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Welcome to yours truly’s first blog hop as a design team member – for none other than Queen Kat Designs!! If you’ve come from Jen’s blog, then you’re probably sitting there stunned at all the wonderful creations with new stamps that you’ve seen so far! If you’ve blessed me with a chance visit, you’ll want to start at the QKD blog to experience all the fun we’re having =)

Queen Kat is releasing a new stamp set today entitled “My Man,” and as soon as I saw it,  “Man of the Hour” just screamed numbers to me, and by extension it screamed clock!! This stamp set was the PERFECT opportunity for me to use DCWV Grade School papers and Paper Studio watch faces that I bought eons ago, thinking I would use them right away. Ha!

Paper Studio watch face and photo turns

But now I have a stamp that gives me ideal justification for using all the watch faces I bought, so I’m a happy girl!

Man of the Hour card

The stamp set I used, and all the new stamps Queen Kat is releasing today, are on sale for 25% off from July 1st through the 7th!! Let’s continue the fun and check out Lara’s blog!! Thanks for visiting and playing along with the new stamp release hop! And I appreciate reading what you think about my creations, so leave me some ♥love♥ if you’ve got a minute =)

This is my first Sunday post for the Queen Kat Designs blog, so I’m hoping that my card meets with everyone’s approval =)

I am not a person who can resist the fairies that QKD sells, and the only thing better than the fairies is the fact that they’re on sale until tomorrow, at 35% off!! Go snag some fairy magic for yourself!

Fancy Shimmer Willow Fairy

I used a bit of a different technique on this card, and amusingly it was completely accidental. I grabbed a ClearSnap Sienna dye ink pad rather than a pigment pad, and although I had everything prepared, that dye ink dried within seconds, so none of my clear embossing powder stuck. Given that I had this card in mind for a Sunday post, I decided it would be in bad taste to actually curse my luck, but rather I asked my Maker if He could bless me with a different plan. Ask and ye shall receive. Suddenly I remembered that I’d picked up one of the new Versamark Dazzle pads with shimmer to the watermark. Without cleaning the dye ink off my fairy stamp (it was as dry as the desert anyway), I pressed it once onto a Versamark Dazzle Frost pad, then stamped just a hair off-kilter from my original, dye-stamped image. After heat-embossing I was left with a perfectly embossed image with glittery shimmer to it! In the picture below what looks like maybe air pockets or divets is the glittery shimmer that is subtle and gorgeous in the ‘right’ light!

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Since this card is a CASE of one I found on Amy Sheffer’s blog, I wanted the same scoring on the background paper that Amy accomplished on her white background, BUT I don’t own a Scor-Pal. I glanced over at my handy 12″ Cutterpede cutter and noticed the measured grooves in it, and I thought HEY!! Why can’t I use my dry-embossing tool and those grooves to get me some scores?! So that’s what I did. I found it best to first score with the bigger ‘ball’ end of the tool, then for some added clarity gently press with the smaller ‘ball’ end, being ever so careful not to poke all the way through. It’s not that I don’t want a Scor-Pal, because I certainly do, but my finances often dictate that I establish work-arounds more often than not =)

Papers: Pure Luxury Cardstock, Gina K; Tres Jolie Chocolat, SEI; Bazzill Bling
Stamps: Willow Shimmer Fairy, Queen Kat Designs
Ink: Sienna Ancient Page, ClearSnap; Dazzle Frost watermark, Versamark
Dies: Classic Frame/Labels Three/Symbology, Nestabilities
Misc: half-pearls adhesive gems, K&Company

Thanks for reading my very first QKD post, and have an extremely blessed Sunday!

It’s a Royal Wednesday blog hop for Queen Kat Designs!!! If you came from Andrea’s blog, then you are on the right track, with your head spinning from all the wonderful creations you’ve seen along the way! The hop started at the QKD blog, so pop over there to experience all the fun from the beginning =)

I love this fairy for her seemingly carefree attitude. See the leg up in the air? For some reason it just makes me happy, thinking of her as I do my daughter: prancing around without a care in the world. That is how childhood should be, don’t you think? My terrible parents could have taken a valuable lesson from this fairy! =) I used some Cosmo Cricket Love Notes paper and chipboard “True” accent. The glittered fairy paper is from a piece of Once Upon a Time by DCWV. I stamped Ms. Lovely Elf Fairy with Timber brown StazOn ink and embossed with clear powder. I wanted her to truly shimmer on the paper so that she wasn’t outdone by the lower fairy, so I carefully painted her with apricot Shimmerz. To the left of the fairies you see just a hint of a decorative edge poking out; this was made with shimmery vellum and a Fiskars edger. I sewed on this card and used some Paper Warehouse ribbon. If you get over there fast, Queen Kat Designs still has 35% off acrylic stamps – act now before this deal is gone forever =)

QKD Elf Shimmer Fairy

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I absolutely love this QKD fairy silhouette from Queen Kat Designs!! I will be using this, and another one I got, as often as I can! Coupled with the La Crème paper from Die Cuts With a View (DCWV), the fairies can look so incredibly elegant! I stamped the fairy’s background with a Minuet sheet music stamp (after cutting it out with a Nestities Curved Rectangle die) and Pearlescent Beige Brilliance pigment ink by Tsukineko, then dried it with my heat gun so that it wouldn’t “take” any of the embossing powder from the fairy. In case you’re in the market for some awesome new acrylic stamps, visit the Queen Kat Designs store and get 35% off each stamp – that puts most of my favorites under $5 a piece!!! The store has some of the coolest stamps in my collection! Thanks for looking!

Willow fairy

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