Stars & Stripes

It’s Friday, so time for another challenge at QKR Stampede!  Stop by the challenge, which is always “Anything Goes” and several prizes are awarded. Maybe you’ll be inspired to enter a card or two yourself?

This week I made an extra DT card using a few wonderful patriotic digis. I’m working in gift packets of cards and needed some 4^th of July cards so was excited when I remembered that I had these wonderful images. Each of the cards features the Eureka Stamp sentiment [ES-digi37801-Declaration of Independence] that you can find HERE. The Happy 4^th of July sentiment is computer generated with a font named Asiyah Script, which I feel looks very similar to the font on the other sentiment.

The first card features a cute cat image from Eureka Stamps (ES-digi33001 Patriotic Kitty) colored with Spectrum Noir markers and a white Sakura Gelly Roll gel pen. Scrapbook paper added color and contrast.

Entered into: 

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #402-403 Anything Goes                   

Polkadoodles Challenge Week 36-Anything Goes                                  

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                       

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- Sept                                 

The second card features a cute pup image from Eureka Stamps (ES-digi33103 Patriotic Puppy) colored with Spectrum Noir markers and a white Sakura Gelly Roll gel pen. The blue paper is actually a scrap of vinyl wallpaper from a give-away wallpaper book that I picked up at a paint store many years ago. A bit of checked ribbon and a sprinkling of white star stickers finished the card.

Entered into: 

Outlawz Challenges- Songs and Rhymes- Walking the Dog

Cute Card Thursday- Challenge #598- Anything Goes

Pink Gem Challenge- Week 17 Anything Goes

2craftycrittercrazies Challenge- #30                              

My final post for this blog is a card for the current Double D’s Challenge that requires our entries feature one of the items in the inspiration photo. I chose a to stamp a single, beautiful tulip using a Posh Impressions wood-mount stamp. I inked the image with two shades of pink pigment inks and two shades of green, them firmly pressed the stamp against a scrap of very light pink mulberry paper. (You can't see this layer of mulberry paper very well in the photo, so I took a closeup. You can see that this unusual mulberry paper, which I've had it in my paper stash since 1997,  has threads of white, pink and yellow.) I backed it with a piece of white cardstock, and then a piece of pale green mulberry paper. The sentiment is a Couture Creations die-cut named MINI HELLO FRIEND that I purchased from Simon Says Stamps. The final touch was to add a touch of bling with a tiny pink rhinestone heart sticker.

 

 

Entered into: 

Double D’s Challenge- Featured                  

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge – Lots of Layers

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Stamp It                                          

Crafty Catz Challenge- #473 Anything Goes (Simple greeting)