Sharing my OUAT August 2023 DT card based on children book It Feels Good To Be Yourself

Welcome to Becca's Quest for Love and Country Creativity blog! This posting showcases my love of teaching with my love for creative expression as well as a love for reading. Artisan blogger friend Deanne started Once Upon A Time one year ago with each challenge's prompt being a different children's book. 

WHAT: OUAT/ Once Upon A Time challenge blog; #13; "It Feels Good To Be Yourself"

WHEN: August 1- 31, 2023 (Newfoundland is 2 hours ahead of my CT/Chicago time zone so this is being released about 11 minutes early in my zone.) 

SHOW and TELL: inspired by the climbing greenery on each side of the book cover

1. base patterned cardstock has been saved in my stash since about 2010!!! I don't remember the vendor

2. light gray cardstock = Neenah

3. white cardstock = Pen + Gear

4. 2 stencil sheets with 1 for the butterflies and the 2nd for the vine and greenery

5. pencil tracing first; then outlined with 8 or 9 marker colors; finally color-filled with watercolor pencils (Marvy's Uchida)

WHERE: OUAT #12 August 2023 blog posting link=

https://onceuponatimechallenges.blogspot.com/2023/08/august-challenge-13-it-feels-good-to-be.html

book cover photo (edited in on August 3) -

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other challenge blogs to share/link are:

A. Inkspirational challenge blog; started 2-3 days ago; Stencils; my card used 2 stencil sheets to piece together the scene (but not layered on top of each other)

link= http://inkspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/07/inkspirational-challenge-295-use.html

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B. Allsorts Challenge blog; extended to August 11; Anything but Square; My card layout is vertical

link= https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/07/week-73940.html

C. CAS on Fridays challenge blog; only 1 day left for summer CAS theme; MY card has a garden scene stencil-traced with focal image and sentiments together on the same layer with some white space; NO embellishments used; NO extra layers for the sentiment or the focal; these are together in 1 layer; 

link= http://cleanandsimpleonsunday.blogspot.com/2023/07/challenge-262-i-summer.html

D. Color My Heart Color Dare challenge blog; just started with photo prompt; MY card has 4 of the colors: purples, pinkish-red, greens, and blues.

link= http://colormyheartcolordare.blogspot.com/2023/07/Challenge-559.html

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and 

FB groups: Mixed Media Creativity; PPPDTC; COTM-Just For Fun; 

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Still on a quest to balance time between teaching and hobbies of reading, crafting, and blogging,

Becca S

**This is my last DT commitment project for OUAT. Due to returning to teaching and in a new subject, I've been reducing my DTs during July and August. I'll still be involved with these 8= MTTC, MTTCC, AACB, CBCB, TFATU, HQCB, FQCB, and FQGS.