My Pin-spirational #337 design team card with rainbow colors on 1 May 2026

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity, a personal blog. 

who: I'm Becca S, living in central Illinois in the center of the USA. My style most of the time is artsy-craftsy, mish-mesh of old and new, just like this card!

what: Rainbow Colors theme inspiration card

where: Pin-spirational, a crafting challenge blog, owned by Deanne

link to #337 blog post = https://pinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/03/pinspirational-challenge-337-may.html

when: #337 starts on May 1, 2026 and goes through the month.

why: this is for my design team commitment with Pin-spirational

**badge image for the May theme at Pin-spirational: rainbow colors

how: Isn't my card beautiful??!!!

1. blue mirror foil cardstock = Crafter's Square (from a multicolor pack)

2. rainbow tie-dye/watercolor print paper = multicolor/multi-design paper pack = Crafter's Square (reduce to 5.5" square)

3. enamel hearts and dots from different color packs = Freckled Fawn

4. blue and green markers = stash box

5. circle stencil created with my circle punch (EK Success) and some recycled packaging cardstock 

6. framed floral specialty sticker = Antique Gardens floral frames pack; K & Company

7. "HB" stamp = old stamp by SU

8. stamped in Fish Tank blue mini stamp pad = Lawn Fawn

9. went over the stamping to make bolder = navy blue dual-tip marker by Art Skills

LINK-UPs:

a. Love To Craft Challenges; new on May 1 & open until June 15; theme of anything goes

link = https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/ltccb-92-and-ltccb-91-winner-and-top.html

b. The Four Seasons Challenge; new on May 1; theme is spring season; My card has pretty spring colors, spring flowers in the framed sticker and the faux flowers on the 'wreath' made with enamel dots and hearts

link = https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/05/spring-season-may-2026.html

c. AAA Birthday; new on May 1/celebrating their #7 bday; theme is birthday; My card is stamped with 'Happy Birthday'.

link = https://aaabirthday.blogspot.com/2026/05/game-85-anything-birthday-goes-we-are-7.html

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d. Seize The Birthday; nearing the end of week 2 of 2; theme of birthday with topping/twist option for primarily pink; My card is stamped with 'Happy Birthday' and it has lots of pink tones in the paper, enamel heart & dots plus flowers in the framed sticker

link = https://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2026/04/seize-birthday-325-primarily-pink.html

image = 

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

* DT member only: Pin-spirational and PRS; plus CIP

* owner/DT = CCC; AA; ConBC; HQCB, HQCOLCB, HQFCB, HQFSCAT and HQLQCB; plus FQCB, FQCCCB, FQGS, FQGGCB and FQHCB. 

**note: after May 3rd/or the 3rd of each month, Birthday theme is part of the BEWAS main themes at Heart's Quest Celebrations of Love challenges blog. 

**note: Heart's Quest Challenge Blog #85 opened on April 28th. The main theme is 'anything with a heart goes'; and the optional heart color(s) are pink and/or blue. 

2022 MTTC April 22 #480 Outdoor Property Markings like Fence Gate Wall Gazebo Theme DT inspiration

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! It's a wonderful feeling to be in the midst of springtime weather and all the promises of the renewal in nature! The new theme is a terrific choice for this season too! 

My Time To Craft challenge blog's #480 has the theme of outdoor property markings such as fence or gate. This can be plural too so it would be great for farm and garden settings, home yards, castles, and so much more. Some more brainstorming ideas are: arbors, arches, trellises, gazebos, retaining walls, hedgerows, and tree lines. The competition starts April 22 and lasts 13 days.

DT inspiration commitment #1:

Hello, dear card:

*click on this 2nd cropped scan in order to see more detail of the pocket calendar painting image:

Design notes for "Hello, dear" card:

1. dimensions of sage green cardstock = 4.25" high x 5.5" wide

2. white cardstock is actually 4" square but only seeing a portion of it

3. scraps of 2 patterned papers from the Mint Berry paper pad from The Paper Studio/Hobby Lobby

4. scraps of kraft brown card and aqua card 

5. the upcycled pocket calendar photo credit goes to Terry Redlin painting used in a 2020 Pocket Calendar distributed by Father Flanagan's Boys Home located in the USA

6. from Bluebells and Buttercups collection from Craft Consortium= the fawn wood die-cut and enamel dots were purchased from Paper Wishes website recently

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For my design team inspiration commitment #2, I made this spring season stylized scene birthday card:

Design notes:

a. mid-gray tone cardstock flat base is 3.5" deep and 6.5" wide; some moody blues were smudged into cloud scallops and then later it was placed on a 5" x 7" light blue cardstock

b. the mint green cardstock behind the half yellow flower doily is about 3.5" deep and about 6.25" wide; some black ink and brown coppery tones were added to simulate earth

c. floral washi tape (My Mind's Eye), die-cut posies, and die-cut butterfly along with the half of a flower shaped doily help give a springtime feel

d. the fence clipart image was printed on kraft paper and was found online at Clipsarts co

e. the green sentiment strip is actually a neon green so in person there is more contrast; sentiment stamps have been in my stash for awhile

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MTTC's #480 link= http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/mttc-480-theme-is-outdoor-property.html

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups for linking/sharing are:

1. Word Art Wednesday challenge blog; Anything Goes; Weeks #539-540 = [card 1 pic]

link= http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2022/04/anything-goes-weeks-539-540.html

