Brightest Beauty Patriotic Card

Hello, fellow crafters! Today I am sharing this glorious Brightest Beauty patriotic card!!!! This 4th of July-inspired card makes me smile. I am in love with happy this card makes me when I look at it. There is something about the color scheme of Crumb Cake (which you all know is my favorite), Basic White, Sweet Sorbet, Real Red, and Night of Navy that invokes great memories of 4th of July picnics with all my cousins. Growing up, I had a great childhood with my cousins as my best friends!!!

To start this card, I stamped the triangle texture stamp with VersaMark in a few places onto a 4″ x 5 1/4″ Basic White cardbase layer. Then I heat embossed them using Clear Embossing Powder and my heat tool.

Tip:

To save my finger while heat embossing. I took a 6″ x 6″ piece of cardboard, wrapped it in tinfoil, and added a clothespin to the edge. That way, when I am getting ready to heat emboss, I clip the cardstock onto the foil-wrapped cardboard, and it saves my fingers from getting burned!

I cut a strip of blue & white patterned paper from the Lovely In Linen DSP and glued it down to the Basic White cardstock I just embossed.

Now wrap some linen thread around the white card stock layer three times and tie a knot on the backside. You can now add this layer using Stampin Dimensionals to a 8 1/2″ x 5 1/5″ Crumb Cake cardbase that was scored and folded at 4 1/4″

Creating the die-cut flower tag

I used my 4th from the largest (2 3/4″ x 4 1/16″) Rectangle Stitched Die and cut it out in Sweet Sorbet cardstock.

Then using the Golden Beauty dies, I cut out several stems of both sizes in Garden Green. For the flower cluster and smaller flowers, I cut out several in Basic White, Night of Navy, Real Red, Sweet Sorbet cardstock, and Real Red DSP.

Die-cut a Night of Navy decorative edge tag for the sentiment.

Once I had everything die-cut. I started by laying out the stems. I glued down the first two at the bottom and then butted another stem on top of it to create a taller branch. Don’t worry about the seams on the stems. You will cover them up with flowers. After my branch was glued down to the Sweet Sorbet die-cut, I started laying the flowers down to create a pattern I liked. Once I was happy with the arrangement, I adhered to the flowers using Mini Stampin Dimensionals. I then glued some of the smaller flowers to the double cluster flowers and finished by adding any additional ones I felt I needed to balance out the arrangement. Using Stampin Dimensions, you can now add the completed flower layer to the center of the cardbase.

Stamp the “Let’s Celebrate” sentiment from the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set using Sweet Sorbet ink onto Basic White cardstock. I fussy cut out the sentiment and mounted it to the Night of Navy decorative die-cut tag using Stampin Dimensionals. You can now add the completed sentiment layer to the bottom right edge of the die-cut flower tag you created.

I created a triple bow and added it to the left edge of the sentiment layers using a Mini Glue Dot. Then lastly, I added the bling using Rhinestone jewels!

I hope you enjoyed this Brightest Beauty Patriotic card as much as I have. I like to challenge myself to create holiday-related cards from non-holiday stamp sets to show my customers more options for using their stamp sets!

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Thanks for stopping by today.

Happy Stamping!

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