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USA Fireworks

The theme at The Male Room is Fireworks, which is the perfect inspiration to make some patriotic cards.

I started with the sketch from Retro Rubber and We R Memory Keepers Red, White & Blue Collection (one of my all time favorites for Independence Day).  I used two different papers with beautiful fireworks designs.

My sentiment is from Tim Holtz Mini Blueprints 2 that I've had since 2013 (and have never used ... just had to have a lot of these Blueprints stamps, but for some reason haven't used them much at all).

America the Beautiful

In honor of Memorial Day, I made a patriotic tag inspired by the Tag You're It Challenge.

I used a journaling card as my base and added some ribbon to create a tag.  

I embellished with foam glitter star stickers.

Saluting Your Awesomeness

This week's Fusion Card Challenge is some Nautical Patriotic Inspiration, so there are all sorts of possibilities.

My card is for a Veteran who will be making an honor flight.  I used the Lawn Fawn Say Cheese Lawn Cuts Die to frame some words cut from designer paper.

 

I finished with some stars & sequins for embellishment.

I hope you'll come join us.

Patriotic 1776

I decided to make another card for today's Splitcoast Stampers 500th Inspiration Challenge inspired by this Patriotic Courthouse Wedding of Kehrin & Jason.

I used this week's Retro Sketch together with Echo Park Stars & Stripes papers and stickers.  

 

I'm also joining the Patriotic Challenge at Addicted to CAS.

A simple white die cut, and this card came together quickly.

With my Firework Sticker embellishment, I'm also joining the *POP* theme at CASology.

Get Fired Up!

Tonight I was inspired by the Get Fired Up! Challenge at Retro Rubber to break out some Echo Park Stars & Stripes paper and a vintage A Muse Sentiment (this stamp might be 10 years old ... just can't part with those great tiny sentiments).

I combined two papers, a sticker and my sentiment stamp.

The layout is this week's Freshly Made Sketch.

With my trio of balloons, I'm also linking-up at The Male Room.

Hooray for the Red, White and Blue

This afternoon I put together a quick card using paper scraps from We R Memory Keepers Red White & Blue and the Sketch from STAMPlorations.

My nephew heads to basic training in a few weeks and I wanted to make a card to send him on his way.  The sentiment is from SRM Stickers We've Got Your Border - Patriotic.

Hooray for the Red, White and Blue

I've been a bit remiss on making cards for Independence Day (hmmm I've made none), so with all of the 4th of July related challenges floating around the blogosphere this week, I figured I should at least make one and quickly get it in the mail.

The CASology Challenge this week is fireworks ... so I combined Fireworks paper from We R Memory Keepers Red White & Blue Collection with some SRM Patriotic Border Stickers.

This all came from last year's 4th of July Stash, which was perfect for the Red, White & Blue Challenge at Shopping Our Stash.  My design was also inspired by this great photo at The Pink Elephant Challenge ... loved those circle stars, so I added a few rows to my design, as well as incorporating chevrons.

Patriotic Birthday

Patriotic papers aren't only for Independence Day ... they also work well for birthdays (or any celebration - they're featuring red, white & blue celebration cards at Sentimental Sundays this week).

I used Bo Bunny's Liberty papers together with this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch for a birthday card for someone who loves red, white & blue all year long.

I love the contrast I get with the white vinyl rub-on sentiment from EAD Designs (white stamping never stands out enough for me, particularly with patterned papers) ... did you know any time you use EAD Products in one of your creations, you should link-it-up to their Customer Showcase for a chance to win some goodies.

I'm also playing along with the Patriotic Challenge at the Party Time Tuesday Blog.

Let Freedom Ring

I'm sneaking in just under the deadline at Freshly Made Sketches today.  

I used some die cut fireworks and papers from We R Memory Keepers Red, White & Blue Collection (perfect again for Sentimental Sundays).

This card reminds me of all of the fun my brother & I had shooting off fireworks when we were younger ... hundreds of bottle rockets into the sky.  It's also another for Sentimental Sundays.

4th of July Celebration

Today I'm Getting Patriotic by Celebrating the 4th of July with this week's Sentimental Sundays theme.  I love the shades of Red, White & Blue in the We R Memory Keepers Yankee Doodles Collection.

I trimmed the 6" paper in the middle, so I could have stars around the border of each side.  I also used the Sketch from Sentimental Sundays for my layout.