Kiwi Lane and Tim Holtz Patriotic Card with Queen & Co bling

I am so excited today!  I finally get to tell everyone!  I have been chosen to be a part of the Kiwi Lane Designs Fall 2014 Design Team!!  Wooo Hooo!  I am so thrilled to be a part of the Kiwi Lane blog team!

Therefore, today's project uses Kiwi Lane templates:  Playtime 6 and Adventure 1 (star).  I also played a great deal with the background.  I started with the wavy corrugated navy paper.  It was a little too dull and plain. I knew I was using the Tim Holtz Seasons Kraft Resist image and wanted to grunge it up.  I started with Walnut Stain sprayed over the corrugated background.  Then I added a red ink spray I had mixed up using some Smooches and Ranger spray inks.  Finally,  I sprayed a top coat of vanilla Smooch Spritz.  This ended up tying in beautifully with the Queen & Co star bling. 



I was trying to mimic the shield in the Tim Holtz image. I cut the playtime template from the same kraft paper as the card base.  I traced another shield on navy card stock and cut it about a quarter inch in to get the "layer".  I cut the stripes from the same red shimmer paper as the star (adventure 1).  I added some adhesive and lined them up on a slick release sheet.

Then I used the template to cut the bottoms of my "stripes".

Here's a good view of all the spritzing I did.



All edges are chalked with Quick Quotes Powder Puff Blue Moon.

Don't forget about my blog hop this Friday!

Here's the blog candy for the hop:

Here's a link to a super cute card that I made with the above paper.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

http://redcarpetstudiochallenge.blogspot.com/2014/06/rcs-73-born-on-fourth-of-july.html until July 12

http://www.thekraftjournal.blogspot.com/2014/06/challenge-178-red-white-and-blue.html until July 6

http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/2014/06/monday-challenge-142-patriotic.html until July 6

http://classycardsnsuch.blogspot.com/2014/06/ccns-challenge-39-red-white-and-blue.html until July 6

http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/2014/06/craft-it-up-link-it-up-red-white-blue.html until July 6

http://open-mindedcraftingfun.blogspot.ca/2014/06/challenge-13-patriotic-colors.html until July 4

http://cupcakeinspirations.blogspot.com/2014/06/challenge-267.html until July 4
here's their inspiration:

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