March 2020 Week 4 or Twelfth Week for 52 CCT blog with technique challenge of a window

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! This particular post shows my love for mixing colors and patterns and having lots of layers. With the 12th of 52 weeks that means there are 40 weeks left in 2020. The new challenge week follows our rotation and Week 4 focuses on the technique of window(s). The green tinted and gold edged window frame is part of old stash 1-2 years old. 52 Christmas Card Throwdown blog has helped me to use stock I recently purchased to participate in this blog's design team as well as old stash. More on the comparison of old and new a bit later in the posting.

Holly Jolly=

Some design and supply notes:
a. the window frame= I forget who the manufacturer is; I received it in a big bargain box purchase almost 2 years ago from the website Peachy Cheap.
b. The barn siding patterned paper, die-cuts (cluster, pinecone, holly, snowman, and pine 'leaf'), and the multi-floral scenery patterned paper are from "Cottage Christmas" collection from Fancy Pants.
c. Charcoal gray and green cardstocks are Astrobrights/Neenah.
d. other embellishments are 3 colors of gems, silver glitter paint pen, and a dark green marker are old stash
e. the window scene were lifted off the background cardstock with the help of 8 round foam adhesive dots
f. the damask patterned paper is just used to block out the scanner light of the printer
g. the die-cut on the L corner was slit between 2 leaves so that I could nestled part of it up and over the corner of the window
h. the die-cut on the upper R corner is on the window frame which is up higher than the holly and the pine leaf due to the foam adhesive dots lifting up the window frame.

Here's a pic of the card angled as it sits on top of the printer=

Link for 52 CCT 12-20= https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-technique-challenge.html


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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups where you will find photo and/or links to this post=
a. The 12 Months of Christmas Link-up: March/#63 has optional theme of Ice Ice Baby; I do have the snowman behind the frame to be considered
link= https://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.com/2020/03/challenge-63-opt-twistice-ice-baby.html

b. Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog; March; theme Anything Christmas Goes
link= https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/03/mlccb-20-march-anything-christmas-goes.html

c. 613 Avenue Create blog; March; theme Anything Goes with optional twist of colored pencil usage; my entry is just AG
link= https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2020/03/challenge-231-anything-goes-woptional.html

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

e. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook; a small closed group of artists and crafters who like to mix things up; mediums used for this card: acetate frame, cardstocks/die-cuts, marker, silver glitter paint pen, gems, adhesive foam dots and glue 'runner'.

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S for Becca's Heart for Creativity blog

design team member for 52 CCT and these other 4=
a. A Place To Start
b. My Time To Craft
c. Scrapping 4 fun Challenges
d. The Crafter's Café Challenges

Candy Cake or Ice Cream theme challenge no 163 for S4fC blog starting 27 March 2020

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My heart thought of a friend that has been very supportive in my teaching efforts so I decided to create a bookmark with images from #163's sponsor, Oddball Art by Lizzy Love for the new theme challenge at Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog. The set had lots of images so I selected two--muffin and the cobbler/cake. To really draw attention I decided to print on bright orange cardstock. The sentiments are similar to what was in the set but I typed my own in order to get a good font size to fit within the parameters of the bookmark.

Thanks, sweetie! You're a peach!=

Adorable, isn't it??!! The colors of the papers and embellishments coordinated very well! Lots of options with this theme, so make sure to participate and also go to the S4fC blog to see what the other members of the DT crew made with their images.

link for #163 at S4fC blog= https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/03/challenge-163-candy-cake-ice-cream.html get all the details about this particular crafting challenge blog, rules, design team members, past challenges, plus how to participate in this new challenge #163

Some design and supply notes:
a. different colors inked on edge of base and background cardstocks
b. all papers were inked with a reddish brown
c. the striped and dotted cardstocks are pieces of a blank note card from American Greetings that I upcycled to help drive the color palette for the bookmark.
d. big gem dots are from Crafter's Choice
e. a gold metallic pen and a gold glitter paint pen were used on the OA images along with colored pencils in dark orange, yellow, and brown
f. the cotton candy cone and cherry topped cupcake die-cuts are from a collection line that is part of American Crafts (sorry, not sure the exact name)
g. the yellow and white chevron striped cardstock scrap is from My Mind's Eye line of products available from American Crafts
h. another embellishment is the golden beige grosgrain ribbon (old stash)

