Samatha Nowak blog hop

Hi and welcome to the Samantha Nowak blog hop I am your second stop on this wonderful hop.  As always the hop starts at the QKD blog.   I am sharing the chinese Princess image with you.  You can find all of the stamps you find featured on the hop today at the Queen Kat store   Now i am going to send you on down the road to my fellow design team member Vicki.


Have a great day. 

perfect day

Over on the bells and whistles challenge blog this week theme is anything but winter.  I choose to use cupcake cause she my favorite bells and whistles image and one of my favorite kind of cards to make is a happy card to share with someone on their birthday.  I went with a grey and blue theme for this card. 

Image is cupcake
Papers are basic grey and stampin up
cardstock is retired stampin up sage shadow
colored image with copics

Queen Kat Celebrates Melia Newman

  Hello bloggers it saturday and i have a real special treat for you today.  If you like Melia Newman wonderful stamps then you need to head over to the Queen Kat Designs facebook page right here cause we are celebrate her great awesome designs.  We will be celebrating Melia Newman and her fantastic fantasy animal stamps this weekend!! There will be giveaways on the QKD Facebook Fan page along with some fun things to oogle over!  So hop on over and if you own some of these great stamps then we love if you link up creations and share them on the queen kat page.  Lets celebrate this awesome designer.  If you love to get some of her stamps you can pick them up at the Queen Kat Store

Image i used on my card is from the Whip Dip dragon stamp set. 

Simple adorable sugar nellie

I was recently able to get 3 of the new simply adorable digital images from sugar nellie. I really like how simple and sweet and easy they are to color and add to a card.  On the sugar bowl we are following a sketch this week.  My image is joy sitting and she avialable as a digital image from funky kits.  I colored her up with copics and then paired her up with papers from the fine and dandy line from in my minds eye.  I thought the flowers and crystals added a nice soft touch to go with this sweet little girl. 

T3 day QKD

Here's how it goes:

- Each week 3 Royal Court Members host a challenge on their blog. (the same challenge)

- You start at the QKD blog and visit the 3 challenge hosts on their personal blogs. (Leave us some love and a link to your project so we can return the favor. *wink*)

- QKD will offer up a $25 stamp gift certificate for you to compete for each month. So if you enter each week, you have 4 chances to win the monthly prize of $25.

 

This week challenge is an inspirational challenge and we are being inspired by this picture

Here my card featuring myka jelina image sunny which is available at the queen kat store. 

Make you stop by the other two challenge hosts which are Chris and Penny  hope you join us this week for chance to win 25.00 to queen kat designs.

greeting farm love

Over at stamp something this week anything goes.  This little cutie is one of my favorites from the greeting farm tt-madelyn.  I colored her up with copics and then paired her up with in my minds eye love nest.  The sentiment is from paper make up stamps.  Have a great friday and stamp something.

Etsy inspired la pomme

For this week etsy inspired the shop is la pomme and of course your to be inspired by something you see in the shop.  I saw this stack of vintage music sheets and i was off and running. 

My card features paper from echo park be mine collection and the butterfly and matching sentiment are from gina k designs.  I used gold embossing powder for the butterfly and tim holtz distressing ink to make the paper less white and more old vintage looking.  I hope your inspired to go be etsy inspired.

for the boys

I love this image from motivet stamps it is little boy with umberlla i think he looks like he just having a blast playing with these ducks. I am entering this card into two challenges.

Whimise doodles-all about the boys is the theme for this week.  I thought this little boy was perfect for this theme.  My paper is from in my minds eye fine and dandy.

Simon says  - it is sketch time follow the provided sketch.

Delight in the day

It time to work on some cards that make you think of spring and warm days. Is it spring yet.  This adorable image is from mo's digital pencil and the sentiment is from unity stamp co. I am entering this card in the following challenges.

The Pixie cottage- follow sketch or theme.  I did both sketch and the theme was favorite coloring medium.  My favorite coloring medium is copics and using those to achieve a great look with a neat background. at the same time. 

I copic lover-colors this week are pink, yellow and white.  Image is from mo's and sentiment is unity.

enjoy the magic of the day

I got another christmas card done and i did something new to me i used a pre colored digital stamp. Now don;t get me wrong i love to color but it was nice to just get this one done and over with i think it took like 5 mins.  I am entering this card into the following challenges

Dustin pike-its cold outside. use a winter time themed image that is a dustin pike image.  Sentiment is from tlc creations.  This image was freebie dustin gave i think it was in december.

ABC Christmas challenges - a is for anything Christmas and snow and ice and being cold are all part of that lovely holiday.

