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Tuesday 31 July 2012

National Pride


This is my make for the card challenge on the Merly Impressions blog. There is a fabulous Kaisercraft paper pad up for grabs for the winner. I can highly recommend their fantastic online shop for cardmaking and scrapbooking supplies. They are specialists in Kaisercraft products, including stamps, four of which I have used for my card.
The theme is based on "National Pride ". So it's a nice and simple colour theme of just Red, White and Blue. This is actually the second card I made for the challenge as when I went to enter the first one I'd made, I realised it was a bit too similar to the DT sample. So I had a re-think and came up with this one.


I started with an 8"x8" blank which I coloured with Distress Ink Tumbled Glass. I was aiming for a "blue sky" look which doesn't show too well in the photo. I used Memento Paris Dusk to stamp the Postmarks directly onto the card in the top right corner and one of the Life Sentiments in the bottom right. I then used Distress Ink Barn Door to stamp the flower border from The Lake House.


I created a tag by stamping my Vintage - Cherish stamp in Paris Dusk onto card and cutting the shape freehand. This was placed, slightly raised, onto a doily coloured with a Poppy Promarker and embellished with a faux silk ribbon, a button and thread and a few red gems.


I die-cut some letters to spell CHERISH, matching the tag, and placed them above the flower border. The leaf flourish is a Cheery Lynn die and I coloured and layered some Foundation flowers and finished them with gems and a Cosmic Shimmer pearl.

15 comments:

  1. A really gorgeous card and tag, Andree you have created some really beautiful effects with the stamps and inking.

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  2. Hi Andree,

    thank you so much for entering the Merly card challenge. Your card is beautiful, love all the detail and that Cherish Stamp is gorgeous!!

    Chrissy xXx

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  3. Andree a fab design . fingers xed for you.x

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  4. What a stunning card, really beautiful hun xxx

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  5. A great card, love the contrast between the blue and red. Also love the floral border x

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  6. This is beautiful Andree, lovely colours and those stamps are fabulous.

    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  7. this is beautifully stunning Andree, you have such a way with delicate colours xx

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  8. Really beautiful, Fab images and I love the flourish and the cherish sentiment
    Lindsay xx

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  9. Wow Andree that is beautiful . I love the collection of stamps in corner the tag, the flourishes ,the flowers. I just love it !!!

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  10. I love this card. great design xx

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  11. Wow Andree - I love this. Such an unusual card. Love the colours and the stamps. The composition is fab too! Good luck in the challenge! xx

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  12. Love it. right up my street so well put together hun x good luck with the challenge x

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  13. Gorgeous card! Thank you for playing along with us!

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