Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Welcome New Design Team

Hello Everyone!
 HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 

With our New Year, Comes a New Design Team! We are thrilled with the new ladies that are joining us, along with the amazing ladies who are the returning Eureka Stamps Veterans!

We Hope that you will get to know these ladies through their Bios, pictures and blogs. Please Make sure you hop on over and check out their Blogs; you will be amazed by their Creations!!



OWNER:
Maribeth Douglas


EUREKA STAMPS VETERANS RETURNING

Admin
Sponsorship Coordinator
Challenge Coordinator

A Little About Me: I'm an energetic SAHM of two active Kiddos. My daughter Lizzy is five and Just started Kindergarten and my son, Jimmy is four. I've been married to my Disabled Veteran Hubby, Eric, for six and a half years and we live in Marlboro Township, Ohio. I originally started scrapbooking 9 years ago when my hubby and I were just engaged and he was deployed in Iraq. It's something I did with the other moms, wives & girlfriends to pass the time while the guys were deployed.  Once I was working a full time job,  got married & Pregnant, I stopped crafting since I was so busy. I  started crafting again about a year and a half ago and started my blog. I have now fallen in love with Digi Stamps, Rubber Stamping, card making and of course my new found obsession with Copic Markers! My main theme to crafting, is Crafty and Green. I always Craft with what I have on hand. I rarely go buy new things. Most of what I use is what I find around my house, at thrift stores, garage sales, or acquire from crafty swaps. It's a challenge in itself to use what I already have. It's also my way to keep my hubby happy! (If I could find a way to acquire free copic markers, I would, hehe!!) Other Then Crafting, I enjoy being a stay at home mommy and wife! My other passion in life is singing, I make everything I do in life a song!


DT Leader& Asst. Admin

Hi!! A little bit about me!! I am an addict!! Yes I admit I have a serious addiction! My addiction ranges from pretty design papers to beautiful ribbon, fun and exciting tools, to my beloved Copic and digital images – I tell you it’s a passion and obsession! That I {heart}! I am married to a wonderful man who puts up with my addiction (not that he has a choice) and we are blessed to be raising one of our grandchildren Hunter who is 13 years old and definitely keeps us young and active. We have 4 full grown children (Nicole, Jenn, Josh and Amanda) and 8 beautiful grandchildren – having been blessed with our first 2 little girls a Year Ago!


Eureka Stamps Technique & Tutorial Coordinator/Team Leader
Guest Designer Coordinator

Hi, I am Joann aka Sassy Raggedy.  I have been crafting all my life in one form or another.  I was the owner of my own boutique in Denver, Co. for 13 years called "Ragg-A-Muffins".  I specialized in decorative painting, but made various items and sold in my boutique; From sewing to candle making to soaps, you name it, we made it.  In addition,
 I also taught decorative painting in the Denver Area at Hobby Lobby, Michael's and Lee Wards. I still teach a class on decorative painting here in the small town where I now live in Alabama.
I have been married for 33 years, have 2 grown sons who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Card Making has become my new love with crafting at this moment as well as blogland. I love surfing around to see what everyone is making.  

I am a Christian, Daughter, Sister, Wife and Mother. A bit Sassy and free spirited. Unabashedly open about my love for Jesus. I am very happily married for 18 years and blessed with three beautiful girls and three fur babies. I am also blessed with abundant Creativity and in my spare time, if 
 I'm not making cards or scrabook pages, I'm surfing the net for design ideas!

 I'm Cheryl Caldwell-Nyboer and I fell in love with scrapbooking and paper crafting sixteen years ago and have only grown more passionate about it over the years.  I also love making cards, ATCs, tags and all kinds of mixed media projects.  In the past two years, I've found a new love - digital stamps.  They have opened up a whole new and creative arena for my projects.  Digital stamps are very user-friendly and extremely inspiring to use.  I'm constantly trying new techniques which involve their use and am convinced that there's no limit to what you can do with them, creatively.

