April 2020 Week 4 or 16th Week of 52 CCT Blog featuring technique challenge

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! This posting features my creative goal for the year to make a Christmas card every week. With the commitment to be on the design team for 52 CCT blog we are now on our 16th week of Christmas card-making!

Week 4 is typically either a technique or a specified stash item that needs to be included on your Christmas card. Our April 2020 host is Hali and she wants us to use a herringbone patterning of paper strips (or it could be washi tape or ribbon). I decided to do a personal challenge to format the pieces as a circular ornament.

Herringbone 25 Ornament card:

I should have taken time to do a photograph of this at an angle because as I'm typing this, the card is angled on top of my printer with the lights reflecting off the gold foil! Oh it so pretty! The gold glitter dots at each corner and the gold decorative tape and the red glitter foam bow are also sparkling!!!

Sometimes I just amaze myself with how wonderful a card turns out! :)

I'm not going to rush to make another though because measuring the strips and piecing all of the bits onto the plain cardstock took about 2 hours I think. But this was worth it when you get such a marvelous result!

link for #16-2020 for 52 CCT blog=

https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-technique-challenge.html

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Some papers are from Fancy Pants Designs, The Paper Studio/Hobby Lobby, Pink Paislee, The Paper Source, and a few scraps from my stash.

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other challenge blog link-ups or photo shares of this festive card=
a. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges blog; #469; Anything Goes theme
link= https://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/04/pennys-challenge-469.html

b. Christmas 24 blog: Challenge #8= Make it sparkle theme [my card has gold metallic foil paper for the ornament background plus gold glitter decorative tape, and a red glitter foam bow sticker; and there are 3 gold glitter paint dots at each corner of the card!!!!]
link= https://christmas24challenge.blogspot.com/2020/04/challenge-008.html

c. Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog; #21= April Anything Christmas Goes
link= https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/04/mlccb-21-april-anything-christmas-goes.html

d. PPPDTC group on Facebook; a closed group of crafting bloggers to share and also for blog owners to 'advertise' that they need new design team members

e. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook; a closed group of artists and crafters who enjoy mixing it up

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

design team member for the following blogs:
1. 52 CCT
2. APTS
3. MTTC
4. S4fC
5. TCCC