Happy Birthday America!!

I hope everyone in the US has a safe and enjoyable 4th of July Holiday spent with family and friends!!

A while ago, I participated in a patriotic rosette swap over at Club Scrap. Below is a pennant banner I made using some/most of the rosettes I received. I just love all the different variations. I just hand cut the pennants (getting 3 out of each 8.5x11 sheet) from white cardstock. Then I added blue brads in each of the upper corners. To string them together, I used white embroidery floss. I also added sticker letters to the bottom of each pennant to spell  F-R-E-E-D-O-M.

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful holiday!

Compendium of Curiosities Challenge Week 3

This week the challenge technique at http://studiol3.blogspot.com/ is called Alcohol Ink monoprint. I wanted to do a patriotic design, so i chose reds & blues and here's what I ended up with. The flag is adhered to a card made from a lovely sparkly red in the Club Scrap collection called Ornamental.

The flowers are my own interpretation of T!m Holtz's tattered florals dies that I created on my Silhouette.