Christmas Tag

On the 4th day of Christmas, Peppermint was my choice agan today to use on a Christmas tag. Iused my Cuttlebug embossing folder on the tag first and blinged it with Shimmerz. The big snowflake is Karen Fosters and the ribbon was the perfect touch.


Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Embossing: Cuttlebug
Stamp: Queen Kat
Ink: Memento, Tuxedo Black
Markers: Copics
Brad: Karen Foster
Ribbon: Stash

Christmas tags

On the 3rd day of Christmas, Peppermint was my choice to use on a Christmas tag. Isn't she just the prettiest?? There are so many things you can do with her - use copics, use shimmerz, use stickles, etc., etc. Why not pick her up and have some fun.



Supplies:

Stamp: Queen Kat
Ink: Memento, Tuxedo Black
Markers: Copic
Bling: Stickles
Paper: Stash

Christmas Tags - Queen Kat style

On the 2nd day of Christmas, Season's Greetings are being sent to you. It's so much fun to create quick tags for the holidays and Queen Kat has some awesome stamps to help you out. For this tag, I embossed my cardstock with the Cuttlebug Christmas Countdown folder (which I inked prior to embossing), added 2 kinds of ribbon, stamped my sentiment twice and adhered.



Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Stamp: Queen Kat
Embossing folder: Cuttlebug
Ink: Memento
Ribbon: Stash

Don't forget to check out the sale at the Queen Kat Designs Store, good till December 5.

RELEASE Day

Oh how exciting, it's a new month and you know what that means don't you????? It's Release Day at Queen Kat Stamps. I hope you got here from Nancy's blog. If not, just start at the QKD blog and go through the blog hop. There are so many fun stamps this month and I got the pleasure of working with Busy stamp set. What a delightful stamp set! I just pulled some "busy" pattern paper from my stash and the stamp was perfect to use on a card.



Supplies:
Stamp: QKD
Die cut: Spellbinders, Nestabilities
Pattern paper: Stash

Isn't this a great stamp set? Think of all the possibilities. Now head on over to the store and check out all the stamp sets in stock and this week's sale.

QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog here
Queen Kat Designs Store

Till next time.....

Christmas Tags - Queen Kat style

On the first day of Christmas, Queen Kat sent to me this really cute Snowman stamp. It's just perfect for a tag or a card.



After stamping with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, I colored him with Copic Markers then added some Flower Soft for dimension. I mounted him on circles created with my Nestabilities. Karen Foster's beautiful papers and sparkly brad finished my tag.

Go check out Queen Kat Designs Store - you will surely find some wonderful stamps to play with. And they are on sale this week too!

Cyber Days Shipping Sale
Save on shipping rates!
Spend $20 get $2 shipping...
Spend $50 get FREE Shipping...
Spend $100 get FREE shipping & a FREE stamp set!
(Good today through 12/1/09)

Play Ball

A baseball layout created with wonderful papers from Scrappin Sports Stuff. They have such a wonderful collection of sports stuff for any sport you can think of.

Inspiration Wednesday

Well, because of Thanksgiving coming up, we decided to hop on Tuesday this week.

Ah the colors of a beautiful winter day. That is the inspiration for this card. This Snowman stamp is one of my favorites and I chose to lightly color him with pencils and mount him on a scalloped circle. The flourish was a perfect addition to the side of the card.




Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Stamp: Queen Kat
Markers: Copics
Brad: Rusty Pickle

In case you didn't know, Queen Kat has just created some stamps for the Twilight fans in all of us. Stop by the store and check them out, then stop at everyone's blog for some amazing creations.

QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Andrea's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog HERE
Queen Kat Designs Store

#1 Fan

This is my first DT layout for ScrappinSportsStuff. Check out their store for some amazing sports related products.



Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Pattern paper: Bo Bunny Home Run Stripe, Home Run Cutouts
Die Cuts: Provo Craft Cricut Expression, Plantin Cartridge
Stamp: Making Memories
Ink: Colorbok, Memories

Directions:
1. Select a sheet of cardstock for the base of your layout
2. Cut pattern paper to 11”x12”
3. Tear pattern paper so that both sides can be used on the layout
4. Place the striped piece on top of its reverse side and adhere to base
5. Adhere photos
6. Cut out elements from the cut out sheet
7. Adhere the baseball phrase along the bottom of the layout, leaving about ¼” of the pattern paper showing
8. Adhere the journaling blocks along the left side of the layout, angling them as shown
9. Adhere several elements from the NYMets sticker collection
10. Punch out the baseball and #1 with a circle punch – adhere as shown
11. Stamp the year on the baseball
12. Die cut Fan and attach as the title
13. Attach photo corners

Happy Anniversary

Did you realize that it's QKD 3rd anniversary???? Woohoo, how exciting is that. QKD has so many wonderful stamps and Kelly Kost has created the stamps we are showcasing on today's blog hop. I hope you got here from Nancy's awesome blog, but if not, start at the top and begin again. You certainly don't want to miss any of these projects.


My stamp was titled the Baker so I created a birthday card - who doesn't love to bake for a party!!!!



Since I just got some new Cuttlebug embossing folders and some wide ribbon, I just had to showcase her again.

Alex
Meredith
Penny
Jules
Kelly B
Sara
Anessa
Lara
Linda
Anita
Nancy
Steph YOU ARE HERE
Helene
Vicki
QKD Store

Now head on over to Helene's blog and see what she has in store for you.

Happy Anniversary QKD.

Wednesday blogging

It's another blog hop Wednesday and it's QKD anniversary celebration.
Today's challenge from Queen Kat was to use the colors: purple, pink, grey, white, and since we are celebrating Queen Kat's 3rd anniversary, I thought an anniversary card was in order. So I used the Spring Love set.



Don't forget to check out everyone's creations this week:
QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Andrea's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog YOU ARE HERE
Queen Kat Designs Store


And there are sales at the store, so be sure to check them out. Use coupon code BL10at 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.) Have fun shopping.

Queen Kat Sale

If my words had wings

This is another digi image from Aisne's Creations and she is so cute. Many of these fairy images can be used for so many different cards.

Digital image Fairy by Aisne's Creations at DigiScrap Station
Pattern Paper: Basic Grey
Die cuts: Spellbinders, Nestabilities
Stamp: Stampendous
Ink: Memories, Colorbox

Enjoy your day.

Congratulations

Check out this cool digi image from Aisne Creations - totally sweet!! Wouldn't it make a great baby card.

Yummmmm

Morning everyone. Over at Queen Kat Designs Store, the challenge was to create a 3D Thanksgiving item using the color red, 2 Queen Kat stamps and 2 embellies. So I created this candy bar wrapper with the wrong colors!!!! That'll teach me to read directions!!! Oh well, someone will love it any way.

Go check out the store, there are some fabulous sales going on.



Supplies:
Paper: Stash
Stamps: Queen Kat
Ink: Memories
Ribbon: ACMoore

Queen Kat Designs

Another card I've been working on. Since I don't drink coffee, I had to adapt this QK stamp to my needs. So easy to do too - I just covered coffee with stickers that spelled tea and my card is all set. Of course, I cut it out with my Cricut and From My Kitchen cartridge.

Check out these cards I made with Queen Kat's Ride with me stamp set. Full of tons of images, some of them, like the Christmas Tree, Pumpkin, Black Cat and Witches hat, are perfect for creating "inchies".




Go see what Queen Kat has in store today.
Queen Kat Designs Store

It's Wednesday!!!

It's time again for another Queen Kat Wednesday blog hop. Check out all the awesome creations by the team. And there is a sale this week: buy 2 stamp sets and get 1 separates stamp free ($3.99 or less) or buy 3 separates get 1 free. How awesome is that!!!

Now onto my stamp who is appropriately named: Peppermint. Isn't she sweet!



Supplies:
Stamp: Queen Kat Designs
Markers: Copic
Cardstock: Bazzill
Pattern Paper: Stash
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug
Ribbon: Stash
Brads: Making Memories


Don't forget to check out everyone's creations this week:
QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
Maria's blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Andrea's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog YOU ARE HERE
Katarina's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

And mark you calender to check out Queen Kat's Birthday hop on November 19th. You won't want to miss it!!!

It's fairy time

Isn't this fairy adorable??? I just love it. It's one of a series of digital images created by Aisne's Creations at DigiScrap Station.



Supplies:
Digital image: Aisne's Creations at DigiScrap Station.
Pattern paper: Provocraft
Embossing: Cuttlebug
Ink: Colorbox

Reindeer Fun

Isn't this reindeer just adorable?

