Design Team Call

Design Team Call QKR Stampede is looking to add some new talent to our existing design team! To learn more about what we’re looking for in our new design  team members, what you get and how to apply please keep  reading! What we’re looking for:

Agree to at least a 6 month term commitment.

• You must have an active personal blog,
• Create quality projects (cards, 3D/altered item, scrapbook) that reflect your personal style, originality and best use of the products we sell. 
• Ability to take (and edit) high quality photographs that highlight the products and the amazing artistic skills you have.  You must also be able to watermark your pictures.
• Participation in a private DT forum.
• At least 4 projects per month (more is better) using digital images from QKR Stampe store. . 
• Participation in design team special activities, challenges or requests as needed.
• Responsible, reliable people who meet deadlines and who feel comfortable promoting a company.
• International applicants are welcome to apply.

What you get:

• A 6 month term with the possibility of being offered an extension.
• Monthly Digital images of your choice to use in creating your weekly projects including sentiments..
• Encouragement, friendship and enthusiasm for and appreciation of your work!

 How to apply:

• Send an email to jackier@insightbb.com  with “ QKR Stampede design team application” in the subject. 
• List your name, and best email to contact you.
• Provide your blog address
• Include 4 of your best projects showcasing a variety of styles, projects and supplies. 
• A blurb about yourself and why you think QKR Stampede would be a good fit for you.

Call closes Friday June 21at 11:59PM EST.  Selected candidates will be notified via email no later than Wednesday June 26th. .  New members will be announced publicly and begin their term July 12th. .

We look forward to reviewing the applications!  Ready.  Set.  Go!  Good luck!!

Challenge #43- For Dad

Hello Crafty Friends, Happy Friday!

Welcome to QKR Stampede's 43rd Challenge! Thank you so much to all of you who joined us last week for our Ribbons & Bows Challenge! What Wonderful Creations!

Our Winner from Challenge #41 Via Random.org is:

#35 Carla Suto

 

Congratulations! Please Email Tina & Jackie with the words "QKR Stampede Challenge Winner" in the Subject Line! *Also, Don't forget to Grab the Winner Badge from our Side Bar for for your Blog!!

Our Top 5 Entries for Challenge #42 Are:

in no specific Order

#14 Lisa G
#44 Julie J
#15 Jen Leeflang

# 26 Doreen

#18 Kevin 

 

Congratulations! Please Grab The Top 5 Badge From our Side Bar to Display on your Blog!

**OUR PRIZE FOR BEING THE RANDOM WINNER IS 2 DIGITAL IMAGES OF YOUR CHOICE FROM OUR QKR STAMPEDE STORE! HOWEVER, IF YOU ENTER & WIN USING A QKR STAMPEDE IMAGE, YOU WILL WIN 5 DIGITAL IMAGES OF YOUR CHOICE!!*** 

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THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS:

  For DAD

We are very excited to Welcome our Guest Designer for the month of June

Please join us in welcoming

Trudy Harris-Thomas

Hey ya'll - I'm Trudy.  I'm somewhat of a newbie at cardmaking and blogging; posting my first creation and blog post just 6 months ago.  Prior to that I  actually owned a couple of little flower shops.  I live in a small agricultural community in South Central Florida with my husband, 2 rescued dogs and one very mean Amazon Parrott.  I live approximately 125 miles (round trip) to the closest crafts store.  I can no longer drive due to a medical condition so,  needless to say, I have to improvise often while working on my cards.  You know what they say - necessity is the mother of invention.  I make and/or create many of my own embellishments and rely on the internet heavily for exceptional companies to get me product quickly and at a good price.

I am primarily a card maker, however I do quite a bit of altered art and some scrapbooking; I am BIG on recycling and natural items in my projects.  I don't really have a set "style", although I lean toward Vintage and shabby chic in many of my personal creations where I have "free will".

I have been a GDT on a few sites and I am currently on 2 Design Teams (Tammy's Scrappin Corner and Tsunami Rose Designs) and love the experience I am gaining by teaming with such creative minds.  It makes me create projects that I would probably never try, and I just love how it makes me think "outside of the box and gets me out of my comfort zone".   

Trudy's gorgeous card sharing digi 14202 Playing with Dad 

Please stop by Trudy's blog and leave her some love 

Now, onto some Creative Inspiration from the Design Team! 

Ruza
digi 20205 Old Car

Bettina
digi 14202 Playing with Dad 

Deanne

digi15201 Father's Day

Deonna

digi23901 Cowboy Bath

Tina

digi3401 Day on the Course 

Reminder:

For full details on the designers' cards you can click on their name which is linked to their blogs! We love to hear from you, so you are always welcome to visit, we would love to receive your comments!

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog.

You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge a  MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please do NOT backlink to other cards you have previously Posted.

