Wonderful challenge (to use twine)! I know I have some, but where I put it only the shadow knows. So I hope the challenge police will let me slide since I used some heavy quiliting thread (almost as heavy as a lightweight twine). How timely! I'm also adding it to the new Fan Club Gallery - Star Spangled!
For my card, I stamped the soldier once in the blues and once in red then die cut a star shape out of the blue and attached it over the red one.
On the red bg, I stamped the Old Flag in red but it wasn't dark enough so it kind of disappeared. It only looks like a little texture now. Oh well. The sentiment was die cut w/ a portion of the tag die and I highlighted it w/ a white gel pen. I took a double strand of the quilt thread and did a little crochet chain thru the hole.
After distressing the edge of the red, I used the stitch piercer tool and whip stitched the edge. A couple of the star pieces were added behind the tag. The finished card measures 5.5 x 4.25.
Thanks so much for looking! My blog:The Write Stuff. Sorry! I had to delete a bunch of really old posts from my blog & this is one of them.
Date: Friday, July 15, 2011 GMT Views: 1243
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Ink: Ancient Page indigo, cobalt, Colorbox warm red chalk
Accessories: Quickutz star dies, Spellbinders tag die, Seweasy stitch piercer, heavy quilting thread, distressing tool, Permapaque white marker, white gel pen
Registered: May 28, 2008 Location: St Louis, Missouri Posts: 3440
Sun, Aug 26, 2012 @ 8:46 AM
This is such a beautiful card. I love how you worked the double image with the star. My son was in the service and he's out now. He did his duty and I'm very proud of him. My niece just entered the Air Force recently and she would love this card! I just went to DBD and wow what a site! I am going to try and order this set! I know you posted this a while ago, but it is still a very cool card!!
------------------------------ Gillian W.
St Louis Missouri