Hello Sweet Friends! Julie here to share a card that reflects a
bit of patriotic colors, summer flowers and the freedom that we have here in
the United States.
"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends". John 15:13 NKJV
Today is Memorial Day here in the
United States and may we never forget the men and women who laid down their lives to
defend our country and the families that they left behind....we are free because they were faithful.
This card was designed using Grunge Elements, Grunge Elements 2, I Am Loved and Prim Blessings clear stamp sets.
On a piece of white cardstock, I
masked an area for the “stars” on my homemade flag and stamped the Grunge Elements 2 heart image with Versamark™ Ink and heat embossed wut white
embossing powder.
After the powder cooled, I applied Ranger®
Tim Holtz® Faded Denim Distress Ink and removed the mask. I re-masked the heart
“star” area and stamped the strip image from Grunge Elements using Ranger® Tim
Holtz® Fired Brick Distress Ink (overlapping the images in a row to create the
stripes).
The background seemed a bit bright so
I lightly applied Ranger® Tim Holtz® Tea Dye Distress Ink and a light layer
of Gesso®.
I trimmed the panel and embossed it
with a woodgrain embossing folder, added the knotted hemp twine and mounted it
onto the black card base.
I stamped the sunflowers from Prim Blessings and used a water brush to watercolor the images
with markers along with distress inks and finished off with a coat of Clear Wink of Stella®.
To finish off the card, I mounted the
three sunflowers to the card front, added the fussy cut heat embossed image of the
girl from I Am Loved with dimensional foam and the layered heat embossed
sentiment from Prim Blessings.
I had fun creating this card and hope
that you enjoyed it- hugs and have a blessed day!
