celebrate the 4th - pub

Hey, there! Holy cow, it's been over a week since I last posted! I'm just so busy enjoying our summer break while I can that I keep running out of time to blog. The kids will start school on the 8th and this year, I'll be teaching ALL FOUR. Yes, my baby will start pre-K. *sob, sniff sniff* I guess I can't really call her may "baby" anymore, can I? :(

I digress. :) Here's a card that I made for a 4th of July pub assignment for SNR. I wanted to make a card with a sort of "flag" look to it, and this is what evolved:



Some stars are white embossed on blue card stock and then cut out and mounted on pop dots. The rest were stamped directly on the card with navy ink. The "Celebrate" panel was stitched on my machine and then the sentiment was stamped in between and heat embossed. It's different, but I think I like it. :)

I did manage to find some time to stamp this past week (used my new Hero Arts CLiNGS!), but my pics aren't coming out too well thanks to being so overcast these last few days. But one way or another, I'll post them soon.

Can't believe it's Friday already... hope you have a great weekend! And thanks for reading!

SUPPLIES: all stamps are Hero Arts (Galaxy of Stars with miscellaneous stars from other random sets, and All Occasion Messages for the sentiment), inks are SU! craft (white) and Versamagic (navy), white EP, machine stitching, Hero Arts star gems, and pop dots.