It's another in a series of digital images created by Aisne's Creations at DigiScrap Station. Each one is just beautiful.
Pattern Paper: Karen Foster
Stamp: Inkadinkadoo
Ink: Memories

Trick or Treat

Don't you just love Halloween with all the little trick or treaters visting. We don't get too many, but with it being a Saturday this year, we are hoping for more than usual. So I've been creating Halloween goodie bags - so much fun and so easy to do.



Supplies:
Bag
Bazzill cardstock
Cosmo Cricket pattern paper and something else!
Studio G stamps
Memories ink
Assorted ribbons.

Let's Do Coffee

It's Wednesday. Time again for another Queen Kat blog hop. So grab a cup of coffee and check out everyone's awesome work. I hope you got here from Nancy's awesome blog. If not, just start at the top of this list and view each blog. You are going to find some awesome creations.

Today's challenge From Queen Kat was to interpret the design as shown on her blog. There was so much to choose from, but ultimately I decided on the coffee cup and the rich colors. Cutting the coffee cups with my Cricut, I had the perfect Queen Kat stamp to use. Then I added a little bling - a girl's gotta have bling!!!!!




Supplies:
Stamps: Queen Kat
Die cuts: Cricut, From My Kitchen
Embossing: Cuttlebug
Cardstock: Bazzill
Pattern paper: MME
Bling: Heidi Swapp


QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
Maria's blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Andrea's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog YOU ARE HERE
Queen Kat Designs Store

Blog Candy alert!!!

Lookie what I found:
http://www.craftychatter.com/2009/10/surprise-blog-candy-giveaway.html

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

I love reindeer and Aisne has created a wide assortment of digital reindeer to use for holiday projects.



Digital image Reindeer by Aisne's Creations at DigiScrap Station
Pattern Paper: Making Memories
Embossing folder: Cuttlebug
Stamp: Studio G
Ink: Memories

Beach Babe

I created this layout about my friend's granddaughter for Creative Express. My assignment was to use this great Imaginisce product line and Life is a Beach cartridge. And, can't forget my Cuttlebug folders!! I just love the bikini border cut, so I just had to add a little bling to it.



Supplies:
Cardstock: Bazzill
Pattern paper: Imaginisce
Cartridge: Cricut, Life is a Beach
Embossing: Cuttlebug embossing folders
Brads: Making Memories

Fabulous Fall

Just wanted to share another Cricut layout. This time I used A Child's Life cartridge. The letters (including the scalloped oval), the pumpkins and the leaves were all cut from this cartridge. You know by now that I love embossing, so I used Cuttlebug embossing folders.



Supplies:
Die cuts: Cricut Expression, A Child's Life cartridge
Pattern paper, stickers: Basic Grey, Recess
Embossing: Cuttlebug

Happy Fall Y'all

Welcome to another edition of Queen Kat's Royal Wednesday blog hop. I hope you got here from Sara's lovely blog. If not, just start at the top of this list and view each blog. You are sure to be inspired.

Today's challenge From Queen Kat was to use black, orange, purple and white. These are perfect fall colors so I created this fall card.



Supplies:
Queen Kat Fall stamp
Prism Cardstock
Doodlebug pattern paper
Cuttlebug die and embossing folder
Brilliance Ink
Smooch Ink

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 YOU ARE HERE
Ashley's blog
Katarina's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

And don't forget the sales at the store!
55% off of all clearance
30% off of these stamps:
Thanksgiving Dragon
Christmas Tree Dragon
Off Beat Alphabet
Jester Alphabet
through 10/25/09

INTRODUCING

Thanksgiving dragons. Aren't they adorable????

Queen Kat Designs has a new stamp designer, Melia Newman. Melia has created this adorable Thanksgiving dragon and a Christmas dragon. You have got to go see what the team has created with these stamps. Check out the QKD blog and the Queen Kat Designs Store for some fantastic sales this week. While at the blog, check out the mini blog hop going on. You are sure to be delighted.

Supplies:
Queen Kat Thanksgiving Dragons Stamp
Queen Kat Heart's to You Stamp
Copic markers
Prism cardstock
Cuttlebug Distressed Stripes Embossing Folder

Beautiful Fall Day

Nothing quite says fall like pumpkins. One of the local churches had tons of pumpkins and I couldn't resist taking a photo. Most of the farm here have closed, so photo ops are a little scarce!!


