Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge Week #15 (MMSC15)

This is my MMSC15 entry for the Midnight Madness week 15 sketch challenge. I've had the badge on my blog for a long time. I love the cards posted on this site and drool over the great prizes. Tonight, I FINALLY made a card for the weekly challenge! I loved the way the sketch worked up. I used my leftover Graphic 45 papers from the Fashionista and Communique collections.

QKD Royal Wednesday Blop Hop

COLOR CHALLENGE:
TEAL AND PINK



Did you come from AlienAnessa 's awesome blog? Then you know IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER BLOG HOP! If you started with me, please click on Queen Kat Designs -- it takes you back to the main site where you can start at the beginning of the blog, check out the store, see our galleries, and so much more! For this color challenge, I chose an acrylic card and white ink. I used the QKD Funky Swirl stamp and a sentiment from the QKD Take a Journey greetings set that are two of the new August releases. The sentiment (embossed) label (Nestabilities) and the swirl with pink Stickles accents are on top of the acrylic card. On the inside of the acrylic card are the pink label and teal paper cut with a Fiskars border punch. (The teal paper is the same as I used for my designer box in the post below. It was difficult to capture the full color through the acrylic.) Please continue the hop to Alex, our newest team designer. You won't be disappointed. Here is a list of all of the QKD designers' blogs. I wouldn't want you to miss any of the great teal and pink projects created for today.
QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
Penny's blog
Tina's blog
Vicki's blog
Maria's blog
Kelly's blog
Kelly Jean's blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Andrea's blog
Victoria's blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
my blog: you are here
Alex's blog

BLOG CANDY ALERT

This looks like a fantastic must have for my library shelf. Check it out. You also may want to sign up for a chance to win the free book. I posted this on my blog candy bar to the right. Ink Stains

Morphed

Here's a layout that has been morphing over the past two weeks. It started as a Whisper Challenge on the Scrapbooking and Crafting Friends website where I'm a DT'er. I had never done a challenge like this one, and it turned out to be quite an interesting experience. The first person created a layout, took a photo of it, and emailed the photo to the next person on the list. That person tried to figure out the sketch map and create a similar layout, photo it, and email it to the next person on the list. Just like the game of Whispers or Telephone, you never know how it's going to end up on the other end. I was number 5 on the list. Mine looked nothing like the first one (which we got to see after the game was completed). Then I used the layout for a summer themed blog hop. Today, I altered it (as I'm never satisfied with the finished product) to include titles, flowers and bling. So today you'll see it on the QKD official blog for my DT Stampin' Saturday post because I used a QKD sentiment stamp as part of the title. And I'll probably post it on a couple other sites I'm involved with. I like to get the most out of the time I put into a project. To use one of my ds' expressions: That's how I roll. (If you click on the photo to enlarge it, you'll see that just when I snapped the pic, the wind blew a little object into the letter G. lol---too hot to go back out and redo the photo shoot!)

Queen Kat Designs Royal Wednesday Blog Hop

Did you come from AlienAnessa 's awesome blog? Then you know IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER BLOG HOP! We've made it easy for you. Since I'm at the end of the list, all you have to do is click here on Queen Kat Designs and it takes you back to the main site where you can start at the beginning of the blog, check out the store, see our galleries, and so much more! If you started with me, please be sure to follow the blog hop and see what all the designers created for today. We were challenged to use the sketch shown. I used the new QKD August stamp set release Owl n Stumpy (click on the words to see it in the store).

What I did and what I used: QKD stumpy stamp on double labels made with Nestabilities dies. Owl from set used to make random stamped background paper; paper then crumpled and distressed. Patterned papers from Graphic 45 and 7 Gypsies; sentiment from 7 Gypsies put inside bottle cap altered with Adirondack copper mixative alcohol ink; flowers from Prima and Hero Arts, Kaiser copper pearls; StazOn timber brown ink; Tim Holtz for Ranger distress inks in vintage photo, antique linen, and walnut stain.

