Happy Christmas Eve! (a little early)

I'm posting this a few hours early because I have an appointment at 7am in the morning (which is when I usually do my blog posting) to give blood at the annual Christmas Eve blood drive that they have here in Madison. My sister and I are trying to make this a tradition. Last year we chose late afternoon appointments and we waited FOREVER so this year we decided to take the first ones of the day...what in the world were we thinking. It sounded good several months ago when we scheduled the appointments but now that it is almost here, the thought of getting up and out of my house by 6:30am sounds near impossible. Wish me luck!

Today I have another card that I made using the QKD butterfly stamp. Just like yesterday's card, I was going for a crisp, clean, simple look. I think I got that with this card. I was actually really pleased with how this one turned out. What do you think?Supplies used: Stamps from Queen Kat Designs, SU CS, Sharpie marker, Hero Arts self adhesive gems, Cuttlebug folder.

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas!!! Thanks for stopping by!

SNOW, SNOW, GO AWAY....

and please don't come back ...EVER. We have gotten way way too much snow already this year. After getting more than a foot of snow in the past week they are calling for 4-6 more inches tonight and 4-6 more inches tomorow. To make it even worse our temperatures are still sub zero. Thank Goodness we are escaping on Friday to Florida for a warm and sunny family vacation!
Until then I'm going to continue to dream of my favorite things about summer...warm temperatures, sun, and butterflies! You all know that butterfly stamps are my absolute favorite, and I have a bunch of new butterflies that I haven't even inked up yet so starting today I am going to share a few butterfly cards to help boost my attitude until I can leave this frozen state for the sunny beaches of Florida.
For today's card I was going for clean and simple. This butterfly was just calling for me to cut it out and pop it up, LOL!

Supplies used: Stamps from Queen Kat Designs, SU CS, Basic Grey DP, Hero Arts black rhinestones, Bic marker.

Thanks for stopping by today! Even though we are going on vacation, I'm hoping to have blog posts scheduled while I am gone.
Oh and don't forget Jacksonbelle Embellishments will be hosting some awesome New Year's Eve challenges that you won't want to miss! I will have those scheduled to post also!
Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Queen Kat Designs Royal Wednesday Challenge #1

Today is the first Queen Kat Designs Royal Wednesday Blog Challenge. Here is this week's challenge:

Royal Ribbon Challenge

The challenge for this week is to make a card or scrapbook page using at least 2 different ribbons on it. QKD would love for you to play along as well! If you participate QKD would love to know and would love to see your project. Just leave a comment on the Royal Wednesday post in the QKD group on PCP - HERE with a direct link to your project.

Here is my card:

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you all have a wonderful day!

QKD Birthday Blog Hop!

Today Queen Kat Designs is celebrating their 2nd birthday! As part of the celebration the QKD Royal Court is having a blog hop. Every hour a different royal court member will be posting something to celebrate QKD's birthday! My blog is the 2nd stop of the hop so if you are just joining now make sure to check out the first stop, the QKD blog! Make sure to visit all of the blogs in the blog hop today to increase your chances at winning some terrific QKD goodies.

For my hour of the blog hop I have a color challenge for all of you...

Follow Your Rainbow!

My 5 year old daughter loves rainbows! Every day she draws me pictures with rainbows or writes her name in rainbow colors. For my challenge you need to make a card or scrapbook layout that has red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple on it! If you decide to play along with this challenge, please post a link to your creation on this post. You have until 10 am tomorrow morning to post your link. Anyone who participates in any of the QKD blog hop challenges will have their names put into a grand prize drawing for some goodies from Queen Kat herself! The more challenges you do the more chances you have to win. You do not have to use QKD stamps for the challenge but you will get an extra entry in the drawing if you do! Have fun!

Here is my card:

Supplies used: Stamp from QKD, SU CS, DCWV DP, SU Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Dress it Up Gitter Dots, Nestibilities, alcohol based markers.

Once you finish up with my challenge, make sure you head on over to Maria's blog for the next hour of the QKD birthday celebration!

