Thursday, 17 January 2008

2008 Creative Team + Guests

Introducing the inaugural Q Tea Creative Team + 2008 Guests!

Meet the team:

Sylvia King

"Hi, my name is Sylvia and I live in Hamburg, Germany with my husband Jeff. I started scrapbooking in 2005, although I have been creative with paper and
photos and fabrics for a long time already. My work has been published in
the German scrapbooking mag Scrap-Art-Zine and I am a creative team member of Just 1 Word, a German inspiration blog. When I don't scrap, I sleep,
cook, play the cello or play soccer on the playstation with my hubby :-P . I
also love to play with paints and mixed media and get the kitchen really
really messy with my art supplies. I'm happy to be part of the creative team
for Q Tea, as I find the kit contents so inspiring I forget everything"
around me once the parcel arrived in my mailbox..."

Sylvia's blog: http://wolkenkoenigin.blogspot.com/


Merdrey Chew

"Hello from sunny Singapore! My name is Merdrey and I love anything artsy! Before ‘scrapbooking’ has any real meaning to me other than sticking stuff in jotter books, I was a stick-my-photos-in-non-acid-free-albums-with-tons-of-memorabilia scrapper. Photography was also on my list of likes and I was always going around saying ‘Take photo Take photo!’ Sometime late 2006, I discovered a treasure cove full of scrapbooking materials and I was hooked! What better way to preserve both my photos and the memories at the same time!! I did my first layout in Feb’07 and I just kept going. I am quite a dreamer and I love to think about new ideas, techniques and materials to incorporate into my layouts. My dream is to be able to think out of the box each time I scrap and be able to scrap with any supplies and photos I have! Scrapbooking provides the creativity and element of surprise I need in my life as no two layouts will be the same. So, follow your heart, grab your supplies and scrap!"

Merdrey's blog: http://dreamieland.livejournal.com/


Lianne Gray

"Hi, I'm Lianne. I live in Port Waikato, Auckland, NZ. I have been scrapbooking for 6 years and have always been more interested in the arty side of scrapbooking and recently the use of non-traditional scrapbooking supplies on my pages, the things that add that extra special touch and make it more fun. That’s how I came across Qtea kits."

Lianne's blog: http://liannenz.blogspot.com/


Check out our Guests (one might be you!):

Summer Add-On: Marie Ramirez

February: Sonia Barnett

March: Sharmaine Krujiver

April: Sian Young

Autumn Add-On: Marie Hoimark

May: Natasha Dennis

June: Michelle MacDonald

July: Jodie Z

August: Lee Longmire

September: Anissa Helie

October: Steph Peachey

November: Marnie Telford

December: Louise Nelson

Congratulations everyone, I can't wait to see all of your fabulous work with the kits!

**Note: No designers have been assigned for a Winter or Spring add-on at this point, as it will depend on how Summer and Autumn's add-ons go. If those add-ons do go ahead, guest designers will be selected from contributors to the Q Tea Kits Gallery group on flickr.**

Q Tea Gallery

To make it easier for you fabulous creative people to share your work using Q Tea kits, I have updated the way the gallery works. Rather than just a flickr account, Q Tea now has a Gallery Group. This means anyone can join the group, and simply send images from their own flickr account to the Q Tea Kits Gallery group, without having to email me at all.

If you don't have a flickr account and would still like to share your creations, you can still email me to have it added to Q Tea's account, or join flickr - it's free for a basic membership! I have already added all of the Q Tea gallery to the new group account - you can check it out, and join the group, here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/596565@N24/

I'll update the sidebar shortly to reflect the group link. Would love you all to join!

Any questions, simply email me at qteakits@danielleq.com

Sunday, 13 January 2008

January Update and First Team Member

Most of you will have received your January kit by now - notice the soft photo album included in the kit? Scrapscene had a post recently which will give you an idea of what you could do with it...

Check it out here

Introducing Sylvia

Sylvia King, from Hamburg, Germany, is Q Tea's first Creative Team Member. Sylvia was invited to join the team before the Creative Team Call went out, as she is already a contributing designer to Q Tea. We have Sylvia to thank for the gorgeous sequin crowns and German book paper that featured in December's kit!

A bio of Sylvia will be added when the rest of the team is chosen and announced, but in the meantime, why not visit her blog for a lot of creative eye candy - here.

