God Bless the USA Door Hang

Hello there!  Today's my turn to post over at the Bug Bytes so this post can also be seen there.  Thanks Pam and her lovely readers for having me today.  I'm sharing a door hang I created in honor of the upcoming Fourth of July holiday. 

I used the Silhouette Studio to plan the pieces to this project, and all pieces were cut using the Cameo.  The scalloped circle with the stars, the Statue of Liberty silhouette, and the "USA" were images purchased through the Silhouette Store.  The rosette came from a rosette SVG set I purchased through Lettering Delights a while back.  I used the Cooper Black and the Creampuff fonts for the words "God Bless the."

Here are some of the pieces after they have been cut.  I preassembled part of the rosette.  I ended up using a total of 12 rosettes pieces (cut in 2  12x12 white cardstocks).

After attaching all 12 rosette cuts together, I laid it out around a 12 inch cardboard cake platter, shiny side down.  I then marked four spots where I'll need to glue the rosette down first.  I used a glue gun for this project for stability. 

This is how the rosette should look like after glueing down on the four marked spots.

Then all I had to do was "squish" in the rosette to form a circle, working one corner at a time.  I made sure to put a ribbon (I attached mine with a heavy duty stapler becuse the cake platter was very thick) before I closed down all the corners since I was going to hang this.

Mine was not a perfect circle as you can tell from the above picture, but the front did cover it up pretty well.

I used red Craftworks Card Candis and faux stiched with a white gel to embellish the scalloped circle.  I also did faux stitching on the letters USA.  Most of the pieces were also foam mounted for added depth. 

Have a wonderful 4th of July!

Bees a-fluttering 2-page LO

Hello my blogging friends!  Thanks for stopping by again.  I was working on some pictures from 2008 and did a 2-page 12x12 LO.  I have a small box of pictures I had printed through Snapfish last year when they were having a 1 cent per photo deal. 

I was able to use 9 photos - whoo-hoo!  On my way to making a big dent on the 2008 photo stack LOL!  The title was cut with the Cameo using the Fancy Pants font.  I used the offset feature to make the shadow.  The swirly borders were also cut with the Cameo and is a border image purchased from the Silhouette store.  I again used the offset feature to create the shadow for the swirly borders.  The 5 bees were cut using the Cricut cart Sentimentals - 5 to represent the 5 busy bees posing as unassuming kids ;). 

It was a happy mail day for me yesterday - got my new American Eagle jeans (my new favorite brand of jeans!) and a small box of Card Candis from Craftwork Cards I purchased through Blitsy last week (fast shipping!).  I have always been in awe of  the Card Candis used by Enfys over at Going Buggy blog and couldn't wait to finally try them.   They were a tad bigger than what I expected them to be but no biggie.  They come in a packet (I'll post pics some other time) with over 400 pieces I believe - I wasn't about to count them as I did purchase more than one packet - I'm just going to take their word for it ;). 

Here are some closeups:

I used one of the Card Candis in the middle of this K& Co flower. 

Thanks again for stopping by!