Remembering the 4th of July

In honor of celebrating the 4th of July -  the independence of the United States of America - I'm re-posting the projects I've made featuring the USA since I started my blog in 2008. 

(click on the dates to take you to the original post)

Happy 4th of July to everyone in the USA!

 Posted on July 3, 2009

 Posted 3/24/10

Posted July 2, 2012

 Posted on June 17, 2011

 Posted on June 23, 2011

 Posted on July 1, 2012

Treat Box
Stamps: none
Paper: SU: Naturals Ivory, Night of Navy, PTI: Pure Poppy, DP GCD Studios Bedtime Stories
Ink: Denim Adirondack
Accessories: foam dimensionals, sponge, star Shapeabilities, scalloped square Nestabilities, clip art: The Vintage Workshop, Crop a dile, exacto knife, scor pal, scor tape, ribbon: Michaels, Ready Set Wrap Template: PTI
Proud to be an American
Stamps: Liberty - Paper Inspirations, Sentiment - Stampendous
Paper: Ocean tides - PTI
Ink: Ocean tides - PTI
Accessories: gold spica pen, ribbon - PTI
God Bless America
Stamps: Rubbernecker Stamps - Patriotic Statue of Liberty #57-11, Patriotic Bless America Text # 194-07
Paper: rustic white - PTI, DP Bo Bunny/Decaf Dot
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress ink - Tea Dye & Mustard Seed
Accessories: Long deckled edge rectangle nestabilities, Copics: YR02, YR04, YR23, E33, E35, E37
Uncle Sam Gingerbread Man
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - Half Baked Gingerbread Joy, Frame It, Victorian Alphabet.
Paper:  White - PTI
Ink:  Adirondack Butterscotch, Memento Lady Bug, Danube Blue, Tuxedo Black.
Accessories:  Star Punch - McGill, tiny gems - Taylored Expressions, foam tape.
Cupcake Happy 4th
Stamps:  Taylored Expressions - A Year of Sweets 2, A Year of Sweet Sentiments.
Paper:  White, Enchanted evening - PTI, DP Red Vellum Swirls (no company name on the sticker)
Ink:  Memento Lady Bug, Cantalope, Danube Blue. Tuxedo Black, Soft Sky - SU
Accessories:  Dazzling Diamonds - SU, Banner Day 1 Die + Tiny Twinkles- Taylored Expressions, Copics: E40, E31, E19, B00, B37, Y13, R29., glossy accents, quicky glue pen, home made cloud template, pinking circles Nestabilities, 1 3/8" circle punch - SU, enchanted evening saddle stitched ribbon - PTI
Celebrate

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - Playful Pinwheels

Paper:  white, Pure Poppy, Enchanted Evening, DP Bitty Box Basics - PTI

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Lady Bug &; Danube Blue

Accessories - Circle and Pinking Circle Nestabilities, Nested Lacey Pennants (banner), rhinestones - Michaels, foam tape.

Waltzingmouse July Release Day - with Playful Pinwheels!

Are you as exited as we are about Claire's Waltzingmouse Release this month??!!

Well - today is the day all of the sets we've been showing for the past 3 days, as well as a new set being revealed today,  are available for purchase - and we're having our traditional Design Team Blog Waltz to celebrate!

You should start the waltz at Claire's blog -   if you have come here from Claire's blog - you are in the right place as I am the 2nd spot on the waltz card!

Which is your favorite??  Heroines - Fairy Princess? -  North Shore? - My Island? -  or today's super fun set -designed by our very own Anya - Playful Pinwheels??

First up - I used one of the sweet little patterned pinwheels - (there are 5 little ones in this set, each with a different pattern) I inked it yellow to go with the fun sentiment 'Sunny Side Up'!  I love that there are solid sticks and outline sticks for the pinwheels - this light colored pinwheel needed the softer looking outlined stick and I colored the inside with a grey Copic.

 Next I made a lovely quilt-like pattern stamping two of the small patterned pinwheels.  I stamped them on Guide Lines Grid Sheets paper from PTI, although they line up so easily just stamping them point to point - I really didn't need the grid paper!   I thought I'd use just black and white for a masculine card - simply adding clear rhinestones to the centers and on the banner sentiment. I think this would make a great anniversary card!