In addition to being on several online design teams, I was on the design team for a local scrapbook store for two years.  I've also taught scrapbooking classes at Joan, ETC. (in Ft. Myers, Florida).  Through Joan's I was very fortunate to have had the opportunity to teach scrapbooking classes at a local high school (in Ft. Myers, Florida).  It was an elective for honors students and was very well-attended.  It was wonderful and very rewarding to see these students capturing their memories and getting excited about scrapbooking!  



Hi! I'm Kristie Maynard and I live in Tonawanda, New York which is outside of Buffalo and about 15 minutes from Niagara Falls. I'm the Mom of 2 fabulous adult children and wife of 1 wonderful husband since 1988. I have been a crafter all my life, but found scrapbooking about 7 years ago and fell in love. I swore I'd never be a stamper or card maker, but I tried it and fell in love with that too. Never say never! I couldn't even tell you all the crafts I have done over the years, but I must say that all types of paper crafts are my favorite! My husband, Dave, and I have our own business. Dave is a photographer and sells his work mostly at art festival. I keep busy with making mouse pads, coasters and note cards with his images on them to sell along with his photographs, but I make time to scrapbook and stamp as much as possible. I love to share my hobbies with other and would love for you to stop by my blog at www.kristiekreates.blogspot.com and see some of my creations.
I also love photography, spending time with friends, traveling and relaxing with a good book.
I'm thrilled to be continuing on the Eureka Stamps design team

NEW DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS

 Karen 

I've been crafting for about as long as I can remember. When I was
about 10 years old, I had to hand-make a name tag for an etiquette
class I was taking. Most of the girls drew something with crayons,
but I took a piece of burlap, some embroidery thread, and
hand-stitched my name in bright colors. That was the first prize I
ever won with my crafting. I think that started me on the path of
creativity, and realizing that I wanted to express myself through art.
 This January will mark two years that I've been blogging, and I've
enjoyed every minute of it. I've met some of the nicest people, and
won some amazing prizes. I'm really looking forward to working with
the other Design Team Members at Eureka Stamps, and I invite you to
visit my blog www.karen-mycuprunnethover.blogspot.com to see my work,
and hopefully become a new follower. I look forward to visiting all
of your blogs, and hope you will enter our fun challenges. Thanks for
having me!



I have been crafting now for nearly 2 years. It all started when in disgust at the lack of suitable birthday cards for a friend, I decided I could do better myself and I haven’t looked back since!I love stamps, digital images, Promarkers, pretty papers, ribbons and anything shiny but my big thing is buttons – I LOVE buttons!! Ever want to bribe me? Well a good start would be buttons...

I've been stamping for almost 20 years and have found digital stamps with in the last year and fell in love.  At one point I had over 4000 wood mounted rubber stamps and have slowly thinned them out over the years and love the storage option of digital so I've begun to acquire more of them over physical images.  I have been married for 13 years, have 2 grown step kids with 3 grandchildren and we have a 3 year old little Angel face who is the center of our world now.  She brings me many smiles and more love than I could ever imagine. I look forward to sharing my passion with you and can't wait to see what this opportunity brings.

My name is Paula Learmouth,  I am a married 47 year old mum to 9 wonderful children, 5 grandchildren, and a husband who has the patience of a saint.
I am a former special needs teacher and have been crafting for 10 years, even though I am now wheelchair bound crafting has given me the confidence to express my creative talents.
I currently teach the staff at a local doctors surgery, supply handmade cards for my local St Oswalds Hospice and also teach for age Uk on a weekly basis.