Lost Mojo

I'm not sure what my problem is but my mojo is gone and I've looked everywhere for it. Up until yesterday, the last day I sat down and actually stamped was Nov 3rd. Yesterday I decided to try and overcome this depressed, lost mojo feeling and well...it didn't work. I sat in my stamp room for over 7 hours. Yes, I said it over 7 hours. Tom watched the kids for most of the time and I had peaceful stamping time. Unfortunately after 6 hours I had absolutely NOTHING to show for it. I was trying to make some calendar Christmas gifts and they just weren't working. After 6 hours I gave up... I cleaned up my table and threw about 30 pieces of cut up cardstock in the recycling bin. I sat there and almost cried. I managed in the next hour and a half to make 1 card using Beate's weekend sketch but in the end 7 1/2 hours of stamp room time = 1 card. I just can't figure it out if it is the weather or the daylight thing or just me getting older...I truely hope my mojo finds its way home soon because I'm running out of previously made projects to share.
Sorry to be such a downer!

Speaking of previously made projects, I do have a few more things to share this week. Wednesday is the big QKD birthday celebration! There will be a blog hop with challenges and prizes. QKD is also featured on the Stamp Something, Sheet Loads of Cards and 2 Sketches 4 You challenge blogs this week. Make sure to check them out for a chance at winning some fabulous prizes. Today 2 Sketches 4 You will be highlighting these two QKD sketches. If you decide to play along, make sure you post a link to your creation on the 2 Sketches 4 You blog!
ETA: Apparently 2 Sketches 4 You didn't use the 2 sketches that we were given by QKD...if you want to participate in the 2 Sketches 4 You QKD prize drawing please go to their blog and use the 2 sketches provided there, not the 2 sketches I'm showing you here.

Sketch #1

My card:

Supplies used: Stamps from QKD, SU CS, Basic Grey DP, Basic Grey brad, MS border punch, Prima flowers, Alcholbased marker, Shimmerz paint.

Sketch #2
My card:Supplies used: Stamps from QKD, SU CS, Basic Grey DP, May Arts ribbon, foam dimensionals, Sharpie marker.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a terrific start to your week!

Sheet Loads Challenge

The Queen Kat Designs, Sheet Load of Cards challenge is now posted. Check out the Sheet Loads blog HERE for all the details! If you decide to play along make sure you post a link to your creation on the Sheet Loads blog...they will be giving away some great QKD goodies!

Here is the sketch:
Here is my card:

Supplies used: Stamps from QKD, SU CS, Prima flowers painted with Shimmerz paint and Blingz, self adhesive rhinestones, staples, Michael's holiday ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by! Don't forget, QKD is celebrating their 2nd birthday this week with lots of fun challenges and prizes! Wednesday the DT will be having a blog hop and you won't want to miss that!
I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. Thanks for stopping by!

Stamp Something!

The QKD birthday celebration has already started! I thought all of the challenge sites were posting on Monday but I saw today that one is already up and going. Check out the Stamp Something blog for all the deets. If you play along make sure to post a link to your creation on the Stamp Something blog as one lucky player will win some fabulous QKD goodies!

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

Supplies used: Stamps from Queen Kat Designs, SU CS, Basic Grey DP, Prima flowers, MM brads, Shimmerz paint.

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

Queen Kat Designs Birthday Celebration...Starts Monday!

Next week Queen Kat Designs is celebrating their 2nd birthday and there will be tons of fun challenges to celebrate! Queen Kat Designs will be the featured company on 3 different challenge blogs beginning Monday: Stamp Something, Sheet Loads of Cards and 2 Sketches 4 You. All of these blogs will have QKD blog candy for the taking. The QKD royal court will also be having a blog hop on Wednesday so please join us for some fun challenges!

Supplies used: Stamps from Queen Kat Designs, SU CS, DCWV DP, SU ribbon, alcohol based markers, self adhesive rhinestones, foam dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Still alive, but still not stamping

Not sure where my love of stamping went but I have not had a single happy thought about stamping in a while. I don't know if it is the change in weather or daylight savings or what but I'm just feeling sort of blah.
I do have a card to share today though that I made a few weeks ago. Queen Kat Designs just had a release party this past Saturday and I happen to have made a few cards with one of the new stamps. To see all of her new releases check out her store HERE.

Here is one of the cards I made with the newly released Hoot single stamp and the Elegant Sayings stamp set:
Supplies used: Stamps from QKD, Misc CS and DP, self adhesive rhinestones, alcohol based markers.

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

Happy Halloween!

I don't have any Halloween cards to share today but I do have some pumpkin carving photos. A couple nights ago Tom and the kids carved a pumpkin. I tried to take pictures of them all engaged in the pumpkin carving process but to be totally honest the kids would rather pretend to be monkeys and monsters and princesses than pay attention to the pumpkin carving. They did mange to get it done but I can say the kids were not much help. I carved 5 more yesterday but haven't taken any pictures of them yet. I'll try and get that done tonight and will post more tomorrow.

