An Old Fashioned 4th

Welcome to another Saturday post for Our Creative Corner.  We have a new challenge going plus our design team call is open for another week.  This week's hostess is Sarah Gough and the theme she has for us Seasonal Celebration - create a card that celebrates the 4th of July or Christmas in July.  It sounded like a fun challenge for me and I absolutely LOVE vintage holiday images.  Isn't this one adorable?  It's from a Luna Girl holiday CD that I invested in a few years back.  

I started by making a red and white bunting out of crepe paper.  The red crepe paper is the same old kind we used back in grade school and the white is that amazing vintage crepe paper by Melissa Frances.  Let me tell you, there is no comparison.  I haven't checked lately to see if she has it in other colors.  I purchased a pack of pastel colors so only the white worked for this project.  It's so nice and stiff/crisp and easy to mold, while the old kind is limp and flimsey.  So I had a hard time with the red but the white was wonderful.  In the end I was really pleased with how it came out.  I cut strips and ran a basting thread along one edge to gather it, which made it form easily into a semi circle.  

I was happy that this week I found a nice muted red gingham to work with.  It makes me want to go back and swap out last week's blaringley red gingham on that card.  The frame was cut with Spellbinders dies, stamped with an SU woodgrain stamp and then run through the Cuttlebug distressed stripes embossing folder.  

The red strip was border cut with a Martha Stewart border punch and run through the Tim Holtz BINGO folder.  The blue jute strips are from May Arts and will be in my Etsy Shop soon.  (I just haven't had time to photo and list them).  

I made a cluster of stars by cutting the corrugated cardboard with the star die, smearing a bit of gesso on it and then rubbing them on a blue stamp pad.  I clustered them together and then wrapped them with the burlap string (from my Etsy shop).  This week I'm very happy with how my sample came out.  

I hope you will stop by Our Creative Corner to play in our challenge this week.  And how about trying out for our design team.  We would love to consider you for our team.  

Wishing you all a great weekend!

  

Challenges Entered:
Tuesday Throwdown - Red, White and Blue
Cooking it Up With Katie - The Colors of Your Flag
Little Red Wagon - Patriotic
Speedy the Cat Friend's Challenge - Patriotic
Pixie Dust Studio - Be Proud (celebrate the 4th of July)
Craft Your Days Away - Vintage
Sugar Creek Hollow - Patriotic, Celebrate With Your Country's Colors