Sale at QKD!

I still have this awful cold so I don't have anything new to share today, but I did want to mention that Queen Kat Designs is having a weekend sale...everything in the store is 25% off through tomorrow night!

Enabler alert: 20% off Pre-order offer FCD

Pamela from Firecracker Designs if offering a great limited time pre-order sale on her 4 newest releases. Here are the details:

Pre-order all FOUR new sets and save 20%! Get all 4 new release sets for only $28.75!!!

This pre-order sale only lasts until Oct 20th. Stamps will begin shipping around Oct. 24th.

All sets are: Red Rubber sheet, Untrimmed, Unmounted, 4.5 x 5.25

All four sets will be available as single sets after October 21st, at regular price.

Click HERE to check them out!

I hope you are all having a great day! I'm on day 11 of battling an awful cold virus so I haven't felt much like stamping the last couple days. I'm hoping to have some time and energy to create something tomorrow! Thanks for stopping by today!

Happy Wednesday!

Hope everyone is having a great week. Just a quick post today to show you a fun, easy Halloween treat. This is just a larger scale version of a nugget box. The nugget wraps are just mailing labels that I stamped with the candy corn background from DRS Designs. I stamped them in orange and colored and glittered them. The main image is one of the new Halloween releases from DRS Designs. I colored and embellished it and glued the wrap so that it fit snugly around the box. The box is something I bought at my local scrapbook store. The spiders, bats and pumpkin are die cuts.

Hope you all have a terrific day! Thanks for stopping by!

Another blog award!

Remember last week when I said I would pass on this beautiful blog award, well in the meantime, I was given this award again, this time from my wonderfully talent friend Vicki! Vicki and I are on 2 DT's together and she is a fabulous stamper! Thanks for the award Vicki, you inspire me too!
I just love this picture. Isn't that butterfly just beautiful! Not sure what it is about butterflies, but I just love them. In fact, I just bought the new butterfly clear stamp from Basic Grey, I can't wait to get it inked up! So anyway...back to the award...
I just feel so blessed to have gotten this award twice and I'd love to pass it on to a few of my favorite bloggers who definitely inspire me:

Kisa Peters -Kisa's Paper Cuts - Kisa was one of the very first people I met on splitcoast several years ago. I can't tell you how blessed I am to have her as a friend. She is one of my best friends and she also happens to be a phenominal stamper. She inspires me on a daily basis!

Dawn McVey - My Favorite Things - I met Dawn through a thread on SCS. I am so glad I found her blog so many months ago...her talent is unbelieveable. Not only is her blog filled with gorgeous cards, it is also filled with wonderful stories and gorgeous photos. I have laughed and cried many times reading her blog. I still think about her treadmill story every single time I'm walking on mine. She (and her dh Bart) inspire me on a daily basis!

Lynn Mercurio - Stamperosity - I met Lynn in the Wish RAK group on SCS. I am so glad I clicked on her blog link to check it one time. I have been a dedicated follower of her blog for some time. She is such a kind and generous person and her work is incredible! Thanks for inspiring me!

Nessy - Nessy's Notes - Vanessa is one of my SBS-13 sisters. She is one amazing stamper. I am amazed every day at her beautiful coloring and adorable cards. Not to mention the fact that she makes more cards than anyone I know.

Jennifer - Glitter in My Hair - Jen and I met on SCS but turns out we live in the same town (or at least we did until she moved a few miles east, LOL). She is a great stamper and a great friend. Our occasional stamp nights at Archivers are the best. Thanks for inspiring!

For all of you who leave me comments everyday...you inspire me too!

I could keep typing all day but unfortunately time just doesn't allow...

I hope you all have an inspiring day! I have a cute Halloween project to show you tomorrow so please stop back!

Queen Kat Designs

Now that the fun (and stress) of World Card Making Day is over I can get back to my regular blogging schedule! Today I wanted to show you a couple of the cards I made with one of my new stamp sets from Queen Kat Designs - Funky Trees. Here is what the complete set looks like:

The first card I made was for the SCS WCMD sketch challenge.
Here's the sketch:

Here's my card:Supplies used: Stamps from Queen Kat Designs, SU CS, Debbie Mumm DP, Versamagic Chalk ink, self adhesive rhinestones.


The second card I made was for the SCS WCMD Featured Stamper Challenge. We were to case a card from the gallery of SherryLC05. Click HERE to see the card I cased.

Supplies used: Stamps from Queen Kat Designs, SU CS and DP, MM star brads.

The Queen Kat Store is down for maintenance today but it should be back up and running soon! Once it is up and running, if you feel like shopping, check out the 10% off code on the blinkie on my side bar!

I hope you all have a wonderful day! Thanks for stopping by!

OMG, OMG, OMG!!!!!

Remember all of those Jacksonbelle sketch challenges I have been doing the past month or so. Well, the sketch challenges were for a contest they were having and I won!!!!!!!! I am SO thrilled. I've honestly gone to Lindsey's blog like 10 times just to make sure I'm not totally crazy. I almost fell off my chair when I saw my name! Here is my winning card:

Check out the Jacksonbelle blog HERE to see the other winners!!

And the winners are.....

All of my winners were picked using a random drawing (cutting up names and putting them in a hat).

Challenge #1: QKD silver and gold challenge....Prettier Stuff (Melissa)
*Remember even if you didn't win my QKD set you are still in the running for the grand prizes being given away by Queen Kat. The winners will be posted on the QKD blog later.

Challenge #2: FCD heavy metal challenge....Kisa Peters

Challenge #3: DRS all that glitters...Ryann, marywebb and Kisa Peters

Prize for completing all 3 challenges...Since there were only 3 of you (Ryann, marywebb and Kisa Peters) who completed all 3 challenges I will be sending all 3 of you a little something. Thank you so much for playing along with all of my challenges!!!

Have a great day!

Just in case anyone was interested in seeing all of the challenge cards, here is a list of links:

Challenge #1 QKD Silver and Gold Challenge

Zukesgirl
Jill Cooper
Prettier Stuff
ryann
Ashley
marywebb
paula laird
Kisa Peters
Jennifer-g
justjohanna

Challenge #2 FCD Heavy Metal Challenge

Queen Kat
Jennifer-g
ryann
Kisa Peters
marywebb
pink rose


Challenge #3 DRS All that Glitters

ryann
marywebb
Kisa Peters
marywebb 2nd card

Thanks to everyone for playing along! Have a wonderful Sunday!