Loving this non DT Thank You Harvest Season Card on 8 Nov 2024

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog!

purpose: This posting is a rarity for me this year to have a creative project not be for one of my own competition blog commitments! It really gives a spark to my creative thoughts!! YEA! 

when: this is not for a DT/owned competition blog so the linkups vary from Nov 1-7th. 

what: Thank You Harvest Season Card

notes:

1. kraft base A2 card with matching envelope = Crafter's Square

2. print paper square = from Vintage Christmas Lodge by Simple Stories

3. pumpkin brad accents =  from Faboolous collection by Simple Stories

4. # puffy stickers = Freckled Fawn

5. label sticker for sentiment area = Freckled Fawn

6. plaid paper for the background = SU

7. black ink pad = Hero Arts

8. yellow crystal gems = Crafter's Square

9. 'thank you' self-inking stamper = old stash item; due to glossy surface of the label, I went over with a black permanent marker and then a red one...not the best but it's okay

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where: places to share/link are =

A. {Pin}spirational; current since Nov 1; theme is numbers; my card has

link = https://pinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/11/pinspirational-challenge-319-november.html

B. Paper Craft Crew Challenges #595; started Nov 6; sketch (see badge); 2 pumpkins are being used for the square spaces and then 1 print paper square; 

link = https://papercraftcrew.com/pcc595-vertical-sketch-challenge/

badge = 

C. If You Give A Crafter A Cookie; current since Nov 1; theme is Grateful, Thankful, Blessed; my card uses phrase 'thank you' plus pumpkins like the pumpkin cookie in the badge

link = https://giveacrafteracookie.blogspot.com/2024/11/cookie-challenge-198-november-grateful.html

badge = 

D. Love To Scrap; current since Nov 1 until Dec 15; anything goes

link = https://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/ltscb-170-anything-goes-ltscb-169.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

*this is a non-DT or owner commitment project

those commitments are:

1. MTTC; 2. MTTCC; 3. HAOOCAYR; 4. HQCB; 5. HQFCB; 6. HQCOLCB; 7. FQCB; 8. FQGS; 9. FQCCCB; 10. FQHSKCB; 11. FQGGCB; 12. AACB; and 13. CONBCB

 

Sketch Layout Plus Ink Blended Background Card

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Oh my! It's very unusual nowadays to create a card that is not a design team or my own challenge blog inspiration commitments. Three-and-a-half days ago, my personal email inbox got notices from PCC and MTC about their new challenges. I started on the MTC first and actually used 1 full sheet of white cardstock that I divided into 4 sections.

I used the same 4 colors stamp ink pads and 2 makeup sponges for the applications that varied in pressure, amount of ink, and direction of the blending and overlaying. This post's featured card is the first one to be released. The other 3 will be revealed in a few weeks for upcoming commitments. 

This is "A Happy Heart" thinking of you card=

More design notes:

An old stencil set from Pebbles that has been in my stash for about 12 years had been resurrected this month and one of the stencils provided the brackets. I thought this would be my own little creative twist on the 'label' shape seen in PCC's sketch. 

I forget the vendor for the stenciled message but it was the perfect fit inside the brackets. The glittery decorative tapes are in lieu of the thin long strips shown on the sketch. And due to the placement of the brackets on the right side of the ink blended DIY section, I only put the 'strips' on the left side. A blush pink cardstock is placed behind the panel as the secondary background panel. Then those were mounted on a brighter pink cardstock along with a few blue gems for accents and to give more blue on the card. 

I'm very pleased with the cheerful card. 

Link-ups of this card will be found at these blogs and FB groups=

A. Make The Cards Challenge #53

https://makethecardschallenge.com/make-the-cards-challenge-53/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=make_the_cards_challenge_weekly_prompt&utm_term=2022-04-20 

B. Paper Craft Crew challenges #467

http://papercraftcrew.com/pcc467-horizontal-sketch-challenge/

C. Passionate Paper Creations and Friends group in FB

D. Mixed Media Creativity group in FB

E. Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls group in FB

F. Word Art Wednesday challenge Weeks

link= http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2022/04/anything-goes-weeks-539-540.html

G. Scripturally Inspired Creativity group in FB

H. Christian Card Making ~ Women's Fellowship group in FB

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

also owner of 2 fairly new challenge blogs: 

Heart's Quest Challenge Blog

and

FarmQuest Challenge Blog

2022 Jan 14 MTTC Floral Theme DT card

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! I'm excited to rejoin the design team crew at My Time To Craft challenge blog! Woo-hoo!! For #473, the theme for the challenge is floral. 

