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

Baby Theme Challenge for no 168 at S4fC blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My artsy-crafty heart is excited because my god-daughter (1st niece) is expecting her 1st baby (boy!!!) who will be my first "great" nephew!! This card will be a surprise thinking of you card to encourage her. Both my niece and her husband are doctors and this whole Covid-19 stuff has made us nervous. A lot more prayers have been said that they stay protected, safe, and healthy.

Since they did a gender reveal a couple of weeks ago, I decided to print the digital image onto light blue cardstock as that nod to the little one. 

Pretty Momma Getting Ready card for #168 design team inspiration project for S4fC blog:

S4fC blog link: https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/06/challenge-168-baby.html

Polkadoodles is the prize sponsor and contributor of digital images for the design team to use:

link to where to purchase this specific product= https://www.polkadoodles.co.uk/expecting-new-baby-digi-stamp-printable-download-winnie-celebrations-3/

Di's Digi Stamps is also a prize sponsor for #168. Their website is mentioned within their ID badge:

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other link-ups or sharing of this card:

a. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook

b. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls group on Facebook

c. Polkadoodles community group on Facebook

d. Not Just Cards challenge blog; their May 2020 anything goes is still active for a few more days;
link: http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-challenge.html

e. CKC blog; June 2020; my kit was utilized to make this card; the background CS, the text print CS; and all the embellishments
link: https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-just-gist-of-it.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

Design Team member for the following:

1. S4fC blog (this is my last challenge as a DT member; I'm stepping down in order to ease up my crafting  commitments)

2. TCCC blog

3. 52 CCT blog

4. APTS blog

5. MTTC blog

Animals and or Flowers Theme Challenge no 167 for S4fC blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My heart's desire with this posting is featuring the newest fortnight challenge #167 for Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog that has a theme of animals and/or flowers.

My scrapbook layout focal is the digital image from our sponsor Sheepski Designs! Very whimsical! Since I've paired it with documenting my hubs' and I's 7th 'date' out of 23 leading up to our 23rd wedding anniversary in 2019, I thought the jar of honey was symbolic because I gave a card to my 'honey' that night. We also crossed a river to get home--in a car, not a boat, but there was still water involved.

I'm going to have to go back and check my notes for the actual day this was in January 2019. Must have been in the first half. We started our 'dates' around December 28, 2018 and got our 23rd date completed on our 23rd anniversary of January 27, 2019. All I remember now is due to the penciled 7s on the back of these little snapshots!!!

Date #7 of 23 "With my honey pot" scrapbook layout project:

Link to S4fC blog:

https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/05/challenge-167-animals-flowers.html

SheepSki Designs link:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SheepSkiDesigns

and a direct link to buy the image "Honey and Money":

https://www.etsy.com/listing/693000475/honey-n-money-image-no-185?ref=shop_home_active_19

SheepSki Designs logo badge:

Some vendor notes for this mini kit:
a. base cardstock is from Astrobrights/Neenah; also cocoa brown scrap cardstock used for 2 photo mounts
b. the small red, white, and green dot paper AND the red and white check paper = The Paper Studio
c. the navy blue and white chevron patterned= very old stash
d. the creamy yellow and white chevron striped cardstock = My Mind's Eye
e. The red and white floral cardstock used for a photo mount = The Paper Studio
f. the word/phrase stickers, the blue border sticker, the floral heart sticker, and the red and white bracket sticker = Webster Pages

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Papers and embellishments were a mini kit pulled out of a slightly larger compiled kit for 2 other blogs: CKC and GTSB, both for May 2020.

The 2 above photos are the selected inspirational kit from Club Echo Park's March 2020 kit that is the kit to copy cat for May 2020's challenge at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog.

The stickers from Webster Pages shown in the pic below along with the reds, blues, greens, and yellows from the inspirational CKC kit were the driving force for the mini kit to make the featured layout of this blog post! Love the cheerfulness of this LO! And the whimsy of the illustration digi adds some symbolic connections without having photos of my husband and I. He's my honey! We argue and fuss at each other sometimes but he's still my honey pot! :)

Above and below: pics of mini kit for this layout; the roll of washi tape wasn't used; thought I might have space for a small section of it but that didn't happen.

Digital image is colored and has word/phrase stickers from Webster Pages on it but wasn't mounted to the navy blue chevron striped patterned paper yet.

more still to come....

