Loving my HQCB #74 DT AG choice of bee hive + blue hearts + yellow heart 28 May 2025

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

why: This posting showcases my #74 design team inspiration project for Heart's Quest Challenge Blog or HQCB. For several months now, the theme has been anything goes with specified colors of heart(s). #74 is blue and/or yellow heart(s). I've chose 2 stamps from a very old SU stamp set about bees for anything goes and included two little blue hearts and one little yellow heart. 

when: #74 starts May 28, 2025 and ends on June 27th. 

what: Let's bee friends card

how-to notes:

1. neon green cardstock panel cut to A2 size = Astrobrights by Neenah

2. white cardstock = Crafter's Square; started as A2 size and then trimmed with deckle-edged scissors (stash)

3. sentiment and bee hive stamps = old 1997 stamp set by SU

4. inside the arch window ==> Dapper Denim ink/stamp pad = SU [crumpled paper towel to pounce]

5. outside the arch window ==> Tranquil Tide ink/stamp pad = SU [same technique]

6. enamel dots = Fancy Pants Designs

7. heart enamel stickers = Recollections

8. dark brown retractable marker pen (1 of 4 color set) = Zebra Clickart

9. I created my own arch window stencil using a 4" x 6" index card, half punched circle to get the arch then measured sides and bottom edge using ruler; then cut out the 'interior' arch window area.

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where: HQCB #74 blog posting

link = https://heartsquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/05/hqcb-74-theme-anything-goes-with-blue.html

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places to share/link this blue and yellow hearts friendship card are:

A. Try It On Tuesday; new on May 27; theme is things with wings; MY card has tiny stamped bees near the hive

link = https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2025/05/things-with-wings.html

B. Make My Monday; still open for a few days; theme is garden/gardening; My card has tiny stamped bees near the hive; many folks place bee hives/boxes near their gardens to help with pollination and for the bees to have food/nectar sources

link = https://mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/252-gardeninggarden.html

C. Aud Sentiments; open until May 30th; themes are water coloring and/or spring + sentiment; MY card has a blue-ish sky, tiny bees and hive, colors of blue, yellow, spring green for spring seasonal vibe + stamped sentiment "you and me, friends we will always be" 

link = https://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/challenge-325-water-coloring-andor.html

D. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends; open for a few more days; theme is anything goes; this is my 2nd entry

link = https://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.com/2025/05/254-sheepski-designs.html

E. Stamping Sensations; closing in 4 hours or less!!!!; theme is feminine or anything goes; MY card is a friendship card...sending to a girlfriend

link = https://www.stampingsensations.uk/2025/05/may.html

F. Paper Craft Crew Challenges; new on May 28; theme of color challenge; use 3 or 4 shown in the image; MY card has 3 = yellow, blue and green

link= https://papercraftcrew.com/pcc623-color-challenge/

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca 

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