Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity!, a personal crafting blog!
who: Hello, I'm Becca S, a 60+ year old artsy-craftsy blogger, who wants to continue crafting and blogging as long as I'm able. I do have left hand's middle, pointer and thumb diagnosed with mild arthritis this summer. I'm left-handed so this is expected but not for crafting, blogging, driving, playing piano, etc. Then to compound things, I fell outside on our back deck around midnight between June 11-12th. The boards were wet from having storms earlier plus a tornado that luckily skipped over our small town. Unfortunately some deck screws had loosened a bit, protruding enough that it caught my slipper of my left foot, causing me to twist and fall down on my left side. I put my left hand out though and the impact severely bruised my palm and my three center fingers. Some muscle tissue in my thumb palm area got damaged because of a deck screw. Over the next few days, the jarring pain/nerves and inflammation traveled up my arm and across my shoulders. UGH. Enough of that story. It's taken these past 4 months to get close to being healed however if I forget and grip the steering wheel too long, the pain flares up. Or if I do several minutes of cutting or an hour of straight typing on blog post(s). SIGH.
On a happy note, I was able to meet my best friend in Bloomington-Normal, north side near the interstate(s). Susie traveled about 90+ minutes to eat and talk!!!
where: THIS IS NOT A DESIGN TEAM COMMITMENT. A personal crafting goal in 2026 was to scrapbook as many gatherings with friends and/or family/couple w/ dog that I can squeeze in between those DT projects.
when: Scrapbook Layout #9 for 2026.
what: Lunch with my BFF on October 20, 2026 layout
how-to and/or product detail notes: (Do either of us look like we are 64+ years old??)
1. white cardstock sheet = Georgia Pacific
2. a range of yellow, green, orange and kraft paper scraps; torn edges = various vendors from scrap stash box (AUTUMN colors)
3. pale aqua and white plaid paper and the yellow/gray/white plaid paper scraps = both from Recollections (seen on the left side of the layout)
4. oval resin flower sticker = Stickeroni
5. 'gather' and 'sweater weather' foam stickers = Farmstead Harvest collection/Thickers by American Crafts
6. two tickets, two phrase arrows, three little 'charms' (on the cording) = Farmstead Harvest ephemera pack by American Crafts
7. orange and white cording = spool is 1 of 3 colors of cording in pack = Crafter's Square
8. Chocolate Chip/brown ink pad was randomly applied around the layout = Lawn Fawn
9. very old alphabet stencil ruler was used to trace 'October'
10. PHOTOS = my BFF and my cellphones; she did two pics and I did the pic of her; she texted the 2 pics to me which I shared to email and then downloaded; same for my pic of her; used computer printer to choose layout orientation and size before printing each photo
LINK-UPs:
1A. One More Page; new on Oct 2nd/still open; theme to scrapbook page or 2/spread; I'm sharing a 8.5" x 11" size cardstock sheet base layout page. I prefer the slimmer size to place in a regular notebook binder which helps for storing.
link = https://onemorepagechallenge.blogspot.com/2026/10/one-more-page-in-october.html
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1B. Fab n Funky; new on Oct 7th; theme is '3 of something'; I'm sharing my layout that has 3 photos
link = https://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2026/10/challenge-643-three-of-something.html
1C. The Sisterhood of Crafters; new on Oct 14th; theme of Fall; I'm sharing my autumn colors layout; I'm wearing a sweater; there's a 'sweater weather' foam sticker; some orange flowers, a tiny pumpkin, a tiny mushroom....
link = https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2026/10/october-2026-fall-challenge.html
1D. Unicorn Challenge; new on Oct 6th; theme of Autumn and/or Halloween; I'm sharing my autumn colors layout; I'm wearing a sweater + there's a 'sweater weather' foam sticker; some orange flowers, a tiny pumpkin, a tiny mushroom...
link = https://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/10/challenge-125-autumn-andor-halloween.html
1E. CD Sunday +; new on Oct 11th; theme to use CD/USB/digital; I'm sharing my autumn colors layout that has 3 photos ==> these were taken with our cellphones and then the 2 photos taken by my BFF were sent by text and then I shared those to one of email addresses ==> then dowloaded then used computer print/sized/chose layout orientation of pics; trimmed the pics
link = https://cdsundaychallenge.blogspot.com/2026/10/cd-sunday-plus-challenge-194-hosted-by.html
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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S
**this is not a design team related project; it is just for creative fun!
*DT member only = PRS and Pin-spirational owned by Deanne; as of October 1, 2026 = Deanne has restarted HQCAYR
*owner/DT = CCC; ConBC; AA; HQCB, HQCOLCB, HQFCB, HQFSCAT, and HQLQCB; plus FQCB, FQCCCB, FQGS, FQGGCB, FQHCB. & new on Sept 15th = HQPIPC or Heart's Quest Pretty in Pink Challenges