Hooray for the Red, White and Blue

Hi there.  I'm glad you stopped by!

I know I'm late for Independence Day.  I was too slow to get these in on time.

For good measure, I did another.

I think these can work for those big grandsons!

I originally did these cards for JoAnn's Red, White and Blue Challenge at

Seize the Birthday but wasn't quick enough.  But the challenge this time has an 

option of a non-neutral card base.  Woot, this fits! I do love to play options!

Now let's see if I can get this in on time...

Challenges:

Seize the Birthday:  Non-neutral Card Base

  

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Home of the Brave (CTMH), Botanical Silhouettes (PTI)

Ink:   Dapper Denim, Real Red (SU)

Paper:   Midnight Muse, Real Red (SU), Neenah

Other:  Lucky Stars EF, Stripes EF (SU), Stars Framelits (SU), Skinny Strips Die (MFT)

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Fireworks, You Wow Me (MFT)

Ink:   Dapper Denim, Real Red (SU), Wow Emb.

Paper:   Midnight Muse, Silver Foil (SU), Neenah

Other:  Wow Die (MFT), Clear EP, Silver EP, Subtle EF (SU), Star Border Punch (SU)

Celebrating Independence Day

Hello.

Happy Independence Day
if you live in the USA.

And I hope my Canadian friends had a wonderful Canada Day!

This is a CASE of a card by my good friend LeAnne.

Thanks for the inspiration, my friend!

The main image was an ATC card done for the June swap

for my crafty ladies group.

I've stamped on Naturals White and Cherry Cobbler snippets

with my Woodgrain background stamp, then cut both into strips.

I used a new embossing folder, Pinewood Planks for the background

and added even more texture with corrugated cardboard and burlap ribbon.

I also want to share the bounty my friend Candee (Card Corner by Candee) brought me.

Everything was full of candy.  Appropriate don't you think?

She also knows my favorite treat and spoils me.

You can see how she made these goodies here. 

While you're there check out her other posts.

Candee has some awesome organizational hints and lots of creative cards and projects!

Challenges:

Just Us Girls Challenge: Congrats on 400 challenges! That's something to celebrate!

Less is More: Colors of your country's flag.

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Red, White and/or Blue.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Time Out Challenges: Celebrations with the optional twist of one layer cards. No option here.

 

 

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps: Woodgrain Background (retired SU) 

Ink:   Midnight Muse (retired SU)

Paper:   Naturals White Midnight Muse (retired SU), Cherry Cobbler

Other:  Pinewood Planks Dynamic EF (SU), Corrugated Cardboard (box), Star Punches, Burlap Ribbon (retired)

Seeing Stars and Featuring Laura

I don't do a lot of cute cards.  I love flowers and butterflies and embossed backgrounds.  You hadn't noticed? LOL.  Sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in a rut.  I've seen so many cute cards done with Penny Black.  So when I saw a set at a neighborhood scrap meet, I grabbed it before anybody else saw it.  It's been sitting in my NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff) box for several months now. It's time to break out from the norm a bit.  Just a bit.

While browsing Laura's gallery last week, (she's the Featured Stamper at SCS) I saw this card and saw the perfect opportunity to use this set.

All the Independence Day challenges made this little guy the winner of which stamp to use.

ColourQ #196

Addicted to Stamps and More#52  MAKE YOUR MARK

I used Markers to color and to doodle.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #79  cause I used a few snippets here.  I actually pulled some snippets out of the scrap basket for those itty, bitty stars!  My desire for Penny Black originated at Di's site.  Oh, the enabling that goes on here in blogland!

Simon Says ----- PATRIOTIC 

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bubbly (Penny Black)

Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Memento), SU Markers (Real Red, Midnight Muse, More Mustard, Crumb Cake

Paper:  Midnight Muse, Whisper White, Real Red

Other:  Stars EF (Cuttlebug), Blender Pen, Star Die (Verve)

It makes me happy that you could stop by.

Enjoy!

Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue

Happy 4th of July!

Challenges:

SCS Color Challenge  RED, WHITE, and BLUE

SCS Sketch Challenge

CASology

  

Simon Says Stamp

I'm so excited to have a day to stamp!

Hope you're having a wonderful holiday if you're in the states, a wonderful Thursday if you're not!

Enjoy!

Featuring Connie and the Veterans

I had a few stars leftover from the card I posted the other day and being  inspired by Connie (aka Stamp300), who is the Featured Stamper at SCS this week, I put them together like this.

This didn't make it into the packet for the Honor Flight.  But I think my Dad will love it and he's a Veteran of WWII too. 

The CASology challenge this week is

I looked up the meaning of extraterrestrial since I didn't have any space people in my collection.  Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it.  Extraterrestrial may refer to any object or being beyond (extra-) the planet Earth (terrestrial). It is derived from the Latin Root extra ("outside", "outwards") and terrestris ("earthly", "of or relating to the Earth").  

I think stars would qualify.  Maybe.

I think I can take these snippets over to Pixie's Crafty Workshop to share with the fun folks there.  She's offering a really pretty stamp for a prize and maybe a second entry will be the lucky one.

Here is another card I sent for the Honor Flight.  The eagle was stamped with a retired SU set that my friend brought to a Stamp & Share when we were doing cards for the guys.   

I used the sketch from the SCS Sketch Challenge last week.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps: Sanded

Ink:  Not Quite Navy

Paper:  Naturals White, Midnight Muse, Cherry Cobbler, DSP

Other:  Large and Small Star Punches (retired), Essentials Paper Piercing Pack, Paper Piercing Tool

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  In Wilderness

Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, 

Paper:  Shimmery White, Snippets of red, blue and DSP, Leftover from DSP packing

Other:  Simply Scored

Glad you could stop by.  I hope you come back soon.

Enjoy!

Seeing Stars

I had a request from a friend to do some cards for World War II Veterans that will be going on the Honor Flight to Washington DC to see the World War II Memorial.  On the way home they will have a "mail call".  This is a time when the vets are each given a bag of letters, notes, and thank you cards that have been provided by their family and friends. Here's where you could do something meaningful for a vet that doesn't have any mail or very little. 

Sue is asking us to consider making a "Thank you for your service" card that will be given to a vet on this April 23rd flight, that didn't receive any or very little mail.  It would be nice if we added a personal note thanking them for their service.  (There will be vets from different war theaters so just thank them for them service.) Sue needs the cards by March 31st.

So today, I set aside some time to do some cards to send Sue for this worthy program.  Here's the first one.

Freshly Made Sketches was a big help with this.  Here's their sketch.

I punched the stars from a piece of white that had been stamped with the Sanded background stamp (retired) and mounted some snippets of DSP behind them.

I'm going over to Pixie's Crafty Workshop with my snippets.  There's always some fun going on over there!

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sanded (retired)

Ink:  Not Quite Navy

Paper:  Whisper White, Midnight Muse, DSP snippets

Other:  Large and Small punches (retired), Stripes EF

I have some others to share with you but I need to get some pictures and editing done.  I've had the best time creating this afternoon!

Hope you've had a great weekend.  Thanks for spending some of it with me.

Enjoy!