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Hello all you Canuck stampers! I saw the thread for US patriotic cards and thought I'd start one for us, too! If there are other folks here whose countries have an upcoming national day of celebration please feel free to post too! Canada's a mosaic, in't it?
Truth be told I have *never* made a Canada Day card (it's just so un-Canadian to toot our own horn like that, isn't it? ;) ), so someone else will have to get the ball rolling! Maybe I will challenge myself to make a Canada Day card (though I don't know what I'd do with it; send it to the Speaker of the House?)!
Show us your cards, ladies and gents! I will try to get one uploaded by the weekend!
Actually, I just saw the Cards for Canadian Soldiers thread (link below) and think I should send the Canada Day-themed cards I make to Canadian soldiers serving abroad! I know there is no way in heck they would make it there for Canada Day but I think the theme would be appreciated at any time of year.
The tough thing is that there aren't many Canadian stamps like there are American stamps (like the ones they are using for the 4th of July) - heck - SU even retired the rather feeble Canadian stamp set that they had awhile back. Any ideas on where I can get some good Canadian stamps - they would work well for scrapbooking since I am married to a Mountie - which is about as Canadian as you can get (or so he says!!)
ooh ooh ooh I was browsing Viva Las Vegas Stamps (www.vivalasvegastamps.com) the other day and they had a MOUNTIE stamp!!! It was gorgeous! The Mountie was, um, mounted and doing a musical ride type thing and the Mountie was holding a little flag on a staff. One stamp had the horse standing, and the other trotting/cantering/whatevering.
You can do a search on the site for 'mountie' and it should bring them right up. Let me know what you think! I was so tempted by them, but I was like, what am I going to do with a Mountie stamp? The company offeres them mounted (a wood-mounted mounted Mountie?), just on EZ mount for 1/3 the price, and also just the rubber die for half the price.
I should watch Corner Gas seeing as I live in SK and all! I don't have a TV, though.
Found some cool stamps on eBay. Some of them I think are through Prairie Rubber Stamps in Manitoba, which manufactures their stamps and offers unmounteds.
I am always my own best customer whenever I start a thread like this! Just had some ideas that if you have some funky background paper that looks like Northern Lights, that might be suitable.
Prairie Rubber Stamps has maple leaves, Mountie stamp stamps (rubber stamp of a postage stamp with a Mountie in it), a set of six stamps of Canadian coins from penny to toonie, two Mounties in the Musical Ride, a beaver, various wildlife including a WOOD TICK, a bison, a Hercules aircraft, and the Northern Lights. No CBC logo!
Maybe I'm a CBC geek, but I think it would be hyper-cool to have an image of the oooolld CBC logo.
What was that show that was on CBC in the 70's about logging? I can't remember what it was called but it was truly Canadian back then. Bruno Sarducci (I think) was on it.
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there is a web site that sells canadian stamps and is a canadian company, www.highhopesstamps.com (i think) They have some really cute moose, beaver, mountie, and a few maple leaves. HTH
Well I've only been a real Canadian for 6 years (got my citizenship after marrying a canuck!). But I have no maple leaf, no red ink pad or anything that is remotely canadian in my stash. Heck, I don't even have red CS!
Hope they don't want my passport back, he he he. :p
Dude, I don't think you can get more Canadian than living in Kelowna! I guess Ogopogo could be another theme; can you believe I actually saw an Ogopogo stamp in an online store recently??? But it should be straightforward enough to make old Ogie using paper pieces.
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Neat idea Rebecca. Way to use your imagination!!!! OK, This challenge has gotten to me. Here's another Canada Day card I created last night. :p [/URL][/FONT]
I have those mountie stamps from VLVS - they are super cool but they are HUGE - one is far too big for a card - but my goal for this weekend is to make something out of the smaller one!! I love this thread!!
I never thought to make Canada cards. I've only been doing this since last summer and my ideas are still limited. Some those cards that you posted Mel, were very lovely. I think I might put them in my favorites. I just remembered, I have a tiny maple leaf stamp that was given to me.
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Some those cards that you posted Mel, were very lovely. I think I might put them in my favorites. I just remembered, I have a tiny maple leaf stamp that was given to me.
We sure have a lot of talented Canadians on SCS, don't we! I am so glad I can draw on their cards for inspiration!
Yah, that's it! That not only had an awful logo, it was a pretty bad show too. LOL
Hey you... Yes, all you up there north of the border. I remember that I watched The Beachcombers a LOT. Can't really remember much... simple entertainment and I suppose it had pretty predictable plots. BUT, it was a darned sight better than the garbage that's on most American channels these days. It wasn't scary. It wasn't sickening.
I do not watch sitcoms anymore ...too much filth. I do not watch cop shows anymore ...too much violence.
Maybe they should bring back The Beachcombers.
I didn't think the Beachcombers was too bad except towards the end when some of the core actors left and the show started getting a little silly. My strongest bad Beachcombers memory is when Alice (I think? the lady who owned the cafe) got dressed up as a hurdy gurdy girl in her cafe and sang a song to Relic. Painful!!!!
Speaking of painful, I finally uploaded my Canada Day card! I just didn't have any paper for this one that fit the image in my mind, and made do with the only red PP I have. It has little arrowheads all over it. Personally I hate the paper, but the card has begun to grow on me. I don't know if it's anything I will send to Canadian soldiers (it hasn't grown on me THAT much) but it was a good experience. Here's the link (still pending approval):
Canada Day Cards!
