Welcome to the June Our Daily Bread Designs Release Blog Hop!
 On my first card, I stamped the soldier with red ink, masked him and stamped the old flag background with stonewashed ink. A piece of vellum was over laid and the greeting was stamped using a combination of the red/iris chalk inks. I also stamped 3 stars on the vellum and a bunch of the stars on white card stock. Some plain white stars were die cut then I used a star punch to punch out the stamped stars and attach them on top of the die cut stars down the left side. The eagle was stamped w/ the denim ink and fussy cut. I die cut a white frame to attach on top of the vellum panel before everything else was attached to my 4.25 x 5.50 card.Â
Supplies:
| Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Some Gave All, Home of the Free, Old Flag Bg, Not Forgotten |
| Paper:Â Neenah white, vellum |
| Ink:Â Adirondack denim & stonewashed inks, Colorbox lipstick red & blue iris chalk inks |
| Accessories:Â Spellbinders star & square dies (resized to make frame around vellum), star punch |
On my second card, I stamped the old flag bg on navy card stock using white chalk ink. The eagle was stamped w/ denim ink and a few areas were colored w/ a red Copic maker before I cut him out. I die cut 2 mega ovals to place under the eagle and added a few red dots around the first oval. Two fussy cut stars were added on either side of the ovals. The navy bg was attached to a white 5.50 x 4.25 card and I stamped the little designs around the edges using the red ink.Â
Supplies:
| Stamps: Our Daily Bread designs – Home of the Free, Old Flag Bg, Antique Label Designs |
| Paper:Â Neenah white, navy blue |
| Ink:Â Adirondack denim ink, Colorbox lipstick red & popcorn chalk inks |
| Accessories:Â Spellbinders rectangle & mega oval dies, Copic lipstick orange marker |
Thanks so much for stopping by!
These are absolutely yummy Julie! I love the screen print feel on these projects! They have such a warm edge to them. Very masculine, modern, just all out FABULOUS! Love ’em! {{hugs}}
Lori
Love, love the cards. Makes me so very proud to be an American. Thank you for allowing us to enjoy the work that you do.
Clever you, Julie! I love that first card with the vellum overlay, your punched stars and double inked verse! And totally love the flag stamped in white! Fab samples, girlie!!
Awesome cards..love how you used the soldier and stars in that first one.
Both cards are very pretty but my favorite one is the one with the soldier on it…..Great job!!
Oh both are awesome Julie! Love the vellum overlay… and the red/blue sentiments are great!!! Beautiful work as always!!!
hugs,
Grace
Julie, these are both fantastic creations. I really like the first one with the soldier and the flag background!! Gorgeous!!
Julie, both of your cards are totally outstanding!!!!! Your cool and clever style never disappoints!!!! HUGS!!
Julie, your cards are wonderful! The use of vellum as an overlay is just perfect! Great job.
Lovely!!
I love both cards! Such talent.
Awesome blog!
Your two patriotic designs are just fanstastic.
Julie these are both amazing! I love the vellum on the first! And I especially love the white flag on blue BG and your border!!! FANTASTIC!
Julie – I love how you incorporated the backgrounds so beautifully here! All your elements are placed perfectly and make these creations truly amazing. Love them both.
Hugs,
Audrey
Beautiful cards. Love the vellum and stars on your first card. These are great patriotic stamps. TFS
Wow – the use of the soldier on the flag and vellum to soften it is beautiful and heartrending at the same time. Beauifully done!
The eagle is incredible and your use of the background for him makes him truly amazing. Thanks!
these patriotic images are fantastic, and you certainly did them justice. Lovely .. as usual.
Sandra ltb
The vellum was a great touch. Thanks for the inspiration!
Outstanding projects. love the colors and the Patriotic would work awesomely for my Husband Navy retirement album. love the details and love put into your Projects., thanks for sharing.
Just stunning!!
I really like both your projects, the first one with the soldier is my favorite though. Thank you for sharing your projects.
Your cards are always stunning and these are no exception!!!
