It's Winter Down Under

I know the majority of you are lapping up the sunshine but here in Australia it's Winter and cold - I would much rather be where the sun is but I will have to be patient LOL!

Today's creation is a mini journal page with Sandra Caldwell's Penguin Ornie image available at the QKD Store. My mini journal pages are approx 2 1/2 x 4 inches so are just little pieces of paper to work on but I can have some fun with painted backgrounds which is what I have done here. I used my fingers to apply several colours to the background, I used a credit card on the side to make the black lines and a bottle lid to make the black circles and used some of the sequin mesh stuff to sponge the dots on to try and look like snow?? The penguin image was printed on tissue paper and adhered to the page with Modge Podge and to finish off I added letters to spell "Winter".

Hope you like my little piece of art today!

Back same time next week!

Ocean Friends

Happy Wednesday everyone... Janie here to show you my latest creation. I was given the privilege this month to work with Maigan Lynn's Ocean Friends, and let me tell you this is one sweet image. I loved everything about it. It was a great pleasure coloring this image and I hope I did it justice.

I used my copics on this image . I also used Basic Grey's Lucille collection on this card I think it really brings out the image more. I added a little hanger to the card because I did not know what kind of card she would be so it leaves it's interpretation wide open.

 

 

 

As you can see I made her a red head I do love making red heads. Thanks

for stopping by today and allowing me to show you what I have created.

Make sure you stick around all week to see what the other ladies

have created and are going to show you                                         

 

Hugs

 

Janie

 

Beach Birthday Party

Some people think that when you live in Chicago, a beach party is impossible.  But Chicago lies on one of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan, and our beaches are elbow-to-elbow packed with families, jocks and swim bunnies.  So I had to come up with an appropriate package for my birthday present for an upcoming party at the beach.

For this project I used a Maigan Lynn digi image called Mermaid Braids.  I colored her with Copics and framed her with coordinating cardstock.  I have had a couple wooden boxes/containers in my craft room forever, so I grabbed one and Mod Podged some hound's tooth-patterned tissue paper to cover it.

After adhering Maigan's image onto the front, I had my way with the embellishments!  I'll be dropping a gift card to Bubba Gump's Restaurant into this handmade box.  I know she'll like it!

Check out all of the July releases from the Queen over at the Shop today!!  For more inspiration, check out our Facebook Fan Page.

And as always, keep crafting!!

Bundled Up

Here's a wonderful image from Queen Kat artist Kathy Cyr.  This cute image is called Bundled Up.  Queen Kat is having this Christmastime in Summer fun this month, showing many brand new Christmas theme stamps so that crafters who love to make their Christmas cards can get a jump on their holiday creations.  Isn't that clever?  This artist makes the most adorable images of this cute girl and her cat, called Francis Mary and Cornelius

Be sure and check out Kathy Cyr's other stamps in both rubber stamp and digi-stamp format at the Queen Kat store.  She has a bunch of adorable Francis Mary and Cornelius stamps that are too adorable, I own several of them, my fav is called "Hello" probably closely followed by the one where they are both dressed as Ballerinas!

A Sweet Cupcake

Hello again, stampers!  I have a card to share today that features the new Star Sweet Cupcake stamp.  It's such an adorable and versatile little image!

Since I used the digital stamp, I was able to size it up so that it was a bit bigger than the original.  I colored the stamp with Prismacolor pencils, and then added a fair amount of Stickles to make it shimmer.

I layered it up on some pretty pink papers and added some simple embellies for the sentiment(s).

I love images like this one, since a simple change in color will let it fit just about any occasion.  I'll be back with another card using this stamp later on this month, so I hope you'll come check it out.

That's all for me today.  Please be sure to get on over to the Queen Kat Designs store and check out all the great new stamps!

See you next week!
x Beth

Bundled Up Two Ways!

It's time to think about planning ahead for Christmas and those winter birthdays!  What odd advice for July!  I want to show you two cards that I made in two very different styles using the super cute bundled up girl and her cat digital stamp by Kathy Cyr.

