My Mondrian Mondays Journal Page #35 on 13 April 2026

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity, a personal crafting blog!

who: I'm Becca S, a mish-mesh merger of old and new stash products using her mostly artsy-craftsy approach to papercrafting and hybrids with digital elements. I'm a wife, a dog-parent, sister, aunt, great aunt, honorary grandmother, former teacher and passionate blogger. 

where: this is a non-design team project

when: Monday, April 13, 2026

why: It's Mondrian Monday!! I started this journaling notebook with famous Dutch artist Piet Mondrian serving as my muse for geometric designs. That was 13 months ago and I'm now on my 35th notebook entry! Go to the bottom of the post to see some cropped painting photos of Piet Mondrian's paintings. 

what: MMMJP #35 = reddish brown, reddish purples to blue purple to navy blues to a light blue plus gray-filled, black-filled and some areas left blank/white spaces

how:

1. journaling notebook; 80 sheets of peach grid/graph lines = bought at Dollar General store

2. brown and gray retractable marker pens; non-smudge = Zebra Clickart; brown was used for the circles and gray for the squares perimeters

3. mechanical pencil, dual-side tape roll for the large circles stenciling shapes and a small decorative tape roll for the small circles stenciling = stash

4. square stencil template = part of a box of basic shape stencils; --- Schaeffer teacher resource learning products

5. colored pencils = Marvy Uchida/ stash box

LINK-UPs:

A. A Place To Start; new on first Monday of April; theme of Anything Goes w/ option of OMBRE; that's what I've tried to do with the color palette = reddish brown to purple tones to blues + brown, gray, black and white/blank spaces

link = https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/04/challenge-202604-april-2026-anything.html

B. Creative Aunts; started on the first Monday of April; theme of CIRCLES; two different sizes of circles used for my #35 geometric design

link = https://kreativtanten-challenge.blogspot.com/2026/04/112-kreise-circles.html

C. Kleuren met Potloden; new on April 10th; theme = usage of colored pencils; My journal page #35 spaces in the geometric design are filled using colored pencils. 

link = https://kleurenmetpotloden.blogspot.com/2026/04/challenge-april-alles-mag.html

D. Creative Fingers; new on April 10th; theme of anything goes

link = https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/challenge-320.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

***this is a non- design team affiliated project

* owner/DT commitments: ConBC, AA, CCC; HQCB, HQFCB, HQCOLCB, HQFSCAT and HQLQCB; FQCB, FQGS, FQHCB, FQCCCB, and FQGGCB. 

* DT member only commitments: CIP ; PRS & Pin-spirational 

FROM: www.piet_mondrian.org

1919 /\

and

1913 \/ = Composition Number 7

1930 \/ = Piers and Ocean Composition Number 10

1919 \/ = Lozenges...

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FROM: my Mondrian Mondays Journal notebook 2025--

*#33 from March 23, 2026

* #27 from November 24, 2025

 

* #14 from July 14, 2025

My April 2026 Stash Bash Kit for layouts and cards

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity, a personal crafting blog!

who: I'm Becca S, a 60+ year old craftsy-artsy former teacher who fell in love with paper crafting and blogging/message boards back in 2009-2010. About 15-20 years before that, I started sketching my own holiday images to give to some family and friends. Through the years, while teaching, I would try to mail or personally hand  each student at least 1 postcard during the semester or year. At one school district, there were 6 new to the JH & HS starting at the same time. So for the four years I was there, I would place holiday cards or cheer-up mid-quarter or quarter postcards in their mailboxes to build rapport and team/community.   

where: this is a non-design team related commitment

when: my kit and first card were pulled together on Friday April 10 and the kit-focused post will be released on Saturday, April 11th. nope: Sunday April 12 @ approx 12:10 am

why: It's getting close to mid-month and I hadn't put a kit together. A kit helps for quicker making of layouts and cards; that is after the initial planning and pulling of items from different stash boxes. I'm hoping to do two- 1 page notebook size scrapbook layouts and maybe a few cards using this kit between April 10-30th. 

what: My Stash Bash Kit for April 2026; lots of light-mid-tone blues, lavenders, pinks, greens

main elements pic =

and

additional stickers pic =

how:

1. Colorbok solid colors papers: light blue, black, 

2. recycled tissue box packaging: (2) bright floral print and the other blues + gray + white stripes print

3. Recollection: spring plaid patterned paper

4. American Crafters: gold alpha THICKERS and small font dark blue alphas

5. Echo Park's Our Happy Place = cut-a-part mini cards (3)

6. Crafter's Square: butterflies (4 different partial packs), embossed puffy flower stickers (2 different partial packs); also ribbon in lavender and pink