2. AAA Birthday challenge blog; Critters theme for HB; [card 2 pic]

link= https://aaabirthday.blogspot.com/2022/04/game-36-critters.html 

3. Use Your Stuff challenge blog; Spring or Easter theme; [card 2 pic]

link= http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2022/04/446-springeaster.html

4. Passionate Paper Creations and Friends group in FB

5. Mixed Media Creativity group in FB; 

6. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group in FB; 

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

*Design team member of:

MTTC and its sister blog MTTCC

and

**Owner of:

Heart's Quest Challenge Blog and FarmQuest Challenge Blog

 

Under The Sea Themed Birthday card

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! It's a rarity for me to get a card made that is not a design team commitment especially now that I've started my own challenge blogs! I hadn't looked at an AAA Birthday challenge blog for awhile and thought I'd try to get a card made before their deadline. However the theme of sea life became the challenge for me to conquer. This is very subtle but see what I came up with. Seize the Birthday's new challenge theme option is to "stripe it up" so this counts, too. The inspiration colors for The Card Concept match perfectly with the Seaside Retreat stickers used for "Under The Sea Birthday" card=

All of the stickers are from Seaside Retreat sticker sheet from Webster Pages. I've almost bashed this sheet. Zoom or enlarge the photo for details which I will describe. The bottom border sticker has sand dollars, fish, seahorses, and octopus. The short label sticker has a crowned fish! A short border of sand dollars are under the palm tree which was plain wood die-cut from Dollar Tree. I used a dark brown marker to color the trunk portion first then went over the whole surface with a green glitter paint pen. Then the other stickers are still part of the Seaside Retreat. A scrap of light yellow cardstock was stamped with the main sentiment 'happy birthday'. 

I was wanting this to a slimline card with just the blue and white being the card base however the cardstock was lighter weight and just felt too flimsy and I really wanted to get more sea life on there, so getting that bottom border sticker was vital. Overall dimensions are close to 8 or 8.25" wide and about 5-5.25" deep.

For my typical style, this is actually CAS--clean and simple. I still want to add more to it but I would have to go buy or do an online search for a free digital image/clipart. It is very hard for me to keep it simpler. 

Overall the symbolism of a scene was made: white for sky, scalloped border sticker is marking the horizon and to serve as land/seashore and blue for water. I don't use frames very often, but it was fun using the frame sticker from the Seaside Retreat sheet and creating a focal area. 

Link-ups for participation at certain challenge blogs and sharing in FB groups are:

1. AAA Birthday- birthday card challenges; #35; Under the Sea; 

link= https://aaabirthday.blogspot.com/2022/03/game-35-under-sea.html

2. Seize the Birthday challenge blog; anything birthday with option topping of 'stripes'= the scalloped border strip that separates blue from white or water from sky has short little vertical stripes of colors

link= http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2022/03/seize-birthday-235-stripe-it-up.html

3. The Card Concept challenge blog; started March 30th; #172; my inspiration for the card was to make it an under the sea themed birthday yet the color palette matches perfectly with the inspiration photo colors in TCC's photo=

link= https://thecardconcept.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-card-concept-172-easter-blessings.html

my card has a green card base and green palms, light blue 'sea' and light blues in the frame design, orange in the bottom border, sand dollars, and scalloped border stickers; and light gray in the scalloped border sticker. 

4. Mixed Media Creativity group in FB; brown marker, green glitter paint pen, blue ink stamp pad and HB stamping as well as inking the edges of the white and blue panel

5. Passionate Paper Creations and Friends group in FB; sharing

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Crafting in the USA heartland (and not from deep in the ocean!!!)--

Becca S

this is not a design team commitment project however the 2 challenge blogs I own are:

Heart's Quest Challenge Blog

and

FarmQuest Challenge Blog

please go check them out; I just started HQCB on 2/28/2022 and FQCB on 3/28/2022!!!!!!

2022 Jan 14 MTTC Floral Theme DT card

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! I'm excited to rejoin the design team crew at My Time To Craft challenge blog! Woo-hoo!! For #473, the theme for the challenge is floral. 

I decided to made a birthday card with a CAS layout that is actually based on a sketch for the 52 CCT 22-01 challenge. 

Wishing You Well birthday card=

link to MTTC=

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/challenge-473-floral.html

Design Notes:

A. bright purple cardstock base folded on the left; Neenah; pink is actually a neon hot pink, also from Neenah; the base is made of a full sheet of CS and the pink is about 5"x7"

B. pale green banner strip; Neenah; 

C. silver metallic gel highlighter pen edges the green banner strip

D. the bird oval sticker is old stash; the glitter & silver mirror foil posies are stick-ons 

E. 'wishing you well' stamp is from a small greetings stamp set (old stash); black ink pad

F. CAS= clean and simple format for the layout

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other challenge blogs and FB groups where I'll share this posting or pic=

a. AAA Birthday challenge blog= my 2 favorite colors are pink and purple!!!

https://aaabirthday.blogspot.com/2022/01/game-33-two-favourite-colours-micro.html

b. Seize the Birthday challenge blog=

  

http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2022/01/seize-birthday-229-blue-and-gray.html

c. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook

d. Paper, Paper, Paper, & DT Calls group on Facebook

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

*MTTC design team

*MTTCC design team