And since it was such a beautiful day (cold but crisp), it's perfect dog walking days. Paulie loves being out in this weather.

Scrappin' Sports Stuff

Woohoo, I am a new designer at Scrappin' Sports Stuff (www.ScrappinStuff.com) and am so excited. They have some fabulous sports papers and embellishments for the sports enthusiast. I would just like to thank Kathy for selecting me as part of the team!!

Check out this eye candy on Twinkles aka Chris Olsen's blog. It's fantastic. Happy Birthday Chris (http://twinklesglow-glowbug.blogspot.com).

Queen Kat's Royal Wednesday blog hop

Welcome to another edition of Queen Kat Royal Wednesday blog hop. This is my first blog hop and I am truly excited to participate. I hope you got here from Sara's amazing blog. If not, just begin at the top of the list and go from there.

This week's challenge was to use a sketch created by Queen Kat herself. And this is my interpretation.



Supplies:
I wanted to reintroduce you to a retired stamp set from Queen Kat-Totally Sweet and it is totally sweet
K&Company pattern papers
Prima flowers
Colorbox ink
Stickles for a little bling

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 YOU AREHERE
Ashley's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Creepy Card

In keeping with the upcoming Halloween season, here's a card to get you in the spirit.



Supplies:
Bazzill and Prism cardstock
Making Memories pattern paper and brads
Cricut Stretch Your Imagination cartridge
Memento Tuxedo Black ink

First Copic Card

Well, I did it! I got hooked on Copic Ciao Markers. Didn't want to do it, but I fell hard. I've been taking a monthly class on using these markers and I must say, with practice, I can definitely see the difference in my work.
This is my FIRST completed card and I love it. I wasn't too sure last night, but when I looked this morning, I was fine with it. Of course, I just had to use my Happy Birthday Cuttlebug embossing folder (can't live without them) along with some Making Memories pattern paper.

Autumn Splendor

I love fall with it's clean, crisp air and crunchy leaves. I recently created this card with Basic Grey's Lemonade papers, Cuttlebug cut and emboss leaves and photo corner, Smooch gold ink over the veins of the leaf. The stamp is by Stampland which I stamped in Adirondak Ginger and the bling is from my stash

Queen Kat Designs

Yesterday was my first "official" blog post on Queen Kat's blog. I don't have too many stamps YET, but I am pleased with how my card turned out.


I stamped with Ranger Ginger ink and then cut out the flowers and the bracket. I used the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder on the flowers for some added dimension and the Allegro embossing folder with a touch of ink on some Making Memories pattern paper. I then assembled the card onto some Bazzill cardstock. A perfect, quick and easy card for a friend.

Marks Paper Company

I just love this line of paper and since Marks Paper Company is holding a contest, I thought I'd post this. The challenge was to use 75% Marks papers and create a fall or halloween layout. I found these photos from a birthday party my son attended in 1999 and created a layout with their English Garden Collection.
Supplies:
Cardstock: Prism
Pattern paper: Marks Paper
Ink: Colorbok
Embossing folder: Cuttlebug
Die Cuts: Cricut, Plantin
Brads: stash

Queen Kat Stamps

Woohoo, I am just so excited. I am a new Royal Stamping Maid for Queen Kat Designs. How cool is that. Thanks Vicki for giving me this awesome opportunity. Can't wait to get started. Check out the store, they have some amazing products - www.katstamps.com

SO Excited!

I have something really exciting to share. I just got some amazing news, but I'm not ready to post it yet - Just know that it's HUGE!!!!
I hope to post about it very soon.

Free Cricut Cartridge

Check it out:



http://www.cricut.com/shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?id=361&s=1&sc=2

Post on the Cricut thread and you could potentially win a new cartridge. How exciting that is.

Gypsy Giveaway

Cutting Above is THE new place for industry news, review information, tutorials, videos and just about anything else related to scrapbooking and die cut machines!!

Oh goodness.......have you heard the news???? They are giving away 2 Gypsys. How exciting is that. Check it out - click on my sidebar to go to Cutting Above.

Cricut Gypsy

I am so excited about the release of the new Gypsy. I can't wait for it to come out.
I just got an email from HSN indicating they will have it on September 24 with an exclusive bundle. Oh my, I so need to check it out.

It's a birthday. Who wants a card?

