Stars and Stripes - British Style!

Hi, and welcome!

Well, this post was supposed to waft, fragrantly, into your Reader, on 1st June, while I was still on me jollies in Cornwall....but Mr. Blogger had other ideas.......haaahaaa!
Better late than never, as they say, so on with the show.......

It's time for another challenge at

CARD CRAFTER'S CIRCLE 

and this week we want to see all your lovely creations with

STARS AND STRIPES.........woohoo!

We are back with one of our favourite sponsors


and this week there are 4 digital images that will  be given to our randomly chosen winner.

This week,  I'm in celebration mode, so I chose to make something that included the theme of STARS AND STRIPES, but with a very British twist.....after all, you might just have noticed that our nation is blessed with a wonderful Queen who has reigned over us for 60 years, and we are honouring her with 4 days of celebration and pageantry....yaaaaay!

I'm the only Briton on our Design Team, and the other very talented members have come up with their own versions of this great theme.....go take a peek!

Here's my offering......

The card base is white and I cut off about the last quarter of the front of the card (I never measure anything...ha!), and used a strip of the red stripe paper on the inside back.......the red stripy is from an old Christmas pack......I used navy blue card for the first layer, leaving a small white border, and layered more red stripy on top......

Isn't the little teddy astronaut the cutest?  I coloured him with the usual Promarkers, cut him out, and layered him, using foam pads, onto a large star shape that I'd cut with a Fiskar's template, and layered with blue stars paper and a Union Flag-inspired heart die cut.....

I placed the star shape so that it became the "standing edge" of the card front......

A strip of Union Flag images, layered onto blue star paper, and inked.  I cut a small red tag and stamped the message, then fixed with the threaded button......

The sweet little Air Mail sentiment is another stamp from the Portabello Road series......and it's supposed to look faded, algthough this is how a lot of my stampin' actually turns out...ha!

A strip of tan paper, layered with a strip of blue crown-image paper.....I rounded the corners to soften........the bottom edge of the front of the card has been cut with a scalloped border punch, which I rather like!

And, there you have it....my  STARS AND STRIPES - BRITISH STYLE!

Hope you'll join the challenge, this week!

Hugs,
Anne-Marie x

Challenges:
http://herecometheboysblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything goes
http://stampinsistersinchrist.blogspot.co.uk/  Use something that depicts an element of heaven (the stars and blue)
http://pinkleart.blogspot.co.uk  Her Majesty