My Extra Heart's Quest #85 optional theme with blue hearts card

 Welcome to Becca's Quest for Creativity, a personal crafting blog!

who: I'm Becca S, a 60+ year old crafting blogger who fell in love with blogging back in 2010-2011. It didn't take long after I started participating in challenges that I applied to Laurie Winterton to be part of her design team for "Through the Craft Room Door".  

where & when & why: Heart's Quest Challenge Blog #85; April 28th was the start date; this extra DT project will be edited in early on April 29th; HQCB was my very first challenge blog that I started on my own!!! I just love love! Heart shapes are one of my favorite design symbols. 

what: Love you always -- sending many prayers your way card 

and inside view with an aqua fussy cut heart:

how =

1. white 5" x 7" card base with envelope= from a pack of 10 set by Tonic Studios

2. inside's dark blue paper; traced and fussy cut circle = from a multicolor paper pad by Hello Hobby/Walmart

3. inside's aqua paper; traced and fussy cut heart = from the same paper pad by Hello Hobby/Walmart

4. both front and inside stamps are from the same mixed expressions clear stamp package = old Close To My Heart (CTMH) product

5. black stamp pad = Hero Arts

6. blue puffy heart stickers = Studio 112 by Spotted Canary

7.  three blue tones colored pencils = Marvy Uchida/stash box

8. navy blue dual-tip marker used to edge papers using the broad end = Art Skills

LINK-UPs:

1A. Crafty Catz; new on Friday April 24th; anything goes

link = https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2026/04/craft-catz-challenge-712.html

1B. C.R.A.F.T. Challenge; new on April 16; anything goes

link = https://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/04/challenge-778-anything-goes.html

1C. Stamps & Fun = Creativity; open for 4 more days; theme is to use stamp(s); My card has 1 stamp used many times on the front and then a 2nd stamp used once on the inside. 

link = https://stampsfun-creativity.blogspot.com/2026/04/494.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

*this card was edited into the #85 blog post about 2:20am central time Chicago on April 29th. 

HQCB #85 blog post link  = https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/04/hqcb-85-awahg-main-theme-option-pink.html

* owner/DT = HQCB, HQCOLCB, HQFCB, HQFSCAT and HQLQCB; FQCB, FQCCCB, FQGS, FQGGCB and FQHCB; plus ConBC, AA and CCC. 

* DT member only on 3 challenge blogs: PRS, Pin-spirational + CIP

My FarmQuest Grocery Game Challenges #25A extra AFG theme inspiration reminder

Welcome to Becca's Quest for Love and Country Creativity blog!

why: The purpose of this post is to generate new and previous readers' interest to FarmQuest Grocery Game Challenges Blog. This is an early reminder, an extra inspiration project, for the "Anything Food Goes" theme. Beverages are always included. Even gum. candy. other desserts.

when: #25A extra reminder will be published on Dec 29, 2025; the time period is December 27, 2025 until January 26, 2026. 

what: Project #1: extra inspiration for FQGGCB #25 (anything food goes = filled mug image & to-go cup with lid image

how-to & vendor notes for Project #1:

1. recycled packaging kraft cardstock

2 snowflake paper, hot cocoa journal card, 25 cents ephemera, Brrrrrr ephemera, happy holidays strip sticker = Snow Pine Lodge collection 2024 by Simple Stories

3. black fine tip marker = Sharpie (around the outside edge of the snowflake paper)

4. black extra fine tip marker = Sharpie (around the edges of the journal card, sticker and 2 die-cut ephemera)

5. black extra fine tip marker also used to placed three dots on each 'c' of cocoa for some embellishment and emphasis on 'cocoa'

where Project #1 will be shared/linked are:

1A. First Cup Challenges; opened on Dec 1; closing very soon; theme of anything drink/beverage related goes; My card has the words 'hot cocoa' as well as image of a mug and a to-go cup with lid.

link = https://firstcupchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/12/first-cup-challenge-9-december.html

1B. Allsorts Challenge; still open; theme of create a scene or Anything Goes (AG); My card is for AG

link = https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/12/challenge-839.html

1C. Girlz Creative Crafts; #63; anything goes; My card is AG

link = https://girlzcreativecrafts.blogspot.com/2025/12/challenge-63-alles-mag-anything-goes.html

1D. Krafty Chicks Challenge; #800; week 4/new on Dec 25 = masculine; My beverage card has kraft and darker brown tones, mid to dark greens, harvest gold and yellow; black outlining; guys like hot cocoa/hot chocolate

link = https://kraftychickschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/12/merry-christmas-and-challenge-800.html

