Girl Friday: Embossed ATCs

This week, I'm working with the fab Skull Royalty Rubber Stamp.


Here are some super-easy heat embossed images on 3 ATCs:


And here are some close-ups:


Black on White ATC
Heat emboss stamp image with black glitter embossing powder on white cardstock cut to 2.5" x 3.5". (I'm always messy with embossing and don't clean around the image when embossing. I actually like that is adds a grungey effect to the final image.) Use Ranger Inkssentials to adhere metal embellishments.


Gold on Brown ATC
Heat emboss stamp image with gold embossing powder on white cardstock cut to 2.5" x 3.5". Spray on top of image with Tsukineko Walnut Ink Spray. Set four eyelets at each corner. Thread one corner with metal link.


White on Black ATC
Emboss stamp image with white embossing powder on white cardstock. Ink over image with black stamp pad. Adhere black crystal stickers. Adhere metal embellies with Ranger Inkssentials.

*hugs*
Nina

Penguins!!!!

My children begged and begged and begged for a pillow pet. Well, finally, I broke down and bought them one for their birthday! For my daughter, her request was a dolphin, but my son wanted a penguin!

He loves penguins!!! But, of course, everyone else in our family loves penguins as well. So, I was so excited for Kari Lind's stamps that focus on penguins!!

Check them out!!
Winter Greetings Set



Penguin Friends Set


Fresh Fish Set


Check out these cards using these stamp sets!!

Court Call Extended

Queen Kat Designs Stamp Co. (www.katstamps.com) announces its latest search for loyal, dedicated and excited Royal Court members! You must be a STAMPER and card maker to apply. We are a stamp manufacturer that makes laser etched rubber stamps. We are looking for people who LOVE to stamp and can do so on a deadline with a smile!

*Must love to color!*
*Must be able to do a minimum of 5 cards a month*
*Must be able to blog 1 time a week on your own blog*
*Must be able to blog 1 time a week on one of our company blogs*

Work Description:
*5-6 Hand stamped cards a month (photographs only, you keep your cards)
*1 Blog post a week on your personal blog (using 1 of the cards you made for your monthly quota)
*1 Blog post on one of the 3 Queen Kat Designs Blogs (Whimsical Ink Sorority, Dark Ink Sorority or the QKD Company blog, you will be assigned to 1 of the blogs upon hire)
*Participation on the QKD Facebook Fan page at least once a week
*Check in on the Court’s private message board at least 3 times a week to make sure you’re up to date
*1 of your cards made for your quota will be for the Royal Inklings Magazine so you will need to provide a write up on how to make the card with a supply list.

Perks of the team:
+Worldwide exposure to your work through our blogs and online idea gallery
+Free rubber stamps each month of your term
+30% off any rubber stamps in our online store for your term
+40% off any rubber stamps in our online store on the 15th of each month for your term
+You will be published each month in our online magazine
+And more…

Please see info below and take your time to prepare a well thought out application.
Make 3 cards showcasing your best work and blog about them on your blog with a link to the Queen Kat Designs Royal Court Call. (Cards must be new for this call and can use any stamps and products you want. Of course we are partial to QKD stamps but welcome submissions with any stamps.)

b. Email us the link to your blog post to: royalcall@katstamps.com with the following (all in 1 email please!)
c. Choose 1 of the cards you made for the call and write up a “how to” sheet on it. (Simple instructions and a supply list) To get an idea of what we are looking for, take a look at the latest issue of the Royal Inklings Magazine here: http://www.4shared.com/document/-LMRXnbw/RI_Nov10QKDpdf.html
d. Include the following information in the body of your email: Your full name, mailing address, phone number, blog or website address, email address. Current bloggers only! This call is open to anyone in the world.
e. Provide one paragraph about yourself telling us about you and make sure your personality shines through.

General Questions…
1. Would you say you are primarily a stamper or a scrap booker?
2. How long have you been stamping/ scrapbooking?
3. Have you participated in any other design teams? If so, please explain (guest designer, regular designer, for store, for manufacturer, for kit company), and if currently on other teams, please list those teams and your commitment. Please list the work load and the length of your commitments as well as names of companies.
4. What is your motivation for participating in our design team?
5. Do you currently own any Queen Kat Designs stamps? If not, why not? (Please be candid)
6. Are you able/ willing to make at least one post per week to promote our products? (At least one of these posts will be on a Tuesday per month)
7. Are you able/ willing to commit to a 6 month term with QKD at this time?

Applications are due by January 30th at 10am MST!
New Royal Court members will be contacted by January 31st via email.
Send everything in 1 email to: royalcall@katstamps.com

Triple Tiara Tuesday: Inspiration

We hope we have inspired you to pick up those stamps and make something fun with our Triple Tiara Tuesdays.

This week's challenge is an Inspiration challenge. Let this image from Red Envelope inspire you to make your creation:



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, and share a direct link to your creation 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.)

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Looking forward to seeing your creations and good luck!

January Royal Inklings Magazine

Did you know that Queen Kat Designs has a free online magazine? Well we do! :) the January issue was just released tonight. Come and get your copy now.
There are several never before seen projects from the Royal Court that include full supply lists and step by step instructions! It's a monthly publication presented by the Royal Court.