Challenge # 42- Ribbons & Bows

Hello Crafty Friends, Happy Friday!

Welcome to QKR Stampede's 42nd Challenge! Thank you so much to all of you who joined us last week for our Any Winged Creature Challenge! What Wonderful Creations!

Our Winner from Challenge #41 Via Random.org is:

 36. Leeann  

featuring QKR Stampede Image: digi13103 Pigtail Angel

 

Congratulations! Please Email Tina & Jackie with the words "QKR Stampede Challenge Winner" in the Subject Line! *Also, Don't forget to Grab the Winner Badge from our Side Bar for for your Blog!!

Our Top 5 Entries for Challenge #41 Are:

in no specific Order

26. ~*Sheena*~  
 57. Pia  
11. Laine 

 61. Margreet 
 51. Suzi  

 

Congratulations! Please Grab The Top 5 Badge From our Side Bar to Display on your Blog!

**OUR PRIZE FOR BEING THE RANDOM WINNER IS 2 DIGITAL IMAGES OF YOUR CHOICE FROM OUR QKR STAMPEDE STORE! HOWEVER, IF YOU ENTER & WIN USING A QKR STAMPEDE IMAGE, YOU WILL WIN 5 DIGITAL IMAGES OF YOUR CHOICE!!*** 

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THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS:

 Ribbons & Bows

We are very excited to Welcome our Guest Designer for the month of June

Please join us in welcoming

Trudy Harris-Thomas

Hey ya'll - I'm Trudy.  I'm somewhat of a newbie at cardmaking and blogging; posting my first creation and blog post just 6 months ago.  Prior to that I  actually owned a couple of little flower shops.  I live in a small agricultural community in South Central Florida with my husband, 2 rescued dogs and one very mean Amazon Parrott.  I live approximately 125 miles (round trip) to the closest crafts store.  I can no longer drive due to a medical condition so,  needless to say, I have to improvise often while working on my cards.  You know what they say - necessity is the mother of invention.  I make and/or create many of my own embellishments and rely on the internet heavily for exceptional companies to get me product quickly and at a good price.

I am primarily a card maker, however I do quite a bit of altered art and some scrapbooking; I am BIG on recycling and natural items in my projects.  I don't really have a set "style", although I lean toward Vintage and shabby chic in many of my personal creations where I have "free will".

I have been a GDT on a few sites and I am currently on 2 Design Teams (Tammy's Scrappin Corner and Tsunami Rose Designs) and love the experience I am gaining by teaming with such creative minds.  It makes me create projects that I would probably never try, and I just love how it makes me think "outside of the box and gets me out of my comfort zone".   

Trudy's gorgeous card sharing  digi 17504 Rose Label 

Please stop by Trudy's blog and leave her some love 

Now, onto some Creative Inspiration from the Design Team! 

Deonna

digi12407 Garden Grow
digi13715 Planting a Flower

Tina

digi12101 Wagon Ride
digi16408 Your Birthday

Deanne digi24002 Wizard Bear

Bettina

Digi 10002 Cowgirl

Reminder:

For full details on the designers' cards you can click on their name which is linked to their blogs! We love to hear from you, so you are always welcome to visit, we would love to receive your comments!

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog.

You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge a  MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please do NOT backlink to other cards you have previously Posted.

Blended Butterflies

Deb with you today. For this Eureka and QKR Techniques and Tutorials post, I thought we'd take a look at blending between color families when using Copic markers. The above photos shows the butterflies in progress, however all the color blending has been completed. The digi stamp used here is Eureka's digi58901 Lacey Butterfly. I've printed it on a piece of X-Press It Blending card at 3.5, 2.5 and 2 inches high, rotating each one.

First of all, I want to be clear that I have not received official Copic certification. I am simply someone who loves Copics, so I read all I can about using the markers to their best advantage and then I practice, practice, practice. What I will share with you, below, is how I work with the markers.

If you use Copics, you are undoubtedly familiar with the concept of blending two colors to create shadows and shading. And you likely use two markers with the same color family designation, the same first number and the second number is usually two or three digits away from the first, such as R24 and R27 to color Santa's suit. What would it look like if you used two markers with different color families, but the same first and second numbers?

Color blending between two color families is easiest if you use two groups that are beside each other on the Copic color chart, such as RV and R. Blending is also easiest if you choose light colors. Let's take a look at how to make this technique work.

First of all, practice your flicking technique. Quickly - no dawdling - touch your pen to the paper at the edge of the image you want to color, and  move it out and up. The result should be strokes that lighten and narrow as they approach the middle of the image. When you add you second color starting in the opposite direction, the two colors will blend where they are lightest. Below is a look at some strokes. The one on the left it not going to give you a good result. The group on the right will give you better results.

Create a practice sheet on some scrap blending card to give you some idea of how the colors you have in mind will blend. Pick your favorites.

