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Thursday 4 July 2013

4th July

The theme given for this month on the Chocolate Baroque quintiles swap was just this - 4th July which really had me stumped for a while and my original thought was to do something just using the colours until I saw some ideas on the Tim Holtz blog in keeping with the date.  I've made a rosette more or less as he had done using a Sizzix die and some tissue tape.  My next thought was celebrations, then fireworks, but of course no CB firework stamp until I remembered there was something which might do the job amongst my collection of their stamps.  I eventually used just the flower heads from a stamp in the Wisteria Lane collection and then sponged the card to look like night sky.  A Cuttlebug embossing folder was brought into service to make some red stripes and a silver star cut out for the centre of the rosette. A couple of words in the style of Tim's chit chat stickers and there it is - 4th July.  We submit two quintiles each month and I usually try to make them different but I'm afraid this month they are both almost the same which doesn't matter because when they are sent on to the other participants they will go separately to two people.  This monthly challenge is brilliant in that it makes me consider what stamps and other items I have which can be pressed into service for the various themes and often leads to quite a bit of 'thinking outside the box' and/or improvisation - sometimes even using stamps within a set which maybe haven't actually been inked before!!




13 comments:

  1. Fabulous Val and that rosette is so stunning. Hugs Rita xxx

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  2. Great quintile love your fireworks and how you've made your stripes. Hugs x ChrisB

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  3. Very inventive Val, love your rosette. That flower head would look great on a Xmas card too:)
    Val x

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  4. I love this Val, a great Idea. Still got mine to do, hopeing to get time today.

    Sue x

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  5. Nice one Val - was thinking of stars, stripes and fireworks too, but not actually done it yet............great idea to use the flower head for the fireworks, and the rosette is lovely

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  6. Loving your 4th Juky card avail and like your rosette and firework backing paper

    Anne

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  7. Superb thinking outside the box with this one - the flower-heads look brilliant as fireworks. I'll have to remember that trick. I love the way you've created the horizontal flag stripes too.
    Paula (PEP)

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  8. This is brilliant well done on thinking outside the box
    I got mine done today just need to take a photo now
    Jackie x

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  9. Happy 4th Val. What a lovely card to celebrate the day. Love it! Nicely done. Since you mentioned Tim Holtz.... I was at a stamp show this past Sat. and Tim Holtz was there demo-ing in person. Pictures and video on my blog.
    Hugs...Leanne

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  10. Very inventive Val. Love the way you've tackled the stripes. Hugs, Jenny x

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  11. The 'fireworks' are great - well done for putting this together. I spend more time thinking about what to do than actually doing!

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  12. This is totally fab and so inventive!! Love your fire work effects and that rosette is spectacular, at least as good as the master's own. seriously!! Wonderful make!!

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  13. What a fabulous interpretation of the theme Val. You've captured it perfectly without having anything particularly American on there.

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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