Friday, April 26, 2013

Challenge #36- Favorite Things

Hello Crafty Friends, Happy Friday!

Welcome to QKR Stampede's 36th Challenge! Thank you so much to all of you who joined us last week for our Punches and/or Die cuts Challenge! What Fantastic Creations!


Our Winner from Challenge #35 Via Random.org is:
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 #35 Are:
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:
FAVORITE THINGS
Favorite Things (technique, embellishments, coloring medium, images etc)


A Huge Thank You to our April Guest Designer
My real name is Adriana, but my nickname is Ardilla. I am originally from Argentina, born in Buenos Aires. I studied Architecture and became an architect more than 20 years ago. I am Christian, I love Jesus as my Savior and try to have an alive relationship with Him.

 I am married to Jonathan and have a 7 year old daughter, Vicky, who loves to craft with mom. I love my family!!!  We actually live in Central Asia. I started crafting when I was 4 or 5 years old, my grandma taught me crochet, embroidery and coloring, and many more things; she was so talented... I inherited her love for crafts!!!!!! My first "professional" crafts were some painted mirrors, wooden stuff and decorations in naïf style and later I learned country style painting and made a lot of crafts. I also cross-stitched a lot from '98 to 2006. I started card making almost by accident when in 2007 I bought some nice papers I found in a paper shop and didn’t know what to do with them, but they were beautiful... my sister-in-law gave me the idea of card making so I started and since then I am learning more and more, different techniques, different tools and styles. I love to browse in craft blogs and see what other card makers do and learn more... I also like scrapbooking although I didn’t make too many pages yet… I like rubber and digi stamps. I color with aquarelable pencils. My style is more CAS than anything else. I love ribbons, lace, rhinestones, flowers and buttons to embellish my cards. At this moment I am part of Digi Makeover, Sketchy Friday & Gingerloft  challenge blogs and I love it!

 Here is Ardilla's Beautiful Card, featuring Images:

Now, onto some more creative inspiration from the Design Team! 






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.
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Friday, April 19, 2013

Challenge #35- Punches and/ or Dies

Hello Crafty Friends, Happy Friday!

Welcome to QKR Stampede's 35th Challenge! Thank you so much to all of you who joined us last week for our For A Child Challenge! What Spectacular Creations!


Our Winner from Challenge #34 Via Random.org is:
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 #34 Are:
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:
Punches and/or Dies

Please Help us Welcome our April Guest Designer
My real name is Adriana, but my nickname is Ardilla. I am originally from Argentina, born in Buenos Aires. I studied Architecture and became an architect more than 20 years ago. I am Christian, I love Jesus as my Savior and try to have an alive relationship with Him.

 I am married to Jonathan and have a 7 year old daughter, Vicky, who loves to craft with mom. I love my family!!!  We actually live in Central Asia. I started crafting when I was 4 or 5 years old, my grandma taught me crochet, embroidery and coloring, and many more things; she was so talented... I inherited her love for crafts!!!!!! My first "professional" crafts were some painted mirrors, wooden stuff and decorations in naïf style and later I learned country style painting and made a lot of crafts. I also cross-stitched a lot from '98 to 2006. I started card making almost by accident when in 2007 I bought some nice papers I found in a paper shop and didn’t know what to do with them, but they were beautiful... my sister-in-law gave me the idea of card making so I started and since then I am learning more and more, different techniques, different tools and styles. I love to browse in craft blogs and see what other card makers do and learn more... I also like scrapbooking although I didn’t make too many pages yet… I like rubber and digi stamps. I color with aquarelable pencils. My style is more CAS than anything else. I love ribbons, lace, rhinestones, flowers and buttons to embellish my cards. At this moment I am part of Digi Makeover, Sketchy Friday & Gingerloft  challenge blogs and I love it!

 Here is Ardilla's Darling Card featuring Images:
sharing digi 11401


Now, onto some more creative inspiration from the Design Team! 


Deonna
 digi13209 Going Fishing


Sara P 
digi12201 Planting a Garden
digi9302 My Sunshine



 Mian
 digi16103 Old Golfer


Jacki
 digi12404 Rocket Dog



Deanne
 digi16304 Stocking Mouse



Bettina
 digi2102 Tea Time Rabbit


Ruza 
digi16220 Bouquet

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.
    
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Friday, April 12, 2013

Challenge #34- For A Child

Hello Crafty Friends, Happy Friday!

Welcome to QKR Stampede's 34th Challenge! Thank you so much to all of you who joined us last week for our April Showers Challenge! What Spectacular Creations!


Our Winner from Challenge #33 Via Random.org is:
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 #32 Are:
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!!*** 
__________________________________________________

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS:
For A Child

Please Help us Welcome our April Guest Designer
 
My real name is Adriana, but my nickname is Ardilla. I am originally from Argentina, born in Buenos Aires. I studied Architecture and became an architect more than 20 years ago. I am Christian, I love Jesus as my Savior and try to have an alive relationship with Him.

