29 April 2022 MTTCC #33 Fireplace and or Stockings Theme for Christmas card

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My heart gets excited when I can craft! I get extra excited when it comes to Christmas and Easter cards. For the #33 MTTCC fireplace and/or stockings theme I found a free printable coloring page image that I left as full size. It will be hand-delivered. And for Card #1 I did a fast fireplace sketch then saved it on my printer as a jpeg file so I could print is to 1/6 of a full sheet size on white cardstock.

Fireplace Sketch card=

A design and vendor note for Card #1: the wreath and stocking are decorative rub-on transfers from "A Very Merry Christmas" by Steven Duncan for Carta Bella 2017. 

 

Merry Christmas Fireplace Garland card=

Some design and vendor notes for card #2: the banner sentiment and garland are decorative rub-on transfers from "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" by Echo Park Paper Co. 2017 and the small mistletoe print cardstock is from ______________. This time the fast sketch fireplace image was printed on kraft paper. More kraft paper was used for the left-side folded card base. 

Cozy Fireplace Scene Christmas card= [not shown on MTTCC blog]

Design notes:

1. Black cardstock base; background has red mottled CS on diagonal with neon green CS; the first/top background is a lattice print from The Mind's Eye (an old scrapbook collection).

2. image and cardstocks edges were smudged with black ink to give it a smoky, ashy look

3. the image 'wall' was colored with light peach so that it wouldn't be bright white and would go with the fireplace and mantle

4. dark pine green metallic dazzle sentiment (Paper Wishes website) 

MTTCC's #33 Fireplace and/or stockings theme posting link=

https://mytimetocraftchristmas.blogspot.com/2022/04/mttcc-33-theme-is-fireplace-scene-and.html

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups where this posting or pics will be shared:

A. ABC Christmas Challenge; current competition is H for Ho Ho Ho and/or I for Inky; [my entry is for I= Inky; card #1 fireplace image white cardstock has red ink on the edges and a black ink stamped sentiment] link= https://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/abc-christmas-challenge-h-i-are-for.html

B. The 12 Months of Christmas Link-Up; current competition is #87; link= https://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.com/2022/04/ch-87-anything-goes-christmas-with.html

C. The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge; Anything Christmas Goes; current competition started April 19th; link= http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/challenge-114-anything-christmas-goes.html

D. Heart's Quest and FarmQuest Challenges Fans Group in FB

E. Mixed Media Creativity group in FB; a small private group 

F. Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls group in FB; a sharing site for bloggers, DT members, and blog owners/manager

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

owner of 2 challenge blogs: Heart's Quest and FarmQuest; this fireplace image is offered as a freebie in the FB fans group

Design team member of:

1. My Time To Craft Christmas challenge blog

2. My Time To Craft challenge blog

Sharing my challenge blogs HQCB and FQCB

 Hello, Becca's Heart for Creativity blog readers! In case you haven't seen my new challenge blogs started on 2/28/2022 and 3/28/22, this is their links to their newest themes starting April 28th. 

Heart's Quest Challenge Blog

https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/hqcb-color-heart-challenge-3-in-orange.html

FarmQuest Challenge Blog

https://farmquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/fqcb-theme-3-basket-and-cherries-starts.html

and HQCB is starting something new today as well with having a Valentine's Day Cards challenge that is offered as a page option and has its own Inlinkz tool address for entry submissions. 

For V-Day theme #1, the project(s) can use either heart shape or word or the word love AND a doily. The Valentine's Day card needs to have both. You can have more than 1 heart shape. And you can use both the word heart and the word love. 

Heart and love can also be their other language equivalents. You can also use a form or variation like heartfelt, heartful, hearts, loves, loved, loving. 

On the HQCB site, go to the right sidebar and about halfway down will be a category titled "page options". Click on the one stating HQCB Valentine's Day Cards Challenge. 

Or use this link=

https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/p/hearts-quest-valentines-day-holiday.html

Appreciatively,

Becca S

owner of :

Becca's Heart for Creativity blog

Heart's Quest Challenge Blog

FarmQuest Challenge Blog

Sketch Layout Plus Ink Blended Background Card

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Oh my! It's very unusual nowadays to create a card that is not a design team or my own challenge blog inspiration commitments. Three-and-a-half days ago, my personal email inbox got notices from PCC and MTC about their new challenges. I started on the MTC first and actually used 1 full sheet of white cardstock that I divided into 4 sections.

I used the same 4 colors stamp ink pads and 2 makeup sponges for the applications that varied in pressure, amount of ink, and direction of the blending and overlaying. This post's featured card is the first one to be released. The other 3 will be revealed in a few weeks for upcoming commitments. 

This is "A Happy Heart" thinking of you card=

More design notes:

An old stencil set from Pebbles that has been in my stash for about 12 years had been resurrected this month and one of the stencils provided the brackets. I thought this would be my own little creative twist on the 'label' shape seen in PCC's sketch. 

I forget the vendor for the stenciled message but it was the perfect fit inside the brackets. The glittery decorative tapes are in lieu of the thin long strips shown on the sketch. And due to the placement of the brackets on the right side of the ink blended DIY section, I only put the 'strips' on the left side. A blush pink cardstock is placed behind the panel as the secondary background panel. Then those were mounted on a brighter pink cardstock along with a few blue gems for accents and to give more blue on the card. 

I'm very pleased with the cheerful card. 

Link-ups of this card will be found at these blogs and FB groups=

A. Make The Cards Challenge #53

https://makethecardschallenge.com/make-the-cards-challenge-53/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=make_the_cards_challenge_weekly_prompt&utm_term=2022-04-20 

B. Paper Craft Crew challenges #467

http://papercraftcrew.com/pcc467-horizontal-sketch-challenge/

C. Passionate Paper Creations and Friends group in FB

D. Mixed Media Creativity group in FB

E. Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls group in FB

F. Word Art Wednesday challenge Weeks

link= http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2022/04/anything-goes-weeks-539-540.html

G. Scripturally Inspired Creativity group in FB

H. Christian Card Making ~ Women's Fellowship group in FB

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

also owner of 2 fairly new challenge blogs: 

Heart's Quest Challenge Blog

and

FarmQuest Challenge Blog