FQCB Theme #1 Checked Gingham/Plaid AND a Truck starts 28 March 2022

If you're on a quest to show country rural living themed projects, your search ends here! Welcome to FarmQuest!!!      

 Howdy! Yee-haw! Woo-hee! Sit down for a spell and rest your feet. Welcome to a new paper-crafting challenge blog dedicated to all things country (as opposed to city) life or the rural life! FQCB or FarmQuest Challenge Blog is my newest creative endeavor. I hope you are excited as I am. 

      FarmQuest Challenge Blog is also honoring my father who owned an agricultural newspaper in Missouri for several years that he titled Farmquest. I'm going to use his coined term for this challenge blog. As the banner header states, theme competitions will have farming, ranching, gardening, and orchard type topics. I will also try to have 2 required criteria to be included for each challenge. 

      Please read the participation rules in the sidebar. Come and join the messy, or not so messy, creative fun for this first theme. 

Theme #1:

Checked Gingham or Plaid

AND

Truck

Starts March 28, 2022 at 12:30 am Central Time/Chicago and 

end April 13, 2022 at 12:30 am Central Time/Chicago. (That should be 6:30 am UK time.)

My dad always had a pick-up truck and drove semi-trucks for most of my childhood into adult years. So that's why I want to see a truck image on your project (paper-crafted; card, tag, journal, etc.). Gingham and plaid fabrics were also iconic fabric and design patterns from my rural childhood. My second sewing project for 4-H Club was making a pink gingham with daisies cotton elastic band gathered skirt. I still have it!

Here are 2 inspiration cards I made with supplies already in my stash. 

Simply the best and escape the ordinary truck card:

card #1

Details: black A2 top folded card by Darice; red and black buffalo check papers by The Paper Studio; tiny gray checked gingham by Hot Off The Press/Paper Wishes; the 2 stars, truck, and 2 message stickers are by Simple Stories

card #1 closeup

and

Rolling along the right way! card=

card #2

Details: yellow A2 flat card base by Darice; white, yellow, gray stripe paper is from stash; green and white stripe by Colorbok; gray mini checked gingham and larger size are Hot Off The Press/Paper Wishes; 3 washi paper tapes, butterfly, stencil for truck, green acrylic paint are stash; small 'the right way' sticker by Webster Pages.

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     Go on your own quest through your supplies and see what you have for this first theme challenge at FQCB. Your truck image can be a sticker, stenciled, stamped, digital image, wood laser die-cut, etc. For the gingham or plaid, it can be paper, fabric, stenciled, stamp, etc. 

Inlinkz tool address to use for this first challenge:

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/8f0692f7ad8b442294a4b87b87464c04

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Thanks so much for your time to read this little reminder of a simpler time or pace. For many people rural living means self-sustaining lifestyle which is hard work and lots of daily hours devoted in blood, sweat, and tears. Whatever your connection is to enjoying country living, I appreciate your support and hopefully participation at FarmQuest. 

So long. --Becca S