The first card is a bundled up birthday card, perfect for those colder weather winter birthdays.  This card features a white card with embossed happy birthday folder on shimmery white paper.  I used water color pencils (General Brand - Kimberly)  to "color" the stamp, then I made the painted look using a very fine tip brush.  With just a little patience and time you can have the look of a water color painting.  I think she has a really sweet soft look.  Rather than leaving her on the card stock she was printed on, I fussy cut around her and mounted the cut out stamp with dimensional tape.  I also used a make a wish rub on on white card stock and some pink twirly twine.

This second card looks very different!  It is Christmas in July!

The card features background patterned papers from Jillibean Soup mounted on a white card.  For the coloring on this digital stamp I used Sakura Gel pens and my Crayola colored pencils.  The sentiment was printed on white card stock and the edges inked.  I'm proud to say that I have one Christmas Card created!

Thanks for stopping by!

~ Victoria

Christmas in July

Happy Friday everyone.  Emily here to showcase a really cute stamp by Kathy Cyr.  I love this image.  It's so sweet.

I used a new medium this time..Soft Pastels.  They worked really well for blending and shading, but just not so well on an intriquite image like this.  I used my Sakura Glitter pens to add some sparkle and shine to the card.  The CS is Colorbok and the DP is The Paper Studio.  The sentiment and little holly stickers were from my stash.   I hope that you guys enjoyed your eye candy for today.  Take a look in the store and see what new and beautiful images we have there.  Have a great weekend!

Yum - A Peppermint Cupcake!

Today's creation will make your mouth water - well it does mine - I love all things sweet!!

This new digi is available at the Queen Kat Designs Store and is perfect for any occasion - I've coloured the image in reds & added a red bow to make it a more xmas themed card but it would make a great birthday image too! I haven't added a sentiment yet but will do that when I decide if it will be for xmas or another occasion!!

The technique I have used here is the "Triple Stamping Technique" - you can find instructions at Splitcoast Stampers - actually designed for rubber stamps but if you are patient and fiddle around you can put your layers through the printer and use digi images too.

This is really a great technique - adds layers & dimension and looks effective!

I'll "see" you again next week!

We Wish You A Merry Christmas.........................

We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;
Good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

Oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding;
Oh, bring us a figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer
We won't go until we get some;
We won't go until we get some;
We won't go until we get some, so bring some out here

We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas;
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.


Happy Wednesday everyone as you can see it's that time of year again.. Yep You guessed it Christmas ............. In July of course..... I couldn't resist the Christmas carol

Today I am going to show you a cute image called Frances Mary Christmas II by Kathy Cyr. She is so darling and I love her little cat as well. Especially his festive socks.

I used a combination of copics and pencil crayons on the image it was definitely fun to work with. So without further ado here she is...

Aren't those kitty socks darling hehehe. Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a fantastic week

Hugs

Janie

Maigan Lynn Offers a New Mermaid this Month

I am just loving the new July releases from Queen Kat Designs.  Here's another one I got to play with and want to show off.  It is called Mermaid Braids by the very talented Maigan Lynn.

I made a mixed media card using patterned papers, lace, ribbon, wired jewels and Stickles.  I colored my mermaid with Copics and placed her in a tropical setting using those patterned papers.  I adhered her with dimensional tape.

The wired jewels came off a frame or basket (that was butt ugly).  Its only saving grace was the wired jewels, which I of course threw into my crafting stash, throwing away the basket (frame?).

Maigan is one of the many artists at QKD whose images I love to play with.  And this one is a new DIGI!!  Digi's are very versatile, because you can print oin any type of paper, resize the image and even flip it to face the other way.

Go check out the Facebook page for loads of inspiration this month using the new releases!! Our design team, which we refer to as the Royal Stamping Maidens, has been super busy showing off their creativity.

Where's Santa Claws?

Queen Kat is having her Summer Time Christmas Celebration and here's an adorable Christmas ornament image from one of my favorite artists, Sandra Caldwell. Don't you love this adorable Kitty Kat ornament?  It's a brand new image that will be released this month at Queen Kat. Too Cute.  She's going to have a couple of other adorable Christmas themed images come out.

Be sure and check out all the new Christmas images from Sandra at the Queen Kat store this month.  Now is a good time for those of you who love to make your own Christmas cards, you can just do a handful of them per week, and by the time November is here...you're already done!

Cheers, Holley

Make Bubbles With Me

Hi, everyone!  I've been away for a month, and it feels like it's been forever!  So I'm happy to be here with a card to share that I made using the Under the Sea set by Vikki Douglas.  Let's get right to it!

