FQCB Theme #5 Top 2 of 3 Announcement

  FarmQuest Challenge Blog Top 2 Picks for Theme #5

Theme #5 ended in the early hours of June 13th. 

The theme elements were: herbs or foliage AND clay pot or vase.

Two fantastic cards submitted for Theme #5!

Only 2 entries yet both were very different creatively! The crafters entries have demonstrated techniques, technology, and products. 

In order of submission of the 2 entries:

#1= Brenda B with a darling flower cart

#2= Deanne Clarke-Saunders with this beautiful girl with her gardening apron

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And as promised in a previous challenge or so, whenever we got 5 or 10 entries I would give those numbered entries a prize. I still have a prize waiting for the next time we reach 5 or more entries. 

This is the prize photo shown back in Theme #3 and 1 card has over 10 yards of bright pink metallic foil dots on white micro-thin tape rolls:

Theme #6 will begin in a few hours so make sure to go to FarmQuest's home page and find the new challenge. 

Thanks everyone for supporting FarmQuest Challenge Blog!! 

I truly hope the momentum picks up again! If you know crafting friends who enjoy topics centered around gardening, farming, ranching, camping, hiking, pond/lake life, and more outdoor rural themes, make sure to refer them to FQCB. 

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So long. Farewell. See you back at the farm real soon!

--Becca S, owner of FarmQuest Challenge Blog 

FQCB REMINDER Theme #5 Herbs or Foliage Branch AND clay pot or vase challenge started 28 May 2022

 Howdy! Yippee! It must be June 5, 2022 midway through 

FarmQuest Challenge Blog's

Theme #5 that requires===>

*herbs or foliage branch

AND

*clay pot or vase

Deadline is June 13, 2022 at 12:30am Central Time/Chicago.

for your inspiration------------------->

Guest Designer: Mags B or Maggie Brinkley from UK

Mags is on several design teams. She stays busy every week crafting for her DT commitments. We share two--My Time To Craft challenge blog and My Time To Craft Christmas. She's stepped up and helped create an extra project for each since we have some DT members taking breaks in 2022. Her willingness to do this has been so very appreciative. And she's extended her craft time even more to be the guest designer for this reminder Theme #5 post!!! Thank you Mags!!!

GD inspiration project=

A darling ATC! She heat embossed the background and then stamped over it. This technique she learned through Online Card Classes Spring Boot Camp 2022. It certainly provides interest. 

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owner, Becca S, inspiration card=

Some design and vendor notes for #2 include: white card base and all the elements on this card front except the twine, staples, and the gray heart strip are from Simple Stories card kit "Happy Greetings". The vase, the yellow-ish buds, and the leaves on the little sprig were colored 'over' with a raw sienna crayon and the file storage boxes die-cut had 'thyme' and 'oregano' written on the labels.

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Participants: Thank you so very much for reading about FQCB! Maybe you're one of the few early followers for FQCB or just found out about us and want to participate. Use this provided link to take you back to the main Theme #5 posting from May 28th.

LINK=

https://farmquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/05/fqcb-theme-5-herbs-or-foliage-and-clay.html

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So long. Farewell. See you soon back here at the farm!

Becca S, owner of FQCB

FQCB Theme #5 Herbs or Foliage AND Clay Pot or Vase starts 28 May 2022

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

This new competition starts May 28, 2022 and ends June 13, 2022. Start and end times are the same for both days= 12:30 am Central time USA/Chicago or 6:30 am UK; adjust accordingly wherever you are in the world. 

Theme #5 has a bit of flex with the combinations that you can come up with. This will be a fun competition to see the entries! The first options are herbs or foliage (leafy branches/stems) AND the second half options are clay pot or vase. You have to have 1 element from each half/side.

FarmQuest Challenge Blog had its first competition launched on March 28, 2022. The name FarmQuest was coined by my dad. He owned and did the majority of the work publishing an agricultural topic newspaper in Missouri during the late 1980s to early 1990s called FarmQuest. My sister and I wrote some of the lifestyle type articles. She focused on parenting and teaching themes and I did the home economics topics. I also spent about two years helping him on a limited part-time basis with word processing and some of the layout work. Dad did the sales and delivering copies to many farm equipment dealers around the state. After 3 or 4 months of issues, he started offering subscriptions so this became another task that I helped with. 

I like the word quest when it comes to paper-crafting because it's been my practice to have a search hunting for treasures in my stash!!

Inspiration card = Thinking of You--the simple things--herb and flower garden theme card:

Some design and vendor notes for #1 are: the white card base, the black gingham with amber strip, lily of valley cluster, the herbs, sage green tag, and the text strip are from Simple Stories card kit "Love Grows Here"; the yellow-green chevron stripe paper is from The Paper Studio; the analogous colored large dots patterned paper scrap (might be DCWV ?? or is it DCVW); silver mirror foil decorative tape was used to create the outer perimeter border; stamp for 'thinking of you' has been in stash a very long time. Kraft paper in background is just to block out scanner light. This time I have the clay pots AND the herbs (plant stakes and behind them). 

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Use the linking tool address for Inlinkz shown next to enter your Theme #5 project for possible bragging rights of Top 3 Barnraisers. 

LINK= 

https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/50eca7e756464c6bb8635b00dd41d67d

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So long. Farwell. See you later.

Living and crafting in the USA heartland, Midwest farming legacy,

Becca S

owner of FarmQuest and Heart's Quest Challenge Blogs