 
Hi my name is Sandra and i am married to a very supportive husband with 2 gorgeous sons. I love to create cards and 3d projects and share ideas with people. I am also on the design team for digis by Jems Designs as well as the design team for Love to Create Challenge. I have great pleasure working with such amazing and talented artists hugs xx

Soma 
 I am Soma.... Life begins with a sense of creativity.... My journey in the world of Art & Craft too started at a tender age. But perseverance and openness has brought me close to the people of similar genre...
Sometimes, I realize that the ASL of crafter does not matter any more,, and we have now started sharing our lives beyond the boundary of Art & Craft.
I live in New Delhi, India with my hubby and two blooming flowers named Adideb(Son) and Sonakshi (Daughter). I believe, some of my creation displays the mood we enjoy at different points of time...
I am really enjoying this new face of life, where we truly express ourselves in the rolling creations and manage to share the same in different forums, often you get laurels too.....
I am proud to be a part of the Eureka stamps Design Team and you are also welcome to visit me anytime at my blog Bubleeing Colors 
Love to all !!!!

I'm Suzi McKenzie, I'm 30 something and live in Aberdeen, Scotland with my adorable hubby Stewart and our 3 cats.  I've been colouring images since i could hold a crayon, and it's one of my favourite things to do.  I love papercrafting as it gives me the opportunity to be creative, and share my interests with others.  I started card making when i was preparing for my wedding, and could not find stationary i liked.  I've been card making ever since, I discovered craft blogs and forums soon after, and have been lucky enough to make lots of crafty friends all over the world.  My style is fairly simple, a little weird and wacky, and i love to use bright vibrant colours. You can find all my weird and wacky creations at The Manic World of Mrs McKenzie

 

I'm an accountant working full time and a mother of 4 great kids.  I have an amazing husband who understand that in order to keep my sanity through all this I need to craft ;) I live in Quebec, Canada, so a lot of my crafting is done with French sayings.
 I have been crafting over 21 years and tried my hands at all kinds of techniques over the years.  I'm new to the blogging world. I have started blogging in March in order to join challenges.  I became totally hooked!!!!  I can't believe this world existed and I only found out about it now.  I see blogging as a wonderful opportunity to improve my card making abilities.
 I have realized that through the web I get to meet amazing people from all over the world and learn from them.  I'm in awe of all the wonderful blogs that I see and I hope that one day my blog will be up to that level.  

 Please Make Sure you Come Back to see their First DT Challenge Posts Next Monday!!


Looking for a chance to win some Eureka! Stamp??

Eureka! Stamps is honored to be sponsoring a fabulous challenge this week at


A Wonderful blog with challenges inspired by God's Word
Our very own designer Karen L is the blog Administrator !
We would love to have you join them this week for their challenge
"Anything Goes"  

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Eureka Stamps Wishes You a Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!
The Eureka Design Team along with our sister QKR Stampede Design Team is excited to Welcome 2013!!!
We have a lot of exciting things to share in the New Year and today we start with sharing a sweet image to Ring in the New Year!
Some of the designers are here today to share this sweet image with you!! After enjoying all the inspiration from the ladies - head over to our Eureka Facebook page as we have this sweet Father Time digi # 24347 as a freebie !!! You will not find it in the store and only will be available for today only
Please join us tomorrow right here as we introduce
our New Fabulous Designers for 2013.
Stop by and meet these Fabulous Gals as they share a little bit about themeselves, along with inspiration they will be sharing on their blogs each week!















Sara P






 
 
 


Thanks ladies! Fabulous inspiration!!!
  I am so excited you are part of this Fabulous team!

Now come visit us on our Facebook Page to grab Father Time
and Stop back here tomorrow to meet our New Design Team!!

Happy New Year from all of Us!!

Monday, December 31, 2012

Challenge #20 Something Old or Something New, or Something borrowed or Something Blue



Happy Monday Crafty Friends!!

Welcome to Eureka Stamps' 20th Challenge! This is our last Challenge for 2012!! WOW!
We are really excited that you have Joined us this week!
Thank you so much to Everyone who joined us two weeks ago for our challenge! We really Enjoyed Seeing all the Lovely Creations!! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas Holiday!

Our Winner For Challenge #20 is:
Congratulations! Please Email Tina with the words Eureka Challenge Winner in the Subject Line! Please go to the Eureka Stamps Site & Pick out Five Digital Images of your Choice! * Also, Don't forget to Grab the Winner Badge from our Side Bar for for your Blog!!

