APTS blog January 2020 anything goes theme with option of CAS

A Place To Start challenge blog is starting 2020 with the month of January having anything goes with an option to do CAS (clean and simple layout style). For this resident designer project I have chosen to not do CAS for my card featuring Bugaboo's Ginger Bowl digital image.

Bugaboo is our sponsor for January 2020 and they have graciously provided a wide array of their selections for the team to start this 1st month of a new decade!

link to APTS new challenge post= https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2020/01/january-2020-challenge-anything-goes.html

link to Bugaboo's store= https://bugaboostamps.com/

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Supply and design notes:
a. glitter paint pens in yellow/gold, green, and red were used
b. black with white lettering stickers (white parts were painted over)
c. upcycled/recycled promotional postcard received from cell phone company in 12/28/19 mail was trimmed down to use as the graphic-kind of journal card on the left--YES!!!!
d. the digital image was printed on white cardstock and then has a combination of colored pencil, markers, and glitter paint pens
e. base card dimensions are 5" x 7" and made with Honeycomb cardstock from a multi pack from Astrobrights/Neenah
f. the colorful varied stripe patterned paper is just 1 design in a 6" square paper pad bought at a dollar discount store--YES!

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups where this card's photo will be shared=
a. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook (see the notes above for all the craft mediums used)

b. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls group on Facebook

c. Shopping Our Stash challenge blog= #410 happy holidays theme through January 6, 2020
link= https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2019/12/shopping-our-stash-410-happy-holidays.html

*Edit note on 1/6/2020: I'm hours late getting this posted. I was in the hospital yesterday until about 11:30 am today. Had to get a Rx then due to distance had about a 1 hour break at home and then back out to pre-scheduled dental appointments for both my husband and I. UGH! Only been back home for about an hour to get this released. Sorry for the delay.

I appreciate everyone who follows my blog and those crafting bloggers who stop in for a visit from one of the blogs or groups that I check on occasionally. Thanks! Let's have a wonderful fun time crafting and expressing our artistry in 2020!

From the USA heartland,
Becca S for Becca's Heart for Creativity blog
and a design team member for the following:
A Place to Start (started in May 2019)
52 Christmas Card Throwdown (new in 2020)
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges (new in 2020)
The Crafter's Café Challenges (started in mid-April 2019)
My Time to Craft Challenge (started in May 2019)

January 2020 Week 1 for 52 CCT challenge has a sketch prompt to follow

52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge blog very first challenge for 2020 and for January 4th is a sketch. Week 1 of every month is a sketch challenge. This is my 1st official weekly design team project for 52 CCT!!!! The required sketch is shown below my first card photo in my posting. I've rotated it to the right.

Link: https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/01/january-sketch-challenge.html

Supply notes: sweater image and the sentiment image were a recycled postcard received as promotional mail for a cell phone company--YES--and the penguin was also upcycled from a gift tag purchased at a dollar discount store!!!! Black and white grid washi tape is from Pen + Gear bought at Wal-Mart. It was 1 of a 4 pack and has quickly become a favorite of mine! Red copy paper and black copy paper were scraps leftover from old projects. The base card cardstock color is called "Concrete" by Astrobrights/Neenah, Inc. And another bargain item is the bold graphic patterned paper which was a recent purchase from a 6" square paper pad bought at the same dollar discount store as the gift tag! It's all about the balance of mixing patterns and sizes.

Ex: tiny grid pattern on the washi tape vs. super large individual gem dots;
image with lots of different size objects vs. 1 medium sized penguin; and
multi-stripe patterned paper section vs. solid red, solid black, and solid concrete gray "borders"

1st official weekly DT project in 2020 for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge blog!

Aren't the bold colors and patterns of this card very graphic and appealing??!!!?!!! LOVE how this turned out and it only took about 30-45 minutes to create from start to finish: measuring & trimming into 2 pieces the upcycled postcard, measuring the solid and striped papers, inking edges, etc.

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Other challenge blogs and Facebook groups were this card will be shared=
a. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook= a private group for artists and crafters to share their mixed media projects

b. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group on Facebook= a sharing site for crafting bloggers

c. Shopping Our Stash #410; theme is Happy Holidays until Jan 6, 2020
link: https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2019/12/shopping-our-stash-410-happy-holidays.html
badge for SOS=

Thanks for reading my 1st blog post for 52 CCT in 2020! I'm glad they accepted me to the team! I wanted to have a personal creative challenge this year to see if I could make a Christmas card for all 52 weeks! Make sure to check back and see how my techniques, layout styles, colors, and embellishments change each time I craft.

Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S for Becca's Heart for Creativity blog
and the following design teams:
52 Christmas Card Throwdown
The Crafter's Café Challenges
My Time To Craft
A Place to Start
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges

Challenge 157 for S4fC blog reveal 3 January 2020

I'm super excited to show my 1st project as a new design team member for Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog! 

New challenge reveal for S4fC blog is based on European time so for me living in central part of the United States, it will be about 8 pm on Thursday, January 2th.

Theme for #157 is Anything Goes and format can be layout, card, canvas, mixed media, etc. The sponsor for this fortnight length challenge is Oddball Art by Lizzy Love. I selected Sweet Whimsical Big Eye Girl Fiona to accent my traveler's notebook entry that is about my 'best friend forever', Susie and I getting together. We currently live about 3 hours apart.

The featured contact sheet photos of us are from 39+ years ago however! She bid on a big grocery bag filled with old yearbook photos and contact sheets that had a lot of different years but seemed to have quite a lot from the late 70s and gifted me with the whole thing in early June. The contact sheet 'cells' that I've cut out for this TN entry highlight the 2 of us at the Spring Awards assembly during our last couple of weeks in high school, sometime in May 1980. (YES!!!)

link for Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog= https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/01/challenge-157-anything-goes.html
also find the blog's Facebook group= https://www.facebook.com/groups/595884231186982/

Oddball Art by Lizzy Love can be found @= https://www.oddballartco.com/

I've colored Fiona to resemble my best friend Susie with blondish brown hair and blue eyes.

What's even more special to me about this layout and 'gift' of old yearbook photos was that Susie and I were on this high school yearbook staff for 3 of our 4 years at Shiloh. We were both recruited by the sponsor to help keep things going after several gals who'd been on it were graduating. So there are several stories to tell. The Spring Awards included salutatorian ranking for Susie (#2 of 35 graduates) and the Robert Dagley Scholarship winner for me. In the bottom photo on the right side, the home economics teacher & Future Homemakers of America sponsor, Mrs. Patchett is recognizing me for the special state team for FHA that I was on for my last 2 years: IL State FHA Peer Education Team on Nutrition. I was 1 of 25 from across the state!

Don't you just love the pastel colors after seeing so much red and green from Christmas-time? The patterned papers are from a 6" square paper pad that I came across at a local dollar discount store! They reminded me of the floral patterns found in linens and shirts back in the 1970s so I had to use them even if they are just snippets of each design. The washi tapes are new! Pen + Gear from Wal-Mart! And a make-up sponge was used to dab on the different color inks from a kids type multi-color ink pad. The subtitle strip is a leftover scrap that I've held on to for at least 10 months. Creatively, this scrapbook variation was great to put together with something old, something new, something borrowed--well, gifted/turned over to, and something blue. Oh wait, those are for a different occasion! :)

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Other links/shares will be with the following=
a. TN Time with Lisa and Lori --Lori's blog link and her prompt for December 10, 2019-January 9, 2020
link= https://loriannie670.blogspot.com/2019/12/tn-time-with-lisa-lori-december.html

b. TN Time with Lisa and Lori--Lisa's blog link and her sketch for December 10, 2019-January 9, 2020
link= http://createdbylisa.blogspot.com/2019/12/december-tn-time-with-lisa-lori.html

*I moved the title up above the suggested section in order to have more space for the little 'cells' off the yearbook contact sheets. Paper/section proportions were changed a bit on the right side so that I could repeat some of the patterned papers used on the left and to also accommodate more of the photo 'cells'. The major elements are still there and I've made a good interpretation of the sketch.

c. the Facebook group= Travelers Notebook Scrapbookers

d. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group on Facebook

e. the Facebook group= Mixed Media Creativity


Crafting in the heartland of USA,
Becca S for Becca's Heart for Creativity
DT member for 5 blogs:
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges (starting January 2/Jan 3)
A Place to Start
My Time to Craft
The Crafter's Café Challenges
52 Christmas Card Throwdown (starting January 4th)