Patriotic 1776

I decided to make another card for today's Splitcoast Stampers 500th Inspiration Challenge inspired by this Patriotic Courthouse Wedding of Kehrin & Jason. I used this week's Retro Sketch together with Echo Park Stars & Stripes papers and stickers.     I'm also joining the Patriotic Challenge at Addicted to CAS. A simple white die … Read more

Get Fired Up!

Tonight I was inspired by the Get Fired Up! Challenge at Retro Rubber to break out some Echo Park Stars & Stripes paper and a vintage A Muse Sentiment (this stamp might be 10 years old … just can't part with those great tiny sentiments). I combined two papers, a sticker and my sentiment stamp. … Read more

Patriotic Birthday

Patriotic papers aren't only for Independence Day … they also work well for birthdays (or any celebration – they're featuring red, white & blue celebration cards at Sentimental Sundays this week). I used Bo Bunny's Liberty papers together with this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch for a birthday card for someone who loves red, white & … Read more

Let Freedom Ring

I'm sneaking in just under the deadline at Freshly Made Sketches today.   I used some die cut fireworks and papers from We R Memory Keepers Red, White & Blue Collection (perfect again for Sentimental Sundays). This card reminds me of all of the fun my brother & I had shooting off fireworks when we … Read more

4th of July Celebration

Today I'm Getting Patriotic by Celebrating the 4th of July with this week's Sentimental Sundays theme.  I love the shades of Red, White & Blue in the We R Memory Keepers Yankee Doodles Collection. I trimmed the 6" paper in the middle, so I could have stars around the border of each side.  I also … Read more

Yankee Doodles

It's a Scrap Attack at Shopping our Stash this week.  And, since I had lots of patriotic scraps of paper left from my card creations last week, I decided to use them with this week's The Shabby Tea Room Inspiration Photo to celebrate Independence Day. I used this week's City Crafter Sketch by the talented … Read more

Bless the USA

I wanted to make a few more patriotic cards to celebrate Independence Day, so I cut into more of my We R Memory Keepers Yankee Doodles Collection.  This first one uses this week's Mojo Monday Sketch & three different star punches. The second one uses the sketch from the Clean & Simple Sunday Challenge, but … Read more