Welcome to Becca's Quest for Love and Country Creativity blog!
why: this posting shares my newest owner/DT inspiration project for FQCCCB or FarmQuest Country Christmas Challenges blog. This is the 18th offset month-long AGCC theme since I started this as a spin-off from FarmQuest Challenge Blog, which has designated farm/ranch/rural/outdoors topic(s) per month.
when: FQCCCB #18 starts March 7, 2025 and ends on April 5, 2025.
what: Rural Country Church Christmas card
plus closeup cropped scan for iridescent glitter acrylic paint snowpile at the bottom of the scene:
notes:
1. black cardstock base cut to 5" x 7" = Neenah
2. the pine green/dark teal print = ?/I think it came out of Fruitcake and Tinsel paper pad by FPD
3. four stamps from the Busy Sidewalks stamp set by Crate Paper/American Crafts (two sizes of snowflakes, "Merry Christmas", and the church which had houses on both sides of it that were masked off)
4. two house stickers from the Busy Sidewalks sticker book = Crate Paper/American Crafts
5. blue pearl gems (from pack), iridescent glitter acrylic paint, brown and green markers = Crafter's Square
6. cocoa brown ink pad = Lawn Fawn
7. Marina Mist blue ink stamp pad for the sky = SU (crumpled paper used to apply)
8. blue ink pad for the snowflakes = Art Skills
9. cocoa brown ink stamp pad for the ground/road = Lawn Fawn (crumpled paper used to apply)
where: FQCCCB #18 blog posting
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other places to share/link are:
a. Jingle Belles; started Feb 28; week 2 of 2; Bling for the holidays theme; My Christmas card has 3 navy pearls
link = https://jinglebellesrock.blogspot.com/2025/02/bling-on-holidays.html
b. The Paper Funday Challenge; current; theme is anything goes with option of weather related; MY Christmas card has a snowy rural country church tucked between 2 houses...snowflakes in the air and some glittery snow on the road in front of the church and houses
link = https://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-2025-challenge-74-anything-goes.html
c. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesdays; just getting started for March; anything goes
link = https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/03/ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-march.html
d. The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge; close to the end of week 2; anything goes Christmas;
link = https://thehollyandivychallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/challenge-178-anything-christmas-goes.html
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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S
* owner/DT = FQCCCB, FQGS, FQCB, FQHSKCB, FQGGCB; HQCB, HQFantasy, HQCOLCB, HQFSCAT; AA; ConBC; CCC (new owner at end of February)
* manager/DT = MTTC and MTTCChristmas
* DT member only= HAOOCAYR and P-R-S
~~ fact from some childhood Christmases:
my grandparents lived over 2 hours apart and when I was very young, a couple of interstates weren't completed so travel took longer on state or county roads;
during the summertimes, the little roadside ice cream shops were plentiful and when my sister and I traveled as little girls with our maternal grandparents, we'd always comment, "there's goes another one!" hee-hee!
in the winter season for Christmas gathering, generally my maternal side gathered a day or two afterwards. being in rural Illinois, many years the driving would be hazardous with ice and/or snow-pack. several times we had to stay overnight with no extra clothes or anything, unless we received something in the gift exchange!
my mom was the Queen of Jello salads! She had recipes for maybe 15-20 variations of gelatin salads and desserts. Orange Jello with pineapple and carrots. Lime Jello with pears. Cherry Jello with cherry pie filling. Whipped Lime Jello with marshmallows and cottage cheese. Orange Jello with mandarin oranges and whipped cottage cheese and crushed pineapple. Lots more. There would always be 1 or 2 that would travel for Christmas meals. She also made the best Vanilla Caramels and Chocolate Caramels. She would also sprinkle chopped pecans on half of them too. These would be cut into 1" square pieces and wrapped in waxed paper. Yummy!
The caramels were only made for Christmas through New Years. She also had a pastry dessert called a Swedish Roll, sweet yeast dough punched twice to rise and then rolled out, covered with melted butter then sprinkled with cinnamon, sugar, and pecans. It would be rolled from side to side to create a long 'log'. After baking she iced with a confectioner's topping and then maraschino cherries in both red and green would be drained and then cut into shapes so when arranged to look like holly berries and leaves arranged for accenting on top.
YUM!
Such a great Christmas scene for this tall card, love how it turned out! And great memories from your childhood. The Swedish Rolls sounds like the Rolls my son and I made a couple of weekends ago. It sounds hard but was actually quite easy to do. They unfortunately turned out a bit dry because we overbaked them and it was the first time trying a homemade cinnamon type roll. But they tasted good dunked in coffee :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing at my Crafty Wednesday challenge. The linky tool is back up and running. I added your card, glad you left the link in the comments :)