Welcome to the First March T3 Challenge!

Welcome to the first March Triple Tiara Tuesday! Get the chance to win a $25 rubber stamp gift certificate from Queen Kat Designs simply by playing along with us.

This week's challenge is: Use alcohol inks or distress inks.

This week's challengers are: Shannon, Valerie, Gretchen.

Check out what these lovely ladies have done for this week's challenge, make your own creation, and share a direct link to your project with us right here.

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Here are the rules of Triple Tiara Tuesday:

- Each week 3 Royal Court Members will host a challenge on their blog.

- You start right here at the QKD blog and visit the 3 challenge hosts on their personal blogs. (Leave us some love and a link to your project so we can return the favor. *wink*)

- QKD will offer up a $25 stamp gift certificate for the players to compete for each month. So if people enter each week, they have 4 chances to win the monthly prize of $25.

- The contestants will post their link to their card on the Inlinkz widget here on the blog. (There will be 1 per month.)

Mrs. Dashwood

Mrs. Dashwood - she was painted for a charity project I took on to support a local pet orphanage. Each of the paintings in the series was one of these folk art cats with either a collaged background or an abstract painted background. Each one was named for a cultural or literary figure. Mrs. Dashwood came from a Jane Austin novel. The background is scrapbooking paper, tissue paper and I think some of my hand made paper. Some of the others also included paper I had marbled for a college project many many years ago.

Royal Inklings Magazine

Did you know that we put out a free magazine each month? The Royal Court members create 1-2 projects a month with full directions and supply lists and we compose an online magazine for you. It's FREE and in full color!

The February Issue of the Royal Inklings Free Magazine is now available! Just click here to go to the free download page.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Girl Friday: Stamping in layouts

Here are two easy ways to integrate stamping into a scrapbook layout.


One easy way to make a layout is to gather all your elements in a certain area of the page. For this page, I put everything a little to the right of the layout. Try to overlap some elements.

Tip: An easy way to incorporate stamping and embellishments on a layout is to gather them all on a tag like I did here.


In order to be able to use so many elements and leave them "floating" (pardon the pun) around the background, I used a basic notebook-designed patterned paper.

Speaking of notebook-lined patterned paper, check out the store HERE. There are a lot of stuff on sale right now, like this cute Adornit! paper here.



Stamps: Aged Text Background Stamp, Whale Hug Stamp

*hugs*
Nina

Thursday Thoughts

Thinking green today -- might be because I just had to make green rice krispy treats (well, they tasted good but mmmm, they were a little off putting because of the color!)

So, with the thoughts of green, I am tending to think more to St. Patrick's Day and the Luck of the Irish!!! And QKD has some great stamps for St. Patrick's Day!!!

How about the Irish Angel by Sue Miller (love her work!)



or the Kiss Me I'm Irish Stamp Set



and don't forget the Celtic Love Stamp Set



No matter what set you choose, getting ready for St. Patty's Day is easy!

Welcome to Sue Miller...

Today we are welcoming one of my great artist friends... Sue Miller to the Queen Kat Designs family. I can't sing her praise enough. She is a fantastic artist and all around gal! I've been working with Sue for... oh... 3 months now on her line of stamps. We have some pretty fantastic images for you today. This is a spectacular release, today we are reveiling 9 of her images. Lets meet Sue...

Sue Miller is a professional artist & art teacher. She opened up The Magic Palette Art Studio about 18 years ago and has taught thousands of students of all ages. Sue was also a commercial artists before that for 19 years.

Sue’s art work has appeared on countless magazine covers and she is often the featured artist of many fantasy magazines. Her art work also appears on many book covers.

Sue and her husband recently released their first art book called FUNTASTY ART & POETRY. Sue's husband wrote beautiful, inspirational poetry for many of Sue's most popular paintings in this full color fantasy art book. They are presently working on their next book project.

Sue also spear headed the “Pure Inspiration Fantasy Art Collection “ coffee table art book. Featuring many of today’s most beloved fantasy artists. Published by Light Stream. For more info about Sue check out her web site at http://www.suemillerart.com/

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Please join us at 7pm PST/ 8pm MST/ 9pm CST/ 10pm EST on the QKD Facebook Fan Page for a release/ welcome party for Sue! We will reveal all of the stamps during the party and they will all be in the store here during the party as we reveal them.

