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.

Watercolor Stamping

Deb with you today. There are so many possibilities when it comes to making the most of our rubber stamps that it just boggles the mind. I recently came across the watercolor stamping technique, and thought it would make a good topic for this week's Eureka and QKR Technique and Tutorial post. This project features QKR's Rose stamp. Besides a stamp, all you need is:

• Watercolor paper - I prefer a smooth finish to watercolor paper that I intend to stamp on. Some papers have a noticeable grain, and it makes it more difficult to get a good imprint
• Distress Ink in Frayed Burlap and, if you have them, Re-inkers in Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Bundled Sage and Faded Jeans. If you don't have the re-inkers, just use your stamp pads.
• Water brush or fine paint brush
• Small Palette or a stamping acrylic block

Here's how it comes together:

Stamp your image with Distress Ink's Frayed Burlap.

Immediately after stamping, begin going over your lines with a damp brush. You can see (above) where I started going over the lines in the top, left corner. Squeeze your waterbrush to get the water flowing, or dip your paint brush in some water. Blot on paper towel because you don't want too much water on your image. Then allow your image to dry, or speed it along with a heat gun.

Put very small drops of re-inker in your pallet compartments. Dip just the very tip of your brush in re-inker.

Begin adding color to your image by going over an area with your lightest color, and then adding a bit of the darker color where it would be appropriate to have deeper color or shade. If you get too much color or too much water in an area, just blot it with a tissue. Don't worry if you go over the lines - that just adds to the watercolor look.

Float a little bit of Faded Jeans around the flower. Be very careful here - Faded Jeans is a pretty strong color - you might want to blot your brush on paper towel before applying to the watercolor paper. Encourage the ink to move to the outsides of the paper, away from the image, with your wet brush. You can see the completed look at the top of this post.

Here's a card I made with my rose. I'm not really happy with the completed project. I love the card design, and I love the rose, but somehow the two don't seem to belong together. Does anyone have any advice for what I might do next time? Maybe use a beige/brown or green tone rather than the blue around the flower?

And that's it for this time. Do give this a try - I think you'll love it too! And please come visit my personal blog when you have looked all around the QKR blog.

Challenge #38 - Spring or Pink, Yellow and Green

Hello Crafty Friends, Happy Friday!

Welcome to QKR Stampede's 38th Challenge! Thank you so much to all of you who joined us last week for our Mother's Day Challenge! What Beautiful Creations!

Our Winner from Challenge #37 Via Random.org is:

Using QKR Image: digi11401 Picking Flowers 

   1. Sue N  

 

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 #37 Are:

in no specific Order

39. Gale  
 53. Jackie Wallace  
 22. Christine Garner  

 13. Tammy A 

27. Chrissyxx   

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:

Spring or Pink, Yellow & Green

 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 Beautiful Card, featuring QKR Image:

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

  

Bettina

digi16104 Springtime Bunny

Ruza

digi2103 Cheerleader Mouse

Deanne

 digi23803 Flower Bouquet

Mian

 digi11401 Picking Flowers 

Tina

 digi9102 Life is Sweeter

digi14505 Hug

Deonna

 digi6804 Infatuated 

Jacki

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 #37- Mother's Day

Hello Crafty Friends, Happy Friday!

Welcome to QKR Stampede's 37th Challenge! Thank you so much to all of you who joined us last week for our Favorite Things Challenge! What Fantastic Creations!

Our Winner from Challenge #36 Via Random.org is:

 40. J. Atterbury Creations 

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 #36 Are:

in no specific Order
 50. Mirella    
 18. Nick  
 82. Kathie'z Kardz  
 7. Lisa s 
 26. Angela  

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:
Mother's Day 

 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 Beautiful Card, featuring Images:
digi 14016 Queen Bee 
digi 11107 Mother's Day 

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

Deonna 
digi11407 Hello

 Mian 
digi16113 Tennis Bear 

Ruza 
digi15411 Rose Border 

Sara P 


ESdigi13803(463) Girl Balloon Holder
ESdigi13903 Flower Balloon
ESdigi13901(456) Daisey Balloon

Tina
digi19701 Flower Blossom 


Bettina
digi6804 Infatuated

Deanne
digi15205 Mother's Day

Jacki
Digi' 12806 Little Boy  & sentiment digi 11107 Mother's Day 

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.

   

Mixed Media Fun and Games

Deb with you today. The term "Mixed Media" seems to be everywhere these days. It looks and sounds complicated, but it's really just an invitation to have some fun. I thought mixed media would be a good topic for todays Eureka and QKR Technique and Tutorial post. Mixed media simply refers to a project in which two or more different art mediums are used together. To you, that means pulling out all the various materials in your stash and letting your imagination run wild.

The project above is a 12 inch square canvas with 2 inch sides. The main image is a digital Eureka's Gladiola and Hummer. I also used rubber background stamps Filigree and Abstract Flower. Here's a list of products I used on this project:

Canvas
Digi Stamp
Rubber Stamps
Mod Podge
3 coordinated Printed Papers (in black and white, but any paper would do)
Folk Art Acrylic Paints
Stampin Up Watercolor Crayons
Distress Inks
Copic Stamping Illustration Paper
Copics
Smooch Spray

And here's how it came together:

Tear pieces of printed papers and adhere them with Mod Podge. Just paint a bit of MP on enough of your canvas to match the size of your paper piece, and then paint over that paper with another coat of MP. 

Repeat until as much of your canvas as you desire is covered.

Allow to dry. Then apply a thin coat of acrylic paint. Mix up the colors as you desire. I started pulling the blob of paint with a scrap of thick card stock, but soon had my fingers right in there.

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Note: Between these lines is what I did next, but I was not happy with it. You may want to skip these steps or think farther ahead than I did.

I then taped a piece of tissue paper to a piece of cardstock and printed my main image.

Then I colored with Copics and carefully - really carefully - adhered the tissue to the canvas with MP. A light hand with the top coat is essential - pat on the MP with the brush rather than the usual painting motion to avoid tearing the wet tissue.

I completed the canvas, then I stood back and had a look. Hmmm....too dark and too small. Back to the drawing board.

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Next, I printed the image again - larger and in grey tones - on Copic paper. I colored the flowers in lighter colors, cut out the flowers by hand (leaving the bird on the table) and adhered the paper with Mod Podge over the first image. You can still see some of the leaves of the first one.

Better, but now it's too bright. So I applied a thin layer of beige arylic paint and sponged brown Distress Ink over the edges.

Now it was a bit too dark, so I simply wet an old washcloth and sponged off a bit of the distressing. Much better. Was this process stressful? No, it was fun - like a science experiment. I knew I could cover the whole thing with acrylic paint and start over if needed.

Scribbles of Stampin Up Watercolor Crayon were added to the upper corners and blended out with a wet paint brush and my good old stained fingers. You can see here the left is blended and the right is the crayon.

Then I inked up the background stamps with bown and gold Distress Ink and randomly stamped, using partial impressions around the edge. (Sorry, forgot to take photos of these next steps - too excited)

Next, I mixed a little of the metallic acrylic paint with a bit of water and added some to the very top of my canvas. Then I stood the canvas up and thumped it a couple of times on my craft table to get the wet paint  to run.

Then I mixed a little Peeled Paint Distress Ink re-inker with water, dipped a paint brush in it, and splattered my canvas.

Finally, I sprayed the whole thing randomly with Smooch for a little sparkle, and called it done!

And that's it for this week's Eureka and QKR T&T tutorial. Please pop over to my personal blog for more ideas.