I Brake for...4th of July!

Hello, fellow crafters! Hannah here with my Sunday installment! I literally JUST changed the card I was going to post as I finished this card yesterday! I was SO EXCITED to get a recent order from I Brake for Stamps that I HAD to use some of the stamps for this week's card!

This card features two different stamps, I believe both of these were recently available as the IBFS weekly deal at 35% off! Seriously, it was such a steal, you should consider checking out the offerings every week!

The two stamps I used here are the Uncle Sam Star Border and Large Happy 4th. I loved both so much that I had to use both on this card. I did do some creative masking on the Happy 4th stamp. Not seen here are more fireworks, however, they crossed over onto the border stamp. To avoid stamping them I simply placed a bit of tape over those sections on the stamp, inked it up, and removed the tape before pressing onto the paper. It took a bit to line everything up, even with my super awesome tip of stamping onto acetate, however, the result was more than worth it. 

The supplies for this card couldn't have been fewer. Besides the stamps, I used two Copic markers, a silver Gelli Pen, and card stock. You don't need a lot at all!

The 4th of July is coming up on us, quickly, but there is still time to order your stamps and to get your cards out! While you are ordering these two stamps you should search "4th of July" on the I Brake for Stamps website, you'll find two packed pages of options!

Thank you so much for reading this! I hope I have inspired you to get some 4th of July cards out and to spread the celebration!

I Brake For....Stacked Presents!

Hello IBFS friends!  How is your summer going?  We are doing well down here in hot and humid Florida, except for my small vegetable garden, which seems to have taken the year off!  My tomato plants are dying, my orange and plum trees did not blossom,  and the only thing growing this year seems to be a couple of small pepper plants.  I guess we'll just need to rest the soil this year and hope for a better crop next year.

The Fourth of July is less than 3 weeks away and I took my inspiration from that holiday to make this birthday card.

This card is perfect for anyone with a birthday near July 4th, or someone who like the red, white and blue color scheme.  The image is called Stacked Presents and it is a digital image  It can be found here.  Did you know that I Brake For Stamps does digital images?  In addition to the thousands of rubber stamps they have a great collection of digis as well. I hope you will check them all out!  The best thing about digis is that you can resize them to fit your needs, color them within whatever computer program you are using and they take up no physical space!

The sentiment is a rubber stamp called Best Wishes Birthday and can be found here.

I printed the image out on copic x-press it cardstock and went to work coloring it with copics.  The present that has the stars on it originally was just a plain box and I felt it needed something, so I took a star punch and some acetate and made myself a little stencil!  How easy it that?  You can also try it with a small hole punch if you want to do polka dots.  And while I used the red, white and blue theme, any color can do with these - just pick some patterned paper and use the colors on it as your guide!

The star background paper is part of a patriotic digi paper pack I've had for years.  I think I use it every Veteran's Day when I make a card for my husband so it was nice that I was able to get some more use out of it on this card.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Hop on over to the IBFS store and take a look at all the wonderful stamps there.