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We're having a Warehouse Sale!!
40% off Embellishments
40% off Stickers, Rubons and More
40% off Inks, Paints and More
50% off Scrapbook Paper
Lots of New Grab Bags!
80% off Remaining Acrylic Stamps

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Today the Royal Court has prepared a fun blog hop for you. Please join in the fun and hop over to Jan's Blog for the first creation.

Here's the hop order for the day:

QKD- You're here!

Jan

Jules

Chris

Penny

Valerie

Wynneth

Triple Tiara Tuesday: Inspiration

Welcome to this week's Triple Tiara Tuesday! Get the chance to win a $25 rubber stamp gift certificate from Queen Kat Designs simply by playing along with us.

This week's Inspiration challenge is brought to us by Crate and Barrel:


This week's challengers are: Wynneth, and Sarah
Please note we usually have 3 hostesses each week but we had an emergency come up so this week there are 2 lovelies in the hop! :)

Check out what these lovely ladies have done for this week's challenge, make your own creation, and share a direct link to your project with us right here.

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Here are the rules of Triple Tiara Tuesday:

- Each week 3 Royal Court Members will host a challenge on their blog.

- You start right here at the QKD blog and visit the 3 challenge hosts on their personal blogs. (Leave us some love and a link to your project so we can return the favor. *wink*)

- QKD will offer up a $25 stamp gift certificate for the players to compete for each month. So if people enter each week, they have 4 chances to win the monthly prize of $25.

- The contestants will post their link to their card on the Inlinkz widget here on the blog. (There will be 1 per month.)

I am at ConDFW in Dallas this weekend showing off my stamps and artwork. So instead of the usual, here is some eye candy that I have been working on at the convention. Be back next week and I promise to be more chatty and to show you some art that inspired some cool queen kat stamps.

Super Saturday

Good morning everyone, I hope that you're

Saturday is off to a fantastic start!! I have

another card to share with you today using

the My Furry Valentine stamp from the

Ash Evans collection in the QKD Store!!

I paired this cute little kitty cat pair with a

pair of little love birds on top of the heart...

I just love the way the kitties and birdies

are both paired off and getting along so well!

Make sure you head over to the QKD Store

to find this My Furry Valentine stamp and a

couple of terrific sales like 250 12x12 pattern
papers for only $39.95 with shipping and all

remaining acrylic stamps are 80% off!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

-Sarah

Girl Friday Focus: Alley Cat as Asian pirate

When I first saw the lovely Alley Cat Stamp, my first thought was: pirate.

I got my stash of Asian pretty paper and made her into an Asian pirate easily.


Admittedly, I'm not much of a cardmaker. Since I'm starting with basics, I usually grab my white cardstock as a base, either for my stamp image or my card.

Since I was going for a pirate feel, I went with a black and white cardstock base. And I didn't even have to cut the Asian decorative paper because they are part of my stash of scraps.


Hope you have a treasure-filled day! Till next time!

*hugs*
Nina

Want to win some stamps?

Do you like to stamp? Do you like to win? How about winning stamps?

We have lots of stamps to giveaway. Each week we will choose a winner for some stamps. We may choose more than 1 winner, we may choose more than two winners! It all depends on how many people we see that change their Facebook avatar photo to the badge posted here.

So... change your Facebook Avatar to the picture above and post on Facebook. The more you post, the better the chance we will see that you changed your picture. :)

After you've changed your picture, make a comment on our Fan Page to let us know you are entered into the contest.

This is an ongoing contest. The first winner will be announced on Friday, Feb 18th. So get your picture changed and lets show some QKD love!

Ash Evans Has Arrived!!!

Today I have the esteemed pleasure of introducing you to one of my new friends and artists... Ash Evans! All I can do is sing her praise! She's a blessing to work with and a great gal overall. So, please meet my friend, Ash..