The set includes some cute fish and aquatic plants as well as some related sentiments.  I've decided that all of the jellyfish are named Squishy, obviously.

I colored the stamps with Prismacolor pencils (and added some Stickles here and there to make them sparkle a bit), cut them out, and adhered them to the front of the card.  

Along the bottom or the card, I used some ribbon from May Arts that has a texture similar to a natural sponge (or at least it does to me).  Once everything was glued down, I took a 12-inch border strip of adhesive pearls and snipped it into several smaller pieces of varying length.  I did a little bit of bending of each of the (originally) straight strips of pearls while I stuck them down so that they would "wave" here and there to make my bubbles.

That's it for me for today.  Thanks so much for stopping by!  Be sure to go check out the new stamps over at the QKD Store!

I'll see you next Sunday!
x Beth

Ocean Friends Tag and Sneak Peek!

Here is a sneak peek at the Ocean Friends digital stamp by Maigan Lynn.  This month, I will have three separate projects to show you using this fun fresh, summertime stamp!

I loved making this cute tag.  The supplies I used included; a black heavy card tag, double sided tape, green tinsel glitter, Sakura Gel Pens, skeleton leaves in ivory and Mudd Puddles in Cabana Beach.  There are so many ways to color this stamp.  For this image, I used gel pens.  I accented the tiny bubbles with waterfall glitter glue.  As you will see from my samples later in the month, I had a hard time figuring out exactly what the best look was for this lovely lady.  I trimmed the colored stamp and mounted it on the tag.  The glitter was added by using a 1//2 inch width double sided tape and applying the green tinsel glitter.  I added the leaves using a liquid adhesive and then frosted a thin line of Cabana Beach Mudd Puddles.  I love all of the texture here.

Hope you enjoy the quick peek at this lovely lady and her friends.  Check back later this month on Saturdays for more examples using this great digital stamp.

~ Victoria

Finally Friday with Sandra Caldwell

Hi there.  Emily here with a card to showcase a new digi image by Sandra Caldwell.  It's been quite a while since I have posted.  I am so glad to be back in the groove.  For my card, I used Sandra's new image, Bear Ornie.  

When you purchase this image, you will get one bear.  I sized the image and then copied it to make the "swag".  The image is colored with colored pencils and OMS.  I inked all the edges of the image and sentiment.  Using Recollections Bright and Jolly collection, I trimmed and matted the background.  The sentiment is an oldie from my stash.  I think this little Christmas card turned out rather well and my cousin in VA is just going to love this off the wall card.

I hope you enjoyed my card and please take the time to stop in the store and see what fabulous new images our Queen has for y'all.  Enjoy your day!

A Wintery Penguin Gift Bag

Happy 4th of July to those of you who celebrate - of course being "Down Under" here in Australia we don't celebrate the day but we certainly know what it is & we wish you all a great celebratory day!

My creation today has blue & white - I'm just missing the red!

I am sharing a brand new image from Sandra Caldwell - "Penguin Ornie" - so cute & ready for Xmas!

I've decorated a plain white gift bag with some wintery coloured and patterned papers from Gecko Galz which are just perfect for the way I coloured the Penguin in soft greys, blues & yellow. I added a ribbon and matching tag to the handle and some glittery snowflakes to finish it off.

These bags are so easy to create & make your gift giving that bit more special - I hunt around in the cheap shops for bags and printing your own patterned paper from digital files keeps the cost down too!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week & I will have another Xmas in July creation for you next week!

Happy Birthday.......

Happy Wednesday everyone Janie here today to share with you my version of a birthday card. I made this card for one of the residents at the facility I am doing my school placement at and she loved it.

Today I am showing you Ocean Friends by the beautiful multi talented Maigan Lynn. I heart Maigan's style and images so much she is such an awesome artist. She puts so much love in all her paintings. I should know I own one.. :)

I used Echo Park's For The Record 2 line on this project and I also used Prima roses and some twine to really make the card pop.

I also used copics and pencil crayons on the image I think it came out fairly well what do you all think?

I hope you enjoy my card today and don't forget to stop by everyday and see what the other members of our design team have to show you. Until next Wednesday have a great week

Hugs

Janie

Make a Wish with a Sneak Peek at July Releases

Tomorrow the Queen releases new images, but I wanted to give you a sneak peek of one of them.