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups where this bookmark will be linked/shared=
a. Not Just Cards Challenges; monthly; started March 11-; theme Anything Goes
link= http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-challenge.html

b. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges; bi-weekly; in the 2nd week of current; theme Anything Goes
link= https://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/03/pennys-challenge-467-anything-goes.html

c. Use Your Stuff; 2 days left in this challenge; #394 Spring; {I've got pastel colors that make me think of springtime colors} link= http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2020/03/394-spring.html

d. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls; a sharing group on Facebook for crafting bloggers

e.  Mixed Media Creativity group in Facebook; a small group of artists and crafters who like to mix it up; mediums for this project are= cardstocks/die-cuts, gems, metallic pen, glitter paint pen, ribbon, digital images and word processed sentiments, marker/inks, and colored pencils

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S

for Becca's Heart for Creativity blog and as a design team member for S4fC blog & Facebook group

and I'm also on these other DT crews:
A Place to Start
My Time To Craft
The Crafter's Café Challenges
52 Christmas Card Throwdown

March 2020 Week 3 or Eleventh of 52 CCT blog theme of Christmas Lights

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity! My love of bold colors and mixing patterns are part of the motivation behind my thought process as I sorted through my Christmas supplies to make this "Deck the Dog" card!!

Seriously, the theme is Christmas Lights for the 11th challenge in 2020 for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown. The 3rd week of the month for rotation is either a theme or recipe depending on the design team member who is in charge of the month's selections. Goga has decided to go with a theme of Christmas Lights and I had a gift tag with the dog's head getting wrapped in strings of lights that I thought would work great as a focal piece=

Link for 52 CCT 11-20= https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-theme-challenge.html

Supplies:
a. the plaid, barn red, and lights die-cut are all from a Cottage Christmas collection
b. the bright stripe patterned paper is from a set of 3 prints paper pad bought at Dollar Tree
c. alpha stickers and the dog focal (gift tag front panel) are also Dollar Tree purchases
d. the base card is from Darice (w/ matching envelope)


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link-ups to other challenge blogs or shared photo to Facebook groups=
a. Merry Little Christmas Challenge blog; March; Anything Christmas Goes
link= https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/03/mlccb-20-march-anything-christmas-goes.html

b. Christmas 24; #006; theme= trees...[my card has 2 dog bone decorated trees on each side of the dog on the gift-tag-turned card focal]
link= https://christmas24challenge.blogspot.com/2020/03/good-morning-all.html

c. Winter Wonderland; March 6-; theme= Blue Christmas...[my card has blue-gray base, aqua teal blue in the striped patterned paper, light blue in the lights strand banner, and light blues in the doggy gift tag turned focal]
link= https://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/03/blue-christmas.html

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

e. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook = I mixed it up with die-cuts, cardstocks, patterned paper, alpha & numeric stickers, black marker ink to edge all the papers and die-cuts.

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S for Becca's Heart for Creativity blog

design team member for 52 CCT blog and also these 4=
A Place to Start
My Time To Craft
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges
The Crafter's Café Challenge blog

Off the Edge theme challenge no 428 for MTTC blog

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! I'm Becca S the creative dynamo and MTTC has a very good challenge theme for you during the next two weeks. The theme is "Off the Edge". Our design team crew have come up with lots of variations for what it means to go off the edge of the card.

For my design team inspiration card  for #428, I folded the cardstock base to be shorter in the front to allow for the semi-circle of pink cardstock to be added plus have the large journal card extend off that shorter front down into the pink half-circle. My mom's going to be surprised that her Mother's Day card has been made early! (A positive out of all this Covid-19 scare.)

You Are Awesome-ness, mom=

My Time To Craft's #428 link= http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/03/challenge-428-off-edge.html

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Supply notes:
a. soft yellow and pale pink cardstock--Astrobrights Pastels--Neenah
b. journal card and floral patterned cardstock--My Mind's Eye/American Crafts
c. striped decorative tape--3M, I think...the colors just make me think of springtime!
d. silver and gold glitter paint pens
e. an old stencil sheet with different decorative edges was used for the Victorian scroll looking outlining

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other challenge blogs or Facebook groups where you will see this card=
a. Crafts Galore Encore Challenge blog; March, #73, Anything Goes theme
link= https://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-crafts-galore-encore-challenge-73.html

b. Incy Wincy Designs Challenge blog; Spring Fling theme; I've got soft pastel colors, flowers, and occasion of Mother's Day celebrated in early May/spring for Northern Hemisphere
link= https://incywincydesigns.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-16-april-2-spring-fling.html

c. Not Just Cards Challenges blog; March; Anything Goes theme
link= http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-challenge.html

