Flower Soft Wires - God Bless America

Happy Birthday America and happy birthday to me! It's Independence Day in the U.S.A. and I hope you are all having a wonderful day celebrating the birth of our nation and a milestone for me. :)

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This week, the Flower Soft ladies are showing you creative ways to use our wires and I thought what better than to create a July 4th card. I used chevron dies and create the stripes for my "flag" and the newest Die-namics Scattered Stars die paired with the Fishtail Flags die.

I then created sparklers using the Ruby and Silver Flower Soft from the Diamond Range and added them behind a die cut star. The whole panel is popped up from the card base using dimensional foam.

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Products Used:
Stamp Set - Impression Obsession Let Freedom Ring
Paper - Pure Poppy, Enchanted Evening, SS White
Ink - CTMH Indian Corn Blue
Flower Soft Wires, Ruby and Silver Flower Soft; PTI Chevrons and Seeing Stars dies; MFT Fishtail Flags and Scattered Stars dies

Flower Soft/Impression Obsession Blog Hop

Welcome and thanks for joining our Flower Soft/Impression Obsession Patriotic Blog Hop. You’ll be inspired by projects created by each of the Design Team Members and if you leave comments on each blog along the way, you will be eligible to win one of two prizes: a $25.00 Flower Soft gift certificate or a $25.00 Impression Obsession gift certificate. The more you comment the more chances you have to win!

The hop runs from June 22nd through June 29th. Winners will be announced June 30th on the Impression Obsession and Flower Soft Blogs.

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For my project, I chose to work with one of the Cover-a-Card stamps (my favorites). This one is called Fireworks and I stamped my background using Versamark and embossed in silver. I then added a little bit of the Ruby Flower Soft to the centers of the fireworks and also sprinkled it on other areas of the background. It's hard to capture on camera, but the card has sparkle and shine along with texture.

I added some patriotic ribbon from stash and then added my sentiment.

Be sure to visit and comment on each of the ladies' blogs along the way for your chance to win. You will find the complete list of participants below. Happy Hopping!

Blog Hop Participants:

Flower Soft Blog
Impression Obsession Blog
Jeanne Streiff
Dina Kowal
Cibele Glazer -(that's me)
Lorie Souther
Jenny Gropp
Dawn Lusk
Vickie Harper
Linda Beeson
Daniela Dobson
Kittie Caracciolo
Deb Felts
Laura Fulcher
Jennie Black

Products Used:
Stamp Sets - Impression Obsession Fireworks Cover-a-Card and Let Freedom Ring
Paper - SS White, Pure Poppy and Enchanted Evening
Ink - Fresh Ink Navy; Versamark
Flower Soft Diamond Range Ruby; Spellbinders dies, silver embossing powder; ribbon

Stars & Stripes Birthday

One of my daughter's best friends and I are birthday buddies.  We are both firecracker babies born on the 4th!  Although we celebrated on Wednesday, her official party is today so I made this card for my daughter to give her.  You'll recognize the layout as the same as the card I made for her other friend.

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I stamped the background with Impression Obsession's Distressed Corduroy and Canvas Cover-a-Card stamps onto Kraft cardstock and then added a little patterned paper from Jillibean.  I cut some of the stars from a scor-tape adhesive sheet and attached them to cardstock and added glitter.  I cut strips from a plastic box that one of my stamp sets came in and attached the stars to them.  The ribbon was threaded through the slider mechanism and doesn't interfere with how it works.  Once again, I included a gift card.

I am so happy with how this turned out and I'm pretty sure the birthday girl is going to like it.

Products Used:
Stamp Sets - WPlus9 A Pocketful; Impression Obsession Distressed Corduroy and Canvas Cover-a-Card; PTI Movers & Shakers Sentiments, Super Stars and Through the Trees
Paper - Jillibean Watermelon Gaspacho; PTI SS White, Kraft, Enchanted Evening and Fine Linen
Ink - Fresh Ink Capri Blue, Cocoa; Tea Dye Duo
SNSS Star dies; WPlus9 A Pocketful dies; PTI Movers & Shakers Slider dies; scor-tape sheet, glitter, plastic

Flower Soft - The Patriot

This week Flower Soft is introducing a new mix called The Patriot.  It's perfect for all your July 4th cards as well as any other patriotic themed projects you may have.  I am partial to this one because my birthday happens to be on the 4th.  ;)

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For my card, I cut a star from a sheet of scor-tape and attached it to the center of a larger star and then sprinkled my Flower Soft on top.  My border is a new acquisition from Sweet 'n Sassy.  I cut two borders, one white and one red and then popped out some of the red stars and added it to the white border.  I also popped out some of the white stars to allow the blue background to show through.

Please be sure to check the Flower Soft Blog for even more inspiration using The Patriot.  Also, to celebrate the release of the new Flower Soft "The Patriot" mix, there is an amazing launch special offer for you! Up until July 4th, every purchase of The Patriot will come with a FREE pack of our Moments in Time – Boys Sports, Card Toppers™. If you have never tried Card Toppers™ then this is a great way to get your hands on some.

Visit the Flower Soft Webstore promotional offers section and put this code - USNW1Patriot - into the box to see full details.

Products Used:
Stamp Sets - PTI Super Stars
Paper - PTI SS White, Enchanted Evening, Pure Poppy, Kraft
Ink - CTMH White Daisy, Bamboo
Flower Soft - The Patriot
Stripes impression plate, Seeing Stars dies, Block Alpha Upper Case, Sweet 'n Sassy Hearts and Stars Scallop border die, Scor-tape

Seeing Stars

Here's a card that I didn't get the chance to post over the weekend.  It fits several challenges over at SCS for their July 4 CAS Holiday Challenges.  There is still time to play along.  It also fits in for two other challenges this week - CAS-ual Fridays and Speedy the Cat's Friends. 

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I used Really Reasonable Ribbon for the stripes along the side of the card and then I embossed three stars using silver embossing powder on Kraft cardstock and then cut them out.  I popped the whole panel up on dimensionals.  A super simple card.

Products Used:
Stamp Sets - CTMH July Word Puzzle (retired) and Shining Star
Cardstock - PTI Kraft
Ink - PTI Dark Chocolate and PTI Tea Dye duo
Really Reasonable Ribbon June Club pack
Silver embossing powder

Happy 4th of July

Good Monday morning to you and Happy 4th of July.  A number of years ago today (I am not about to tell you how many), my mother celebrated her "independence" from carrying me for nine months.  Apparently I didn't want anyone having a party/picnic without me and that includes the doctor who delivered me.

Anyway, today I wanted to show you a card I made for one of my daughter's friends who happens to share the same birthdate with me.  I am also entering this one in the Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge which is to make a patriotic card.

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To make the fireworks, I second generation stamped the small dandelion image from the CTMH Treasures stamp set in Grey Wool ink and then went over it with my Sakura clear gitter pen.  I don't know if it is showing, up but I used the PTI Linen impression plate for the base of the card.

Hope you call have a safe 4th and remember all those men and women in service who fight for our freedom and independence everyday (THANK YOU).

Products Used:
Stamp Sets - CTMH July Word Puzzle (retired) and Treasures
Cardstock - PTI Enchanted Evening, Pure Poppy and Stampers Select White
Ink - CTMH Grey Wook, Cranberry and Pacifica
PTI Simple Circles border die
PTI Linen impression plate
Sakura clear gel glitter pen