Don't Throwaway Scraps Thursdays #5 on 17 April 2025

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog!

why: This posting shares my newest non-design team project for this personal blog series I started. I need to be purposeful about using these odd leftovers shapes and lots of 1/2" wide or 1" wide side cut strips are waiting. It's been fun to use different layout ideas to get lots shared within 1 card. 

when: this is the 5th installment in the past 6 weeks to use up some scrap cuts laying/stacking up on my craft table! Thursday, April 17, 2025

what: Take time to chill with God slimline card

how-to notes:

1. half/semi-circles punched from leftover cardstock scraps: lime green and turquoise are Recollections; grass green and purple are Pen + Gear; light blue is Neenah

2. white cardstock is recycled packaging; fun size candy bar tray with sides trimmed off; edges distressed with scissors

3. base mid-blue cardstock cut to almost the length and depth of a business envelope/slimline  = Astrobrights/Neenah

4. very old Scripture verse stickers = stash (I don't remember if they were from Current Catalog or Standard Press or Zondervan, etc.)

5. sloths and leaves dimensional stickers = Crafter's Square

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where (this is a non-DT commitment project), so places to link are:

a. First Cup Challenges; opened since April 2nd; theme is include a beverage; MY card has a to-go drink cup in 1 of the sloth's claws

link = https://firstcupchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/04/first-cup-challenge-1-april.html

b. The Male Room; still open; theme is geometric (and needs to be masculine); these sloths are cute enough that anyone will like this card; geometric-wise, there are 2 long rectangles and 5 semi-circles to add some shape interest. 

link = https://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/challenge-197-geometric.html

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c. Word Art Wednesday; week 2 of 2 started yesterday; Anything Goes that is encouraging; MY slimline card has two Scripture verses on it

link = https://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2025/04/anything-goes-weeks-694-695.html

d. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesdays; started Apr 2/still open; anything goes

link = https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/04/ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-april.html

e. Crafty Animals; started Apr 1/still open; anything goes that includes an animal; My slimline card has 2 sloth images

link = https://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2025/04/challenge-93.html

f. This could be shared at my FarmQuest Grocery Game Challenges blog for its anything food goes theme since there is ice cubes/beverage in the to-go cup. However as owner, I can't link up as a participant and I already have my DT projects made included in the current challenge.

g. Facebook Group = Slimline Obsessed Cards group

h. This could also be shared at my new ownership/DT commitment of Critter Crazy Challenges for it's anything goes with featured critter (AGFC) theme. But as the owner, I can't link up as a participant...

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

~~this is non-DT commitment project

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

* manager/DT = MTTC and MTTCChristmas

* DT member only = HAOOCAYR and P-R-S

2022 June 17 MTTC #484 Theme of Fruit

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Don't you just love supporting local farmers' markets and/or going to their farms/orchards? Maybe you've got fruit trees, grape vines or raspberry brambles, etc. at your home? This is a sweet theme for My Time To Craft challenge blog for #484. 

#484 starts June 17th and ends June 30th. 

inspiration project #1:

SWEET--the sweet life slimline card=

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A few design and vendor notes for SWEET=

a. Several pieces to make this card were from a kit I put together based on the recipe from The Great Stash Bash challenge blog. (green cardstock base, the market scene journaling card, the alphas, the red foil heart)

b. 2 decorative tapes from different vendors were layered under the lettering

c. the little sweet life text die-cut and the green delicious apple came from Simple Stories Card Kit "Love Grows Here"

d. the market scene journaling card is from Webster Pages; so is the button and twine (different collection)

e. slimline style sizing

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Inspiration project #2= Have a Sweet Summer thinking of you card

The summertime acetate outer frame with an insert panel section left intact are from an old frame and journaling panels set from KI Memories. There's a light pinkish/peach cardstock underneath and a smaller yellow paper panel that had the sentiment printed on it as a Google Doc. The wood die-cuts were bought at Dollar Tree. The pineapple came in that dynamite gold metallic glitter. The watermelon and orange slices were light wood. Marker colors were applied first and then glitter paint pens applied on top. The orange one got a bit thick and looks better in person, especially when you tip the card in different directions and catch the light. Have a sweet summer, crafty friends!!!

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MTTC #484 challenge link= http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/06/mttc-484-theme-is-fruit.html 

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups where this card will be shared=

1. Little Red Wagon challenge blog; use a digital element; CARD #2 has digital/computer Google Doc created sentiment

link= http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2022/06/challenge-658-digi-do.html

2. Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper challenge blog; June 2022; CARD #1

link= http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.com/2022/06/craftyhazelnuts-patterned-paper-june.html

3. The Great Stash Bash April 2022; parts of the kit I put together were used for the SWEET card: the green cardstock flat base, the market theme journaling card; the alpha stickers; 2 scrapbooking/paper-crafter friends, Lisa and Lori, created this challenge blog about 2+ years ago; this next provided link is Lori's [card #1]