Here's a look at the very beginning of the butterfly coloring. You can see the first strokes lightening toward the middle of the section. You can see I've colored heavier the first third of my area, and lighter in the middle third. I'll do that will my second color, from the opposite direction.



Now add the second color.

Looks pretty good, but I want to add a second layer to deepen the color and blend the middle section further.

OK, move on and color the remainder of the sections you want to blend. Hint: not every section of the image has to be blended.

These images were completed with smooth coloring (no blending) around the perimeter.

And here's the completed card, dressed up with a sentiment and sponged with Distress Ink on the edges.

I hope you give color blending between color families a try because you can get some very pretty results. Please pop over to my personal blog for more paper art ideas.

Challenge # 41- Any Winged Creature

Hello Crafty Friends, Happy Friday!

Welcome to QKR Stampede's 41st Challenge! Thank you so much to all of you who joined us last week for our One for the Boys Challenge! What Wonderful Creations!

Our Winner from Challenge #40 Via Random.org is:

 24. Lovely Linda 

Congratulations! Please Email Tina & Jackie with the words "QKR Stampede Challenge Winner" in the Subject Line! *Also, Don't forget to Grab the Winner Badge from our Side Bar for for your Blog!!

Our Top 5 Entries for Challenge #40 Are:

in no specific Order

 74. Lisa  

 16. Lis-M  

 57. Debbie J  

 20. Tracey M   

 58. Debbie S 

 

Congratulations! Please Grab The Top 5 Badge From our Side Bar to Display on your Blog!

**OUR PRIZE FOR BEING THE RANDOM WINNER IS 2 DIGITAL IMAGES OF YOUR CHOICE FROM OUR QKR STAMPEDE STORE! HOWEVER, IF YOU ENTER & WIN USING A QKR STAMPEDE IMAGE, YOU WILL WIN 5 DIGITAL IMAGES OF YOUR CHOICE!!*** 

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THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS:
Any Winged Creature 

We Would Like to Thank our May Guest Designer,

Jacki Marie 

Hi I am Jacqueline Marie Allen aka Jacki or Jacki Marie to my friends. While I was raising my kids, I made money making cards and teaching others to make cards. I was one of the members of The Rubber Stamper's design team, and a Web Artist for Hero Arts.  I made cards for several stamp companies including Biblical Impressions and Hambo Stamps, designed stamps for The Stamping Studio and Biblical Impressions, and blogged about all of the above at The Card Castle (thecardcastle.blogspot.com) In recent years, I've gone to work full time and unfortunately my card making days are few and far between.

I am one of five daughters and mom to three daughters and two sons ranging in age from 25 – 14. I recently divorced, relocated across the county from the east coast to the mid-west with what I could fit in my mini-van. This photo of me was taken a few months ago on my 50th birthday at sunrise on the beach in Florida with my toes in the sand.

Now, onto some Creative Inspiration from the Design Team! 

Deonna

digi24303Good Night Rooster

Sara P

ESdigi11808(464) Dragon Balloon

Tina

digi14623 Flying Birdie

Ruza 

digi14805 Parachuting Birdie

Deanne digi6902 Enjoying the Ride

Bettina
digi24241 Farmer Crow

Jacki

digi15805 Stork 

Reminder:

For full details on the designers' cards you can click on their name which is linked to their blogs! We love to hear from you, so you are always welcome to visit, we would love to receive your comments!

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog.

You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge a  MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please do NOT backlink to other cards you have previously Posted.

Challenge #40- One for the Boys

Hello Crafty Friends, Happy Friday!

Welcome to QKR Stampede's 40th Challenge! Thank you so much to all of you who joined us last week for our Children's Cards or Gift Tags Challenge! What Great Creations!

Our Winner from Challenge #39 Via Random.org is:

 25. Dee 

Congratulations! Please Email Tina with the words "QKR Stampede Challenge Winner" in the Subject Line! *Also, Don't forget to Grab the Winner Badge from our Side Bar for for your Blog!!

Our Top 5 Entries for Challenge #39 Are:

in no specific Order

 44. Chrissyxx  

 30. Bonnie Irvine   

 22. Elizabeth H.   

 39. Erin F   

 50. Jo L   

Congratulations! Please Grab The Top 5 Badge From our Side Bar to Display on your Blog!

