Army Mom Patriotic Card

Happy March 4th

Being a 76er and proud Army Mom I wanted to create a series of patriotic cards offering hope, love and encouragement for others. My first card in this series is a very clean and simple design representing all my Army Mom's out there. 

If you happened to see my blog post yesterday. You would have learned the 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays. On the 4th day of each month I plan to share with you a stunning card or project with detailed instructions. Giving you the ability to create these projects on your own. Included below is a detailed list of all the supplies used to complete this card    

So let's get started. 

                             

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Stitched Stars Dies

[150653]

$38.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[100730]

$9.75

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[121045]

$8.75

Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[119683]

$8.75

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

[144108]

$4.00

Tear & Tape Adhesive

[138995]

$7.00

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$4.00

Playful Alphabet Dies

[152706]

$34.00

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

$120.00

Add All to Cart

To get started, you only need three colors of cardstock Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, and Basic Black. The Daffodil Delight cardstock is the the base of the card measuring 5.5 x 11 inches and scored at 4.25 on the 11 inch side. With a bonefolder go ahead and score cardstock in half and fold. White cardstock measures 5.25 x 4 inches and Black cardstock measurement is 5 x 3.34 inches. My favorites adhesive is tear tape yours might be either a liquid glue or tape runner. Go ahead and adhesive to your black card stock attaching it to the center of the white card stock and the white cardstock is attached to the front of the Daffodil Delight card base.

Next step is to die cut out the stars using the Stitched Stars Dies. 

Use the second largest star die with Daffodil Delight, third largest with Basic Black and fourth largest with Whisper White. Then use adhesives to attach and layer smallest to largest stars.

These are the Dies Stitched Star Dies below.

With the Playful Alphabet Dies dies cut the word ARMY with Daffodil Delight card stock and word Mom with the Whisper White cardstock. 

Before you start to glue and attached letters to card. I would suggest arranging the letters on card to see how they look first. Once you like the arrangement then you can proceed to attach. To make it easier I first attached the letters spelling mom then the final letters Army. As you can see with a few simple dies and sheets of cardstock a very beautiful and stunning card can be made. 

Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful card with me. Please let me know your thoughts. Hugs and happy crafting blessings,

Darlene

PROUD ARMY MOM 76ER CARDS

Patriotic Cards coming Soon!!

  I'm so excited to celebrate and embrace not only myself but my love of our country.

By making Patriotic cards and crafts and sharing with my crafting community.

As a 76er which means born in 1976 a Bicentennial Baby. I have always had a deep love of our country. Growing up I have felt proud to know we are decedents of the Mayflower. Many of my ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War and lived in the North. Serving our country has been a family tradition my father was in Navy, my son's father just retired from the Navy and more recently my son is enlisted in the Army. His courage and patriotic heart to serve our country is breathtaking. 

These and so many more reasons I feel so honored and blessed to live in the USA. 

 Proud to be an American and to celebrate the 4th of July each and every year!

 I'm so Proud of my soldier knowing he's making a difference!

These hashtags #Armymom #Armystrong #mothersofsolders #proudarmymom #Armymomstrong #myfavoritesolder #blessed #serve

Will now be my favorite hashtags to use to share my patriotic cards with you all! 

 In time I hope is to bless YOU with one of my handmake cards of hope, love and encouragement. Sometimes the smallest things we do. Can make the biggest difference.

 Let me know how I can make a difference for you!

Big thanks and hugs to our amazing soldiers all around the world.

First Card posting coming March 4th!!

 

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I just achieved my Five Year milestone as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

as of January 2021. Yeah!!

The most amazing part of this journey isn't just the Wow projects and cards made.

 To my pleasant surprise I have met and continue to meet the most amazing

 friends whom I call my Crafting Sisters. 

Thank you all!!

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and most importantly your Friend.

Love you to the beach & back

 Who just doesn't love a bright and stunning beachy card!!

Especially when is is paired my  with my favorite stamp sets  Friends are like Seashells and High tide and lastly embossing paste for the magic finishing touch. 

Love you to the Beach and Back is just one of the many Fabulous greetings on the Friends are like Seashells stamp set. 

This card is absolutely fun and easy to make with my simple Ingredients listed below. 

