Welcome Carrie Hawks!!

Hi guys!! How are you doin? I hope you're all having a great day with lots of stamping involved. I'm here today with Carrie Hawks. She's a new stamp designer for QKD!! We are STOKED to have her here. Here's a little bit about Carrie.

"I have been painting and drawing ever since I can remember. I have always been very artistic and fell in love with cats at an early age. I regard myself as primarily a cat artist and incorporate a fantasy theme with most of the felines that I paint. I have always felt a special connection to cats because of their unique personalities. This helped make them a natural subject choice for me. My own cats are my inspiration and models for much of my work.

I enjoy working with a variety of mediums but acrylics are my favorite. I enjoy using a wide variety of vivid colors and paint my cats in all the colors of the rainbow. Nearly all of my cats feature what I like to call "feathered eyes" which has become my trademark. I feel that the eyes of a cat show their independent spirit. I try to capture the cat's mystical spirit in each of my paintings. My love of fantasy is clearly seen in my magical fairy cats and gothic cats series. Winged cats have become a favorite theme for me to paint. My fantasy cat collection will continue to grow as I have many more ideas in the works. Aside from my fantasy cat paintings I also enjoy painting custom commission portraits of pet cats. I always feel so honored when my clients entrust me to immortalize their feline friends in a work of art. "

Today we have a fun mini blog hop for you. Your next stop is Maria.. Please join us tonight at 7pm PST on our Facebook Fan Page. We will have the full stamp reveal and some fun giveaways! Today's hop order is.. Maria Jan Vicki Bonnie Penny

Last March Triple Tiara Tuesday Challenge

Welcome to the last Triple Tiara Tuesday for March! 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 a brayer.

This week's challengers are: Penny, Loretta, and Wynneth.

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.)

Fancy wings

Fancy Wings is one of my little fairy cats. I had fun playing with bright contrasting colors with this one. I enjoy drawing this back view of the wings with the fur all fluffed up around where they sprout from the shoulders.

Here's Jeanie!

Hey bloggers! Happy Saturday! I hope you're having a fabulous weekend!! I'm here today to introduce Jeanie Dickinson! She's our Monday blog poster here at QKD and is a new stamp designer with us! We are very very excited to officially debute her stamps tonight on our Facebook Fan Page. The festivities start at 7pm PST. Be there or be square.

Here's a preview of what's to come...

Thursday Thoughts

In the space of four short week, we have had three new babies in our family! Two boys and one girl! Things are definitely hoping around here and it always helps to be prepared with a great card for those new mommies or the mommies to be!

For this, the Mommy stamp collection is fabulous! Check out Mommy 1



And here are some cards using the Mommy 1 stamp





This is definitely a well-needed stamp.

Welcome Christina Lynn Myers

Happy Wednesday! I hope your day is going swimmingly! We are celebrating the addition of Christina Lynn Myers to the QKD Family. Lets meet Christina...

"I'm 36 and live in metro Atlanta! I am a self-representing artist and business owner and have been doing this for about 5 years now. I am originally from Florida, and I have been painting and drawing for a very long time.I spent a lot of time as a kid drawing on a huge chalkboard we had at home, and also was a huge fan of my magnadoodle. I liked how I could just wipe away the picture and start with something new... I guess it was a form of a sketchbook, not leaving many remnants of my beginnings... however there are some drawings on paper too from when I was a kid, I pretty much drew on anything I could get my hands on. I went to two different colleges for art, SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) and SVA (School of Visual Arts)... I have my Bachelors degree in business... but that's a longer story. I love to paint in acrylics, watercolors and I also like to mix my media... I am most known for the vibrant colors in my paintings... and have been told that my paintings make people feel happy and cheery, which in turn makes me happy and cheery!!"

We are warmly welcoming Christina to the family tonight at 7pm PST on the Facebook Fan page. So make sure you're there. We have some giveaways and the new stamps will be live at that time!

Until then, please hop over to Jan's Blog for more peeks at what's to come!

