Stars of Stripes and Stars!

So many fabulous ideas in the Stars and Stripes gallery, if you haven't cruised through yet, we highly recommend the trip! Here are three cards that particularly caught our eye:

Lindsey M-P of Bashful Blogging

...went for stripes in a non-traditional color, a glittery snowflake and a a non-denominational greeting, which means this beauty can be used for ANY winter holiday!

Dawn of Welcome 2 My Happy Place

...has incorporated both stars and stripes in her sparkly card that definitely lives up to its sentiment, "Merry and Bright"!

Elizabeth Stewart of Paper Sweetness

...doesn't just have beautifully graphic stars on a masterfully minimal CAS background; one of her stars actually has stripes, too! 

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Pinstripes & Super Novas

We're still creating with stars and/or stripes (of any color!) for the holidays.  Make sure you link-up and join us by 6pm EST on Wednesday.

Here's how we incorporated those into our designs this week:

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "Three biggish scraps of striped paper do most of the work this time. One of them got itself diecut with my largest star shaped Nestability and became home to the adorable Doodlebug Santa and Missus Claus. An ancient sticker sentiment and a scattering of red and white Eyelet Outlet Star Brads round things off nicely."

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie says, "This week's card shines with striped stars from the Uniko Ltd. Stars Background Block.  I paired it with a starry strip from Uniko's Background Builder Seeing Stars and a sentiment from Uniko's Simply Said Block Christmas Stamps."

Stars & Stripes For Christmas

With the upcoming Independence Day celebration in the United States, we're creating holiday cards that feature STARS and/or STRIPES on our card designs this week (they do not need to be red, white or blue - although that's okay too) ... just STARS or STRIPES (or both) in any medium you choose.

Here is what we created this week:

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "My card started with the epitome of stripes for the holiday - that cute heart made of Candy Canes on the journaling card from the Merry and Bright Collection by Mintay Papers.  The star paper on the background and wonderful burlap paper are both from the same collection.  I added some vintage BasicGrey Evergreen papers together with a striped border from Authentique and then finished with some holly bling and a tiny sentiment from Flora & Fauna Bottlebrush Snow Globe Set using the layout from this week's Sketch Saturday."

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "I combined stripes (and bunnies and text) from Lawn Fawn's Snow Day Remix with stars from My Mind's Eye's Merry and Bright; then added some glittery foam stars and an Eyelet Outlet Candy Cane Brad. I couldn't resist using my older Mitten Brads even though they're out of stock; and I gave the bunnies Santa Hats because... well, just because I could, lol! And yes, I also used this week's Sketch Saturday, though I rotated it and rearranged it a bit, so they may disqualify me, though I thank them for the inspiration!"

Link up your own Starry and/or Striped Masterpiece right here, by 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, July 14th. Keyword for galleries and Flickr is JB-21-14.

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