MTTC challenge blog Stencil It theme starting 19 March 2021

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My Time to Craft challenge blog's #453 theme is "stencil it". Long before dies, as a teacher, I've had several different sets of stencils that gave you the 'frames' plus the insert. This particular butterfly stencil template has been a favorite. I love to use it for spring birthday and Easter cards. 

My niece and her older half-sister have birthdays about two weeks apart, so I decided to make them cards designed similarly. In the photo below, I'm showing the butterfly shape insert from the rectangular frame. Most of the DT crew have used paint or ink stamping with their stencils. I've used mine to trace and cut out the shapes from patterned paper.

"Flying Flowers" birthday cards=

 

link for MTTC= #453

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/03/challenge-453-stencil-it.html

a few design notes related to the challenge:

*so many different techniques for using stencils and I decided to use a butterfly frame's center shape stencil as a template for the large focal butterfly on each card

*patterned papers are oldies from my stash

*left side is 5" tall

*right side is 7" tall

more scanned cropped photos=

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups where I'll link=

a. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends challenge blog; anything goes; started March 7; ends in a few hours

link= http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2021/03/c-153.html

b. Festive Friday's #80 World Autism Day Insp List; their challenge started today; due to working today, I'm creating and posting my MTTC design team project card blog post at 8:30 pm CST Friday 3/19/21. I've included bright colors, blue, butterflies, and patterned papers mentioned on the list.

c. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group in FB

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

CHD Challenge Blog no 30 starts 15 March 2021

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My artsy-crafty heart was delighted by Mary's selection for me to use for #30! How fun is this image!!!?!!! Let me introduce you to Mary's Createful Heart Design's "Flamingo Dance"--

You are my star diva card=

design and vendor notes:

a. Createful Heart Designs = Flamingo Dance digital image

b. Webster Pages' Hollywood collection = word stickers

c. Find Your Wings and Fly "Sky's The Limit" Mixed Chevron cardstock by Rhonna Farrer from 2013; offered by My Mind's Eye

d. yellow and ivory cardstock = in my stash

e. base dimensions extended to 5.25" x 7.25" in order to get a yellow backdrop and the chevron patterned backdrop, too

f. a scrap of a ivory/beige cardstock from a different company serves as mounting for the digital image

g. the digital image was sized to 3.5" x 5" and then trimmed in a way to highlight the width of the flamingo's feathers

h. image colored with a variety of colored pencils from different vendors; a bright pink and a raspberry type lavender were layered for the bird's main body; a paler pink was used for tail feathers; a bright pink was used for legs and beak; a vivid grass green provides the striped section on its beak; blue and green layered for the eyes' pupils and black to ring; casting a spotlight kind of look around the bird are a light yellow-green, a light peachy orange, a light blue, a bit of a gray-blue navy lightly applied; some green for grass near its dancing slippers and a light brown mixed with black for the final base ground

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link to #30 =

https://createfulheartcards.blogspot.com/2021/03/welcome-to-challenge-30.html?fbclid=IwAR32pKlIBuwEvcOPhxnyvkrLwo2EqnNbp4jBhtPNrqGoWmUFoCOWb-XGxEw

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link to Mary and her husband's shop for Createful Heart Design=

https://marketplace.zibbet.com/createful-heart-design/flamingo-dance-digital-image

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more cropped scans=

unmarked full view of the card:

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links and shares for the card and/or posting=

a. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges blog; anything goes; about 2 days or less left on current challenge

link= http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2021/03/pennys-challenge-491.html

b. 613 Avenue to Create; submitting to anything goes portion of the challenge

link- https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2021/03/march-2021-challenge-3-anything-goes.html

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

d. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends challenge blog; Anything Goes; 

link= http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2021/03/c-153.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S

Thanks for viewing my design team inspiration project for the March 15th to April 14th challenge period for Createful Heart Design!!!

My Time To Craft Christmas no 5 Theme of Die-cuts

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My artsy-crafty heart is excited to unveil this wonderful Christmas card featuring a gorgeous outdoor decorated Christmas tree die-cut. This card is my design team inspiration project for My Time to Craft Christmas challenge blog. #5 theme is die-cuts and will last for a fortnight starting on Friday, March 12, 2021. 

