Pink Pineapple Creations: September 2009

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

RKW- Altered Frame Blog Hop

Welcome to this edition of Royal Kat Wednesday. I'm so sorry I missed out the past 2 weeks. It's been super duper busy here at the QKD office and I haven't had any time to sit and make anything. :( But this week I pushed it all to the side and took Maria's challenge of making an altered frame. This post may get to be long but it's worth reading on if you'd like to know how I did it. :)

If you're just starting on the blog hop please make sure you hop back to the start and check out all the goodies to see.

I started with a plain white double frame I got from SEI and I painted it all over with my Fired Brick Crackle paint from Tim Holtz (I love this stuff) I let that dry for about an hour while I prepard a couple embellishments to add to the frame...

I used Cosmo Cricket Black Board/Chipboard letters for the B and L. I pierced 3 holes in the side and wrapped wire through them to make it look "laced". I added 3 clear rhinestones on each letter. Next I took some teal colored patterned paper (from who knows where) and I used some letter rub ons to spell Bubba and Lucky. I lightly sanded the back of 2 clear fragments from Tim Holtz and applied clear Accents to the back and stuck that on my paper over the words I made with the rub ons. I allowed that to dry for about 2 hours and cut it out with my exacto knife.

Once the Crackle paint was dry, I random stamped the Random Text background stamp from QKD onto the frame using red Stazon Ink. Next I took a mask from Tim Holtz and placed it along the edge of the frame and used my foam/handle from Inkessentials and sponged some Charcoal Chalk Ink over the mask. Using Black Stazon, I stamped random sentiments around the frame. I used the Friends Forever, you're my... and the Elegant Sayings stamp sets for the words.

Then using tombow as my choice adhesive, I applied the 4 gold photo corners on the frame. I stamped the Kings Crown in versamark and embossed in gold. then I painted the crown with Coal Shimmers paint and added rhinestones for bling. I used XL Zots to adhere the B,L and the two crowns to the frame. And I "stitched" the teal fragments on with wire. Added a picture of each of my boyz and viola! There you have it. Thanks for visiting.

Off to Maria's blog you go. Have a great hop!

Here's the list of the blogs on this hop...
QKD: http://qkd.blogspot.com
Shannon: http://shannonssentiments.blogspot.com
jules: http://julietds.blogspot.com
Penny: http://penny-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/
Tina: http://woodedviews.blogspot.com
Vicki: http://qksc.blogspot.com-- You're here
Maria: http://www.riacreations.blogspot.com/
Kelly: www.kellystamps.blogspot.com
KellyJean: http://dancingwithstamps.blogspot.com
WIS: http://whimsicalinksorority.blogspot.com
Bev (SG) http://getcreativesg.blogspot.com
Victoria: http://eatstampsleeprepeat.blogspot.com/
Lara: www.youwantthecookie.blogspot.com
Anessa: http://alienanessa.wordpress.com
Helene: http://2amscrapper.blogspot.com/
nina: http://creatinginsolitude.blogspot.com
Alex: http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Meredith: www.papercanteen.com
Linda: http://linda-scrap-atc.blogspot.com
Nancy: http://craftynancy.blogspot.com
Anita: http://happypapercrafthappenings.blogspot.com/
QKD: http://www.katstamps.com/store

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Royal hop

It's Wednesday again? Oh brother! This long weekend has kicked my butt, lol. I have a fun Fall card to share today. I used the new 2 Step Tree and the Friends Forever stamp set. OO.. and the new Elegant Swirls stamp set. I'm in LOVE with that set! I used it on my Whimsical Ink card for today as well.

I turned the sketch over and made a "Portrait" oriented card. For the tree, I stamped it in Chocolate Ink (CTMH) and then over stamped it in Palette New Canvas ink. I love that stuff!! It's an easy card to make and it will be just perfect for a friend of mine to let her know I'm thinking about her. :)

Have some more fun and hop over to Maria's blog. Until next time.

Total hop list:
QKD: http://qkd.blogspot.com
Shannon: http://shannonssentiments.blogspot.com
jules: http://julietds.blogspot.com
Penny: http://penny-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/
Tina: http://woodedviews.blogspot.com
Vicki: http://qksc.blogspot.com-- you're here
Maria: http://www.riacreations.blogspot.com/
Kelly: www.kellystamps.blogspot.com
KellyJean: http://dancingwithstamps.blogspot.com
WIS: http://whimsicalinksorority.blogspot.com
Bev (SG) http://getcreativesg.blogspot.com
Andrea: www.mystampingheaven.typepad.com
Victoria: http://eatstampsleeprepeat.blogspot.com/
Lara: www.youwantthecookie.blogspot.com
Anessa: http://alienanessa.wordpress.com
Helene: http://2amscrapper.blogspot.com/
nina: http://creatinginsolitude.blogspot.com
Alex: http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Meredith: www.papercanteen.com
Linda: http://linda-scrap-atc.blogspot.com
Nancy: http://craftynancy.blogspot.com
Anita: http://happypapercrafthappenings.blogspot.com/
QKD: http://www.katstamps.com/store

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Calling all Etsians

Hello everyone. I just wanted to pop in and say hi. And tell you about something that me and a couple friends have started. It's called Handmade Boutiques. Each month or... I should say the months with holidays.. We are hosting an online craft fair called a handmade boutique. We accept sellers from Etsy in various categories and we offer discounts and a drawing on each of our stores. It's for 4 days and a lot of fun. I think it'll be a great way to advertise your wares on Etsy! The first boutique is Oct 22-25th come sign up!

Have a nice day.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

I got published again!!

Yahooooo. I can't believe it! I got another magazine in the mail today. It's the Just Cards! Holidays! Special Issue. I'm on page 64. they must love my Halloween cards. That seems to be all they publish haha. I was so excited to see a white envelope from Scott Publishing I dropped the rest of the mail and ripped it open. lol.

ok enough of that.. :) I have another card to show you from the release yesterday at QKD. I used another one of Che's stamps. It's called Pirate Lolita. I love her! I think her parrot is so cute!!

I bought like 2 of the Rockstar Queen Mat stacks and 1 of the King mat stacks when they came out and I'm trying to use them up. so I used the paper on a lot of my samples for the release. :)

Here's a close up of the image and the painting. I used my professional Reeves Watercolors to paint her. I am even starting to mix my own colors. I'm having a lot of fun with them. I need more paint palettes. I've filled 3 already hehe. I hope you enjoy this card. It's super fun. The images are all on sale now for 30% off.

Have a great day!

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Woohoo! It's release day.

Happy September everyone. I hope your summer was a blast!! I worked all summer long. *bleh* but hey who can complain when you're makin stamps?? :)

This is the Royal Blog hop for QKD's September release. If you've come from Tina's Blog you're on the right track. If not, please hop over to the QKD blog and start over. There's lots and lots to see.