Monsters have invaded!

Ok so maybe they are just visiting. :) I'm speaking of Halloween monsters... These fun little stamps were designed by Nikki and I did the finishing touches on them. :) I hope you get a kick out of the cards I was able to make with them today. The stamp set will be released tomorrow over at Queen Kat Designs. It's our only Halloween theme set this year!This first card was made with the mummy in the set. I stamped him with a VERY metallic ink from CTMH that is now discontinued but I love!! and I highlighted it with gamsol and prisma pencil. It's really shiny in person. You can barely tell what it is in the next pic because of the reflection lol.
For the card above, I just pulled stuff from my stash and went to town. :) I actually used a piece of notbook paper from a REAL notebook I had. lol it's not a patterned paper. ooo not acid free... don't kill me k? :)To see the other cards I made today, please visit my gallery here. Blogger is not working for me today so I'm gonna stop here before I scrap this whole post. lol. Maybe it's mad cuz I don't care about acid or lignin free products. lol!! :) Happy Stamping

Mine..

Ok.. So as you know I set out to make my own charm bracelet last night.. Well, I made the charms.. then I made a bracelet.. but the color of beads I had did not match my charms so I have charms and I have a bracelet. lol. I'm going to have to go to the *gasp* store to buy beads.. Yeah... shopping? oh no.. what's a girl to do though? she needs beads! lol.

I don't want to keep Nikki waiting. She's been buggin me all day to see these so here's my charms Nik...

I think I used 1/2 of the QKD stamps I own on these things! It took me forever to pick the ones I wanted out of my stash let alone stamp, color, poke and shrink them. lol. I think it will look hella cute when it's all together in a bracelet. I used my Giga sized scalloped punches for the shapes and they are just adorable. My grannie came over today and ooogled them. :) Guess a gift may be in the works lol.

Have you shrunk today?

CHECK IT!!!

OMG.. K.. my friend Nikki, she totally ROCKS my world! She used all QKD stamps to make this bracelet...
She's my scrappy HERO right now. I can't even tell you how much this girl means to me. She's one of my bestest friends ever. Come check out her blog.. it's awesome. Ok.. I'm headed down to my studio to attempt to make one of these puppies for myself. :) Thanks for the inspiration Nikki.

QKD's on the look!

Queen Kat Designs is looking for some new Royal Stamping Maids.. Come and check out the details.

Design That Stamp Contest....

Want to be a guest stamp designer?
Love to draw or doodle?
Have a fresh and funky flair?

Then Queen Kat Designs is looking for you! We are holding a guest stamp designer call from Sept 12th-Sept 30th. Send us your hand drawn stamp ideas and if we love your style, we will manufacturer your design into one of the highest quality acrylic stamps on the market.

QKD is known for their funky flair and quality stamps and we want to invite you to join the Royal Court for the month of January. The winner(s)* will be a guest designer for the entire month, we will send you a free stamp set of your design, and you will be expected to create three papercraft samples with that set and upload them to the QKD gallery.

*We will choose more than one winner if your artwork stands out from the crowd.


Rules:
Please send the following information with your images: Full name, email address, title for your drawing(s) and a list of any design teams you are currently on.

You can send in as many sketches as you like but we ask that your images be no larger than 100K in file size. And they must be sent in 1 email. Do not send multiple emails throughout the month. Make your 1 email count.

Send all images to nikki@katstamps.com please have your name in the image name. Subject should read: Designers Contest Submission: (your name here)

Once you have submitted your art, please do not email us for the status of your submission. Emails will not be returned. If you question that we got your submission email it again. Do not submit more than 2 emails with the same art or your art will be discarded.

You can not currently be designing stamps for any stamp company.

You must complete your samples and upload them to the QKD gallery by a set date TBD.

All designs submitted must be your own original art work. Art work will not be accepted if it is under copyright of another artist.

Only hand drawn artwork will be accepted. No computer generated art.

All art must be emailed to Nikki by 12pm PST on September 30, 2008. Late entries will NOT be accepted.

We apologize but at this time this call is only open for U.S. residents.

Current QKD employees and Royal Court members are not eligible to enter.

Camping 08

Well I actually got out of the house Labor day weekend. :) My friend Jamie and her family invited me on their camping trip it was so much fun. here's some pics I was able to snap off...

This is a pic of my truck n old ass trailer from a little distance. We were coming back from a little walk one morning and I snapped it.

This QT is Savannah.. She's Jamie's middle DD.