Eat Cake! Triple Tiara Tueday's White Challenge: Frosting and Cherry on Top!

Have Your Cake (and eat it too)

This past Tuesday's Triple Tiara Challenge was to use WHITE for your card, and only add a hint of color on your stamped image. This was totally a challenge for me! I've never made an all white card. I stuck with all white including my base, my paper lace mat, a glittered white top mat, lace circle for my cute cake image to sit up, and then topped it off with a sheer white bow!

This adorable swirly cake image is from "Have Your Cake" stamp set from Queen Kat Designs. I used my printer to print the Eat Cake sentiment, since I do not have many sentiment stamps (yet). I then added some yummy glitter to top off that frosting! YUM!

I hope that each of you will take the "all white" challenge--click HERE for the white challenge information! Remember you can do ALL the challenges as long as they are all finished and linked up by the last day of the month. So if you missed the first and second challenge of this month, there is still time to win the fabulous gift of $25.00 to Queen Kat Designs store! Just look on the RIGHT hand side of the blog to link up your white creations. If you missed the first challenge, it was a sketch, so click HERE to see that challenge.

Now this is my idea of a guilt free dessert! Make sure to leave me a comment here and at my blog to enter the Stickles giveaway!

1'st Challenge: Sketch CLICK HERE

2'nd Challenge: All White CLICK HERE

Star Gazer

Star Gazer the painting is actually rather large for me at 11x14". I love the soothing cool colors of this one. I imagine him to be this little house dragon dreaming of what it would be like to be wild and free. But with those delicate butterfly like wings, he really is only suited to be a well loved house pet. Sort of like a well pampered house cat.
Would different colors change the feel of this design? Why don't you fine out and post your different color choices for this stamp here.

It's Maigan's Day!

Hi Blog friends!

We are doing something different here at Queen Kat Designs this year. Each Wednesday we will be releasing new stamps! That's right!! Every Wednesday!! I have new artists booked to debut through the end of March so far and on the first Wed. of the month we will have our regular releases.

Some Saturday's we will choose a stamp artist and feature them on our Facebook Fan page. There will be challenges and giveaways. This week we are featuring the Whimsical Inkings of Maigan Lynn. Maigan is the Chapter President over at the Whimsical Ink Sorority. Here are some of her paintings..

We offer many different stamps illustrated by Maigan Lynn. (86 to be exact) The very first Mermaid introduced by QKD that Maigan drew was Lani. She's the beautiful mermaid above with the white tail and orange hibiscus flowers. She's my favorite. I asked Maigan to draw something with Hibiscus flowers and boy did she ever! Here's some of my favorite cards done by the Royal Court that feature Lani.

Today we are celebrating Maigan Lynn and her artwork. We will have challenges and some giveaways over on our Facebook Fan page throughout the day. Please come on over "Like" us and take part in the fun! See you soon

Queen Kat and the Royal Court

Girl Friday: 3 Easy Cards

Snow Day Stamp

With a cheerful and bright smile like that, what heart wouldn't melt on a snow day?

Just want to share with you three easy cards I made with this little cutie.

This is an easy way to use up some of the extra stash you have -- the small piece of cardstock or patterned paper, the rub-ons you haven't used, etc. that you just can't bear to throw away.


Thinking of you card - Simply color in your stamped image with decorating chalks. Add a piece of cardstock, trim the edges with decorative scissors, add a funky ribbon and a rub-0n, and you're done!


Remember when card - Stamp your image on white cardstock, color in with markers, trim closely and adhere to a doily. Simply add a gray shadow around the image with a marker to hide the edges. Add a ribbon and cut out a sentiment from a piece of patterned paper.


You're on my mind card - Cut out frames (or any similar designs) from patterned paper to decorate your kraft cardstock. Stamp image on white cardstock, color in with markers and decorating chalks, trim and place in a frame. Add rub-on and bling.

Hope you had fun and got inspired to dig in and use those little scraps you have lying around!

*hugs*
Nina

Thursday Thoughts

Cold and very chilly here in Mississippi and that automatically sends my thoughts to warmer climates!! I need some warmth!!

So, the focus today is on warmth -- warm waters, warm sun, and mermaids. Wow! Where did that come from? Well, mermaids (well most mermaids) are in those nice tropical vacation spots!!

And the mermaids today come from Maigan Lynn!

What about -- Anna Sapheer





or Hearts on My Sleeves





No matter what type of mermaid (or fairy) you need, you should definitely check out Maigan's stamps at QKD!!!

Re-Launch of Creepie Cuties...

Hello! Welcome to the Queen Kat Designs blog! Today we are re-launching our Creepie Cuties line of rubber stamps! Kristie has been hard at work drawing new images for us in anticipation of this day. We are proud to bring 7 new images to our collection!

Kristie is offering this special stamp bundle for a low price. It's $40 for all of the 7 new stamps. In this release, we have:

Gothling #1 Stamp
Holding Onto Hope Stamp
New Life Stamp
Butterfly Fairy Stamp
Blue Fairy Stamp
The Cute Side of Dark Stamp
Snow Dragon Stamp

Jump over to Chris' blog for more fun. She's going to showcase one of these fun stamps for you.

