Hooray for Independence

Oh Canada! and a Happy Fourth of July Blog Hop

In honor of Canada Day and the United States' 4th of July celebrations,

 The Stamping Boutique is having an all-inclusive 

Patriotic BLOG HOP

It all starts at THE STAMPING BOUTIQUE, so head on over
MIRANDA
JEANNIE
COLLETTE

KECIA
STACIE (you are here)
RHONDA
MICHELLE
AMANDA 

I made a banner for my front door today!
I used the Eagle Image from The Stamping Boutique
and several new SVG Cut files from DtsArt.

The banner under the eagle is half a rosette.

Normally, I would make two of these and stick them together to make a round rosette, but I wanted the blue behind his head,

so I cut a circle to round out the background 

for the two eagle end pieces of my banner.

and close ups of each panel in the banner:

It's tough to take a picture of a window without being IN the picture, 

so if you look close, you can see ME! (-:

In fact, if you click any of the photos

you can see them in a bigger version! (-:

This is two of the SVG Cut files together.

The Patriotic Hat and the Land of the Free Sentiment.

The white panel of the hat is embossed with Sizzix Diamonds.

The star on the "L" is from the cutout on the hat.

All the blues are painted with Aquamarine Creative Inspirations paint

and have a really nice, deep shimmer.

The "of" is highlighted with Diamond Stickles.

This photo is such a disappointment to me!

This panel of the banner, in real life, is so shimmery and pretty.

But here, it just looks blotchy and streaky!

The SVG Cut file is called "Peace Love USA" from DtsArt.

The Peace sign is Diamond Stickles.

The stars on the heart are the cuts from the US Flag on the next panel.

The USA is embossed with Cuttlebug Swiss Dots.

The blue base and the heart are spritzed with Pearl Shimmer Mist.

Up close, it's SO pretty and I hate this photo!

This is the US States and "Home of the Brave"

Again, I combined two of the cut files.

The blues are Aquamarine Creative Inspirations paint.

The "of" is Diamond Stickles.

The star on the "H" is an off-cut from the hat.

Thank you for visiting with me today!

This was a super-fun project and I'm so happy to be part of this

Stamping Boutique Blog Hop!

And just a quick little note:

the ENTIRE SET of SVG files that I used for this project

are ON SALE at the DtsArt Store!

For ONLY $2 you get 

all 3 patriotic shapes and 2 titles!! 

That's 5 complete layered SVG's

for ONLY $2

Now, head on over to Rhonda's Blog and enjoy your trip

thru our hop this weekend!

The project Rhonda has posted is quite possibly my 

favorite of the entire hop!!

I would like to enter the following challenges with this project:

Creative Inspiratons Paint, Inspired by Summer. I have used Aqua Marine CI Paint on all the blues and Fairy Dust on some of the whites. I LOVE this stuff and there's a chance to win more...
Tuesday Throwdown, Red White and Blue
Totally Papercrafts, Bingo: I used Die Cuts, Embossing and Ribbon (the bottom row)
Digi Stamps 4 Joy, Red Whte and Blue
Digi Doodle Shop, Anything Goes
Delightful Challenges, Red White and Blue
Craft Us Crazy, Red White and Blue
Guylou's Inimitability, Stars and Stripes
I Did It Creations, Patriotic
Little Darlings, Favorite Color Combo: This is their second challenge! I love this site and it looks to be off to a great start!! 
Papercutz, Star Spangle Banner Hop
Paper Playtime, Digi and Red, White and Blue (my digi is the Eagle from The Stamping Boutique)
Paper Play Challenges, Anything But a Card
Party Time Tuesday, 4th of July
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge, Red White and Blue
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle, Stars and Stripes
Order of the Opus Gluei, Red, White and ??? This is one of my FAVORITE challenge blogs and I'm so glad I'm able to play with them this time around!