For my final  project - I just had to get a 4th of July card in using the large pinwheel!  There are 4 different patterns you can use for the arms.  I used the stars and the stripes - stamping the center piece again on a scrap, cutting it out and layering it over the base with foam tape.  There are 13 different sentiments to go with the pinwheels -  I used Celebrate for this one and cut it with a Pennant Banner die curling it a bit around my finger and adhering it with foam tape..  I used the Mojo Monday Sketch for the design of my card.

You can see from the side view - how I popped up the center part.

I'm also entering this in the Twisted Tuesday Challenge - to make a refreshing creation (the wind spinning the pinwheel!) and the twist is to use red.

Now - off you go to the next stop on the blog waltz -  the ever talented Laurie.

Remember to leave comments all along the way -  one lucky commenter will be chosen from one of the Design Teams blogs to win a stamp set of choice! You have until July 4th 6:59 am EST to leave your comments.  The winner will be posted on Claire's blog on July 6th!

And don't forget to go shopping!!

Sunny Side Up:

Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Playful Pinwheels

Paper: White, Sahara Sand - PTI, DP October Afternoon - Farmhouse

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Ranger Distress Mustard Seed

Accessories:  Glue dots, foam tape, yellow satin ribbon - May Arts, Rhinestone - Kaiser, Copic: W2

You are my Whirl:

Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Playful Pinwheels

Paper:  White, True Black , Guide Lines Grid Sheet - PTI

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories:  foam tape, rhinestones - Kaiser, Nested Lacey Pennants (banner for sentiment) Spellbinders.

Celebrate:

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - Playful Pinwheels

Paper:  white, Pure Poppy, Enchanted Evening, DP Bitty Box Basics - PTI

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Lady Bug &; Danube Blue

Accessories - Circle and Pinking Circle Nestabilities, Nested Lacey Pennants (banner), rhinestones - Michaels, foam tape.

July Stampin' Sisterhood Challenge

Happy Sunday everyone!   It's the 1st Sunday in July so it's time for the July Stampin' Sisterhood Challenge!

Here's the inspiration photo Jacquie has for us this month.  A great summertime photo isn't it?  Perfect for a July Challenge!

And here's the card I was inspired to create!  I focused on the star fish, the brown sand and the blue sky/water!

This cool bird is Louie (#86-21) doesn't he crack you up??!!  and the starfish could be Scooter or Sprocket (they each have their own individual stamps but is not named in this Louie stamp!?) and I hope he is a best friend - or he could be the best meal (!!!???!!!)   The words are from the fun Box Word Set #622

How does this photo inspire you?   We hope you'll join along -  check out all the details over at the Stampin' Sisterhood blog - you have all of July to enter and you could win a free Rubbernecker Stamp set!  Free is good - right??!

Stamps:  Rubbernecker - Louie # 86-21, Box Word Set #622

Paper:  white, Dark Chocolate - PTI, Antiqua - Coredinations, Almond Dot - BoBunny

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories:  Copics BG10, E33, YR02, YR24, foam tape.

WMS Sneak Peek Day #3 - My Island

Wow - we've already reached Day 3 of the WMS July Release Sneak Peeks.  Did we whet your appetite for the beach with the mini set yesterday!   I hope so - because today we have a full size seaside set to show you called My Island.  

There are often 'things collected' when we are on holiday - so today I made a slider box to hold some of these 'things' (tutorial on Split Coast Stampers) when you open this box -  the box slides out one end and a card slides out the other!

When I had the pieces for the box cut out - I stamped them with the larger chicken wire from the Chicken Wire set and sponged all the edges with Scattered Straw Distress Ink. I also stamped the images on the card part of the slider.  Then I put the box and slider together using the tutorial, 

I stamped the lovely palm trees inking them in brown and green, the cute straw hut over the sky background stamp and two of the sentiments from My Island onto a panel, sponged and distressed the edges and layered it to Monarch die strips on two sides.  I adhered it to the top of the box with foam tape..