 I am married to Jonathan and have a 7 year old daughter, Vicky, who loves to craft with mom. I love my family!!!  We actually live in Central Asia. I started crafting when I was 4 or 5 years old, my grandma taught me crochet, embroidery and coloring, and many more things; she was so talented... I inherited her love for crafts!!!!!! My first "professional" crafts were some painted mirrors, wooden stuff and decorations in naïf style and later I learned country style painting and made a lot of crafts. I also cross-stitched a lot from '98 to 2006. I started card making almost by accident when in 2007 I bought some nice papers I found in a paper shop and didn’t know what to do with them, but they were beautiful... my sister-in-law gave me the idea of card making so I started and since then I am learning more and more, different techniques, different tools and styles. I love to browse in craft blogs and see what other card makers do and learn more... I also like scrapbooking although I didn’t make too many pages yet… I like rubber and digi stamps. I color with aquarelable pencils. My style is more CAS than anything else. I love ribbons, lace, rhinestones, flowers and buttons to embellish my cards. At this moment I am part of Digi Makeover, Sketchy Friday & Gingerloft  challenge blogs and I love it!

 Here is Ardilla's Darling Card featuring Images:


Now, onto some more creative inspiration from the Design Team! 

Deonna
 digi2801 Fly Away Mouse

 Mian
 digi14010 Special Delivery


 Tina
digi16108 Thinking 
digi13601 Racing




Ruza
 digi12502 In the Rain


Deanne
 digi2202 Baseball Boy


Bettina
 digi9211 Lil' Cowgirl


Sara P 
digi17602 Clown


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.
 

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Friday, April 5, 2013

Challenge #33- April Showers

Hello Crafty Friends, Happy Friday!

Welcome to QKR Stampede's 33rd Challenge! Thank you so much to all of you who joined us last week for our Animal Antics Challenge! What Spectacular Creations!


Our Winner from Challenge #32 Via Random.org is:


 1. Avril Watson  
Has won 5 Digital Images Since she used a QKR image.
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 #32 Are:
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!!*** 
__________________________________________________

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS:
April Showers 

Please Help us Welcome our April Guest Designer
Ardilla Trabajadora
 
My real name is Adriana, but my nickname is Ardilla. I am originally from Argentina, born in Buenos Aires. I studied Architecture and became an architect more than 20 years ago. I am Christian, I love Jesus as my Savior and try to have an alive relationship with Him.

 I am married to Jonathan and have a 7 year old daughter, Vicky, who loves to craft with mom. I love my family!!!  We actually live in Central Asia. I started crafting when I was 4 or 5 years old, my grandma taught me crochet, embroidery and coloring, and many more things; she was so talented... I inherited her love for crafts!!!!!! My first "professional" crafts were some painted mirrors, wooden stuff and decorations in naïf style and later I learned country style painting and made a lot of crafts. I also cross-stitched a lot from '98 to 2006. I started card making almost by accident when in 2007 I bought some nice papers I found in a paper shop and didn’t know what to do with them, but they were beautiful... my sister-in-law gave me the idea of card making so I started and since then I am learning more and more, different techniques, different tools and styles. I love to browse in craft blogs and see what other card makers do and learn more... I also like scrapbooking although I didn’t make too many pages yet… I like rubber and digi stamps. I color with aquarelable pencils. My style is more CAS than anything else. I love ribbons, lace, rhinestones, flowers and buttons to embellish my cards. At this moment I am part of Digi Makeover, Sketchy Friday & Gingerloft  challenge blogs and I love it!

 Here is Ardilla's Darling Card featuring Images:

Now, onto some more creative inspiration from the Design Team! 





 Mian





 Tina



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.
 
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Concertina Tutorial


Good morning! Deb with you today with a tutorial for a Concertina card. The stamps I have used in today's project are QKR's Sweet Dreams Werdz.

Maybe I should call this a mini-concertina since there are only three panels. I looked at many other styles of concertinas, but I wanted more room on each panel, so I created the pattern below which uses about half of a 12 inch piece of cardstock. Measure 3" up from the bottom on the left side, and 7" up on the right. Connect those two points and that's the line to cut. Make a mountain fold at 4" and a valley fold at 8", and your base is done.


Here's how your base card will look.


Cut designer paper to fit the panels on both sides. In the sample, the pattern papers are cut 1/4 inch smaller than the base panels in both height and width. Adhere the patterned paper.

Next, dress it up. In the sample, lace strips were cut with Spellbinders and adhered to the base. Next, strips of ribbon cover up where the papers meet on both sides of the card. I wanted to just adhere a 12" piece of ribbon right across, but then the card didn't fold well, so I had to snip the ribbon at the folds. Dots of Liquid Pearls were added to one side and allowed to dry overnight before dots were added on the other side.

Words were stamped with Brillliance Ink on pearlized paper, heat embossed, and cut with Spellbinders. (I had planned to use that pearlized paper for the base card, but it cracked when I attempted to fold it, even though it had been scored - just something I need to keep in mind.) Adhere the words to the appropriate panels on the card, and it's done. Here's how the card looks when it's opened up.


Side 1

Side 2

I hope you'll give Concertina cards a try since they're fun to create and are just a little different from the usual card base. You are welcome to visit my personal blog after you have a look at all there is to offer here on the QKR blog.
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