Autumn Season Themed Thankful to Survive 2020 Pandemic TN Layout

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My artsy-crafty heart is excited this Monday evening as I write this post to have done some scrapping creativity! It's been about 4 months since I've done any type of scrapbooking I think!!!

Crazy! So far neither my husband or I have had Covid-19...praise the Lord! I've had a root canal and a month ago my hubs had all his teeth extracted!!! So dental appointments and procedures have been affected by delays due to shutdowns but again, thanks be to God, that we are still going!!

Over the past 2 years I've started 4 different Traveler's Notebooks: one about our home(s), one about my BFF and I that is for me, another one that is for her, and TN/bujo that is about my chosen Bible Word of the Year(s). Below is a layout that I've prepped for a Thanksgiving photo that I hope to capture in about a 4-5 weeks:

SAFE and SOUND--

Use Your Stuff challenge blog; Autumn/Fall theme

link= http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2020/10/408-autumnfall.html

Yes! I'm a Guest Designer for this #408 challenge at Use Your Stuff!!! How exciting! What a honor!

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This layout was made using the prompt and sketch for TN Time with Lisa & Lori's October 2020 challenges; #22:

A cropped view of the layout: 

The blue is non-traditional but the greens, browns, peach, black, grays, and small touches of yellow, red, and orange are classic autumn colors.

The graph paper/cardstock 'tag' shape on the left page is my nod to "Indian Corn". 

The blue cardstock sections were a part of some forgeries made in June that got furthered changed about 2 weeks ago with some leaf, acorn, and woodland creatures. These stamped images plus a couple of random placed "thank you" fulfill Lori's October 2020 prompt to use stamping. 

Lori's blog link= https://loriannie670.blogspot.com/2020/10/tn-time-with-lisa-and-lori-october.html

Lisa's sketch got flip-flopped and is waiting for a photo. The layout's ready to go. 

Lisa's blog link= http://createdbylisa.blogspot.com/2020/10/tn-time-with-lisa-lori-october-edition.html

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the main LO photo and/or this blog posting will also be linked or shared at:

1. my personal profile on FB

2. Mixed Media Creativity group in FB

3. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls group in FB

4. Travelers Notebook Scrappers group in FB

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

Forgeries on the Fourth CKC blog inclusion as their June 2020 Guest Designer

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! This past week as I prepared my copy-cat kit for the June 1st reveal at CKC blog, I also worked ahead to include forgery cardstock sheets in 4 of the key colors from the inspiration kit. Those are pink, blue, green, and yellow.

I used several stencils, green acrylic paint, and sponge daubers to get the basic floral and leaves random patterning made. Some small floral stickers were added to the larger, more open styled flowers. And then I also used a fine tip green Sharpie marker to outline the leaves and flowers. I noticed in the inspiration kit that their full busy floral patterned paper had delicate thin outlining, so I wanted to attempt that to give the motifs some definition in shape.

Here's my project using part of the light green sheet:

Lilacs at our Dana, IL property from 2005-2011=

Forgeries on the Fourth challenge posting of CKC blog=
link= https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-forgeries-on-fourth.html

Above: the bottom half of the finished TN layout
Below: the top half of the finished TN layout with leftover light green forgery cardstock and some of the others showing

Below: laid out some items I thought I'd be using; I did use the glitter flowers, the 2 washi tapes, lots of gem dots, and only 1-- 4"-wide panel of the forged cardstock and a scrap strip off the original sheet

Below: the forgery/counterfeited floral patterned cardstocks and the TN opened for getting ready

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Let's backtrack to a collage photo of the curated kit titled "Wonderful World" available from CLIQUE Kits in March 2020. It was an integrated kit with products from Alexandra Renke, Vickie Boutin, and Heidi Swapp.

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And then these are the motivators for using a new TN (traveler's notebook):

TN Times with Lisa and Lori; May 2020 sketch and prompt challenges are usable until June 9th.

I reversed the sketch pages. And made a few other tweaks due to either the forgery cardstock or using 3 cropped photos instead of 2.

TN Times with Lisa and Lori= May 2020 can be found with all their details using Lisa's posting and/or Lori's posting. Lisa H is in charge of the sketch layout and Lori S is in charge of the prompt. You can participate in one or the other or both. I've used both.

Lisa H

https://createdbylisa.blogspot.com/2020/05/tn-time-with-lisa-lori-may-edition.html

Lori S

https://loriannie670.blogspot.com/2020/05/tn-time-with-lisa-lori-may-2020.html

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I'll also share photos and/or posting at these FB groups:

a. Mixed Media Creativity group

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

c. Traveler Notebook Scrapbookers group

d. CKC blog (monthly link-ups) and their community group at FB

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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

Challenge 157 for S4fC blog reveal 3 January 2020

I'm super excited to show my 1st project as a new design team member for Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog! 

New challenge reveal for S4fC blog is based on European time so for me living in central part of the United States, it will be about 8 pm on Thursday, January 2th.

Theme for #157 is Anything Goes and format can be layout, card, canvas, mixed media, etc. The sponsor for this fortnight length challenge is Oddball Art by Lizzy Love. I selected Sweet Whimsical Big Eye Girl Fiona to accent my traveler's notebook entry that is about my 'best friend forever', Susie and I getting together. We currently live about 3 hours apart.

The featured contact sheet photos of us are from 39+ years ago however! She bid on a big grocery bag filled with old yearbook photos and contact sheets that had a lot of different years but seemed to have quite a lot from the late 70s and gifted me with the whole thing in early June. The contact sheet 'cells' that I've cut out for this TN entry highlight the 2 of us at the Spring Awards assembly during our last couple of weeks in high school, sometime in May 1980. (YES!!!)

link for Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog= https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/01/challenge-157-anything-goes.html
also find the blog's Facebook group= https://www.facebook.com/groups/595884231186982/

Oddball Art by Lizzy Love can be found @= https://www.oddballartco.com/

I've colored Fiona to resemble my best friend Susie with blondish brown hair and blue eyes.

What's even more special to me about this layout and 'gift' of old yearbook photos was that Susie and I were on this high school yearbook staff for 3 of our 4 years at Shiloh. We were both recruited by the sponsor to help keep things going after several gals who'd been on it were graduating. So there are several stories to tell. The Spring Awards included salutatorian ranking for Susie (#2 of 35 graduates) and the Robert Dagley Scholarship winner for me. In the bottom photo on the right side, the home economics teacher & Future Homemakers of America sponsor, Mrs. Patchett is recognizing me for the special state team for FHA that I was on for my last 2 years: IL State FHA Peer Education Team on Nutrition. I was 1 of 25 from across the state!

Don't you just love the pastel colors after seeing so much red and green from Christmas-time? The patterned papers are from a 6" square paper pad that I came across at a local dollar discount store! They reminded me of the floral patterns found in linens and shirts back in the 1970s so I had to use them even if they are just snippets of each design. The washi tapes are new! Pen + Gear from Wal-Mart! And a make-up sponge was used to dab on the different color inks from a kids type multi-color ink pad. The subtitle strip is a leftover scrap that I've held on to for at least 10 months. Creatively, this scrapbook variation was great to put together with something old, something new, something borrowed--well, gifted/turned over to, and something blue. Oh wait, those are for a different occasion! :)

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Other links/shares will be with the following=
a. TN Time with Lisa and Lori --Lori's blog link and her prompt for December 10, 2019-January 9, 2020
link= https://loriannie670.blogspot.com/2019/12/tn-time-with-lisa-lori-december.html

b. TN Time with Lisa and Lori--Lisa's blog link and her sketch for December 10, 2019-January 9, 2020
link= http://createdbylisa.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-tn-time-with-lisa-lori.html

*I moved the title up above the suggested section in order to have more space for the little 'cells' off the yearbook contact sheets. Paper/section proportions were changed a bit on the right side so that I could repeat some of the patterned papers used on the left and to also accommodate more of the photo 'cells'. The major elements are still there and I've made a good interpretation of the sketch.

c. the Facebook group= Travelers Notebook Scrapbookers

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

e. the Facebook group= Mixed Media Creativity


Crafting in the heartland of USA,
Becca S for Becca's Heart for Creativity
DT member for 5 blogs:
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges (starting January 2/Jan 3)
A Place to Start
My Time to Craft
The Crafter's Café Challenges
52 Christmas Card Throwdown (starting January 4th)

TN Time for September 2019 deadline is approaching and I got 2nd layout made

2nd layout for TN Time challenge has been made. I've continued using the bright citrus colors, however this go-round I've turned my journal book on its side in order to accommodate the size of the cropped snapshots.

My TN Time layout no 2 in my Morris Family Reunion 2004 journal:

TN Time challenge has 2 parts presented by 2 fabulous crafters & bloggers:

My Happy Life= link=https://loriannie670.blogspot.com/2019/09/tn-time-with-lisa-lori-september_10.html

My Creative Endeavors= link= http://createdbylisa.blogspot.com/2019/09/travel-september-tn-time-with-lisa-lori.html

Lisa presents the sketch layout and Lori provides the prompt(s). I've rotated the image of the sketch layout so that it is oriented like mine:

Lori's blog has 9 items to select a minimum of 3 from. The list includes: hearts, flowers, labels, tags, die-cuts/ephemera, banners, polka dots, stamps, and/or washi tape. For this LO: flowers, label, and washi tape are my 3 elements.

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other groups were this will be shared:

a. my personal page in Facebook

b. Traveler Notebook Scrapbookers group in Facebook

c. Paper, Paper, Paper and Design Team Calls group in Facebook


Thanks for visiting!

Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

TN Time September 2019 using sketch and prompts with reunion LO

It has been several months (prob. many months!) since I've added to this journal or to the TN Time challenge(s) offered by Lisa and Lori. Not quite a year ago, I came across some old reunion snapshots taken in 2004!!! Yes!! I hadn't put them into any kind of album and I thought I've got to start doing something with these. Hence, the journal and modifying TN layout sketches for some brief captions to go with these paternal relatives photos.

Today's feature includes my husband and I, my parents, and my brother's family (at that time, nephew was in utero and would make his appearance in less than a week!!!)

For more information about TN Time, use these links and read details at each of Lisa's and Lori's blogs:
My Happy Life= link=https://loriannie670.blogspot.com/2019/09/tn-time-with-lisa-lori-september_10.html


My Creative Endeavors= link= http://createdbylisa.blogspot.com/2019/09/travel-september-tn-time-with-lisa-lori.html


their basics for September:

Lori's list of prompt suggestions included: hearts, flowers, labels, tags, banners, diecuts/ephemera, washi tape, polka dots, stamps ....[I've used hearts, flowers, banner stamp, chipboard diecuts, polka dot paper & heart stickers; so more than the 3 required]

Lisa's sketch is the cutest! My dimensions are different but I think it's easy to see her sketch reflected in my layout.

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I also want to include a shout-out to:
a. Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog; in mid-September I had finally got a small copy cat kit compiled and the white with gray polka dot patterned papers was one from that group.
link: https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/09/september-2019-just-gist-of-it.html

b. Facebook groups: Mixed Media Creativity group, PPPDTC, TN Scrapbookers, plus my personal page

I would love to get another reunion layout completed this weekend before their deadline. Let's see if I'm up for a challenge.

Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

Another HOPE verse of the year entry using TN Time with Lisa and Lori challenges no 6

Finally I've had a few hours to do a scrapbook variation using a TN sketch layout and prompt! Back in January I used a set of ringed index cards, standard size, like a mini version of a Traveler Notebook or journal. The sketch layout is courtesy of Lisa, who offers 1 challenge each month for TN Time with Lisa and Lori. Meanwhile, Lori, offers 1 prompt challenge each month with June's needing to include at least 1 item for each letter in the word HOT.

Here's my Proverbs 24:14 entry=

For Lori's June 2019 prompt challenge:
H = hope, honey in the text, honeycomb, hexagons,

O = orange, off is used in the text plus lots of "o"s in other words

T= tab sticker, today, take/take note, that and there are in the text, text, title

The badge Lori created for June 2019:

The sketch Lisa created for June 2019:

I stuck a lot closer to this provided sketch than some of the past ones. Size-wise I had to adjust things like on the bottom left page, I only used 1 horizontal strip with the grid washi tape and kept it short due to the scale. And another tweak for adjusting for scale was the tall vertical section on the right page. I went shorter deliberately because I didn't want it to overwhelm and hide too much of the base patterned paper. However I did add the full length narrow orange strip to carry-over some of that bright orange from the left page.

Their links=
https://createdbylisa.blogspot.com/2019/06/june-tn-time-with-lisa-lori-challenge.html

https://loriannie670.blogspot.com/2019/06/tn-time-with-lisa-lori-june-edition.html

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Facebook groups where this LO will get shared:

a. Traveler Notebook Scrapbookers (sharing group for TN layouts and inserts)

b. 100 Pattern Papers Challenge (see photos below; added these into my 2019 stack of patterned papers to use before the year's end!!!!)

c. Bash Your Scrapbook Stash (see photos below; scraps or sections of leftovers were used; started trying to bash these partial pads since June 15)

Above: small scraps of bright orange were used
Below: small sections from a leftover section of the beige tone giraffe skin print paper were used

Below: 2 small sections from a yellow and gray diagonal stripe sheet were used from the 6" square pad AND 2 small sections from the checkered sheet were used from the 5 x 7 paper pad=

d. Paper, Paper, Paper & DT Calls group= terrific sharing site for paper-crafting bloggers

e. Scripturally Inspired Creativity group= creativity and crafting from Scripture and/or used within your church or for church members encouragement...sharing group...ask to join if interested and a shout-out to another similar group...

f. Bible Journaling and Faith Art group = sharing group

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More scanned pics=

Love that I finally got another entry completed for my HOPE Bible verse of the year journaling!!! Also love the analogous color scheme of yellow, orange, and red-orange that I used with the neutrals! And of course I love that I got to use up some bits and pieces from my stockpile that I'm focusing on!

Most importantly, I loved that I got to spend some time centered on Proverbs 24:14 with some prayer and reflection. If you find wisdom, it is like finding honey, which in life offers a natural sugar, a sweetener, a bit of food energy to keep you going! Which in turns offers hope for living! Your hope won't end! Wisdom = hope...hope = wisdom

Becca S, crafting in the USA heartland