4th of July Cards

I have gotten a head start on my 4th of July cards.

This card uses a House Mouse image from several years ago, Stampin' Up! star punches, Freedom die from Frantic Stampers and the fireworks stamps (Rocket's Red Glare) and Firecrackers die from Taylored Expressions.  The step card base is a Stephanie Barnard Sizzix Framelits.

This is a Frantic Stampers card.  Both the stars die and the Freedom die are from Frantic Stampers.

I used Stampin' Up!'s Swirly Squiggles die for the stripes and my Cricut for the 4th and the fireworks.

Another all Frantic Stamper's card using their star plate die and the Freedom die again.

A different color variation of the first Freedom card.  I like the white stars on the blue back ground but I like the other card better.

This car also uses the Stampin' Up! Swirly Squiggles die paired with the Tailored Expressions Rocket's Red Glare stamp set and corresponding die set, Firecrackers.

Congratulations on becoming a citizen!

I made this for a friend when he became a citizen.

4th of July

4th of July Cards

Here is one of the 4th of July cards I made.  I used this week's sketch from Clean & Simple Stamping.

The sketch was perfect for 4th of July cards and gave me much needed inspiration!  I had the red base and the blue embossed with stars and the liberty, but the first card I made lacked excitement.

Paper:  a nice deep red from Marco's paper, generic white card stock, and a shiny blue from The Paper Cut called So...Silk Fair Blue.

Ink: None

Stamps: None

Accessories:  Embossing folders:  D'vine Swirl and Swiss Dots by Cuttlebug and Stars by Crafts Too; Cricut cartridge Stand and Salute; Stampin Up! star punches

More Card Candy

This time around it is Patriotic card candy.

The picture is not perfect because the scanner's field of focus is to narrow for the 3D firecrackers.

The topper is blue splatter paper I've had forever, cut with SU's Top Note die folded in half. The red is cut with SU's scalloped circle punch, the letters are Colorböx's Alpha Stax stamped with blue ink (?) using a little stick stamp from Michael's years ago. The firecrackers are patriotic paper scraps rolled with jewelry hemp for the wick. The stars were cut with the Sizzix Star #2...the smaller red die for the white, SU's larger star punch for the red one, and the blue one is Sizzix's yellow border star die which was then embossed with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder. All paper used was scraps and I don't know the vendor. The photo corners were punched using SU's punch and once again were punched from scraps. The last piece of candy was punched using SU's curly label punch from scraps of blue paper that has darker blue stars on it (scraps) and SU's small star punch from more maroon color scraps...yes, I have bunches of patriotic paper scraps and this is a great way to use them!!!