Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity!, a personal crafting blog!
who: Hello! I'm Becca S, a 60+ year old artsy-craftsy mish-mesh blogger!! My arts and crafts started early. Piano lessons started at age 6 until I was 16+!! Clarinet and later switching to bass clarinet began at age 10 in fifth grade beginner band! Learning to sew, cook and bake through 4-H club started at age 9. After several years of developing skills through three or four levels, I added flower arranging, nature crafts and an intro to interior decorating. My undergraduate degree middle-high school proficiency area was home economics. Now it is called Family & Consumer Sciences. I continued building my sewing skills, foods & nutrition and interior design. There were also courses in child/human development, family & marriage, money management and teaching home economics methods. I'm still continuing in all of these. :)
where: this is not related to any of my design team commitments
when: Monday, November 2, 2026; if the page dries quickly I'll try to get the page scanned and blogged before midnight!
why: Even as I started blogging back in 2010-2011, I found that creating for challenges really fed into my love of solving puzzles however I needed (and still need) to have some time periodically just to creatively explore and experiment.
what: You Make Life Sweeter MMMMJP #11
how: My Mondays Mixed Media Journal Page =
1. medium surface sketchbook = Tree House Pad & Paper; 30 sheets; room for just one entry sometime soon
2. four stamps: sentiment and three flowers = Pinkfresh Studio's Freshly Picked clear stamp set (there are more stamps in the set)
3. stencil template for the scalloped rectangle shapes was handmade using an index card and 'ticket'-style shape punch (EZ Success)
4. Pumpkin Spice, Walnut, Narwhal and Guava mini stamp pads = Lawn Fawn
5. circles, triangles, stars, diamonds and half circles = shapes stencil ruler; very old and discovered at my mom's house when cleaning out...my 2 siblings agreed that anything crafting related was to go to me :)
6. Royal Blue, Beach Blue, Pea Green and Canary Yellow = alcohol markers by Arteza
7. black ink for stamping of sentiment and 3 flowers = mini stamp pad by Hero Arts
8. silver glitter acrylic paint = (look for smears/dabbing scattered throughout) = Crafters Closet (sold at Dollar General stores)
9. two green tones, one magenta & one purple colored pencils = Marvy Uchida
10. Vanilla Cupcake Aroma Scented Drops = Nuvo (look for the squiggle line across the bottom of the Walnut brown inked block)
11. Gold Rush Stone Drops = Nuvo (look for the tiny dots/dabs)
12. bright/neon pink (used on the drooping flower) is a gel highlighter = Creative Devotion
LINK-UPs:
1A. The Outlawz Anything But A Card; new on Nov 1st; theme of anything goes mixed media; I'm sharing page 11 in My Mondays Mixed Media Journal.
link = https://tolanythingbutacard.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-outlawz-anything-but-card-november.html
1B. Mix It Up Challenges; new on Nov 1st; theme of anything goes mixed media; I'm sharing page 11 in My Mondays Mixed Media Journal.
link = https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/11/miucb-86-anything-goes-optional.html
1C. Pearly Sparkles; new on Nov 1st; theme of sparkle and shine; I'm sharing page 11 in My Mondays Mixed Media Journal ==look for the silver glitter acrylic paint smears and dabs + Gold Rush Stone Drops + a little shine from the Vanilla Cupcake Aromatic Scent Drops (wavy line in the brown/Walnut block)
link = https://pearlysparkleschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/11/challenge-125-add-some-sparkle-and-shine.html
1D. Pammie's Inkies Pinkies Challenges; new on Nov 2nd; theme of anything goes; I'm sharing page 11 in MMMMJP with four stamps used plus lots of inks
link = https://pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com/2026/11/pip-challenge-2544.html
1E. We Love 2 Create; new on Oct 25 and still open; theme of anything goes mixed media; I'm sharing page 11 in MMMMJP with stamping, inking, paint dots/dabs/smears, usage of colored pencils, alcohol markers, a neon pink gel (waxy) highlighter, etc.
link = https://welove2create.blogspot.com/2026/10/anything-goes-international-craft.html
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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S
*DT member only = PRS and Pin-spirational owned by Deanne; as of October 1, 2026 = Deanne has restarted HQCAYR
*owner/DT = CCC; ConBC; AA; HQCB, HQCOLCB, HQFCB, HQFSCAT, and HQLQCB; plus FQCB, FQCCCB, FQGS, FQGGCB, FQHCB. & new on Sept 15th = HQPIPC or Heart's Quest Pretty in Pink Challenges
***this is a non-design team related project; a personal series
