Howdy! Welcome to FQCB #67 Paths-Trails-Walkways- Roads Theme!

Your location can be any forest/woods/meadows/farm/ranch/rural setting around the world. What inspires you about forging a new path for 2025? Show us your country charm.

NEW longer time format: December 28, 2024--> January 27, 2025 with start and end times at 12:00am CT/Chicago or 6:00am UK for time references.

NEW submission limit per challenge: with the timeframe increased to a month, each participant can submit 5 themed projects per challenge!!! 

Bragging rights are possible. Skip to the bottom of the post for #66 results. Best Barnraiser is a new honor that is offered a Guest DT invite. Barnraisers Top 3 Picks are for 1-40 entries. Top 5 Picks are for 41+ entries. 

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The design team crew has done their stash quests and prepared these terrific projects:

new barnraiser brag honor=

Best Barnraiser

with Guest DT Invite from November 2024:

with GDT project from DJ! Thanks! 

#67 theme elements: winding path/road around the trees

and

DT member Nana Connie=

and

DT/owner Becca= 

#67 theme elements = forest trail sign plus mountain/ski resort trail marker signs

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Classic country interpretations for theme #67!

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Surprise Incentive Announcement for Theme #2

that ends at 12:30am CST/Chicago on April 27, 2022. 

As of a couple minutes ago, there have been 0 entries.

If I get 3 entries, whoever's project is entry #3, I will mail this prize to them:

This is a Hobby Lobby product with 25 heart shaped buttons with a red crystal surface and metal backing.

Will you be the 3rd entry before Theme #2 ends?

FQCB's Theme #2 is about a journey or destination that makes you think of a quiet time, solace, relaxation, etc. The theme has 2 requirements:

show a map image 

AND 

a path/walkway/road image.

In the original Theme #2 posting, I've given some brainstorming possibilities and also did that in the reminder post. The link to Theme #2 can be found here to help you read the details:

https://farmquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/fqcb-theme-2-pathway-and-map-starts-14.html

My heart needs some encouragement for this new crafting endeavor that I started on March 28. 2022.

In Theme #1 FQCB had 2 entries by 2 followers. 

I give thanks for those two crafters' support. 

To keep momentum going, I will give prizes in the April 28th start date for Theme #3 for whoever has entries #5 and #10. Help me reach these number goals. Got to start somewhere. Starting small and building does take time so if you have started following and/or participating yet, why not get your stash quest going and see what you can come up with for the current theme #2 that only has 2-ish days left!!!

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owner, Becca S

 Reminder Post for Theme #2

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

     Sit down for a spell and rest your feet. This is a new challenge blog that launched March 28, 2022. REMINDER: this 2nd competition challenge started April 14, 2022 and ends April 27, 2022 at 12:30 am Central Time/Chicago or 6:30am UK.

     Theme #2 requirements:

a. map (ideas: your favorite park or campsite, lake, vacation spot, hometown, etc.) --AND--

b. path(sidewalk, cobblestone, brick street, stepping stones, hiking trail, bike path, dirt road, etc.)

     This is FarmQuest Challenge Blog so please have some essence of rural living (farming, ranching, gardening, orchards, creeks, picnics, hayrides, fences, hedgerows, meadows, woods, etc.) You, the crafter artisan get to pick the occasion, colors, layout, format, sentiment, and embellishments. 

     A new inspiration project is this home décor piece that will be framed and sent to loved ones getting ready to move soon from LR. LR isn't a small rural town but I do show the garden path that jives with the word journey used in the handwritten sentiment along with a map of part of the state. Pale flesh tone pink is the base with dimensions of 5" x 7". Dark purple cardstock was cut in a "L" shape. The mirror house 'stick-on' from a set was discovered at a local Dollar Tree store about 2 months ago. It was put on some olive green scrap paper along with some black outlining and then trimmed. The garden path photo is upcycled! My mom discovered an unopened 2013 calendar and gifted it to me instead of throwing it away. Yea! Same for the map section that was from an old 2017 atlas gifted to me on the same day. The rainbow-ish cardstock scrap is the reverse side of some cut-apart cards from either Webster Pages or My Mind's Eye. I hope my loved ones enjoy and keep this as their journey is soon to take them in a different direction. <3

     This is the link to #2 theme post that will have the Inlinkz tool for submitting your project:

https://farmquestchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/fqcb-theme-2-pathway-and-map-starts-14.html

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So long. Farewell. See you soon, Becca S

      Howdy! Is it time for a break? Time to stroll on a path, a garden walkway, hiking trail, a dirt road...As John Denver sang many years ago, "Country roads, take me home, to the place, I adore...." For theme #2 at FarmQuest Challenge Blog, I need to see some kind of pathway AND a map. Maps help guide when traveling and you need to be on a path to not get lost, so I thought this would be a good combination to pair for this 2nd challenge.

     Welcome to FarmQuest Challenge Blog or FQCB! This is just getting started as of late March 2022. Please spread the word to your crafting friends that there is new kind of paper-crafting competition now in blogland!

     Theme #2:

Pathway (your path can be a dirt road, a hiking trail, a cobblestone path, a brick walk, and lots of other possibilities)

AND

Map

Competition starts April 14, 2022 at 12:30 am Central Time/Chicago, IL USA and

ends April 27, 2022 at 12:30 am Central Time/Chicago, IL (or 6:30am UK).

     Inspiration project #1 green cardstock base is 5.5" wide and 6" tall. It has a section of Arizona map taken from a 2017 atlas my mom gave to me to either pitch or recycle! :) A 5" long strip of kraft paper helps accent the right side. A Webster Pages sticky note provides the sentiment "live simply". A 2013 calendar photo from the back cover provides the walkway image to use for my path. The calendar is another hand-me-down from my mom!!! Black gel pen outlining surrounds just the 2 focal areas with a layered sunflower die-cut sticker and a butterfly to serve as accents. 

Live Simply by taking a stroll on the garden walkway:

 

     Inspiration project #2 light blue cardstock base is about 4.5" deep and 7" across. It has a yellow-green and white patterned paper from Colorbok and a multi-color starburst kind of flower patterned paper from an unknown vendor. Another section of Arizona map from the same atlas page as #1 is featured along with a garden arbor walkway calendar photo from the same source mentioned in #1. Bright blue cardstock scraps help to outline these 2 sections. A wood laser die-cut dragonfly had orange glitter paint applied to it. Three Gerbera Daisies die-cut floral stick-ons accent the upper right corner. In the middle is a stamp from Illustrated Faith. The stamp quote says "Live in this moment. Appreciate life. Be here now."

Live in this moment:

     Take a breather from whatever you've been doing and ponder about what's buried in your stash that you can resurrect for this #2 theme challenge at FQCB. Bragging rights to be part of the Top 3 Barnraisers is possible but you've got to post an entry. C'mon. Join the messy fun. I got ink lines on my fingers from stamping and inking most of the paper edges. Messy artistic fun is better than sweating doing canning or out in a bean field pulling weeds!