Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Even as a teenager looking to the future, I thought 2000 and 2020 would be very sci-fi, Star Trek, kind of un-real. The events of 2020 were not ever in my visions of the future! Thankfully, my overwhelming craft supply stash is keeping me entertained! :) Oh, yes! Being creative helps me manage my stress. I feel happy when I get a chance to experiment with colors, pattern prints, textures, and layouts!
Createful Heart Design challenge blog is going to continue 2021 with monthly Anything Goes as the challenge. I decided in late December 2020 to select Mary's coloring page "Best Friends Forever" to make some belated wedding cards that I didn't get made this autumn.
Best Friends Forever Wedding Card for #28 monthly challenge=
Design notes: brown kraft cardstock for base; CHD digital image printed on light blue cardstock and color-filled with colored pencils; pale pink cardstock for heart; chocolate brown with raspberry print paper has been in stash for 10 years; lettering and gems from Dollar Tree; red metallic foil striped washi tape is Jolee Boutique.
CHD #28 challenge post link=
https://createfulheartcards.blogspot.com/2021/01/welcome-to-challenge-28.html
CHD's shop link for BFF digital image=
https://marketplace.zibbet.com/createful-heart-design/best-friends-forever-coloring-page
CHD's blog badge=
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Personal creative challenge #1 for 2021 is to use old cards' layouts from 2010 or 2011 for inspiration this year. This sympathy card layout is tweaked for today's wedding congratulations card:
The 2nd personal creative challenge for 2021 is to include either hearts or the word(s) heart or love onto my cards as a little subtle visual reminder to family and friends that they are loved.
+used pink cardstock in heart shape to back up the digi image
+yellow/amber heart-shaped gems
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other challenges and groups where this card or posting will be shared:
a. Use Your Stuff challenge blog; theme = NEW;
+red metallic striped washi tape was received from a crafty friend about 3 months ago
+heart gems were bought within the past month
+digi image is NEW to me provided by CHD owner, Mary Smith
link= http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2021/01/413-all-about-new.html
b. 100 Pattern Paper FB group= I haven't pulled a specific stack of patterned papers to use in 2021 but the chocolate brown with raspberry print paper is 10 years old--in the stash way too long. There's a challenge to try to use a mix set of prints--well, I didn't do it all with papers but I do have dots on half of the lettering, stripes on the washi tape, and then a tile-print paper.
c. The Seasonal CardMaker FB group
d. Paper, Paper, Paper and Design Team Calls FB group
e. Mixed Media Creativity FB group
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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S
Design team member for: [1] Createful Heart Design; [2] A Place to Start; [3] My Time to Craft; and [4] My Time to Craft Christmas
Happy New Year 2021
