My featured FQCB #68 hibernating animals theme DT card for 28 January 2025

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

why: This personal blog post focuses on my newest rural outdoors theme DT project for FarmQuest Challenge Blog. #68 is about hibernating animals. Animals that hibernate include skunks, turtles, frogs, squirrels, hedgehogs, groundhogs, bumblebees, snails, snakes, bears and a few more. I chose to generate an Ai image of hibernating animals in a cave...like a sleepover! :)

when: #68 starts January 28, 2025 and ends on February 27, 2025; starting last month/offset month instead of 15-16 days or so length.

what: Warm Hello from the Sleepover card

notes:

1. caramel cardstock base started as 6" square; cut down to fit manila envelope so approx. 5.5" x 6" = Art Skills

2. yellow and white print paper = SU

3. cave scene image = Ai-generated using Microsoft Designer

4. some extra lime green colored pencil added to help moss show better against all the gray and brown tones; stash item

5. ink outlining around image with Pea Green alcohol marker = Arteza

6. thick foam stickers (warmth, hello, leafy stems, leaf) from = Amber Autumn collection by Fancy Pants Designs

7. felt hedgehog accent = came in a mix of animal designs = Crafter's Square

8. brown with coppery glitter waffle-embossed specialty paper = from a scrap paper pack = Crafter's Square; was trimmed/sized a bit

where: FQCB #68 

link = https://farmquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/fqcb-68-theme-of-hibernating-animals.html

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other places to share/link are:

a. The Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge; still open for a couple of days; anything goes that includes a greeting/sentiment; MY hibernating animal themed card has 'warmth' and 'hello'; this is my 3rd entry

link = https://theoutlawzchallenges-monday.blogspot.com/2025/01/january-6th-monday-greetings.html

b. Allsorts Challenge; current; theme is close to nature; MY card features some hibernating bears and hedgehogs and a visiting baby raccoon! 

link - https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/challenge-815.html

c. CD Sunday Plus; started Jan 19; theme of something using a CD, USB, digital; MY card features an Ai-generated image using Microsoft Designer that I downloaded and then printed to a 4" x 6" size

link = https://cdsundaychallenge.blogspot.com/2025/01/cd-sunday-plus-challenge-150-hosted-by.html

d. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends; started Jan 19; theme is anything goes;

link = https://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2025/01/246-all-dressed-up.html

e. 613 Avenue Create; started Jan 5; theme of anything goes (option of monotone); MY card is for A.G.; this is my 2nd entry

link = https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2025/01/january-2025-anything-goes-w-optional.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland, flip-flopping between farm and town, 

Becca S

* owner/DT = FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQHSKCB, and FQGGCB; HQCB, HQCOLCB, HQFCB and HQFSCAT; also AA; also ConCB

* manager/DT = MTTC and MTTCChristmas (owned by Shell S)

* DT member only = HAOOCAYR and the new on Feb 2 P-R-S or Paper-Rock-Scissors; both of these by Deanne

-- interesting farm country facts in my life:

my parents farmed off and on through my life; both sets of grandparents and great-grandparents were farmers; some to a lesser amount just to be self-sufficient/feed their family but still did grain crops and/or livestock

-- my main childhood home was in a very small village of about 200-225 folks and when we moved there when I was 5 1/2 years old, it had 3 grape vines; an old chicken coop and 2 little pig/sow structures. My parents kept the grape vines; tore down the pig houses immediately and after a couple of years, finally tore down the chicken coop. There was also a garden patch that we used to the north of both of those. And a small patch in front of the chicken coop became a new spot for rhubarb plants.