Loving my AA #89 DT project with Christmas theme for 15 Dec 2024

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog!

purpose: This posting showcases my December contribution for Ally's Angels (challenge blog). The theme is always anything goes. 

when: #89 starts December 15, 2024 and ends on January 10, 2025. (I will become full owner officially on Jan 1st. Currently I'm an emergency co-owner/DT member.)

what: Have yourself a merry artsy-craftsy Christmas!

notes: main inspiration elements are: Christmas, green, button, digital image and free (bits of red and blue; washi tape)

1. green cardstock 5.25" x 4.25" base = old Pen + Gear 

2. lighter sage/minty green cardstock = Neenah (with foam dimensional tape underneath)

3. white cardstock scrap for tree shape accent base = Neenah

4. washi tapes are from various vendors used on tree = stash

5. light green button = stash

6. 'merry' alpha stickers = Jillibean Soup

7. digital paper of blue jays and cardinals with pines in grid print (missing 1 column) sized to 4" x 6" before cutting = freebie through sign-up within FB group by Sande W (Sande's Poema Cardmaking Community)

8. black inking on all perimeters = Hero Arts ink pad

9. green marker and brown marker to color tree trunk and planter pot = stash

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where: AA or Ally's Angels (challenge blog) #89 post

link = https://alessandrasangels.blogspot.com/2024/12/challenge-89-challenge-88-winner-top.html

other places to share/link are:

A. Love Those Pretty Papers; about midway; theme = use pretty papers; MY card has a cardinals & blue jays digital print paper that I sized to complement my multi-print tree (those are washi tape/decorative tapes); ---> this is my 2nd entry

link = https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2024/12/love-those-pretty-papers-december.html

B. The Sisterhood of Crafters; started Dec 11; theme of Christmas; MY card is full of outdoor wintery elements (cardinals, blue jays, pine branches, tree) in Christmas colors; this is my 2nd entry

link = https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2024/12/december-11-christmas.html

C. Crafty Gals Corner; started Dec 11; theme of anything goes; option (make it merry); MY card uses the word 'merry' for the sentiment 

link = https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/12/challenge-262-and-our-10th-anniversary.html

D. Christmas Kickstart; started Dec 2; anything Christmassy theme this month; 

link= https://christmaskickstartchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/12/challenge-93-if-its-christmassy-link-it.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

** AA for Ally's Angels (web address has alessandra who was the original blog owner)

*co-owner/DT = AA and ConBC (will be full owner/administrator in Jan 2025)

*owner/DT = FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQHSKCB, FQGGC, HQCB, HQFCB, and HQCOLCB; first challenge on January 2, 2025 will be HQFSCAT or Heart's Quest for Shaped Cards and Tags

*manager/DT = MTTC and MTTCChristmas

*DT only = HAOOCAYR

My MTTC #545 monochrome theme slimline DT card for 18 October 2024

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog!

purpose: My post showcases the newest design team contribution for My Time To Craft challenge blog. #545 theme is monochrome and I chose my favorite color purple. This theme was suggested by another DT member. 

when: #545 starts Friday October 18th and is open for entries until Oct 31st!!

what: "Lovey Dovey Together" romantic love: wedding or anniversary or for my sweetheart at any time) horizontal slimline card

notes: Thanks to my scrap pile purge of purples/violet/lavenders!!

1. dark purple mottled cardstock is an oldie = ? Colorbok

2. the Moroccan tile print paper in mid-tone purple = Art Skills

3. the French blue and lavender striped paper scraps cut into corner triangles = Fancy Pants Designs

4. the three papers used for the 2" circles (silver, orchid/lavender, and thistle/mid-tone purple) = Crafter's Square

5. 'together' was trimmed from a small cut-apart card (neutrals grays and white) = old; Webster Pages? or My Mind's Eye?

6. 'lovey dovey' banner layered die-cut stick-on (lavenders, pinks, whites and black eyes) = K and Company

7. white pearl-finish heart accents = Recollections

8. black ink pad = Hero Arts

9. 2" circle punch = EK Success Tools

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where: My Time to Craft (MTTC) challenge blog #545 posting:

link = https://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/mttc-545-theme-is-monochrome-one-color.html

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other places to share/link are:

a. Creative Knockouts; current/post on Oct 10th; use fave embellishment; MY cards tend to have some type of bling/gem/dots-hearts that can be crystal, foam, pearl finish, etc. This one has white pearl hearts.  