The digi image is called "Swirl Deer" and due to its fabulous antlers, I decided to use it for a birthday card.

My card showcases the image with patterned paper, fiber, a ribbon bow, inked edges and an embellishment I found on clearance in the wedding aisle of Hobby Lobby.

I like to cruise through Hobby Lobby without a specific item in mind, so that I am open to discovery.  Most times when I have an objective in mind, like replacing my adhesive, or a certain color of card stock, I miss out on little surprises.

That's why I also like to cruise through the rubber stamps and digi images at the QKD store.  If I keep myself open to surprises I find an image that I might have missed previously, and fall in love with it!

Whatever your "plan of attack" is when it comes to craft shopping, I hope you find something that inspires you.  Speaking of inspiration, check out the QKD Facebook page!!

It's time for Christmas!

Well, perhaps we are not really having any Christmas time weather here in summer, but we can be making our Christmas theme cards now.  Queen Kat is releasing a bunch of new Christmas theme stamps this month including this adorable image from artist Kathy Cyr.  It's part of the Francis and Mary collection and is called Bundled up.  It will be released in early July.

I know lots of stampers who make it their goal to create a handful of Christmas cards every month so that when the holidays get here and they are so busy, they already have a wonderful selection of cards to give out.  What a nice idea.  Drop by the Queen Kat store and check out this month's release of brand new Christmas theme stamps.  I have a bunch of new cards to share too.

Sugar Skull Card Reprised!

Did you know that there are several sugar skull stamps both digital and unmounted available in the Queen Kat Designs store?  This card was created using the Day of the Dead Girl digital stamp.  I love the was this stamp colors up.  I used Sakura gel pens which gave a really neat "slick" look to this image.  Don't you love the head band, the skulls in her hair and the bird in her hair??  This is a larger card 5 inches by 7 inches made on dark blue card stock.  The image was printed on heavy watercolor paper and colored.  I inked the edges with Prima Dark Bark chalk ink and added the "Hi" sentiment which I outlined with a gel pen.  This card could easily turn in to a framed piece of art by the recipient.  What a great way to just brighten someone's day.  If you love the look of skulls and especially the hispanic sugar skulls, be sure to check out the variety of stamps available in the store!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

~ Victoria

Bryn & Tup "Happy" Card!

Today I am sharing a Steampunk themed card using "Bryn & Tup" from Maigan Lynn - available at the QKD Store!

Image has been coloured with Copic Markers, background is a digital paper and these have both had the edges roughed up with a distressing tool.

I coloured some gear/cog die cuts with various coloured inks, and glued them down the side of the card. I think the little steampunk style charm finishes it off!

The little "Happy" die cut was also coloured with various inks and stuck to the bottom to fill the gap.

I like the effect of black base cards and for mounting the main image - I tend to use black a lot these days - always has a great effect.

Wishing everyone a great week!

And make sure you keep checking in here each day for more amazing DT creations with Queen Kat Designs!

Ooh La La

Happy Wednesday everyone. Janie here with you today to share one of my favorite images by Terrell Dorfeo. Today I am sharing Naughty Nurse and Boy is she naughty :).

I chose to have her with jet black hair and I think it made the image pop more. I used my Carta Bella Paris Girl Paper for this card and I also doodled with a white gel pen I think this card turned out stunning.

When I was creating this card the song that kept running through my head was Britney Spears Ooh La La so hence the name of the card and the paper I chose.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for letting me share her with you today and I hope you have an awesome week

Hugs....................................................................................

Janie

 

Here is the lyrics for the song that inspired this piece enjoy....

 

 

You don't have to look like a movie star
Ooh I think you're good just the way you are
Tell me if you could would you up and run away with me?

