock to 4.25" X 5.5" and adhere to the card base.

Step #2: Cut a piece of patterned paper to 4" X 5.25" and tie the ribbon around one end of it. Swipe the edges of the pp on an ink pad to give a distressed edge look. Adhere to card

Step #3: Cut a piece of cardstock to 2.25" X 4.25" and adhere to the right side of the card leaving about 1/2" on the right side.

Step #4: Cut a piece of cardstock to 2" X 4.25" and random stamp with versamark ink and stamps of your choice. Adhere to card.

Step #5: Stamp a sentiment on plain cardstock cut and mat as seen in photo. Adhere with a pop dot.

and Viola! you have a fast, simple, fun card!

Don't miss the fun tag from Nikki tomorrow. She's really on a roll with these. Thanks again for coming. We hope you are enjoying our 12 Royal Days of Christmas.

Royal Kat Wednesday

It's time again for a fun Queen Kat Royal Wednesday! Each Wednesday we have a great challenge for you so grab your Queen Kat stamps and get stamping.

This week is a sketch challenge. Vicki (Queen Kat) draws wonderful sketches so I picked one for this week's challenge.
Here is what I came up with for this awesome sketch.
Here is what Ashley came up with Be sure to swing by our forum at Paper Craft Planet. Play along with us we would love to see what you come up with.

Thanks for stopping by.

Escape

I wish I could escape sometimes! Kinda like today... I want to escape this awful cold I have! but to no avail... it cannot be done! So today, I must pretend to escape with this really cute card I put together last night!



On this card, I used the Friends Forever Stamp Set & the Hip Aliens Stamp Set.

Would you have guessed I used one of QK's awesome sketches from the gallery?? Well... I did! I love using sketches to help get my creative juices flowing... especially when I am sick and my head feels like it weighs 100 pounds! Here is the great sketch I used, and hopefully it will inspire you to make something amazing today!



Don't forget to visit the QKD store and check out some fabulous deals we have going!

Have a great Tuesday!

Royal Day 4...

We are sailing right along! Welcome to Day 4 of our Royal Christmas journey. We are taking you through 12 days of Christmas. Today is a feature on a fun snow tag from Nikki. Once again, she's used a fun tech from Tim Holtz.

1. Smoosh faded jean and broken china inks on a craft sheet, spray with water and lay tag on top, dry with heat gun.

2. Paint swirl grungeboard with picket fence crackle paint let ddry.

3. Dab white paint over edges of tags.

4. Stamp snowflakes with black ink, ink tag edges.

5. stamp and clear emboss the word snow.

6. Use silve metal mixatives and splatter over tag.

7. Stamp snowman on dry grungeboard, cut out, glut to tag add distress stickles to hat and scarf. Use a blender pen and ink to color in nose.

8. Create dimensional snow: mix white utee, clear utee, large glitter flakes, and crystal effects mix with a craft stick and while wearing gloves add to tag. Let dry completely and add ribbon.

We hope you enjoyed the tag today. Nikki had fun gettin' messy with this one! Stay tuned for tomorrow's project from me.

Royal Day 3

Welcome welcome! Today I'm going to share a fun ornament I made this year. These are fun to hang on Christmas trees.. But I also like to add them to gifts. Spice up that birthday or baby shower gift with a cute ornament. They can also be used in cars for mirror decor.
To make this cute simple, double sided ornament you will need:
Nestabilities- Round Scallop
QKD Stamps
Dye Ink Pad
5 different patterned papers
6" of ribbon
Stapler with staples
pop dots
adhesive
paper piercer
hole punch or crop-a-dile

Step #1: Cut the various circles needed:
2: 4" circles
2: 3.5" circles
2: 2.25" circles

Step #2: Stamp on the 2 top circles. You can use any stamps you want to. But I used the stamp set from the December Royal Kit and Get Inked! Kit at QKD.

Step #3: Adhere the two largest circles together with mono adhesive. take care and don't get it on the scallops or you will gum up your hole puncher. Next, add the ribbon to the ornament. I used two staples in an X pattern to keep it in place.

Step #4: Punch holes in the large and medium scalloped pieces all around the edges in each scallop. And then take your paper piercer and pierce holes in the 2 small circles that you stamped on.

Step #5: Using pop dots layer your circles together and hang your new ornament. :)
I once made these with frogs on them. They were sooooo cute! The sky is the limit on the themes you use these for. Have fun with them they are addictive. Stay tuned for another tag from Nikki tomorrow.

Just Whalin' Around/Negative effect inked+embossed!

Win this card!!! All you need to do is make a card using this Technique that Ive posted below, and post a comment here on Queen Kat Designs blog, and one on my blog. Also leave a link to your card, on either blog. I will then enter all names that have posted and played along into a drawing. And you will also receive 5 stamped images of this darling whale!!! :)

You have until tuesday evening to post your card. Thanks for playing!!


