My August 2024 Halloween and Other Occasions DT projects

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog!

purpose: this posting showcases my design team involvement with HCAYR that has revised its competitions and name to HAOOCAYR for Halloween And Other Occasions Crafts All Year Round

when: August 1, 2024; always a monthly theme is Halloween and now part of the revision 'birthday'; extra occasion theme for August is Summer and Friendship/Romance 

what: PROJECT #1 Halloween

notes:

1. brown waffle knit bronze/copper specialty paper = stash

2. red cardstock panel = Neenah

3. scarecrow and leaves = fussy cut from Autumn/Harvest/Halloween iconic images collage scrapbook/display 12 " square sheet = Crafter's Square

4. black permanent ink dual-tip marker = Art Skills

5. roller type detail fine tip black pen to write "Happy Halloween" = stash

6. dimensional foam tape is under scarecrow

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what: PROJECT #2 Birthday

notes:

1. bright magenta pink tinsel trim = Petaloo

2. cording = stash

3. pink checked, blue checked and "Enjoy Your Day" card that was trimmed down to fit = Fancy Pants Designs

4. pale pink, bright pink and orange dotted star stickers = old; stash

5. scrap of yellow and white print = old; SU

6. yellow cardstock base = Art Skills

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what: PROJECT #3 Summer (large butterfly)

notes:

1. pink cardstock base is not quite a 5" x 5.5" = stash

2. green paper trimmed with decorative scissors = Crafter's Closet

3. washi tape = vendor ?; sorted into different stash boxes without its packaging

4. bird and birdhouse print paper punched = ?; very old stash item scrap

5. 'just a note' with dotted line stamps = ?; not sure if SU due to being in an unmarked zip plastic bag received in a kindness box

6. layered butterfly with foam tape = Crafter's Square

what: PROJECT #4 friendship

notes:

1. white cardstock base = Neenah

2. ink pads = SU; Island Indigo and just a bit of Dapper Denim near the large firefly; smaller panel has Always Artichoke on the perimeter and Lemon Lime Twist in the center

3. jar of fireflies and large firefly = recycle/upcycle images from an envelope of solicited mail

4. text/phrase cut into individual sections on more white cardstock by Neenah; yellow marker with an old metallic gold crayon around the edges; dimensional foam tape 

5. striped woven ribbon was cut to length, knotted and then each half cut into fourths = old; bought at Hobby Lobby

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where: HCAYR/HAOOCAYR October 2024 main competition launch posting=

link= https://halloweencraftsallyearround.blogspot.com/2024/08/august-1st-halloween-and-other.html

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other places to share/link are:

A. Halloween = The Cutie Pie; extended; theme is Letter B; MY Halloween focused card has brown-bronze base, brown hat on the scarecrow, blue denim overalls on scarecrow and brown wood pole to hold the scarecrow

link= https://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.com/2024/07/challenge-no-196-theme-beginning-with-b.html

B. Halloween = Love To Craft challenge; open until Aug 15; anything goes crafty; MY card has fussy cut elements cut from a Autumn Harvest and Halloween collage scrapbook 12" square sheet

link= https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/07/ltccb-81-anything-goes-ltccb-80-winner.html

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C. birthday = Snippet's Playground; until Aug 3; theme is to use snips/scraps/bits; MY birthday theme tag/bookmark has 5 scrap bits across the top edge with 4 rectangles and 1 triangle

link= https://pixiessnippetsplayground.blogspot.com/2024/07/challenge-485.html

D. birthday = Lil Patch of Crafty Friends; past midway; theme is anything goes

link= https://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2024/07/234-mirtillamente-digital-stamps.html

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E. summer = Try it on Tuesday; midway; theme is 'in the garden'; butterflies are found in gardens, both vegetable gardens and flower gardens; also birds and birdhouses can be found in and near gardens; 

link= https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2024/07/in-garden.html

F. summer = Stamps & Fun = Creativity blog; extended; punches and/or dies; MY card has punched bird and birdhouse print paper

link= https://stampsfun-creativity.blogspot.com/2024/07/458.html

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G. friendship = Word Art Wednesdays; new; started July 31 for 2 weeks; theme is anything goes that is uplifting; MY friendship bookmark is for a special friend that is always bubbly, very encouraging and thoughtful

link= https://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2024/07/anything-goes-weeks-659-660.html

