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

February 2020 Week 4 Technique or Stash challenge using foil for 52 CCT blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity and this posting is about using the stash item of foil or products with foil/metallic foil for Christmas cards. 52 CCT is Christmas Card Throwdown and this is Week 8 of 52 for 2020 (or for starting the 4th week of February).

I decided for my design team inspiration card for 52 CCT blog that I would go old school using kitchen foil laid over a snowflake texture plate. Using a mechanical pencil's eraser I gently pressed over the texture plate to create an embossed/impressed image and then took permanent markers to highlight the impressed spots.

I've currently got this card resting on top of my printer and at an angle it looks great (as opposed to this flat scanner photo...sorry). It's not perfect due to several spots of the marker smearing before the ink dried. Yet the green tone of the snowman's scarf is a spot-on match to the cardstock background that is on a white flat card base and little details like that make my heart happy!

 link for # 8 of 2020=
https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/02/february-technique-challenge.html

More cropped views=

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Link-ups for other challenge blogs and Facebook groups where this will be shared:
a. Christmas 24 challenge blog; #004; make a winter/Christmas scene; for my card, the snowman has his giant snowflake 'towering' over him
link= https://christmas24challenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-004-make-scene.html

b. Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog; #19; February Anything Christmas Goes
https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/mlccb-19-february-anything-christmas.html

c. Winter Wonderland; started Feb 7th; Anything Christmas Goes
link= https://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/our-tribute-to-eileen-anything.html

d. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group on Facebook; a sharing group for crafting bloggers

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

and design team member for 52 CCT plus the following 4 others:
A Place To Start
My Time to Craft
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges
The Crafter's Café Challenge

Use stamping not a digital image theme challenge for no 415 MTTC Blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog and to my posting about MTTC's newest fortnight challenge! This time we would like to see stamping (rubber or clear types) instead of digital images to be featured on your creations.

#415 starts 2/21/2020 at My Time To Craft

For my design team commitment for MTTC, I decided to make a card for my oldest niece and her husband's 4th anniversary:

[the purple paper is not part of the card; I used it for blocking out the light of the scanner]

link for the #415 MTTC post=
http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-426.html

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other scanned views:

*the "best wishes" rubber stamp on wood is part of a celebrations set available from Hampton Art
*the flowers are a new style of washi 'roll' that I discovered from Pen + Gear, which is available in the planner area of the office supplies at Wal-Mart...who knew!!!! The washi tape strip helping to separate the 2 patterned papers is part of a multi-roll set also from Pen + Gear/Wal-Mart!.
*another bargain is the butterfly with foil from a sheet sold by Crafter's Choice found at Dollar Tree; there are several monochrome sets available; I've found a blues set, purple, green, yellow/amber, and orange/tan/brown. More $tree bargains were the patterned papers which were part of the same paper pad collection....Woot! Woot!!

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Other link-ups and shares can be found through these groups and blogs=
a. Mix It Up Challenge Blog; #34; theme is Anything Goes (optional twist of stenciling); my entry is anything goes
link= https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/miucb-34-anything-goes-stenciling.html

b. Incy Wincy Designs blog; Feb. 17-29, 2020 challenge; Anything Goes
link= https://incywincydesigns.blogspot.com/2020/02/feb-17-29-anything-goes.html

c. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook; my mediums are cardstock, patterned papers, washi tape and washi flower petals (from a roll), butterfly foil sticker, stamping, inking/edging, gems

d. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls group on Facebook; a sharing site for crafting bloggers

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

design team member of MTTC blog and the following 4 others=

Scrapping 4 fun Challenges
The Crafter's Café Challenge
52 Christmas Card Throwdown
A Place To Start

15th of the month post for TCCC blog with a February theme of pink or red

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity! The Crafter's Café Challenge Blog has challenge release dates on the 1st and 15th of each month, so this is February's mid-month that I'm referring to. The theme is based on color pink or red.

For Valentine's celebrated inspiration card, I've used a variety of pinks--soft pale pink for the cardstock base to the deep magentas seen in the patterned paper and hearts. There are mauve pink-lavenders used to color the digi image, patterned papers, and alpha stickers for "Luv".

