Long Day...

It's been a long day here. It's 11:30pm and I'm still up designing new stamps. Tonight I released 6 new stamps that were supposed to wait until December, but I just couldn't wait. QKD is running a contest to see what the customers want. The design team and I have been busy working on new stamp designs. All I have to say is I'm pooped! There are soooooo many new stamps coming out in December and January it's not even real.... I've been working on journaling stamps, Bev's been working on Asian, Pooka's been working on rock n roll stamps and Anam is getting in the groove of being with the team. I'm so excited to have Anam on board. She's so nice and I can't wait to debut her stamps in December.

QKD has 23 new stamp sets for November. This month, we will celebrate our 1st anniversary as a stamp line. It's been a huge learning curve for me as a stamp maker and designer.. but I think we've got the bubbles worked out and everything's going well. I receive lots of great comments about the stamps and all the designs. It's really neat to see that people truely apprecaite and love what we do. I hope you'll come by and check out the new stamps. And make sure to stop by the Queen Kat Designs blog. We'll have something fun going on for the anniversary later this month. Until next time... Live.. Laugh and Stamp Alot!

My Stamp Room

I get questions all the time about organizaion and my work area.. So I have photographed various parts of my 'room' that help explain how I organize. :) I didn't used to be this organized.. But last August, I was given this fabulous furniature to get myself cleaned up. :) I have an entire room that is dedicated to my stamp stuff. Below is a little diagram of the layout of my room.

I've got samples hanging on the wall between the two doors. When I get a RAK it's usually hung on my wall. My goal is to cover the remaining wall space in my room with samples. There's not a lot of room left, but there's some. :)

Here's a picture of my work table. It's always a mess, I can't seem to work with a clean space. If it's clean, my creativity itsn't flowing. I work in an area on my table that's usually smaller than 12X12!

This following picture is of a series of bookcases, a dresser and a cubbie thingy that my grannie gave me last August. We have matching furniature in our rooms. :) This thing holds sooo much. I'm lucky my room is in the basement because I think if I were to put everything upstairs, it'd fall through the floor.

Let's see.. these next pictures are of some storage carriers that I bought at the craft store about 5 years ago. I have 6 or 7 of them full of all kinds of embellishments..

These are pics of what I keep in my "dresser" that's in the big picture above. I used to have fiber in the bottom drawer (when these photos were taken) and now, I have MORE stamp CD cases in there. The fiber has been moved to plastic storage bins on a book case.

These are storage cabinets that sit behind my chair. I have all kinds of stuff in there and on it too. :)

These pictures are the storage things I have on top of the cabinets above. They are home made ink pad holders.. I think at last count, I had 150 ink pads and who knows how many embossing powders.

These pictures were taken recently... This is a picture of the corner that has my cropper hopper storage in it (royal waste of money!) and my floor lamp...

I hope you've been inspired to organize your room.. Or.. mess it up to get creative!

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to my new blog. I've asked my design team to keep their blogs up so I'd like to do the same. I'll post some of my creations here and other things that are happening in life. If you'd like to check out all of my creations, please feel free to visit the Queen Kat Designs Gallery. Have a great Fall!