I also followed the sketch over on splitcoast stampers and that is sketch number 315. In case you want to check that out.

monochromatic

I love how this card turned out.  The colors worked so well together i was quite pleased with how it all came together. I am entering this card into the following challenges.

Karens doodles-use a karens doodles image and follow the theme which was monochromatic. I went with a white theme and used white as a neutral color.  The image is maggie and me then.  I used r37 and r35 for my reds.

Cute card thursday-monochromatic. 

Hope you have a great day.

time to unwind.

Over on the kraftin kimmie blog this week are being challenged to unwind. Which means no ribbon, no twine, no fibers of any kind.  So i fear my card is a bit plain at least for me but i still think it turned out cute.  I used lisette and copic markers. Hope you have a great day.

Kristie Silva blog hop Queen Kat Designs

Hi and welcome to Kristie Silva blog hop you should of hopped from Nina blog or if your just now joining this hop please start back and the beginning at QKD blog.

Along this hop you will find samples from my fellow design team featuring lots of wonderful samples from the creepie cuties line.  This is a great line of stamps from a very talented artist.  You can pick these stamps today at the queen kat designs store. 

Okay time to send you on your way your next stop is Valerie. 

Have a great day.

January digi day with Stamp something

Stamp something is hosting there january digi challenge this week. Which makes this challenge really easy if you like digital stamps, which i do, create a project using a digital stamp.  I love mo's digital pencil and i love them even more when i can combine a cute sentiment with them.

Project ingredients

Paper is from in my minds eye fine and dandy
Image is mo's digital pencil buds
Sentiment is tlc creations
Image colored with copics
Square nestablties

Proud Mama

This card features one of my favorite images from whimsy stamps Proud Mama.  I was inspired by another card stampers card that i saw online where she colored this image in browns and oranges.  You can see here card here

I am entering this card in two challenges.

Simon Says challenge - New beginnings is the theme so i went with a baby themed card.

The pixie cottage - follow sketch and or theme.  The theme is punches i used a martha stewart border punch called scroll lace, and a corner punch to make the corner punches on the image. 

Paper : fine and dandy true blue in my minds eye
Flowers prima
Border punch is martha stewart scroll lace
Corner punch is ek sucess
Image is whimsy stamps proud mama carousel horse crissy armstrong
Colored with copics
Cardstock is retried stampin up and kraft.

Tie it up with sparkle creations

Sparkle creations first challenge of the new year is a really easy one.  Tie it up.  So get out your ribbon, twin and make some cute additions to your cards.  I used cocktail emily for my card.  I added some ribbon along the bottom and used a cute matching bow in the center.  I colored emily with copic markers and my paper is from in my minds eye lovenest.

Queen Kat Designs January Release

It January 5th and that means it release day at Queen Kat Designs and boy do we have some new goodies for you to stamp with.  The above cutie is a new critter is by Amy Brown.

This lovely fairy is name starshine and is also by Amy Brown.

My final card shows you Alisha and she is drawn by a new artist Myka Jelina.    She is new to Queen Kat Designs this month and you will find 3 of her creations over at the Queen Kat store.  Make sure you stock up on your queen kat stamps cause starting on tuesdays there will be challenges and you will want to be able to particpate.

Icopic lover red, brown, cream

Over on the icopic lovers blog we are challenge to use red, brown and cream on our creation. I used an image from ladybug and friends called especailly for you.  My papes are from cosmo cricket, image is colored with copics and i used some prima baby roses to accent the card. 

Embossing Christmas card challenges

At the Christmas Card challenge blog this week we are using embossing on our Christmas cards.  I used two different ways to emboss.  I used my 5 x 7 snowflake embossing folder for the background and then i used my nestablties for the oval and rectangle and embossed them.  My image is from the greeting farm warm and cozy snoman set.  Ribbon is from michaels and image is colored with copics.  Have fun and get a jump on those christmas cards.

Sentimental sunday friendship and mo's facebook freebie

On the sentimental Sunday's challenge blog we are celebrating friendship this week.  I choose to use one of the freebie sentiments from the blog and paired it with Mo manning facebook freebie.  You can pick this image up for free from mo tell January 3rd.  Just follow her on facebook and pick it up in the photos section and be sure to say thank you.  The paper i used is from in my minds eye lovenest.  I used my scallop trim border punch from stampin up.  Added a spiral clip with a heart charm.  Image is colored with copics.

bless the beast and children

Mo's digital pencil challenge this week is to make a card that features mo's images of pets and children.  One of my favorite mo's images is this one and it called buds.  I paired it with a sentiment from tlc creations and my paper is in my minds eyes fine and dandy.  I cut the yellow border punch piece with my cricut and design studio using the graphically speaking cartridge.   I hope you enjoy my first card of 2011.