You don't have to roll like a millionaire
Baby I would go with you anywhere
We don't need no gold, we'll be shining anyway, we'll see

You know can nobody get down like us
We don't f-ck 'till we get enough
C'mon, turn it up 'till the speakers pop
Break it down, show me what you've got

Ooh my my baby don't be shy
I see that spark flashing in your eye
My heart beats fast 'cause I want it all
So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

Take my hand, we can go all night
And spin me round just the way I like
It feels so good, I don't wanna stop
So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

You don't have to wear no designer clothes
Just as long as we're dancing on the floor
Fingers in my hair and I'm letting go tonight, so free

You know can nobody get down like us
We don't f-ck 'till we get enough
C'mon, turn it up 'till the speakers pop
Break it down, show me what you've got

Ooh my my baby don't be shy
I see that spark flashing in your eye
My heart beats fast 'cause I want it all
So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

Take my hand, we can go all night
And spin me round just the way I like
It feels so good, I don't wanna stop
So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

[Break]

Ooh my my baby don't be shy
I see that spark flashing in your eye

Ooh my my baby don't be shy
I see that spark flashing in your eye
My heart beats fast 'cause I want it all
So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

Take my hand, we can go all night
And spin me round just the way I like
It feels so good, I don't wanna stop
So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

I Love Silhouette Images

Do you know why I love QKD silhouette images?  Because when I have some absolutely gorgeous patterned paper that is way too busy to showcase a stamped image, you can still use it to make a card.  All you need is a stamped silhouette image in a coordinating color to make it pop on the card front.

Because I'm piling up a few cards for operation Write Home, I'm leaving this one CAS, but if I weren't, I could still use some inking and jewels and ribbon without my image getting lost in the scene.

I did use the same image and stamped the inside again, in red this time.  Just to bring the theme inside the card as well.

I have three cards finished for the Troops, but will probably make a few more before sending out to my contact.  If you're interested in joining this worthwhile cause, check out www.operationwritehome.org for specifics.

Enabling Alert!!  The QKD Store has been revamped and to celebrate its makeover, there are loads of sales going on--no coupon or discount code needed!!  Choose your favorites that you've been craving to buy, or pick a new image the just now catches your eye.  Either way, it's the perfect time to add on to your QKD collection!

And remember, have fun in your crafting!!

Fairy Blossom

Here's a gorgeous image from Queen Kat called Fairy Blossom from artist Joanna Bromley.  I uses pinks on her wings and yellow flowers and then took those colors and created the entire card using the combination.  Isn't she beautiful?

Check out Joanna's other images, beautiful fairies, maidens and other animals. 

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah, DCWV);  Image (Queen Kat); Ink (Colorbox, Memento); Flowers (Prima, Hobby Lobby); Bling (Michaels, Sticko); Butterflies (K&Co, unknown); Brads (Imaginescense); Die Cut (Lifestyles--Quickkutz); Color (Copic markers); Adhesives (Popdots, Glue All, Glue dots);

Grandma's Quilt Altered Canvas and Beyond!

Todays post is a canvas that started out as a 4 inch x 4 inch square and morphed into something a bit larger!

I love the idea of art on small canvases. The only thing I had in mind with this piece when I started was a quilt square. I painted the canvas with Ocean Reef Blue Acrylic Paint and let it dry. I added Gesso over the blue paint to give a "white washed" or soft fabric look. I created the "fabric" hexagons using a Fiskar Hexagon punch and a single piece of Crate Paper Little Bo Peep Adelaide paper. I inked the edges of the hexagons with Prima Dark Bark Chalk Ink. They were then adhered to the canvas in the "quilt block" pattern. The stitching was added with a Sakura Gel Pen. Then the fun began!

What to add to the "quilt block collage"? I found some lace, tulle, vintage buttons on a card (41 cents - can you believe it), a Raggedy Anne doll, and a super cute digital stamp from Queen Kat called "four eyed flower", which I colored with the Sakura Gel Pens. I also tossed in a vintage stamp and a Craft Bingo card. Add some adhesive and you get a bigger than 4 x 4 inch canvas with a little vintage personality. You can click on the links in this paragraph and be instantly transported to the store to get the super cute digital stamp! 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Victoria

Wonderful Nixie Girl

Today I am sharing a card using a great Nora Blansett digi available from Queen Kat Designs - Nixie Girl - She really is so beautiful & peaceful - I think that's why I love this image so much - makes me feel peaceful & calm - LOL!

Image is coloured with Copic Markers and fussy cut - I love to fussy cut images - I'm not keen on white space which is probably why I struggle with CAS style cards!! I love the soft greens & earthy tones of the patterned paper & little flags. I added some rubs ons to the cream coloured card strip and to finish off some matching fibre & ribbon & little key charm at the spine!

