A Patriotic Theme (for CC2C)

Greetings from the Golden State! And welcome to another edition of Creating Coast to Coast where Rosanne (from the East Coast) and I share a card or project using a pre-determined theme. This month I chose a patriotic theme since we are so close to our country’s 250th birthday 🎆. Happy Birthday, America!

Here’s my card:

This card comes with quite a mash-up of products!

Front:

• Cardstock: Real Red, Blueberry Bushel, Basic White
• DSP and foil: Paper Medley DSP, Gold Foil Sheets
• Coloring: Real Red and Blueberry Bushel Blends
• Party Banners Dies
• Baker’s Twine: white with gold from Hobby Lobby
• Sentiment from Exciting Times
• Versamark and Gold Embossing Powder, heat embossed

 

Inside:

• Cardstock: Basic White, Real Red, Blueberry Bushel
• DSP & foil: Painted Patterns in Brights, Gold Foil Sheets
• Pop-up Petals Dies for pop-up feature (or cut with scissors)
• Numbers from Alphabet a la Mode Dies
• Stars from a variety of old Stampin’ Up! punches and dies
• Computer generated sentiment in blue on Basic White Cardstock

Techniques:

• The DSP on the front is a black and white stripe from Paper Medley. I colored the narrow stripes with Blueberry Bushel and Real Red Blends.
• I threaded the twine through the holes in the banners and taped the ends to the back of the DSP/cardstock layers.
• The banners are attached with Dimensionals.
• For the “fireworks” I cut 2/3″ strips of Gold Foil and feathered the ends. Then I glued them to the back of the stars.
• You can’t see it, but I cut a second large red star and glued it on the back to hide the “mess!”
• The stars and fireworks are glued to the front of the pop-up feature.
• Then I glued the “Happy 4th of July” strip down and added some punched foil stars.

Happy 4th of July!

If you haven’t already been to Rosanne’s blog site, click HERE to go there now! I can’t wait to see what she made for our patriotic theme.

Thanks for joining us! Come back again for another CC2C next month!

 

 

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