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

e. Mixed Media Creativity group; a closed group on Facebook for crafters and artists who like to mix it up in their creative projects= this card has the off the edge front, silver and gold glitter paint pens, decorative tape, various cardstocks including the journal card used as the focal

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Crafting in the USA heartland and practicing my social distancing (including not teaching this week or next...or maybe longer).
Becca S
Becca's Heart for Creativity blog

design team member for My Time To Craft blog and these 4 others:
The Crafter's Café Challenge
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges
A Place To Start
52 Christmas Card Throwdown

Animals Theme Challenge no 238 TCCC blog for 15 March 2020

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity and today's "I heart" focus in this posting is the washi tapes, one of my favorite embellishments to use. The four used for this card are from Pen + Gear and help make this birthday card a true celebratory greeting card!

For #238 at The Crafter's Café Challenges Blog design team project=

link= https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/03/238-animals.html

prize sponsors & providers of digital images to the design team: ADU and ES

Some supply/vendor notes:
a. flat card in deep orange is approx. 4" x 5" and has matching envelope from Darice
b. Solar Yellow cardstock is part of the Astrobrights collection from Neenah.
c. the 4 washi tapes are from 1 set offered by Pen + Gear bought at Wal-Mart
d. blue and white cording is from a multi-pack bought at Dollar Tree
e. blue gems bought at Dollar Tree
f. digital image provided to the TCCC blog design team by Eureka Stamps

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other challenge blogs and/or Facebook groups where this card will be shared:
a. Use Your Stuff; #393; theme is "Use Your Favorite Embellishment" [washi decorative tapes have certainly been a go-to product for me in the past 2+ years!]
link= expired; :(….I had just used it earlier in the day and thought it still had 24 hours or so left....bummer

b. 613 Avenue Create; #231; theme: Anything Goes with optional twist of colored pencils [I've used orange, blue, green, and red on the party hat and orange and brown on the kitty's body.]
link= https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2020/03/challenge-231-anything-goes-woptional.html

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

d. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook; a closed group for artists and crafters who love mixing it up...this card has cardstocks, washi tapes, cording, digital image, colored pencils for fill-in, marker to outline the white cardstock that the digital image paper is matted on, and gems

e. Shopping Our Stash; #415; theme is "Is It Summer Yet?"; …. in central USA of Northern Hemisphere we are slowly transitioning from winter to spring, so not quite ready for summer however I've got bright colors that I associate with summertime...citrus colors like orange and yellow
link= https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2020/03/shopping-our-stash-415-is-it-summer-yet.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S for Becca's Heart for Creativity blog

design team member for The Crafter's Café Challenges blog plus:
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges
My Time To Craft
A Place to Start
52 Christmas Card Throwdown

March 2020 Week 2 or Tenth Christmas Card for 52 CCT using their color palette

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity and my posting dedicated to the 10th challenge in 2020 for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown! The blog has a 4 week rotation of themes/requirements so since this is week 2 of March it will be a color palette challenge: green, kraft, and white. Going through my stockpile, I decided to have a focal piece featuring 4 different washi tapes:

link= https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-colour-challenge.html

Vendors/supplies:
a. yellow green flat card base 4" x 5.5": Darice (has a matching envelope)
b. dark green with mini green dot washi tape: My Mind's Eye
c. the green with plant/leafy branches washi tape: Pen + Gear (from a multi-pack set)
d. music washi tape: have had for too many years that I don't remember who or where purchased
e. mint green and gold stripe washi tape: I forget the collection but it's for a Christmas theme set purchased this past December
f. die-cuts have been punched out and separated from their collection that I bought about 14 or so months ago
g. the ornament cardstock is part of a collection/paper pad purchased this past December

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Challenge blogs and/or Facebook groups where you will see this card linked=
a. Use Your Stuff challenge blog; #393; Theme= Use your favorite embellishment; [don't you think using 4 washi tapes on 1 card would be an indication of a fave accent???!!!!!]
link= http://useyourstuff.blogspot.com/2020/03/393-use-your-favorite-embellishment.html

b. Jingle Belles; started March 13th; Fa-la-la-la-la Christmas music theme; [music staff decorative tape used]
link= http://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2020/03/fa-la-la-la-la.html

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

d. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook; [my mediums were several washi tapes, die-cuts, cardstocks, glitter paint pen, and green gems]