link = https://creativeknockouts.blogspot.com/2024/10/532-use-your-fav-embellie-paper-shelter.html

b. The Sisterhood of Crafters; current; use 1, 2 or all 3 colors: purple, orange, black; MY card has purples--lots from dark to mid-level to light lavenders; I have some grays but very little black; more white for my neutral

link= https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-9-orange-black-purple.html

c. Word Art Wednesdays; current/wk 2 of 2; this is my 3rd entry; theme is A.G. uplifting; MY card is romantic, 'lovey dovey'

link = https://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2024/10/anything-goes-weeks-669-670.html

d. Paperminutes; midway, about 4 days left; theme is anniversary; This is romantic love and can work for anniversary, wedding, or to give to your own sweetheart

link = https://paperminutes.blogspot.com/2024/10/paperminutes-868-jubilaum-anniversary.html

e. The Creative Crafters; started Oct 15; A.G. theme

link = https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-81.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

*manager/DT = MTTC and MTTCChristmas

*DT member only = HAOOCAYR

*co-owner/DT = AACB and C or not Bingo

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

14 October 2022 MTTCC #45 Theme Colors of Kraft Brown and White

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Oh, Christmas Day 2022 is getting closer!!! Small amounts of other colors are allowed for the #45 Kraft Brown and White color theme challenge at My Time To Craft Christmas challenge blog. Competition runs October 14-27, 2022 starting at 12am CT/Chicago on the 14th and ending at the same time on the 27th. 

On the first card, I went for a more broadened allowance on the kraft and white color duo. I've got lots of pale blush pinks that are looking beige-ish. Some pinkish-burgundy on 2 die-cuts/ephemera and the bright blue textured specialty paper add some color contrast. For card 2 I've adhered closer to the kraft brown and white with some gold. 

#1: Celebrate the Season Christmas card=

design notes and vendors: paneling/barn siding cardstock is from Lake Life paper pad by Fancy Pants Designs; the Christmas print cardstock and ephemera are from Bo Bunny; other cardstocks/papers are stash items as well as the black ink used for edging, staples, and pale pink pearl gems

#2: Merry Snowflake Christmas card=

 

design notes and vendors: paneling is actually a vinyl wallpaper peel-n-stick scrap piece from an 11" x 16" piece found at Dollar Tree (YES!); it's on an A2 size white card base; white with gold dazzles from Paper Wishes website; gold snowflake is a Thicker/American Crafts; white glitter foam snowflake stickers and chevron burlap ribbon are also Dollar Tree finds!!!

MTTCC #45 challenge link=

https://mytimetocraftchristmas.blogspot.com/2022/10/mttcc-theme-45-theme-is-color-kraft.html

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other challenge blogs to link and Facebook group to share=

A. Winter Wonderland challenge blog; started Oct 7; Let It Snow; both cards have snowflakes, but I'll show card #2

link= http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/10/let-it-snow.html

B. Jingle Belles challenge blog; started Oct 5; I'm dreaming of a PINK Christmas; Card #1 has the pinkish/blush pink tones in addition to some burgundy and other colors on my Christmas card

link= http://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2022/10/im-dreaming-of-pink-christmas.html

C. ABC Christmas challenge blog; new on Oct 12; U is for Unusual Christmas colors; BOTH cards qualify---I'll show card #2

link= https://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/10/abc-christmas-challenge-u-andor-v.html

D. Word Art Wednesday challenge blog; new on Oct 12; anything goes that is uplifting; BOTH cards qualify---but I'll show card #1

link= http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2022/10/anything-goes-weeks-565-566.html

E. Mixed Media Creativity group (gold thicker snowflake, burlap printed ribbon, die-cuts, and more)

F. Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls group

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

design team member of MTTCC and its sister blog, MTTC

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MIUCB and MLCCB

-and-

owner of 2 challenge blogs--Heart's Quest and FarmQuest

MTTC #491 Theme of Autumn Colors Pick 3 DT Projects for 23 September 2022

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Oh I so enjoy a wonderful autumn season with cool temps so I can enjoy my sweaters! Sadly the last few years in Illinois, we've had a lot of unusual hot days and very few cool clear days before snowflakes start appearing. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that 2022 will be a perfect autumn weather season! :)

One of the other design team members at My Time To Craft suggested we have a pick 3 color theme and I thought this would be perfect if we time it for fall/autumn season. So for September 23 to October 7, 2022 make sure to craft with your 3 colors from the simple color board image found at the website.  (and you can use more than 3 if you want!)

