Becca's Quest for Love and Country Creativity: HQCOLCB #10 with BEWAS themes and opt Thanksgiving or Appreciation DT cards on 3 Oct 2025

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

why: This posting shares my owner/DT projects for the 10th HQCOLCB or Heart's Quest Celebrations of Love Challenge Blog for this year! I believer this is getting close to ending our 2nd year in blogland. HQCOLCB has 5 main monthly themes and we offer an optional event theme each month too. In October the options look forward to November by celebrating Thanksgiving Day or Appreciation projects. The main themes are coded as BEWAS or B for birthdays, E for engagements, W for weddings, A for Anniversaries and/or S for Sympathies.

For #10 I've decided to a feminine birthday card, a sympathy card and an Appreciation/giving thanks for you card.

when: #10 for 2025 HQCOLCB starts October 3 and ends on Oct 31, 2025! YES! Halloween Day.

what: Project #1: Thankful for you card

how-to & vendor notes for #1:

1. ivory cardstock panel cut to 4" x 6.5" = Neenah

2. gray and white cardstock is recycled packaging from the American Crafts' Farmstead Harvest ephemera packaging

3. orange fox and plants print and the text print washi tapes = American Crafts' Farmstead Harvest washi tape box set

4. thankful for you mini card, orange frame = American Crafts' Farmstead Harvest ephemera

5. yellow and white checked 'frame' and circle with fox (can be used as 2 pieces) = foam stickers = American Crafts' Farmstead Harvest foam stickers

6. Zebra Clickart = gray retractable marker pen for outlining

where #1 will be linked:

1A. Craft Rocket; new on Oct 2; theme of Autumn or Halloween; My card is for Autumn season of giving thanks

link = https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/10/challenge-130-autumnhalloween.html

1B. Word Power; new on Oct 2; theme is power/focus on words; My card has a frame to emphasize the 'thankful for you' and then there is washi tape sandwiched in between bold orange stating 'thankful' and 'grateful'

link = https://wordpowerchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/10/word-power-october-2025-challenge.html

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what: Project #2: Thinking of You during this difficult time card/sympathy

how-to & vendor notes for #2:

21. Darice = rust/brown card (with matching envelope) from multicolor box set

22. CutCardStock = Seafoam Green cardstock panel

23. American Crafts' Farmstead Harvest ephemera pack = mushrooms and plants tag, 'blessings' banner, the gold foil heart bit, the tickets

24. American Crafts' Farmstead Harvest washi tape pack = the gray and white checked gingham tape

25. Fancy Pants Designs' Memory Lane collection = muted green cardstock that was circle punched

26. unmarked clear stamp package with mixed sentiments = "thinking of you during this difficult time" stamp

27. Zebra Clickart = gray retractable marker pen (for outlining)

28. Freckled Fawn = enamel dots (I used 2 different sizes in 4 colors to bring out those autumn harvest colors in the ephemera.)

where #2 will be linked:

2A. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesdays; new on Wed Oct 1; anything goes; I'm linking my sympathy card

link = https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/10/ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-october.html

2B. The Crafting Challenge Blog; new on Oct 1; theme of Autumn/Halloween; I'm linking my harvest-autumn tones sympathy card

link = https://thecraftingchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/10/autunno-hallowen.html

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what: Project #3: Birthday in Pinks card/B is for birthday

how-to & vendor notes for #3:

31. pink cardstock base cut to 4" x 6" = Neenah

32. pink heart, large round floral piece = ephemera from Simple Stories' Simple Vintage Meadows bits and pieces

33. pink gems = Studio G by Hampton Arts

34. bright pink paper scrap cut with deckle-edge scissors = Art Skills

35. HB stamp = SU

36. black stamp pad to ink all paper edges = Hero Arts

37. pink garden print paper = Fruitcake and Tinsel paper pad by Fancy Pants Designs

38. gray mushrooms foam Thickers/sticker = American Crafts

where #3 will be linked:

3A. Creations in Pink; still open from Sept 15; anything goes using mostly pinks; this birthday card has lots of varying pinks and neutrals; only some small bits of yellow for flower centers and bee and some muted green leaves

link = https://creationsinpink1challenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/challenge-85-anything-goes-in-mainly.html

3B. Seize the Birthday; in week 2 of 2; the topping is CAS with stencil but my feminine birthday card in lots of pinks is for AG birthdays

link = https://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2025/09/seize-birthday-314-cas-with-stencil.html

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