Creative Team Call Update

There are a lot of amazing entries sitting in my inbox for Q Tea's creative team call! I will announce the new Q Tea Creative Team on Friday, including guest designer spots. Watch this space :)

Sunday, 30 December 2007

Creative Team Call

Well, the poll results are in! The general verdict is that a design/creative team IS a good idea for Q Tea, 2 or 3 designers, possibly monthly guest designers, showing lots of ideas for the kits with an emphasis on layouts. Phew! LOL. So this is the bit where you guys get to show me your stuff!

Invitation
I am currently inviting expressions of interest for the Q Tea creative team members. I'm not sure about the specifics at this point, numbers, duration, etc, but the invitation is open to both Australian and international scrappers.

Here's the deal:
In exchange for one monthly kit, team members or guest designers will create two items for the Q Tea gallery. Ideally a mix of both off-the-page and layouts, but with the balance leaning toward more layouts. Each project would need to use at least 2 items from the kit, with the rest of the projects using your own stash. You are also welcome to use the projects you create for Q Tea to enter other challenges or to combine with other design team commitments.

What to do:
To express interest in being part of Q Tea's creative team, please email qteakits@gmail.com with a bit of info about yourself, links to any online galleries or blogs, and an example of both a layout and an off-the-page (canvas, mini-album, altered item, etc) project. Ideally the examples would show how you like to use non-traditional products, such as those in the Q Tea kits. Please keep the file sizes small for ease of viewing.

Deadline:
6am, Australian EST, 14th January 2007

Friday, 21 December 2007

Kawaii (Super Cute!!) - SOLD OUT

I just love the Japanese pop culture, anime, cute characters and some stuff so bizarre you just have to laugh. Kawaii means 'cute' in Japanese, and suits this kit to a T. Bright colours and cute accents accompany a 4"x6" photo flip album, perfect for customising to your own super cute theme. There is a lot of randomness in this kit, meaning each customer will get some things that are slightly different - have fun with it!

Kawaii (Super Cute!!) will ship from the 3rd January, simply email me to place an order or organise a subscription!

Contents:

1 piece monkey pattern cotton voile, approx 11"x8"
1 4"x6" photo flip album - colour will vary
1 sheet bright orange ledger paper, approx A5
2 imported plastic gift bags - style and colour may vary
1 metre teal tiny ric-rac
Approx 12" white mini pom-pom trim
1 roll imported patterned sticky tape - design will vary
Approx 5 sheets random sheets of imported mini note paper - designs will vary
Approx 5-7 random imported stickers - designs will vary
Approx 5 imported lucky paper strips
1 Crafty Matters 'Cute' ceramic tile
1 Kitty Robot sculpey rainbow accent
1 plastic deer charm - colour will vary
2 plastic rice charms - colours will vary
2 plastic cherry charms - colours will vary
1 blue plastic 'Hello Kitty' accent

Thursday, 6 December 2007

December Update

A quick note to my December customers - all the kits that have been paid for have been posted this week, including internationals (posted on Tuesday). You should have them shortly, if you don't already!

I have added two new polls to the sidebar, about Q Tea's gallery and the possibility of an official creative team, you will find the polls under the 'gallery' flickr banner thingy. If you have anything else you'd like to suggest, request or just express, please add your comments to this post :)

Sunday, 25 November 2007

If It Ain't Baroque

There's nothing quite like quoting a Disney film when choosing kit names - yes, I spend too much time around small children, but what can you do ;) (in case you are wondering, Cogsworth says it in 'Beauty and the Beast'!) For European flair and vintage style decoration, you can't go past Q Tea's gorgeous December kit.

'If It Ain't Baroque' will ship from the 3rd December. Simply email me if you would like to place an order or organise a subscription!

Contents:

1 piece 11"x11" floral cotton
1 piece 7"x10" flocked paper
1 sheet vintage sheet music
1 piece German book paper
1 piece vintage lace curtain
1 piece of Cristina Re cameo paper, approx 3"x8"
1/2 metre white vintage lace
1 length (approx 29") black tulle
1 sachet silver glitter
1 pair of guipure lace wings
1 set 2007 calendar tags from Elle's Studio
2 red rosettes
1 tiny maple leaf button
2 crown sequins from Germany
1 vintage cameo (these are 'found items', so the size and colour will vary randomly)

Please note: Some items may vary slightly from those pictured.