Today's hop order:
QKD Blog- You're here!
Chris
Vicki
Loretta
Penny
Nina

Jan
Valerie
DIS Blog

Triple Tiara Tuesday: White

Welcome to this week's Triple Tiara Tuesday! For this week's challenge, we challenge you to use the color WHITE! Check out this lovely card ade by our very own Shannon and use it as inspiration for your own creation:

Make a card using white as a predominant color. You can add color for your image(s), but keep the base and majority of the card white.

Here are this week's challengers: Jules, Shar, Vicki.

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

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Here are the rules of Triple Tiara Tuesday:

- Each week 3 Royal Court Members will host the 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 you enter each week, you have 4 chances to win the monthly prize of $25. (1 entry per week)

- Post your their link to your card on the Inlinkz widget here on the blog. Right over --->there!

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Here's the link to last week's challenge in case you missed it, you can still enter!

Looking forward to seeing your creations! And good luck!

Hey there cupcake!

Hello to all of our royal readers and friends! I am excited to be postin today about the Very Sweet Sale Queen Kat has going on today! In fact, QKD has her stamps clearanced up to 70 percent!
I happen to get this adorable cupcake stamp from the sale! I am really loving the cupcake stamps! I also received a small cherry stamp that will be so great to top off my sentiments..like please with a cherry on top?
Today's card is done for the Triple Tiara Tuesday Challenge here at Queen Kat. You simply make a card based on the sketch and link up on the right hand sidebar! Easy! The winner receives 25.00 of free stamps! I so wish I could win! This is a great prize!

Ingredients to whip up this Cupcake Cutie
Queen Kat Designs Cupcake stamp, cherry stamp
Papers, cupcake ribbon, gingam ribbon
Glitter glue, puff paint, face digital file

Thanks for joining me today at QKD! I hope your Monday is super sweet!

All the Best from My Hands to Yours,
K Andrew

Fancy Wings

Fancy Wings is a whimsical little kitty. I wanted to have a bit of fun with colors with this one. So we have the green kitty on the red mushroom and the purple wings with the yellow spots. I think what I really like about this little fellow is that the fur is going every which way around the area where the wings sprout from his shoulders.

Girl Friday Focus: Skull Royalty Tag

Have you visited the QKD Store yet for the fab spankin' new January release stamps? Because if you haven't, I'm telling you, you're missing out on some fab eye candy. One of them being this stamp right here: Skull Royalty Stamp.


Since it's the start of a New Year, I've been trying to decide and focus on my style. And I *think* I've come close to -- if not in defining it -- at least being inspired by what I want to achieve.

My word for 2011: steampunk.

I love steampunk and all its elements: the vintage feel, the cogs and mechanical things, the edgy slightly out-of-the-normal run of things design. (There are some fab steampunk stuff in the store HERE!)

Well, I'm still trying to muster up the courage to dive into my new (read: December-bought) Tim Holtz goodies.

I mustered just enough to courage to cut up a piece of inked Tim Holtz patterned paper for this tag, added the Skull Royalty Tag image colored by decorating chalk and a gold marker, then complemented it with some fab images from this set HERE.


Here's to celebrating our individual styles and what makes us unique and special! Celebrate you!

*hugs*
Nina

Thursday Focus

Here it is another Thursday and another Thursday Focus, so what is the focus today you ask -- mmm, coffee, oh wait! That was last week!!! So, I guess you don't want me to do another week on that, so let's take a trip to the library for this week's focus!!!

And here's the stamp that is the focus for this week -- Library Card Stamp. This is a great stamp for cards and especially for scrapbooking (yes, think journaling!)




Check out these projects by Nina using the stamp!

Introducing Triple Tiara Tuesdays aka T3

Each one of us here at Queen Kat Designs would like to wish each and everyone of you special people out there a Happy, Blessed, Peaceful, and Fun New Year! We would like to thank you for sticking with us through the years and if you're new around here, welcome! We love seeing new faces! More people to inspire!

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For the New Year, we'd like to introduce Triple Tiara Tuesdays right here at the Official Queen Kat Designs Blog as well as the blogs of our very special Royal Court members.

Here's how it goes:

- Each week 3 Royal Court Members host a challenge on their blog. (the same challenge)

- 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 you to compete for each month. So if you enter each week, you have 4 chances to win the monthly prize of $25.

- You will post your link to your card on the Inlinkz widget here on the blog over on the right hand side. (There will be 1 per month.)

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Ready? Here's our first challenge for 2011!


In order to join the challenge, get inspired by this lovely sketch, make something, link it up here and do check out the lovely blogs of Shannon, Valerie and Gretchen for inspiration.

Looking forward to your beautiful creations!

Here's to another creative and awe-inspiring year! =)

Framed Dragon

Well here is another Art nouveau inspired painting. I love the swirly things. I love an excuse to add swirly things. You might have also notice a trend of mine to pair dragon flies up with dragons. And of course pairing a fancy golden frame with cutesy dragon also makes me giggle. A bit of silliness is often a motivator for me.