OUAT debuts with Children's Book Prompt Dear Zoo for August 2022

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Craft artisan blogger extraordinaire Deanne announced in July 2022 that on August 1st her new challenge blog called Once Upon A Time would start. Woo-hoo!! Her premise is to have a children's book cover photo inspiration and the story be the inspiration(s) for crafters to interpret and create a project. 

I asked if I could be on her design team and she said 'yes'!! YEA!!! I'm so excited!

Here's my project=

Credits: owl and bear clip art images (EduClips); I will be using the card in the classroom for reading and writing activities!!!; colored pencils; black fine point marker pen; planner sticker; layered die-cut sunflower 'stick-on'; red glitter alphas; red scrap paper; white with thin rectangular openings is recycled/upcycled packaging!!!!; kraft paper for backdrop and yellow cardstock for base; with the last back layer of kraft--just to block the printer scanner light...

I've tweaked the placements but I think there are enough nods to the front cover to see some similarities. In the classroom the last few years I've used the forest/woodland as my environment decoration theme. With this mimicked card cover, I can get double duty as classroom theme decoration item and to use as either an ELA activity after reading "Dear Zoo". Besides a zoo, what other place could you use as the setting for a similar book to Mr. Campbell's "Dear Zoo"?

And here's the book cover=

this is 1 of 2 design team member badges Deanne's created for her crew=

OUAT challenge blog link for August 2022=

https://onceuponatimechallenges.blogspot.com/2022/08/challenge-1-dear-zoo.html

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***With about 2 weeks before the next school year officially starts for Midwest/Illinois, I've had 4 job offers in the past 4 days!!!! I've been job searching and applying since February, but this old girl is needed because of teacher shortages! :) I've been flattered over and over again which has been very good for uplifting my spirits. It's scary to only have 2 weeks to get a classroom organized and decorated but it's also super exciting! I have 2 endorsements areas and a short-term approval in a different subject area and the offers are split with 2 for an endorsement area of Early Childhood/primary and the other 2 are for the approval in JH science!!! :) Stay tuned for which one I pick!!!!

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Other challenge blogs and Facebook groups for linking and sharing=

1. Love To Craft Challenge Blog #69; July 1-August 15, 2022; Anything Crafty Goes; 

link= https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/ltccb-69-anything-goes-ltccb-68-winner.html

2. Shopping Our Stash challenge blog; #475; about 1 more day left; WTHeck embellishments [MY CARD/classroom project has the white cardstock with windows recycled packaging used as the faux zoo cage/forest cage element to mimic the book cover design!!!! I thought the slots/openings would be useful somehow for a paper-crafting project and I stuck this in with white cardstock scraps thinking that some day soon I will use this!!!!]

link= https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2022/07/sos475-wtheck-embellishments.html

3. Fab-N-Funky Challenges blog; Anything Goes theme is current for 2 more days; 

link= http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2022/07/challenge-556-anything-goes.html

4. Mixed Media Creativity group; recycled packaging; alpha stickers; planner sticker; layered sunflower die-cut stick-on; clipart images;

5. Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls group

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Crafting in the USA heartland and thrilled to be combining learning, teaching, and creativity,

Becca S

design team member for Once Upon A Time challenge blog

other DT commitments are with MTTC, MTTCC, MLCC, MIUCB, AACB

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owner of 2 challenge blogs started earlier in 2022: FarmQuest and Heart's Quest