Believe...

All you have to do is "Believe and you will find Christmas"... I love these little "Brownie" guys. They are so dang cute. I have another card to share with you today that I made with the set.

I found a Cuttlebug folder I'd never seen before in a store so I snatched it up just for this card. :) It's got all kinds of ornaments on it. I used a thick (I mean THICK) piece of cardstock for this. It's red on one side and green on the other. I have NO clue where I got it from. It's the thickest CS I've ever seen and some how I ended up with like 10 sheets of it. lol. It's almost like it's 2 pieces glued together. hmm... anyhow...

I embossed it with my new cuttlebug folder and standed through the gree to hit the red. I could have sanded another 1/2 hour and still not reached total red. lol. so it's a "hint of red". I embossed my brownie guy with black pigment ink and clear powder then colored him with my new babies (tombow markers) I just love how the highlights came out in his hair.

Have you started your Christmas crafting?? You'll NEED this stamp set for your projects. trust you me. This is the cutest set ever. It will be available in the store tomorrow. So stop by and shop.

Have an awesome day!

I got an Award!

I got this awesome award from one of my awesome blog readers...Scrappin Kitty. Thank you so much for the thought. :) Amanda you rock!!

The rules are this: I need to pass this award on to five people, post on their blog to let them know I left this award, and then I need to answer a list of questions in ONE word.

1. Where is your cell phone? pocket

2. Your hair? long

3. Your mother? hmmm

4. Your father? LOVE

5. Your favorite food? fish

6. Your dream last night? strange

7. Your favorite drink? coffee

8. Your dream/goal? #1

9. What room are you in? office

10. Your hobby? soap

11. Your fear? snakes

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? hawaii

13. Where were you last night? bed

14. Something that you aren't? lazy

15. Muffins? blueberry

16. Wish list item? money

17. Where did you grow up? utah

18. Last thing you did? work

19. What are you wearing? clothes

20. Your TV? off

21. Your Pets? buttheads

22. Friends? #1

23. Your life? chaos

24. Your mood? bored

25. Missing Someone? grandpa

26. vehicle? LOVE

27. Something your not wearing? shoes

28. Your favorite store? QKD

29. Your favorite color? purple

30. When was the last time you laughed? today

31. Last time you cried? today

32. Your best friend? Jamie

33. One place that I go to over and over? Starbucks

34. Facebook? sure

35. Favorite place to eat? kitchen

Ok.. now for my nominees...

Lara's blog

Shannon's blog

Jules' blog

Meredith's blog

Anessa's blog

Royal Kat Monday...

Welcome to the second edition of Royal Kat Monday with Queen Kat Designs. Today is the preview day for the new November releases on Wednesday! If you've hopped here from Alex's Blog you're on the right track. If you've missed the beginning of the hop, please feel free to visit the QKD blog and start from the beginning.Today I'm previewing my favorite new release with you! This is a little guy from a stamp set called Brownies. The set contains 3 different little brownies and 3 sute sayings. The set can be used year round!! but, I'm getting a jump on my Christmas cards so I colored him all up ready to hep put out the "cheese" for santa!

I just got a set of the Tombow water based markers.. And I LOVE THEM!!! I'd take them over Copic any day. There's only 96 of them so that means my marker budget is low and I dont have to store a ton of markers I'll probably never use. I think I got like 34 of them and so far I've used all of them lol. And I've only had them for about 32 hours. :)

*tip if you have the Tombow markers and you're having paper issues, try watercolor paper (the back side) it works like a charm and it's cheap too.

I wanted to show you how I did the edge of the card so I've photographed it up close.. It's the "Icicle" punch from EK success. I punched it out of double sided cardstock from Cosmo Cricket and then lightly wet the edge and used a bamboo skewer to "curl" the edge and inked it with Chestnut Roan Chalk ink. It's such a fun addition to this card. I hope you'll grab this stamp set for yourself It's so cute!!! The new release stamps will be available in the store on Wednesday!

Please remember, we have 2 blog hops a week now. This one on Monday's and then the regular Royal Court Wednesday hop. They both start at the QKD Blog.

For more preview fun, please hop over to Kelly's blog. Have an awesome day. I'll be back tomorrow with another preview if you'd like to stop by.

Today's hop order will be:

QKD blog

Alex's blog

Vicki's blog

Kelly's blog

Helene's blog

Penny's blog

Meredith's blog

Linda's blog

Anita's blog

Sara's blog

Ashley's blog

Queen Kat Designs Store

New Kicks!

