Masculine Theme February 2020 Challenge at APTS blog

Greetings from the USA heartland and Becca's Heart for Creativity!

For this inspirational card for my resident designer commitment with A Place To Start challenge blog is a masculine birthday card that will be sent to either my oldest nephew or nephew-in-law who both have upcoming February birthdays. Since it has a travel theme I will probably send it to the N-I-L, who enjoys vacationing on his off-time (an ER doc).

Didn't these elements come together to make an interesting guy's birthday card?!!?!!! The ship image was an insert of a frame about traveling, but due to the base dimension of 5"x 7", the frame couldn't be used but this perfect insert could be by itself. It's propped up a bit with foam squares. This ship oval was stamped (from Hampton Arts) and edge inked. Brenda Walton's Around the World Frame & Journaling Pad (2011) including acetate designs is available by K & Company. A few weeks ago, one of my sweet fellow church members & a very crafty gal herself gifted this to me, so I'm excited to start using a blessing!

February 2020's masculine theme challenge for APTS blog starts Monday, February 3rd=
link= https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2020/02/february-2020-challenge-create.html

more pics:

another vendor credit to Martha Stewart Crafts for the "Happy Birthday" ribbon; it's been in my stash for several years. This is my 2nd card in 4 days that I've used it so there's not much left on the spool. (Another good feeling when you can finish up a product that's been buried in amongst other ribbons and cording within larger stockpile!) :)

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups to which this card's photo or the posting will be linked=
a. Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog: #72= Anything Goes theme for February 2020
link= https://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2020/02/february-crafts-galore-encore-challenge.html


b. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges blog: anything goes theme; now a bi-weekly deadline format; used to be weekly
link= https://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/01/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-463.html

c. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group on Facebook; a sharing group for crafting bloggers

d. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook; a private group for artists and crafters to share their mixed medium projects [mine uses different cardstocks, washi tape, ribbon, black ink pad, stamped sentiment]

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S for Becca's Heart for Creativity

besides being a resident designer for A Place To Start, I'm on these design teams=

The Crafter's Café Challenge blog
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog
My Time To Craft challenge blog
52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge blog

Two challenges in one with Inspired By rainy day fun theme blog and Sketch N Scrap layout for Facebook challenges

Birthdays come along throughout the year and we don't have control over the weather...so I chose to use the rainy day theme challenge at Inspired By as a nod towards the idea that a birthday needs to be celebrated no matter the weather...

From Sketch N Scrap's Facebook page is this layout #28 for a challenge until April 30, 2018:

This is SnS badge button:

Laurel Seabrook's Inspired By current challenge theme is rainy day fun and here is her cute inspiration photo and the link to her blog post about this:
https://theseinspiredchallenges.blogspot.ca/2018/04/inspired-by-rainy-day-fun.html

Some notes about supplies:
a. the little guy image was found online through searching for free clipart (pixshark)
b. the little girl image was found online through searching for free clipart (nlcafe)
c. the rain boot was found online through searching for free clipart (Pinterest)
d. the purple chipboard letters are from K and Company
e. papers are from 2 companies: The Paper Studio and Colorbok
f. markers, colored pencils, pencil, black ink pen, ruler, adhesives, black ink pad, self-inking type stamper with the short border of hearts

Whether it is raining, snowing, hailing, or hot and sultry on your special day, take time to celebrate.

--Becca

Bold heart design for card

Birthday card for aunt

Supplies and layout could easily switch to Valentine's, Best friend, or Anniversary

About 10 days or so ago, one of my aunts had a birthday. This was the card I created last week for her:

front view

front close-up of the chipboard embellishment from Special Moments

front close-up of stamping

inside view

Special creative note: the hot pink ribbon is re-cycled/re-use from packaging purchase several months ago. It was a perfect color match with  the heart doily!