I decided to made a birthday card with a CAS layout that is actually based on a sketch for the 52 CCT 22-01 challenge. 

Wishing You Well birthday card=

link to MTTC=

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/challenge-473-floral.html

Design Notes:

A. bright purple cardstock base folded on the left; Neenah; pink is actually a neon hot pink, also from Neenah; the base is made of a full sheet of CS and the pink is about 5"x7"

B. pale green banner strip; Neenah; 

C. silver metallic gel highlighter pen edges the green banner strip

D. the bird oval sticker is old stash; the glitter & silver mirror foil posies are stick-ons 

E. 'wishing you well' stamp is from a small greetings stamp set (old stash); black ink pad

F. CAS= clean and simple format for the layout

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other challenge blogs and FB groups where I'll share this posting or pic=

a. AAA Birthday challenge blog= my 2 favorite colors are pink and purple!!!

https://aaabirthday.blogspot.com/2022/01/game-33-two-favourite-colours-micro.html

b. Seize the Birthday challenge blog=

  

http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2022/01/seize-birthday-229-blue-and-gray.html

c. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook

d. Paper, Paper, Paper, & DT Calls group on Facebook

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

*MTTC design team

*MTTCC design team

Winter Holiday Celebrate Card based on a sketch

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! This is my 2nd card for the year and in about 5 months! It feels SO good to be creative! To think creatively! To get my fingers messy with 2 different stamp pad colors and a mid-blue paint stick!

This card is also combining 3 different challenge blogs' criteria. There's an anything goes winter/January theme, an inspo list of 10 items/themes that I have to use at least 3, and a Christmas/winter holiday card with sketch. I only gave or mailed out a few Christmas cards to my immediate family, so I've got belated cards made last year I need to get mailed asap and I'll include this one too.

Winter Holiday Celebrate Card:

Supplies: (1) bronze dazzle word is from Paper Wishes website; (2) snowflakes stencil is from Simple Stories; (3) gold and light blue cardstocks, A2 white card base & matching envelope, blue ink stamp pad, gold ink stamp pad, blue paint stick (from a set of 4 colors) are all from Art Skills' Crafters Choice; and the (4) blue foam snowflake sticker (from a huge set in 5 different colors bought years ago) is from Oriental Trading.

Challenges:

A. Festive Friday #0100= the 3 items I used were splatters, celebrate/celebration, and gold

blog post: https://festivefridaychallenge.com/festive-friday-challenge-ff0100/

B. The Four Seasons Challenge blog= anything goes winter/January challenge theme; I was inspired to use wintery blues and snowflakes (stenciling on the focal background and the large foam one); this is their mood board for January:

this is their blog badge:

blog posting: https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-winter-challenge.html

https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-winter-challenge.html

C. 52 Christmas Card Throwdown 22-01 sketch; required Christmas/winter holiday & sketch

this is the sketch:

this is their participant badge:

blog posting: https://52cct.blogspot.com/2022/01/january-sketch-challenge.html

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Crafting in the cold, snowy, icy USA heartland,

Becca S

MTTC challenge no 463 sketch layout usage starts 6 August 2021

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My artsy-crafty heart is thrilled to be using OLD stash items for this sketch-based layout card! My Time To Craft challenge blog has a sketch design to use for your card-making for #463. I've rotated the design to the left 90 degrees in order to make it a vertical layout. I didn't extend the one section to the full height of the card but this is an extra long card using a full sheet of cardstock folded (fold on left; opening on right). That CS base is the soft green. Because of the sentiment of "Happy Day" I feel I can either use it as an encouragement card or as a birthday one. [rut ro! It's going to be the birthday card I send to my auntie for her #74 next week!!]

*MTTC challenge blog design team commitment project

*Required sketch design usage as the 'theme'; image will be shown below

*#463

*Starts 6 August 2021 and lasts for 13 days

Happy Day card=

LINK to #463 for MTTC= http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/08/challenge-463-sketchy-time.html

Required sketch design for your project layout; I've rotated the sketch to the left and then lengthened the size of the card. I also tweaked a few things in my interpretation like the shown darker purple area doesn't go the full length on my card, the shapes aren't circles, and the sentiment/accent tab section is shortened and shaped like a journal or divider tab. 

