Holiday Treats

 With the July 4th celebration just around the corner, I made a couple treat boxes for my friend's grandsons. I bought a container of red, white and blue  gummy bears that I thought would be cute for the occasion, so I made these boxes and filled them with those candies. They were made with Lawn Fawn candy box dies, and I found some remnants of red and blue polka dotted dsp to make them, then added some remnant die-cut elements for 3 sides. One side says "Happy", one side says "July" and the third side says "4th." I added punched stars in assorted colors and tied the ends with some red, white, and blue twine in keeping with the patriotic colors. I think they'll get a kick of out them when the July 4th festivities begin!

I'm sharing these with:

the Four Seasons Challenge for June 2024 - A/G Summer

https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/06/june-2024-anything-goes-summer-challenge.html

the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Bright and Cheerful

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/31321-2/

Thanks for stopping by and may you have a great week ahead!

Carol

Happy Independence Day!

I'm just sharing the last of the July 4th cards I made this year. This one is  Sweet 'n Sassy's Cocoa Mouse, colored with Copics along with a computer generated sentiment. Having worked for 23 years making US flags, I'm always partial to anything made with our American flag.

 A long time ago when I was making cards for OWH before they closed, a dear friend of mine bought me this Tim Holtz flag die which I used on many cards that were donated to our military. I thought it was time to pull it out and use it again so I made this card for that friend of mine and mailed it to her. The ticket was done with Sweet 'n Sassy dies and the USA letters were cut from silver mirror card with my Quickutz (anyone else still have one of those relics around? LOL) The tiny stars on the flag field were negatives from a star border die and placed in a circle to represent the Betsy Ross flag design of years gone by.

Happy July 4th everyone! Enjoy your freedom and stand up to preserve it!

Carol

Patriotic Cards

I thought I'd share some more cards I made for July 4th. I used lots of snippets of metallic and glittered cardstock along with sequins and gemstones and anything that sparkled to create these cards. The Celebrate die is from Lil Inker, and the larger stars were cut with Sweet 'n Sassy star dies. The tiny star embossing folder is from Darice and all those tiny stars and diamonds were doo-dads I saved from previous projects.

For this design, I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder that reminded me of stripes. The smaller red star was done with a SU! retired mini punch.

Here are 3 of them together with the star embossing folder. All done in red, white, blue and silver.

 I'm entering the first card into these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge  - A/G

Four Seasons Summer July 2023 Challenge - A/G Summer related

Colorful Options July 2023 - use Red, White, and Blue

Allsorts Challenge week # 735 - A/G or optional Summertime

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Carol

July 4th

 Here's a card I made for the July 4th holiday coming up. I used a very old Sweet 'n Sassy Cocoa mouse digital image with a firecracker along with an older piece of double sided dsp that I got at Tuesday Morning years ago. I used some MFT stitched square dies to cut the image and red mat and added a sparkly blue star done with a (r) SU! mini punch. The sentiment was computer generated and die-cut with a MFT fishtail banner die. The background design was made using the Freshly Made Sketch challenge #591 but I needed to change the sentiment placement with the image I used. Seeing the sketch design and my card side-by-side I realize I reversed the design too...sigh. Some days I'm a hopeless case 😋

Also entering this into the June Happy Little Stampers A/G with Dies challenge 

Thanks for stopping by today and make it a good one. Keep smiling 😁

Carol

Happy 4th of July

 Happy Independence day America!

Today I'm sharing a card made to celebrate July 4th here in the USA.

I used lots of stars and stripes to represent our flag.

The red and white stripes were made with snippets, aligned in a diagonal pattern and placed behind a white frame. The sentiment panel is a die-cut from SU! that I embossed with a square lattice ef. The word "happy" came from an Easter die set, and the "4" was cut with an Impression Obsession set of number dies and a snippet of red glitter paper. The blue stars were done with a SU! retired mini star punch, and the tiny white stars were negatives from a SSS star border die.

I'm sharing this with...

The Repeat Impressions Theme challenge J3021 - red, white, & blue

the Dies R Us Challenge #172 - a/g using dies from their store (I.O.)

the Paper Players PP548 - stars and/or stripes

Thanks for stopping by and I wish everyone a safe and happy day of celebration!

Carol

Happy Independence Day!

July 4th is the day we celebrate our independence here in the US and I made a card for this occasion using the colors of the American flag. I used the CAS(E) this Sketch #379 design to put this together. A strip of blue, 2 strips of red cut with a MFT notched border, a sentiment and some fireworks (stamped off in red, blue and platinum planet for a softer look) and 4 stars for the 4th of July, and I called this one done.

Wishing everyone who celebrates this day a very happy, fun, and safe July 4th!

Carol

Happy July 4th!

Wishing all my American friends a happy and festive July 4th celebration today of our independence! I hope everyone enjoys this day we celebrate America!

I made just one card this year for July 4th and here it is. I used a combination of dies, designer papers in patriotic colors, and embellishments and just went a little crazy with it all. I'll list supplies at the bottom of this post.

Here's the inside.

I'll enter this into the following challenges:

The Stinkin Inkers Challenge blog - stars and stripes

Repeat Impressions DCCJ319 challenge - red, white, and blue

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - stars and/or stripes

A Place to Start July 2019 challenge - anything goes

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #348 - Holiday

Thanks for stopping by, and here's wishing everyone a special day today, whether you celebrate July 4th or not!

Carol

Supplies for card front:

SU! blue dsp, Recollections red & white dsp, Celebrate die Lil Inker, SB Labels 25 die, tiny star embossing folder by Darice, "July" letters done with Quickutz, twine from the twinery, random punched and die-cut star negatives, number 4 die from I.O., "th" done with stick stamps

Supplies for card inside:

red and blue dsp from SU!, Best die from SSS, word "Day" from SSS oh happy day die set, tickets by SNSS dies, stitched oval by MFT, "summer" letters done with my Quickutz, random punched/die cut stars, word "of" done with stick stamps

July 4th Cards

I know July 4th has come and gone for this year, but I wanted to share a couple cards I made that never got posted. I saw a card like this on Pinterest and loved the simple design, so I made a couple of my own. This uses red, white, navy, and kraft, and I used a SU! mini punch to cut/swap the stars into the fishtail banners. Those fishtail banners were just strips of cardstock that were punched on one end with a hexagon punch to create the banner look. Easy! The SU! sentiment was done with Navy Ink and I used some red, white, and blue twisted twine to wrap around the kraft panel and tie a bow. Here's the inside...

My friend Mary Anne shared a few Calendar designer papers with me, so I cut out the month of July, added a punched red star over the 4, and added a strip of navy stars dsp horizontally across the bottom, along with a background of white stars on light blue. The word "Happy" was die-cut with an Echo Park Happy Easter die using red cardstock.

I liked this so much, I decided to make a 2nd card...

This is made like the one above only I used a royal shade of blue instead of navy.

For the inside of this one, I used the royal cardstock instead of designer paper.

I'm going to enter the first card into the Just For Fun Rubber Stamps

JFF July 2018 color challenge - use red, white, and blue. The challenge is open until the end of the month so I decided to get these posted late instead of never.

Thanks for stopping by and here's wishing you a fantastic weekend!

Carol