COLORING DOWN THE PATRIOTIC LINES!

Coloring Down the Lines Blog Hop 

this week is devoted to patriotic colors in honor of Labor Day next Monday! 
Love the Red, White, & Blue!!

You may be here from Helen's blog! Hello! Be sure to hop over to  Sandy's blog when you are through here. Get ready to celebrate the holiday in blog hop style!!!

So here's my card:

Here is our inspiration photo:

So I went totally flag this week! lol  I saw something similar to this on a video somewhere but can't remember where! So I put my take on it! This was fun to make!

So there's actually very little stamping involved, but I did enjoy using my 

Swirly Scribbles Thinlets to make the stripes of Old Glory!  When I first saw this set I thought-ya whatever. Now I use it all the time!! It's so much fun!!!

For the stars section, I first embossed the Night of Navy with the 

Lucky Stars Embossing Folder & added a clear star from the 

Metallics Sequin Assortment! They were the perfect fit for the embossed stars! A bit of Silver Dazzling Details finished them off!

The words in the stripes are from the Thoughtful Banners stamp set. Thought it was neat to add a bit of sentimental words!

And lastly, yes, copping to using retired product!!! Whey they every retired the 
Little Letters Thinlets Dies I'll never know! They were the only "normal" sized letter dies we had! The Big ones are awesome, but these little guys are perfect for cards and scrapbooking! So I'm on a mission to bring them back!! So better to ask for forgiveness later than permission first!

Happy Labor Day. It's still not the end of summer in my mind tho!!! I'm hanging on to the summer weather as long as I can!!! I will so miss my summer days. Depression until next June!

Happy Stampin'!

COLORING DOWN THE LINES!

So this week on our 

Coloring Down the Lines 

Blog Hop 

we are "celebrating" Back to School! Now this is a big issue for me because I want summer to stay forever! But since I am no longer teaching, I'm not going back to school, so bring it on! lol

Hello hoppers from Helen's blog!!!   Be sure to keep moving through the grades to 
Sandy's blog! 

Here's my card:

Here are the colors:

So we are basically Primary Colors this week! Works for Back to School, right? Well I taught first & second grade, so it's perfect for me!

This one was kind of fun! I got to play with my alphabet stamp sets! The large letters are from the Layered Letters set-which I love!  The smaller letters are from my most used alpha set, Labeler Alphabet.  They are both great for cards, but especially the larger ones, are also great for scrapbooking! I use them frequently!

I used the Banners Framelits because banners just shout "school" to me! Maybe you don't hear it?! The Lucky Stars Folder just works! And the  

Metallic Sequins just happen to come in star shapes also, so BAM! The little sentiment is found in the Crazy About You stamp set! That set's so versatile!!!

So hope this got ya thinkin' bout readin', writin', and 'rithmetic!! I'm gonna continue thinking about the beach if you don't mind! lol

Happy Stampin'!