This is Aspen.. She's Jamie's youngest DD and boy is she full of it. Jamie taught her to come up to me and say "You wanna piece of me?" I cracked up so hard I about fell outta the trailer.

this is my little buddy, Alyssa. She's Jamie's oldest DD


this is Jamie and Elijah.. Cutest big boy in the world!!It was sooooo dirty. I don't think Bubba has ever been this dirty.. in fact I KNOW he hasn't!! He is supposed to be BLACK.. LOL

Poor Lucky.. Stuck outside of Jamie's trailer... Jamie felt sorry for him and let him in.. dirt and stink and all!! I couldn't believe it.

Some Cards..

Here are some cards I've made in the past 2 weeks. The first one is a birthday card for my bff's husband. The others are peeks to the Sept. kit for Queen Kat Designs.

On the first and last cards, I used some Iridescent medium to add bling to the chipboard. It sure sparkles!! Have you made anything lately?

Winner!

I know I'm a bit late in posting this.. But we have a winner for the lift it challenge! :) Congrats to Nina. I'll have your prize sent right out. :)

Lift It Challenge...

Jules and I are the first to be posting challenges for the QKD birthday. She's already got hers up and this is mine for the week. You'll have a whole week and then sum to finish it and link your creation here. check it out...

Theme: Scrap lift it.. Well ok.. CARD lift it.

What to do: Visit the QKD Gallery here and find a card that you like. Using that card as a sketch, create your own rendition of the card. Use at least 1 stamp. Using QKD stamps will get you an extra prize if you should happen to win.

Link me to your card by 12 noon PST on August 9th winner will be announced on July 10th. Be sure your link it all in your comment. If I can't get to your card, it won't be entered into challenge.

The winner will receive a special birthday stamp set and an exclusive stamp set from Queen Kat Designs. Both of which have never been released in the store!

It's here!!

The 3rd Birthday is officially here! Queen Kat Designs has begun the party. Come and rock out with us here.

I will also be posting a challenge here on my newly pimped blog (thank you SJ) later 2day.. So make sure you stop back in and holla back. :)

Celebration!

It's a party over at the Queen Kat Designs Blog!! We are going to be celebrating all month long in August. There are prizes and tons of fun. The store will be hosting a sale all month and our August kits are already hot and on sale. Don't miss gettin yours... You'll need it for a challenge we're havin!! (u can use any of the qkd kits from Aug for that challenge). I'm first on the list to host a challenge for the first week. It'll start tomorrow. :) Check it!! Don't miss it... There's stamps for pete's sake! :)

August Kits in da hizouse!

Presenting the August Royal Kit...Pre-Order yours today.

Get Inked!The August kit is on pre-order now! These are the stamp sets for August! Pre-Order Yours now!

CHA is here @ QKD!

The new stamps just released a couple minutes ago. How exciting. We have 11 new stamps and sets. Here's some of the cards I was able to make with them... CLick the text to be taken to the store to score some new stamps!

So much for that!

Well guys.. I had every single last honest intention of leaving town this week! I SWEAR!!! I had the trailer and the dogs packed up and hitched up and running.... I went to close the garage door and it came off the spring! Yeah... so I figured with everything else that's gone wrong in the past 2 months I better stay home and camp in the driveway. So I called the garage door repair man and un hitched the trailer.

Marci and I have been in it for the past 2 days making cards. So I thought I'd share some with you here. :) I hope you like. Here's mine...

Here's some of Marci's. I've added a special album to the QKD Gallery for kids kreations. So if your child is using some QKD stamps.. Come and up load them. We love to see everyones work!

We're having a good time just hanging out. There have been a lot of bumps in the road the past couple days but we're getting over em. I hope you all have a great 4th of July!

In loving memory...

I got the word late last evening of a terrible tradgedy that struck 2 of my friends, Vern and Linda Stanley. They were on the way to visit his parents in Washington state, riding their new motorcycle when Vern lost control of the bike and was hit head on by an on-coming pick up truck. They were pronounced dead at the scene. Vern and Linda were the kindest, most whole hearted people I've met in a very long time. They would light up a room and Vern would give you the shirt off his back no questions asked. Married only a couple of years these two were meant to be together forever. Vern and Linda please know that we all love you and will miss your laughter and love that you gave so freely. Here's a little poem for you...

My Friend

My friend who I remember being the best
A friend in the good and bad
My friend who was always there
Even if he wasn’t really there
A friend who help me up when I was down
A friend I'm not a shamed of
My friend who no more I can see
A friend who already passed away
My friend who might not be here
But still present in my heart
My friend who I remember till the end
As my friend who was always there.
-gustavo saldana