Happy Easter!

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter!

 

Today Victoria & I are sharing a couple of Easter/Spring themed creation just to help you enjoy the break!

 

Victoria has used a new image from Lizzy Love - isn't she just so sweet & a perfect decoration for this Easter Basket!

 



 

I've made a page in my journal for this month of April using Sandra Caldwell's Spring Bunny Fairy.

 

 

 

Wishing you all a very safe & relaxing Easter break!

 

Sharon & Victoria

 

Spring Bunny!

Sharing a fun little spring bunny tag today for QKD.  

 

This image is a digi by Sandra Caldwell available at the store!
 

 

I love Sandra's designs - so cute & quirky!

 

Tag background is a mix of paint & inks & spritzes of water.

 

You can never have enough decorated tags - they always make great bookmarks!

 

Hope you are all enjoying the Easter break.

 

Sharon :)

Merry Christmas from Queen Kat Designs!!!

Vikki & the Design Team wish all of our customers and followers a 

Very Merry Christmas & Safe and Prosperous New Year!!

Because it's Christmas Day we have a special festive post for you to share some of our Christmas Creations using images from a range of talented Queen Kat Designs Artists.

You can find all the images at the Queen Kat Designs Store - so how about treating yourself!

Victoria using "Christmas Friends" by Sandra Caldwell.

Sandra always has such cute & quirky designs to create with.

Holley using "Minty" by Nikki Burnette.

A real sassy xmas nymph!

And Holley is also sharing cards using Sandra Caldwell's "Kitty Ornament" & "Snowman Ornament".

Sandra has a range of xmas "ornament" images - very cute!

Sharon using Jaz Higgins "Peppermint Princess".

Jaz has some great big eyed gal designs!

Sharon has created 2 cards using the image: 

one in non-traditional colours and the other using more traditional colours for xmas.

We hope you all have a wonderful day with family and friends!

We will continue to share our creations in 2014 so if you are not already a follower why not become one and keep up to date with new releases and inspiration!

Tutu cute!!!!

Hi Everyone

Today I am sharing a mini journal page using this gorgeous "Bearly a Ballerina" image from Sandra Caldwell - available at the QKD Store - she is so sweet!

As Copic Markers are my favourite colouring medium this cute little ballerina has been coloured with my markers - in pink of course - LOL!

Back ground was made using my little square ink pads in shades of pink direct to the page to make a chequered look. My little ink pads are soooo old that some of them just disintegrated when I used them but what a great way to use them up and then throw away - I guess it's also an excuse to buy some more!!

The ink didn't want to dry so I decided to cover the page with embossing powder and emboss - has a great shiny & shimmery effect. Then I glued the ballerina over the background added a ballet shoes die cut and stamped "dance" in the corner.

I love to create in my mini journal - a nice little size page (about the same size as an ATC) to play with!

Hope to see you all again next week!

Dare I say Boo?

Hey everyone, here's a fun stamp from one of my favorite artist's Queen Kat artist Sandra Caldwell. This bear is just TOO cute to spook, he's called Bearly My Mummy.  How adorable.  I am not sure if he was a dad who let his kids dress him up for Halloween or a  man who just ran out of wrap before he was done with his costume. At any rate, he's adorable.  Be sure and check out her newest stamps at the Queen Kat store.

Project materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill Swiss, Neenah, Bazzill); Image (Queen Kat); Die Cuts (Spellbinders Nestabilities); Twine (Doodlebug); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue all); Color (Copic Markers);

Mr. Snowman

Here's one more adorable Christmas theme stamp for this summer celebration of Christmas stamps from Queen Kat.  This adorable image comes from artist Sandra Caldwell.  I am showing this image in two different ways, one in a large format on it's own card.  He's so cute in his Santa hat and scarf.

 

Here, I made the image a little smaller, this is a feature that I appreciate about digital stamps, so I could use the snowman ornament to decorate my own little Christmas tree on this card below.  Isn't it adorable?

I hope this gives you some great ideas for some quick and adorable Christmas theme cards using these cute and adorable stamps from Sandra Caldwell.  Be sure and check out all her great images at Queen Kat.

Cheers, Holley

Merry Xmas

Can you believe it's nearly the end of July already? This year is flying past!

Today I have 2 cards to share made with the 2 new images I have been showcasing this month: Sandra Caldwell's Penguin Ornament & QKD Peppermint Cupcake both available at the store!

This Kraft & Black colour combo is one of my most favourite to create with and are perfect colours for "non-traditional" xmas cards - I like anything different!!!

As you can see images are printed onto Kraft card and fussy cut. I "decorated" the kraft backing with black paint and a credit card and the black card with white paint and sequin mesh. My die cut flower/leaves are Dienamics Brand and always look great & the Merry Xmas wording is EZ Cut. A funny story about the sticky mesh - I found it at my house after we had some renovation work done - some "tradie" is missing his Gyprock tape - I think it is the most wonderful stuff for adding texture and I use it all the time - amazing what you can create with!

See you next month!

Meow-y Christmas

Hello everyone!  here's another adorable Christmas theme card from Queen Kat stamps for July!  We are having our Summer Holiday special this year.  This is a cute image from artist Sandra Caldwell, he's an adorable Kitty Kat Ornament.  I made this cute card and added a fun Meow-y Christmas sentiment with him.  She's created several wonderful Christmas stamps that are available now at the Queen Kat store.