Isn't this image cute and sweet??!!! I love this mix of pastels and bolds with how I colored the digi to coordinate with most of the patterned papers--so charming!

Sponsors for this TCCC connected post are: My Besties and QKR Stampede (which is the provider for this darling image).

TCCC link= https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-236-use-pink-andor-red.html

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Design notes or supply/vendor notes:
a. digi image = QKR Stampede
b. colored markers, gold metallic pen, and a few colored pencils for the image
c. white tag (set of them), blue gems (part of a spool), glitter foam hearts, and 3 of the patterned papers were bought at a dollar discount store
d. foam dots were used to lift up the digi image

more scanned/cropped card photos=

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups to find my Valentine's card=
a. 613 Avenue to Create; #230; Anything Goes w/ optional twist of banner and bows; my entry is just AG; link= https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-230-anything-goes-woptional.html

b. Incy Wincy Designs; ends Feb 15th, so depending on cut-off time, I might miss this by a hour or two; theme= love, love, love
link= https://incywincydesigns.blogspot.com/2020/02/love-love-love-and-dt-call.html

c. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges blog; #464; started Feb 5 until the 18th; Anything Goes
link= https://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/02/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-464.html

d. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls group in Facebook; a sharing site for crafting bloggers

e. Mixed Media Creativity group in Facebook; a sharing group of artists and crafters; different mediums are gold metallic pen, markers, colored pencils, patterned papers, cardstock, glitter foam hearts, alpha stickers, digital image

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Thanks for reading my part of "Blog-land"! Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S

Besides being a DT member for TCCC, I'm also part of these challenge blogs' DTs=

Scrapping 4 fun Challenges
My Time To Craft
A Place To Start
52 Christmas Card Throwdown



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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

Becca's Heart for Creativity
and I'm a happy design team member for TCCC blog as well as these other 4=

Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog
My Time To Craft Challenge blog
A Place To Start challenge blog
52 Christmas Card Throwdown

February 2020 Week 3 Theme of Cocoa for 52 CCT blog

Hi, welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity. This posting is about cocoa or hot chocolate as the theme for week 7 of 2020 or 3rd week of February at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge blog.

Can you believe that this weekend marks the 7th of 52 weeks in 2020? Cray-cray!!! This is a busy print-filled card filled with those cozy images associated with cocoa and winter-time. Remember this is a Christmas cards only blog.

Further in the posting, I'll share a bit about all the different vendors, but here's the 1st look at my design team inspiration card for 52 CCT=

More details about how to participate, rules, deadlines, bragging rights, other DT cards, etc. can be found using this link= https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/02/february-theme-challenge.html

more scanned photo variations=

notes about supplies and vendors=
a. the "Ugly Sweater" stationery was a notepad;
b. "cozy" alpha stickers
c. the steaming cup of hot chocolate/cocoa is a rub-on transfer from a set by Echo Park
d. the cut-apart journal card was part of the cardstock/paper collection from Bo Bunny along with the pinkish red print under it and the reindeer print background paper.
e. reindeer clothespin was 1 of 4 dark stained (w/ 4 natural wood) purchased at Wal-mart this past season
f. kraft cardstock, gems, white snowflake, and cording have been in my stockpile as well as the buttery cream-colored cardstock serving as the base (red paper is used to block out light of the scanner of my printer).

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linking or sharing to these other challenge blogs and Facebook groups:
a. Jingle Belles; started Friday, Feb 14; theme of Rudolph the RED Nosed Reindeer; lots of red
[my card's scanning has toned down most of the reddish tones making them look either pinky-coral or brown; however the 'ugly sweater' stationery sheet in reality has reddish tones, the paper under the journal card cut apart is a tonal red; the brown metallic border on the cut-apart card is actually a dark red like the lettering for sleigh ride and hot cocoa; and the green reindeer print cardstock has a bit of the dark red metallic foil visible in a few small spots; 2 of the letters in cozy--the c & o--are dark reds and then the cup of cocoa is the boldest bright red.]
link= http://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2020/02/rudolph-red-nosed-reindeer.html

b. Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog #19; February Anything Christmas Goes
https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/mlccb-19-february-anything-christmas.html

c. 613 Avenue Create; #230; since Feb 2; Anything Goes w/ Optional Twist of Banners & Bows
[I do have the cording tied in a bow but no banner, so this will just be an AG entry.]
link= https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-230-anything-goes-woptional.html

d. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook; a sharing mixed group of artists and crafters

e. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls on Facebook; a sharing group site for crafting bloggers

f. Bleeding Art challenge blog; February challenge; starting 2/15; Anything Goes mixed media
link= https://bleedingartchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/february-challenge.html
[my card has the clothespin w/ stained wood die-cut of the reindeer, cording, glitter foam snowflake, ugly sweater stationery sheet, other cardstocks & a cut-apart type journal card from the cardstock collection, etc.]