7. Nicole Brand Crafts: pale pink rhinestone hearts, red gems, yellow/gold gems, pearls, 

8. Poppy & Pear's Bea Valint ephemera package

9. K & Company's Antique Garden sticker book

10. Journaling/documenting stamps (who, date, etc.) = Heidi Swapp planner clear set of stamps 2019

11. Colorbok's Pastel Cardstock: 1 each of yellow, pink, blue, lavender and green

12. Core-dinations' Premium White Cardstock: 2 full sheets

link-up to showcase my April kit:

a. Lisa and Lori's Great Stash Bash challenge; new on April 1st; see the image

link = https://createdbylisa.blogspot.com/2026/04/lisa-loris-great-stash-bash-adventure.html

their formula image badge:

*stickers: besides alphas, I've put in lots of butterflies, a sticker book that is 80% full, 

*embellishments: gems/pearls in a bag (lots of colors and types), 2 spools of ribbon (lavender and pink), an ephemera pack that I just got two weeks ago

*alphas: 2 stickers packages: 1 gold foam type and 1 dark blue tiny font size type

*cardstock: plain solid colors: 1 sheet each of 4 colors + 2 sheets of white

*recycled cardstock: in 2 different prints/colors

* patterned papers: plaid paper 12" square minus about 5%; 3" x 6" scrap cut glossy bright colors geometric print; will add in as needed

ALSO: sentiment stamps will be added as needed 

My Mondrian Mondays Journal Page #34 on 6 April 2026

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity, a personal crafting theme blog!

who: I'm Becca S, who is a 60+ year artsy-craftsy mish-mesh style of maker most of the time. Sometimes I restrain my impulses to do 'more is more'!!! Ha-ha! It is so hard for me to Clean and Simple style! For this next Mondrian-influenced geometric design, I had a difficult time deciding what to do. How much of his compositions do I try to bring in? And how do I go about it? My last entry that I loved, had my brain cells urging me to do something very similar. But I did resist. Read on for more insights....

where: This is a non- design team related project so there is not a specific 'where' that this journal page design is tied. If you go back in my previous posts, maybe 3 or 4 entries ago, I did share a few cropped pics of Mondrian's geometric paintings and several of mine scattered during the past year.

when: Monday, April 6, 2026

why: In late August, it will be 2 years since my mom passed. My husband and I had been her caregivers/helpers for 5-6 years before she died up until her last 3 months when she needed skilled nursing care. Her needs changed over time as different falling injuries intensified her needs and started altering how often she needed assistance. I didn't realize until about her last 8 months that I developed caregivers fatigue. My crafting and blogging were my stress relievers but even that precious time was being affected. So I decided to pick a day of the week to alliterate and have a creative muse. Mondrian Mondays grew out of a mental need to do something different. 

what: My Mondrian Mondays #34

how: using black straight lines and white spaces with the design for Mondrian's takeaways; the color palette, circles and dots were my tweaks.

1. an index card and decorative cardboard spool were my tracing templates

2. the colored pencils (8) = Marvy Uchida

3. a fine tip & extra fine tip black markers = Sharpies

4. journaling notebook with 80 peach tone graph paper sheets = bought at Dollar General

5. mechanical pencil was used first to create the grid layout

6, note: I did messed up on my rotation of the colors and even wanting to reverse the direction go from left to right and then right to left. So the color placements ended up being unpredictable...which I guess is a good thing. 

LINK-UPs:

a. Kleuren met Potloden; still open until ; theme is usage of colored pencils; all my applied colors for the design spaces is with colored pencils; markers were applied to my pencil-traced lines and curves.

link = https://kleurenmetpotloden.blogspot.com/2026/03/challenge-maart-alles-mag.html

b. Allsorts Challenge; new on Apr 4th/open; theme is 'it's springtime' or anything goes; My chosen color palette is springy how because it's a journal page, I'll indicate it as A.G.

link = https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/03/challenge-846.html

c. A Place to Start; Monday April 6; anything goes or option of ombre; My color palette is analogous tones but not applied in a ombre approach...so A.G.

link = https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/04/challenge-202604-april-2026-anything.html

d. Creative Aunts Challenge; new on Mon April 6; theme of circles

link = https://kreativtanten-challenge.blogspot.com/2026/04/112-kreise-circles.html

e. 613 Avenue Create; new on Sunday Apr 5; theme of anything goes or opt of April showers; MY journal page is A.G.

link = https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/04/april-2026-anything-goes-w-optional.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

** this is a non-design team related creation

* owner/DT = ConBC; CCC; AA; plus HQCB, HQFCB, HQCOLCB, HQLQCB, and HQFSCAT; also FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQHCB and FQGGCB.

* DT member only = CIP; PRS and Pin-spirational