MTTC #503 Theme of Birthday DT inspiration card for 10 March 2023

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Today's post is my birthday theme DT inspiration project for My Time to Craft challenge blog. DT member Maria selected this topic. Each gal was assigned 2 challenges in the first 6 months of the year for their desired themes. And this worked out perfectly because my sister-in-law has an end of the month birthday and her favorite color is blue. Competition is from March 10-23, 2023. 

Aged Floral Tribute Birthday card:

some vendor and design notes:

1. embossing folder = Cuttlebug; received a Cuttlebug and this folder along with a few others and a die from a wonderful craft-artisan friend! 

2. not seen is the white card base 5"x7" = The Paper Source (website)

3. blue pattern print fish tail tag and the tiny light blue chipboard heart = Simple Stories' Sending Sunshine card kit elements

4. Happy Birthday stamps = Raisin Boat/Sum More Fun

5. recycled papers = the black and white graphic print is the lining from security envelope!! --Did you guess that???? 

and the one underneath it is --drumroll, please!! ---computer printer alignment page!!! YES!!!

6. cording, black Hero Arts ink pad, blue and a cantaloupe/gold-ish tone Memento ink pads, staples, are from stash

MTTC #503 blog posting link=

https://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/03/mttc-503-theme-is-birthday-occasion.html

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other challenge blogs to share/link are:

A. Triple B, birds, butterflies, and blooms challenge blog; started March 2; Must include at least 1 of the 3; MY card has blooms (embossed panel)

link= https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2023/03/march-challenge.html

B. Beautiful Blossoms challenge blog; #2; ends on the 12th; must have flowers for focus; MY card 's focal panel was made with an embossing folder

link= https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/02/beautiful-blossoms-floral-challenge-2.html

C. PINspirational challenge blog; started March 1; birthday + flowers; see photo prompt

link= https://pinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/03/pinspirational-challenge-299-march.html

D. Through the Purple Haze challenge blog; current, started March 7th; Anything Goes

link= http://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.com/2023/03/challenge-202.html

E. Seize the Birthday challenge blog; current; Anything Goes Birthday for my card since it's for an adult

link= http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2023/03/seize-birthday-257-card-for-child.html

and Facebook groups to share/link are: Mixed Media Creativity; Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls; The Crafty Addicts; Need Crafty Inspiration?; 

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Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S

Besides being the manager and a DT member of MTTC and its sister blog MTTCC, I'm either an owner, co-owner, or just a DT member for these 10: TFATU, FQCB, FQGS, HQCB, AACB, CBCB (new; starting in May), THICC, OUAT, MIUCB, and MLCCB. 

 

7 Nov 2018 masculine bday card for CCMWF and CKC and PI and LRW and PPCC

Georgia Boy meets Illinois girl in Texas many years ago...

and that's how the story started for my sister and her husband who is celebrating his birthday tomorrow and with a party on Saturday! So I've got to get this mailed a.s.a.p.!

Travel theme was a good prompt and thanks to Paper Issues having a travel/globe/As the World Turns challenge this was a convenient for me to do for my b-in-l.

You can find the prompt on both the blog site and the Facebook community. The link for the site can be found here for Paper Issues: https://paperissues.blogspot.com/2018/11/as-world-turns.html

Another challenge to link to is Little Red Wagon's new prompt that started today about sentiments. Imke wants everyone to have the card focus be on the message/text, so that's why I stamped and stenciled in the center of the banner section on my card front. The link for this site can be found here: https://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2018/11/challenge-471-just-sentiment.html

CKC blog has a delightful inspirational curated kit from Citrus Twist called Little Things for its November counterfeiting challenge. This card has darker tones of the blues and creams found in the kit and with the PI travel theme I'm thinking about having a broad travel theme for my copy cat kit that I'm still shopping through my stuff for. [think weather shapes like clouds, stars, and rainbows along with travel shapes like circles/spheres/globes, cameras, maps, trains, and more] I had set aside these papers last night but not necessarily for my b-in-l. But with PI's Nov 5 announced As The World Turns and the CCMWF sketch plus the LRW focus on sentiments, the puzzle/card pieces just seem to fall into place for a masculine birthday card. CKC has had several posts already this month, so I'll use the 2nd one for November titled "Just the Gist" for the link:
https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2018/11/november-2018-just-gist-of-it.html

And the inside panel was kept simple using more of the globe patterned CS:

This sketch is from CCMWF (Christian Card-Makers~ Women's Fellowship) a secret group through Facebook. Instead of stars I used buttons. Banner placement went up to the top edge due to using a A2 size card; this also affected the gray portion seen in my card as a map/atlas print. Otherwise I'm pretty accurate to the sketch for my interpretation:
Another view of the front panel and link to another challenge that is open to paper-crafted creations (Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges): http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2018/11/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-405.html

Isn't it great when a plan comes together that you didn't even plan!?!!! Must be a God thing!!!

Becca S