July Fourth

Here in the U.S. it's Independence Day and Cards on Thursday on the Bella Blvd. blog. To celebrate, the design team has been creating lots of patriotic projects this week and today it's greeting cards. For my two cents it wasn't hard to create some very colorful and festive designs with the All American collection. 

This first card combines sticker and chipboard flowers in a collage, accented with a little flag and pretty polka dot ribbon.

More ribbon, another mini flag, a large star die, washi tape and chipboard alphas went into my second card. I do love texture and making big bows helps accomplish that!

Christopher is so excited about our bonfire/cookout tonight and fireworks. Keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't rain on his parade! It's been raining daily here in NC and feeling a lot like a rain forest...very humid! We've got a 70% chance of thunder storms predicted for the afternoon, but it's supposed to be clear by 9:00 p.m.

Enjoy your Fourth!

July

T.G.I.F. everyone! 

Do you have any exciting plans for the weekend? We're having a community wide garage sale tomorrow and I'm hoping it's a great big success! We've been working on simplifying for the past couple years and have given so much to the Goodwill and now we're hoping to make a few bucks on more items. 

Saturday evening the family is going out to dinner. A nice reward for our hard work, don't you think?

Before I go wrap up last minute details for our sale, I wanted to leave you with a craft share. I made this Fourth of July card with Doodlebug's Stars and Stripes collection. Swoon! I adore this line!

Have a great weekend! :)

July

T.G.I.F.

It's a beautiful Friday morning and I'm popping in to share a crafty project with you before I head out for a hike. Dan took the day off so we could celebrate our anniversary and we're going to spend a bit of time enjoying the great outdoors before we go to lunch.

I created this colorful card using one of my favorite new collections from Doodlebug called Stars and Stripes.

I think these postage stamps are awesome! And the rocket...well, it's the bomb! ;) I think this collection would be perfect for many subjects besides July Fourth, what do you think?

Hope you have a fantastic Friday! Thanks for stopping by! :)