These are all I Stampability stamps. I first stamped the background several times to cover. I then stamped my critters and lightly colored them before mounting to cardstock. The sentiment was added last to the left corner.

SUPPLIES: Stamps: Stampability, Corner punch: Stampin' Up, Ink: Colorbok, Markers: Marvy Uchida, Brads: Making Memories

This is one of my favorite cards!

I created a yellow 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 card, then cut the black a little smaller. I ran the black through the Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirls embossing folder. I then cut the scalloped piece from the Cricut Mini Monograms Cartridge. The scalloped pieces were cut from Spellbinders Nestability dies. The small square in the center was run through the Cuttlebug folder for more dimension. I stamped the sentiments and added some Craf T Chalk to the birthday cake.

SUPPLIES: Bazzill cardstock, Cricut Mini Monograms cartridge,Cuttlebug embossing folders, Imaginesce stamps, Craf T Chalk, Memento ink,Staples

Was working with the beautiful Technique Tuesday stamps recently. The Damask stamp is lovely and created a really nice background. Once I had the background completed, I used the Cuttlebug Script embossing folder over it. I love how it looks!!

I then used Technique Tuesday stamps for DAD and cut them out, leaving a little border which I inked some more.

A little ribbon, some mini hearts (also Technique Tuesday and cut out) were attached with Around the Block's Paper Tagger (love that thing!).

Well, it was my nephew's 18th birthday yesterday so I created this card for him.

Pattern paper:Making Memories Just Chillin Teen line

Embossing folder: Cuttlebug Happy Birthday folder Stamps: MSE, PSX

Ink: Ranger

Birthday Sale

As promised, www.creativexpress.com is having an awesome sale for it's birthday. Check out some of these deals - the sale runs through September 10:

Original Cricut + tote for $140
Reduced pricing on Cricut Cartridges (Beyond Birthdays is on special sale through Monday)
Cricut blades and mats are 40% off
Cuttlebug alphas are reduced
Stickles are 25% off
Most paper collections are 40% off
YUDU inks are 40% off
YUDU machine is $229

So what are you waiting for - go shopping - it's a perfect weekend for it.
Just click on this link http://www.creativexpress.com/blog/ and check it out.

Happy shopping.

Happy Birthday Creativexpress!!!!

In honor of it's birthday, Creativexpress is going to have some awesome sales starting tomorrow. Stay tuned 'cause I'll be posting more details tomorrow.

Creative Express

I have been picked up for a second term at Creative Express and I am so honored and thrilled. We have created some wonderful projects over the last year which you can see by viewing project descriptions and the next year is going to be even more exciting.
Thanks CX!!

Christmas cards

I used Nestabilities dies to cut the circle in this cardstock. Then I stamped my image and attached with stitching. I colored with watercolor pencils. I love the touch of red and gold ribbon I added. Hey, it's never too early to start Christmas cards!!

JustRight stamps

CPS has a sketch challenge this week and JustRite is hosting. How exciting is that!!! I have

fallen in love with JustRite Stamps and their new, fabulous designs and can't wait to play with more of them.

For my Thank You card, I used:

JustRight's 1 5/8 Designer Centers and Borders

K&Co premade card

MME pattern papers

Adirondak and Colorbok inks

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle and Scalloped Circle dies

Brads

Instructions:

Cut the base pattern to fit the card front

Cut the central piece and run it through a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, then mat it with a coordinating paper

Stamp sentiment in Adirondack Ginger

Cut sentiment with Nestabilities circle die

Cut backing with Nestabilities scalloped circle die

Punch small flowers from the MME collection and attach with brads

Ink all edges then assemble card

Bo Bunny Mango Luau

What an amazing line. I love it's bright colors and the fact that you don't have to use it for vacation photos. It's great for cards too.

Supplies:

American Crafts cardstock

BoBunny Mango Luau pattern paper

Tsukineko ink

Hero Arts, Stampendous stamps

Basic Grey brads

Cuttlebug embossing folders

Paulie

Since we adopted Paulie, he has become a wonderful addition to our family. He is still afraid of people, but has a wonderful time when we take him to the dog parks. We are hoping with time, his fear will lessen and he'll enjoy life more. The only thing that drives me nuts is that he LOVES my shoes!!!! 3 pairs chewed to bits in 2 1/2 months and he has lots of chew toys!!!