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

ONLY 1 1/2 DAYS TO GET IN YOUR VOTES!!!

I am entered in the Cricut Gypsy 24 hr Design Challenge on Cricut.com. The grand prize winner gets a trip to New York for the Manhattan Michael's grand opening with a $2000 Michael's shopping spree! Second-Fifth place each win the full 50 cartridge library from Michael's! 50 Cricut cartridges for free!!! That's a $4000 value! I would be happy to get 5th place, but I know the votes are gonna be close for the top 5! I don't know if I even have a chance, but I would LOVE to win any place as I worked very hard on my project!


Please vote for me here:
http://www.cricut.com/gypsy/designchallenge/entries.aspx?did=273



Here's my project:

THANK YOU FOR VOTING!

Hugs- Kelly

New QKD Monday Blog Hop!

We're switching it up at QKD! There will now be blog hops on Mon & Wed! I'll be sharing a project each Monday here on my blog- as well as my Tuesday posts at the QKD blog!

If you didn't come here from Vicki, well hop on back to the QKD blog to start from the beginning!
I wanted to share the CUTE card I did for a special QKD new release of these adorable new dragon stamps, in case you missed it on release day! This one is Thanksgiving Dragons:

I'm just so excited about this new artist & my son is a big fan of dragons so I can't wait to see more and more!

Now, hop on over to Helene!!! And when you're done with the hop...head on over to the QKD store!

Hugs-Kelly

PTI Blog Hop!

Time for the PTI holiday blog hop! I wanted to share tonight my favorite PTI holiday card that I've done so far this year. It's also the simplest, but gorgeous in it's simplicity (I think!) :)

The poinsettias are simply stamped in 3 different pti colors and than gold sticky back gems are added to the middles in a cluster. I added a strip of paper along the bottom using a scalloped border punch.
Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

Unrelated- please vote for me for the Gypsy 24hr design challenge:
http://www.cricut.com/gypsy/designchallenge/entries.aspx?did=273
Thanks!!!!