CKC and TGSB links=

Counterfeit Kit Challenge's May inspirational kit is shown about midway in this posting. There are 2 photos of the Club Echo Park March 2020 kit that they sold and CKC wants you to do your best to copy-cat it from papers and embellishments that you have in your stash/stockpile/craft area...whatever term you call your hoarded supplies!!! :)

CKC Mini Kit Reveal and Project posting which is part of the month of challenges in how you can possibly use your larger compiled kit for the month:

https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-2020-mini-kit-reveal-project.html

TGSB accessed through either Lisa H's My Creative Endeavors blog or Lori S' My Happy Life=

The Great Stash Bash

https://createdbylisa.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-great-stash-bash-kit.html

TGSB wants 7+ older papers, 3+ newer papers, 5-7 scraps, 3+older embellishments, 1 newer embellishment, and 1 special stash item for the month of May to use (flowers).  Old papers= blue CS, beige and white tonal diagonal CS seen in the first kit pic, the small mat size CS white with a red floral print, polka dot and multi-color stripe small paper pad sheets, 

Newer papers= red and white checked paper, green w/ green, red, and white dot row patterned paper, a couple of pages of CS and sheets to cut apart pocket cards from Webster Pages, 

Scraps= navy and white chevron striped paper, the creamy yellow and white CS, cocoa brown CS, tonal teal floral CS, tonal green striped paper barely showing in the box, pinkish tonal CS, muted aqua blue with white dot CS, 

Old embellishments= "Always in my heart" floral sheet of stickers that are left, My Mind's Eye pink floral washi tape, paper strip type washi tapes (at least 4 that I put into the box to use), 

New embellishments= Webster Pages stickers, the Lilly & Val kitchen floral washi tape & a lemon "Sweet" washi tape, Webster Pages journaling card kit for the kitchen collection, clear bling letter stickers, Webster Pages pocket cards, 

Also if you didn't come to my blog from the S4fC blog, then please use that link and see the other wonderful creative projects from the blog owner Rachelle and the other DT members. They always have fabulous detailed creations!

Facebook groups where this post will be linked or shared:
a. PPPDTC group

b. Mixed Media Creativity group

c. S4fC sharing site

d. SheepSki Designs sharing site

e. CKC blog community group

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

Ladies Theme for Challenge no 166 at S4fC blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! And I'm so glad this challenge came along so I could use the image given to the DT (1 of them) by Bugaboo to get a new traveler's notebook (slim type) started for my best friend.

We grew up in the same town about a mile or so apart and same grade in school and I think we had the same elementary teachers each year, too. The differences in our personalities helps to balance us. We've managed to sustain our bond for many years and across many miles as I've been the one to move the most times away from our childhood hometown.

The adventure when the snapshot was taken was meeting for lunch at Moe's Southwest Grill for about 3 hours! It was also just a few days after my birthday last summer, so we had that to celebrate!

Here's to my close knit friend:

Above: S4fC badge is attached to the full photo
Below: without the blog badge

S4fC link for #166= https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/05/challenge-166-ladies.html

https://www.facebook.com/bugaboostamps/ or

www.bugaboostamps.com

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inspiration for the layout:

sketch layout is from TN Time with Lisa and Lori for April 2020 and it carries over to about May 10th=

Lisa H provides the sketch each month and Lori S does the prompt/theme portion. I've participated several times during the past 14 months or so they've been offering this challenge and this is the first time I'm doing sketch only. The prompt was about using your favorite color combo and favorite embellishment. My layout has so many patterned papers and the digi image to feature that I didn't use any embellishments other than the word phrase stickers (Webster Pages).

Lisa H's link for the April 2020 TN Time with Lisa and Lori=
link= https://createdbylisa.blogspot.com/2020/04/april-tn-time-with-lisa-lori.html

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Lisa and Lori have also started "The Great Stash Bash" and I threw together a hodgepodge of scraps with a few new papers and word stickers that I just received last week from Webster Pages (via Peachy Cheap bundle clearance deal!). Oh! The actual TN is from Webster Pages and was part of this new purchase!!!

I followed the April's requirements for the challenge. Right now, they are just offering a chance to show your kit and hopefully that will provide incentive to use it up. I've made several cards, 1 TN layout (this one), and 2 sides of a pocket page type protector sheet. Woot! For me that's productive!

These photos are my TGSB kit. The orange and beige floral is just above. The word phrases/sentences are shown in the 2nd photo up with the cover of the TN under it (beige and white large check). The chevron stripe cardstock got either covered up or was sitting on the table just out of camera lens range. I swear! I've used it on several projects this month!

The above link will take you to Lisa's blog page and you can look for the TGSB current challenge or you can go to her blog post archive list and look for the April posting and read the details as well as see what Lisa did for her own challenge.

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Find my TN layout photo or this blog posting at:

a.  PPPDTC group in Facebook

b. Mixed Media Creativity group in Facebook; besides paper and cardstocks, ink for edges, black ink pen for date and journaling statement, digital/clipart freebie of the yarn and needles, and the Close Knit Friends digital image from Bugaboo, colored pencils, markers, printer ink for the snapshot of me and my best friend

c. Travelers Notebook Scrapbookers group in Facebook

d. Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: Always Anything Goes for the first half of May 2020
link= https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2020/05/challenge-185.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

Besides being on the DT for S4fC blog, I also scramble each deadline to participate on these other 4 challenge blog DTs:

a. TCCC
b. MTTC
c. APTS
d. 52 CCT