My Time To Craft Christmas Has New Theme Use of Plaid and or Gingham

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Another theme for use of product that my artsy-crafty heart didn't get too anxious over is this new one for My Time To Craft Christmas. Use plaid and/or gingham for your Christmas/winter occasion card. I don't have an overload of either one, so I went treasure hunting through some of my stash and even a box of mostly wintery blues looking for inspiration. I knew I had a deep red and white buffalo check paper and a black and white version. Went with the black and white. Set out some scrap red CS and pulled a new sheet of black CS for the base. Discovered the small dark red and white check gingham style CS that is recycled packaging from 2 or 3 Christmases ago. Pulled out the red painted wood stocking (letter J) and started building the card.

JOY--Just for You Christmas card=

*MTTCC #15

*starts July 30, 2021 and will last for 13 days

*theme = use plaid and/or gingham on your Christmas/winter card

*link= https://mytimetocraftchristmas.blogspot.com/2021/07/challenge-15-plaidgingham.html

*MTTCC blog badge and design team member badge

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other embellishments or vendor notes

a. "Just For You" black dazzle from Paper Wishes company website

b. silver metallic letters (O and Y) are from Freckled Fawn

c. black and white buffalo check patterned paper from The Paper Studio/Hobby Lobby

d. red and black cardstocks (CS) are either Pen + Gear or Astrobrights/Neenah

e. the joyful looking gingerbread man sticker is a very old stash item

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other challenge blogs for participant linkage=

1. Aud Sentiments challenge blog; Anything Goes + sentiment (my card has "Joy--Just For You")

link= https://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/07/280-anything-goes-sentiment.html

2. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesdays challenge blog; July 2021; Christmas in July theme; I've got the red painted wood stocking and the gingerbread man/cookie image

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

3. Crafty Gals Corner challenge blog; every other Wednesday; current theme is Christmas in July; THIS IS MY FIRST PARTICIPATION LINK FOR THIS BLOG!!!

link= http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2021/07/challenge-221-christmas-in-july.html

4. Christmas Craft Creations challenge blog; Anything Christmas; 

link= https://christmas-craft-creations.blogspot.com/2021/07/july-challenge-reminder-anything-goes.html 

Challenge blogs' badges, which might be out of order, I'm linking to as a participant--

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Facebook groups for sharing=

a. Slimline Card Obsessed group

b. The Seasonal Cardmaker group

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 Christmas challenge blog

MTTC no 462 DT card for no patterned paper usage theme challenge starting 23 July 2021

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My artsy-crafty heart wasn't too worried with this theme because I've made lots of cards recently with solid color cardstocks with either the images and/or use of washi tape providing colors and lines. This time I wanted to go on a bit different route and create a scene mixing soft waxy paint stick, stencil, some chipboard die-cut stick-ons, jumbo gem dots, vellum, and two alpha tile stickers. I'm actually combining 3 different blog challenges together with the focal panel, so continue reading the post to find out what the requirements are for the other 2. 

*My Time To Craft (MTTC) challenge blog, design team inspiration project

*#462

*theme= no patterned paper (also known as designer paper)

*starts morning of Friday, July 23, 2021 and lasts for 13 days

"One More Candle on the Cake" Birthday card=

 MTTC's #462 link= http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/07/challenge-462-no-patterned-papers.html

Design & vendor notes: 

a. solid color cardstocks are actually neon bright but due to printer's scanner light the hues are pastel and available for Pen + Gear

b. vellum strip, stencil for the 'sun', black marker for the tiny ladybug, gem dots, die-cut flowers and leaf with ladybug are from stash

c. "HB" alpha tiles are from Freckled Fawn

d. yellow wax and green wax are 2 colors along with 2 others available in a 'paint sticks' set from Art Skills; available at Dollar General stores

e. the 'sun' was stenciled first and then the stems and short grass lines; vellum was applied with clear glue tape on opposite side of the lettering in order to hide it as best that I could; die-cuts and alphas added next; jumbo gem dots for polka dot element for a challenge were added as other flower buds; and a 2nd ladybug needed for a 3rd challenge was made with black marker and tiny red glitter foam heart onto the leaf

