Royal Kat Wednesday

Hello, and Welcome to QKD's Royal Wednesday Blog Hop! You should have arrived from Nina's blog. If not, the hop starts here!

This week, we had a color challenge, use blue, silver, white, and grey. I used these colors on one of my pages for my Christmas Journal.


I added some red, because I loved this overlay which had red in it. I thought it would go well with the gnome.I colored him with copics and used some flock for his beard. Then I went back in with a pen and redrew the lines from the stamp to give it some definition.

Thanks for stopping by! Now head on over to Stephanie's blog to see what she made this week.

Here's the whole list, in case you missed it:
QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog
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Playing Catch Up!

Here are my pages that I haven't been posting. I started them all last week, but I kind of lost my mojo and none of them looked done to me. I'm still missing a couple of days but caught up otherwise for now. I'm going to post them a few at a time...

Day 7:


Day 8


Day 9


And Day 10, 11, and 12 still missing. Check back tomorrow for Days 13, 14, and 15.

Hello, and Welcome to QKD's Royal Wednesday Blog Hop! You should have arrived from Nina's blog. If not, the hop starts here!


This week, we had a sketch to work with:

And this is my take on it. I used some white cardstock and embossed with the snowflake Cuttlebug folder, and then I used the Holiday Sweater set. I colored in with copics, and popped up the mittens to use as an accent. The sentiment is from the Joe the Monster set.

Thanks for stopping by! Now, off you go to Stephanie's blog to see her take on the sketch!

Here's the whole list, in case you missed it:
QKD blog
Shannon's blog
Jules' blog
WIS blog
Bev (SG's) blog
Lara's blog
Anessa's blog
Nina's blog
Nancy's blog
Stephanie's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Day 6- Christmas Journal

Day 6
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The topic for Shimelle's class today is "Christmas Past." For some reason, last year I started a Christmas journal and never really worked on it. These are the pictures from my Santa Train trip that I never got to scrap. I tried something new with this one- I used a layered template from Peppermint Creative to make the photo collage. It was a 12x12 template. I put my photos in, and then I cropped the image to 8x8. There was a bit of negative space around the photo area. So I cut out the photos and mounted them on patterned paper and added my stickers and journaling tag. So much easier than cropping them all the traditional way! Holy smokes! I definitely will be using more of these.

Day 5- Christmas Journal

Day 5
Originally uploaded by xanesmommy

So far, my favorite entry for this year! Maybe my favorite page that I have made ever! Paper is SEI and Collage Press. Thickers for snowflakes, ribbon from K and Co, and 7gypsies sticker.

Day 4- Christmas Journal

Day 4
Originally uploaded by xanesmommy

Just my Hallmark ornaments from this year! I kind of struggled with a design on this one.

day3- Christmas Journal

day3
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Today we went to see Santa! I have some hidden journaling on this one, the little red Santa tag pulls out a journal card. I'm glad to be keeping up this year, thanks to the premade tags and that I precut all the paper before I started. It's a snap.