I've been making 2 projects per challenge for several months already and I did again for this challenge. Card #1 uses beige/kraft brown, soft sunflower yellow, and a dull green. The glossy printed cardstock did not take the colored pencil leads very well. The sunflower yellow really bleached out with scanning, too. Also the tiny areas made it hard to get lead transferred. But it's still sweet and encouraging Bible verse sentiment===

design notes:

1. cardstock from stash

2. enamel dots = Craft Consortium

3. printed cardstock panel= Colorful Prayers, set of 20 Unique Scripture Cards to Color by Crown Jewlz, 2021 from Ashland, Ohio and distributed by Greenbrier International (Dollar Tree store find)

4. the 2 paper flowers = Dear Lizzy/American Crafts

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Card #2= greens, yellows, some brown, and some black; there is some red ink in the dabbing around the perimeter of the base cardstock

Credits:

a. Stampin' Up stamps

b. leaf sticker, cording, ink pads, and gems from stash

c. the beautiful 5" x 6" section of a sheet from Lake Life paper pad by Fancy Pants Design

d. base cardstock is actually neon orange but the scanning as faded it to a squash yellow; Neenah

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MTTC #491 link=  http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/09/mttc-491-theme-is-pick-3-or-more-autumn.html

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other challenge blog and Facebook groups for sharing and linking these cards=

A. Crafting Happiness Challenges blog; 133 Card= Autumn; MY CARD #2 has the puffy leaf stick-on, 'so thankful' sentiment; landscape print cardstock with orange base cardstocks; autumn colors cording

link= https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/2022/09/133-card-all-things-fall-not-card.html

B. Shopping Our Stash challenge blog; Ombre challenge; MY CARD #2 within the patterned paper it is designed with ombre greens for the tree, ombre blues for the sky and clouds, etc. 

link= https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2022/09/sos479-hey-hombre.html

C. Word Art Wednesday challenge blog; Weeks 561-562; anything goes that is uplifting; both card apply but I'll show CARD #1

link= http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2022/09/anything-goes-weeks-561-562.html

D. CCMWF group in FB; showing CARD #1

E. Bible Journaling and Faith Art group in FB; showing CARD #1

F. Scripturally Inspired Creativity group in FB; showing CARD #1

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

DT member of MTTC and MTTCC; MLCCB, MIUCB, AACB, OUAT, THICC

and

owner of 2 challenge blogs: FarmQuest and Heart's Quest 

2 Sept 2022 MTTCC #42 Theme Nontraditional Christmas Colors for DT

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog!! Oh, my heart is happy with this Christmas card! Another DT member at MTTCC suggested nontraditional colors so that's what I'm featuring in today's post. I'm also happy because pink and purple are my 2 favorite colors. I'm also happy to be using some old stash supplies for most of the card with a newer painted focal.

MTTCC's #42 theme starts September 2 and ends September 15, 2022. Make sure to find time to craft Christmas themed nontraditional cards before September 15th!

This summer I covered a full sheet of white cardstock with dabbings and swirlings of acrylic paint in 3 colors plus 1 gold tempera paint. This is a small section sized about 2.5" x 3". There will be a closeup photo in order to detect some of the gold glitter paint. In the center of the large lavender foam snowflake is some bright pink glitter glue. 

This is Peace and Joy Christmas card in nontraditional colors=

No credits per se because it's almost all old inventory in my stash. The foam snowflakes were purchased in 5 different foam colors set a long time ago. Both alpha lettering stickers are old with Peace in a hammered silver and Joy in dark navy glitter. There is a strip of a gray 'metal' specialty paper on the left. The mixed media element has been mounted on light pink cardstock with foam tape then onto white cardstock and another layer of foam tape in order to lift it for depth and shadow. The wide purple glitter decorative tape strip was given a banner fishtail. Everything is on a dark grape marbleized thin cardstock when was matted onto pink cardstock. Voila! 

Card #2 is Victorian Hope Christmas card=

Credits: (1) acorn print cardstock is from Lake Life paper pad by Renne Looney/Fancy Pants Designs; (2) the color-me-lace topper and scalloped button die-cut are from Hot Off The Press/Paper Wishes website; and (3) others are stash items.

Lots of blue, odd greens, pink, gray/silver, and a bit of orchid purple

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Is this too weird? Or too mystical? Definitely creative and out-of-the-ordinary Christmas card. 

