Making a Delivery at FarmQuest General Store Challenge #3 for AF/CG theme

 Howdy! Come on in and browse for awhile! FarmQuest General Store Challenge is a spin-off of FarmQuest Challenge Blog that started a year ago. 

On this personal paper-crafting focused blog, I like to share my projects for heart love, farm/country, or mixed media. This post features my FQGS #3 DT inspiration card.

Just fluttering by to say, Hi! card:

[AF/CG elements: burlap, rural cabin scene, insects]

Some design and vendor notes are:

1. light gold sheen flat card base 5"x7" = The Paper Source website

2. cabin scene 'border'; it's 1/3 of a sheet = Into The Forest cardstock page by Craft Consortium

3. burlap section cut from larger piece = Dollar Tree

4. sentiment, dragonfly, stamps = My Sentiments Exactly (new-to-me) ; gifted from a wonderful crafter friend...she also gifted me the ink pad from Lawn Fawn

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#3 theme is Anything Farm/Country Goes . It runs from April 7 to May 5, 2023 with start and end time references of 1:00am CST/Chicago.

LINK to FQGS main launch #3 posting=

https://farmquestgeneralstorechallenge.blogspot.com/2023/04/fqgs-challenge-3-afcg-theme-starts-7.html

(Make sure to check out the FQGS post to see what DT members Janis and NanaConnie have made! And if there are 25 or more submissions, there will be an overall Blue Ribbon Winner picked who will have an invite to GD for the following month's reminder post!!!)

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other challenge blogs and Facebook groups to share/link are:

A. Dragonfly Dreams Challenge; current starting on April 2; Color Palette; MY card has mostly used the 2 far right blues/teals/aqua hues along with neutrals

link=  http://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-challenge-colour-palette.html

B. Creative Inspiration Challenges blog; Brand new; Anything Goes

link= https://creativeinspirationchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/04/creative-inspiration-challenges-1.html

C. Wednesday's Creative Inspirations Challenge blog; April; Anything Goes

link= http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-challenge-anything-goes.html

D. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday challenge; April 2023; Anything Goes

link= https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2023/04/ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-april.html

E. The Paper Funday challenge blog; April 2023; Anything Goes (option twist of flower power; but not for my card)

link= https://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-2023-challenge-52-anything-goes.html

and 

a. Mixed Media Creativity

b. Paper/Paper/Paper and DT Calls

c. Paper Crafting For Everyone

d. Need Crafty Inspiration?

e. The Crafty Addicts

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Come back again to visit me over at the country store! 

 Becca S

(You can find my DT inspiration projects at these challenge blogs: FQGS, FQCB, HQCB, TFATU,  AACB, MTTC, MTTCC, OUAT, THICC, MLCCB, and MIUCB!)

HCQB Love Theme #3 REMINDER inspiration cards

 Hello! Becca's Heart for Love and Country Creativity blog

is a personal blog to showcase the projects I create for

Heart's Quest Challenge Blog

and 

FarmQuest Challenge Blog. 

HQCB's current Love Theme #3 requires the word 'love' and an image of a guy. These 2 cards are from the REMINDER post. 

I didn't get a guest designer for this reminder posting so I made 2 cards that use images I found at Clipart Library website that are free to print.

Card #1 shows a jolly guy that will probably be mailed to an uncle with a summer birthday. 4 colors of stamp pad inks were applied with sponges from the right bottom corner and swept outward. The reddish-brown striped paper was traced and cut with a stencil as well as the film reel markings. The clipart had some color applied to brighten and connect color-wise. Cool graphic font lettering stickers were used for the sentiment.

Card #2 shows a grandpa with his grandson which was mailed to a cousin's husband; my cousin has battled breast cancer for the past 5 months or so and their oldest son is fighting liver and colon cancer that was diagnosed just days before his first son/their first grandson/grandchild was born. All three got cards that I've made recently. Clipart Library website is where both images were free to print. Orange and bright pink marker colors were added to the image for it to coordinate with the orange print paper and the psychedelic border sticker. 

Link-ups include:

HQCB's Love Theme #3 REMINDER post=

link= https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/05/hqcb-reminder-post-for-love-theme-3.html

a. Mixed Media Creativity group in FB; 

b. Paper, Paper, Paper & DT Calls group in FB;

c. Mixed Media Lovers challenge blog

link= https://mixedmedialovers.blogspot.com/2022/05/challenge-13-mixed-media-lovers.html

d. Get Creative Challenges; May 2022; Use Flowers [card #2 has flowers and petals in the tonal orange patterned paper]

link= https://getcreativechallenges.blogspot.com/2022/05/ch-111-use-flowers.html?fbclid=IwAR0E834-ZElftpcJEUh7tf3nKT3l8OHyaSUO2PHvuj5Y2qlDcWfUPpBhk6U  

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With a happy heart,

Becca S

 

HQCB Love Theme #3 Project

 Welcome to the first posting at Becca's Heart Quest for Love and Country Creativity. This is where I'll share my owner inspiration projects at my challenge blogs--Heart's Quest and FarmQuest. For this first post, I will share the 'love for a male' theme for HQCB's Love Theme #3. It is the current challenge running from May 14 to May 27, 2022.

There are 2 requirements:

*use the word 'love' (verb tense form or language equivalents are okay)

AND

*use an image of a male (boy/man; can be photo, stamp, digital image, sketch)

There are many acceptable formats, so more than cards can be done. 

My card is a flat mid-blue tone card that uses clipart to show a man with a young child on his lap. I've used the phrase 'with love' to get the other requirement onto the card.

The background was made using 4 ink colors applied with a sponge with strokes and some zig-zag smooshes. Stamping, my own homemade stencils for the heart and oval, changed the color of the glitter heart to give it dark blue hue, added color to brighten the man and boy and then some layering plus wrapping the cording were steps to make this card. 

Link-ups:

A. Heart's Quest Challenge Blog

https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/05/hqcb-love-theme-3-to-show-love-for-male.html

B. Crafty Catz

link= https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2022/05/crafty-catz-challenge-595-masculine.html

C. Cardz 4 Guyz; D is for ..... double hearts= 2 hearts; double 'trouble'/guys = 1 old and 1 young; 

link= http://cardz4guyz.blogspot.com/2022/05/295-d-is-for.html

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Continuing on my quest for love and country creativity,

Becca S

owner of  HQCB and FQCB