I had this great starfish button from a bag of buttons my SIL Carol gave me.  I punched a hole in the end of the box and slipped a metal clip (that was holding the button onto the button card) through the metal shank on the button (see two pics above for a peak at the clip) This will hold it on securely as you have to tug a bit to get the box to slide!

Here's a view of the card part where you could write a message to the recipient or the place the momentos came from as I did - I stamped the smaller group of palm trees in the set here as well as another sentiment.  I die cut the waves that I adhered along the top.

A strip of plastic shopping bag adhered around the 'slider' piece is what makes the box and card 'slide' (see tutorial)

And here are some shells DH Kent and I picked up along the shores of Sanibel Island a few years ago.  You just cannot walk down the beaches there without picking up the gorgeous shells that are all over the sand!

I stamped a panel to slip into the bottom of the box as well.  I love the fonts on the sentiments in this set!

What summertime treasures would you put in your slider box??!

Now lets head off to the rest of the WMS Design Team blogs to see what summer fun they have in store for us! Just click on each name below!

Please stop back tomorrow for our final peek using Anya's newest stamp set (you ROCK Anya!) during our DT Blog Waltz -  you could win a Waltzingmouse stamp set of your choice!

Anya Schrier
 Becca Feeken
 Belinda Chang Langner
 Clare Buswell
 Bonnie Sharp
 Julia Aston  - you're here
 Jennifer Holmes
 Kelly Schirmer
 Laurie Schmidlin - will post later in the day
Mona Pendleton
 Sandie Dunne
 Tosha Leyendekker
Claire Brennan (Owner)

 Stamps:  Waltzingmouse -  Chicken Wire, My Island (to be released 7/1)

Paper:  Kraft, Rustic Cream, Ocean Tides - PTI

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Rich Cocoa, Potters Clay, Bamboo Leaves, Summer Sky, London Fog, Desert Sand, Ranger Distress Scattered Straw.

Accessories:  Monarch & Ocean Wave Dies - Die-Namics MFT, sqyare punch - Creative Memories, corner rounder - Zutter, ScorTape, plastic grocery bag, starfish button - from stash, slider box tutorial in Resources section - Split Coast Stampers.

WMS Day 2 Sneak Peek - North Shore

Welcome back for Day 2 of the sneak peeks for the Waltzingmouse July 1 release!   Didn't you just love all the sweet fairy princess inspiration yesterday?!! (if you missed it scroll down to my post below!)  Thank you so much for all your lovely comments!

Well - today we're going to the beach with another mini stamp set called North Shore.  Vacations are all about creating memories -  so I decorated a 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" Mini Chipboard notebook where I could write notes of my summer adventures and place a picture or two (or 20!)!

I stamped this wonderful surfer image in Bamboo Leaves ink and cut it with an oval Nestability.  Then I stamped it in Bahama Blue on a scrap and cut out the surfer and summer part of the sentiment.  I stamped the NORTH SHORE in Black and the flowers in Rose Bud cutting out and layering the pieces over the original green stamping.  The surfer and flowers are popped up with foam tape.

Then I die cut the waves, stamped the sentiment and punched it with my word window punch adhering them along the bottom as you see.  Here's a side view so you can see the popped up pieces.

I added ribbons tied in double knots along some of the 0 wires -  they remind me of seagulls flying over the ocean waves!

Inside I stamped some images from the set you will see here tomorrow on Day 3 of the Sneak Peeks!

Once again -  we are off to see what the rest of the Design Team has to inspire us with this fun summer surf mini set!   See you tomorrow for Day #3!

Anya Schrier
 Bonnie Sharp
 Clare Buswell
 Julia Aston - you are here
 Jennifer Holmes
Kelly Schirmer
 Laurie Schmidlin
 Lynn Mercurio
Mona Pendleton
 Sandie Dunne
 Tosha Leyendekker
 Claire Brennan (Owner)

Stamps:  North Shore - Waltzingmouse (to be released July 1)

Paper:  White, Simply Chartreuse - PTI, Tempting Turquoise - SU

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Bahama Blue, Rose Bud, Bamboo Leaves, foam tape, word window punch - SU, Chipboard Mini Book - Karen Foster (no longer available), oval Nestability, ribbon - May Arts.

