Patriotic Archives - Libby Fens, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

Welcome stampers!

Thank you for joining us for our weekly Create with Connie and Mary Saturday blog hop!

Our theme this week features our favorite new dies from the new catalog.

I have a few, but narrowed it to these –

Since it is Memorial Day on Monday, why not create a patriotic card!?!? I started my card with the Patchwork Pieces Dies in three colors. Now that we have stars in the Beautiful Blooms dies, I cut some of those out.

The sentiment is also from the coordinating stamp set to the dies. I used the Banners Pick A Punch for a nice end detailing.

I felt the card was lacking, so I embossed the card base using one of the Basics 3D Embossing Folder. This one looks to have stars in it – perfect!

I left off bling to keep this card simple for either gender. Although, it would look very nice!

Want to see more ideas with our new dies? Go forward to check out Debbie Henderson, and back to Cindy Elam. I know they’ll have some great ideas for us!

We will see you next week!

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Please check them all out and leave comments! I’ll be giving away BLOG CANDY to one lucky person who comments on all three posts today!! Here is the giveaway –

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On with the projects!

Our theme this month is perfect – watercoloring!

This is not one of my stronger areas in card making so it was fun to be challenged with this.

I went with patriotic colors again creating these –

Of course, a festive 4th card! I used the Happy Birthday Thinlits and just cut them apart! Paired nicely with the Large Numbers Framelits.

And believe it or not, people have birthday on July 4 as well! Lol! I went with a birthday card too also using the Happy Birthday Thinlits!I created the watercolor background easily. This is a fool-proof method.

I placed the watercolor paper on paper towels. I dampened it with a spray bottle of water. I took a clear block and smeared it the ink pad and partially ran it across the wet paper. I cleaned the block and repeated the step in a different ink pad color over the uninked area of the wet watercolor paper . The excess water and coloring that pooled on the edge, I gently wiped off. I let it dry then completed my cards.

Pretty stunning, right? This method made bold watercolor images once dried. I did try a few different techniques.

Before heading over to talented, Mary and her watercoloring, leave me a comment. You know, I’ve got blog candy for a lucky person!!!

Supplies –

Stamp Set – none!
Framelits – Happy Birthday, Large Numbers, Wood Crate
Card Stock – Whisper White, Pacific Point, Silver Glimmer Paper
Ink – Real Red, Pacific Point
Other – Watercolor Paper

Happy Stampin’

Libby

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