Sunday, October 20, 2024

FQGS #21.5 Reminder Notice for Anything Farm and or Country Goes theme on 21 October 2024

Thanks for coming out to the country and stopping at the general store! Come In. Take a Look Around. 

FarmQuest General Store challenge blog

WhatFQGS #21.5 Reminder Post

When: Midway Point is October 21 and #21 ends on November 5, 2024 at 12am CT/Chicago. 

Themeanything farm or country goes topics; country can be backyard, rural, woods, forest, desert, mountains, creek, river, pond, lake, swamp, farmhouse kitchen, orchard, winery, etc.

Formats: cards, ATCs, tags, bookmarks, calendars and planners, journal pages or spreads, TN pages or spreads, larger scrapbook layouts 

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EXTRA DT INSPIRATION =

Anything Farm and/or Country Goes theme

PROJECT = Anything Farm and/or Country Goes choice of Autumn Season at the Mountain Lake oversized display card


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LINK to #21 main posting back on October 7th =



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FarmQuest General Store is accepting your deliveries until early on  November  5, 2024!!!

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Note: three of the DT members showcased the October digital images that will go to 1 random-picked entry in the main post from October 7th. Take a look at those. 

Remember the main theme is always 'anything farm and/or country goes'. 

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DT Call

if interested in creating once per month anything farm/country/rural/outdoors topic projects and/or use 2024 partnership using QKR Stampede digital images,

please email your interest to owner/DT Becca Sadler =

questbybecca@gmail.com

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See you soon at the country store when you bring your deliveries (project submissions)!!

FarmQuest General Store Challenge Blog

Design Team members: Nana Connie, LeeAnn M, Bec Ann

 and Becca S (owner) 

Sunday, October 6, 2024

FarmQuest General Store #21 with AFCG theme PLUS #20 bragging rights announcement

Welcome to the country store of crafting called 

FarmQuest General Store challenge blog!!!

October 7- November 5, 2024 is competition #21. 

Theme is always Anything Farm and/or Country Goes. 

Topics can range from ranch/farm/farmhouse to desert to swamp to forest/woods to pond, etc. Activities can vary from fishing, camping, picnicking, taking a hayride, picking out a pumpkin and thousands more! You can do any season of the year at any time. Formats are scrapbook layouts, TNs/journals/planners, tags, bookmarks, ATCs, and cards.

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Scroll down towards the end of the post to see the #20 bragging rights Top Shelf Winner Picks (3), and a random-picked Winner for the September's QKRS digital images that were featured!!!

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NEW in 2024 for FQGS in the FarmQuest family of challenge blogs=

A random participant winner will receive the 3 monthly featured images from QKR Stampede. 

Note: Stamp On It currently has QKR Stampede and several other stamp/digital image lines/companies for sale. Here is that company website with the announcement:

https://stamponit.net/pages/about-our-brands

And the QKR Stampede blog site to look at the archives with last posting on June 15, 2023:

https://qkrstampede.blogspot.com/2023/06/qkr-stampede-challenge-467.html

FQGS DT member Nana Connie is coordinating this and has worked with them for many years.

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  QKR Stampede has allowed the DT to use 3 images per month.

August's selections featured by FQGS Design Team are: Longhorn, Night Time Owl and Mouse Knight. 

DT member Bec Ann = card

using "Longhorn" digital image from QKRS



[FQGS #21 AF/CG elements: steer/bull, meadow/pasture scene]

and

DT member Becca = shaped tag/hanging tag

doing an anything farm/country goes choice = pheasant


rotated 90 degrees:

{FQGS #21 AF/CG elements: pheasant, feathers}


and

DT member NanaConnie  = card

using "Night Time Owl" digital image from QKRS

{FQGS #21 AF/CG elements: owl}

and

using "Mouse Knight" digital image from QKRS

DT LeeAnn = 

 {FQGS #21 elements: mouse, plaid, denim overalls}

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A great mix of nature and country outdoor scenes!

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NOTE = skip over the brags for the link-up section to participate

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BRAGGING RIGHTS Announcement for #20 from Sept 7-Oct 5, 2024

 We're loving the variety and thrilled our 9 FQGS participants are embracing the broadness of rural topics we want to see! Thank you to all the wonderfully talented artisans who took time to create and deliver projects to the store!

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Congratulations to these 3 Top Shelf Picks: Katrina, Janet, and Karen C !!!

In order of entry:

#1 by Katrina = horse & cowboy boot & saddle!


and
#4 by Janet/sweetpea = horse & rider!



 
and
#7 by Karen C  = farmer, turkey!


 
These are great backyard, farm/ranch and meadow themed projects! Farm-tastic!

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 It was a very difficult time of decision-making selecting only 3 entries. Thanks for making it tough for me/Becca.

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RANDOM-picked winner of the 3 featured QKR Stampede digital images from September 2024 competition PLUS new: a Guest DT invite for November 5th

from 9 submissions :

#6  was the number selected by my hubby at 9:30pm central time on October 5th! Woo-hoo! #6 is another entry from Katrina B!!!

Congratulations! please email DT member NanaConnie to make arrangements to receive the 3 featured QKR Stampede images!!!

qkrstampedenc@gmail.com

and

then email owner/DT Becca S if you'd like to accept the Guest DT invite

questbybecca@gmail.com

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Ya'll come back now ya hear! 

FarmQuest General Store Challenge Blog

FQGSCB design team members: NanaConnie, Bec Ann, LeeAnn, and Becca S (owner)

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Participation for FQGS #21 for October 7- Nov 5, 2024:

*Reminder to note:  participating in #21 competition will make you eligible for the random selection for the 3 featured digital images seen in this main post for FQGS #21. 

*Now it's time for our readers/customers to turn into vendors and deliver your goods to the general store by 12:00am CST November 5, 2024.

*Use the Inlinkz tool address to help you make those deliveries.

LINK=

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/d77fe06e113041c0928ff69ba5966ac7


 So long. Farewell. Come back soon to the country store!  

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FQGS #23 with AFCG theme and QKRS sponsored images plus #22 Top Shelf Picks honorees on 7 Dec 2024

  Welcome to the country store of crafting called  FarmQuest General Store challenge blog!!! December 7- January 5, 2025 is competition #23....