Monday, January 19, 2009

Stuff for sale

Here are some items from my personal stash that I would love to clear out. If you see something you want please send me an email (lwatts@mchsi.com). If you don't agree with my prices feel free to make an offer. All REASONABLE offers will be considered.

All these items are sold in the lots they are listed in and I'd like to keep them together.

$15 - Creative Memories Titletopias and straight edge for making straight titles (also from Creative Memories) and a pack of memorabilia pockets (self-adhesive)


$8 - Card Lot - 7 rectangle cards with envelopes, 1 pack of 8 Paper Salon cards with envelopes (pink and brown), 8 gatefold cards with vellum envelopes, 25 regular greeting cards with envelopes, plus various cards and note cards cut out of Bazzill

$40 - Various Punches

Update!

So we've been working hard to get the new site up and running! I hope to have everything ready by the end of January.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Whew...sorry I've been neglectful!

The holidays have taken their toll on my stress level! I love the holiday season but I'm so glad that it's now passed. The kids are back into school and life can start to get back to normal.

I had a great sale during the month of December and cleared out a lot of inventory...great news since I'm moving to a new shopping cart setup!!! That's right - soon we'll be using a more user-friendly setup and we'll have a message board and gallery for everyone to use. I can't wait until it's all done. I'm busy daily trying to get all of the stock uploaded into the new store but it will be totally worth it once its done! There were a lot of problems with the current setup (people would place orders but couldn't pay!) so I'm hoping that this move will eliminate those issues.

Also, I have plans in the works for kits to start back up after the first quarter of the year. I'm still waiting to see what the economy does so I haven't set any firm plans but I do have several ideas I want to try and see what happens.

So, I hope everyone had a happy holiday season and I hope that 2009 goes much better than 2008 did!

Sunday, November 16, 2008

HUGE end of the year sale!

Queen Scraps is clearancing out EVERYTHING on from now until December 31! THe discounts change throughout the sale - below are the codes you'll need for discounts.

EOY30OFF - 11/15/08 to 11/23/08
EOY35OFF - 11/24/08 to 12/08/08
EOY40OFF - 12/09/08 to 12/15/08
EOY45OFF - 12/16/08 to 12/22/08
EOY50OFF - 12/23/08 to 12/31/08
Queen Scraps will also be discontinuing the monthly kit program. Since the January, February, and March kits were already put together I have put them up on the site for sale as well. You can see them below.










Wednesday, October 15, 2008

November Kit!!!




Here is our beautiful November kit! This is by far my favorite kit we've done. Here is what is included in this kit:

6 sheets of Prima Cavalier paper ($4.80)
3 sheets of My Little Yellow Bicycle - Vita Bella - Die-Cut Cardstock ($6)
6 sheets of Bazzill cardstock - 2 each of Paris, London, Fresh ($3.30)
4 Prima Cavalier brads ($1.75)
1 Prima Clear Stamp (design will vary) ($1.90)
1 Prima "Dress Up" transparancy - Love ($1.00)
1/4 package Bazzill Just the Edge cardstock - Black (.75)
1/2 pack My Little Yellow Bicycle - Vita Bella - Fresh Verse stickers ($2)
1/2 pack My Little Yellow Bicycle - Vita Bella - Fabric Borders ($2)
1/2 pack Prima Cavalier Ribbon (designs will vary)($3)
Total retail value of this kit - $26.50
Queen Scraps price - $22.50 (15% savings)

I will be putting a PayPal button on the right side of the blog for you purchase this kit!











































Best Friends Card

1) Cut out a square piece from the "Cashmere" Bazzill card stock and fold it in half. Then, round the corners. Ink it with black soot distress ink.
2) Cut out a rectangle piece from the "Brilliant White" Bazzill card stock and distress the edges using the scissors distressing technique. Ink it using weathered wood, vintage photo and black soot distress ink.
3) Draw a swirl using a black doodling pen on the right of that rectangle piece and use the "Stitching in Spiral" technique to stitch on it. Add some glitters (Stickles) to it. Paste the rectangle piece in the middle of the card.
4) Use a black doodling pen and doodle some lines at about a third of the rectangular piece.
5) Stitch a big rectangle around the card which overlaps the rectangle piece on it's side edges.
6) To create the flower on the left, cut out a flower using any flower template (just use any normal flowers) from the "All Spice" pattern paper (ink the edges using faded jeans distress ink)and a smaller flower from the "Periwinkle" pattern paper (ink the edges using black soot distress ink). Curl the petals using scissors or twizzer and attach both layers together. Add a big Kaisercraft Adhesive Pearls (included in the kit) in the middle of the flower and add some glitters (Stickles) to it.
7) To create the bigger flower in the middle, cut out a flower using any flower template (just use any normal flowers) from the "Mocha" pattern paper (ink the edges using vintage distress ink)and a smaller flower from the reverse side of the "All Spice" pattern paper (ink the edges using faded jeans distress ink). Curl the petals using scissors or twizzer and attach both layers together. Add a big Kaisercraft Adhesive Pearls (included in the kit) in the middle of the flower and add some glitters (Stickles) to it.
8)To create the small flower in the middle, cut out a flower using any flower template (just use any normal flowers) from the "All Spice" pattern paper (ink the edges using vintage photo distress ink) and curl the petals using scissors or twizzer. Add a big Kaisercraft Adhesive Pearls (included in the kit) in the middle of the flower and add some glitters (Stickles) to it.
9) Lastly, stamp your title of the card on the lower right of the card using black solvent ink.


Sources: October Kit from Queenscraps: Card stock: Bazzill; Pattern Paper: Kaisercraft; Embellishments: Kaisercraft Self Adhesive Pearls; Others not included in the kit: Ranger Distress Ink, Ranger Stickles, Tsukineko Staz On, zig pens, floss for stitching, glue dots and other adhesives.






























































Stiching Technique

To create this kind of stitching, first you need to draw a swirl or spiral. Then pre-poke your stitching holes with a crafting foam underneath your paper or card stock. Poke your stitching holes along the drawn swirl. Then start stitching. Don't worry about doing perfect zig-zag stitches all the way. For areas which are just too narrow or you need some space for the next zig-zag stitch, just stitch a normal stitch (see how I've stitched on the inner section of the spiral and at some areas of the spiral while I move along). This would actually make the stitching more interesting.