HQCB Top 2 Picks for Love Theme #5 travel/transport Announcement

 Heart's Quest Top 2 Picks for Love Theme #5

Topic required elements were:

* use the word 'love' (or a verb tense or other language equivalent)

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*an item that's travel or transportation related

Frankly, we only had 2 participants. These 2 craft artisans extraordinaire have been very supportive from the very start with Heart's Quest. Please spread the word about how HQCB does different themes to express love through using the word 'love' or with heart shapes.

Can't we all use some love?!!! Keep sending out happy mail to all your friends and family! 

These 2 talented ladies are Deanne Clarke-Saunders and Margaret Ashby!!!

Entry #1 by Deanne: "With Love at Christmas"

Deanne's done an excellent job of combining Christmas in July competitions with the love for travel/transport challenge of Heart's Quest. The background paper has more transportation modes and then the large focal has the pickup truck hauling the cut pine tree. Excellent! It's tree-rific!!!

Entry #2 by "Granmargaret": "Sending All Our Love"

Granmargaret has crafted a cheery card that is perfect to send to someone that has just taken a cruise vacation or lives on a coast or taken a ferry boat ride. I like how the colors of the heart echo colors of the boat image. Such a joyful card!

Thanks so very much for supporting Heart's Quest Challenge Blog!

--owner Becca S

P. S. The new theme challenge published on the 28th will switch to a "color heart theme" focus and the amazing Guest Designer is Lori Stroup.  Make sure to look for that post after 12:30am CT/Chicago zone. The competition will end on August 13th. 

HQCB REMINDER Love Theme #5 of travel or transport

 Is your heart excited about HQCB's current challenge theme or anxious?

Heart's Quest LOVE Theme #5 is at its midway point of competition. 

Deadline is July 27, 2022 at 12:30 am Central Time/Chicago or 6:30am UK.

LOVE Theme #5 required duo elements are:

*use the word 'love' or a version like loves, loving, agape, charity, etc.

AND

*use an image related to travel or transportation; can be a destination like lake, amusement park, cruise ship, etc. or a vehicle or something to help with travel/transporting like luggage, passport, postcard, etc.

Guest Designer for the REMINDER is = Karen Letchworth

GD inspiration project =

Isn't this terrific!!! The sentiment is perfect! Having 'love' printed on the little tag that is clipped within the cording of the other tag is such clever placement. The little travel camper die-cut is too cute! Wouldn't this be fun to have displayed inside your camper on future trips!!! The tags make me think of luggage tags! Karen's made a very lovely card for Love Theme #5!!!

Thanks so very much!

A bit of bio about Karen= She's also GD for FarmQuest's reminder post also published today on July 20th. Word Art Wednesday challenge blog is administered by Karen and she participates with several other challenge blogs, products, and groups. Her distinctive layering and clustering of embellishments has made me a huge fan of her creations! She's blessed with a lot of talent! 

And her personal crafting blog (direct link to a July 18th post) is called My Cup Runneth Over

http://karen-mycuprunnethover.blogspot.com/2022/07/christmas-coffee-wstamp-simply.html

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Owner Becca S inspiration project=

a few credits for the mini slimline card are: mesh, wood flip flops, and wood fish were bought at Dollar Tree; there are 2 blue scraps from my stash; and the patterned papers are reverse sides of the same sheet from the Lake Life paper pad by Fancy Pants Design (2019).

My included elements:

*love was written in on the text patterned cardstock section

and

*travel/transport items are the fishing lures print cardstock, the word 'lake', use the flip flops for walking at the lake or maybe boating; and a fish with some mesh/faux net for more water locations/destinations like a lake, pond, creek, ....

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If you want to read the main post for LOVE Theme #5, use this link to get to it and you can also participate with the Inlinkz tool address found in that main posting. 

LINK back to the original post from July 14th=

https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/07/hqcb-love-theme-5-for-travel-or.html

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With a heart overflowing in gratitude, for my mom's older sister and brother-in-law that took me and my sister along with their 3 boys (our cousins) camping in a pickup truck bed with loft space on top of the cab style camper to a state park!!! We got to take turns going out in their small row boat to fish! That was many, many years ago! What a sweet memory traveling about an hour away from where we lived to spend a couple of days near the lake!