Our Top 5 Entries For this Week Are:
in no specific Order

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


**** The Prize for Winning Our Challenge is 2 Digital Images from our Store of YOUR Choice. However, if you play and Win with a Eureka Stamps Image, You will win Your Choice of 5 Digital Images****

Also, Keep an Eye out for the Announcement of our NEW Design Team this week!
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THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS: 
Something Old or Something New, or
Something Borrowed or Something Blue
(Please List what you Have used when you link back to us)

Our Guest Designer this month is CG!!! 
We Really want to Thank CG for all of her WONDERFUL Creations that she has inspired us with!
I'm a crafter living in Baltimore, Maryland with my husband of nine years, a green Iguana named Percy, two unusually-large mini Schnauzers named Walt and Allen, (Allen's with me in the photo).  I have a background in poetry, website maintenance, and publication design, but these days I mostly make cards!  I'm currently visiting my parents in Arizona and I am spending lots of time crafting with my Mom, who got me into cardmaking.

I'm very lucky to have found the online creative community and I just love visiting blogs by crafters around the world.  I've recently gotten into cross-stitch and enjoy how relaxing that is.  Many thanks to Eureka Stamps for asking  me to join them this month as their Guest Designer!

 Here is CG's Card Showcasing digi6101 Cactus
 Thank you CG! Please Stop by her BLOG and leave her some LOVE!


 Now, For More Inspiration from a Few DT Members:




Tina


Reminder:
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.

Thanks Again For Playing With Us!
Hope to see you back again in 2013!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!


Monday, December 24, 2012

"NEW" Eureka Stamps/QKR Stampede Tutorial & Technique Team





Merry Christmas Everyone....

It's Sassy Raggedy - Joann here with you today with some really big news!  Starting in January we at Eureka Stamps and QKR Stampede will be introducing our brand new Technique and Tutorial  team.  

We also will be showcasing our designs every Wednesday on the Eureka Stamps and QKR Stampede Blogs and Facebook Pages.  Every Wednesday we will be posting step-by-step tutorials and we will show you many examples of how to use the different products sold at the Eureka Stamps and QKR Stampede stores.
We are all really excited about this team and hope we can inspired you to learn some new cardmaking ideas as well as expand your product knowledge of the different products available.

When we start up in January you will see a different tutorial on each blog so be sure to check out both the Eureka Stamps Blog, as well as the QKR Stampede Blog.  We also will be available to answer any questions you might have - just leave us a comment and we will get back with you. 

At this time I would like to introduce the team members so far.  At the end of the post you will see a Design Team call for our Technique and Tutorial Team.  It will run through the end of January and if you might be interested please read the info and let us know.

We will be showcasing our cards using "Mica Powders" today.  You can go to our individual blogs to view how we made our projects.


Deb Scott of  "I Love It"
What a talented and very creative crafter Debrah is.  We are so fortunate to have her join our Design Team. Deb is always trying different techniques and loves learning new ways to craft paper projects. 

Deb used a rubber stamp from Eureka Stamps called "Partridge in a Pear".  And she used the wonderful technique of using Mica Powders over VersaMark.


 Isn't this just lovely...What a wonderful card and be sure to stop by Deb's Blog, "I Love It" to see how she designed her card.

Joann - Sassy Raggedy of "Sassy Raggedy"

Joann - Sassy Raggedy of "Sassy Raggedy"

Yep that's me Sassy Raggedy!  I am looking forward to seeing what we can come up with each week and we would love to have you join us on our new venture.

For my introduction card I also used a rubber stamp from Eureka Stamps called "Bethlehem with Verse". I used the technique of applying Metallic Mica Powder over Sticky Powder.

Be sure to stop by my blog later today for the step by step instructions of how I made my card.  I say later today because my hubby is in the hospital and it will be later before I can get the post finished.

So there you have it.  The Introduction to our new Eureka Stamps and QKR Stampede Tutorial & Technique Team.