WMS Sneak Peek - Day 1 - Fairy Princess!

I am SO excited to welcome you to Day 1 of the Sneak Peeks for the Waltzingmouse July 1st  Release!  Today the Design Team Members linked below are highlighting the sweet new mini set called  Heroines - Fairy Princess. This set can be used all on its own - or can be partnered with Half Pint Heroines

I have a brand new baby girl grand niece coming in August -  so I know I'll be using the PRINCESS theme a lot over the next few years!

So first off -   there are two cute little froggies -  I used the one with a sly smile and a crown on his head along with the one sentiment in the set.

And here is our lovely princess in her beautiful gown, out front of her very large castle (a cut file (or PDF) from Claire that will be available for you!), waiting to get into her lovely carriage (cut file from Creations by AR includes a PDF if you don't have a cutting machine)  She's also hoping that the pesky frog will hop off the hem of her gown!

I put a little stand on the back of my Princess so she could be put in different places in her Royal World!

 See-   here she has scurried over to the front of the Carriage!  (and the frog is still with her - she just cannot shake him!)

 Here's a close up of the coach - there are even pretty curtains in the windows!

Oops!  now she is looking through the window of the carriage - she's just standing on the other side - but you could cut her in half (gasp!) and tape her inside looking out!

Goodness - can you tell I had fun with this sweet little stamp set??!! I just kept taking more and more pictures!!   Ok -  here's the last one before you go off and check out everyone elses creations!  Claire's castle cut file is supposed to be folded in half as per below - so it becomes a Castle Card! (and I see that I forgot to push out the window and top of the wall cut outs on the right side - oops!!!!)  And the poor frog is STILL waiting to be kissed!!!

Now come along with me to check out the rest of the Design Team's creations!   Don't forget to come by tomorrow for Sneak Peek #2!!!   (with this release we welcome BACK Bonnie Sharp to the WMS Design team!  Please give her some extra love when you stop by her blog!)

Anya Schrier
 Belinda Chang Langner
 Bonnie Sharp
Clare Buswell
Julia Aston - you are here!
 Jennifer Holmes
 Kelly Schirmer
 Laurie Schmidlin
 Lynn Mercurio
 Mona Pendleton
 Sandie Dunne
 Tosha Leyendekker
 Claire Brennan (Owner)

Stamps: Waltzingmouse -  Heroines - Fairy Princess (to be released on July 1)

Paper:  White - PTI, White Wash (Wheels & Curtains) & Black Wash (castle)- Coredinations, pink - Bazzill

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Copics: R20, R32, RV21, RV25, R02, E00, Y17, YR24, YG95,  Sugar Coated Brads - Doodlebug Design, Once upon a Carriage Cutting File - CreationsbyAR.com, glue dot, sticky pearls - Michaels, Silhouette cutting machine.

Sumr - 12

 

 I'm the color challenge hostess today over on Split Coast  - and in honor of the coming summer - I've chosen a monochromatic color scheme - Pool Party, Island Indigo and Whispering White.

I used a fun new stamp and die set I just got - Vanity License Plate by MFT.   I stamped the cropped message - SUMR-12  on the die cut license plate adding silver brads to the holes in the plate. I embossed my card with Retro Circles by Sizzix and layered a wave cut with another die from MFT. The license plate is popped up on foam tape.

This is also for this week's CAS challenge - a sketch - I flipped the sketch on it's side. Oh - and the dessert option for my challenge today is to make it about water - the ocean, a lake or a cool summer drink!

I've been busy making cards for the Waltzingmouse sneak peeks which start on Thursday - June 28th!!  Wait until you see the wonderful new stamps Claire has designed!   I hope you'll join me every day from 6/28 up to the release on 7/1!

Stamps: Vanity License Plate - My Favorite Things  

Paper: white - PTI, Island Indigo & Pool Party - SU  

Ink: Ranger Distress Peacodk Feathers  

Accessories: dienamics dies - catch a wave and License plate - MFT, silver circle brads - Making Memories, Retro Circles Embossing Folder - Sizzix, foam tape