**OUR PRIZE FOR BEING THE RANDOM WINNER IS 2 DIGITAL IMAGES OF YOUR CHOICE FROM OUR QKR STAMPEDE STORE! HOWEVER, IF YOU ENTER & WIN USING A QKR STAMPEDE IMAGE, YOU WILL WIN 5 DIGITAL IMAGES OF YOUR CHOICE!!*** 

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THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS:

One For The Boys

Please join us as we Welcome our May Guest Designer

Jacki Marie 

Hi I am Jacqueline Marie Allen aka Jacki or Jacki Marie to my friends. While I was raising my kids, I made money making cards and teaching others to make cards. I was one of the members of The Rubber Stamper's design team, and a Web Artist for Hero Arts.  I made cards for several stamp companies including Biblical Impressions and Hambo Stamps, designed stamps for The Stamping Studio and Biblical Impressions, and blogged about all of the above at The Card Castle (thecardcastle.blogspot.com) In recent years, I've gone to work full time and unfortunately my card making days are few and far between.

I am one of five daughters and mom to three daughters and two sons ranging in age from 25 – 14. I recently divorced, relocated across the county from the east coast to the mid-west with what I could fit in my mini-van. This photo of me was taken a few months ago on my 50th birthday at sunrise on the beach in Florida with my toes in the sand.

 Here is Jacki's Fun card for a child featuring QKR Image: 
13209 Gone Fishing 

 

Now, onto some Creative Inspiration from the Design Team! 

 

Deonna

digi14101 Dinner Time

Sara P

ESdigi13806(465) Wizard Balloon Holder

Tina

digi14617 Paint Puppy

Ruza 

digi16602 Ball Hat Boy

Deanne digi15502 Waving Boy

Bettina
digi12806 Little Boy

Jacki

digi1103 Carpenter Rabbit

Reminder:

For full details on the designers' cards you can click on their name which is linked to their blogs! We love to hear from you, so you are always welcome to visit, we would love to receive your comments!

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog.

You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge a  MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please do NOT backlink to other cards you have previously Posted.

Challenge #39- Children's Cards or Gift Tags

Hello Crafty Friends, Happy Friday!

Welcome to QKR Stampede's 39th Challenge! Thank you so much to all of you who joined us last week for our Spring or Pink, Yellow and Green Challenge! What Wonderful Creations!

Our Winner from Challenge #38 Via Random.org is:

 7. Larissa 

Congratulations! Please Email Tina with the words "QKR Stampede Challenge Winner" in the Subject Line! *Also, Don't forget to Grab the Winner Badge from our Side Bar for for your Blog!!

Our Top 5 Entries for Challenge #38 Are:

in no specific Order

 40. Debbie J  
 25. Christy Sugiarto    
 16. Rachelle  
2. Anne-Marie Lewis    
 46. Jessie L. 

Congratulations! Please Grab The Top 5 Badge From our Side Bar to Display on your Blog!

**OUR PRIZE FOR BEING THE RANDOM WINNER IS 2 DIGITAL IMAGES OF YOUR CHOICE FROM OUR QKR STAMPEDE STORE! HOWEVER, IF YOU ENTER & WIN USING A QKR STAMPEDE IMAGE, YOU WILL WIN 5 DIGITAL IMAGES OF YOUR CHOICE!!*** 

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THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS:

Children's Cards or Gift Tags

Please join us as we Welcome our May Guest Designer

Jacki Marie 

Hi I am Jacqueline Marie Allen aka Jacki or Jacki Marie to my friends. While I was raising my kids, I made money making cards and teaching others to make cards. I was one of the members of The Rubber Stamper's design team, and a Web Artist for Hero Arts.  I made cards for several stamp companies including Biblical Impressions and Hambo Stamps, designed stamps for The Stamping Studio and Biblical Impressions, and blogged about all of the above at The Card Castle (thecardcastle.blogspot.com) In recent years, I've gone to work full time and unfortunately my card making days are few and far between.

I am one of five daughters and mom to three daughters and two sons ranging in age from 25 – 14. I recently divorced, relocated across the county from the east coast to the mid-west with what I could fit in my mini-van. This photo of me was taken a few months ago on my 50th birthday at sunrise on the beach in Florida with my toes in the sand.

 Here is Jacki's Fun card for a child featuring QKR Image: 
8604 Bookends

 

Now, onto some Creative Inspiration from the Design Team! 

 

Sara P

digi6501 Tooth Fairy

Tina

 digi4901 Girl with Balloon

digi11503 Happy Birthday

Mian

digi14102 Summer Treat

Deanne

digi8804 Girl Talk

Deonna

digi7704 Ride 'em Cowboy

Ruza 

 digi4901 Girl with Balloon

Bettina
digi1802 Painter Rabbit 

Jackie

digi 15401 Floating Away

Reminder:

For full details on the designers' cards you can click on their name which is linked to their blogs! We love to hear from you, so you are always welcome to visit, we would love to receive your comments!

To play along with us, please post a direct link to the card/project on your blog using inlinkz and link back to our challenge from your blog.

You can join in as many other challenges with ours as you like! You can only enter our challenge a  MAXIMUM of 3 times per challenge. Please do NOT backlink to other cards you have previously Posted.