H. friendship = The Paper Funday; until Aug 4; theme is anything goes with option of critter crazy; my friendship bookmark has fireflies

link= https://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/2024/07/july-2024-challenge-67-anything-goes.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S 

*DT member of HCAYR/HAOOCAYR

*manager/DT of MTTC and MTTC Christmas

*co-owner/DT of AACB and C or Not Bingo

*owner/DT of HQCB, HQFCB, HQCOLCB, FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQHSKCB, FQGGCB

MTTC #496 DT notecard for Anything Related to Sheep theme

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! This is going to be super short posting for me! --really! Too much going on this week. 

My Time To Craft's new theme #496 is "Anything Related To Sheep". At the time, I was thinking winter sweaters, sheep and shepherds for Nativity Christmas cards but this can be so much more in a broader sense. Think of the nursery rhyme Mary Had A Little Lamb for a baby congratulations card or a 1st birthday card for a little girl. A birthday card for a cat lover that shows a ball of yarn. Or even a crocheting or knitting image. Barnyard scene with farm animals including a sheep or lamb. Etc. December 2-15, 2022.

I decided to do a religious thinking of you encouragement notecard=

I've had the Sunday School lamb stickers and the vellum "The Good Shepherd" for probably 10-20+ years!!! The animal print patterned paper, striped patterned paper and plaid cardstock scraps (Fancy Pants Designs) are newer. Also the blue-gray flat base notecard is newer stash item (Darice). The Stampin' Up "Thinking of You" is another old item. 

MTTC's #496 link=

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/12/mttc-496-anything-related-to-sheep-lamb.html

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other challenge blogs to share/link are=

A. Krafty Chicks Challenges blog; Thursday Dec 1 start; Stamp Act theme week; MY card has "thinking of you"

link= https://kraftychickschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/12/krafty-chicks-challenge-640-week-1.html

B. Critter Crazy challenge blog; Thursday Dec 1 start; Anything with a Critter has the focus; MY card has several little lamb picture stickers above the main sentiment for the focal

link= https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2022/12/challenge-69-anything-goes-with.html

C. The Cutie Pie Challenges blog; started Nov 17; Four Legged Friends; MY card has 3 little lamb picture stickers

link= http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.com/2022/11/challenge-no-177-theme-four-legged.html

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Facebook groups to share/link are= 

1. Christian Card Makers ~ Women's Fellowship group

2. Bible Journaling and Faith Art group

3. Scripturally Inspired Creativity group

4. Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls group

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Crafting in the USA heartland (with maternal grandparents who had sheep on the farm for many years),

Becca S

**Note= you can find me all over the paper-crafting blog world 

DT member for these 7: MTTC, MTTCC, MIUCB, MLCCB, THICC, OUAT, AACB

and owner of these 3 challenge blogs this year: FarmQuest, Heart's Quest, and The Fairy and The Unicorn Challenge

Once Upon A Time DT project for December 2022

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My heart flip flops with some indecision, nerves, and excitement about creating for Once Upon A Time challenge blog. The owner, Deanne, picks a children's book to feature for each month. This blog is fairly new starting in August this year. A couple of times I've tried to replicate the cover as closely to the original and sometimes like this month, I'm just incorporating a few 'nods' to the book cover artwork.

December 2022 book is "The Legend of the Poinsettia" by Tomie dePaola (retold by and illustrated by)

Here's my interpretation--Presenting Gifts Christmas card=

From the book cover, to me it looked like the young girl is providing or presenting candlelight for her family and/or neighbors. I thought these cute woodland animal stickers with gift packages (The Paper Studio) could replace the candles (or what is being presented/provided).  Due to the size of the felt poinsettia, I've only included the one and then a cluster of paper scraps (green and white is The Paper Studio and wood & green tree cardstock scraps are Fancy Pants Designs) and a die-cut snowflake for color and winter seasonal accents. 

The blue and green chosen for the buffalo plaid cardstocks (The Paper Studio) are nods to the hills and leaves on the right side of the book cover. 

Here's the book cover=

OUAT December 2022 blog post link=

https://onceuponatimechallenges.blogspot.com/2022/12/challenge-5-legend-of-poinsettia.html

(Deanne includes a video link of the book being read, so this could be shared in a classroom, with your children or grandchildren, etc.)

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other challenge blogs

A. Paper Minutes challenge blog; started Nov 29, 2022; Anything Christmas, winter, moody; MY card has the present-bearing forest animals, a poinsettia, some pine trees on a scrap, "MC" stamped

link= https://paperminutes.blogspot.com/2022/11/paperminutes-772-winter-weihnachten.html

B. Unicorn challenge blog; Christmas Is Coming theme; MY card is full of Christmas-y elements

link= http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/11/challenge-82-christmas-is-coming.html

C. The Cutie Pie challenge blog; started Nov 14th; Four Legged Friends; MY card has 3 forest animals with 2 having 4 legs (raccoon and fox) and it's really cute Christmas card! 

link= http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.com/2022/11/challenge-no-177-theme-four-legged.html

D. Critter Crazy Challenge blog; starting Dec 1; Anything with a critter; My card has 3 forest animals: owl, raccoon, and fox

link= https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2022/12/challenge-69-anything-goes-with.html

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Facebook group for sharing either the photo or this blog link are=

1. Mixed Media Creativity group

2. The Crafty Addicts

3. Paper Crafting For Everyone 

4. Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls 

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

*I'm a DT member of OUAT as well as these 6 others= MTTC, MTTCC, MIUCB, MLCCB, AACB, THICC

and owner of these 3 challenge blogs= TFATU, HQCB, FQCB= 

The Fairy and The Unicorn (anything fantasy, mythical, mystical such as gnomes, elves, angels, dragons, mermaids, etc.)

Heart's Quest (alternating themes using required colors of hearts shapes or using the word 'love')

FarmQuest (farm or rural country theme topics)

2022 Jan 26 Hearts and Sweetness Card

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! I'm super excited to share that I recently decided to focus on bashing a paper pad that I've been hoarding--"Mint Berry" from The Paper Studio (2016). 

A Facebook group called 100 Pattern Papers challenges crafters to pick out 100 designer print papers out of their supply stash to use in 1 year. As I started seeing different members post at the beginning of the month, I didn't think I would use this approach. But as I started making love/Valentine cards, I kept going to this gorgeous mix of small cardstock designs. So instead of 100, about 3-4 days ago, I had 63 full sheets (4.5" x 6.5") and 3 different sized scraps left to use out of the original 80. [80 sheets= 20 designs x 4 each]

If I remember correctly, this paper pad collection wasn't bought until late 2017 or early 2018. I've had 3+ years to use this collection...thenceforth let the stash bash begin this week!

Hearts and Sweetness=

Design notes:

1. from the mentioned "Mint Berry" paper pad= the center heart cut-out on top of the large red glitter heart

2. red ink used to edge the papers and black ink to fill/change the white dots on the center heart cut-out

3. embellishments have been in stash for over a year

4. also the 2 sentiment/word stamps were purchased about a year ago from a company that went out of business (Raisin Boat/Sum More Fun...)

5. light gray cardstock for card base is 4" x 5.5" top folded (Pen + Gear)

6. mint green/aqua cardstock for background is 3.75" x 4.25" (Art Skills)

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challenge blogs and Facebook groups:

A. 100 Pattern Papers group; sharing/challenge group; I only used about 1/4 of 1 sheet (4.5 x 6.5") and used 3/4 of another sheet yesterday; and used some scraps a couple of days before that...63+ -- 1 = 62

B. Paper Craft Challenges #457= floral love theme/photo inspiration

*the mint is part of the badge and not the photo however it closely matches the greens of the patterned heart and background cardstock; large flower in the patterned heart; different pinks (gems, small glitter foam heart stickers, in the patterned paper, and the cupcake stick-on)

link= http://papercraftcrew.com/pcc457-theme-challenge/

C. Mixed Media Creativity group; a small sharing group; mixed mediums used were stamping, inking, different embellishments, tracing a heart pattern for the cut-out, cardstocks, ...

D. The Cutie Pie Challenge blog; CAS + cute as can be

link= http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/challenge-no-167-theme-simple-starts.html 

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Sneak peeks at other cards made so far:

plus there was 1 other card that I thought I had scanned but I just mailed it out to an aunt earlier this morning! ugh!

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S