Hi Stampers!
Memorial
Day is upon us once more and I am so thankful for the men and women who have
served our country and given the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom- may we
never forget their service and sacrifice!
I wanted
to create one more patriotic card with Memorial Day in mind and chose to find inspiration
from the As You See It AYSI088 Sketch Challenge as well as the
Splitcoaststampers’ Free For All FA274 “Oh My Stars” (see details here and gallery here).
If you
have not had a chance to do so, I hope you will find the time to visit the challenge
sites- they all have wonderful Design Team samples as well as inspiration from their
galleries!
To create this card:
Use Stampin’ Write Markers to carefully color the eagle image from the Our
Daily Bread Designs (ODBD) Land of the Free stamp set... Basic Black for the
white part of the feathers, Night of Navy for the star area and retired Riding
Hood Red for the stripes on the feathers.
Add additional color to the stripes with a Cajun Craze
marker, Daffodil Delight for the beak and Sahara Sand over the entire image. Add Ranger® Tim Holtz® Antique Linen Distress
Stain over the entire image to “antique” a bit more.
Fussy-cut the eagle image and mount onto Vary Vanilla
cardstock, fussy-cut again allowing a bit of the Very Vanilla cardstock to show
and set aside (I decided to add this step since the eagle seemed to blend a bit too well with the background paper I chose- you could of course, omit this step :-)).
Mount the Authentique® Price Collection paper onto Very Vanilla
cardstock, trim and mount onto Riding Hood Red cardstock, trim and mount onto the
Night of Navy card base.
Create the vertical strip for the sketch leaving a portion
of Very Vanilla in the center for the sentiment.
Create the banners using the new Banner Triple Punch for the banners (they are not as thick
as the ones that the punch would normally make, just insert the banners and
flip the punch over so you can see the end of the paper to punch the banner
points) and mount onto the vertical strip.
Add the Antique Brass brads and mount the layered vertical strip to the card
front.
Ink the sentiment from the retired Stampin’ Up! Service and
Sacrifice set using the Riding Hood Red marker, stamp onto a piece of Very
Vanilla cardstock (I used a piece in my scraps that had been previously punched with the
Note Tag Punch), trim the edges and mount onto a piece of Riding Hood Red
cardstock (again, I used the Note Tag Punch to create the curve on the left
hand side).
Mount the sentiment onto the card front and add the eagle
with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.
Ink the star from the ODBD Land of the Free set with the
Night of Navy and Riding Hood Red Stampin’ Up! markers and stamp onto a piece
of Very Vanilla cardstock that had been distressed with Ranger® Tim Holtz®
Antique Linen Distress Stain.
Fussy-cut the star, add the Antique Brass brad to the center
and mount the star to the star to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals®.
To finish off the card, repeat the same steps as above with
the flag (from the Stampin’ Up! Service and Sacrifice set).
Stamps: Service and
Sacrifice (retired SU!), Land of the Free (ODBD)
Ink: Stampin’
Write Markers- Basic Black, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight,
Night of Navy, Sahara Sand, retired Riding Hood Red; Ranger® Tim Holtz® Antique Linen
Distress Stain
Paper: Very Vanilla, Night of Navy, retired Riding Hood Red;
Authentique® Pride Collection
Accessories: Banner Triple Punch, Note Punch; Antique Brass
brads
Thanks again for stopping by- my husband is on vacation today and we will be reflecting on the lives
that were sacrificed for our freedom today as we take a day to remember.
I hope all of you will have the time to take
a moment today to think about those that have gone before you to keep our
country free!! I am so
thankful that the Lord has allowed the United States of America to remain free
and that He sent His Son to give the Ultimate Sacrifice for all of us- may we
never forget!!