TGSB link= https://loriannie670.blogspot.com/2022/04/lisa-loris-great-stash-bash-april-kit.html

TGSB link for June = https://loriannie670.blogspot.com/2022/06/lisa-loris-great-stash-bash-june-kit.html

4. A Place To Start challenge blog; June 2022; AG (not the option of "Down the Aisle"); CARD #2

link= https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2022/06/challenge-062022-down-aisle-anything.html

5. Slimline Obsessed group in FB; this card is 8.5" wide and 4" high [card #1]

6.Mixed Media Creativity group in FB; 2 decorative tapes layered on top of each other; gems; die-cuts from card #1; Card #2 has a plastic overlay; a digital Google Doc printed sentiment behind the plastic; wood die-cuts with me painting and glittering the watermelon slice and the orange slice; the gold glitter pineapple was bought that way; 

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

DT member of My Time to Craft and its sister blog My Time To Craft Christmas

and owner of these 2 challenge blogs:

FarmQuest and Heart's Quest

Arrow Many Hearts and Stripes Card made 1 Feb 2022

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Oh this past fun week for re-sparking my creative mojo has carried over! This arrow embellished card was made last night and scanned this morning. I've been pushing snow away from our back door and clearing a path off the deck to both east and west sides to help our little dog have a place to do his business. And I've been doing that every 2 hours since 10 pm!!! I haven't checked the news yet or taken a yardstick out there but we've gotten more already than what was forecasted. According to radar maps, we thought we were maybe 10-25 miles north of the 'line' between predicted amounts of snowfall, but clearly we're on the higher amount. Oh my! No pics taken yet of that. 

But here is the new entry for my bashing the paper pad called Mint Berry produced by The Paper Studio in 2016. I didn't purchase this stack of 20 designs (x4 = 80 sheets at 4.25" x 6.25") until late 2017 or early 2018. About Jan 23 or so I decided to make this my focus set of patterned cardstock/paper to get bashed for 2022. 63 full sheets + 3 scraps of different sizes was my starting point out of the original 80. I'm not sure on the current count. Maybe 59 or 58....

Arrow Many Hearts and Stripes Valentine card=

Wow! I changed my size and format for this one just to keep the creativity going. A wide slimline about 4" wide for the light gray cardstock base and about 7" tall. The pink paper on the right is a folded insert for the interior that has a little snippet of the same green and white floral print cardstock as the front. 

More notes:

A. bright pink and white baker's twine for holding the interior insert paper 

B. red metallic foil with vellum diagonal stripe decorative tape (forget the company; I've had it for over a year)

C. the red glitter covered wood arrow die-cut was bought at Dollar Tree yesterday. That store's last package. The pack has 10 different Valentine theme wood cut-outs like pink hearts, natural wood hearts, etc. 

D. other embellishments from my stash are the mauve/pink jumbo dots, red heart gems, and the white foam heart stickers

E. "Love" stamp was part of a Sum More Fun set purchased about a year ago before they closed

F. dark red cardstock was purchased yesterday at Dollar Tree; the Crafter's Choice line of craft products has bundled a bunch of different cardstock scraps together that are available for $1.25. It was the first time I've found these in the store closest to us. I shouldn't have bought but it was too irresistible not to buy 2 packs! :) Some unusual tones that I've sorted out. Neutrals went into 1 bag and all others went in another. This dark red was not altered in size and was the perfect size background for the light gray cardstock base and then I went to my scraps and full sheets left of Mint Berry to make my pick for the center panel...

G. Mint Berry paper pad by The Paper Studio for the green and white striped floral patterned cardstock

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Participation in the following challenge blogs and Facebook groups:

A. A Perfect Time to Craft open challenge blog; Feb 2022; anything goes; unlimited entries

link= https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-perfect-time-to-craft-challenge-for.html

B. A Place To Start challenge blog; Jan 2022 is still open for a couple more days; up to 8 entries each month; anything goes

link= https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2022/01/challenge-012022-january-anything-goes.html

C. Shopping Our Stash challenge blog; until 2/14/22; hearts and/or vegetables theme!!!

link= https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2022/02/sos463-my-heart-beets-for-you.html

D. 100 Pattern Papers Challenge group in FB; I've only picked the small horizontal format paper pad from Mint Berry to use for 2022...I hoard too much on the pretty papers! I parcel it out in little doses!!! :)

E. Mixed Media Creativity group in FB; besides different cardstocks, there's use of the decorative tape, the wood arrow, the foam white hearts, the different style gems/dots, and the cording/baker's twine

F. Paper, Paper, Paper and Design Team Calls group in FB; sharing site for bloggers, DT members, and challenge blog owners

G. Slimline Card Obsessed group in FB; sharing group for crafters using the slimline size for your card's format; this light gray cardstock base is about 4" wide and 7" tall 

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

pics of the other cards made with Mint Berry designs=

 Which one is your favorite of those made so far? 12 of the 20 designs in the Mint Berry paper pad have been used so far in the past 10 days! Wow! 8 more prints to use!