Here's our monkey

and our 2 monsters

getting everyone to look at the camera is impossible!

I actually have a card to share today too. I made this a few weeks ago but since I am running on the "simple" theme this week I thought I would share this card I made using the Funky Tree set from Queen Kat Designs. BTW, QKD is having a sale today only - 25% off all QKD stamps.

Supplies used: Stamps from QKD, SU CS, SU DP, Cuttlebug embossing folder, misc ribbon, self adhesive rhinestones, SU corner punch, foam dimensionals, rhinestone brads.

I hope you all have a Happy Halloween. We have lots of trick or treating to do today so hopefully I will have to cute pictures of Sleeping Beauty and Scooby Doo to show you tomorrow!
Thanks for stopping by!

It's the weekend!!

After spending the entire week showing Christmas cards I thought I would take a little break and post a nice simple Thank You card.
Supplies used: Stamps from Queen Kat Designs, SU CS, misc ribbon, self adhesive rhinestones, foam dimensionals.

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

I just remembered...

I have something I can share, yay! Here is a card I made on World Card Making Day. I made this card for one of the SCS WCMD challenges...trees! The challenge was perfect since I had just gotten my Funky Trees set from QKD.

Supplies used: Stamps from QKD, SU CS and DP, Versamagic chalk ink, Shimmerz paint, self adhesive rhinestones, foam dimensionals.

I hope you all had a great day! My camera (I mean, husband) will be home tomorrow so I will be back in the blogging groove soon! Thanks for stopping by!

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!

World Card Making Day - Queen Kat Designs Challenge!

WORLD CARD MAKING DAY!!!!

It's finally here!!!!!

I can't think of anything better than spending the day stamping, doing challenges and winning fabulous prizes! My first challenge today is sponsored by Queen Kat Designs!

Queen Kat Designs has teamed up with Just Johanna's Old Bird Planet to bring you a day full of challenges and prizes! Several members of Queen Kat's Royal Court will be hosting challenges throughout the day so don't forget to check them out for the chance to win some cool QKD stamps!

Here's the Queen Kat Designs Royal Court Challenge Schedule: (all times are CST)
• 8:00 am – 11:00 am-Me
• 11:00 am – 2:00 pm - Penny
• 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm -QKD Blog
• 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm -Jules
• 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm -Vicki
• 11:00 pm – 2:00 am-Tanis

Each QKD host will be giving away a QKD stamp set to one lucky winner of their challenge.
All blog challenge participants (from all of the QKD challenges) will be entered into a prize drawing for:
Grand Prize: $25 shopping spree @ Queen Kat Designs
1st Runner Up: 1 Get Inked! Kit (Month TBD)
2nd Runner Up: 1 Set of monster stamps (Diva, Buddy, Ms. Piggie and Joe)

Prize Details:
• In order to be eligible to win prizes, you must post a comment on THIS blog post with a link to your challenge project.
• You may enter as many times as you like for each challenge until tonight at midnight PDT (this is 2 am CST).

I think those are all of the boring details you need..LET'S GET STARTED!!!

CHALLENGE #1: SILVER AND GOLD!
Since it is pretty early in the morning for a lot of you, I thought I would start you off with an easy one. For this challenge you need to make a card or project using either gold or silver. Gold or Silver do not need to be the main color (but they can be) they just need to be used somewhere on the card. This could mean using silver or gold brads, cord, paper, etc. etc. The possibilities are endless! Have fun!
Remember, you need to post a link to your project on THIS blog post to be eligible to win!

Here is my example. I just got my new set of QKD stamps yesterday and I just love this little alien; isn't she just adorable!
Supplies used for my card: SU black and SU brushed silver cardstock as well as some DP from DCWV. I also used a transparency sheet to make the ships capsule look like glass. The stamp is from QKD and the sentiment is a rub-on from Joann's. The pink stars are from Making Memories.

The prize up for grabs for this challenge is this wonderful clear stamp set from Queen Kat Designs called: Greetings Stamps #1

I will have 2 other challenges this afternoon with prizes from Firecracker Designs by Pamela and DRS Designs, as well as a Firecracker Designs blog hop, so please stop back!

HAPPY WORLD CARD MAKING DAY!!!!!