Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity, a personal crafting blog.
who: Hi! I'm Becca S, a 60+ year old artsy-craftsy with a mish-mesh style who enjoys blogging about my creations and being an owner of many crafting challenge blogs.
An interesting fact about one of my favorite sewing projects: I created and sewed my wedding dress!!! YES! In January we celebrated our 30th anniversary. I was still sewing the hem during the early hours of our wedding day! I spent about $200 to buy silk shantung fabric, some lace trim and a large lace applique for the bodice, 2 patterns (taking the bodice of 1 and the skirt and 'bustle' of the other to merge together), beads, a beaded headband and netting for my headpiece plus notions like thread, interfacing and a very long zipper.
where: Christmas or Not Bingo Challenges (look at the bottom for the bingo board and the #19 blog post link)
when: #19 starts May 1, 2026 and ends six weeks later on June 15, 2026.
why: I've been sole owner of ConBC for about a year.
what: Project #1: Friendship tag
how for Project #1: using column B (see the bingo board image at the bottom of the post)
1. TAG= layered; chunky size tag
a. black linen textured cardstock = Art Skills
b. white thin CS that was punched = Jot
c. 'ticket' punch = EK Success
2. MONOCHROME = RED with white and black neutrals;
a. red paper = scrap paper pack = Crafter's Square
b. red crystal gems = Nicole Brand Crafts
c. also the washi tape(s) cut-outs have red = washi-tape strips that came with 3 designs per small sheet; I was given several of the sheets many years ago and still have 2 or 3 strips yet to go!
d. also the fabric ribbon has red = spool = Crafter's Square
3. FREE =
a. puffy stars and dots = Freckled Fawn
b. text stickers (with, you, remember this moment) and a circle sticker with leafy stem = Simple Life sticker book by Simple Stories
c. black fine tip marker for tracing circles (using objects on my craft table) = Sharpie
4. WASHI TAPE = the half striped & half red heart was cut from a paper tape strip; and the red with white text arrow was cut from a different paper taper strip; both are by the same company = company unknown; received in a kindness box from another crafter about 5 years ago.
5. FIBER/WOVEN FABRIC = red and black plaid fabric ribbon, two strips = Crafter's Square
LINK-UPs for #1:
a. Stencil Fun (Crazy is our fame...); ends on May 2!!!!!; using main theme of anything goes stenciling; on my TAG, the black circle rings were traced using two sizes of decorative/washi tape rings/spools to serve as the stencil templates
link = https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2026/04/april-2026-stencil-fun-challenge.html
b. The Outlawz Anything But A Card; opened Apr 30/May 1; theme is the title = no cards; anything else; My project is a TAG; this time I went short and wide/chunky!
link = https://tolanythingbutacard.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-outlawz-anything-but-card-may.html
c. Tagalong and ATCs; new on May 1st; theme is color pink or anything goes; My project is a short and wide/chunky TAG for A.G.
link = https://tag-alongandatc.blogspot.com/2026/05/may-challenge.html
d. Love To Craft Challenge; new on May 1st; theme is anything goes
link = https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/ltccb-92-and-ltccb-91-winner-and-top.html
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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S
ConBC #19 bingo board = I used column B for my monochrome tag
ConBC #19 blog post link = https://christmasbingochallenges.blogspot.com/2026/05/christmas-or-not-bingo-challenges-19.html
* owner/DT = ConBC; AA; CCC; HQCB, HQCOLCB, HQFSCAT, HQFCB and HQLQCB; plus FQCB, FQCCCB, FQGGCB, FQGS and FQHCB.
* DT member only = CIP owned by Marlene; Pin-spirational and PRS owned by Deanne
