The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Red, White & Blue where the predominant colors on your card should be some combination of any of these three colors. I have years worth of Red, White & Blue papers and ephemera in a 12"x12" scrapbooking container, so pretty much all of my products are … Read more
I had a request this week for a card celebrating a new US Citizen. I remember helping my friend Mary study for her Citizenship test, and I'm not sure I would pass it without a lot of studying. I chose some patriotic papers, a patriotic medallion, and a few glittery stars using the … Read more
For some reason, I didn't pull out my red, white and blue paper collection this year (I keep it in it's own container in my studio), so today I'm pulling it out and pulling together some cards that I feel like would be okay to mail after Independence Day. I started out with the Color … Read more
I broke out my patriotic paper collection for this week's color challenge at The Paper Players. I loved these fun little inchies from the Doodlebug Land that I Love Collection, so I mounted them with foam tape on silver metallic cardstock for contrast with the background paper from the same collection. … Read more
Today's card is inspired by the photograph at The Card Concept. I used the colors, the flags, plants and wood grain. The layout is from Try Stampin' (or Not) on Tuesday … the papers and stickers are Carta Bella God Bless America.
When I saw the current Atlantic Hearts Sketch, it made me want to go cut strips of paper from my cardstock scraps … so I did, using the color inspiration from the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge. It was the perfect opportunity to break out my stash of 4th of July papers and have some … Read more
What an absolutely gorgeous day we have in Eastern Iowa. We've been on two walks already today and will likely take a third. You have to take advantage of sunny days in the 70's. I decided it was the perfect day to start on some Fourth of July cards featuring the adorable Fourth of July … Read more
I found a few sets of 4th of July stickers when I was cleaning out last week, so I decided to make a few cards today. I keep all of my red, white and blue (or ivory, white and blue) paper collections in a 12" container, so I can pull them out this time of … Read more
The theme at The Male Room is Fireworks, which is the perfect inspiration to make some patriotic cards. I started with the sketch from Retro Rubber and We R Memory Keepers Red, White & Blue Collection (one of my all time favorites for Independence Day). I used two different papers with beautiful fireworks designs. My … Read more
In honor of Memorial Day, I made a patriotic tag inspired by the Tag You're It Challenge. I used a journaling card as my base and added some ribbon to create a tag. I embellished with foam glitter star stickers.