Patriotic Quilt Card

The red, white and blue challenges have finally started to surface! I had this card in my head and thought it could be a cute Memorial Day/4th of July quilt look. I went to bed and mulled over what to use and how to make it. Here is my patriotic paper "quilt " for The Paper Players PP543 (here) and The Festive Friday FF0085 (here) challenges this week.

I have wanted to make a gingham quilt for years now. This is an example of a gingham quilt from Pinterest, posted by SimpleSimonandCompany.com and I love all the color combos you can choose for your quilt. One day I will make one.

For my card I used a little wavy squares punch that I have had forever to make my "quilt" squares. I chose three shades of blue and mounted them in a gingham pattern on a red background. I punched little red hearts for the light blue squares, then mounted that panel on a panel made from the darkest of my blues.

I grabbed a striped embossing folder for the white background and wanted it to look like the quilt was hanging on a wall of wainscoting. Then I mounted the quilt and "wainscoting" on a side fold A2 white card base. Last, I made my own sentiment on the computer and used another red punched heart to complete it. I cut it out with an MFT stitched rectangle die and matted it with red and dark blue rectangles. For a little bling, I added red rhinestones beside my sentiment.

For the Festive Friday Challenge I used stripes, bright colors, rectangles, punches AND embossing. And for the Paper Players I of course used red, white and blue.

Hope you are enjoying this Memorial Day weekend and thinking of those who fought for our freedom. 

See you later,

-Carol