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MTTCC/My Time To Craft Christmas #42 link=

https://mytimetocraftchristmas.blogspot.com/2022/09/mttcc-42-theme-is-non-traditional.html

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups for sharing and link-ups=

A. The 12 Months of Christmas Link-up Challenges blog; I'll share Card #2

link= http://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.com/2022/09/challenge-92-anything-goes-christmas.html

B. Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #609; I'll share Card #1

link= http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/08/chnc-challenge-609.html

C. We Love 2 Create challenge blog; both cards are mixed media but card #2 has more techniques

link= http://welove2create.blogspot.com/2022/08/wk-9-craft-card-making-scrapbooking.html

D. Mixed Media Creativity group; colored pencils for the lace topper and markers and glitter paint for the wood die-cut; foam snowflakes, purple glitter decorative tape, different alpha sets, 

E. Paper, paper, Paper and DT Calls group; sharing

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

design team commitments include: My Time To Craft Christmas (this posting), My Time To Craft, Once Upon A Time, Mix It Up, Merry Little Christmas, Ally's Angels, and The Holly and Ivy Christmas

and 

owner of these 2 challenge blogs: FarmQuest and Heart's Quest

MLCC blog Theme #45 starts 1 July 2022

 ***Season's Greetings! I'm excited to be announcing that July 1st is my debut as a design team member of Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog!! YES!! Oh, what joy! In 2022, co-owner Leslie T changed the competitions to last 6 weeks long and to offer 6 per year. That's doable for me. 

MLCC Blog makes it even easier for Christmas cardmaking because their challenges are "Anything Christmas Goes". For my 1st DT project, I decided to do a mixed media holly leaves and berries stenciled 3x focus panel. Light green ink was sponged on first. Then red. Then green acrylic paint was applied to most of the stencil. 

After it dried, I went back and outlined the holly leaves with 3 different tip-sized black pens. The holly berries were brightened with 4 different red markers. I was trying to achieve variegation over the panel. Then gold glitter tempera paint was dabbed on once most of the card was assembled. The gold thickers and red dot gems were added last. 

Merry with holly leaves and berries=

click on the closeup and look for the teeny bits of gold glitter paint scattered around:

Wow! I've used a non-traditional Christmas (or even winter) patterned paper on the left with the traditional red and green holly leaves and berries for the stenciled panel. Thanks to Simple Stories for the stencil sheet and I believe it is American Crafts for the gold thickers (Merry, holly leaves, and holly berries). 

Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog #45 link= July 1-August 15, 2022

https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/07/mlccb-45-anything-christmas-goes-mlccb.html

MLCC blog badge=

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other challenge blogs to link up and Facebook groups for sharing are these=

A. Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge blog= anything Christmas goes; option washi tape= nope just ACG for my card

link= http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/06/chnc-challenge-600.html

B. The Holly and Ivy Christmas challenge blog= anything Christmas goes; 

link= http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/06/challenge-119-anything-christmas-goes.html

C. Through The Craft Room Door challenge blog; anything goes; started June 21

link= http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/2022/06/blog-post.html

D. Mixed Media Creativity group= inking and painting over stencil, outlining holly leaves, red marker ink applying to berries, touches of gold glitter tempera paint dabbed over the card

E. The Seasonal Cardmaker group

F. Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls group

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Crafting in the USA heartland for MLCC blog design team,

Becca S

(also owner of Heart's Quest and FarmQuest challenge blogs)

Yummy Cool and Colorful Birthday Cupcakes card

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog!! Shocker! This small flat card is not for a design team commitment! I wanted to mix together some current challenge themes to take advantage of their competition periods. And I even messed up on one that I had just received a notice about on Wednesday...at least I thought it was this Wednesday and not last week...crazy...

This fun card has mixed the elements for birthday, triangles, and bright summery colors. 

Yummy, cool, and colorful birthday cupcakes card=

Design notes and credits: the lavender paper is backdrop to block the printer scanner light; the mauve/mulled pink flat card base has a matching envelope (Darice); patterned paper, jumbo dots, and stickers were bargain finds at Dollar Tree; the green and yellow cardstock scraps are from Crafter's Choice or Art Skills, another bargain buy at Dollar General; and the purple cardstock scrap is from Neenah bought at Wal-Mart. A yellow marker was added to most of the white areas and white sprinkle dots in on the pink frosted cupcakes because it looked better to get yellow incorporated onto the paper. This is definitely packing some colors!

