Welcome to release day!

It's October again... :) This month has grown on me.. I used to not like October but now as I age I have grown to like it. :) Dunno why. Probably because it's getting cool but not freezing I'm not good with heat or freezing.

ok so.. today is the release day for Queen Kat Designs. We have a total of 30 new releases this month!!! WOAH!!! I just now counted them up. Geesh let me pick myself up off the floor.....

Ok I'm good. lol.. I have lots and lots to show you all in 1 blog post! I am revealing 4 new alphabet stamp sets to you today and the 2nd bundle deal from QKD! How exciting??? So lets get this party started... The 2nd bundle of the day is.. Creative Kidz by Che Gilson. You will get all 4 of these awesome stamps for $19.55. That's over 30% off!!

Now for my release day cards.. I will share 4 of them with you here. This first one is my favorite. I used Tim Holtz masks, distress ink and Queen Kat Designs stamps!! Oh how they work so well together.. Stamps are Boxed Background, Harliquin Background and Jester Alphabet.

This next card was fun to make. I got to get out my glitter and glue. I used the new Cupcake Twins stamp set, Jester Alphabet and Offbeat Alphabet stamps from QKD.

My next card was so easy and fun to make. I used the Harvest stamp set and the new Cracked Alphabet stamp set. I drug out my trusty ol' gold metallic ink pad and went to town.

and last but not least... I made a recipe book! It's going to be for sale in my Etsy store soon. :) I used the new All Curled Up alphabet for this book. It's fun and funky. I can't wait to play some more with the new stamps.

Ok, so you've seen what I have for you, lets see what Maria has in store.... Thanks for coming. :)

Check out these sales at the store.
27% off of all QKD stamps (excludes separates and customs)
15-20% off of all Past Kits (royal, get inked!, The findings and Take 3)
10% off of all paper packs
55% off of all clearance
10% off of all acrylic blocks
10% off of all grab bags
20% off of the scrapbooking kit section (does not include royal kits)

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

Who are you thinking about?

hey everyone. QKD is celebrating this month. We are bringing memories back and sharing our stories and loved ones.. What the heck am I talking about?? well you'll have to come click here.

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

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

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.

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!

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.
I'm "releasing" the new Cabaret Fairy. She's sooooooo cute and so fun to paint and color. This is one of our new stamps by Che our new stamp designer. I used the original coloring that Che did on her fairy to complete this painting. I'm going to send this as a Halloween card. Watch your mailbox!! It may just come to you!

Thanks again for coming. Make sure you go and pick up some QKD stamps. They are all 30% off from now through Labor Day, Sept 7th. On to Ms. Maria's blog for some scrappy inspiration!!

If you get lost please come back here and find your way...
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

Royal Day at the Castle!

Hey all. Welcome to another edition of Royal Kat Wednesday. I want to start off by thanking Maria for planning all of these blog hops we do each week. She does a fantastic job! So, thank you!!!

If you've come from Tina's Blog, you're on the right track, if not please zoom back to the QKD blog and start the hop over. There's lots to see.

Today I came up with a wide but short card. It fits into a business size envelope. Very fun. I love making things that are different sizes. :) In fact the card you'll see at the Whimsical Ink sorority today is a different size too.
I used the newish stamp set called Seals from QKD for this card. I hadn't used my set yet and have been itching to break it out. I random stamped the "teal" color with the separate "flowers" in the set and stamped the seals on white and matted with velvet cardstock. It's a fun card. I can't wait to mail it off. :)

Thanks for coming today. Now it's on to Maria's blog. Have a great day!

QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
Penny's blog
Tina's blog
Vicki's blog-- You're here!
Maria's blog
Kelly's blog
Kelly Jean's blog
WIS blog
Andrea's blog
Victoria's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Helene's blog
Alex's blog
Nina's blog
The Store

It's a Royal Day...

It's Royal Kat Wednesday.. If you've come from Tina's blog you're hoppin along on the right track. If not, please jump back to the QKD blog and start over. There's lots you've missed.

Today Maria challenged us with Pink and Teal. So here's my best attempt...
I used the new Sea Shell from our Fantasy line along with a saying from the Live, Dream, Believe stamp set. I second generation stamped the faint hibiscus flowers over the saying just to tone down the stark white of that cardstock. For the shell, I stamped it twice and colored one of them, cut it out and pop dotted it to the card.. Then I colored 2 flowers on the other shell, cut them out and pop dotted them to the top of the other shell. :) Clear as mud right? it's fun to highlight just pieces of a stamped image like that. You should try it! :)

Off to Maria's blog you go... Have a great day! Thanks for hopping with us.

If you get lost along the trail, just stop back here and get back on track.
QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
Penny's blog
Tina's blog
Vicki's blog--You're here
Maria's blog
Kelly's blog
Kelly Jean's blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Andrea's blog
Victoria's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Helene's blog
Alex's blog
The Store

Look what I made!

Hi everyone. Just a quicky before I head off to the pillow for the night. :) The Findings Kit was jut released over at Queen Kat Designs. I want to show you all what I made with the kit. There's lots and lots more that I've done with this one kit. so make sure you click the link at the bottom of this post to go see it all.

