Summer vacation

Why does summer seem to be so much busier than the rest of the year? I have not been to yoga class for five weeks but I made up for it this week doing construction work or rather demolition work.  The old 80's parquet tile in the kitchen and hall is gone. It took the better part of three days and some very sore muscles on my part but it is finally gone. Now I just have to level the floor and install my new laminate. That will be a snap right?.....we'll see.

Demolition doesn't leave much time for crafting. Fortunately for my creative needs I was lucky enough to be invited to a get together with my upline this weekend. That motivated me to design one card for a swap. The swap was to feature new products or colors and this is the result.

Colors are from 2012-2014 In Color collection

Primrose Petals and Midnight Muse

Stamp sets are

Best of Butterflies

Best of Birthdays

Featured new product is the Modern Mosaic embossing folder

Wave the flag

Over the past week I spent so much time getting ready for a local con there was not much paper craft going on at my house. You can roll over to Fanboy Expo if you want to know what had me so distracted. You can also check out Geek Con Coverage on Facebook for event photos.  With that in mind I did manage to come up with one card design I felt was worth photographing. Ta-Da!

It has a vintage feel that reminds me of the Bicentennial celebration back in 1976. 

Supplies

Whisper White card stock

Baked brown sugar card stock

Midnight Muse card stock

Raspberry Ripple stampin' pad

Stampin' Spritzer

Chevron embossing folder

To make this card emboss your bakes brown sugar card stock with the chevron pattern then drag the Raspberry ripple stampin' pad across the face of the embossed paper to create this great slightly uneven look. If you wanted a more uniform coverage using a brayer would be the way to go but I think the color variation adds to the vintage feel here. Next to create the stars fill a stampin' spritzer with 1/2 water and 1/2 bleach.( I used Clorox brand because that's what I use around the house.) spray onto the Midnight Muse card stock over a bleach safe surface. the more you spray the more stars you will have. I had to play around with that a bit as I over sprayed a few times and ended up with too much white.  

That is all there is to it. Now you just glue and mail it out to wish someone a happy Independence day.