Decorate to Celebrate Challenge ~ 4th of July

Welcome my crafty friends!

Rhonda of Scrap Happens with Rhonda and Amy of Love to Crop have teamed up to start a new challenge blog... Decorate to Celebrate.

It's all about "Decorations to Celebrate" an occasion. Cakes, Banners, Boxes, Goody Bags, etc.

I am so excited that today I have been asked to be a Guest Designer!! The theme I was asked to work with is "4th of July"

On the 4th of July my family spends the whole day down at a huge park eating, listening to music, and other live entertainment until it gets dark and we can watch the amazing fireworks. Well, this year I decided to make my kids some goody bags full of mini coloring books, crayons, glow sticks, candy, etc so that they wouldn't get bored. (There is nothing worse then bored kids when the adults are trying to catch up. LOL)

For these bags I cut the "fireworks" and "4th of July" from the "Stand and Salute" cartridge. I on purpose did not line up the layers because I wanted more of the red to show through. I added ultra fine glitter to the white layer for lots of sparkle. The area was too big to use Stickles. :)

Here is a close up of one of the bags.

For the bag topper I used Diamond Stickles for the sparkle. I doodled with my gel pen and added bows to the corner made out of twine from "Divine Twine".

I just want to say a Huge thank you to Rhonda and Amy for inviting me to be their guest, please head over to their Blog - Decorate to Celebate and be inspired by all the fabulous creations.

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!!

United We Stand Card

Hello everyone.

It has been a crazy day here but I managed to squeeze in a quick and simple card. I made this card for 3 challenges the first being "The Kraft Journal" the second being Crazy About Cricut's "Thankful Thursday" and the third being "Creative Cutter Room"

To see all the details about these challenges swing by their blogs.

The base of the card is kraft card stock and the card measures 4x9in. I used my "Stand and Salute" cartridge to cut out "United We Stand" I did all the layers using kraft, blue, and red card stock and doodled with my white gel pen. I'll be sending this to my Brother and his wife both of which are serving in U.S. Army.

I hope you enjoy and have a great day. :)

Another 4th of July Card

Here is another A2 sized 4th of July card using the same firecracker stamp from Peachy Keen. This time I stamped the image over and over again making the paper a background. I again colored in all the images with my Sharpie markers. I then used my Martha Stewart yellow glitter pen on the fuse. I made this card very simple, just adding a 7/8 ribbon from Walmart and cutting out the star and shadow from the "Office Help" cartridge at 3". The sentiment was printed out from my computer and cut out using a 1 in punch. The faux stitching was done with black and white gel pens.

Hope you enjoy this super simple card. Have a great 4th of July!

4th of July- Firecracker Card

With Independence Day I decided to make a card celebrating this wonderful holiday. A while back I purchased a firecracker stamp from Peachy Keen. I loved it but it was too small to be used as a card centerpiece.

Since I really wanted to use it as a centerpiece I employed my wonderful husband's assistance. I stamped the image onto a piece of paper. He then scanned it and enlarged it to make it approximately 5 inches top to bottom. I then printed the image onto cardstock and added color using Sharpie markers. I used Fiskar's threading water punch on a scrap of blue cardstock. I added a 7/8 inch red and white polka dot ribbon I purchased at Wal-Mart.

I picked the sentiment myself and printed it off my computer. I then added faux stitching using a black gel pen around the sentiment.

To make the background for this card I stamped plain white cardstock with Stampin' Up's Yo-Yo Yellow ink pad and a star stamp I purchased on clearance at Michael's for $0.50. I then added yellow Stickles to the bursting fuse. I used foam tape under the sentiment and blue firecracker. The fuse is raised on 1.5 inch foam blocks.

These are all the supplies I used. Hope you enjoyed the card. Have a Great Day!