"Ash Evans is the painter of things with horns fur and wings and a self proclaimed Unicorn Queen. She holds court just outside Baltimore, Maryland USA. Describing herself as a professional creature artist, Ash has her style rooted in the realm of fantasy. She cobbles creatures together with many different mediums including: Digital, acrylic, watercolor, pencil, and oils. Most days you can find her in her studio spattered with paint and muttering to herself. She is easily distracted by shiny objects, enjoys reading and horseback riding."

Ash's motto is: "I want to make the world a more magical place one unicorn at a time".

Her stamps will be in the store tonight at 7pm PST. We are having a release party with giveaways tonight at that time on our Facebook Fan page. Please join us!

Now hop over to Jan's blog for the 1st stop on the blog hop today!



The whole hop order for today is:
Jan
Chris
Vicki
Penny

Visit Ash:

Face Book
Her website

Triple Tiara Tuesday: Color

Welcome to Valentine week's Triple Tiara Tuesday! We hope that you remember how many people truly love you and are amazed by you. You are magnificent and unique and nobody else in the whole wide world is like you. So just love yourself. And soon, if it hasn't happened already, people will appreciate and adore the light and magnificence you shine with.

Treat yourself or your loved one with one of your gorgeous creations and get the chance to win a $25 rubber stamp gift certificate from Queen Kat Designs!

This week's challenge, if you choose to accept it, is a COLOR challenge:


This week's challengers are: Penny, Chris, and Jan.

Check out what these lovely ladies have done for this week's challenge, make your own creation, and share a direct link to your project with us right here.

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Here are the rules of Triple Tiara Tuesday:

- Each week 3 Royal Court Members will host a challenge on their blog.

- You start right here at the QKD blog and visit the 3 challenge hosts on their personal blogs. (Leave us some love and a link to your project so we can return the favor. *wink*)

- QKD will offer up a $25 stamp gift certificate for the players to compete for each month. So if people enter each week, they have 4 chances to win the monthly prize of $25.

- The contestants will post their link to their card on the Inlinkz widget here on the blog. (There will be 1 per month.)

Using UTEE to create a pin with the "Trinity" Stamp -- video tutorial

You are all going to love this project!

Before I start this post, I want to state clearly that this project is not for children. Use reasonable caution when handling hot products to avoid injury. Follow manufacturer's directions and above all, don't forget to have a great time creating!

The pin backs where purchased at my local craft store. The Score Tape is available from Score Pal.

Foil tape and red liner tape also work well.

The beautiful images at Queen's ink lend themselves very well to using many techniques and using them as jewelry art is no different. Unlike the stamping into UTEE this project is much sturdier and can be worn as a pin. I would seal the piece completely with crystal lacquer if you plan to use it as a charm or purse accessory.

Purchase the stamp at Queen Kat's store. Trinity is a very pretty detailed stamp and is fun to color. I hope you will try this technique and enjoy some shopping at Queen Kat.

If you have any questions, comments or kind feedback, please contact me via email at: Ms.Rhetta@gmail.com.

Stamp Happy, be a blessing!

it's a monday....

hi there- wow today is almost gone =0)  time 2 love--Valentine's day....I am hoping you are having a great valentine's day!!

here is a card made with "my furry valentine" from Queen Kat's store. I used My Mind's Eye paper and white card stock, love ticket is from tim holtz, fired brick and shabby shutters distress ink, flower on right above "you" is from Michael's dollar bin.

jeanie

Stamping into UTEE -- a video tutorial using Trinity

Trinity

This beautiful stamp is from Queen Kat designs, please click the name for the web site.

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   I bet you're asking, well what can I do with the image?  That is a great question.  She can be adhered to just about anything.  I have put the one you see above on a mini album I hope to finish up in a few days and will try to shoot a video for you guys of the finished product.   I used E6000 adhesive to attach her to the front cover of my book, I kept it in place using ordinary clothes pins. 

   She can also be worn, when you see the step when I am trimming up the UTEE you can punch a hole in the material while it is still warm and put on a necklace, or place a pin back on it and wear it as an over sized pin.  She will not be good on anything that is going to be "banged" around.  This material is embossing enamel and it will crack, shatter and break.  So, use reasonable caution when working with this material.