Ok so.. I was heading out to get some of this AWESOME Fajita meat from a local Mexican market... When grannie turns to me and says.. "Isn't there a walmart over here?" and I'm like.. yeah.. and... you want to go? She's like sure.. Why not.. And I'm like well it's not in the nicest of places to be.. So we ended up going anyways lol. At first I was looking for another hoodie to snuggle up to the computer in and work.. But they didn't have one for me. :( Stupid store! BUT... I did find these totally rad shiny plether boots!! O.M.G. they are friggin awesome!!!

Grannie thought I was absolutly insane for trying them on and I threw them in the cart so fast I think her head is still spinning! haha. They are HOT pink and oh so awesome!! She asked where I was going to wear them.. I said "everywhere" she looked at me like I'm crazy. but guess what?? I'm wearing them right now!!! lol. Here's my new friends..

Aren't they the bees knees? lol I just HAD to share..

I want them in red!! So if you find them in RED size 10 let me know!! :)

CTMH Markers for sale!

I'm clearing out some things in my studio to make room for me to actually play in there. :)
I have the following CTMH markers for sale:
Watermelon
Golden Ember
Plum Mist
Ocean
Citrus Leaf
Brown Bag
Smokey Plum
Breeze
New England Ivy
Blush
Ponderosa Pine
Vineyard Berry
Garnet
Seafoam
Star Spangled Blue
Dutch Blue
Topiary
Olive
Autumn Terracotta
Moonstruck
Buttercup
Hollyhock
Garden Green
Pink Carnation

That's 24 yummy colors.

they are $2.25 each or all for $45 plus shipping. let me know if you're interested. thanks
info @ katstamps dot com

Royal Monday...

Hi! I hope your weekend was a good one. I've been so busy getting some new things in place for the Royal Court... We are now hosting 2 blog hops a week. We will have 1 on Monday and 1 on Wednesday. Each one will feature about 1/2 of the court each day.

Welcome to the first edition of the Royal Monday blog hop. I'm happy to share my Monday with you. today's challenge was to use this photo as inspiration for a card:

So... For my card, I used a Tim Holtz mask with some Distress inks in: Broken China, Tattered Rose and Scattered Straw (I think that's the one I used. lol) then I removed the mask and stamped over it with the Script background, butterfly writings background and the harliquin background stamps from QKD. I added some velvet ribbon, flowers and matted it with brown cardstock and came up with this:

I am having so much fun still with my Distress inks. I hope you'll try them too! Have you seen the Get Inked! kits from QKD? They are fantastic and an excellent way to grow your QKD stamp collection as well as ink collection. The next two months will be awesome as always with Irene, but the new year... Oh man, I can't wait! Roni Johnson, will be taking over the reins. I can't tell you how fabulous the stamps are for the year. Did you know, Roni just wrote a book? That's right!! It's called "Teach Yourself Visually - Collage & Altered Art" It's a highly recommended book for a great read if you like techniques.

Now on to Kelly's blog for some more blogging fun! Don't forget we have the Regular Royal Kat Wednesday blog hop on Wednesday.

QKD blog

Alex's blog

Vicki's blog-- You're here

Kelly's blog

Helene's blog

Penny's blog

Meredith's blog

Linda's blog

Anita's blog

Sara's blog

Ashley's blog

Queen Kat Designs

20% of Sale in Paradise...

Paradise Sunrise Essentials is having their Halloween Boutique today through the 25th. Come by and get 20% off of all of your favorite Paradise Sunrise items! All purchases will be entered into 2, that's right!! 2 different drawings.

Drawing #1: the Halloween Boutique Drawing.. Will be drawn and announced on the 26th. The gift is a free set of 3 lip balms!

Drawing #2: Our 800th sale drawing. We are close to hitting the big 800 and we are celebrating with a drawing. As soon as we hit 800, we will hold a drawing for a free goodie pack!
Get in on these awesome drawings! Shop now.

Aloha,
Vicki

Royal Kat Wednesday

Happy Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by. If you've come for the blog hop, you're in the right place. :) If you've missed the beginning, please feel free to hop back over to the QKD blog and start over.

Today I'm sharing one of the new Manga stamps with you. Her name is top hat girl. I love painting these stamps. It's so fun.

I used my reeves professional watercolors on her. i love how the highlights turned out on her dress. They are much better on the card than in this picture. :) I used the "You're my..." sentiment stamp set from QKD for my sentiment.

Thanks again for coming. I hope you're having a geat stampy day. Please surf over to Maria's blog and see what she's got for you.

Visit the QKD Store for some great deals:
55% off of all clearance
30% off of these stamps:
Thanksgiving Dragon
Christmas Tree Dragon
Off Beat Alphabet
Jester Alphabet
through 10/25/09

Here's the whole hop list for the day...
QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
Penny's blog
Vicki's blog
Maria's blog
Kelly's blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Andrea's blog
Victoria's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Helene's blog
Nina's blog
Alex's blog
Meredith's blog
Linda's blog
Nancy's blog
Anita's blog
Sara's blog
Stephanie's blog
Ashley's blog
Katarina's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Try it!