Hi everyone, today I decided to show you this technique. Its Negative effect inked+embossed. I tried to keep my card as simple as possible to show you what the background looks like with this technique. What you will want to do is get a cuddlebug folder, and take your ink pad and rub it across either the bottom or top part of your folder. In this case I did the bottom part. Then lay your paper to be embossed and run it through your machine, just like normal. On this card I did add corner pieces that i cut after i used the corner punch on them. This darling Whale is from Queen Kat Designs, and I stamped her on su dp. She is stamped 2 times, once on the white and then on the pink dp. I also used dazzling diamonds on her waterspout.LOL Not sure what that is called...LOL anyways

What do you think ????????
Hugs, Cheryl

Royal Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of our 12 Royal Days of Christmas. Today we are featuring this tag from Nikki. She's been following the 12 tags of Christmas by our buddy Tim Holtz. She's learned so much and has tried a lot of the techs he's done this year. Here's one of them.
Supplies:
Peeled Paint ReInker (Tim Holtz Distress)
Mister filled with water
Forest Green Perfect Pearls
Stamps
Gold Embossing Powder
Dye Ink
Toothbrush
Gold Alcohol Ink Mixative
Gold ink pad
Pre made tag
Ribbon

1. Spray tag with mist made with water, peeled paint reinker, and forever green perfect pearls. Dry with heat gun.
2. Sramp crown and heat emboss with gold embossing powder.
3. Stamp flourish with black ink
4. Stamp the best gift in black onto another tag cut apart, ink with aged mahogany ink, edge with soot ink, glue to tag.
5. Using metal mixatives in gold and a toothbrush splatter gold over tag.
6. Edge tag with gold ink.
7. Add fire brick stickles and ribbon.

Make sure to leave a comment on here... Each day you leave a comment you'll get 1 entry into the drawing on Christmas day!

FREE KITS!!

Come n get it! QKD is offering free kits! Spend $75 and you'll get a free kit in your order. This includes: Take 3 kits, Get Inked! kits and royal kits! Don't miss it! This is an up to $25 savings!! AND you'll automatically get FREE SHIPPING!! Shop now and save big!

Under The Sea

Over at PCP, there was a little challange to do a tag using QKD Stamps and Timmy techniques. So here is my take. I like to think of it as looking out of a submarine window. Stamps that were used are QKD's Under the Sea Stamp Set.
So how did I make the tag you ask?!?!?First I stamped my fish and bubbles onto the tag and then used distress ink to cover the entire background. Following that, I cut a clear cd into the size I wanted and sanded the surface until I got the "frosted" look that I was going for. After, I used Gesso to paint a strip on the back side of the cd, colored the front of the strip in with a red marker. On the back side of the cd, I stamped the seaweed and embossed it with UTEE, followed by adding color with different shades of green. My last steps were to add glossy accents to the front of the cd on the red strip, punch holes and add "rivets" to the cd, and emboss the top of the tag with black embossing powder.

So, I know you have a Timmy Technique that you are dying to try! So try it out! Oh and one more thing, check out Queen Kat Designs and also, come join our group over at PCP.

Extra-special Gifts!

Make your gift bags extra special this year with a few added touches. I took an inexpensive kraft gift bag, added some ribbon and patterned paper from my stash, and a tag made with Queen Kat Designs stamps; and plain becomes extra-special!





The fun part of this project was I used my Queen Kat Designs Hinge Stamps to create a snowflake! Just some stamping and embossing and it is done!



The options are endless with this stamp set!

Welcome...

To the beginning of the Queen Kat Designs version of 12 royal days of Christmas. We will take you through Christmas Eve with fun and inspiring projects. Nikki and I have created 12 fun and exciting cards, tags and ornaments for you. Each of these projects can easily be transformed into other occasions, themes and colors. Make sure you print out the info we're about to share with you for your technique/idea folder. :)

So.. with out further adieu... Here's day 1's card for you. It was made by me.. Queen Kat...
For this card you will need:
1 card base (4.25" X 5.5" folded)
3 different patterned papers
1 plain cardstock
2 colors of dye ink pads
ribbon tied into a small knot
Nestabilities- Round Scallop (you can also use nested punches)
Die Cut Machine
Adhesive
pop dots

Step 1: Cut 2 pieces of patterned paper to 5.5" X 2.18" and adhere them to the card base vertically.

Step 2: Cut 3 circles with your nesties or punches. Stamp on the top circle. I used the snowflake stamps from the December kit of the month from QKD.

Step 3: Stamp a sentiment onto plain cardstock and mat with patterned paper.

Step 4: Using pop dots, adhere the circle and rectangle onto the card and add ribbon.

Below is the sketch I used for the idea on this card. Feel free to use the sketch over and over. :)


How easy was that?? I hope you've enjoyed this card. See you tomorrow.

Paper used on this card was Cosmo Cricket: Oh Joy Christmas paper from the QKD December Royal Kit.