   The actual time of the stamp sitting in the UTEE before I trimmed it was about 8 minutes, not 20, I should have corrected this when I started filming but failed to do so.  My editing skills are coming along, I've managed to get an introduction on the video with my blog address and the address of one of the on-line groups I belong too.

   I really am not good with an exact-o knife, but once the video was shot, I gave it a try.  The UTEE was very much completely cooled down and thick.  I used even pressure on a good quality cutting mat and trimmed out the edges. 

   The Image is colored with copic markers.  You can also make it shinny by using colored glossy accents or other medium.  It does not need to be sealed, but if you prefer a glossier look, spray it with a glossy acrylic spray paint.

    Please email me at Ms.Rhetta@gmail.com if you have any questions.

   Stamp Happy and be a blessing!

Dragon Sweets

I seem to be painting a lot of cupcakes these days. I have chosen to share this one with you all, because it is how I am feeling right now. We spent Saturday making pink iced cupcakes for my daughter's birthday party today. And I am tired. She got to help decorate them. She manned the sprinkles much better than I did the icing.
Dragon Sweets was created for a Pay It Forward Project that I did on my facebook fanpage last month.

Super Saturday

Hello again everyone...Sarah here.

Today I'd like to share with you a Valentine card

that I made for my daughter using the

"My Furry Valentine" stamp from the

Ash Evans Collection. On this card, I wanted

to tie the color of the stamp in with the title

so I stamped the image with a dark brown ink

and then just highlighted the edges of the image

with my Copic BV0000 Pale Thistle.

Make sure you take a look through the QKD Store

to find this adorably sweet "My Furry Valentine"

stamp that is 25% off along with all of the rubber

stamps and 80% off of all remaining acrylic stamps!!

Have a wonderful weekend and Happy Valentine's Day!

-Sarah

Girl Friday: Easy Valentine's Day project

I had these grand plans for Valentine's Day projects, but kept procrastinating on them. What actually motivated me to go ahead with this one is that my husband and son kept threatening to eat the chocolates ahead of time!


So their Valentine's Day gift ended up being made a few days earlier.

This was super easy to make, I promise. Grab a beer bottle or any empty glass container, wash thoroughly. (I washed this several times.) Fill up with m&m's or your choice of chocolates. Measure and wrap a long piece of patterned paper to go around the middle part of the bottle. (I layered two strips.)

I used double-tape to tape the ends together. But you can use your choice of adhesive.


Stamp and color image on white cardstock. Attach the centerpiece with a cardstock mat. I used this lovely stamp here: Whale Hug Rubber Stamp.

Tie ribbon, apply rub-ons. Simple, right?

Hope you and your loved ones all have a wonderful Valentine's Day!

*hugs*
Nina

Thursday Thoughts

In the ever busy days that we all have, I think that most of us barely have time to shop for groceries, much less, go shopping for scrappy/stampy supplies. Well, the good thing is that Queen Kat Designs is online, any time of the day, shopping express!!

Today the focus is on kits -- Did you know that Queen Kat Designs have several monthly kits for you to chose from? Check this out!

First off is the Whimsical Ink Sorority Club Kit! February's kit features Clarity. Magian rocks and so does this kit!!



Then there is the new Myka's Monthly Club Kit! February is Affinity Blue Rose! OH MY! Another fabulous designer here, Myka's designs are so cool!!!



Then there is the Get Inked Kit! Get inked features stamps by Roni Johnson and technique based products. February's kit has some fabulous vintage cupids!! Be still my heart!!!



And finally, the Royal Kit is available! February features birthday products! Just think a coordinating stamp set and matching papers and embellishments -- definitely shopping done easy!!

Welcome Meadow Pixie Arts!

Today is a special day!! We are welcoming Terrell Dorfeo to our team. She is such a lovely friend of mine. I can't wait for you to see her work! We have a release party tonight at 7pm PST on the QKD Facebook Fan Page. I hope you will join us. We will reveal all of her new releases then and do some giveaways too!

Lets meet Terrell...