Both cards are incredible! Love the stars and the eagle! TFS God bless!!
fantastic cards.
Love the patriotic cards.
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Incredible patriotic cards Julie!! Love the first with the older vintage look as the background and then the brighter stars layered on that, it looks awesome!! I love all the stars on the second and the red, white, blue pattern on the eagle!!
Hugs,
Chris
Both patriotic cards are awesome, Julie! Love the look of the vellum overlay on the first card, and the flag stamped in white on the second! Both gorgeous creations give cause to stop and thank God for our wonderful country! Hugs!
WOW, wow, wow, Julie, I am at awe at your fantastic designs. Your cards are always so powerful and these two right here are just mind blowing! I love that you have combined the first one with the soldier stamp from the Not Forgotten set…so perfect to be combined with these new ones….love it! Hugs and blessings, Sabrina
I just love your cards! This set has wonderful potential and you showed us some beautiful ideas. Thanks for sharing your talent! Hugs, Donna rubberstampin at yahoo dot com
Wow..both cards are fantastic!! My favorite is your first one…love the way you softly stamped the soldier. The layout is wonderful!
Awesome patriotic cards Julie! I love the vellum overlay on the first with the stamped sentiment and the softness of the second! Beautifully done with some fun techniques! Blessings! Kathy
Thank you for the inspiration.
Marjorie from TX
Julie! I haven’t seen ANY stamps out there that portray SUCH PATRIOTISM as I have seen in the stamps at ODB! I’ve had some on my WISH LIST for awhile now! NOW, I have MORE TO ADD! 🙂 BEAUTIFUL CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
AWESOME creations!! You are so talented!
Thank you for sharing.
Pamela
Great patriotic cards, each one so unique and wonderful details.
These are fabulous patriotic cards! Love them! Another stamp set or 2 that I need! 🙂
Wonderful ideas and follow thru…inspirational!
Love the backgrounds for both of these cards, the eagles look great and I just love your arrangement of the stars on the first!
Incredible cards! I loved how you used the background stamps and vellum. Lots of great techniques.
I love the use of the vellum on the first card, Julie! It made the soldier seem “alive”! Both cards are BEAUTIFUL! Thank you!
Gorgeous card.. Love those stars and the eagle!! I love it!! Just stunning!! I love the 2nd card too.. the eagle on that one too.. amazing!I love the dies you used!!
Wonderful patriotic cards–I like all the stars on the first one.
Both cards are great, but my favorite is the first one with the vellum overlay. Creative, intriguing, and simply stunning. Wonderful use of the new stamps and also a great tip to go back and use older stamps as well–they never go out of style.
Love your patriotic cards; great details. Thanks for sharing
Your cards are very moving and out of this world lovely.
Both of these are just beautiful- as I have told some of the other gals these patriotics are my favorite and then you added some oldies (but goodies!)
love both cards!!!love the eagle and the sentiments!!
Thank you for the beautiful work.
These are both awesome cards!
I like your combo of stamps and the layered stars on the Not Forgotten stamp card. Very cool!
Very nice cards – TFS.
What fabulous cards! Wow, I don’t think I could choose a favorite between the two.
Beautiful cards, Julie. Love the way you used the background stamps and then popped up the other images.
Wow! Stunning, fantastic, phenomenal work. Thanks for sharing your talent, and how you did it!
Love your cards! What beautiful sets this month, really make me proud! Thanks for the inspiration.
These cards are beautiful. I always love patriotic cards. Its always nice this time of year. I really like the first card and hiw you have the collage of stamps. So pretty.
I love how you added the older release background to enhance these new release stamps. Your designs and use of colors is wonderful. TFS.
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LOVE the flag in the background on both of your cards, and the Not Forgotten too!! So clever and striking!!
Great patriotic cards. Such good use of the stamps. Thanks for sharing.
Great projects Julie….I want to stand and salute!
Love the softness created by the vellum layer in the first card. The second is equally as beautiful, and there, I like the texture suggested in the stamped image.
Wonderful patriotic cards! I love these new stamps!
Just beautiful.