Challenges to link-up and Facebook groups to share:

A. Through The Craft Room Door; new Anything Goes challenge started June 21; 

link= http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/2022/06/blog-post.html

B. Seize The Birthday; Summer Activities is the topping/option; Anything Goes Birthday= My card with HB stickers and cupcake paper

link= http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2022/06/seize-birthday-241-summer-activities.html

C. Paper Craft Crew Challenge #475= Color/Sprinkles; Use 4 of the 5; OOPS/closed on June 21...sigh--I used green, purple, yellow, and pinks

link= https://papercraftcrew.com/pcc475-color-challenge/

D. Use Your Stuff challenge blog; #450; triangles= the "HB" sticker has triangle shaped banner/flags; the cupcake paper was cut in a triangle shape

link= http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2022/06/450-triangles.html

E. Fab -n- Funky challenges blog; June 22; Summer Colors; MY card= pinks, green, yellow, and purple

link= http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2022/06/challenge-554-summer-colours.html

F. Mixed Media Creativity group; 3 little planner stickers, HB sticker, jumbo dots/gems, used yellow marker to fill in white areas on the cupcake print paper for the paper to show more of the yellow like the 1 cardstock scrap; white ink pad to edge; 

G. Paper, Paper, Paper & DT Calls group; sharing 

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Crafting in the USA heartland, 

Becca S

DT members for the following:

*Mix It Up

*Merry Little Christmas

*My Time To Craft

*My Time To Craft Christmas

Owner of 2 challenge blogs:

*FarmQuest

*Heart's Quest

Shades of Blue Scriptural Encouragement Card

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! I was so happy to have some late night crafty fun about 9 hours and even more so to craft an extra that is not for a DT commitment. I've had 1 card started for several days and just need to get another crafting session in very soon to get that one done. Many more that I need to get started on as well. 

This featured card is on a flat denim blue colored cardstock base that has a matching envelope (Darice) with 2 scrap pieces and a printed Scripture card. I didn't check to see if it was the same size as a business name card or as an ATC. It was received as a gifted extra over a year ago. Three aqua pearl gems and a washi tape version flower petals clustered together for the accents. All chosen for having shades of blue. 

Guard Your Heart encouragement card=

Challenge blog links and Facebook group shares=

A. Make The Cards challenge #57; Shades of Blue; 

link= https://makethecardschallenge.com/make-the-cards-challenge-57/

B. Word Art Wednesday challenge blog; Weeks #549-550; I'm using Scripture but not the verse WAW provided

link= http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2022/06/weeks-549-550-anything-goes.html

C. Little Red Wagon challenge blog; Make It Count theme; use numbers= look closely at the end of the Bible verse for the given reference of Proverbs 4:23

link= http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2022/06/challenge-659-make-it-count.html

D. Christian Card Maker Women's Fellowship group

E. Scripturally Inspired Creativity group

F. Bible Journaling and Faith Art group

G. Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls group 

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

this is not a design team commitment make but I'm on several plus owner of 2=

*Mix It Up

*Merry Little Christmas

*My Time To Craft

*My Time To Craft Christmas

**Heart's Quest challenge blog (owner)

**FarmQuest challenge blog (owner)

Sharing my challenge blogs HQCB and FQCB

 Hello, Becca's Heart for Creativity blog readers! In case you haven't seen my new challenge blogs started on 2/28/2022 and 3/28/22, this is their links to their newest themes starting April 28th. 

Heart's Quest Challenge Blog

https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/hqcb-color-heart-challenge-3-in-orange.html

FarmQuest Challenge Blog

https://farmquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/fqcb-theme-3-basket-and-cherries-starts.html

and HQCB is starting something new today as well with having a Valentine's Day Cards challenge that is offered as a page option and has its own Inlinkz tool address for entry submissions. 

For V-Day theme #1, the project(s) can use either heart shape or word or the word love AND a doily. The Valentine's Day card needs to have both. You can have more than 1 heart shape. And you can use both the word heart and the word love. 

Heart and love can also be their other language equivalents. You can also use a form or variation like heartfelt, heartful, hearts, loves, loved, loving. 

On the HQCB site, go to the right sidebar and about halfway down will be a category titled "page options". Click on the one stating HQCB Valentine's Day Cards Challenge. 

Or use this link=

https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/p/hearts-quest-valentines-day-holiday.html

Appreciatively,

Becca S

owner of :

Becca's Heart for Creativity blog

Heart's Quest Challenge Blog

FarmQuest Challenge Blog

August 2020 Week 2 Color Challenge Green and Gold and Orange for 52 CCT Blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Oh, my artsy crafty heart had some anxiety about this color palette for making a Christmas card!!!! If it was for summer time or autumn, I wouldn't have had problems searching in my stash but it was extremely difficult to find orange Christmas items. Our August DT hostess at 52 CCT has chosen the color trio of green, gold, and orange for this 2nd week of August 2020!!!

Couldn't find an orange ornament or orange patterned cardstock in a Christmas or winter print so I started brainstorming about a food theme and that's how I catapulted the treasure hunt and my adaptations. This was a very time-consuming card but I LOVE how it turned out; especially that touch of humor about fruitcake!!!

