Anything Goes Theme for no 161 DT project for S4fC blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! This posting does feature hearts and an image called "Ladybug Love" from LeAnn's World 101. I felt that it was important for me to emphasize the love aspect and have the image set in a heart symbolic shape.

Anything Goes theme for #161 starting Friday, February 28, 2020
link= https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-161-anything-goes.html

Challenge #161 has 2 sponsors: Ike's Art and a 2nd sponsor of LeAnn's World 101. Make sure to visit the Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog to see the offered designs to the team for this challenge's inspiration. If you have time, visit each design team member's blog to offer feedback. Also, the blog will have the rules for participating, prize details, deadline dates, etc.

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a. card base: white flat scalloped edge
b. patterned paper: an oldie but favorite from my stockpile; I meticulously re-traced the scalloped edging to be 1/4" reduced all the way around compared to the card base! It took extra prep time but it's details like this that are definitely worth the time!!!!
c. 2 cardstocks: the digi image is printed on white CS and then mounted on deep magenta marbled CS
d. embellishments: green gems, deep magenta glitter foam double heart
e. digi image colored with mostly colored pencils and some marker accents; background surrounding the image was to create a setting of sky with a little bit of grass and dirt below. I layered different greens and a reddish brown on the uppermost leaves to give them a bit of aging in contrast to the leaves underneath.

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups to share this pretty card=
a. Use Your Stuff blog; #392; theme= circles; {my card has round gems, curved slopes of the hearts, Os in xoxo, and the rounded scalloped edges of the patterned paper and white CS base}
link= http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2020/02/392-circles.html

b. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges blog #465; theme- Anything Goes; only about 4 days remaining
link= https://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/02/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-465.html

c. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls group in Facebook; a sharing site for crafting bloggers to share their latest works

d. Mixed Media Creativity group in Facebook; a sharing group of crafters and artists who enjoy using multiple mediums in their artistry

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S of Becca's Heart for Creativity blog

and besides being a DT member for S4fC blog, I'm also on these crews--
A Place To Start
52 Christmas Card Throwdown
My Time to Craft
The Crafter's Café Challenges

HIMCR #356 for 2nd Saturday of the month scraps theme

HB is for happy birthday not hot bike! It could be but no, this is a warm color palette inspired card! Blazing full speed into another year!

HIMCR #356 design team card for June 9=

HIMCR's and Ike's Art Digital Stamps' ID badges are shown below. The HIMCR #356 blog post link is:  http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2018/06/himcr-356-super-scraps-saturday.html

HIMCR is the host challenge blog and I'm a member of the design team. (Yea!) Ike's Art Digital Stamps is both the provider of the digital images used by the design team's paper creations for this challenge as well as the prize sponsor for the selected winning entry that is linked to HIMCR's #356 blog post.

Design notes:
a. theme= scraps; all the cardstocks are scraps (Colorbok for 6 of the solid colors of yellow, squash, cinnamon, burnt orange, red, and light gray; and The Paper Studio for 1 solid color/orange background)
b. another scrap is the striped arrow
c. image=courtesy of HIMCR #356 prize sponsor, Ike's Art Digital Stamps
d. motorcycle design theme supported with: bright warm colors, arrows, inking around image to look like greasy fingers had been touching it (NOT!) :)
e. birthday theme or message supported with: "HB!" and masculine elements to give card to one of my cousins or one of my husband's buddies
f. another challenge I want to link this card to is for Always Happy Birthday for June with the theme of birthday anything goes and option for summer time birthday (like my choice of hot summery sunshine color palette): https://alwayshappybirthday.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-challenge-birthday-anything-goes.html
g. AHB's ID badge:

Still crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S

HIMCR 342 color week theme of monochromatic greens and Inspired By challenge

Comfort and encouragement with monochromatic greens....

technically my design team inspiration card has more of an analogous color scheme of yellow-greens, greens of light and dark, and blue-greens

but I love how I was able to use Ike's Art Tropical Fish images (there's more than 3 in the set)

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2018/03/himcr-342-monochromatic-greens.html

 HIMCR badge and use the blog post link above the badge to find out all the guidelines for participating in this week's challenge

Ike's Art badge

This card was based on a sketch layout and I got artsy with painting my base cardstock (cotton ball- swiped paints of blue, green, and yellow) in order to get an ocean water look:

I gathered 4 different designer papers from The Paper Studio (Hobby Lobby) and some scrapbooking stickers I thought might work  and then modified this layout sketch to fit the dimensions of the card (4.5" x 8")

The layout sketch was intended for scrapbooking so the lines meant for journaling and spot for the date weren't used, the title got moved to the left, and the 2 fish serve in place of the photos and were shifted over to the right. I am wonderfully pleased with the results:

A touch of gray and brown with black lettering to keep it interesting...

Another of Ike's Art Tropical Fish for the inside panel

Visit the HIMCR post for #342 and see what the other members of the design team created for your inspiration for this week's color theme. Besides the tropical fish, there is a shamrock teddy bear, parrot, and dragon also courtesy of Ike's Art that the team used. Fun!!

And I'm also linking to the Inspired By challenge this week which has lots of green colors in Over in the Meadow...I've got the green part but I'm in the ocean waters and not running through the pasture or the back 40 acres!

http://theseinspiredchallenges.blogspot.ca/2018/03/inspired-by-over-in-meadow.html

By the way, besides the greens, the inspiration photo looks like it was quilted and the stitch lines remind me of the sections on each fish fin and the multiple strips of papers in my card. (You see it too, don't you?!?!)

Crafting in the U.S.A heartland, Becca