 Would YOU Like to Join us on our New Venture?

 Here are the requirements and the DT Call. 

Do you enjoy using different techniques and tutorials on your creations? We are looking for a few
talented and very creative people to join our new Tutorial and Techniques Design Team.

Some of the requirements for this new team are as follows:
  • Must be able to write tutorials and convert measurements from cm's to inches.
  • Be interested in learning how to use new products as well as new techniques.
  • Able to commit to making at least 2 creations a month.
  • Must have a blog and be able to post creations and info concerning new products and all products used.
  • Must be dependable and versatile in completing projects.
  • Must be able to read and understand English.
If you are interested in learning more about this Design Team please contact Joann Burton at joann@sassyraggedy.com. Please include your blog address when responding.

Thanks for stopping by today and from all of us here at Eureka Stamps and QKR Stampede we would like to wish all of you a wonderful Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Christmas peace

This is Sarosa posting today, and this is a post that almost didn't happen. I take my design team commitment seriously, and so made most of my cards this summer, just in case I had a rough semester of college. Well, it was crazy! I made all of three cards during that time, and this one I assumed would be easy enough to get to because college would be done forever. Well, so much for that idea! This is a card I had made a portion of earlier, which is the only reason I could finish it, lol! The dark green background is a shimmery pattern that is very similar to the design of the holly border and square. The text is from sister company Biblical Impressions.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Challenge #19- Christmas Spirit



Happy Monday Crafty Friends!!

Welcome to Eureka Stamps' 19th Challenge! 
We are So excited that you have Joined us!
Thank you so much to Everyone who joined us last week for our challenge! We really Enjoyed Seeing all the Lovely Creations!!

Our Winner For Challenge #18 via Random.org is:
 9. Stephanie W  
Congratulations! Please Email Tina with the words Eureka Challenge Winner in the Subject Line! Please go to the Eureka Stamps Site & Pick out Two Digital Images of your Choice! * Also, Don't forget to Grab the Winner Badge from our Side Bar for for your Blog!!

Our Top 5 Entries For this Week Are:
in no specific Order

 17. Ursula Uphof  
 6. Elizabeth H.  

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


**** The Prize for Winning Our Challenge is 2 Digital Images from our Store of YOUR Choice. However, if you play and Win with a Eureka Stamps Image, You will win Your Choice of 5 Digital Images****
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THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE IS:
 Christmas Spirit 

Our Guest Designer this week is CG!!! 
CG will be joining us for the month of December 
and showcasing her wonderful card.  Here is a little more about CG.
I'm a crafter living in Baltimore, Maryland with my husband of nine years, a green Iguana named Percy, two unusually-large mini Schnauzers named Walt and Allen, (Allen's with me in the photo).  I have a background in poetry, website maintenance, and publication design, but these days I mostly make cards!  I'm currently visiting my parents in Arizona and I am spending lots of time crafting with my Mom, who got me into cardmaking.

I'm very lucky to have found the online creative community and I just love visiting blogs by crafters around the world.  I've recently gotten into cross-stitch and enjoy how relaxing that is.  Many thanks to Eureka Stamps for asking  me to join them this month as their Guest Designer!

And here is CG's Wonderful Card: Using digi34601 Holly Doggies 



Now, For More Inspiration from a Few DT Members:



 Cheryl  





Joann - Sassy Raggedy 


Reminder:
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.

Thanks Again For Playing With Us!
Hope to see you back again soon!

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Gemma Pocock DT Post

Good Morning everyone, well its QKR time today, so here is a christmas card I made for the inlaws. I used the digi image of santa on skis www.eurekastamps.com/proddetail.php?prod=digi6607&cat=124 coloured in with my pro markers, added to some co ordinating papers and matt and layered, sentiment added and finished off with card candi.
 


Thanks for taking the time to look at my DT card, I would love you to come and take a look at my blog http://gemshandmadecards.blogspot.co.uk/
Merry Christmas
xxx