No Fruitcake in this Christmas card= #30-20 for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown blog

link: https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/08/august-colour-challenge.html


more scanned and cropped pics=

Product notes and adaptations I made to create this color trio Christmas card=
a. Thanks to Bo Bunny for the green evergreen branch print cardstock, the fruit with honeycomb and spices print cardstock and the die-cuts (2 jingle bells, memories tab, and holly branch)
b. the peach cardstock card base is actually a neon orange that has scanned/bleached to look peach from Neenah
c. the dark orange cardstock mat - The Paper Studio
d. the no fruitcake tag is part of a sheet of freebies I found online; it started as a black and white multi holiday tag sheet that I printed onto Golden Honeycomb cardstock from Neenah
e. the gold glitter snowflakes started as white; my gold glitter paint pen to the rescue to transform to gold (dollar discount store)
f. the green glitter tree came as is and so did the gold glitter covered wooden pineapple; the orange slice came as plain wood so I used 3 different shades of orange markers to make it color appropriate (dollar discount store)
g. the yellow/gold jingle bell die-cut had the gold glitter pen and a black colored pencil to make sure color hues aligned with the challenge; the 2nd jingle bell was actually more of a rose gold hue to go with the Bo Bunny Christmas collection was I applied a red orange colored pencil to cover the bell portion and a black colored pencil to go over the bell opening; the holly berry branch had black colored pencil to go over the branch parts, orange to go over the berries to get more of a orange-red look instead of bright red, and then I used green glitter paint pen to edge the leaves and a combination of red and gold paint pens to edge the berries for contrast and more bling!! :)
h. the "Memories" tab was more of a beige-gold-ish hue so gold glitter paint pen for the outer edging, orange colored pencil for inside the box, and a black colored pencil to go over the word "Memories"
i. the fruit with honeycomb and spices patterned cardstock had similar coloring to the "Memories" tab so 3 different green colored pencils provided some hue contrast to the pear slices, rosemary sprigs, and apple slices; orange to those slices; several colors of pencil plus an overlay of gold glitter paint for the honeycomb and then a bright yellow gold colored pencil to go over the whole banner strip so that it would add a bit of contrast to the Gold Honeycomb cardstock used for the fruitcake tag and the other gold glitter embellishments
j. all papers and cardstocks (except the base) were edged with dark green ink

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups were this card's photo or this posting will be found=

a. Merry Little Christmas challenge blog; August 2020; Anything Christmas Goes;
link= https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/08/mlccb-25-august-anything-christmas-goes.html

b. Mix It Up challenge blog; #40; Anything Goes (with an option to do embossing; I haven't)
link= https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/08/miucb-40-anything-goes-embossing.html

c. The Holly and Ivy Christmas challenge blog; #76; Anything Christmas Goes
link= http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/08/challenge-76-anything-christmas-goes.html

d. Mixed Media Creativity group in Facebook; a sharing closed group for artists and crafters that enjoy mixing it up; I've got plain and patterned cardstock; digital print-out; wooden shapes; dark green ink; some colored pencils to adapt and alter; ephemera/die-cuts; glitter foam shapes

e. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group in Facebook; a sharing group for crafting bloggers

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

Design team member=
1. 52 CCT
2. A Place To Start
3. My Time To Craft

June 2020 Week 4 Technique AND Stash Challenge no 24 for 52 CCT Blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog!!! My heart is a bit sad that my hosting duties for June are almost over but again not too sad because my other team-mates at 52 CCT blog are so very creative. Everyone takes a turn as the hostess. For Week 4 the challenge can be technique or stash or both. I decided to do both.

Technique= clustering or grouping
Stash= embellishments; minimum of 3 in the grouping; you can mix or match

For me clustering or grouping embellishments together can be challenging. Sometimes I'm stumped by a particular theme topic and that I don't have items that I think can be artfully arranged. Other times it's difficult trying to fit the items together--like puzzle pieces. So the technique is clustering and the stash item(s) to use are your embellishments. A minimum of 3 need to be used.

52 Christmas Card Throwdown is a card only allowed challenge blog. However we do expand the word Christmas to include religious or non-religious Christmas themes, New Year's/New Year's Eve, or other winter holidays celebrated in December.

Pink, Purple, and Gold HOPE Christmas card=

#24 Technique and Stash Challenge link=
https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-techniquestash-challenge.html

Special design note: I combined all the June 2020 challenges of 52 CCT into this card. You don't have to do that. I'm just really enjoying the sketch, the color trio, the theme of snowflakes, and this week's clustering of embellishments (that included some snowflakes).

