Happy 4th of July! Happy Independence Day! Happy Birthday America! Sending love and good wishes for a fun and fabulous holiday today! I hope you have a fun day and get lots of BBQ and fireworks! I am looking forward to the 4th of July in our neighborhood. Everyone is always outside enjoying the warm evening and lighting off cool fireworks displays and the atmosphere is so jovial and happy. I have been making tons of patriotic cards and projects to show you, and today I have one last patriotic card! I used lots and lots of brand new supplies from the amazing new Summer 2024 release from Honey Bee Stamps. What an awesome release – so many good products. I have many more ideas! Check it out here!
This card features the brand new Eagle Dies, The Land of the Free background stamp (LOVE), the new Because of the Brave sentiments, and more… My finished card is an A2 cream card base, layered with blue stripes and then more (lots more) layers and elements! I used a traditional Americana color palette and kept it vintage too…. Everything classically USA. (By the way, are you excited for the Olympics?!) I used it all — patterned paper, glitter cardstock, vellum, wax seal, and distress ink! Oh and don't forget the gold splatters!
Here's a side view of all the layers and elements on my card. For the sentiment I die cut out the large letters from gold cardstock and then layered the vellum sentiment over the top.
I double layered the letters USA with gold and dark brown cardstocks. I stamped the sentiment onto the vellum using Stazon black ink using my MISTI.
The star of the show are these new Eagle Dies!!! WOW. The layers are easy to understand and easy to put together – and it really looks like an eagle!! I added gold paint to the tips of his wings for some extra pizazz!! Isn't he marvelous?? In this photo you can also see that I used a background die on the circle just behind the eagle. I thought it looked really vintage….
This new background stamp is great! I stamped it in gold/yellow ink and then used distress inks around the edges. I crumpled the stamped panel into a ball in my hands and then unfolded it flat and this way it looks like old paper/cloth. I splattered gold paint on that panel also.
Hands down, Honey Bee has the best wax seals and melts! This new 3D star is perfection. I made my seal in blue wax to fit the color theme. It is affixed using foam squares.
Look at the detail in that wax seal! Perfection!
And lastly, here's a patriotic photo of me out in our front yard last week! We were getting ready to go somewhere so I took a quick photo to update my Facebook profile pic! Yes – I am very patriotic! 🙂
That's it for today! And I think that's it for the 4th of July projects! I have some patriotic stitching but I didn't finish them all! Boo! Seems there is never enough time for stitching! And my eyes get tired after a while – so I am very slow. I need to be better about starting earlier with that. As usual, never enough time! Happy 4th of July everyone! XOXO
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5 responses to “Happy 4th of July 2024!”
WOW WOW WOW…the detail and the finished card are a piece of art! You nailed it Wanda!
LOVELY picture of you….
Thank-you Wanda for sharing so many pictures and angles of your creations..it really gives us so many ideas of the possibilities you can come up with …with your help!
Love this post, Wanda!!
Great card Wanda and also a great pic of you dressed for the 4th. Have a great holiday.
BEAUTIFUL! Card & photo, Wanda! 😉 I have been eye-balling that eagle die! NICELY DONE in vintage! I hadn’t spotted the star wax seal yet though. HOPE you’re having a WONDERFUL DAY in celebration of our FREEDOM! 😉 We just had our “snack” for today, cherry cobbler with vanilla ice cream! Cook out tonight & all the fix-in’s!
That’s a cheerful Independence Day card! All the right colors and neat details!