Winter Holiday Celebrate Card based on a sketch

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! This is my 2nd card for the year and in about 5 months! It feels SO good to be creative! To think creatively! To get my fingers messy with 2 different stamp pad colors and a mid-blue paint stick!

This card is also combining 3 different challenge blogs' criteria. There's an anything goes winter/January theme, an inspo list of 10 items/themes that I have to use at least 3, and a Christmas/winter holiday card with sketch. I only gave or mailed out a few Christmas cards to my immediate family, so I've got belated cards made last year I need to get mailed asap and I'll include this one too.

Winter Holiday Celebrate Card:

Supplies: (1) bronze dazzle word is from Paper Wishes website; (2) snowflakes stencil is from Simple Stories; (3) gold and light blue cardstocks, A2 white card base & matching envelope, blue ink stamp pad, gold ink stamp pad, blue paint stick (from a set of 4 colors) are all from Art Skills' Crafters Choice; and the (4) blue foam snowflake sticker (from a huge set in 5 different colors bought years ago) is from Oriental Trading.

Challenges:

A. Festive Friday #0100= the 3 items I used were splatters, celebrate/celebration, and gold

blog post: https://festivefridaychallenge.com/festive-friday-challenge-ff0100/

B. The Four Seasons Challenge blog= anything goes winter/January challenge theme; I was inspired to use wintery blues and snowflakes (stenciling on the focal background and the large foam one); this is their mood board for January:

this is their blog badge:

blog posting: https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-winter-challenge.html

https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-winter-challenge.html

C. 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 22-01 sketch; required Christmas/winter holiday & sketch

this is the sketch:

this is their participant badge:

blog posting: https://52cct.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-sketch-challenge.html

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Crafting in the cold, snowy, icy USA heartland,

Becca S

MTTC challenge blog Stencil It theme starting 19 March 2021

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My Time to Craft challenge blog's #453 theme is "stencil it". Long before dies, as a teacher, I've had several different sets of stencils that gave you the 'frames' plus the insert. This particular butterfly stencil template has been a favorite. I love to use it for spring birthday and Easter cards. 

My niece and her older half-sister have birthdays about two weeks apart, so I decided to make them cards designed similarly. In the photo below, I'm showing the butterfly shape insert from the rectangular frame. Most of the DT crew have used paint or ink stamping with their stencils. I've used mine to trace and cut out the shapes from patterned paper.

"Flying Flowers" birthday cards=

 

link for MTTC= #453

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/03/challenge-453-stencil-it.html

a few design notes related to the challenge:

*so many different techniques for using stencils and I decided to use a butterfly frame's center shape stencil as a template for the large focal butterfly on each card

*patterned papers are oldies from my stash

*left side is 5" tall

*right side is 7" tall

more scanned cropped photos=

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups where I'll link=

a. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends challenge blog; anything goes; started March 7; ends in a few hours

link= http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2021/03/c-153.html

b. Festive Friday's #80 World Autism Day Insp List; their challenge started today; due to working today, I'm creating and posting my MTTC design team project card blog post at 8:30 pm CST Friday 3/19/21. I've included bright colors, blue, butterflies, and patterned papers mentioned on the list.

c. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group in FB

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

CHD Challenge Blog no 26 for November 2020 Design Team Card

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! I love the autumn season with the crisper temperatures! Where I live we're having more roller coaster temps so layering your clothes is a requirement! This giving of THANKS card has layers, too. {Sorry, folks! Realizing I had at least 7 layers on this card made me think of those delicious dessert bar cookies called 7 Layer Cookies using graham cracker, chocolate chips, coconut flakes, sweetened condensed milk, etc.!! Yum!}

1. light gray base

2. part of a yellow sunflower doily

3. lattice patterned cardstock panel

4. medium gray strip and an 2-tone orange patterned paper strip

5. part of an orange maple leaf doily

6. yellow cardstock panel with  the printed digital image

7. embellishments of metallic foil leaves and gem dots

THANKS giving encouragement greeting card=

The darling Mrs. Scarecrow with Squirrels digital image is available from Createful Heart Designs store in Zibbet. This image was made by co-owner Mary Smith. She operates CHD along with her husband. In case you arrived at my post from a different location than CHD challenge blog, this is the link for #26 November 15th-December 14th, 2020 month-long "Anything Goes" theme=

link: https://createfulheartcards.blogspot.com/2020/11/welcome-to-challenge-26-november-15th.html

link to CHD store in Zibbet for the "Mrs. Scarecrow with Squirrels" digital image=

https://marketplace.zibbet.com/createful-heart-design/ms-scarecrow-with-squirrels-stamp-image

Coloring of the digital image was completed with these supplies: markers, colored pencils, glitter paint pens.

