"Old Glory" Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop!

Once a month, Taylored Expressions holds a Blast from the Past Blog Hop, where the customers play along with Taylored Expressions' very talented design team! Everyone uses older stamp sets on their projects (hence the Blast from the Past)! This month's theme is Old Glory, where we were to use the colors red, white, and blue!

Here's my card, which will go to friends who are relocating to the Pacific Northwest in July!


The card uses the window, shutters, and window box from the Fresh Flowers set along with the flower patch from the In The Park set. The sentiment and banner are from the Banner Day #1 set, which was used with the matching die. I've gotta say I love the matching stamps and dies. I especially love that they give you a plastic template so you can position your dies perfectly after you stamp. It's almost idiot proof. *snort*

The flower patch was stamped twice, masked with Miskit Frisket (which has become my favorite liquid mask), then a third patch was stamped and masked. The window box was stamped, then the window was stamped. Even with my Stamp-a-ma-jig, I managed to mess up the positioning of the second shutter, so I ended up cutting 'em out. All elements were colored with Copic markers in the required color scheme. Some Iridescent Medium was added to the window panes to give them some glitz.

The window and shutters needed a house, but I didn't have any patterned paper for that and didn't feel like drawing siding. I went to my trusty stash and found some textured striped paper that I white washed with two layers of Picket Fence Dabber, which was brushed (not dabbed) on. Then I wanted some grass (of the lawn variety ;D) and remembered that I had a stash of seriously old die cuts. Perfect! I did a bit of matting, stamped the sentiment and banner, die cut it, and popped it onto dimensionals.

Coincidentally, this card qualifies for a Splitcoast Stampers challenge (CC328).

Now that you've read this ridiculously long description, hop along to the next person on the blog hop -- Corinna! If you get lost, the hop list is below.