Drop by and check out all of Sandra's great digital images as well as her wonderful rubber stamps.  I know many of you start your Christmas cards this time of year.  Like you I know if I do just a handful of them every week, by the time December rolls around, I will already have a wonderful stash of beautiful handmade cards to give away!

Cheers, Holley

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!

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

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!

Where Is Goldilocks?

Here's a fun stamp from Queen Kat artist Sandra Caldwell called The Three Bears.....I know what I am thinking..."Where's Goldilocks?"  Yep, maybe Sandra Caldwell will create us a stamp of her.  But for now these three bears sure are cute.  I can already see them sitting on their three chairs, eating their three bowls of porridge and laying in their three beds.

Be sure and drop by the Queen Kat store to see Sandra's other fun stamp images.  She's got the cutest teddy bears along with some adorable people images and other delightful animals.  Now Queen Kat is also selling images in digi-format as well.

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill Swiss, AC, Neenah);  Stamp (Queen Kat); Ink (memento); Ribbon (Prima); Buttons (unknown); Adhesives (pop dots, Glue All, Glue Dots, Ribbon Glue); Color (Copic Markers);

The Three Bears

Here's the cutest new stamp from Queen Kat artist Sandra Caldwell called Three Bears.  Aren't they just adorable? I couldn't wait to color them up with Copic Markers.  Now Queen Kat is selling the images straight in digital format so you can get the image quickly and print it out immediately.  Also nice since you can size it as big as you like!

Be sure and check out the other Sandra Caldwell images at the Queen Kat store.  She does the cutest Americana style images just like these three bears.

Cheers, Holley

Little Old Fairy

Here's an adorable image from Queen Kat stamps artist Sandra Caldwell called Little Old Fairy.  Too Cute!  I had to give this little old lady some blue hair to match her little blue wings and put her on a blue card.  She may look harmless, but as you can see, she's Spirited and Strong!

Be sure and check out all of Sandra Caldwell's newest images at the Queen Kat store.  They are now selling images in both rubber stamp and digi-stamp format.

Little Old Fairy

Here's an adorable Little Old Fairy stamp from Queen Kat artist Sandra Caldwell.  Isn't she cute?  I just love her!  I added a cool ribbon/lace combo underneath her in a wavy form.  I also had to add a fun sentiment "Live, Laugh, Love."  At her age, I think she knows that is the way to live your life!!

I just love the Sandra Caldwell stamps at Queen Kat.  Be sure to check out her newly released images.

Cheers, Holley

Spring Chick

Here's the cutest Spring Chick!  This stamp comes from Queen Kat, designed by artist Sandra Caldwell.  I colored her up in pink and made her with a daisy hat and matching skirt.  Just too cute!  I love Sandra's stamps.  Be sure and check out all her designs over at the Queen Kat store.

I hope everyone is ready for Easter now that it is so close.  My local church has decided to have a petting zoo.  I am very curious exactly what that is going to entail right here in the city of Austin. I guess we will find out. 

Project Materials:  Cardstock (Bazzill, Neenah); Rubber Stamp (Queen Kat); Ink (Memento, Colorbox Chalk); Bling (Recollections, Jesse James); Flowers (Prima);  Die Cuts (Spellbinders Nestabilities); Adhesives (Pop dots, Glue All, Glue Dots); Color (Copic Markers);

Spring Chick

Here's a perfect spring card and a super cute Easter theme card.  This adorable image is called Spring Chick by Queen Kat artist Sandra Caldwell.  So cute!!  I just love her.  I colored up in yellow and made her floral hat match her flower and her skirt. 

I added a Colorbok vellum saying that is flocked with velvet "I'm here to be Different"  Just perfect for this cutie.  Be sure and check out all of Sandra Caldwell's images at the Queen Kat store. She's got a bunch of great spring time images and adorable Easter images too.

Cheers, Holley

Hoppity Who

Here's an awesome Queen Kat stamp from artist Sandra Caldwell called Hoppity Who?  This cutie is an owl who looks like he wants to be the easter bunny!  How adorable is that?  With March on the way, it's time to start making those Easter cards.  Here's the perfect stamp to do it.

Be sure and check out all of Sandra Caldwell's stamps when you drop by the Queen Kat store and you can also check out the stamps just for Easter which is just around the corner.

 

Cheers, Holley

Shamrock Sammie

Here's one of the newest stamps at Queen Kat.  It's just in time for St Patrick's day.  Designed by artist Sandra Caldwell, this image is called Shamrock Sammie.  Doesn't he look great with gold paper and gold embellishments?  I used warm grey and dark green copic markers to color him.

Be sure and check out all of the other wonderful stamps from artist Sandra Caldwell at Queen Kat. You can also go check out all the great St Patty's day stamps and get ready for March.

Have a wonderful week of stamping fun!!

Cheers, Holley

Hoppity Whooo?

Here's a Easter bunny? Easter who? or should I say Easter hoot?  Well, certainly Easter cute, that's for sure. It's an Easter owl, who wants to be your Easter bunny.  I had this adorable image from Queen Kat artist Sandra Caldwell called Hoppity Who.  I used some wonderful papers from Paper Temptress to create this fun card as Easter is just around the corner.

So, the little owl above wants to ask whoooo? is going to be your valentine?  Then run off to the Queen Kat store and check out the adorable Easter themed stamps, esp the cuties from Sandra Caldwell like Hoppity Who!

Cheers, Holley