Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Craft artisan blogger extraordinaire Deanne announced in July 2022 that on August 1st her new challenge blog called Once Upon A Time would start. Woo-hoo!! Her premise is to have a children's book cover photo inspiration and the story be the inspiration(s) for crafters to interpret and create a project.
I asked if I could be on her design team and she said 'yes'!! YEA!!! I'm so excited!
Here's my project=
Credits: owl and bear clip art images (EduClips); I will be using the card in the classroom for reading and writing activities!!!; colored pencils; black fine point marker pen; planner sticker; layered die-cut sunflower 'stick-on'; red glitter alphas; red scrap paper; white with thin rectangular openings is recycled/upcycled packaging!!!!; kraft paper for backdrop and yellow cardstock for base; with the last back layer of kraft--just to block the printer scanner light...I've tweaked the placements but I think there are enough nods to the front cover to see some similarities. In the classroom the last few years I've used the forest/woodland as my environment decoration theme. With this mimicked card cover, I can get double duty as classroom theme decoration item and to use as either an ELA activity after reading "Dear Zoo". Besides a zoo, what other place could you use as the setting for a similar book to Mr. Campbell's "Dear Zoo"?
And here's the book cover=
this is 1 of 2 design team member badges Deanne's created for her crew=
OUAT challenge blog link for August 2022=
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***With about 2 weeks before the next school year officially starts for Midwest/Illinois, I've had 4 job offers in the past 4 days!!!! I've been job searching and applying since February, but this old girl is needed because of teacher shortages! :) I've been flattered over and over again which has been very good for uplifting my spirits. It's scary to only have 2 weeks to get a classroom organized and decorated but it's also super exciting! I have 2 endorsements areas and a short-term approval in a different subject area and the offers are split with 2 for an endorsement area of Early Childhood/primary and the other 2 are for the approval in JH science!!! :) Stay tuned for which one I pick!!!!
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Other challenge blogs and Facebook groups for linking and sharing=
1. Love To Craft Challenge Blog #69; July 1-August 15, 2022; Anything Crafty Goes;
2. Shopping Our Stash challenge blog; #475; about 1 more day left; WTHeck embellishments [MY CARD/classroom project has the white cardstock with windows recycled packaging used as the faux zoo cage/forest cage element to mimic the book cover design!!!! I thought the slots/openings would be useful somehow for a paper-crafting project and I stuck this in with white cardstock scraps thinking that some day soon I will use this!!!!]
3. Fab-N-Funky Challenges blog; Anything Goes theme is current for 2 more days;
4. Mixed Media Creativity group; recycled packaging; alpha stickers; planner sticker; layered sunflower die-cut stick-on; clipart images;
5. Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls group
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Crafting in the USA heartland and thrilled to be combining learning, teaching, and creativity,
Becca S
design team member for Once Upon A Time challenge blog
other DT commitments are with MTTC, MTTCC, MLCC, MIUCB, AACB
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owner of 2 challenge blogs started earlier in 2022: FarmQuest and Heart's Quest
