Design Team Call for Paper Garden Projects

Do you enjoy playing with crafty goodies and sharing your creations with others?  Then Paper Garden Projects may need you!

We are conducting a design team call for the next 5 months and we would love to see your work.  All the details are listed below. 

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Paper Garden Projects is looking for enthusiastic stampers who love to color and enjoy sharing their work and knowledge with others. 

You must have an active blog and the ability to take and post good quality photographs of your work.  Right now, this call is open only to artists in the US or Canada.   This call is for 5 months, from May 1 through September 31.

What we’d like from you:

  • At least 4 lovely projects per month to be posted on your blog, the Paper Garden Projects Gallery on Splitcoast Stampers, The gallery on Paper Craft Planet, and any other stamping boards where you are active.   The blog posts must contain information on what was used to create the project with links back to the store to help people find the products. Preferably, the posts would be spread out through the month (1 per week).
    • Create a project or tutorial for a themed blog hop once per month. Participate in and promote the monthly blog hop (project can be one of the 4 required).
    • Promote the 4th Friday Fun Challenge once per month with a challenge sample  (project can be one of the 4 required).
    • Complete 2 other projects and post them on your blog. 
  • Actively promote the Paper Garden Projects store on your blog and in other places when it is appropriate to do so.

What you can expect from us:

  • A package of paper crafting goodies (stamps, cardstock, embellishments or possibly a paper crafting kit) worth at least $20 every month.
  • Access to any digital stamps created during your tenure as a designer.
  • An additional 20% off regular and sale prices in the Paper Garden Projects Store
  • Free shipping once per month (to coincide with your DT material shipment).
  • In most cases, you can keep your actual creations and provide only high quality photographs.   If we need the physical project for a convention we will compensate you for them.
  • A cute design team button for your blog (and lots of gratitude for being such an awesome designer!)

 

If this sounds like fun, please send the following information to cathy@papergardenprojects.com  by Monday, March 29. 

  • Your Name, Email, mailing address and phone number.
  • Just a little about yourself.   What are your favorite techniques or projects or products?   Any particular likes or dislikes?  Are you willing to work with digital stamps?  Why would you like to be part of the design team?  Are you currently on any design teams or have you been on any in the past (although past experience is not necessary). 
  • A link to your blog and any galleries you maintain.
  • A link to a blog post where you created a tutorial, template, or detailed description of how you created a project.

ETA:  Note:  the tutorial does not have to be a video, or extremely elaborate.  I just want an example of how you describe creating a project to an audience.

  • Please attach pictures of 3 projects.  All 3 must have stamping of some kind and at least one of the three needs to be created specifically for this DT call.  In the three please include:
    • One non-card project
    • One card or non-card project featuring some technique of your choice (piecing, stitching, any special stamping or background technique, etc.  (Just a technique you like to use.  Please describe the technique briefly in your cover letter.)
    • A third project (card or non-card) of your choice.

 

And don’t forget about our 4th Friday Fun Challenge this month.  You can get the details here.

Here is the challenge prize:

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Acckkk…. More Snow!

We got another 14 or so inches of snow on Wednesday.  We were up to about 4 feet in some places!  Lucky thing snow shoveling is good exercise.  

The kids ended up with a 6 day weekend and are getting a little stir crazy.  But today we are throwing the Birthday party for the twins that got cancelled last Saturday due to the snow.  That should add some excitement (for all of us!)

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Also just want to give everyone a little heads up…. 

The Paper Garden Projects store turns 2 in March – and we have big plans to celebrate!   Stay tuned for awesome challenges, prizes and sales!

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Holiday Store hours

Greetings everyone!  We are planning to take a little time off over the Holiday Season to be with our families.

Any orders placed after midnight EST on December 21 will not be processed until January 2. The store is still open and we will still be available to answer questions, but we are taking a little break from shipping.

Edited to add:  The winner for the prize for the Winter Wonderland Garden Walk is Nancy M.  Nancy – I sent you an e-mail.  Now wasn’t that worth putting on your mittens for?

But… you still have till midnight tonight to stroll our Winter Wonderland Garden Walk

Since I’m here….  I thought I’d share some of my DD’s gift tags.  She just became a Brownie girl scout and needed to do a “good turn” (good deed) in order to turn her new membership pin right side up.  So she wrapped her cousin’s gifts and colored some gift tags for me.  (Just so it wasn’t all fun and games – she also helped straighten up the play room).   (These were made with Eat Cake Graphics and Penny Black stamps)

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We hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year!

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