Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! I've been on the design team for My Time to Craft for a couple of years now and I truly appreciate the owner, Shell's, laid-back easy to be part of the DT approach. She announced to us about 2 months ago that she was wanting to start a Christmas-based one. This is the very first challenge 'contest' for this new challenge blog!!!!
For the first 8 months of 2020, I participated in a weekly Christmas-focused card-making challenge blog. I really enjoyed that. So since Shell is beginning MTTCC has a spin-off of her MTTC and on alternating Fridays, I thought I'd try being part of the design team. Join us and get a jumpstart on your Christmas cards in order to reduce holiday stress at the end of the year!
1st theme for MTTCC--My Time to Craft Christmas is reindeer. Start date is 1/15/2021. Deadline date is 1/28/2021.
Design notes:
1. Santa on Rudolph is rub-on transfer from Carta Bella's "A Very Merry Christmas" set
2. heart stencil sheet is by Jot; purchased at Dollar Tree; bubble gum pink acrylic paint was applied with a sponge dauber brush and then red colored pencil was shaded over in order to get that watermelon red tone seen in the washi tapes
3. 2 washi tapes are part of a 3 pack set from Jolee
4. largest letters for "ho!" are from Simple Stories; the tiny tile letters are from Webster Pages
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MTTCC link for #1 Reindeers challenge posting=
link= https://mytimetocraftchristmas.blogspot.com/2021/01/here-we-go.html
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My 1st personal creative challenge for 2021 is to copy-cat a sketch layout from a card in 2010 or 2011 to inspire me, so I have picked this teacher card from May 18, 2010 to revamp for this Christmas card shown up above. The similarities are: Santa strip is in about same location as the tree ATC card; there are 2 deer on right side like the 2 owls; the 2 washi tapes are crossed like the 2 ribbons. =
My 2nd personal creative challenge for 2021 is to include either heart shape(s) and/or the word(s) heart or love into my projects. After such a stressful year, I figured all my family and friends who receive my cards need to have some positivity. On this card, I have the heart stencils used again like I did on another recent DT project this month and the words 'love' and 'dear' show affection.
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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups where this card's photo or this posting will be shared:
a. Merry Little Christmas challenge blog
b. Christmas Kickstart Challenge blog
link: https://christmaskickstartchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/01/christmas-kickstart-challenge-46-such.html
c. Mixed Media Creativity group in FB;
d. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group in FB
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Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S
Design team member of these teams: [1] My Time to Craft Christmas; [2] My Time to Craft; [3] A Place to Start; and [4] Createful Heart Designs
