Another fab Inspiration site! Love all those vintage clothes and shoes! I'm still in a patriotic mode, so when I saw these shoes The Patriot, I knew these new flag and soldier images from Our Daily Bread designs\ would be perfect! And the image of this soldier is just so moving! I'm also adding this to the ODBD Shining the Light Challenge #67 (red, white & blue).
The old flag image was stamped w/ the indigo ink and I used Prismacolor pencils to color it in. I wanted it to show in the bg so I stamped the soldier and sentiment on vellum. I used the white permapaque marker to color him on the backside so he'd be more visible. I did the same for the sentiment then stitched down the left side of the vellum.
On an angled piece of vellum, I embossed it w/ the stars ef and attached everything to the flag bg. I used a new toy (Seweasy stitch piercer) and went around the edge then hand stitched it using a quick whip stitch. I attached some die cut stars on the right side. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.5.
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.
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Sat, Jul 09, 2011 @ 4:10 PM
Julie, your card is simply ASTOUNDING!! I really spent a good bit of time looking at all your beautiful techniqwues and details. The hand-stitching on the edges really makes this an extra special card. Time well spent on a very wonderful card!