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

Becca's Heart for Creativity blog and design team member of 52 CCT challenge blog as well as=

A Place To Start
My Time To Craft
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges
The Crafter's Café Challenges

Valentine love or wedding or anniversary theme no 160 for S4fC blog

Welcome to my blog, Becca's Heart for Creativity! Today's post features my design team project for Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog which has a Valentine's Day/love, friends, or wedding/anniversary theme for #160. I got to use this sweet image of the sponsor Polkadoodles called Tandem Ride-Winnie's Special Moments for my card=

link for #160 challenge for S4fC blog=
https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-160-valentine-friends-wedding.html

Some supply/vendor notes:
a. the pinkish/coral-ish patterned cardstock is an older My Mind's Eye
b. scraps of solid and patterned cardstock
c. Polkadoodles digital image
d. pink heart doily, pink glitter foam heart are from stash
e. the digital image was lifted up with foam dots
f. 2 different gold glitter pens were used to add outline accenting after cutting out the printed image on cardstock

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups to see this card=
a. Not Just Cards Challenges blog; February 11--; Anything Goes
link= http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/02/february-challenge.html

b. Shopping Our Stash challenge blog; February 4--; "My Heart Is On Fire" theme
link= https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2020/02/shopping-our-stash-413-my-heart-is-on.html

c. Crafts Galore Encore Challenge Blog; #72; Anything Goes
link= https://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2020/02/february-crafts-galore-encore-challenge.html

d. Creative Fingers Challenge Blog; #179; Anything Goes
link-= https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-179.html

e. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls group on Facebook; sharing site for crafting bloggers

f. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook; mediums used were cardstocks, numerical stickers, ink, doily, foam dots to lift up the digi image, digital image, glitter foam hearts, colored pencils, 2 different gold glitter pens

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

and besides being a design team member for S4fC blog, I'm also part of the crews for:
52 Christmas Card Throwdown
A Place to Start
My Time to Craft
The Crafter's Café Challenges

February 2020 Week 2 Color Challenge with 52 CCT Blog

Hi, I'm Becca S and this is my blog, Becca's Heart for Creativity. Currently, I'm juggling design team commitments with 5 challenge blogs. A personal crafting goal for 2020 was to be consistent all year long in making Christmas cards, so I was super excited to find out around Thanksgiving time that I would be part of the 52 CCT's design team! This is a weekly format and week #6 of 52 for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Blog is a color challenge of using 3 shades or tones of blue on your  cards that celebrate Christmas.


Here's my explosion of blue card for the design team inspiration=

Some of the details for participating at 52 CCT can be found at their blog post=
link= https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/02/february-colours-challenge.html

more scanned pics=

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups I'm linking this card to are=
a. Winter Wonderland challenge blog; deadline is March 7; theme is Anything Christmas Goes
link= https://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/our-tribute-to-eileen-anything.html

b. Creative Fingers Challenge Blog; started 2/7/2020; theme is Anything Goes
link= https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-179.html

c. 613 Avenue Create challenge blog; started 2/2/2020 & runs for a month; theme is Anything Goes w/ optional twist of banners &/or bows [I'm just having an AG entry]
link= https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-230-anything-goes-woptional.html

d. Facebook: Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls group; a sharing site for crafting bloggers

e. Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog; #19; February Anything Christmas Goes theme
link= https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/mlccb-19-february-anything-christmas.html

The blog badges for WW, CFCB,  MLCC & 613 AC=

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

a design team member for 52 CCT blog and also these other challenge blogs=

The Crafter's Café Challenge blog
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog
My Time to Craft challenge blog
A Place to Start challenge blog