Hi crafty friends and happy summer.  It is HOT, HOT, HOT where I am in the northeast USA!  No denying that it's summer.  Tomorrow is the 4th of July holiday here in the US and nothing says 4th of July and summer better than a Patriotic color theme.  This note card was created with some pretty dies from Cheery Lynn Designs.
This is a very simple design where I let the Lattice Frame as the background do all the work along with the small and simple Sweet Christine Flowers.  I just cut the Lattice frame in red and adhered it to white cardstock and then added a red and blue layer beneath it.  I wrapped some pretty ribbons around that unit and then at the very bottom you will see a layer of wispy white mulberry paper.  I then topped that with the sentiment panel which was also layered with blue cardstock and white mulberry paper.
The flowers are very easy to assemble.  I cut the flowers in red, white and blue cardstock.  I inked the white pieces in red and blue with an old script background stamp.  I then shaped the petals with a needle tool and glued the layers offsetting the petals for each new layer.  I then added the leaf layer to the base before adhering them under the sentiment panel.

My card was topped off with a pretty bi-color bow created on my Bow-it-All V3.0 Tool with ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon.  The center of the bow is adorned with a pretty star shaped pearl embellishment.
Thanks so much for stopping by today.  For more information on the other products I used on my card, please visit my Make Time to Craft Blog.

Hi friends.  It's Bonnie from Make Time to Craft here with you today.  We just celebrated Memorial Day yesterday here in the US and I couldn't resist just one more Patriotic themed card featuring fabulous dies from Cheery Lynn Designs.
For my card, I printed out my digital sentiment and cut it with the smallest of the the Oval Stitch & Cut Lge Silver Stitch Dies.  I then layered it on red and blue leaving a small border on each layer.  I backed a piece of red cardstock with Stick It Adhesive and cut with the Chicken Wire Frame.  I then adhered that to a piece of white cardstock and trimmed it down to the desired size.  I then layered that on to red cardstock, then white cardstock and adhered it to my A2 size card base.
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 Happy Tuesday everyone! leslierahye here sharing with you another of the sets in the new release--the Military Dog Tags.  These are fantastic! They come with the ball chain and tags--which when cut with Silver Mirror Card stock look REAL. They have several words with them as well including Hero and USA shown here. I think they are perfect not only for patriotic holidays but also Operation Write Home Any Hero Cards to show how much you appreciate the service men and women protecting our freedoms. 
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Hi folks!  It's Holly posting today, and I'm sad to say this is my last post as a Guest Designer.  I have truly enjoyed coming up with these fun and creative cards to share with you this month.  Many thanks to BJ, Lori, and Gini for asking me to be a guest designer and for helping me out with my questions.  I have had a great time!!

For my card today, I was thinking about the upcoming 4th of July holiday, and I wanted to make a patriotic summer scene card.  This Patriotic Swag die fit the bill perfectly.  If you haven't checked out this die, it comes as one large connected die.  There are three pieces connected by some very thin strips of metal.  It's easy to snap them apart into three individual dies.  Look at the picture below.  You can see I separated the three pieces and then cut each piece with a different color of cardstock.


I used the following dies on my card:

Patriotic Swag
Victorian Picket Fence
Clouds and Rain
Grass Border

I started by sponging some blue and green inks on white cardstock and then I stamped the tree to one side.  The clouds were adhered so that some of them were floating past the edges of the scene.  The picket fence is actually some kraft cardstock that I distressed to look like a whitewashed fence and then I added the grass border to the bottom.  Finally I put the swag together and glued it to the fence, and then I pulled some of the grass out so it would be "blowing" against the swag.

Thanks so much for checking out my artwork this month. It's been a wonderful experience, and I know the next Guest Designer will have a great time.  I hope you all have a wonderful week and a Happy and Safe 4th of July!  :-)