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where: FQGGCB#25 A reminder post published on Dec 29, 2025

link = https://farmquestgrocerygamechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/12/farmquest-grocery-game-challenges-25a.html

#25 published on December 27, 2025

link = https://farmquestgrocerygamechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/12/farmquest-grocery-game-challenges-25.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

* owner/DT = FQGGCB

note: the 'brrrrr' snowy mountains round ephemera  would count over at FarmQuest Challenge Blog #79 with its Snowy Mountains theme that started on December 28, 2025

note: the mug and to-go cup (beverages) are part of the 'anything food goes' theme for FarmQuest Grocery Game Challenges Blog

*other owner/DT = FQHCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQCB; HQCB, HQFCB, HQCOLCB, HQFSCAT; CCC; AA; ConBC. 

*DT member only for PRS and starting in January for 2026 = Pin-spirational

My bonus feature #1E home theme Christmas card for FQHCB on 25 Sept 2025

 Welcome to Becca's Quest for Love and Country Creativity!

why: This will be my fifth (#1E) and last bonus inspiration project for the starter month of the new challenge blog, FQHCB, or FarmQuest Home Challenges Blog. The theme is anything home goes. This is broad, inclusive for inside or outside of a house. For this shaped Christmas card, the front and partial side view of this holiday home focuses on the exterior. There are window shutters, some bric-a-brac trim, some stone foundation, wood porch and a few low plants on each side of the porch. The front door has a wreath. 

when: #1 started on September 2nd and the deadline is at the start of Sept. 30, 2025. 

#1E bonus will be published on Sept 25th.

what: Project #1E =

how-to & vendor notes for #1E =

1. Bo Bunny = holiday home die-cut ephemera and dark green print paper to make simple pine trees

2. Pen + Gear = red cardstock (sketched to be about 1.5" larger than the holiday home ephemera

3. Hot Off The Press = dazzles/stickers = little silver foil snowflakes

4. Georgia Pacific = white cardstock scrap torn to be a snowdrift

5. Hero Arts = black stamp pad ink used for edges of papers/cardstocks

6. Zebra Clickart = dark brown retractable marker pen for outlining 

7. Simple Stories = from The Simple Life sticker book = 2 text strip stickers

8. stash = mechanical pencil, ruler, black ink pen (pencil for a bit of shadowed path in front of the steps in the snow; black ink pen for thin spirals of smoke out of both chimneys)

where #1E bonus project will be linked:

AA. Rudolph Days; new on Sept 25; Christmas theme; My holiday home shaped card is for Christmas 

link = https://rudolphdayschallenges.blogspot.com/2025/09/rudolph-days-september-challenge.html

BB. CRAFT; new on Sept 16/week 2 of 2; Christmas theme; My holiday home shaped is for Christmas 

link = https://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/challenge-764-christmas.html

CC. Girlz Creative Fun Art of Scrap; new on Sept 25; anything goes using at least 1 designer paper; I've used a designer/patterned paper three times for simple pine trees

link = https://girlzcreativefunartofscrap.blogspot.com/2025/09/challenge-14.html

DD. ABC Christmas; new on Sept 10; themes are S for stockings and/or T for trees; my home shaped card has a holiday home with 3 simple trees surrounding it

link = https://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/abc-christmas-challenge-s-t-are-for.html

EE. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday; started Sept 3 & still open; anything goes

link = https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/09/ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-september.html

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where to find #1 FQHCB blog post from Sept 2nd =

https://farmquesthomechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/09/fqhcb-1-name-change-and-theme-change.html

theme badge:

team badge: 

link for the FQHCB #1E blog post on Sept 25th = 

https://farmquesthomechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/09/fqhcb-1e-extra-inspiration-ahg-theme.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

* owner/DT = FQHCB, FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQGGCB, HQCB, HQFCB, HQCOLCB, HQFSCAT; also CCC; ConBC; and AA.

* DT member only = PRS owned by friend Deanne

**note: if I wasn't owner of HQFSCAT or Heart's Quest for Shaped Cards and Tags, this holiday home shaped card could have been linked over there. It's anything goes on shaped card and/or shaped tag...open until Sept 30th

**note: if I wasn't owner of FQCCCB or FarmQuest Country Christmas Challenges Blog, this holiday home shaped card could have linked over there. It's anything goes country Christmas (emphasis on outdoors exterior holiday decorations and/or winter weather-nature-landscapes-activities). And stop over. It's open until October 5th. 

