QKD New Release Week!!!

You should have arrived here from Vicki's blog, if not head back to the QKD blog to start the hop and not miss a thing! This week is New Release week at QKD! The stamps featured today will be available this Wednesday!

I can't believe this is the last new release of the year!!! Wow, this year went fast! With Christmas coming fast as well, I decided to use the new Mrs. Dashwood stamp to make a gift set for my Mom for a Christmas gift. My Mom loves cats so I knew she would love this stamp!

I will share parts of the set over the month until Christmas, for today I'm showing my magnetic fridge notepad.

Really, this is a very simple & inexpensive project. You just need a notepad, papers & some ribbon. You can either cut a piece from a magnetic sheet to glue to the back or use strips of magnets.

Current sale:

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Now hop through to Helene!

Here's today's hop order:

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

Hugs- Kelly

QKD Royal Monday!

If you didn't arrive here from Vicki's blog, head on back to the QKD blog to start from the beginning so you don't miss a thing!
The inspiration photo for this weeks challenge reminded me of the soft creams & blues of winter & snow. Mabey it's because of Black Friday coming in 4 days (yippee!) or Thanksgiving Thursday, but I'm getting in the Christmas spirit this week! We have only had one snow this year so far which didn't last the day (very odd for MN) but I can still feel the excitement and wonder of Christmas. We even saw Santa for the first time of the season on Saturday.

So in honor of black friday coming, I'm gonna need tags for all those gifts, so I used a light blue cardstock for my tag, just rounding the top corners, edging the bottom with a scalloped border punch & punching a hole for some twine. I stamped that beautiful tree from Fancy Christmas in cream, than dipped in glitter before the ink dried. I added that fun ruffled ribbon & crocheted flower along the bottom. Now hop on over to see what Helene has done with today's challenge!

Today's Hop Order
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

Hugs- Kelly

Happy Birthday QKD Special New Release!!!

If you didn't come here from Jules, head back to the QKD blog and start from the beginning- there's lots of great stuff to see!
Today is QKD's 3rd birthday!!!! In honor of the big bday celebration, there is a special new release happening today! You can purchase these fabulous new stamps by Kelly Kost today at the QKD store!
For today's special release, I got to play with the Wizard of Oz set, which includes the main image and one sentiment. I loved this stamp in particular when I saw all the fabulous stuff from Kelly! There is so much inspiration in that movie I didn't know where to start! It's also a favorite of my daughter and many little girls so this would be a great set to use on a special gift for a little girl or for birthday cards.

The first thing I wanted to do with this was make a card using the yellow brick road, of course! :) I decided that the easiest way to do that was to just take a piece of yellow cardstock and hand draw brown lines for the bricks using a ruler. After finishing my "yellow brick" paper, I free hand cut it with a craft knife. I colored the image with copics, added some glitter to Dorothy's red shoes :) and mounted on red paper. I popped the main image up on pop dots to add to the effect of the yellow brick road in the background.

Now, onto Sara!

Blog Hop list for today:
Alex
Meredith
Penny
Jules
Kelly B
Sara
Anessa
Lara
Linda
Anita
Nancy
Steph
Helene
Vicki
QKD Store

Hugs, Kelly

QKD Royal Monday!

If you didn't arrive here from Vicki's blog, head on back to the QKD blog to start from the beginning!

Today's challenge was a color challenge, the QKD colors ( whoop, whoop!!!). Pink, Purple, Grey & White. Make sure to check out the QKD blog to see how you can participate in this challenge & win a cute stamp set!
The only white I actually ended up using was the paper that I used to stamp & color the oriental girl on, so the white doesn't show, but it's there! :)
I decided to keep it a simple base and showcase the adorable girl by cutting her out and popping her up on pop dots. The "dream" is from the Prosperity Crane set.

I love how she pops out above the little strips of paper. It has a very peaceful feeling, I think. :)

You can see the Oriental Girl and Prosperity Crane sets through the links above or just head over to the store to check out everything!

