It is time to catch up with my card postings here on the blog. As is now becoming common, I post cards for the holiday or celebration we just had instead of the one coming up. If you are thrilled with the card you can find it on Pinterest or Instagram under Stampalosopher and save its design for next year. Or you can come back to this blog and click the ‘Recipe Box’ tab and scroll to the card and click its thumbnail in the Recipe Box to access the blog post for that card. With that being said, let’s look at cards for the Fourth of July (or perhaps July birthdays)!
I wondered if we had been archived!
No, Sal, I just had a camping trip with the two grandsons, then both families joining us over the 4th for some boating and camping. Later I had the two granddaughters for a week with trips to and from Steamboat to pick them up and take them home. It has been a wonderfully full month!
Recipe for Firework Card:
- Base: Night of Navy, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
- Layer (X2): Real Red, 5 1/4 X 4, Emboss with textured embossing folder (just a guess)
- Top Note: White 5 1/4 X 4, die cut once with the top note, then turn 90 degrees and die cut again
- sponge the edge with Night of Navy
- Use Taylored Expressions 6 x 6 ‘Party in the USA’ Stencils to stamp the background
- stencil 1 – Night of Navy stars & stripes
- stencil 2 – Real Red stars & stripes
- stencil 3 – Basic Grey stars & stripes
- Firework strips
- Night of Navy, 4 X 3, score at 2, fold and then cut 12 -1/8 inch strips
- Real Red, 2 1/2 X 3, score at 1 1/4, fold and then cut 12 – 1/8 inch strips
- Put a little bit of glue on each strip on the unscored end and attach it to itself; put another tiny bit of glue on the inside of the blue strip to attach the red strip. Place the strips symmetrically around the fireworks securing them to the Top Note with a 3/4″ punched circle from a double back sheet
- When all are attached to the circle, add tombow glue to the center to reinforce the pieces
- Punch a 3/4″ circle from the Amazon DSP and add to the very center
- Inside Top Layer: White 5 X 3 3/4
- Bottom Strip: Whaline Patriotic Pattern DSP from Amazon, 3 3/4 X 3/4
- Bottom Front Strips: Night of Navy, 3/8 X 4; White 1/8 X 4
- Bottom Greeting: White 3 X 1 1/2, die cut with detailed Bands Die then stamp with ‘Band Together’ stamp set; the little blue stars are from the Hometown Greetings Edgelit Dies
The inside greeting of ‘Celebrate Freedom’ is from the Taylored Expressions ‘Land That I Love’ foil it sheets. The sheet is foiled with blue foil and then cut to size. The inside and the front greeting are lightly sponged on the edges with Night of Navy. I will link Textured Expressions in the computer at the end of the blog.
The next card uses the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ stamp from Taylored Expressions, the ‘Land That I Love’ foil it sheets, and the ‘Hometown Greetings’ edgelit dies from Stampin’ Up!
Recipe for God Bless America card
- Base: Real Red, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 scored at 4 1/4
- Layer (X2): Night of Navy, 5 1/4 X 4
- Top (X2): White 5 X 3 3/4, Use sticky notes to mask the red for stamping blue and then mask blue to stamp the red of the flag. Use the stamparatus so that you can stamp several times to get a nice dark blue/red
- Church: White textured paper, 3 X 1, cut with Hometown Greetings Edgelit Dies
- Die cut from Night of Navy a second church, 2 3/4X 1, to adhere behind the white and slightly to the side for shadow (next time I would add a blue strip connected to the greeting like the inside has)
- Note: The Foil It Sheet from Taylored Expressions has several greetings on one sheet so it needs to have the greeting cut first and then use a separate set of blue foil sheet for the layer, usually you can cut the blue foil to size and then foil it and use the negative for the layer
- Greeting: Foil God Bless America
- God Bless America, 2 1/2 X 1 1/8
- Blue Foil, 2 3/4 X 1 3/8
- The Foil It Sheet from Taylored Expressions has several greetings on one sheet so it needs to have the greeting cut first and then use a separate set of blue foil sheet for the layer
- Greeting Inside: Land That I Love
- Land That I Love, 1 1/2 X 2
- Blue Foil Layer, 1 3/4 X 2 1/4
- Blue Houses on Inside: Night of Navy, 3 1/2 X 2, die cut with Hometown Greetings Edgelit Dies
- Top Strip on Inside: Amazon Whaline Patriotic DSP, 5 X 7/8
Thanks for visiting!
SAL, Salute A Land we love
Karen
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Riddle of the day:
Question: How can you drop a raw egg from a height onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Answer: Concrete floors are very hard to crack.