I hope you are all having a great week and I shall be back next week to share another creation with you!

A Fairy Good Day To You

My card today features "Forest Night" by Terra Bidlespacher.

After coloring my image, I tore it and inked the edges with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink. After framing it with patterned paper, I found a distressed tag in my stash of leftover supplies and used it to open up the frame, also using some torn pink card stock and coordinating striped patterned paper.

The stripes looked too intense, so I toned it down with some webbing, and then I "had my way" with embellishments. I finished off my card by inking one edge with gold pigment ink, then rubbing in some Aztec Gold Pearl Ex pigments.

I love the fairies that Terra creates, like this one, don't you? Check them all out at the QKD Shop!!  And for inspiration, check out QKD on Facebook:

Patchwork Spring

Here's a gorgeous summer flower stamp from Queen Kat artist Vikki Douglas.  This flower is part of the stamp set called Patchwork Spring.  It contains two flowers, a butterfly, and a dragonfly.  I colored this flower up for summer time, using bright yellows on a sunny orange background.  I am using some mesh background and gorgeous lace from Turkey.

Hope you are feeling the sun now.  Have a summer day!

Project materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah); Stamps (Queen Kat); Diecuts (Spellbinders Nestabilities); Ink (Memento, Colorbox Chalk); Mesh (Hobby Lobby); Lace (Istanbul, Turkiye); Adhesives (Pop Dots, Glue All, Ribbon Glue); Color (Copic Markers);

You're the Best Card

Just stopping by to show a fun digital stamp called Angels Wings.

To color this beautiful lady, I printed the digital stamp on watercolor paper to add some texture.
I used my trusty Crayola Colored pencils to color the entire image.  Then came the fun of adding glitter with glitter glue.  (I used three colors; two on the clouds and one on the wings).  One reason I love digital stamps, is you can add your sentiment digitally, before printing!  In this case I used a Dakota Handwriting font to add the sentiment.  I printed it in light grey and then wrote over it using a gel pen.  Super easy!  You could easily just use the color of your choice when printing.

Have a fabulous weekend!  Thanks for stopping by!

~ Victoria

I'd Like to be Under the Sea....

June 13th 2013

Hi Everyone

I'm Sharon and this is my first post as a new member of the QKD Design Team.

I live "Down Under" in Australia and I'm normally a day ahead of everyone else and awake when everyone else is asleep LOL!

I've been crafting and card making for a very long time - I love all sorts of crafts and although I am predominantly a card maker I love to make Journal Pages, Altered Art, ATC's, Fabric Creations & whatever else takes my fancy at the time I am creating!

I look forward to sharing my QKD Creations with you!

Today I am sharing a new Journal Page I have created with one of Maigan Lynn's wonderful digi designs "Mad Fancy". This gorgeous mermaid has been coloured with Copic Markers (my favourite colouring medium). The Journal Page has been sprayed with 3 shades of green "Fireworks" Ink Sprays & sponged with co-ordinating inks. I also used a Dylusions stencil with Turquoise paint & added some sparkly gems, muslin fabric, mesh sticky stuff and stamped wording from The Beatles Octopus's Garden Song!

I hope I have provided you with some inspiration for the day.

I will be back next week with another creation to share!

License Number for Morgan Lynn Designs: ML4775-Rogers

You Are My Happy

Happy  Wednesday everyone today I amgoing toshareafavorite ofmine that I made a whileago and Ilove howeverything came together for it. Today I am sharing Nami and Kijira by Maigan Lynn. I just love this image you can see how in harmony these to friends are.

For this card I used Echo Park's For The Record II I love this lineand it's versatility. It justenhances the image so much.

Such a stunningly sweet image don't you agree. Thanksfor stoppoing by today and have a great week

Hugs

Janie

Say Goodbye to Spring and Hello to Summer

Well, today was a good day to explore mixed media showcasing a QKD set of digi images from Queen Kat herself!  The set is called Patchwork Spring and is available in the QKD Shoppe!