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Supply and design notes:
a. bright pink lettering stickers = Simple Stories
b. Pulsar Pink cardstock used for the base is from Astrobrights/Neenah
c. scraps of Honeycomb Gold and Orchid (purple) are from Astrobrights/Neenah
d. the 2 different planner note tab "stickies" = Pen + Gear/Walmart
e. the lavender/orchid foam snowflakes are from Oriental Trading but the rest of the accents I'm not sure who the manufacturer/vendors are;
f. the gem dots are in red-purple and blue-purple color; the curved plastic dots are in baby pink and a bright cherry pink; there are stars in gold, purple, and mauve pink/lavender; and the white glitter foam snowflakes all started as white ones...
g. some of the small snowflakes had gold glitter paint pen applied to the top and some had pink marker applied...easy way to alter stash items to help repeat and reinforce the previous Week 2 color trio palette!!!
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52 CCT's badge images from Weeks 1-3 for your review. Keep in mind the sketch was rotated up into a vertical format and also done in a slimline format. ***Note: you don't have to combine the previous June challenges into your card(s). This is just something I wanted to do to show the versatility of the prompts. *****

June 2020 challenge review:

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other places where I'll have either the card photo or preview link to this posting=

a. Not Just Cards Challenges: June 2020 challenge started on 11 June 2020; Anything Goes
link= http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-challenge-please-leave-in-draft.html
(NJCC or NJCCB)
b. The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge blog; Anything Christmas Goes
link= http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/challenge-74-anything-christmas-goes.html (THICC)

c. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook; lots of papers and cardstocks and lettering; glitter paint pen in gold; pink marker; snowflakes and other embellishments made from foam, plastic, acrylic (MMC)

d. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group on Facebook (PPPDTC)

e. Scripturally Inspired Creativity group on Facebook; hope is a topic often found in the Bible and is also part of most clergy's Advent messages (SIC)

f. Christian Card Makers~Women's Fellowship group on Facebook; weekend challenge theme is to make a slimline encouragement/scriptural card (CCMWF)

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

Design Team Member:
1. 52 Christmas Card Throwdown; also almost finished with my June duties as hostess; will still be responsible for Winners postings on July 1 and July 8
2. A Place To Start
3. My Time To Craft

Guest Designer for June 2020 at Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog (and community group on FB)

CKC Blog June 2020 Kit Challenge no 1 Wonderful World contribution as a GD

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My heart is overflowing this month! Not only is it my birthday time but I'm having the honor to be the Guest Designer for Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog!!! As a GD I've had an early alert to the inspiration kit and what this challenge #1 entails.

CKC's Master Forger, Tara, is the hostess this month and she selected CLIQUE Kit's March 2020 "Wonderful World" curated collection for the inspirational kit for participants to copy-cat from their stockpiles! When I think of wonderful world my mind always goes first to God's beautiful earthly creations, especially to flowers and butterflies. These are two of my favorites and are seen in my layouts and cards quite a lot!!! Even my June kit I've titled "Nature's Splendor in Petals and Wings" as a verbal nod to flowers and butterflies.

Luckily CLIQUE also put a lot of floral print papers and gorgeous embellishments into the kit along with lots of butterfly die-cuts.

My Challenge #1 layout is titled "Splendor". It turns out that several of the papers I included in my kit were from My Mind's Eye "Splendor" kit collection from a couple of years ago. I saved the marketing/cover page and their title got fussy cut out to become my title! :) Ingenious!! And then the far left strip on the layout is part of the sample section off that marketing cover page that can be seen in one of my kit photos I'm including in this post. Isn't that brilliant??!!!

The base is one of my forgery pages that started out as a pale yellow cardstock. Since doing the stenciling and outlining, I applied some eye shadow makeup (YES!!) with a sponge dauber to tone down the yellow a smidgen. The multi-shade palette had mica powder/glittery teals, amethysts, and metallic golds and bronzes, so I combined those to fill in some of that open space. Also the inspirational kit had lots of artist watercolor painting like papers, so I was hoping the make-up swirls would give my attempt at a forgery some of that look....

"Splendor" layout from "Nature's Splendor in Petals and Wings"--

Some of my June 2020 copy-cat kit photos (go back a week or so in my blog archives to find the posting about making the kit and see photos of the inspirational kit)=

Above: from some of my embellishments seen in the above photo, I pulled out 2 washi tapes to use, the foil butterflies, used the right half of those cut-apart images (Webster Pages), and the pocket/journal card in black and white is seen above those cut-apart panel.

