Loving my HQFCB #3 theme AGF choice Leprechaun + focus option Gnome on 1 March 2025

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! 

~~ from the USA heartland

why: I'm loving this post for showcasing the newest design team commitments for HQFCB or Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenge Blog! The main monthly theme is always anything goes fantasy and the March focus option is Gnome. 

when: #3 for 2025 starts March 1/first Saturday and ends on March 31, 2025

what: PROJECT #1 = AGF theme choice of Leprechaun

notes for #1:

1. floral print paper = SU

2. Ai-generated image using Microsoft Designer; printed on white cardstock and edged in green ink = cardstock by Georgia Pacific

3. yellow cardstock scrap strip = Pen + Gear

4. Sandcastle Tan cardstock strip = Martha Stewart distributed through CutCardStock

5. "Lucky charm!" sentiment part of a Google Doc = printed on white Georgia Pacific cardstock

6. 4-point star sticker; gold glitter posy = different mixed design packs by Crafter's Square; also gems

and

what: PROJECT #2 = March focus option of Gnome ---->> "You're my lucky clover" shaped clover/shamrock St. Patrick's Day card

notes for #2:

21. green and orange/butternut squash color cardstocks = Pen + Gear

22. white cardstock for gnome stamping = Pen + Gear

23. gnome stamp = Riley & Co. 

24. gnome image filled with colored pencils with 5 different colors = stash

25. gnome image outlined in black marker = Art Skills

26. star sticker =

27. enamel dots = Everly Lane collection by Fancy Pants Designs

28. Google Doc word processing for sentiment; fussy cut with decorative scissors

29. Pea Green alcohol marker = Arteza

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where: HQFCB (the old TFATU) #3 

link = https://thefairyandtheunicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/hqfcb-or-old-tfatu-3-in-2025-agf-theme.html

badge = 

my DT badge =

**NOTES: the square shaped Leprechaun card and the shaped clover card could be shared over at HQFSCAT (shaped cards and shaped tags); however since I own it, I can't link up; #3 challenge of anything goes on a shaped card or shaped tag theme runs March 2-31, 2025.

other places to share/link are:

a. leprechaun = Pin-spirational; starts March 1st; theme of Spring Greens; My card has lots of greens, even sage greens in the flower print

link = https://pinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/03/pinspirational-challenge-323-march.html

inspiration photo = 

b. leprechaun = If You Give A Crafter A Cookie; starts March 1st; theme of Lucky in Green; MY card has the Leprechaun, pot of gold, rainbow, and expression of "lucky charm"

link = https://giveacrafteracookie.blogspot.com/2025/03/cookie-challenge-202-march-lucky-in.html

inspiration photo = 

c. leprechaun = Love Those Pretty Papers; new Sat March 1; use at least 1 pretty patterned paper; MY Leprechaun card has a bright multi-color floral paper that complements the garden scene Ai image

link = https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/03/atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper-march.html

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d. clover = Fab - n- Funky; started Feb 26; theme is fantasy; my clover shaped card has a gnome, a fantasy creature

link = https://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2025/02/611-fantasy.html

e. clover = Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges; current; anything goes

link = https://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2025/02/pennys-challenge-591.html

f. clover = Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers; new Sat/March 1; G for Green; MY clover shaped card's gnome was stamped onto white cardstock then filled with many colored pencil tones, then outlined in black before fussy cutting and lifting up with foam tabs; with the sentiment and the gnome, someone might not think they were so lucky being matched up to him!?!

link = https://snarkystampers.blogspot.com/2025/03/soss-260-g-is-for-green.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

* owner/DT = HQFCB/old TFATU, HQCB, HQCOLCB, HQFSCAT; AA; ConBC; and on March 1st = Critter Crazy Challenges; also FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQHSKCB and FQGGCB

* manager/DT = MTTC and MTTCChristmas

* DT member only = HAOOCAYR and P-R-S that debuted Feb 2nd

~~ odd fact from February 2025 = 

During high school years, mostly junior and senior year, guys that had same PE time as I did in the girls group, started calling me "White Legs Morris" because of my very white pale skin! I've just never been able to tan by sunbathing. I did ask them to stop many times at first but it just fell on their 'deaf' ears....I just shrugged it off. Yes, I was irked but I didn't go to the principal of our very small high school and complain of harassment or bullying. Back in the late 1970s you just 'sucked it up' or you punched them in the face to get a person to shut up. I wasn't going to do that......I survived.