A short, sweet, fun site today for the Inspiration Challenge! After viewing the lineup, I chose This Tunic for my inspiration. I went w/ the red, white & blue colors and banding for my card.
The images are brand new today from Our Daily Bread designs. I stamped the soldier with red ink, masked him and stamped the old flag background with stonewashed ink. A piece of vellum was over laid and the greeting was stamped using a combination of the red/iris chalk inks. I also stamped 3 stars on the vellum and a bunch of the stars on white card stock. Some plain white stars were die cut then I used a star punch to punch out the stamped stars and attach them on top of the die cut stars down the left side.
The eagle was stamped w/ the denim ink and fussy cut. I die cut a white frame to attach on top of the vellum panel before everything else was attached to my 4.25 x 5.50 card.
Thanks so much for looking! It's on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Saturday, June 1, 2013 GMT Views: 1352
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Sat, Jun 01, 2013 @ 7:49 AM
The vellum adds such a soft touch to your images underneath and a real pop for the ones on top of it. Wonderful patriotic creation, Julie!
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Sat, Jun 01, 2013 @ 11:06 AM
Julie, a wonderful patriotic card. Your back panel is simply terrific in its execution. The eagle and stars are great and still let the bg be a big part of your card design.
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Sat, Jun 01, 2013 @ 1:29 PM
Julie, this is so very touching to me! My DH is a retired Navy man, and any military/nautical card hits home! Beautiful stars & sentiment, and what a gorgeous eagle to top it all off~
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