Proud To Be An American

Hi Friends!

For those of you in the United States, I hope you had a great Independence Day!  I am sharing another card designed using the brand new release stamp set, Patriotic Background along with The Red, White & Blue Bundle and Patriotic Sentiments (all from Stamp Simply). 

This card is very similar to my last post and once the coloring was finished, it is fairly easy to assemble and relatively flat for mailing.

To create this card:

De-static a piece of white cardstock and a piece of light kraft cardstock with an embossing powder tool, ink the Patriotic Background stamp using Versafine Black Onyx ink and stamp onto one of the panels and repeat the same process with the flag image from The Red, White & Blue Bundle on the other panel. 

De-static the lower part of the shield panel, ink the “Happy Independence Day” sentiment from the Patriotic Sentiments stamp set using Versafine Black Onyx ink at the bottom of the background stamped panel.  Apply clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat tool.

Apply clear embossing powder to both panels and heat set with a heat tool.

Once the embossing has cooled, color the background and flag image with water-based markers and watercolor pencils.

Use a gold metallic paint pen to fill in around the shield and stars on the background and the star on the flag pole.

Once you are satisfied with the coloring, de-static the middle area of the background with an embossing powder tool, ink the “Proud to Be An American” sentiment from The Red, White & Blue Bundle with Versafine Black Onyx Ink, stamp onto the prepared area and apply clear embossing powder. 

Heat set the embossing powder and once cooled, trim close to the edge of the background perimeter and layer onto a 4” x 5 ¼” piece of white cardstock.  

Mount the background panel onto a 4 ⅛”x 5 ⅜”  piece of red cardstock and adhere to a 4 ¼” x 5 ½” white card base.  

Die cut the flag image with the coordinating die (also die cutting a second flag image to layer behind the colored image).

Mount the flag onto the card front with dimensional foam.

To finish off the card. add a strip of star designer paper to the inside left hand part of the card base (I like to use up my scraps this way).   

I enjoy playing along with online challenges and will be participating with the Color Throwdown #800 Red, Blue and Kraft Challenge , the Simon Says Wednesday “Stars and/or Stripes” Challenge, the Colorful Options "July 2024 Flags" Challenge and the Word Art Wednesday #655-#656 “Anything Goes” Challenge.

If you have not had a chance to check out the rest of my Sister Design Team cards on the Stamp Simply blog, or the above challenge sites yet, I hope you take the time to do so- gorgeous inspiration from all!

Stamp Sets: Patriotic Background, The Red, White & Blue Bundle, Patriotic Sentiments  (Stamp Simply)

Ink/Mediums: Versafine Black Onyx, Stampin’ Write Markers-Poppy Parade, Raspberry Ripple, Night of Navy; Derwent Watercolor Pencils- Navy, Red, Black; Gold Metallic Paint Pen

Cardstock/Paper: White, Poppy Parade, Sahara Sand; Carta Bella The Fourth of July 6x6

Accessories/Tools: Gemini, Jr., Stamp Simply Dies- The Red, White & Blue Bundle, Embossing Powder Tool, Heat Tool

Don’t forget to stop by and check out the current specials at Stamp Simply!

It is not too late for our Fourth of July sale (use code JULY20)!

Thanks again for visiting and I hope you have a wonderful week!