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S for Becca's Heart for Creativity blog

and design teams besides 52 Christmas Card Throwdown that I'm committed to are:
A Place To Start
My Time to Craft
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges
The Crafter's Café Challenge

Anything Goes with Added Flowers Theme no 162 challenge for S4fC blog starting 13 March 2020

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity! I always enjoy trying different layouts and ways to present digital images so this DT project commitment reflects both of those creative interests. The digital image was printed on bright-type neon green which I thought would give a tropical emphasis. The unusual shape is another visual nod to Rachelle (S4fC) wanting to see added flowers for this new challenge. Glitter and metallic paints add to the vibrancy along with the purple glitter paper, foil-holographic  base for the butterfly sticker, and the 3 puffy flower stick-ons. Here is my tropics-inspired encouragement card=

#162 for S4fC design team project= oversized card using a digital image from sponsor, All Dressed Up, and the theme of anything goes with added flowers
link= https://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/03/challenge-162-anything-goes-add-flowers.html

The cream cardstock base is to add a light contrast to the bright green cardstock used for the image with the milk chocolate cardstock scrap adding a 'earthy' grounding to all the vivid colors. Creative Devotion is the company for the clear vinyl sentiment. 3M is the manufacturer for the bold chevron striped duct tape.

Prize sponsor is All Dressed Up:

More scanned views for the card:

click on this next one to see it enlarged to 'oo' and awe over all the metallics and glitter paints!

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link-ups to other challenge blogs or Facebook groups=
a. Penny's Paper- Crafty Challenges; #466; anything goes 2 week challenge still has a few days left
link= https://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/03/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-466.html

b. Not Just Cards; anything goes theme;
link= http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-challenge.html

c. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls group on Facebook; a sharing group for crafting bloggers

d. Mixed Media Creativity group on Facebook [glitter and metallic paint pens; different types of stickers; glitter paper, cardstocks, duct tape, digital image, etc.]

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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S for Becca's Heart for Creativity blog

design team member for Scrapping 4 fun Challenges blog/website/Facebook and these other 4=
52 Christmas Card Throwdown
A Place to Start
My Time to Craft
The Crafter's Café Challenge

March 2020 Week 1 or Ninth Christmas Card for 52 CCT using its sketch

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! Today's post features #9-20 for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown blog which is for the 1st Saturday of March and our designated rotation for a sketch challenge.


For card #1 the focus was to alter the background area a bit of a small offset 2nd patterned paper and then have a dramatic focal=

I decided to focus on colors of kraft beige, metallic gold, and rose gold/pink for this card #2=

link for 52 CCT 9-20= https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-sketch-challenge.html

Get all the details for the rules to participate, see the other DT crew's interpretations of this sketch, and more when you use the link to the challenge blog.

other scanned & cropped views w/o the watermark for #1=

Some design notes for #1=
a. patterned papers are from The Paper Studio/Hobby Lobby
b. the dark red card base, 5 x 7, was purchased from The Paper Source
c. the silver glitter snowflake is an ornament
d. 2 colors of gems used for embellishments
e. some silver glitter paint (pen) was applied where the 2 patterned papers meet

another scanned & cropped view w/o the watermark of #2--

Design notes:
a. the gems are actually light pink
b. the alpha stickers were to sort of look like a tree shape and help fill the same spot shown on the sketch by the star
c. metallic pink foil is a strip from a Bo Bunny Christmas collection paper pad
d. if I have time I might try to create another card either with the layout in the same position or rotating it....

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups=
Card #1 (silver):
*The 12 Months of Christmas Link-up; Anything Christmas theme with optional twist: Ice Ice Baby {I've got the large silver snowflake and a lot of clear gems to resemble little ice chips.}
link- https://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.com/2020/03/challenge-63-opt-twistice-ice-baby.html
*Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog; #20; March Anything Christmas Goes theme
link- https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/03/mlccb-20-march-anything-christmas-goes.html

Card #2 (gold):
*Jingle Belles; "Stuck on You"--using stickers theme; {on Card #2 I've used the alpha stickers in a format to sort stylistically look like a tree.}
link= http://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2020/02/stuck-on-you.html
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and this posting will be shared at:
1. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group on Facebook
2. my personal profile on Facebook= Becca Morris Sadler


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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S for Becca's Heart for Creativity blog

and besides being a 52 CCT design team member, I'm also part of the crews for these 4=
A Place To Start
My Time To Craft
Scrapping 4 fun Challenges
The Crafter's Café Challenge