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MTTCC blog badge:

link to MTTCC's posting for #5= https://mytimetocraftchristmas.blogspot.com/2021/03/challenge-5-die-cuts-only.html

MTTCC blog badge for design team members:

more scanned/cropped images of the card=

Design and supplier notes:

a. white flat card base and matching envelope from The Paper Source; ordered from website

b. diagonal  and multi-patterned cardstocks along with the gorgeous tree die-cut are from the Cottage Christmas collection by

c. metallic green mirrored foil 'dazzles' stating "Merry Christmas" was from a set ordered from Paper Wishes website

d. all the other embellishments were bought at Dollar Tree stores locally

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other linking and/or sharing

a. Christmas Kickstart; Green Christmas theme; my Christmas card has quite a bit of green

link= https://christmaskickstartchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/03/christmas-kickstart-challenge-48-green.html

b. Merry Little Christmas challenge blog; Anything Christmas Goes; 

link= https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2021/03/mlccb-32-march-anything-christmas-goes.html

c. Mixed Media Creativity group in Facebook; small group of crafters and artists who like to mix things up; mediums besides paper products = ribbon, glitter foam, metallic mirrored foil lettering, gem, 

d. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls group in Facebook; a sharing group for crafting bloggers, DT members, challenge blog owners

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Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S

MTTC challenge blog Make It Feminine theme for 5 March 2021

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My heart loves having time to craft especially in the midst of lots of homework grading! Almost always my  birthday cards intended for a gal whether young or old will have flowers on them. I love flowers!

"Make It Feminine" theme then has to have flowers. 

My Time To Craft or MTTC

fortnight challenge starting March 5, 2021

My Time To Craft DT member blog badge up above:

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/03/challenge-452-make-it-feminine.html

My Time To Craft link:

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Facebook groups where this will be shared:

a. Mixed Media Creativity group; 

b. Paper, Paper, Paper & Design Team Calls

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Challenge blog where this will be shared:

a. sorry no links to other challenge blogs due to taking my husband to the ER this afternoon; he's being kept overnight for observation; the hospital has had a new Covid-19/social distancing policy that patient's visitors can not be in the rooms overnight. So I had to come home. I'm going to link to MTTC and then 2 FB groups and that will be it this time. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers. 

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Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S

I also made this card this week:

a different take on feminine--- a mix of oranges, blues, lavenders and reddish purples, and celery greens

APTS challenge blog PICK A SHAPE theme for March 2021

Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity blog! My artsy-crafty heart stuttered with the chart of all the shape options Chana has for the March 2021 A Place To Start challenge blog!!! So many choices yet I decided to stick with squares and rectangles. I was hoping to go on the angle for diamonds but the layout worked better to stick to a horizontal linear sketch. 

For a nephew's recent birthday:

"The World Is A Better Place Cause of You" card=

This is the chart that Chana has shared on the APTS March 2021 blog post. Pick a shape to feature. Chana states that it can be the shape of the card or part of another project or the shape can be the embellishment or sentiment tag/focal. Lots of options.

APTS blog post link:

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2021/03/march-2021-challenge-3-pick-shape.html

APTS badge:

My card has a rectangle base and background paper as well as cork ribbon. Cut-a-part cards are not quite square. But the little letter tiles are squares. (Darice for the golden yellow flat card base w/ matching envelope; Webster Pages for the cut-a-part cards and letter tiles; checked patterned paper has been in stash for a very long time; cork ribbon and alpha stickers for "You" were bought at Dollar Tree)

Two more cropped scans of the card:

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Facebook groups where a card photo or this blog post will be shared:

a. Mixed Media Creativity group; small sharing group of artists and crafters

b. Paper, Paper, Paper, & Design Team Calls; a sharing group of paper crafting bloggers, blog owners, bloggers who are DT members, ....

c. my personal profile

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Other challenge blogs where a card photo will be linked:

a. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges blog; anything goes; ends in less than 24 hours or so

http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2021/02/pennys-challenge-490.html

b. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends challenge blog; anything goes; 5 days remaining yet to participate

http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2021/02/c-152.html

c. Seize the Birthday challenge blog; anything goes birthday (not the topping option); CARD is for nephew, 28 years old

http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2021/02/seize-birthday-208-create-scene.html 

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Crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S