Happy Memorial Day!

First, a million thanks to all who have served and those who continue to serve! What amazing people are military are!

In humble appreciation, I'm beginning a banner project, and plan on adding more flags to it as i go along.
The flags are about 5x8", so there is a lot of good surface area.  The background is manilla cardstock, majorly distressed & aged. I used Distress Inks in Old Paper, Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain.
I used T!M's mixed media stamp set & basic backgrounds set by Dylusions.
I stamped with Archival Crimson & walnut stain.
I also did a Brush-less watercolor technique using T!M's Americana silhouettes set in Faded jeans distress ink.

I used 2 of T!M's Alterations Dies: Rosette, Old Glory Bigz

The 'focal' images are from Artistic Outpost's HEROS set.

Banner time

I'm helping my SIL with planning & ideas for her & her partners soirée this fall.

I had this idea for banners. She doesn't visualize like the rest of us, so I had to whip this up for her.



Each flag is 5x8, canvas cloth.
The font is Romanesque from DaFont, resized to 320 & printed onto transfer paper.



I stitched a pocket for the ribbon up top and then a border.

We'll have a banner for CARDS, CAKES (mini bundts), DRINKS...

It's outdoors, at a farmette.
She loved the banners.
I knew she would!

Happy St. PAT'S!!!

And a contest. Would YOU like to win this banner?

It's about 7" long and a good 15" wide. Made of Dictionary pages, images are from Altered Pages, ephemera from my holiday stash, some Shamrocks I made from a template and 7Gypsies tape!

YOU'LL need to do a little something for me. By SUNDAY (3/20) you'll need to make a little piece of artwork and post it. Either on your blog, take a picture & email it to me or post it on my Facebook page.

NOW your artwork 'should' have some kind of Irish theme. St. Pat's in all it's glory, at least done in GREENS.. It can be anything you want. An ATC, Card, Banner, canvas, collage, ATB. Even a page from your journal will work for me!

I'll use my smartypants phone and random generator app to pick a winner! Good luck, but mostly have fun! I'd love to hear what you're creating! THANKS!