Hi hi! I have the best lip balm to tell you about. It's so awesome. Paradise Sunrise Essentials now has Orange Chocolate Lip balm! It's the best thing ever. ok... ok... Cranberry and Cheesecake are a close 2nd and 3rd. These lip balms will moisturize and make your lips silky smooth. Come by and pick up some balm. Mention this blog post and get 10% off! (Refunded through paypal)

Have a nice day. :)

Presenting....

A new stamp designer is always so much fun for me. Today Queen Kat Designs is welcoming Melia Newman to our Royal Court. She's got some fun dragon designs and I'm happy to be able to showcase one of them for you. Today we released 2 of them.. There's more to come!! This is the second to last stop on the mini hop for the day.

If you've come for your daily dose of me.. Thanks! But you've missed one heck of a blog hop. Please visit QKD's blog to hop through the mini hop. Tomorrow is the big Royal Kat Wednesday blog hop.

I've got the Christmas dragon for you. He's so stinkin cute and I've blinged this baby up! :) Yeah, that's the theme for me today. :)

I just couldn't resist making him a red headed dragon! What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by. I'll see you back here tomorrow for the Royal Kat Wednesday blog hop!

The next and final stop on the blog is here. Where you can get the two dragons at 30% off as well as 2 alphabet stamp sets for 30% off.

Please come over and join our yahoo group here. This is our new newsletter group. If you'd like to get the awesome sale info first, come and join our group

All caged up

Hi again! wow 3 days in a row. That's got to be a record right?? hehe. Today I'm showcasing a tag that I made last weekend. I used the Nov. Royal Kit that hit the QKD store yesterday. You have to pick one up. They are fantastic and for that matter, subscribe and don't miss a beat with the kits they keep getting better and better.For this tag, I used a premade- store bought ivory colored tag (have had it forever) I inked the edges with my inkessentials foam applicator (I'm in love with it!) and some Honey CTMH ink. Then I tore a piece of patterned paper and applied it to the tag & trimmed off the egdes. Next I stamped the birdcage in Wild Plum Adirondak Ink on some white cardstock and stamped the flowers over the cage in Honey ink and swiped the edges with the same ink.

I stitched 6 X's with some waxy flax I've had forever... Matted the cage and applied with pop dots to the tag. Added some ribbon and funky fiber and viola! I was done. I think it took me a whole 10 minutes to make and it's so pretty.

I hope you've enjoyed. Take a break and shop with QKD for some fun and funky stamps. :)

Have a great day and visit soon!
Vicki

Indian Summer Card

Hi again. OMG I'm blogging and it's NOT a hop! lol. I hope you all enjoyed the QKD blog hop yesterday the girls did a great job, didn't they?

I've got a fun card to share with you today. It's done up using things from the November Royal Kit at QKD. I just love this kit. I made like 6 cards and 2 tags and I still haven't made a dent in it! The supplies and paper in this kit are unreal.

Here's my card for the day.
I love the foiled papers in the collection I wish I had a never ending supply. :) I inked the chipboard oval with Prussian blue chalk ink and then stamped it with cosmic copper brilliance with the flowers in the kit. I also did the photo corners the same way. They just sparkle.

Here's a peek at what I'll blog about tomorrow. So make sure you stop by!
Until then... Meow!

Royal Kat Wednesday Blog Hop

Hello and Happy Hump Day! It's another blog hop for me today. If you've come over from Penny's blog you're on the right path. If not, please feel free to visit the QKD blog for the beginning.

Today we were challenged with one of my sketches to create a card. I had fun with this one. I was making samples for the store with my November kit from Queen Kat Designs so I snuck this card in there! I used all supplies from the kit and added some glitter too.
For the November kit we chose some fancy blinged up pattern paper from K & Co. It's foiled and glittered and oh so scrumptious. The kit will hit the store on 10/15/09 be sure to pick yours up. We will have 2 different versions of the kit (2 different paper selections) So be sure to shop early and grab some 55% off clearance and 27% off stamps while you're there. Happy hopping. Off to Maria's blog I'm sending you..

Today's line up...
QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
Penny's blog
Vicki's blog-- You're here
Maria's blog
Kelly's blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Victoria's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Helene's blog
Nina's blog
Alex's blog
Meredith's blog
Linda's blog
Nancy's blog
Anita's blog
Sara's blog
Stephanie's blog
Ashley's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

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.