Use coupon code BL10 in the store at check out and receive an additional 10% off your purchase!! this includes kits, clearance, stamps, and well.. EVERYTHING in the store!! (If you're purchasing a kit subscription, the discount applies to the first month only.)

Now hop on over to see what Helene has done with today's sketch!

Today's Hop Order

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

Hugs- Kelly

QKD Royal Monday!

If you didn't arrive here from Vicki's blog, head on back to the QKD blog to start from the beginning!

Today's QKD Royal Monday challenge was a sketch challenge. I changed it up by changing the card direction, using snowflake die-cuts as my main image, using a tag die-cut with my sentiment rather than the bottom small square and putting pearls on either side of my tag rather than either side of my ribbon. Lots of changes, but still the same basic layout! It just shows that the same sketch can inspire different ideas in different people, which is why I love sketch challenges so much!

I used the Fancy Christmas set for the Merry Christmas sentiment. You can head on over to the QKD store for that fab set and more!
We are extending the free stamp week for this week where you buy 2 stamp sets and get 1 separate stamp free or buy 3 separate stamps get 1 free!

Now hop on over to see what Helene has done with today's sketch!

Today's Hop Order
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

Hugs- Kelly

Another Family Post! :)

Hello! Hope everyone's having a great weekend! We had conferences in our school district this Thurs-Fri, so no school from Thur-Sun. Matt & Logan left for deer hunting early Thursday morning, so it's just been me, Shelby & Lucas. Honestly, I'm starting to get exhausted :) Shelby is the least patient of all of us so Lucas can easily get on her nerves. But, we are having some fun moments while the old boys are gone! :)
Anyhow- Matt got a deer this morning! Yay! A pretty nice buck, too. They have 4 tags to fill, so they'll probably still be gone at least a few days. Logan shot & missed one today as well. Mabey tomarrow!

On a creative note :) Check back on Monday for the QKD Royal Monday bloghop!

Hugs- Kelly

Happy Halloween 2009!!!

Just wanted to share today some pics from Halloween! My youngest, Lucas, was a fuzzy lion (perfect for Oct in MN!). It's probably the last year i'll be able to pick his costume out with him so that it's warm! Next year I'm sure he'll want some thin costume that he'll freeze in!
My daughter, Shelby, was a 50's waitress. She saw this costume in a catalog months ago and had to have it! My oldest, Logan and his friends all dressed as "punk zombie skateboarders". :)

Even though my husband stayed at home sick, we all had a fun night and could hear screams and chainsaws all evening from the Tunnel of Terror across the street!

Shelby, Lucas, Logan

My kids and 4 of their cousins at G'ma & G'pas. Lucas, Logan, Sierra, Elijah, Jordan, Lucy, Shelby.

Logan

Shelby
Lucas
Lucas is such a little ham!
Hope everyone had a fun & safe Halloween! Now onto Christmas! :)

Hugs- Kelly

QKD New Release Week!!!

It's time for new release week at Queen Kat Designs! The official release will be Wednesday, November 4th, but the Monday blog hop girls get to preview some of these new releases to you today!

If you didn't arrive here from Vicki's blog, head on back to the QKD blog to start from the beginning!

This month, I get to show you this adorable Oriental Girl stamp. It's such a fun stamp to color in the whole scene you can just do so many different things. For today's card, I colored the image with copics, cut and mounted. I found a great cut on the Slice Vintage Findings card of a flower on a swirly vine that looks similar to the flower vines in the bottom part of the stamp. I cut 3 out of black CS and glued onto blue CS, which I mounted on my black card front.

Now hop on over to see what Helene has to show today!

Remember- all these great new releases will be available at the QKD Store this Wednesday!
Special at the store: Buy 2 stamp sets get 1 separates stamp free ($3.99 or less) or buy 3 separates get 1 free.
We are also going to have a special Birthday/Special Release blog hop on November 19th!

Here's a list of today's hop in case you get lost :)
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

Hugs- Kelly