FQCB Extra corelated mini slimline card for Country Cooking Month

 Welcome to Becca's

Heart Quest for Love and Country Creativity blog! Wow!

I'm having a hard time trying to shorten this blog title. 

HQCB has love and heart based themes while FQCB has country/rural living topics.

I'm going to have to keep pondering on this. Meanwhile, I came across a new to me challenge blog that was linked to a participant's blog posting for another blog that I'm on the design team for. I was curious when it showed in her blog archive a listing for CCEE Stamper Country Cooking Month! 

What???? So that was 5-6 hours ago. After a supper break and an unexpected visit from our honorary daughter and granddaughter who were out for a stroller walk, I decided to quickly get busy coming up with a small card. 

This honors a couple of gardening/orchard/farmers market topics we've had thus far for FarmQuest. So there is no current challenge that this supports but I will give the most current posting link for FQCB. 

A Mini Slimline Country Cooking Encouragement card=

Diamond cut white glitter cardstock base is 3" wide x 6" high. The white cardstock panel lifted by foam tape is 2.5" wide x 4" high. Green ink on the top panel perimeter. The pea ephemera is from Carta Bella's Farm To Table Frames and Tags set. The wooden spoon and rubber spatula framed stamp is by Bo Bunny [NEW; 1st of the set to use!!!]. The "take good care" stamp, I believe, is Hampton Arts. There was some green and blue ink dabbing in the center as well as the frame stamp was first done in green and then inked in black with the stamp lined up about 1/16" offset. A small scrap of checked gingham is from Hot Off the Press/Paper Wishes website. 

That's it. Trying to keep this Clean And Simple.

FarmQuest Challenge Blog current/also expired theme is linked. Come back early on June 14th to see what the next paired topics are!

https://farmquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/06/fqcb-reminder-theme-5-herbs-or-foliage.html

CCEE Stamper Challenge Blog: June is Country Cooking Month

https://cceestampers.blogspot.com/2022/06/ccee2221-country-cooking-month.html

Addicted to CAS Challenge Blog: Dots

http://addictedtocas.blogspot.com/2022/06/challenge-222-dots.html

NBUS or Never Before Used Schtuff: the wooden spoon and rubber spatula stamp is the first out of the Bo Bunny set that I've used!!!

https://mynbus.blogspot.com/2022/06/nbus-challenge-39.html

Mixed Media Lovers; June 2022; 2 stamps used, ink edging, ink dabbing

https://mixedmedialovers.blogspot.com/2022/06/challenge-14-mixed-media-lovers.html

FB groups:

Paper, Paper, Paper and DT Calls group

Mixed Media Creativity group

Slimline Cards Obsessed group

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With a happy heart for getting an opportunity to be creatively challenge tonight! I hope to see you real soon at FarmQuest and Heart's Quest challenge blogs!

--owner, Becca S

HQCB BONUS Color Heart in Dark Blue 2nd Nautical CAS Version Card

This is Becca's Heart Quest for Love and Country Creativity blog!

This blog is to showcase cards I create for Heart's Quest and FarmQuest challenge blogs that I started earlier this year. Today's bonus card is to promote HQCB's Color Heart theme using dark/navy blue. Deadline is 12:30am CT/Chicago June 13, 2022.

*use a dark blue heart

(mine's not very obvious--look in the top 'opening' of the anchor)

AND

*use lots of dark blues in the rest of the project

With this bonus card that will also be linked to 2 CAS style challenges, I used dark blue in my stamped banners/flags, tracing the anchor stencil, and applying 2 different blue ink pads via sponges. 

The kraft paper is blocking the scanner light of my printer. Diamond cut white glitter paper is the base. The featured panel is plain white cardstock. 3 white glitter dots were cut out additional white glitter cardstock. And then there are 3 light blue with white dot 'spots' hole-punched from a ribbon type decorative tape but these are hard to find in the photos, even the cropped closeup one. Overall dimension is 5" wide x 7" high. 

This is the cropped focal portion of the card made last night so you can contrast. I used less background stamping, no glitter dots, no red, no colored pencil for the ribbon part of the stencil, and changed proportions a bit for Sunday night's card seen up above.

Besides the HQCB dark blue heart and lots of dark blue, the themes from 4 other challenge blogs are: CAS-dots, Seashore/inc. a stamp, World Ocean Day (June 8) with a stamp, and By the Sea.

I've got the 'water', faux boat/ship banner/flags and an anchor for the sea/ocean elements. 

There are dots in some of the banners/flags.

Stamps used were the banners/flags one and the 'thinking of you' applied under the anchor traced stencil. Both of these are very old stamps that I've had for many years.

Heart's Quest:

https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/05/hqcb-color-heart-challenge-4-using-dark.html

Your Next Stamp:

https://blog.yournextstamp.com/challenge-186-seashore-comment-to-win/

Addicted to CAS:

http://addictedtocas.blogspot.com/2022/06/challenge-222-dots.html

[by the way---#222 was my college dorm room number!!!!]

Stay Crafty With a Blog Named Hero: By the Sea

https://heroarts.com/blogs/hero-arts-blog/stay-crafty-with-a-blog-named-hero-june-challenge

CCEE Stampers:

https://cceestampers.blogspot.com/2022/06/ccee2222-world-oceans-day.html

FB groups:

Mixed Media Creativity group

Paper, Paper, Paper & DT Calls group

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With a happy heart because I got to have some messy creative time tonight!

Becca S