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links and themes for 2 other challenge blogs with this card=

1. Make the Cards Challenge #25 has 3-2-1 theme started Wednesday, July 21, 2021; 3 die-cut flowers, 2 ladybugs (1 die-cut and 1 made from teeny red glitter foam heart), and 1 sunshine (stenciled)

link= https://makethecardschallenge.com/make-the-cards-challenge-25/

2. Paper Craft Crew #436 Tic-Tac-Toe theme started Wednesday, July 21, 2021; using center row across= polka dots (jumbo gem dots), vellum phrase, birthday (HB for happy birthday and reference to cake and candle on the vellum); the card focal also qualifies for the center column with die-cuts, vellum, and marker(s)...black used to make tiny ladybug!!!!

link= https://papercraftcrew.com/pcc436-tic-tac-toe-challenge/

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Facebook groups for either linking this posting or sharing card photo include:

aa. Mixed Media Creativity group

bb. Paper, Paper, Paper & DT Calls group

cc. The Seasonal Cardmaker group

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Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S

Design team member of My Time To Craft challenge blog

My Time To Craft Christmas new Theme Have a Krafty Christmas

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My artsy-crafty heart really likes kraft paper and cardstock! It's great with red for Christmas cards yet it is also wonderful for nature scenes or neutral palette challenges. For the new MTTCC theme challenge, I decided I'd go to my download file of saved free clipart and coloring pages to check and see what I had in the way of Christmas or winter pics. After passing over snowmen and pine trees, my eyes glanced at this multiple houses drawing clipart and then widened. I immediately thought this would be easy to give the house doors either red or green color, maybe some yellow in most of the windows and then pair up with a great small print cardstock. And here's my Christmas card for #14=

Home for the Holidays Christmas card: (or should it be homes for the holidays???)

*My Time To Craft Christmas challenge blog

*#14   , Have a Krafty Christmas; use kraft paper or cardstock somewhere on your project

*fortnight length challenge competition starting early morning of Friday, July 16, 2021

MTTCC's blog badge and the DT member badge=

MTTCC's posting link for today's new fortnight theme challenge= 

https://mytimetocraftchristmas.blogspot.com/2021/07/challenge-14-have-krafty-christmas.html

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Design and vendor notes (and there are 3 more cropped scanned pics of the card at the end of this posting):

1. free clipart image of multiple houses with 1 or 2 looking like church buildings

2. three different values of green markers, a red, a brown, and a yellow were used to add some color to the buildings

3. a thin sheet of kraft paper was inserted into my printer tray in order to print out this clipart 'panel' which meets the required theme element of kraft/krafty

4. Fancy Pants Designs 6 x 6 paper pad collection provided the striped cardstock and the sentiment banner; 4" x 6" are the dimensions for the striped background panel

6. Pen + Gear provided the white diamond cut glitter paper; I purchased a 25 sheet pack at Wal-Mart; 4.5" x 6.5" are the dimension for the white glitter paper panel

7. The Paper Source company website was the vendor for the deep red folded card base 5" x 7"; I bought matching envelopes, so that's a wonderful quality for mailing

8. Paper Wishes company website was the vendor for the white and silver metallic border accents and snowflakes that they call dazzles

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups for linking and/or sharing pics or this posting=

a. The Seasonal Cardmakers group on Facebook

b. Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers group on Facebook

c. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday Challenges; Christmas in July theme; 

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2021/07/ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-july.html

d. Paper Craft Crew #435 sketch theme challenge; 

PCC 435

sketch is failing to load; current sketch is a vertical sketch format; I've moved the sentiment down so it wouldn't cover any of the houses

e. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook; 

f. Paper, Paper, Paper & DT Calls group on Facebook;

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Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S

Design Team Member of My Time To Craft Christmas