Below: the marketing cover page from My Mind's Eye's "Splendor" was included in my kit and is seen next to that large "love" text paper ANT the yellow forgery floral paper is seen in the right corner of the photo tucked in between the green and pink versions.

I love re-purposing and recycling so using parts of that marketing cover page is like a huge WIN!

I was anxious to get the layout scanned and forgot to add in any captioning or journaling. But I did a TN layout for this same blog using the same kit for June 4th and the tulips/flowers were photographed  at the same time as the lilacs seen in the TN. Most of these flowers were already part of the landscaping of a foreclosure property we bought in 2005. Due to some structural work needed in the basement, we didn't move in until Summer 2006 and lived there until Fall of 2011. The landscaped beds hadn't been touched for several years, so when my hubs didn't need my assistance at the basement, I spent a lot of hours raking and weeding as well as analyzing what I could identify that was already there. These flower garden photos were probably taken sometime after 2007.

The columns of gems and butterflies are not quite a rainbow but the inspirational kit had several versions of rainbows included so I wanted to get this aspect of the kit onto my layout page. They've almost overwhelmed the cropped snapshots but I'm thinking these just reinforce the meaning of "Splendor" and "Wonderful World"

Oh! What a beautiful world God has given us! I know there is a lot of ugliness in the world but it's not due to the Creator. It's due to the disrespect and abusive actions of some humans. Let's focus on the beauty.

Two different locations for the purple tulips planted on the west side of this featured property we used to own are the focals for this layout. They are the beauty I wanted to share from this Wonderful World's Splendor!

Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog=

June 12th link: https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-challenge-1.html

June 1st link: https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-counterfeit-kit-challenge-kit.html


This blog post will also be shared at these:
a. CKC's community group in Facebook

b. Mixed Media Creativity group in Facebook

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

d. additional possibles: Bash Your Scrapbook Stash and/or 100 Pattern Paper Challenge groups in Facebook and/or Scrap Academy

e. The Paper Funday Challenges blog; June anything goes w/ optional twist of masculine; this is just an anything goes paper-crafted creation
link= http://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-2020-challenge-18-anything-goes.html


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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

May 2020 Week 2 Colors for the 18th Challenge Week at 52 CCT Blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My creative heart took a stumble this week trying to come up with a non-traditional colors Christmas card! Yikes! Should be pretty easy! But lots of the stuff I purchased to prep for this DT gig with 52 CCT this year are traditional reds and greens or wintery blues.

CARD #1:
This minty-teal green chrysanthemum cardstock from Webster Pages was my driving force for this card I'm getting ready to show. Mums are an autumn perennial where I live but with the orange, green, and yellow large gem dots to be like berries or ornaments along with the word "gather" I thought might make this a great transitional card to bridge Thanksgiving and Christmas. The gold glitter tape and little gold pine needle branch add a bit more Christmas glam.

The tied sections of chevron cardstock symbolize the 'gather'-ing we do during the holiday season--we come together!

Gather for Christmas card for 52 CCT's #18-2020=

#18-20 challenge for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown:
link= https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/05/may-colour-challenge.html

and I used last week's sketch to influence this layout=

*punched holes on each side that looks like part of a belt and triple-tied cording instead of a buckle or connector piece
*sentiment word added plus a few embellishments like the glitter tape and gems complete the card

and

CARD #2:

This is my favorite trio of colors: pink, purple, and silver. I dug and dug and found old pink and purple foam snowflakes that were ordered in a bulk pack from Oriental Trading many years ago. Layout-wise I'm still using last week's sketch. It's turning out very versatile and gives a chance to use a bit of contrast in patterned papers that I like to do on my cards.

Celebrate a Snowy Christmas card:

and more pics of each card=

The patterned papers on CARD #2 are also from The Paper Studio/Hobby Lobby. The purple cardstock base cardstock is folded to dimensions of 5" x 7" and is made by Astrobrights/Neenah.  The silver dazzle sentiment "Celebrate" is from Paper Wishes.

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Other challenge blogs and Facebook groups that I'll link the post or photos=
a. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook

b. PPPDTC group on Facebook

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

d. for Card #2= Christmas 24 blog; #009 with challenge theme of snowflakes
link= https://christmas24challenge.blogspot.com/2020/05/challenge-009.html

e. Merry Little Christmas challenge blog; Always Christmas Anything Goes #22 for May 2020
link= 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 member of 52 CCT blog and these other 4:
1. APTS
2. MTTC
3. S4fC
4. TCCC