Cards and Easter Egg Dyes

After my kids finished dyeing Easter eggs, I looked at the all the cups and thought --- what could I do with them. So, I thought about using them as misters, but I didn't have any spray bottles (note to self - get spray bottles). Then I thought about using them like a wash.

So, I grabbed a napkin, and then used the napkin to put the dye on cardstock. It came off as a watercolor type of technique and I really liked how it turned out. Here's some cards that I made using this technique.




I used the Knowledgeable Pixie stamp for the top card and the QKD Get Inked kit for the bottom card. If you are not on the list for the kit, then get on it!!! This is a fabulous kit!!

T3 - Queen Kat Designs

It's a distressing day here -- well, not the type of distress that makes us sad; this is the fun distressing of papers!!!

So, before we get to the good stuff, here are the details that you definitely want to know!

We challenge you to join along with our distressing challenge. So, here are the rules of Triple Tiara Tuesday:

- Each week 3 Royal Court Members will host a challenge on their blog.

- 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 the players to compete for each month. So if people enter each week, they have 4 chances to win the monthly prize of $25.

- The contestants will post their link to their card on the Inlinkz widget on the QKD blog. (There will be 1 per month.)



Now, here's my card:



I used a fun new technique of inking my paper and then crumbled the paper before adding it to the card base. I wanted to create a look that mimicked the appearance of books stacked. Thanks for looking; now make sure you check out Wynneth's and Loretta's blogs to see their fabulous creations!

April 27 - Mitzi Wiuff New Releases!!!

Absolutely fabulous was my reaction to the designs by Mitzi Wiuff!! I couldn't believe how beautiful these stamps were. So, if you have been following along with the hop, you also know. If you just stumbled onto my blog, then go back and start at the QKD blog, hop along, and you should have made it here to my blog from Chris' blog.

Okay, I got to play with Lily of the Valley, and again, oh my!!!

Here are my creations using this stamp:




Thanks so much for stopping by; make sure you head over to Jan's blog to see what she has created for this hop.

Welcome to the Jungle!

My life as a jungle -- well to have the proper jungle, you need some animals. I might not have "wild" animals around here, but I do have some adorable ones (and most of them are courtesy of Queen Kat Designs)

One of my favorites is Flutterby




Or Mr. Froggie



or Curious Kitty



All cute animals which could come live with you in your jungle!

QKD Thoughts

Before I get to sharing a little something with you, I wanted to share something fabulous with you!!

Kats Magical Patches!!!

For all you sewing girls out there, some of the fabulous creations by QKD have now been made into Fabric Patches or into Iron-on Patches!!!





Are these just fabulous!!! The top two designs are iron-ons and the bottom one is a fabric patch!! And there are so many more great designs to be had.

Well, after those, I will just save my card for another day because I cannot compete with these!!