So lets get started!!

 First your going to want to start off with your card base. I choose to use Bermuda Bay cardstock 8.5 x 5.5 and scored at 4.25 on the 8.5 side.

Two Whisper white panels at 4 x 5.25

One panel will be the Beach scene and stamped with water stamp image from High Tide and the other panel is embossed using Seashells 3D Embossing folder in your Stampin' cut & embossing Machine or any machine you have.

The first panel is stamped using the water stamp image from High Tide stamp set with the Balmy Blue and Costal Cabana inks. The water image covers roughly 3/4 of the card.

Then an aqua painter brush is lightly used to blend in some of the water. At the top of card I used the aqua painter and Balmy blue to water color in a faint blue sky.

Once top of card was dry. The Seagull stamp image from the High tide stamp set was stamped on the top of panel using Basic Grey ink.

The white panel with embossed seashells will now be stamped with the matching images

 from the Friends are Like Seashells stamp set. 

Largest shell is stamped with Rococo Rose, Second largest image with 

Seaside Spray, and smallest shell with Sahara Sand. 

If you own the dies you can then die cut out the shells in one shot. But if you like me, 

you cut them out by hand even though you have the dies. Either way is fine. 

***Just a side note if you had difficulty lining up shells with stamped image. 

I suggest cutting them out by hand so you can manipulate the image to get a nice white clean border around each shell.  

At this point you should have 3 shells cut out.  

Next you will need a small scrap of whisper white cardstock to stamp the greeting: Love you to the Beach and Back, Ink pad used was Bermuda Bay. If you want to use the same die cut image I used then place the (Tasteful Labels Die) around your stamp image. 

***Honestly you can use any punch or die image you 

have that makes sense for this part of the card.

In this last step we will be working with the glitter embossing paste, pallet knives, 

Sahara Sand reinker. 

Friends Are LIke Seashells - love you 2 beach - 1

On a rubber Silicone mat or scrap paper if that's what you got. Use your pallet knife to put paste down then use a drop of your re-inker on paste. Use your knife to mix paste and color ink thoroughly. *** if you need more paste please use different pallet knife to get more out of embossing container. This way you do not contaminate your white paste. 

***side note any lighter brown or light color re-inker is fine and white embossing paste. 

Once paste is mixed up nicely. Load up paste on pallet knife and spread across the bottom panel of your beach water scene. Add more paste to build up the area and use you pallet knife to clean off the side and bottom area. This way paste isn't hanging over the edges. Once this is accomplished you will have a nice beachy sandy area to place in your shells. Go ahead and now place in the shells in to the paste and add the opal embellishments using your take a pick tool to lightly place the opals  into the sand. LET DRY!!

Roughly it can take and hour or more to dry depending upon how much paste was added. 

*** The shells will dry in sand no adhesive is need to hold them in that also goes for opal embellishments. You can add dimensionals to back side of the larger shells before placing them in the sand. 

While waiting for sand to dry. Add dimensionals to the back side of your greeting: Love you to the beach and back and place it in partly in the sky and water.

Once paste is dry. Card panel can now be placed on the Bermuda Bay card stock.

I hope you enjoyed making this card with me. 

I'm excited for the opportunity for you to stamp with me once again.

Hugs,

Darlene

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Product List

Tasteful Labels Dies

[152886]

$31.00

Friends Are Like Seashells Photopolymer Stamp Set

[154368]

$26.00

High Tide Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143006]

$26.00

Shimmery White Embossing Paste

[145645]

$9.00

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad

[147117]

$7.50

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[105220]

$3.75

Rococo Rose Classic Stampin’ Pad

[150080]

$7.50

Opal Rounds

[154289]

$7.50

Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad

[147105]

$7.50

Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[131197]

$8.75

Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad

[147096]

$7.50

Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad

[149165]

$7.50

Seaside Spray Classic Stampin’ Pad

[150085]

$7.50

Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad

[147097]

$7.50

Palette Knives

[142808]

$5.00

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[100730]

$9.75

Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine

[149653]

$120.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.00

Take Your Pick

[144107]

$10.00

Silicone Craft Sheet

[127853]

$6.00

Tear & Tape Adhesive

[138995]

$7.00

Add All to Cart

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