This is a covered journal that I made. I'm saving it for a special Christmas gift. :) I can't tell you all the steps I took to make this puppy. It's got at least 5 different distress inks, Extra thick embossing powder, mod podge, hot glue, monopoly houses, dictionary pages, pin wheels, Monopoly board pieces, puzzle pieces and more on it! This thing is HEAVY!! It's a great paper weight. :)Life's a game play it! Ain't that the truth?? If you don't play it, it'll play you! I love this card. The purple is so vibrant. I had some old note cards I'd purchased from Staples at 0.25 a box for like 15 cards back in like 2003. LOL. They have the pretty embossed rectangles that you see on here.. I need to figure out how to do that because once I run out of the 4 boxes I bought for $1.00 I'm sure to want more! :)Oh boy, what didn't I use on this card? lol it's full of fun vintage finds from the kit. I had a blast making this card. I used a sketch from the QKD gallery to complete it if only I could remember which one. :) (hey, it's 1am I'm entitled to a bit of memory lapse.)
So.. can you guess what this card is hinting for you to do? LOL! I totally did NOT plan this at all. Read the 3 highlighted areas that are matted with blue. The first person to tell me what it means (correctly) gets the card. :)

Thanks for coming. I hope you'll get a Findings kit of your own. Click here to see the rest of what I came up with.

Royal Wednesday!

Welcome to this weeks edition of Royal Kat Wednesday. I'm happy you came. If you're here from Tina's Blog you're on the right track. :) If you're here out of the kindness of your heart, thanks! But you're missing some fun! Track back to the QKD blog and start the hop over again. There's lots of fun in store for you.

Today I'm sharing a card I made using the new Vintage Time background stamp with the new Random Text Background stamp.
I used some patterned paper that I bought off of a friend on Etsy. I have no idea who's it is! It's gorgeous!! The green with the vines is flocked. How fun is that? The only cardstock I used on this is the brown for matting. I stamped on some of the patterned paper even. It gives a more 3-d look. Check out the new stamps that we added last week. There's lots to choose from and they are all 20% off right now!

Have an awesome week.. .Surf over to Maria's blog now for some more exciting art.

PS.. QKD has 2 open Royal Court calls right now! Come and check them out. See the links to the right at the top of this blog. :)

2nd post for the day

Hi again!! It's ME!! Just wanted to pop in and let you know that I've been featured in my 3rd treasury!! People are really lovin my stuff. I'm really excited! Come and click.. Make sure you click through the pictures. The more clicks the treasury gets the more chance it has to make it on to the FRONT page of ETSY!!! Click here.

It's my Lime Verbena Lotion bar!!Aloha!

There's a Challenge goin' on!

Come by and take the Verona Saturday Challenge over at the WIS blog! It's a great challenge this week and there's even a prize!!

Help for Anam

Hello everyone.
I just learned that one of my friends needs a bit of help. She's trying to gain full time citizenship in Canada from the UK. She needs to raise $4,000 by September something.. It's not like me to ask for help like this.. and I KNOW it's unlike Anam to reach out like this. She and her hubby and two gorgeous daughters love living in Canada and would like to stay there. If you'd like to read her story of how this came about, please click here.

How I know her? Well, Anam came to me over a year or so ago and offered up some designs for journaling blocks for Queen Kat Designs stamps. I jumped and said heck yah! We've been friends ever since. She's a nice person who really deserves the world. She helps everyone out when she's needed and doesn't ask for anything in return.

She emailed me tonight and asked for some items to be donated to her etsy store so she could try to sell them to earn the money for her residency. I've wrote her back and pledged as much as I could between my two businesses and my personal crafty world.

If you have some awesome stuff that you'd like to donate to her for her cause, please email me and I'll set you up with Anam. info @ katstamps. com

Please help her out! She is a really awesome person!!

Thanks for reading and listening.
Vicki

Release Blog Hop! Yay!

It's that time again! I'm so stoked for this month's releases. I can't tell you how much time the designers and I have put into these stamps.. And the Royal Court.. OMG they are killing it! I'm so happy that they are on this wild journey with me!

Today is the release day blog hop for QKD, but you may already know that if you've come from Ms. Tina's blog. If you didn't know it was release day, please hop back to the QKD blog to start over. There's lots and lots of new stamps/sets for you to see!

Today I have a few cards to show you. I've been working with my Tim Holtz "education" via his online videos again. lol I'm gettin pretty good at makin a mess and "wearing" my distress ink dyed hands all over town. haha. It's all in fun isn't it?

Ok.. The first 2 cards I have for you I used his new mini masks....For the card above, I used the new Fish Net Background stamp. Other products: Distress ink: Faded Jeans, Peeled Paint, Walnut Stain; Tim Holtz Crown Mini Mask and a flourish from a set of mini masks he just came out with. I embellished with some flowers and a brad. I had soooo much fun making this card! I used the new compass mini mask from Tim Holtz along with 4 different distress inks: Vintage Photo, Fired Brick, Walnut Stain and Spiced Marmalade. The stamp that I used is the new Random Text Background stamp from Queen Kat Designs.
This tag is for a special someone in my life :) hmm... wonder what "D" could stand for? lol. For this I used both the Fish Net and Random Text Background stamps with the Crown from the Doodle n Crown Stamp set from QKD. The "D" is some black board from Cosmo Cricket and it's painted with some Walut Stain Crackle paint by Tim Holtz.
Meet Dotty the Bird. She's from the May Royal Kit at QKD. We decided that the Rocker Bird needed a sister so we brought Dotty back home.

Thank you for visiting us! There's more to see. Visit Maria next on our blog hop.

If you get lost along your way you can come back here and see who's next.
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: http://kellystamps.blogspot.com
KellyJean: http://dancingwithstamps.blogspot.com
WIS: http://whimsicalinksorority.blogspot.com
Jacquie: http://jacquiemakescards.blogspot.com
Jen: http://expressivelyme.blogspot.com Bev (SG) http://getcreativesg.blogspot.com
Andrea: http://mystampingheaven.typepad.com
Victoria: http://eatstampsleeprepeat.blogspot.com/
Lara: http://youwantthecookie.blogspot.com
Anessa: http://alienanessa.wordpress.com
Helene: http://2amscrapper.blogspot.com/
QKD Store: http://katstamps.com/store