Celebrate America Wreath

Machine Used: Boss Kut Gazelle
Software: Funtime Scrapbooking III
Files Used: Star Burst 0951, Bottle Rocket by Olivia Myers 0952, 4th of July Mini Collection BKD021,
Materials: 16" Foam Wreath, Red, White, and Blue Fun Fur Yarn, Silver Glitter Eyelash Fun Fur Yarn, Cardstock, Glitter Cardstock, Rhinestones

Check out my previous blog entry on the Spring Wreath with more information on how and what I did to decorate the outside of the wreath.

Check out Design Team Member Becki's post on her Spring is in Air Wreath for the inspiration on the base of this wreath!!

Red, white, and blue are my favorite colors and I absolutely love celebrating all the patriotic holidays throughout the year!  I needed a Patriotic wreath that I could hang all year if I wanted and still celebrate the current holiday.

DID YOU KNOW, that in Funtime you can easily create a charm from your designs?!  It's with this special effect that I was easily able to take my wreath and transform it from holiday to holiday!

I started with a 16" foam wreath and wrapped it with red, white, and blue fun fur yarn and silver glitter eyelash fun fur yarn.  It was a pain managing the 4 different yarns at once but I'm very happy with the results!!

Before I finished covering the foam wreath with the yarn I added a hook.  My thought was that I didn't want to add the hook after the yarn was done because I was afraid that the hook would cut through the yarn.  Didn't want to have to repair what I'd already done!!

To decorate around the wreath, I used the 4th of July Mini Collection BKD021 and added "Celebrate America" outlined to the top of the wreath and the Bottle Rockets by Olivia Myers 0952 to the bottom.

To the sides, I added the sparkles from the 4th of July Mini Collection BKD 021.  I cut them from the beautiful glitter paper available at Bosskut.  To layer them, I used seed beads between each sparkle and secured them to the wreath with push pins.

For the 4th of July sign, I started by layering the design in Funtime and once I had the look I wanted, I outlined the whole thing.  Then with the charm special effect, I added it to my outline.

I cut the finished outline from 110 lbs cardstock and using a cloud template I made, I used chalk to create a sky look.  For some added protection I applied Mod Podge to the entire cardstock.  Then using the beautiful glitter paper available at Bosskut, I cut out the Star Burst 0951 in various sizes.

I added 4 rhinestones to the 4, because you can never have too much bling on the Fourth of July!!  Using 1/8" 3-D dots, I attached the "Happy 4th of July" sentiment.  Now it's all set to hang each 4th of July!!

While I still have quite a few patriotic holidays to account for, I was able to get a Service Flag and Yellow Ribbon completed.

My Service Flag I made sure to make the stars removable.  I have 2 brothers currently serving in the United States Air Force and my dearest husband serves in the United States Army.  From time to time there's a multiple of deployments and I wanted to be able to represent each loved person during their deployment.  The Service Flag is simply put together with basic shapes and a ribbon secured to it with brads.

My Yellow Ribbon proudly displays my husband's name and the Army seal.  HOOAH!!  I also used the charm special effect on the ribbon.  :o)

God Bless America!!

Thanks for looking!!
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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Jamie *´¨)

Bosskut Design Team Member

Celebrate America Card

Machine Used: Boss Kut Gazelle
Software: Funtime Scrapbooking III
Files Used: 4th of July mini collection BKD 021
Materials: Cardstock, Glitter Cardstock

For this project, I started out with a tri shutter card template provided by Terri on the Gazelle Owner's Forum.  Thank you so much Terri!!

I used the sparklers and the "Celebrate America" files from the 4th of July mini collection. 

For the Statue of Liberty I used a coloring page that I found here.  I imported the jpeg into my Funtime and used the auto vecto to create the cut file.  Then I used a very fine black marker to "color in" the inside cut lines.  I replaced the pen with the blade holder and cut the outline.
 

The Liberty Bell is a true type font, US-Bats that I downloaded from dafont.com.  Using the same technique as I did the Statue of Liberty, I started with a very fine black pen to "color in" the inside cut lines.  I then replaced the pen with the blade holder and cut along the outside line.

This is the first card that I've submitted for challenges!!  So excited that I've finally taken the plunge!  I hope that I haven't broken etiquette on this but I did submit this one card to 2 different forums for their challenges.  I didn't see anything that said that I couldn't but I just wanted to make sure to add this disclaimer.  I have no intentions of offending anyone!  :o)

CHALLENGES SUBMITTED TO:
Bosskut CHALLENGE: make it your own! (tri-shutter card)
The Outlawz 2000 Member Party Twisted Thursday Challenge

Thanks for looking!!
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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Jamie *´¨)
Bosskut Design Team Member