QKD Royal Blog Hop and August Designs

Did you hop over here from AlienAnessa? Then you know today QKD reveals its August releases. I created cards with Owl n Stumpy stamp set. Stumpy is such a versatile stamp. It would look great as part of a collage. But today you get to see it up close and personal along with the cute little owl that accompanies it. I decided to go with a Halloween theme to get you thinking about how you could use this stamp in the coming months. If you started with me, I hope you take time to hop on all of the Design Team blogs by clicking on Queen Kat Designs and working your way back to me. I wouldn't want you to miss a thing!
Some of the Materials: Patterned Papers: K & Company Halloween Whimsy sandwiched in between two pieces of Little Yellow Bicycle Frightful Collection (Large Stripe); Card Stock: black, Stampin' Up Old Olive; Spellbinders Nestabilities label die; corner punch; Making Memories Spellbound Tiny Alpha Stickers.

Adornit Blog Hop

I'm very excited to be a part of this blog hop. I come from the Queen Kat Designs team. If you started here with me, please take take time to go back to the very beginning at Adornit . I wouldn't want you to miss any of the over 70 SUMMER FAVORITES posted today. Next up is Rebecca Saylor . For the hop, I made what I call a modern vintage layout to remind me of summers past. One of my favorite memories is of my girls and their dolls in their cute little matching nightgowns.
Summer also means being invited to lots of weddings. So I made this matchbox to hold a gift card. I topped the box with the QKD Magic Flamingos stamp. (Details are in the post below.)
And our summer family favorite is a sun and sand vacation. I utilized the QKD Paradise Found stamp set to recreate the moments. Enjoy the rest of your summer and scrap a lot!

QKD Royal Blog Hop Challenge: Create a Box

This week the Design Team was challenged to create or decorate a box so I made a matchbox to hold a gift card for an upcoming wedding. I used the QKD stamp, Magic Flamingos (another Maigan Lynn design).


Did you hop over here from AlienAnessa? I'm near the end of a very creative blog hop. If you started with me, I hope you take time to hop on all of the Design Team blogs by clicking on Queen Kat Designs and working your way back to me. I wouldn't want you to miss a thing! If you'd like to make a box for a chance to win a QKD stamp set, you can learn all about it at the QKD site where you begin the royal blog hop. Next up is Nina.

Deets on the matchbox: I exactly doubled the size of pattern that I found here. I used heavy doubled sided patterned cardstock from My Mind's Eye, the Just Dreamy 2 collection. The Memento Tuxedo Black ink works so well on the QKD acrylic stamps. I used my Spellbinders Nestabilities, some Prismacolor and Copic markers, Color Box Seaglass chalk ink, Offray ribbon, foam adhesive (pop dots) and my ribbon punch to create a festive look with the QKD Magic Flamingos stamped image. The famous doubled sided red tape works well to hold the box together.

The QKD store sale blinkie will be on my sidebar until the end of the sale. Clicking on the blinkie will take you directly to the store. You'll find the Magic Flamingos there as well as lots of other fantastic items. EVERY order over $25 gets a Grab bag worth at least $13.50 while supplies last. Sale runs from 7/22/09 through 7/31/09 or until everything is gone!

Vintage Creations Layout

Remember the fan from a couple of posts ago? Well, here it is on a layout, as promised. I'm a newbie Design Team member (DT'er) in the Vintage Creations group at Scrapbooking and Crafting Friends (SCF). My assignment was to create an example of things to do with B&W Photos. I'm here to tell ya procrastination pays off for me. I was kicking around some ideas when the fan challenge came up during the SCF 24 Hour Crop. I immediately knew I had to use the fan in a vintage layout. Then I discovered the layout also fit the criteria for the Simply Sassy vintage challenge during their 24 Hour Crop at SNR as well as the Camp Songs Summer Camp challenge at Coordinates Collections. Each challenge has it's own criteria and deadline, so I rarely get a perfect fit like this. I'm lovin' it!
Project Materials: B&W photo of my mom's best friend; Basic Grey Porcelain paper collection; green distress ink, vintage cardboard photo frame altered with distress ink.

This and That

Penny (another Royal Stamping Maid) and I are responsible for Saturday's post on the Queen Kat Designs blog , so please check it out. For one thing, you'll learn in more detail, how I came to make this card, using the QKD Princess Carriage Stamp and Sayings Mini Stamp Set.Keepsakes by Melissa is celebrating a blogaversary with a great give-away. I have the site posted under blog candy on my bar to the right. Keep going til you get almost to the bottom of the list--that's where the direct link is to her site.
And here is another blog candy give-away of some beautiful art pieces: http://shellyraewood.blogspot.com/