FQGSCB #15 AFCG theme and partnering QKR Stampede images and #14 Bragging Rights for 7 April 2024

Welcome to the country store of crafting called 

FarmQuest General Store challenge blog!!!

April 7- May 5, 2024 is competition #15. 

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 #14 bragging rights for Blue Ribbon Winner, Top Shelf Winner Picks (3), and a random-picked Winner for the March #14 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.

#15 results posting will be published between May 5-7, 2024 so please check to see who will be the special random prize winner. The winner has until 9 pm Pacific Time on May 15, 2024 to claim their prize (use the contact email address for DT member Nana Connie that will be shared in the bragging rights post) or it will be re-drawn.

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

April's selections are: 

NEW  DT member Bec Ann=

using "Art Palette"

[FQGS #15 elements beside the QKRS digital image: fence, grass, rabbits, sky for outdoor setting]

and

NEW  DT member LeeAnn M =

using "Birdhouse and Vines"

*will be shared at the reminder/midway post on April 21st

and

DT member Nana Connie=

using  "Birdhouse and Vines"

{FQGS #15 AF/CG elements: hollyhocks, birdhouse, sunrise/sunset watercolor}

and 

using "Art Palette" 

{FQGS #15 element: outdoors/brick wall background}

and

DT/owner Becca =

using "Geese" 

 

{AF/CG elements: fence, watering can, dirt path, geese,}

*note: clouds and dirt path were added in and are not part of the QKRS digi*

A great mix of farm and country outdoor scenes!

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Participants:

*Reminder to note:  participating in #15 competition will make you eligible for the random selection for the 3 featured digital images seen in this main post for FQGS #15. 

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

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

LINK=

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/c108780222f84ff3873a5ab7976a6673

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BRAGGING RIGHTS Announcement for #14 from March 7-April 5, 2024

Theme #1 had 10 entries!! #2 had 27. #3 had 16 entries. #4 had 18 entries! #5 had 19 entries! #6 had 12 entries! #7 had 11 submissions! #8 had 24 entries and #9 had 26!!!...only 11 for #10, but thankful for those as most of us are busy with holidays. And here we go with 15 entries for #11! Following the Christmas-New Year holiday season, we had 14 entries for #12! Down to 11 entries for #13. Yes! Are submissions went back up in #14 to 27 wonderful entries!!! 

 I'm loving the variety and glad our 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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Blue Ribbon Winner is selected when there are 25 or more submissions and that entry is #6 by Pauline C!!!

Congratulations #6 entry from Pauline!

Her project features a duck sitting in the grass and enjoying the flowers!

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Congratulations to these 3 Top Shelf Picks: Donna W, Rebecca F, and Elle-jeanne!!!

In order of entry:

#8 by Elle-jeanne = backyard tent:

and

#23 by Rebecca F = bear and friends at the fence:

and

#25 by Donna W  = spring flowers in the metal pitcher:

These are great backyard and outdoor themed projects! Farm-tastic!

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The variety of country/outdoors/farm kind of topics was amazing! 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 in February 2024 is:

from #1- 27 submissions=

#14 was the number selected by my momma Jane via phone call at 10:15pm! Woo-hoo! is for Pamela D!!!

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

qkrstampedenc@gmail.com

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Ya'll come back now ya hear! 

FarmQuest General Store Challenge Blog

DT/owner Becca S,  DT member Nana Connie, [and DT member Jolanda B-W stepped down in March] and we gained 2 new DT members at end of March with 

Bec Ann and LeeAnn M.!!!

FQGS #14.5 Reminder Notice for AFCG theme Challenge and DT Call on 21 March 2024

Thanks for coming out to the country and stopping at the general store! Howdy! 

 Come In. Take a Look Around. 

FarmQuest General Store challenge blog

What: FQGS #14.5 Reminder Post

When: Midway Point is March 21 and #14 ends on April 5, 2024 at 12am CT/Chicago. 

Theme: anything 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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Images from QKR Stampede for #14 that will go to a random-picked entry when the competition closes=

using "Baby Paint Pony" (Becca)

and

using "Baby Donkey" (Becca)

using "Cottage" (Becca)

All three images are available to a random-picked participant to #14. 

The paint pony is great for ranch, desert, and mountain scenes. 

The donkey is great for farm animal scenes as well as religious Palm Sunday, Easter, and Nativity manger scenes.

The tiny cottage is great for any rural setting...on top of a hill, cliffside, tucked into the trees, surrounded by wildflowers, etc. 

