Friday, July 5, 2013

Star Struck

Happy Friday!  And a nice long weekend if you are in the U.S. as we just celebrated the 4th of July yesterday.  Today begins another challenge from Christmas Stampin' All Year Long: Stars.  It can be star stamps, paper, die cuts, rhinestones, etc.  What can you come up with?  Our sponsor is:
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So, here is my card for your inspiration.  And yes, it is a Christmas card!  I was inspired by the Independence Day holiday colors of red, white, and blue.  And since the flag is talked about as the stars and stripes, it was meant to be.  Plus, I just had to see if I could make those colors work on a Christmas card.  I think they worked pretty well.  I think I got it all: stars and stripes; red, white, and blue; sparkle and shine; Christmas in July, oh yeah!


Today is your lucky day, because I have two tips for you:
Tip #1--you can color rhinestones with sharpie markers.  See my red ones?  Yep, colored!  It's awesome and easy.
Tip #2--Maybe no one else has this problem, but after using them a few times, my clear stamps stop sticking to their packaging, which is bad 'cause sometimes they just fall off and almost get lost.  Well, I just started cleaning my stamps with Baby wipes (mostly because I ran out of my SU! stamp cleaner) and I decided to wipe off some of the backs of the non-stickers.  All this black junk came off (must by old ink mixed with cleaner) and now they stick great!  No more flopping around everywhere.

Challenges:
The Squirrel & The Fox #47--Christmas in July
Mojo Monday #300--sketch

Card Mania Challenges #24--Christmas in July
Eureka Stamps #46--stars and stripes
Merry Monday--anything Christmas goes
Creative Inspirations #221--red, white & blue
Word Art Wednesdays #87--anything goes with uplifting sentiment
Crafting by Designs--anything goes with the colors of your flag (red, white, and blue)
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra--anything Christmas goes
Beat the Christmas Rush (June 25-July 24)--anything Christmas Goes

Supplies:
Papers: SU! cardstock "Nearly Navy" and "Real Red"; DCWV Christmas paper pack
Stamps: Verve "Star of Wonder" large sentiment and star, "Richly Blessed" small sentiment.  I did some fancy taping off to get just the part I wanted, and then retaped and reinked to add the Scripture reference
Dies: Verve "Scalloped Trim Trio" star die, "Classy Label Die"; Sizzix star die
Clear Rhinestones colored red with sharpie marker except the one in the center of the red star

16 comments:

Hazel said...

Beautiful card - love the colour tones - thanks for entering this into my CHNC challenge extra for July - hope to see more of your Christmas crafting soon. x

Unknown said...

Love your take on the Mojo Monday Skecth...great Christmas card, too. Love the color combo!
Thanks for playing with us over at The Squirrel and The Fox!

Julee (Vervegirl) said...

Such a fantastic card! Love every little detail. Thanks for playing Mojo Monday!

Karen Letchworth said...

Wonderful, Heather. Thanks so much for sharing with us.
Blessings to you,
Karen
Word Art Wednesday

scrapsnsuch@gmail.com said...

Great take on the sketch! I was eyeing that one ;>) You chose the best shapes - fabulous!

Pat (mspfd) said...

Awesome take on the mojo sketch and your design rocks! Love this fabulous card!!

Donna said...

Lovely card Heather, the layers look fab! Perfect for our colour challenge of red, white and blue. Thanks for joining in with us at Creative Inspirations this week :) Donna x

Bonnie said...

I love that sentiment and red star and the red rhinestones! Thanks so much, Heather for sharing this with us at Merry Monday!

Sherry Eckblad said...

Great papers and I like that you did your card in patriotic colors. Thanks for joining us at Merry Monday.

Sher said...

Beautiful card! The sentiment is great. Thank you for the helpful hints! And....Thanks for joining us at Crafting By Designs.
Hugs - Sharon DT Member

Notes by Nina said...

Fabulous card Heather, I love the papers you used. Thank you for joining us for Merry Monday.

Samantha Ball - aka (Craftychick74) said...

Great card. I really like that sketch you have used.

Thanks for joining us at The Squirrel and The Fox this fortnight.

Happy Crafting
Sam

Chantal Vandenberg said...

Beautiful work!!!

Ani said...

Lovely card! Thank you so much for sharing with us at Card Mania! Good luck!

Rene said...

This is such a lovely striking card!!

Thank you for joining our Happy Birthday America – Show us your Colours Challenge at Crafting by Designs!
Do join us again!
Hugs
Rene - Crafting By Designs DT

MiniOwner said...

Oh yes that worlks really well for a Christmas card, Heather. Thanks for the Sharpie tip - what a good idea! And thank you for joining in with Beat the Christmas Rush.
Sue x