My bonus feature #1C for the new FQHCB on 14 Sept 2025

 Welcome to Becca's Quest for Love and Country Creativity!

why: this is a bonus inspiration project, third one, to generate attention for this new blog (reboot of an old one) started September 2, 2025 called FarmQuest Home Challenges Blog. 

when: #1C bonus project will be published on September 14, 2025; this first challenge period will end on Sept 30th.

what: Project #1C bonus/extra inspiration = front facade house foam sticker for card focal =

how-to & vendor notes for #1 =

1. ivory cardstock base 4.25" x 5.5" = from pack = Crafter's Square

2. dark brown cardstock trimmed slightly less than 4.25" x 5.5" = Colorbok; trimmed with deckle-edge decorative scissors

3. green cardstock panel cut to 3.5" x 3" = Pen + Gear

4. butterfly print paper, welcome foam sticker, house foam sticker, 'our beautiful chaos' stickers = The Simple Life collection by Simple Stories

5. green foam stars = I think they're from Freckled Fawn

6. butterflies are from multi-color package = Crafter's Square

7. black stamp pad to ink edges of papers = Hero Arts

where #1C will be linked =

1A. Creative Fingers; in week 2 of 2; anything goes

link = https://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/challenge-307.html

1B. Creative Knockouts; still open for 2-3 days; theme = lots of layers; My card has base + 3 layers of paper and additional layer of embellishments

link = https://creativeknockouts.blogspot.com/2025/09/554-lots-of-layers-polkadoodles.html

1C. As You Like It; still open for 2-3 days; theme ? prompt is layered or flat and why?; My crafting tends to be 'more is more'; collage/junk journaling kind of overloads; I don't do CAS very much

link = https://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/favourite-layered-or-flat-why.html

1D. Word Power; open for Sept; theme is power of word/focus on; My card has split/2 sentiments: Welcome + Our Beautiful Chaos

link - https://wordpowerchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/word-power-september-2025-challenge.html

where to find #1C post link & 

where to find #1 main launch post from Sept 2, 2025 to participate+

https://farmquesthomechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/09/fqhcb-1c-bonus-inspiration-on-14.html

plus

https://farmquesthomechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/09/fqhcb-1-name-change-and-theme-change.html

#1 theme and date badge = 

my owner/DT badge =

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

* owner/DT = FQHCB, FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQGGCB; also HQCB, HQFCB at TFATU, HQCOLCB and HQFSCAT; plus AA; ConBC; and CCC.

* DT member only = PRS (owned by friend Deanne)

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DT projects from #1, #1A and #1B =

below: card with a front facade house image =

below: tag featuring a Windsor style dining chair

below: digital scrapbook layout: Labor Day Monday and Tuesday back porch boards replaced =

below: digital scrapbook layout: craft shed progress during last week of August 2025 =

My BONUS feature project #1B for new FQHCB on 4 Sept 2025

Welcome to Becca's Quest for Love and Country Creativity!

why: At the end of August, I ended one of my challenge blogs, FQHSKCB, and then started over with a new name, new blog address and new theme for FarmQuest Home Challenges Blog or FQHCB. This time the theme is broad: anything home goes! YES! Interior or exterior. Any room. Any item/activity typically found in or out of your house. Whole house pics or Just the front or back, etc. 

when: this #1B post will be shared on September 4, 2025 with the main launch of the first challenge having started on Sept 2nd. (trying to generate attention for this new blog by having some extra posts)

what: Project for #1B (2nd bonus post for new blog) = digital scrapbook layout on my new craft studio; [yesterday #1A was a digital scrapbook layout about the new boards on our back deck that my husband did on Sept 1-2.]

how-to notes:

1. using Google Slides Portfolio template and 1 of the layout suggestions with some changes: added light gray background color, changed the font and colors for the titles; inserted the different arrow shapes and changed their colors to get more red into the layout; added the dotted borders around the text boxes

2. Shed was bought in early June; interior wasn't finished; husband offered to do the work!!! Bless his heart! I'm working backwards on these layouts. 

3. During the last week of August, the reclaimed pantry rack from my mom's house was added to the inside of one of the doors (husband added a layer of styrofoam, painted white and even used white caulking to go around the edges of the foam that helps with more insulation)! 

4. On the left side photo behind my little helper, this metal cart used to be mine back in the 1980s and then my mom wanted to use it for their microwave and then when they moved to IL, she used it for a TV cart. So now after all these years, I decided to reclaim it. It has wheels so I can move it around and even extend a side up to make a table for either my little helper or I to use!