Birthday in blues and greens

Feminine birthday card creation

for adult-age niece

Lots of different aqua, teals, and spring greens mixed to create a fluttery girly-girl card:

Studio G card base was purchased embossed and the area was inked so the butterflies would stand out.

inside view

angled view to see how the paisley cardstock is repeated; the flower cutout is the reverse side to the paisley from Wild Raspberry Papers from K and Company

Card creations for family: #1 of 4

Here's some of my paper crafting for the past 48 hours or so:

**Anniversary card for my sister: cover and inside views**

Supplies:
5" x 5" white card base=Studio G
Faded Denim Pattern Pack papers=Colorbok
Blue Awning Metal Art paper flower brad=K & Company
Dots Pastel Dimensional Stickers=EK Success
Sweet Blooms clear glitter sticker=Colorbok
glues and adhesives=Elmer's Craft Bond
pigment inks (turquoise and gray), mini heart punch, heart epoxy brad=Studio G
medium ivory tag=The Paper Company

Topic: 2 different looks from mixing papers from 3 companies

Last night I experimented with combining analogous colors shown in papers/cardstock from 3 companies and into 2 different layouts.

From Paper Wishes/Hot Off the Press' Paper Pizzaz is the yellow paper with circles. The ruby red mini brads shown on the gate-fold card.

From K & Company's Wild Raspberry double-sided paper pack are: patterns shown in the small 4 x 6 card are in the circle cut-outs (both inside and out) and in the gate-fold card are the folded pieces (reversed for 2).

From CardMaker's Kit of the Month brown patterned cardstock and "best wishes" tag shown in the gate-fold card and more of the brown patterned cardstocks shown on the small 4 x 6 card. Also from different kits of the months are the stamps used for the 4 x 6: "You made my day" and "thanks so much" and the 'floral spiral' (used 3 times with 3 different inks).

From my stash: gold metallic pen, metallic staples, adhesives. silk leaves, plain cardstock, orange satin ribbon, scissors, trimmers, & punch/stencils.

Here's the 4 x 6 thanks/made my day card:

(sorry=scanning has casted shadows)

Here's the gate-fold card: (I was experimenting with the double-sided papers and chose to use the 'arrow points' like tags. Don't think I will do it this way ever again. However I do like the mix of analogous colors!)

(sorry for the skewed point on the front; didn't want to take the extra minutes and re-scan)

Give me some feedback: do you like either card? do you like the mix of colors and papers?....

card topic: more recent purchases and gifts to use

It's been a long time since I created 4 cards in one afternoon, but with the extreme hot temperatures, I wasn't in the mood to clean! :)

Part of my birthday gift from my sister and her family was a wide thick stack of memo-type paper from Fiddlestix Paperie. I used most of one sheet for the background of the card cover to create a thank you card to her and her crew.

Part of my recent buying purchases included clear acetate images by Susan Winget for K & Company. I thought these images went well with the Fiddlestix Paperie paper and the vines patterned paper (I think it's either DCWV or Colorbok).

Here's the thank you card:

(other supplies include 2 sizes of blue crystal jewel stick-ons purchased through Paper Wishes; sheer ribbon; lt green ink stamp pad; blue ink stamp pad; shape stencils; ....)

card topic: using new purchases from K & Company

Recently I did some online shopping trying to purchase items that would enhance what I already have in my stashes. :) It seems like I have to do this every 4 months or so to help recapture my creative mojo abilities.

K & Company's Wild Raspberry double-sided print papers are wonderful. For this featured card, I've used several coordinates and the tags are the reverse of each othe

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The background textured cardstock is from DCWV's adhesive mat stack. Love it! The size is perfect for the greeting card (5" x 7"). Scanning the color washed out a bit.

The layout was CASE slightly from Amy Nemeth's "miss you" card featured on page 72 of the Paper Crafts Magazine July/August 2011 issue. Amy had a bird print paper that was only scalloped across the top edge of her rectangle focal paper. I opted to use a scallop-edge circle template to trace my shape onto the Wild Raspberry patterned paper (thanks to Pebbles Accent Stencil Set purchased through Paper Wishes). Amy used a seam binding bow with a button/twine center located at the top left of her bird paper. I opted to go with a yellow sheer ribbon with a pewter gray brad at the bottom left. Amy had only sentiment text box that she located at the bottom right corner of her bird paper. I opted for 2 tags in about the same area.

I don't know how Amy completed the inside view of her card, but I use a 4" x 6" rectangle section of the 'flowery'side of the patterned paper used for the tags to be the feature inside. I finish it with a small sentiment text strip located in the bottom right corner of the paper.

Here's my version: