May 2020 Week 1 Sketch for 17th Week of 52 CCT blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! This week my heart and soul decided to go with an explosion of different blue tones with silvery accents and lots of snowflakes with the designated sketch for the challenge.

Can't believe we are starting May this weekend! Yikes! At 52 CCT, each full week of the month we rotate the types of challenges. Week 1 is always a sketch for the card's layout/format. Tracy is the host and she's picked out a terrific diagram. Here is what I did:

My card is sort of like a merger of the 2 layout sketches. I went wide horizontal rectangle with my 5" deep x 7" wide card base. Instead of a full background piece of cardstock, I decided to divide into fourths, so it would appear like looking out a window.

If you want to do a rectangle shape instead of the square, the layout with a vertical orientation will look like this=

link for #17-20 for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown blog
https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-sketch-challenge.html

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Card is sitting on top of my printer since I finished scanning it and the overhead lighting is just making this card sparkle and shine. So I took time to snap a pic=

The silver disk is the moon and there's silver center panes and like a row of lights that are the gems. I'm very happy with the results! What do you think? Leave me a comment at the end of the posting.

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other challenge blogs or Facebook groups where I'll share this card:
a. PPPDTC group on Facebook

b. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook = mediums used besides papers: gems, label, metallic dazzle sentiment, silver glitter disk, blue foam snowflakes, and border sticker...also silver glitter paint pen

c. Winter Wonderland; Your Favorite Color Combination theme starting 1 May 2020; a favorite combo for Christmas cards is to use wintery colors of blues and silvers/grays and whites, so that's what's featured on this card (and also many that I've already made this year!)
https://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/05/your-favourite-colour-combination.html

d. Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog; May Anything Christmas Goes challenge;
https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/05/mlccb-22-may-anything-christmas-goes.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

Design team (DT) member of 52 CCT and these other 4 acronyms:
1. APTS
2. TCCC
3. S4fC
4. MTTC

Merry and Bright with white blue and brown color palette for Christmas Card

This was a quick and easy made Christmas card using cute polar bear patterned paper from Martha Stewart 2018. A scrap of blue-green cardstock for a ribbon tail type tag and 2 different set of alphas along with some white glitter foam snowflakes and blue gems add the accents.

link for October challenge of Merry and Bright for Winter Wonderland Challenge Blog:

https://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/10/merry-and-bright.html

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other links and shares=

link for 52 CCT colour challenge for Week 2 of October 2019=

expired last night but you can see the marvelous DT projects and all the terrific linked submissions by a hundred +/- talented crafters: https://52cct.blogspot.com/2019/10/october-colour-challenge-dt-call.html; new challenge of theme for Week 3 is snowman...if only the patterned paper had snowmen instead of polar bears!!!!!!

*Not Just Cards= October challenge with anything goes theme
link: http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.com/2019/10/october-challenge-and-results-of.html

*my personal page on Facebook

*PPPDTC group on Facebook; its a sharing site for crafting bloggers

Short post, folks! Crazy week with substitute teaching interrupted with husband having some irregular cardiac issues and spending about 31 hours with him at a regional hospital! We've both spent the bulk of today/Saturday resting and napping.

Spending a little time crafting and blogging from the American heartland,
Becca S