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A few design notes:

1. the acrylic floral image 'stickers' are from Hallmark; these are part of a sheet that could be as old as 10 years sold by Hallmark

2. the green patterned paper is a scrap section off a very old stash item; so glad to make a small dent in this older stuff

3. the cardstocks are from Pen+ Gear; light green, soft ivory, and soft yellow; the purple paper is to back the card only for blocking out my printer's scanner light

4. the sketch design doesn't show corner accents but I felt that with oversizing the proportion that the right side of the card needed something to help balance it. This still could be considered a CAS (clean and simple) style card because there is so much blank space.

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Besides MTTC challenge blog posting as a design team member, my posting and/or card photo will be shared at these challenge blogs and Facebook groups=

a. Seize The Birthday challenge blog; birthday cards with stripes option or anything goes birthday; MY CARD will be anything goes birthday and I'll be sending it to my aunt who has a birthday in about 6 days!!! link= http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2021/08/seize-birthday-220-stripes.html

b. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends challenge blog; Always Anything Goes; about 7 days left for the current challenge; link- http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2021/08/c-163.html

**blog badges for LPCF and STB--

c. Mixed Media Creativity group

d. Paper, Paper, Paper & DT Calls group

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Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S

Design Team member of My Time To Craft challenge blog

CHD 15 July 2021 no 34 Anything Goes Theme Challenge Month features 2 DT Cards

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My artsy-crafty heart is super excited to be able to showcase 2 digital images from the CHD Etsy shop! Owner Mary Smith and her husband both contribute to their inventory and have been busy designing new digital images. Mary agreed to let me use the "Snow Gnome" digi created just this week!! It is THAT new! There are so many other challenge blogs having Christmas in July themes that I wanted to hurry and use "Snow Gnome" for the July competition. [CHD July 2021 challenge blog posting link is near the end of this posting. Make sure to click on it and see what the other design team members have created.] 

And then several weeks back with summertime in my thoughts, I asked Mary if I could use the "Tropical Bird Rain Forest" digi for this July 15th release posting date. She said yes, so that will be showcased in this post, too. So fun. This vibrant rain forest scene will be perfect for an aunt's birthday whose grandson is in Costa Rica. Andrew and his wife just had their first baby, a girl, just a few weeks ago. Not only is Andrew her oldest grandchild/grandson, his daughter is her first great grandchild! I think she's going to love this image! 

Bonus Image #1 "Snow Gnome" as 'snow' jolly Christmas card=

Link to CHD Etsy shop for "Snow Gnome"=

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1050408803/snow-gnome-long-beard-jolly-christmas?ref=listing_published_alert&fbclid=IwAR3ThPo7TYLqQfy7m8z0vYU1uK3it_tamICkTpCslTVTp83xc7VvrCeXGjw

more views:

other challenge blogs to link-up and Facebook groups to share card #1 photo= [note: Mary did not include this on the July 15 CHD DT inspiration section]

a. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenge; Christmas in July theme (which I've done) or AG

link to ECW=https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2021/07/ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-july.html 

b. Paper Craft Crew or PCC #435 sketch challenge; for current week

http://papercraftcrew.com/pcc435-vertical-sketch-challenge/

sketch image=

c. Slimline Card Obsessed group on Facebook

d. The Seasonal Cardmaker group on Facebook

e. Paper, Paper, Paper & DT Calls group on Facebook

f. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook

g. Creative Heart Design group on Facebook; private group for those who have purchased or won and/or used CHD images (such as DT members of CHD challenge blog)...

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Image #2 "Tropical Bird Rain Forest" digi used for "HB" card=

Link to CHD Etsy shop for "Tropical Bird Rain Forest"=

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/587005234/tropical-bird-rain-forrest-digital-stamp?ref=shop_home_recs_84

more views:

other challenge blogs to link-up specifically for CARD #2 and Facebook groups=

a. Slimline Card Obsessed group on Facebook

b. Seize the Birthday challenge blog; 

link=http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2021/07/seize-birthday-218-framed.html 

c. The Seasonal Cardmaker group on Facebook

d. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook

e. Paper, Paper, Paper & DT Calls group on Facebook

f. Creative Heart Design group on Facebook; private group; members purchase or win then use CHD images in the paper-crafting projects

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A few vendor notes:

1. Silver and white snowflake metallic/shiny 'dazzles' are from Paper Wishes company website

2. "HB" alphas are from Freckled Fawn

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Both cards for design team commitment for Createful Heart Design challenge blog. 

CHD blog badge and DT member badge

CHD #34 link=

https://createfulheartcards.blogspot.com/2021/07/challenge-34.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S

Design team member of Createful Heart Design challenge blog