Patriotic Birthday

     Hello!  While my husband believes I own every stamp set in the Idea Book & Catalog I did find one that I don't own - a current star stamp!  I wanted to make a patriotic birthday card and realized that the only star stamps I own are retired!  Don't tell Aaron but I guess that means that I'll have to place another Stampin' Up order soon! ;)

     This card was pretty simple to create and if it wasn't for the embossing I would consider it "quick and simple".  I embossed the star from Stars & Swirls set with white embossing powder, went over the embossed image with a cotton ball and ink (emboss resist technique) and then punched the image out with a square punch.  

Stamps: Stars & Swirls (retired), Short & Sweet

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Going Gray

Paper: Whisper White

Tools & Accessories: Heat tool, embossing powder, 1 3/4" square punch, dimensionals  

Red, White and Blue

I absolutely love this card! I originally made this last June with my stamp club but while looking for a last minute thank you card I found it in a shoebox full of cards, card fronts and card-mistakes (you know, card-mistakes... the cards that looked good in your head until you tried to put it on paper and then it just didn't look right but you couldn't bring yourself to throw away all that perfectly good cardstock so you kept it thinking that you would someday use some part of it?). So I pulled it out, dusted it off and thought this is waaaay to cute to be sitting neglected in that old box. Wouldn't this make a great invitation to a 4th of July cookout? Or how about giving it as a thank you card to a veteran on Veteran's Day? Or better yet, I'll give it to my Dad who is a veteran and whose birthday just happens to be on July 5th!

The red cardstock was torn into 1/2" strips and adhered to the vanilla cardstock. Now that I think of it, this may be the first card I made without using a single stamp!

Paper: Very Vanilla, Real Red, Night of Navy

Accessories & Tools: Jumbo eyelet, Big Shot, Stars #2 die