Blockheads Design Team Call

We need your love of stamping and enthusiasm about Blockheads to help sell our products. At this time we are looking for 3 artists to commit to a 4 month contract from May 2012 through August 2012 to create step-by step tutorials and altered art or art card samples to post on their blogs and allow us to post on our site. Due to shipping costs we are looking for North American design team members only. Please no Stampin' Up demonstrators. Our design team is great about encouraging one another by cross posting links to one anothers' blogs and providing positive feedback. Participation and excitement in the design team is important.

To apply for our Creative Team: please email the design team coordinator with your information with attachments of your work you'd like to have considered and a link to your blog.

Design Team Coordinator: Karen McAlpine blockheadsdt7@hotmail.com
Be sure to include:
Personal Info: Full Name, Address, Phone
Online Presence: Email Address, Blog URL, Any additional online galleries that include your work, a list of any online groups you post regularly to
Ideas for projects: tell us 3 card sample ideas you have in mind

Your responsibilities if chosen:

• Provide monthly: images of 4 Artistic Cards, 6 ATCs or 1-2 altered items depending on complexity. All projects should use rubber stamps, exclusively from Blockheads and be designed to really make others excited about those stamp(s). Please limit patterned paper to small areas, less than 10% off the overall design. Printed ephemera as an embellishment is great, but we prefer you stamp your backgrounds rather than use pre-printed papers.
  

• Post your examples to your blog with instructions and links to pages on Blockheads where the stamps and supplies may be purchased. Put an image/post on our Facebook page to draw people to your blog to view your project. I also recommend posting on any stamping boards like splitcoaststampers.com that allow you to link to your blog.
  

• Submit at least 2 projects that use rubber stamps, exclusively from Blockheads, during the four month period to stamping magazines, such as Altered Arts, Vamp Stamp News, or Rubber Stamp Madness. You may choose to submit all your projects to SCS instead of in addition to this requirement.

Design Team Members will receive:

• $100 in Blockheads Rubber of your choice ($50 in month 1 and $50 in month 3). Please be prepared to select full, half or ¼ sheets of untrimmed rubber. Each $50 allowance is enough for either 2 full sheets, 3 half sheets or 5 quarter sheets of rubber.
  

• Your work will be featured in a special Design Team section of our web site where you may provide links to your blog, gallery and/or Etsy store.
  

• $50 supply allowance ($0 in month 1 and $50 in month 3 if requirements were met for the first two months) toward any inks or paints offered at Blockheadstamps.com. After the first contract, proven design team members will get $25 in products every two months.
  

• COMMISSION! If you wish to sign up for our affiliate program (available to all bloggers) you can earn 5% of sales resulting from customers following a link you've posted - 10% if taken as products (www.blockheadstamps.com/blogger-links.html).
  Publication incentive awards for any projects published in print publications (details provided on the info page of our web site).

DEADLINE: December 20th.