Happileigh Scrappin' #28

It is Sue's turn to set the challenge theme at Happileigh Scrappin' this week and in honour of the impending Independence Day celebrations she would like to see Star and/or Stripes on your creation.

I have to be honest I was a little stumped as I wanted to do something with the red white and blue colouring but have never made a patriotic card so didn't know where to start. Leigh saved the day by designing this gorgeous image called Patriotic Kasey which is a new release in the Special Occasion section of the Happileigh Scrappin' store. It is a fabulous image and I really hope I have done it justice. She is of course coloured with Promarkers and I am quite pleased with how vibrant it is. I matted this onto red card and it is layered up on 3d foam.

I used the latest sketch at Carly's Sketches for the layout with one of my scalloped edge 8" card blanks. The paper is one I have had in my stash for YEARS I think it might have been from a big Colorbok pad I had from QVC but can't be sure...... I didn't have any red and white striped paper so I have used strips of spotty ribbon on white card then added ribbon bows. These are topped with buttons which have some of my red white and blue twine I got recently (sssh Paul doesn't know, you're all in on the secret right!!)

As a final embellishment I cut out some stars from scrap card and mounted on 3d foam. The white ones have been wrapped in the twine in a Spirelli fashion and I added faux stitching around the edges. In all I am really, really pleased with how it has turned out as it kind of grew as it went along.

Leigh has got some smashing offers on in the store at the moment in the Summer Celebration Sale. With every purchase you get a an Old Glory background and sentiment free........

Also for every 3 images you purchase you can choose an extra one absolutely free. There are loads of fab images just itching to be played with so you will find it easy to spend your pennies I promise you :)

Please pop on over to see the lovely creations my Happi Sisters have added. There are lots of lovely cards to feast your eyes upon with oodles of embellishments.

Remember, for our challenges you don't need to use a Happileigh Scrappin' image but if you do your entry counts twice and with freebies available here it is easy to use one of Leigh's fabulous digis.

We would love to see lots of entries in this challenge. Leigh gives away her lovely digis to the top 3 so it is well worth entering and me and the DT love to see your creations, so come on over to

Happileigh Scrappin' Challenges to join the fun!

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size - 8" square

Sketch - Sketches By Carly #34

Image - Patriotic Kasey by Happileigh Scrappin'

Paper - Colorbok

Embellishments - Ribbon, bows, Papermania buttons, twine

Tools - Good old scissors ;)

Techniques - Fussy Cutting, Spirelli

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• A Spoonful of Sugar #157 - Use a Ribbon and a bow
• Alphabet Challenge H - Half a dozen (Stars)
• Catch the Bug - Red White & Blue with Ribbon
• Card Makin' Mama's #23 - Red White & Blue
• Craft Garden - Something Old (paper) Something New (Digi & twine) Something Blue (promarker)
• Craft Us Crazy #11 - Red White & Blue
• Craft Your Passion #64 - Use red
• Crafty Pad #127 - Bold & Bright
• Crafts & Me - Stitching real or fake
• Creative Inspirations #62 - Stitching Real or Fake
• Cupcake Inspirations #117 - Colours & Stars
• Daisy Doodles #36 - Stars & Stripes
• Delightful Inspiration - Red White & Blue
• Digi's With Attitude #32 - Anything Goes
• Die Cut Dreams #92 - Red White & Blue
• Dream Valley Challenges #10 - Ribbons
• Everybody Art #147 - Anything Goes
• Fairytale Challenges #18 - America
• Get Creative With Ann #136 - Red White & Blue
• House of Gilli - Ribbons & Bows
• I Love Promarkers #71 - Anything Goes with Promarkers
• Just Us Girls #90 - 3D Red White & Blue
• Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT #33 - Use some red
• Meljen's Designs #64 - Stripes and/or Plaid
• My Sheri Crafts #63 - Independence Day
• Off the Wall Colour Challenges #56 - Red White & Blue (picture above)
• Paper Crafting Journey #13 - Anything Goes
• Paper Pals Arts #99 - Stars
• Paperplay #25 - Stars and/or stripes
• Paper Issues - Red White & Blue
• Paper Playtime #49 - Digi with Red White & Blue
• Penny's Paper Crafty #56 - Red White & Blue
• Rainbow Lady #158 - Digi Day
• Scrapbook Sisters #41 - Anything Goes
• Scrappy Frogs - Use Red
• Shelly's Images TTT - Stars, Stripes or Patriotic
• Sketches by Carly #32 - Layout of card
• Southern Girls #21 - Anything Goes
• Squigglefly #104 -Red White & Blue
• Stamp Insanity #64 - Stars & Stripes
• Stamp Something - Red White & Blue
• Stamps R Us - There Was A little girl who.... celebrated 4th July
• Stamptacular Sunday #117 - Stars & Stripes
• Sweet Stamping Challenge - Something Old & New (old paper, new digi and twine)
• Top Tip Tuesday #39 - Cross something on your creation (twine crossed on stars)
• Totally Gorjuss #86 - Ribbons or Lace
• Totally Papercrafts #72 - Spots & Stripes
• Woodware USA #33 - Patriotic theme and colours