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

Lolli Pop Labs is Here!

Today we are welcoming Shannon Rene Justice to the Queen Kat Designs Family!

Shannon is the creator of Lolli Pop Labs. She has been a full time designer/illustrator Since 2007. Shannon is the illustratr of: "'The Lighter Side of Dark' Book One: Enter the Yard", a fun children's book.

She was recently chosen by SONY to help launch their APxSony ATV Lyrical Inspirations Official Collection. She has created illustrations inspired by 5 different songs, each by a famous Sony recording artist: 'Burning Love' by Elvis, 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' by Pat Benatar, 'True Colors' by Cyndi Lauper, 'Alone' by Heart, and 'Burnin' For You' by Blue Oyster Cult.

How awesome is she? Well I'll show you!! We have created a private collection of her stamps right here at Queen Kat Designs. We are starting with 7 of them today but there are lots more to follow in the months to come!

This sweet little girl is called Black Balloon. I had so much fun making this card. I stamped the image and colored it then I embossed the red cardstock with a brick embossing folder from Tim Holtz. I tore the center of the red and "peeled" it back then I inked the red stock with walnut stain distress ink and an ink blender tool.

Next, I cut the image out with one of my nestibilities and inked the sides of it with some Stormy Sky distress ink and an ink blender tool. I adhered the red cardstock to a white card base and put the image in the middle of it with a pop dot or 4. :)

I stamped "To my best friend..." on white cardstock, inked the edges with Stormy Sky Distress ink and then matted it onto black cardstock and adhered to the front of the card.

This is a side view to show that it really pops off the page.

And last but not least, I stamped the sentiment on red cardstock and matted on black and adhered to the inside of my card. This sentiment is from our new "To My Best Friend" stamp set.

Please hop over to Shannon's Blog for the next stop on the blog hop. Thanks for coming today!

If you get lost along the way, here's the complete hop list.

QKD-- You're here!

Shannon

Jules

DIS

Chris

Vicki

Katrina

Genevieve