Today's hop order is...

QKD- you're here!
Jan
Penny
Vicki
Jeanie
Janie
Chris

Fourth March Triple Tiara Tuesday

Welcome to another 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 color challenge is: Mint, Coral, Ivory.


This week's challengers are: Jules, 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.)

monday monday

well it is monday again!!! amazing how that happens every 7 days.... I LOVE to CREATE with stamps and paint and ink and bling and just about everything....What did you create this weekend, Month? it is national crafting month we have some fun stamps at Queen Kat Designs....to celebrate crafting..the one pictured here is by jeanie dickinson. you can check her other designs here....http://katstamps.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=98_75_151
have a great papercrafting day, week and month....

=0) jeanie

Wings of Wishes

On the Wings of Wishes is the painting that inspired one of the new QKD stamps this month. As a little girl I always like making wishes on dandelion fluff, although the adults would get very cross about spreading those seeds. In this painting I imagined each of those little seeds turning into butterflies and carrying the wishes away on pretty wings to find just the right place to plant the seed wish for it to come true.
This seems like the perfect painting for today, because I am celebrating the 12th anniversary of my favorite wish coming true. And true to our geeky ways we are celebrating 12 crazy years of marriage at a convention surrounded by art, books and geekdom.
May all your wishes have wings too.

Girl Friday: Get Crafty

I am loving the Get Crafty collection of stamps over at the QKD Store.

Here are just some of my fave stamps from the Get Crafty collection.

Multi Craft Rubber Stamp Set. Like hitting several birds with one stone.

Craft or Die Stamp. One of my old faves.

Stitchn' N Bitchn' Rubber Stamp. 'nuff said.

Till next time!

*hugs*
Nina

Think Green Thursday

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Is everyone thinking Green today!!! Well, today was the day when I had all the lovely plans of sleeping in, enjoying the day, but I was awakened this morning by a sick child -- definitely not great!

So, let's think green -- one of my favorite colors!

Here is Knitting Duckie. I didn't use the traditional "Christmas" green here, but variations of green, to color this cutie!

It's Myka's day!

Hello and welcome to the Myka Jelina day at Queen Kat Designs. We are proud to introduce, formally, Myka Jelina as a stamp artist here at QKD. We have several of her stamps out for sale now and more coming tonight! We even have a monthly kit that myka draws images for. Have you seen it? Here's the March kit..

About Myka: Myka Jelina (Born 1973, in Gastonia N. Carolina) is a popular gothic fantasy artist. Her paintings are easily recognized by their beautiful subjects posed in highly detailed scenes of gothic and classical adornment. Her art draws from actual life elements to explore and capture the delicate relationships between darkness, beauty,and color. Her favorite painting mediums are acrylic paints on masonite panel and watercolor.

Today we have a little blog hop for your enjoyment! You will get a chance to see all of the new stamps. So hop over to Shannon's blog for her creation.

Join us tonight at 7pm PST, 8pm MST, 9pm CST, 10pm EST for a release party at our Facebook Fan Page. We will have prizes and reveal all the new stamps at that time.

Happy Stamping!

Vicki

Third March Triple Tiara Tuesday Challenge

Welcome to another 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:


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

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.)

hello Monday

monday monday.....transition between having children and work....so i decided to make a card with my tree stamp and now that i am posting i realized i forgot a greeting --oopppsss...aaahhh it is monday....
but what about the other images you say? aaahhhhh hhhmmm SNEAK PEAKs at what is coming soon to QKD store by jeanie dickinson. so many new awesome stamps by so many artists and i am humbled and grateful to be among them....great job Queen Kat. Please have a great papercrafting monday....

End Of The Rainbow

This fellow was the result of a contest I ran on my facebook fanpage. The queen herself won with the craziest idea for a dragon painting. Our wonderful queen liked it so much he was released as a stamp before I had a chance to put a single drop of paint on him. He is an punk Irish dragon. Can you see his upside down shamrock medallion? He guards that legendary pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And he is here just in time for St. Patrick's Day.

