06 July 2013

A little Patriotic fun....................

Hello there.
Well, I seem to have got into 4th July patriotic mode.
The  ColourQ challenge #196   has this wonderful 'God Bless You' angel image as inspiration.
As a Kiwi (New Zealand), I have always admired how openly patriotic Americans are, especially on the 4th of July.
So, just for fun, I made three cards for the challenge.

 
This is the first round card I have ever made. Very interesting working on a smaller scale.
The large stars on all the cards were made by stamping a Hero Arts dot background stamp, embossing with White powder, colouring with Memento ink, then punching out the star.
 
 


I loosened up a little with this card by swiping distress stain across the background.
The embossed wings are from Tim Holtz....such a glorious shape.

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The last card is the first card I made.
I have star punches, (I discovered after all cards were made that I also have a wonderful MFT star die, Grrrrrr)..............but I do not have star stamps...........soon to be rectified!!


 
I hope you enjoy a Kiwi's version of Stars and Stripes.
A belated happy 4th July America. :-)
 
 
 

4 comments:

Jen Mitchell said...

These are all so great! Thanks for making such fun cards to celebrate our American independence! And thanks for joining us at colourQ!

Kara said...

wonderful cards!

Yapha Mason said...

Such great cards! Thank you for celebrating with us! Great use of the colors. Thanks for playing at ColourQ.

Sylvia said...

Thanks for making three cards for the 4th, Karen, they are all equally nice and very Patriotic! So happy you played with us this week at the colourQ.