5. On the right side photo of the layout, the 5.5 foot wide dresser had been left unclaimed by nieces and nephews so last week, Joe measured it to make sure it would fit on the west end of the shed. It does! It did! And bless his heart, he moved it for me and then one of his buddies helped him get it off our truck and into the shed! The painted cow on a blue splatterware plate was another recovered treasure from the farmhouse! The shelf unit started out a few weeks earlier on the east end but got switched to the west end. In late July, its back panels were painted white. They had been neon lime green!!! 

6. Those are some highlights. Dresser drawers are empty but will soon be full. Oh! My die-cutting devices will be used on the dresser top! I've not had enough room in our small house to have them out for easy access and use, so this will be wonderful to start using again within the early weeks of September. Also many file drawers are still empty and most are only half full. 

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where to find this linked-up:

* Everybody Art; new; theme = everything goes; every type of art welcomed

link = https://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/2025/08/583.html

* We Love 2 Create; new; theme of anything goes mixed media; using cell phone photos that were sent to email and then downloaded to use in digital layout; edit the Google Slide layout 

link = https://welove2create.blogspot.com/2025/09/challenge-9-craft-card-making.html 

* Mix It Up; new; theme of anything goes mixed media (not the option); different electronics/digital uses

link = https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/miucb-79-anything-goes-optional-fancy.html

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#1 theme badge =

where to find the FQHCB #1B extra posting 

https://farmquesthomechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/09/fqhcb-1b-extra-inspiration-project-on-4.html

where to find the FQHCB #1 main posting from Sept 2 that has my first projects using a front side house ephemera and a dining chair ephemera plus the Mister Linky Widget tool for linking up= 

https://farmquesthomechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/09/fqhcb-1-name-change-and-theme-change.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

* owner/DT = FQHCB, FQGGCB, FQCCCB, FQGS, FQCB; HQCB, HQFCB at TFATU, HQFSCAT, HQCOLCB; also CCC; ConBC and AA.

*  DT member only = P-R-S

My BONUS feature inspiration project for FQHCB #1A on 3 September 2025

 Welcome to Becca's Quest for Love and Country Creativity!

why: This is a first of a few bonus inspiration posts for the new/rebranded FQHCB or FarmQuest Home Challenges Blog. The first challenge runs September 2-30, 2025. The theme will always be 'anything home goes'. That's anything inside or outside of a house. Paper, digital and/or hybrid projects: cards, ATCs, bookmarks/tags, home decor items, journals, TNs, scrapbook layouts. 

when: #1 started September 2 and will end on September 30, 2025. This bonus inspiration project will be published on September 3.  

what: Project #1 (FQHCB #1A) bonus project: Digital Scrapbook layout

how-to notes for #1:

*hubby did all the work! He kept saying I should help but construction (and mechanics) are his thing not mine! He did 3/4 of the boards about 19 out of 26 throughout several work sessions on Monday/Labor Day. Then he finished by noon on Tuesday September 2nd. 

*there are future plans to stain those boards

*Google Slides' portfolio was selected for the digital format. I chose 1 of the layout pages/slides in the portfolio template and kept 2 of the 4 photo/images boxes, deleted the top 2 areas where I placed the text, border and cube shape. I added a soft blue for the background color. 

*Difficulty scale: 2 out of 10 (1 being super easy and 10 being super complicated/complex)

where to find #1 link-ups:

1A. We Love 2 Create; new; anything mixed media; doesn't need to be Polkadoodles  product; my project is a digital scrapbook layout for a home rebuild project

link = https://welove2create.blogspot.com/2025/09/challenge-9-craft-card-making.html

1B. Mix It Up; new on Sept 1; anything mixed media; my project is a digital scrapbook layout for a home rebuild project

link = https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/miucb-79-anything-goes-optional-fancy.html

1C. Everybody Art; midway in the 2 weeks challenge period; anything goes this time; my project is a digital scrapbook for a home rebuild project

link = https://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/2025/08/583.html

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where to find FQHCB #1A blog post link =

https://farmquesthomechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/09/fqhcb-1a-bonus-project-digital.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

* owner/DT = FQHCB, FQGGCB, FQCCCB, FQGS, FQCB; also HQCB, HQFCB at TFATU, HQCOLCB, HQFSCAT; plus CCC; ConBC; AA. 

* DT member only = Paper-Rocks-Scissors