Girl Friday: Green Dragon

Have you checked out all the amazing designs coming out of the QKD Store? You totally should. I am just amazed at each and new design that's coming out.

For this month, I also got to play with the cute Green Dragon stamp HERE.


Here are my projects:

3-in-1 Card

Tag 1
Additional Stamps: Aged Text Background Stamp, Going Postal Stamp Set.

Tag 2

Additional Stamps: Funky Swirl Stamp, butterfly from Every Season Stamp Set, Coffee Stain Stamp, bar code from Lucky You Stamp Set.

Till next time!

*hugs*
Nina

Thursday Thoughts

My thoughts today are of lollipops! Lollipops? Yes, lollipops. Well, more specifically, Lollipop Labs Studios!

This line is such a fun line! One of my favorite stamps from this line is Cute Rockstar







I also love the new March release - Little Cuties






This line is cute, but quirky! Not your average cutesy stamp! So, check out Lollipop Labs! I think you will be glad that you did!

Wecome Diana!

We have got a treat for you! Today we are welcoming Diana Vick to Queen Kat Designs. Her stamps are so fun and funky! Diana has a great sense of design and we are proud to have her on board with us!

Lets meet Diana...

Diana Vick is a multi-talented artist and writer. She has done extensive work for many collectible card games including Magic the Gathering, Legend of the Five Rings and The Seventh Sea. She has also done work in many other fields including animation and comic books. Currently her art can be found primarily in her Zazzle shop on cards, mouse pads, magnets and more. Her award winning costumes are always original and eye catching. The most recent of these have been steampunk inspired. Along with her husband, R “Martin” Armstrong she is organizing a steampunk convention, Steamcon III to be held in October of 2011.

We are having a little blog hop today to welcome her.. Please hop over to Jan's blog for some fun with Diana's new stamps.

Join us tonight at 7pm PSt, 8pm MST, 9pm CST, 10pm EST on the QKD Facebook Fan page for a welcome party!

Second March Triple Tiara Tuesday Challenge

Welcome to another 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 sketch challenge is:


This week's challengers are: Linda, Maria, and Bonnie.

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.)

hello Monday

How is everyone? hope it is a great day for you....I have a quote for you well maybe for ME.... "We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right." Marianne Williamson

supplies i used...greeting tree stamp set here , house of 3 ticket, card stock of your choice for the base card, brown cardstock to layer tree on, ribbon to match, Donna Salzar distresser, brushed cord distress ink and applicator.

and this is what had me distracted for over a week.....a new grand daughter...





don't forget to check out the sales and all the GREAT New Releases at the store http://katstamps.com/store/

Girl Friday: Super Kids

Introducing a March release stamp set -- Super Kids!

You can just imagine how much fun you can have with this stamp set.

I made the cards below lickety-split with my paper scraps.



What's super about this set is that it's cool for boys and girls. And how about all those cool words?

*hugs*
Nina

Thursday Thoughts

Well, my thoughts today are tired ones. Long week at work (so glad it is almost the weekend) and two days of soccer practice, but I thought I would share a stamp that is sure to put a smile on your face like it does to me. It is the ever so cute Knitting Duckie Rubber Stamp

Just look at it!!!


And here's a card I did using it.


This is just fabulously cute!!

Winner!!!

We have a winner for the Triple Tiara Tuesday for February!! Congratulations to #4: Beth Gaddis. She won $25 in free rubber stamps from Queen Kat Designs.
Big Congrats to Beth!! Tune in next Tuesday for the next challenge for March for your chance to win!!

It's release time!

Hurry on over to the QKD Facebook Fan Page! We are having a party right now to release the new stamps for March! We have over 25 new stamps and sets to show you tonight!

This month we are celebrating with some Crafty themed stamps! We are debuting 2 new stamp lines tonight...

So hurry on over to the QKD Facebook Fan Page and join in the fun!