Becca S, owner of HQCB

HQCB Love Theme #5 for travel or transport challenge starts 14 July 2022

 Heartfelt Greetings! Welcome to Heart's Quest LOVE Theme #5!

Competition runs from July 14-27, 2022 starting at 12:30am Central Time/Chicago on the 14th and ending at the same time on the 27th. 12:30am Chicago is 6:30am UK time for another reference. 

LOVE Theme #5 paired duo requirements are:

*use the word 'love' 

[can be loves, loved, loving; other language equivalents like agape, charity, ...]

AND

*use an image/s related to travel or transport

[can be travel destination; transportation vehicle, transport/travel other modes like walking in flipflops!, items to assist with traveling like luggage, duffel bag, etc.]

Almost quest time in your stash! Before you go do that, let's see what Guest Designer Leslie Smith and HQCB owner Becca S have made. ---------->

Guest Designer for Love Theme #5 is Leslie Smith. 

"I'm a born-again believer with a strong creative streak that is happiest with paper, scissors, or camera in hand. Loving these retirement year of travel and 'grand' adventures with our children's children. I also enjoy family heritage projects, quilting, travel, and learning more about canning and preserving food."

GD's inspiration project =

Magnificent scrapbook layout combining "love" and travel/transport!!! She's got so many travel/transport elements: compass rose, hot air balloon, old car image, lighthouse image, fabulous vacation photos, and many more! Lots of details . I'm loving the large heart and gold heart clip and there's also the word 'love' on the left side! Leslie's made a wonderful keepsake treasure!!!

her blog link to get details on how she's made her GD project:

https://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com/2022/07/071422-hearts-quest-love-theme.html

She's on the Design Teams of these challenge blogs:

a. Counterfeit Kit Challenge https://www.blogger.com/ 

b. Archi-scraps Challenge https://www.blogger.com/  

c. Instagram https://www.blogger.com/

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Owner Becca S inspiration project=

A few credits go to: background cardstocks are on the same sheet from Lake Life paper pad from Lake Life paper pad by Fancy Pants Design (2019); the other die-cuts/ephemera and white base top-folded card are from Simple Stories card kit "Wish You Were Here". 

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Participation: please review the rules in the sidebar of the home page of HQCB; become a follower; and link your project photo's blog link using the Inlinkz tool address provided next. 

LINK=

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/8d0e9b2c69c1420b92036c571acd46a3

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With a happy heart for all who read and participate at Heart's Quest,

Becca S, owner

HQCB Top 2 Picks Announcement for Color Heart #5 using red

HQCB's Top 2 Picks for Color Heart #5 using red Announcement

Frankly, we only had 2 participants. These 2 craft artisans extraordinaire have been very supportive from the very start with Heart's Quest. Please spread the word about how HQCB does different themes to express love through using the word 'love' or with heart shapes.

Can't we all use some love?!!! Keep sending out happy mail to all your friends and family! 

These 2 talented ladies are Deanne Clarke-Saunders and Lori Barrett-Stroup!!!

Entry #1 by Deanne:

So clever to craft a Christmas holiday beverage card with red peppermint candies and some beaded snowflakes along with a beaded red heart! 

Entry #2 by Lori:

Lori went for summertime sweetness for her red heart card! She's wonderfully gotten a few bits of pink added to increase the sweetness factor, don't you think?!!! And that teeny popsicle is just upping that sweetness factor even more!! Adorable charming! 

Thanks so very much for supporting Heart's Quest Challenge Blog!

--owner Becca S

P. S. The new theme challenge published on the 14th will switch to a "love theme" focus and the amazing Guest Designer is Leslie Smith.  Make sure to look for that post after 12:30am CT/Chicago zone. The competition will end on July 27th. 

HQCB REMINDER Color Heart Theme #5 using Red

Is your heart happy about HQCB's Color Heart Theme #5?

Have you made a mostly red project using at least 1 red heart shape?

And did you know you can create a total of 3 new themed projects for 1 challenge time period at Heart's Quest?

Deadline is 12:30am Central Time/Chicago on July 13, 2022. 

Guest Designer for the REMINDER post is Dottie Seubert. She's super talented! Dottie recently was Guest Designer for my other challenge blog FarmQuest. She's been a past DT member of Word Art Wednesday challenge blog. And this is her personal blog to see more of her wonderful creations=

https://somethingcraftybydottie.blogspot.com/

GD inspiration project=

Dottie's detailed card would be perfect for someone's engagement announcement, wedding, anniversary, or to give to your spouse whether on Valentine's Day or just to make a day special for that partner. She's packed lots of great embellishments to interest, color, texture, and depth. Her choice of patterned paper has lots of red hearts and her clips, ribbon, and some enamel dots add in more red. Awesome!