I used a manila folder cut to 6x6 for my base, adding a piece of patterned paper.   Next I Mod Podged a square of a tie-dye patterned designer napkin, adding some ink to distress it, as well as  the "shadow" cut of a peacock.
After printing the digi set on several pieces of patterned paper, I paper-pieced each flower, adhered it to my "garden" and added stems and leaves.  Same with the butterfly and dragonfly!
I added to the over-all effect with black and white gel pens, pulling out the "bones" of each image, and the highlighting them.  I wish you could touch my card--it certainly has a different "feel" to it!
Have you discovered a technique you want to try?  Did you "pin" something you want to explore?  Now's the time to "get 'er done", and a QKD digi like this set would be a perfect starting point for you!!
Happy crafting!

My Best Friend

Here's one of my favorites in the Queen Kat store, it's a Creepie Cutie from artist Kristie Silva.  This image is called Midnight Dreary.  I totally love her whole stamp line.  Those little skull barrettes and skull on her tshirt...perfect with the skull border that I added.

Hope you are having a great time now that Summer is in full swing.  The schools just ended here in TX, as most kids went to school through last week.  I imagine it will be a much different week now that all the kids are off. Hope you all get some Summertime Stamping done.

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah, DCWV); Stamp (Queen Kat); Ink (Memento);  Punch (Martha Stewart); Saying (Cosmo Crickett); Buttons (American Traditionals);  Twine (Doodlebug);  DieCut (Nellie Snellen); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue all, Glue dots);

Introducing Myself and Canal Avenue Digital Stamp

Happy Saturday!  Allow me to take a moment to introduce myself.  My name is Victoria Warren-Mears and I am one of the new additions to the Queen Kat Design team.  Some of you may know me as VAWM on scrapbook.com.  I have been paper crafting for a really long time.  My first "scrapbook" was from an Arizona trip in fifth grade.  Things went by the wayside after college, but when my 12 year old was two, I got back into it again.  So here we are 10 years later and I am thrilled to be on the Queen Kat Design team.

I want to show you a quick to make card using Vikki's digital stamp Canal Avenue.  I love the funky little buildings and all the details!

I don't know which of the many Canal Avenue's she had in mind but it reminds me a little of New Orleans.  I colored the stamp using three different products:  Faber-Castell Metallic Colored Eco-Pencils, Crayola (yes, Crayola - I am frugal too) Colored Pencils, and Sakura Glaze Collection pens.

I printed the design at a 4 to a page size on 8 1/2 x 11 card stock, colored the image and then mounted it on dimensional tape on the patterned paper, which is from My Mind's Eye.  For a little fun I stapled the striped strip to the card.  I don't even have a special crafting stapler, I use a standard office swing line stapler!

This stamp is super fun and really reasonably priced!  You can't go wrong!

Have a wonderful week!

~ Victoria

Setting a Scene with QKD Stamps

I have been buying up several background stamps for the last year, and today I wanted to show you what you can do with them, besides using one as a standard background for a card or a tag.

For this Tim Holtz inspired tag, I used the following QKD stamps:
Just Batty background and Skulls background, along with the Chinese Temple, Briggitte, and Street Lamp stamps.

The base is covered with book page patterned paper, then distressed it with Tim's inks.  I stamped the Chinese Temple on the left in black ink. I used the Just Batty background stamp on cardstock, ink-distressed it, and tore the inside edge to blend into my scene.  After adhering it, I stamped more bats to give it some height.

The next layer is the Skulls background, which I distressed then used pop dots to give it dimension.  I made the top layer using the street ;amp and Briggitte stamps (she's colored with Copics).

Embellishments include washi tape around the edges, some fun, tiny "dingle balls" trim on the bottom, purple feathers and metal stars, and a cool epoxy pebble.

If I had to use a sentiment on this tag, I think it would be something like:
"Friends don't let friends walk home alone on a street paved with skulls" or some such nonsense! LOL

Anyway, what are your favorite QKD stamp combinations?  

Patchwork Spring

Here's a flower set from Queen Kat stamps artist Vikki Douglas called Patchwork Spring.  This set comes with all four image shown above in this card.  Beautiful flowers, butterfly, and dragonfly.  I added a simple sentiment from Cosmo Crickett that says "Have peace in your heart."

This image set is available both in rubber stamp form as well at digi form.  Drop by the store to see all the stamps from artist and Queen Vikki Douglas.

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah); Stamps (Queen Kat); Punch(Martha Stewart); Saying (Cosmo Crickett); Color (Copic markers); Adhesives (Glue All, Glue Dots);