Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity, a personal crafting blog!
who: Hello, I'm Becca S, a 60+ year artsy-craftsy blogger who started on this crazy journey in 2010-2011. Before that I spent a year or so being part of message board card and scrapbooking challenges for the company "Paper Wishes". Each thing we created and shared by photo had to use at least 1 PW/HOTP product. Another crafter started a discussion thread about this new discovery of hers called 'Blogger' and quickly 3 gals got started before I did. They were praising the benefits and I checked out what they were doing and soon followed with "Becca's Heart for Creativity".
where: Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenges blog (a provided direct link will be found at the bottom)
when: #5 for 2026 (or #52 since I took over) starts on the 1st Saturday of the month which is May 2nd. This session will end on May 31, 2026.
why: 52 challenge session months ago, I took over the ownership of the challenge blog "The Fairy and The Unicorn". After about 2 years I renamed it but maintained the old TFATU blog address. Then Heart's Quest Fantasy challenge blog got a new corresponding blog address many months ago. I did that for 2 reasons: make it part of my Quest family of challenges and also have a name more reflective to its theme of 'anything goes fantasy'.
what: Anything But Ordinary mermaid fantasy card
cropped closeup to see the glittery shine put on the rock =
how for project #1:
1. Icicles Stickles applied on the rock = Ranger
2. light gray colored pencil for the rock, three tones of blues for the water, sky = Marvy Uchida /stash box
3. mermaid's scales are with a mint green and aqua highlighters = Bic
4. peach and yellow colored pencils for mermaid's hair = Marvy Uchida/ stash box
5. yellow highlighter for sun's ray on the sentiment sticker = Bic
6. sentiment sticker = Market Square sticker book by Maggie Holmes/ American Crafts
7. white copy paper for image = HP
8. light blue paper behind the image = Colorbok
9. green and teal tonal floral print paper = Apothecary paper pad = Fancy Pants Designs
10. lavender CS base = Colorbok
11. clear/iridescent rhinestone gems = Crafter's Square
LINK-UPs:
1A. Crafts Galore Encore; new; just open; theme of anything goes
link = https://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2026/05/may-2026-challenge-147-crafts-galore.html
1B. CD Sunday Plus; close to the end of the current session; anything using a CD, thumbdrive, digital download, etc. MY mermaid image is a digital download via an image drawn by a DT member of HQFCB and that is available on our free fantasy images page
link = https://cdsundaychallenge.blogspot.com/2026/04/cd-sunday-plus-challenge-182-hosted-by.html
1C. Love To Craft Challenge; new on May 1 through June 15; anything goes theme
link = https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/ltccb-92-and-ltccb-91-winner-and-top.html
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what: Project #2 = Space Alien asking for coffee
how Project #2 info =
21. Microsoft Designer Ai-generator used to create space alien asking for coffee while standing in the middle of a small town street!!!!
22. green dual-tip marker = Art Skills
23. arrow tip/pointer direction ephemera = Road Trip ephemera by Maggie Holmes
24. small coffee cup die-cut ephemera = Memory Lane by Fancy Pants Designs
25. green paper cut to be the background matting for the Ai image = from multicolor paper pad by Hello Hobby/Walmart + bright yellow paper scrap
26. little metal tone puffy piece stickers are serving as faux coffee beans = from a mixed design sticker package = Crafter's Square
27. light blue CS scrap = Colorbok pastel CS pad
28. orange tonal floral patterned CS = old; maybe My Mind's Eye or Webster's Pages
LINK-UPs for #2 =
2A. First Cup; new on May 2nd; theme of anything beverage/drink; I've got a coffee cup with 'Java' written on it
link = https://firstcupchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/05/first-cup-challenge-14-may.html
2B. Double D Challenges; started April 15-; theme of tea or coffee; My card's space alien is asking for coffee; there is a cup with JAVA written on it
link = https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2026/04/dd-426-tea-or-coffee-challenge.html
2C. Krafty Chicks; April 30th/week 5 with theme of Anything Goes (opt of colored image); My space alien is for AG since I didn't color the image; color printed digital...
link = https://kraftychickschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/04/krafty-chicks-challenge-818-atg-with.html
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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S
HQFCB #5 (or #52) for May 2, 2026 blog posting link =
https://heartsquestfantasy.blogspot.com/2026/05/hearts-quest-fantasy-challenges-5-in.html
* owner/DT = HQFCB plus HQCB, HQCOLCB, HQFSCAT and HQLQCB; plus FQCB, FQCCCB, FQGGCB, FQGS and FQHCB; and AA; ConBC; CCC. [FQGGCB's theme is anything food and/or drink goes.]
*DT member only = CIP owned by Marlene; PRS and Pin-spirational owned by Deanne