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Owner, Becca S, inspiration project=

A few noteworthy credits: Sum More Fun/Raisin Boat stamps (center heart was open and I used a red glitter paint pen to fill); red and white floral patterned paper panel is from the Mint Berry Paper Pad from The Paper Studio. I'm trying to bash that paper pad in 2022. I still have lots of 4.5" x 6.5" size sheets to go. 

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For participation and/or read the original posting for Color Heart Theme #5 in red, use this provided link to take you there. 

LINK=

https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/06/hqcb-color-heart-theme-5-use-red-heart.html

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My heart is full of joy for HQCB's followers and participants!

Gratefully, Becca S, owner

HQCB Color Heart Theme #5 use red heart and mostly red starts 28 June 2022

 Hello! Heartfelt greetings from Heart's Quest Challenge Blog!

It's reveal time for the theme called Color Heart #5. #5's required color is red.

*use a red heart shape

AND

*have 60-99% red usage throughout the project

June 28, 2022 to July 13, 2022

Competition starts at 12:30am Central time/Chicago which is 6:30am UK. 

Competition ends at same time on July 13. 

A midway reminder post will also be made to help crafters remember to go on their stash quests to discover what and how they can use red. 

Acceptable formats cover most paper-crafting formats: cards, ATCs, tags, bookmarks, journals/planners, TN spreads, and various scrapbook layout sizes and types!

For design inspiration, Guest Designer is Pamela Hecht.

Pamela's creative processes: 

a. her greeting card has a gel print created with acrylic paints

b. red polka dot washi tape and paper stencil tape were added on the side along with twine

c. words, large red ink stenciled heart with red glitter were the finishing touches

Some personal info:

I became acquainted online with Pamela earlier this year when another online crafting friend suggested I join a FB group set up as a card and ATC only making swap group. (For The Love of Cards--it's limited to 25 members and it's not capped out yet, so if interested, come and join the group). In just a short time, Pamela's impressed me with her creative ideas that she morphs into the tiny size ATCs. Here's more about her that she shared with me =

Pamela Hecht: has lived for 20 years in the Upper Michigan Peninsula on an island known for its past copper mining. Pamela and her husband are now retired but are still very busy. They love to travel and collect minerals, fossils, and stones. They still own their breakfast café which has a craft market space where she sells her artistic work. Pamela stays active in paper arts, collage, photography, nature jewelry, metalsmithing, encaustic and acrylic painting. Her heart's happy when she can inspire others through her art and also loves to teach others to discover and develop their art skills. 

She does not have a blog or Instagram account but is on Facebook and co-owner/administrator of For The Love of Cards group.

Since she's not a blogger, I have permission to show these 2 photos of her more fantastic artistry:

acrylic painting on driftwood

first oil painting created on June 25th at a workshop with Steve Ross, son of famous Bob Ross!!! The session was 6 hours. Pretty amazing, isn't it?!?!!!

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Owner/Becca S design inspiration project is a new TN with the 1st spread=

This Scripture passage was day 1 of May suggested Bible writing journaling prompt from FB group CCMWF. The sketch layout is from Lisa H with TN Times May 2022. The usage of washi tape (light blue with white dots) and circles is Lori's requirement with TN Times May 2022. HQCB's requirements of red heart and usage of red just seemed to be a perfect way to connect all these pieces. Credits: Scripture~images.com website for the verse photo image; poppy patterned paper is from the Mint Berry paper pad by The Paper Studio; gray and white checked gingham paper is from Hot Off The Press. Light blue ribbon-like washi tape's packaging was unmarked. TN insert is by Carta Bella/Bloom. More details on my blog. 

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Your participation: You may enter 3 red heart with red usage theme projects before July 13th. Bragging rights for Top 3 are possible. Use the Inlinkz tool address to attach your project photo/blog link (Instagram and a few other methods work too). 

Link-up=

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/5b74d89663e0471b925388eb4ac81ba3

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If you're reading, following, and/or participating at HQCB, you're making my heart happy.

--HQCB owner, Becca S