This card was created as inspired by Splitcoaststampers card layout design for this week. Since it was the week of July 4th I decided to pull out this cute image from La-La Land Crafts called Saluting Luka. I am so grateful for all those men and women who dedicate their lives to keep America and the world free. This is in honor of them.
I revised the layout slightly with the placement of the small rectangles/square. I cut the three rectangle/square elements of the card from Gina K. Designs Kraft Cardstock. I used My Favorite Things A2 Stitched Rectangles and Avery Elle’s Double Pierced Square dies. I had to elongate the square to make a rectangle, and the A2 rectangle needed to be elongated as well so that it would align with the other two elements.
I stamped Luka on some Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. He was colored using Copic Markers (listed below). I used my Silhouette PIXScan mat to scan and cut around the image. I placed the image onto the paper side of Darice Sticky Back Foam and traced around it, fussy cut it just smaller than the trace, and adhered it to the back of the image for added dimension. Luka was the focal image and was placed on the long rectangle and adhered with Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive. For the banner across the bottom I decided to use a stars banner from Stampin’ Up/Sizzix Mini Treat Bag out of red cardstock and back it with gold glitter cardstock. I added a small square of foam to each end and placed it across the bottom of Luka.
I searched online to find another image that would compliment Luka and found this really cute patriotic eagle holding an American Flag created by MarinaNeira. I saved the image, uploaded it into the Silhouette Cameo, traced around the image and cut it out to add to the lower elongated rectangle.
For the upper square I die cut a Spellbinders Stars Five out of gold glitter cardstock and added one of the red stars leftover from the banner. I scatter the three of the remaining small red hearts around the eagle.
For the sentiment I pulled out Dare 2B Artzy’s My Hero stamp set and stamped it in the lower right of the card with VersaMark Ink and heat embossed it with Ranger Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder. I decided to add some score lines between the images and the sentiment and the card was done.
Products Used:
- La-La Land Crafts Saluting Luka
- Dare 2B Artzy My Hero
- Patriotic Eagle by MarinaNeira
- Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
- VersaMark Ink
- Ranger Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder
- Neena Classic Crest 80# Solar White Cardstock
- Gina K. Designs Dark Chocolate Base Weight Cardstock
- Copic Markers: E13, E11, E01, E00, R20; E37, E35, E34; E55, E51, E35; E33, E31, E30; B39, B37, B34; R29, R27, R24; E29, E33; YG97, YG95, YG93; 100, C8, C, C6, C5, C4, C3, C2, C1
- My Favorite Things A2 Stitched Rectangle (extended)
- Avery Elle Double Pierced Square (extended)
- Stampin’ Up/Sizzix Mini Treat Bag Border
- Spellbinders Stars Five
- Kokuyo Dotliner Adhesive
- Darice Sticky Back Foam
- Ranger Multi Medium Matte