Hello, my name is Terrell (pronounced like "Carol") Dorfeo (Door-Fey-o) and I am from Pittsburgh. My art that you see here and all over the web are more or less my "doodles". I am a licensed artist and also do freelance work. I see life from a cartoonist's point of view and it comes out that way in my designs! The art just forms as it wishes as soon as I put pen to the paper which is all the time and I have been lucky to have had artworks in a few shows , magazines and books. Where it goes from here we will have to see! ;)I attended The Art Institute of Pittsburgh for Media Arts and Animation which is currently on hold at this time. I haven't decided whether or not to continue the study--the art I do makes me more of a 2D animation (cartoonist) artist/illustrator than a 3D artist.

My art has been shown in the "Manchester Craftsman's Guild", "The Art Smith Gallery; Several pieces of my mermaid collection were shown at the Red Dot Fair in Miami December 2-6 of 2009 in the Multi-Media Slide Show and my name and website were part of an art display in "Litany" for the Three Rivers Arts Festival in 2010 that was shown all over the area of the show. I hope that you will enjoy what I do and consider becoming a fan of my work!

I truly love watching how others interpret my work in card making, tags, coloring pages and other crafts. In case you were wondering, I am 40 years old and am married to my sweetheart Tony. We are slowly going insane with two children, a nutty dog and an obnoxious cockateil.

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Today the Royal Court has prepared a special mini blog hop for you showcasing Terrell! Please hop over to Valerie's blog for some stamping fun!

Here's today's hop order
Valerie
Jan
Nina
Chris

Triple Tiara Tuesday: Sketch

Welcome to this week's Triple Tiara Tuesday. We hope you are having fun along with us and that you're not giving up on your chance to win a $25 rubber stamp gift certificate from Queen Kat Designs!

This week's challenge is a sketch challenge:


This week's challengers are: Jules, Morag, and Jeanie.

Check out what these lovely ladies have done for this week's challenge, make your own creation, and share a direct link to your project with us right here.

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Here are the rules of Triple Tiara Tuesday:

- Each week 3 Royal Court Members will host a challenge on their blog.

- You start right here at the QKD blog and visit the 3 challenge hosts on their personal blogs. (Leave us some love and a link to your project so we can return the favor. *wink*)

- QKD will offer up a $25 stamp gift certificate for the players to compete for each month. So if people enter each week, they have 4 chances to win the monthly prize of $25.

- The contestants will post their link to their card on the Inlinkz widget here on the blog. (There will be 1 per month.)

from the heart

Hi it is jeanie here and have you ever had one of those months? Monday are my day to share a project l ....so today when i just am frustrated with life I look up and see a book compiled by Dan Zadra "BE happy. remember to live, love, laugh and learn." I need that anyone else?

my little valentine stamp from QKD

lets see if we can do a quick tutorial
step 1-- get a card
step 2-- take 3 coordinating scraps and cover front of card (thirds are always appealling)
step 3-take matching ribbon and glue down one side of the card
step 4- stamp image, tear around it, distress or color it to match papers and pop dot on card front
step 5--use label maker to write a word and stick on lower left of image....
step6--restamp image and cut out part that could be pop doted on top of image or just stamp a butterfly or heart and pop dot on.
wow awesome job everyone you did it! have a great creative day and i will be wishing i could join you....till next monday =0) jeanie

Rubber Ducky

Rubber Ducky was created for the ebsq Rubber Ducky online exhibit. And of course I had to go with one of my whimsical fantasy creatures. My husband insisted that a fairy cat would not like a bubble bath, and I already did a mercat in the bath. So we have dragon. I really like his little rosy cheeks and all those bubbles.

Super Saturday

Hello everyone! My name is Sarah Mullanix, and I'm

a new designer here at QKD. Today is my first post and

I'd love to share a card with you that I created using

the cutest pixie stamp designed by Terrell Dorfeo with

Meado Pixie Arts. This little pixie is just absolutely

adorable with her delicate wings and two little kitty

cats that sit comfortably in her hands. After I colored

her in with my Copics, I then accented the stamp with

earthtones such as blues, greens, and browns, just perfect

for a little pixie that I always invision fluttering around

the woods hopping from tree branch to tree branch.

You can find this stamp "Kitty Cat Fairy"

in the QKD Store at 20% off along with all of the other

rubber stamps and acrylic stamps are 80% off, but hurry

because today is the final day of this fantastic sale!!

Have a wonderful weekend! -Sarah