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Other challenge blogs besides CHD design team commitment where the card's main photo w/ my blog link will be shared=

a. Mix It Up challenge blog; Anything Goes [with an optional twist of making your own background which I didn't do]...read up above for all my 7 layers to see all the different supplies I used

link: https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/11/miucb-43-anything-goes-making-your-own.html

b. Festive Friday Challenge; #FF0072; my 3 from the inspo list are: thankful theme, leaves, and pumpkins (see their challenge image)

link: https://festivefridaychallenge.com/new-challenge-9/

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Facebook sharing of this card= 

c. Mixed Media Creativity group in Facebook; mediums are paper products (doilies, cardstocks and printed paper scrap, printer/digital image, gem dots, metallic foil stickers, black ink pad, assortment of markers, colored pencils, and glitter paint pens...)

d. my personal profile in Facebook

e. Paper, Paper, Paper and Design Team Calls group in Facebook; a sharing group for crafting bloggers and challenge blog owners 

f. The Seasonal Cardmaker group in Facebook; this autumn season theme card is to be given very soon for Thanksgiving, letting someone I know how grateful I am to have them in my life!

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Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S

design team member for these 3: Createful Heart Designs challenge blog, A Place To Start challenge blog, and My Time To Craft challenge blog

APTS Blog November 2020 Technique Challenge for Mirrored Stamping

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My artsy-crafty heart got nervously excited about trying this technique! Luckily my sister gave me a set of autumn theme stamps that included some leaves. This trio 'branch' stamp I thought would be the perfect choice. It's not a true mirrored image if you look closely, but a reversed rotation...sneaky...did you even notice before I said anything?

And if you look online, there are several ways to do this. Also most of my DT crew mates have mirrored their images side by side rather than doing a 'water reflection' type mirroring. I thought having the solid color cardstock base of the buttery yellow contrasted with the cocoa brown and raspberry patterned paper has enough visual contrast to do the flip-flop of the stamping. What do you think?

Leaf Branch Thank You Card for APTS design team project November 2020=

Link to the APTS posting requiring mirrored stamping for Nov 2020=

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2020/11/monthly-challenge-november-2020-mirror.html

a few little ink smudges and one leaf got a bit more ink pressed on it compared to the rest but to me that's a bit more realistic to nature where there is so much hue variances leaf to leaf and even within a leaf.

Supply-wise notes:

a. the patterned papers are scrap pieces from papers purchased probably 10 years ago!!!

b. the 'thank you' is gold foil 'remains' cut from a sheet of dazzles (Paper Wishes website product)!!! I thought having the white background of the thank you with the gold foil was a good complement to the floral patterned paper and the buttery yellow cardstock.

c. leaf branch stamp is part of Jen Hadfield's "Warm and Cozy" 2019 set of clear acrylic stamps available at Pebbles Inc and distributed by American Crafts

Other challenge blogs where this posting or card photo will be shared:

a. Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog; theme Autumn; #178; open until Nov 5/check time zone

link= https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/10/challenge-178-autumn.html

b. Festive Friday; started 10/30/20; World Kindness Day inspo list (see their badge); I've included patterned paper, flowers that are in 1 of the patterned papers, and the sentiment "Thank You"

link= https://festivefridaychallenge.com/festive-friday-challenge-ff0071/

Facebook groups where this will be shared:

a. my personal profile

b. Mixed Media Creativity group; stamping, gold foil, patterned papers, cardstock, gem dots, black marker outlining, 

c. The Seasonal Cardmaker group; this will be shared in a couple of weeks at Thanksgiving

d. Paper, Paper, Paper and Design Team Calls group; a sharing site for crafting bloggers

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

Design Team member for these 3:

1. A Place To Start challenge blog

2. Createful Heart Designs challenge blog and company

3. My Time To Craft challenge blog