Heart's Quest Celebrations of Love Challenges #12 Dec 2025 design team projects

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why: This posting showcases my design team projects for HQCOLCB or Heart's Quest Celebrations of Love Challenges Blog! The main themes are coded as BEWAS for birthdays, engagements, weddings, anniversaries and sympathies. And the December optional event theme is New Years; which can be for a New Year's Eve party or get-together, New Year's Day or general New Year wishes as seen on my Project #1. And I did a pretty pansies birthday card for Project #2...B out of BEWAS main themes is for Birthdays. 

when: #12 in 2025 starts on December 3 and closes on Dec 31, 2025.

what: Project #1: HNY is Happy New Year arch top slimline shaped card

how-to & vendor notes for #1:

1. Astrobrights/Neenah = both bright pink (scanner light faded) and bright yellow cardstocks cut for shapes; approx. 3.75" wide for yellow and top center 7.75"

2. Crayola's poster stickers = two balloons, one ribbon streamer, 2 stars and one large dot

3. Art Skills = bright pink glitter glue for different size pink dots 

4. Tupperware = 40+ old lower case stencil with numbers 0-9 template

5. Sharpie = black extra fine tip marker pen (for 2 bottom corner accents on the yellow panel)

6. Zebra Clickart = gray retractable marker pen (for border outline on yellow panel)

7. Hero Arts = black stamp pad (perimeter edges were inked)

where #1 will be linked:

1A. The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog; extended length/current; Anything Goes w opt to add yellow; My 2026 arch-topped card is full of yellow and golds in the CS, balloons, curling ribbon sticker, 2 star stickers

link = https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/325-use-colour-yellow.html

1B. APTS or A Place To Start challenges; new on Mon Dec 1st; Anything Goes w opt winter things; My 2026 arch-topped card is for Happy New Year wishes; living in the USA, January 1st is in winter season

link = https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2025/12/december-2025-anything-goes-woptional.html

1C. Path of Positivity; new on Mon Dec 1st; Anything Goes Positive (there's an option = but not mine); My 2026 card is AGP and this is my 3rd linked entry.

link = https://pathofpositivitychallenge.blogspot.com/2025/12/ch-136-anything-goes-positive-with-opt.html

1D. The Creative Crafters; current/closes on Dec 8; Anything Goes; this is my 3rd and final entry

link = https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/11/challenge-94.html

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what: Project #2: B (from BEWAS) or Birthday main theme = Best Birth Day Ever card

how-to & vendor notes for #2:

21. ivory, left-side folded card base = from pack = Recollections

22. Fish Tank/blue mini stamp pad = Lawn Fawn = used hundreds of times in overlapping applications to get the interesting angled lines patterning

23. gold puffy lettering, heart, and bits = puffy stickers package = Crafter's Square; look closely at the centers for most of the pansies for some of the little gold bits; I left space between 'birth' and 'day' for change in emphasis while reading

24. pansies in oval shape focal; trimmed from old junk mail solicitation by an organization; it was part of the front page cover design from a set of little small stationery notes = Recycled/Upcycled; found while sorting through my mom's stuff

25. note: I stamped on the back side of the pansies because there was a calendar printed and I didn't want its lavender ink to show through. So I used the Lawn Fawn stamp pad lightly on the back to disguise...and it also helps connect it to the ink/stamped card base

26. inside: I used a scrap cut of bright blue CS that matches the blue stamp pad ink; outlined with black marker and stamped with 'celebrate'. 

27. oval focal (and not shown blue CS panel) outlined in black fine tip marker pen = Sharpie

where #2 will be linked:

2A. Beautiful Blossoms; opened on Nov 15; still current; theme of flowers/blooms as focus; My Birth Day card has a bundle of 7 pansies in the oval focal area; this will be my 3rd linked entry

link = https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/11/beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything.html

2B. Triple B: birds, butterflies, blooms; new on Dec 3; theme is the title; My Birth Day card has pansies

link = 

2C. Dragonfly Dreams Challenge; opened in November/closes in about 3 days; theme is feminine; on my Birth Day card it has the pretty pansies and lots of gold puffy lettering stickers + heart + some small bits for a lovely card

link = https://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2025/11/november-challenge-feminine.html

2D. The Neglected Stuff Challenge; new on Dec 1st; theme is the title; My neglected thing is the pansies oval focal that I found while going through my mom's stuff and now for the past year, it's been in my craft stash supplies

link = https://neglectedstuff.blogspot.com/2025/11/neglected-stuff-1225-challenge.html

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where to find HQCOLCB #12 for Dec 2025 blog post link =

https://hqcelebrationsoflovechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/12/hearts-quest-celebrations-of-love.html

theme & date badge for #12

team badge 

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

* owner/DT = HQCOLCB; HQFSCAT; HQFCB; HQCB; also FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQHCB and FQGGCB; plus CCC; AA; ConBC

* DT member only = PRS

***note: the arch-topped NEW YEAR 2026 card could be shared at HQFSCAT if I wasn't owner; HQFSCAT is Heart's Quest for Shaped Cards and Tags