Loving my HAOOCAYR design team card for 1 July 2025

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog!

why: This card is for my design team commitment for Halloween and other occasions crafts all year round by Deanne. I only had time to create 1 card for 1 of the 4 possible themes that are offered (Halloween, birthday, wildlife and/or ice cream)!

[We had a 5 day vacation trip from June 15-19 and then a weekend trip June 28-29 for one of my niece's wedding and reception. It was a 4.5-5 hour trip to the wedding location and then we stuck around for a family photo afterwards! The reception started at 3:30pm in a different town about 15-20 miles away and our chosen hotel room in between those locations! Because we were in southern IL and my hubby's heritage areas are Cape Girardeau and Saint Genevieve, MO, on Sunday morning we drove to Chester, IL to cross the Mississippi River in order to meander to St. Genevieve where his paternal grandparents are buried. We left flowers. Then we drove over an hour to St. Charles, MO to visit another cemetery to leave more flowers on his parents' graves, his first wife's and one of his nephew's. Then we met his sister at Bob Evans for lunch before we traveled back to north central IL about 4 hours or so. We were tired so we ended up stopping about every hour and switching places to drive! But overall we've had two terrific travel adventures in June! ]

when: July 1, 2025 until the end of the month

what: PROJECT: HAOOCAYR's July optional theme of ice cream

how-to notes/vendors for project:

1. ivory card base (cut into 2 panels; edges distressed and inked; focal panel is trimmed 1/4" smaller than the A2 original size) with matching envelope = from pack = Crafter's Square

2. orange gingham ribbon = Crafter's Square

3. carnival/amusement park rides print paper = Beachside Boardwalk = Fancy Pants Designs

4. yummy puffy tag + #4 puffy sticker + ice cream cone puffy sticker = also Beachside Boardwalk = Fancy Pants Designs

5. Sandcastle Tan cardstock scrap cut to ice cream shape = Martha Stewart distributed by CutCardStock

6. orange paper = memo pad; recycled find found at my mom's house

7. blue cardstock  scrap strip = Art Skills

8. brown mini stamp pad = in Walnut/brown by Lawn Fawn

where this will be linked:

1A. Inspiration Station: open until July 4th; theme is image as prompt; MY ice cream card's background paper has angled photo images looking up at carnival/amusement park rides! 

link = https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/06/inspiration-station-challenge-jun-2025.html

badge = 

1B. Crafts Galore Encore; new on July 1st; theme of anything goes; this is my 2nd entry on July 1st

link = https://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/07/july-2025-crafts-galore-encore.html

1C. Park Hopping My Happy Place; new on July 1; theme is similar to the blog title; at this time there is no link up tool address, so I'll leave my post link in the comments

link = (title and blog address don't match for July) https://parkhoppingmyhappyplace.com/2025/07/01/june-2025/

1D. Love To Craft; new on July 1 and open until Aug 15; theme is anything goes

link = https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/ltccb-87-anything-goes-ltccb-86-winner.html

1E.  Love to Scrap; new on July 1 and open until Aug 15; theme is anything goes

link = https://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/ltscb-174-anything-goes-ltscb-173.html

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where this could also be linked if I wasn't the owner:

a. FarmQuest Grocery Game Challenges #19; new challenge just started on June 28 and open until July 27. Anything FOOD goes theme

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where to find HAOOCAYR's July blog post link =

https://halloweencraftsallyearround.blogspot.com/2025/07/july-1st-halloween-and-other-occasions.html

theme badge for July = 

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

* DT member only = HAOOCAYR and PRS (both owned by Deanne)

* manager/DT = MTTC and MTTCChristmas (both owned by Shell S)
* owner/DT = ConBC; CCC; AA; HQCB, HQFCB at TFATU, HQCOLCB, and HQFSCAT; plus FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQHSKCB and FQGGCB.