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LINK to #14 main launch posting for March 7, 2024

https://farmquestgeneralstorechallenge.blogspot.com/2024/03/fqgscb-14-anything-farm-and-or-country.html

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

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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, Jolanda B-W (has stepped down), and Becca S (owner)

FQGSCB #14 Anything Farm and or Country Goes theme starts 7 March 2024

Welcome to the country store of crafting called 

FarmQuest General Store challenge blog!!!

March 7- April 5, 2024 is competition #14. 

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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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.

#14 results posting will be published between April 5-7, 2024 so please check to see who will be the special random prize winner. The winner has until 9 pm Pacific Time on April 15, 2024 to claim their prize (use the contact email address for DT member Nana Connie that will be shared in the bragging rights post) or it will be re-drawn.

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

March's selections are: 

DT/owner Becca=

using "Baby Donkey"

and

using "Baby Paint Pony"

and

DT member Nana Connie

using "Cottage"

and

DT member Jolanda B-W

(on vacation)

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A great mix of farm and country scenes!

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Participants:

*Reminder to note:  participating in #14 competition will make you eligible for the random selection for the 3 featured digital images seen in this main post for FQGS #14. 

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

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

LINK=

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/75b2e5bbbefe43e38c0a43868c2b39db

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Ya'll come back now ya hear! 

FarmQuest General Store Challenge Blog

DT/owner Becca S,  DT member Nana Connie, and DT member Jolanda B-W

FQGSCB #13.5 Reminder Notice on 21 February 2024

Thanks for coming out to the country and stopping at the general store! Howdy! 

 Come In. Take a Look Around. 

FarmQuest General Store challenge blog

What: FQGS #13.5 Reminder Post

When: Midway Point is February 21 and #13 ends on March 5, 2024 at 12am CT/Chicago. 

Theme: anything 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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Images from QKR Stampede:

DT inspiration from DT member Nana Connie=

using QKR Stampede's Cow Over The Moon; using it differently than Jolanda's main post version

and

DT inspiration  from DT/owner Becca S=

using QKR Stampede's Bighorn Sheep again but colored differently and with different papers

Thanks so much Nana Connie for joining me on the reminder notice!

Jump to the bottom of this posting to see the 3 QKRS images' usage for the Feb 7 main post. 

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LINK to #13 main launch posting for February 7, 2024

https://farmquestgeneralstorechallenge.blogspot.com/2024/02/fqgscb-13-february-2024-with-anything.html

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

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and a review of our main post projects using February's 3 digital images from QKR Stampede that a random-picked participant from #13 entries will receive!!!

Nana Connie using "Pig Stack"

and

Jolanda using "Cow Over The Moon"

 

and

Becca using "Bighorn Sheep"

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

FarmQuest General Store Challenge Blog

FQGS #12 January 2024 Anything Farm and or Country Goes Theme from Jan 7 to Feb 5

Happy New Year 2024!!!

Welcome to the country store of crafting called 

FarmQuest General Store challenge blog!!!

January 7-February 5, 2024 is competition #12. 

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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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.

#12 results posting will be published between February 5-7, 2024 so please check to see who will be the special random prize winner. The winner has until 9 pm Pacific Time on February 15, 2024 to claim their prize (use the contact email address for DT member Nana Connie that will be shared in the bragging rights post) or it will be re-drawn.

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

January's selections are: Appaloosa Foal, Air Guitar Snowman, and All Tucked In.

Here are the DT inspiration projects using these digital images=

DT Nana Connie using Appaloosa Foal

The fabric style argyle print paper is a wonderful complement for how Nana Connie colored the image!!! 

And please read the sentiment pun! Too clever!!

AND

DT Jolanda using Air Guitar Snowman

Jolanda's scene has a playful look that the snowman is serenading those inside the farmhouse! And what a dreamy winter wonderland card she's put together!

AND

Owner/DT Becca using All Tucked In

My goal was for the little mouse to look like he's somewhere inside a farmhouse with the 'wallpaper' print and the 'quilt' heart.

AND

and additional farm country inspiration:

dockside scene

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Participants:

Reminder to note:  participating in #12 competition will make you eligible for the random selection for the 3 featured digital images seen in this main post for FQGS #12. 

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

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

LINK=

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/63280ba0b9ae48d2abf985d6a95d4901

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Ya'll come back now ya hear! 

FarmQuest General Store Challenge Blog

DT member  NanaConnie, Jolanda, and owner Becca S

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3. https://farmquestcountrychrismaschallenges.blogspot.com/

4. https://farmquestgeneralstorechallenge.blogspot.com/

5. https://farmquestchallenge.blogspot.com/

6. https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/

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