Patriotic Celebrate Card

Happy Birthday, USA!

For those of us in the USA (and Americans abroad), this weekend is a time to celebrate the Independence of the United States of America. With a few Globecraft & Piccolo Enamel Powders, we can make a quick patriotic card that shines!

Here's what you'll need from the G&P shop:

Enamel Powder Deep Blue Sky

Enamel Powder Pure Platinum

Enamel Powder Micro Black

Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid

Glastique Gloss

Other supplies:

white cardstock

red cardstock

heart punch (or one of these G&P heart accents!)

Stampin' Up! sentiment (Feeling Sentimental)

Tim Holtz Tissue Tape (Marketplace)

foam tape

Isn't that shine of the Enamel and the Glastique gorgeous?!

1. Cut a strip of white cardstock 4.25"x1.5".  Ink it up with the Enamel Powder Adhesive. Sprinkle on Deep Blue Sky and heat. Let cool. Repeat.

2. Cut a panel of white cardstock 4.5"x4.25".  Using the dabber top, tap the Enamel Powder Adhesive along one of the short sides. Sprinkle on Pure Platinum and heat. Let cool. Repeat.

3. Dab the Enamel Powder Adhesive on the sentiment stamp. Stamp on the Pure Platinum panel. Sprinkle on Micro Black. Heat. Let cool.

4. Tear off a strip of tissue tape and adhere under sentiment.

5. Punch out heart (or use G&P heart Accent).  Apply Glastique. Let dry.

6. Adhere blue strip to card base. Adhere platinum panel using foam tape.

7. Adhere heart using Glastique.

That's it! Be sure to stop by this weekend for more Globecraft & Piccolo inspiration!

Inky hugs,

Angi

Patriotic Blooms Thank You Card

Happy Monday, G&P friends!

Did you enjoy Sandy's card last week? My computer crashed and Sandy filled in for me with her fabulous card - Thanks, Sandy!

This week I have a card for you, too. Red, white and blue are not just a great Patriotic color combo (in the USA), but a wonderful color combo for any time, especially when you pair it with G&P Accents and Embossing Powders!

Here's what you'll need from the G&P shop:

Stacey's Stacking Flowers (LA106)
Embossing Powder Micro White
Embossing Powder Pure Platinum
Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid
Bling on a Roll Silver
Glastique Gloss

Other Supplies:
Stampin' Up! Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Soft Suede
Stampin' Up! Classic Ink: Pacific Point, Real Red, Whisper White
Brown Twine
Versamark Watermark Ink
Stampin' Up! Stamps: Banner Blast, Hardwood, sentiment stamp
Foam Adhesive

Start by inking up the flowers. I found the easiest way to color the flowers is to place the flowers facedown directly onto the ink pad and gently press. Repeat until depth of color desired is achieved. Let dry.

Cut card stock to size for each flower set and trim. Using the Versamark and stamps, stamp each banner. Using the Embossing Powder Adhesive Fluid emboss the edges of the banners with the Pure Platinum.

Stamp the background panel with the Hardwood stamp and Adhesive Fluid and then emboss with the Micro White.

Stamp the sentiment on a scrap of white card stock.

Using the photos as reference, adhere the background panel. Adhere the flower layers together using the Glastique and again to adhere the flowers to the banners. Use the foam under the 2 smaller banners. Finish layering the elements and then tie on the twine.

Finish the card with a few pieces of the Bling on a Roll in Silver.

That's it - beautiful thank you card for any occasion!

Be sure to stop by again tomorrow for another fabulous creation...

Inky hugs,
Angi

Patriotic or Summer Winner

Using Random.org, a winner from last week's challenge was chosen.

And the winner is....#20

 Congratulations
 Vicky

Please contact me for your winning prize of a $20 shopping spree for rubber stamps at SweetStamps.com.

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge, we hope you had fun and will join us again — we have a new challenge every Tuesday!

Challenge #71 Patriotic or Summer

With the 4th of July approaching, this week's challenge theme is

Patriotic or Summer

Remember to use a SweetStamps image on your creation to get an extra chance at winning $20 of rubber stamps from SweetStamps. Rules are listed in the sidebar and instructions can be found at the bottom of this post.


Check out these creations from our sweet & talented design team this week:

Bonnie Brown

Calypso Bastian

Dawn Bennett

Dawn Lotharius

Jacki Randolph

Jacqueline Hill

Jenn Cochran

Joni Mastronardi

Kendra Sand

Linda Jover

Shelly Schmidt

Tamara Morton

Sandy Fredrick

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WIN FREE STAMPS! 

Join our weekly challenge

You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a SweetStamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway! To enter the challenge, please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLinkz at the end of this post. Please do not link to your main blog; we want to be able to find your post to leave you comments. Also, please link back to our blog.

Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweetStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including ours).  You must link back to us in your blog post.

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Next week we start a month of Christmas challenge themes - to help celebrate our Christmas in July Sale - with our first being Resist.

Happy Stamping! Hope your day is super sweet!

:) stacey