Proud To Be An American

I love celebrating Independence Day with he parades, the cook outs, the gathering of friends and family and fireworks. I love seeing people proudly displaying their flags and kids decorating their bikes with streamers. Now doesn't this little bear look like he is enjoying the July 4th festivities?
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Patriotic Bear and the "Proud to be an American" sentiment are part of the Meljen's Designs new release available at Whimsy Stamps.

As soon as I saw the new release, I knew exactly want I wanted to do. For once, a project turned out the way I envisioned it. This little bear is so stinkin' cute and he certainly looks proud. Here is a closer look at him.

I forgot to take a close up of the bottom portion of the easel card. Sorry.

Be sure to show off your Red, White & Blue projects in this week's Meljen's Design challenge. Melissa has some super cute, patriotic stamps in the new release that you could use. (You do not need to use a Meljen's image to enter the challenge.)

I hope you have a wonderful Independence Day. Thank you for looking!

**Edited: Woohoo! My card is going to be featured on the SNR Card Universe.

Challenges:

• ABC Design Challenge - Red, White & Blue
• AI Factory - Red, White & Blue
• Annabelle Stamps - Easel card
• Creative Card Crew - Easel Card
• Cupcake Inspirations - Challenge 65
• Digi Doodle Shop Best - Dots & Spots
• For Fun challenges - Patriotic
• Fresh Brewed Designs - Fireworks (My card has sparklers & glitter)
• Glitter Babe's challenge - Make it sparkly
• I Did It Creations - Red, White & Blue
• SFYTT- 6-26-10 sketch
• My Time To Craft - Zig Zags (used ric-a-rak)
• No Time To Stamp - Star Light, Star Bright
• Oh Alice - Twinkle Twinkle
• One Stitch At A Time - Stars & Strips
• Paper Cutz - 4th of July
• Paper Romance - Red, White & Blue
• Papertake Weekly - In stitches
• Pixie Dust Studio - Red, White & Blue
• Practical Stampers - border punch
• S2G - Summertime with sparkles (Stickles on sparklers)
• Spoonful of Sugar - Animal Crackers
• Stamp Something - use the colors of your flag
• Wee Memories - Red, White & Blue
  
  

Supplies:

• Images: Patriotic Bear and Proud to be an American from Meljen's Designs on Whimsy Stamps
• Papers & CS: PTI white CS, Georgia Pacific CS, all other papers are from the 4th of July Project Pantry kit from Taylored Expressions
• Inks: None
• Tools: Cricut, Plantin SchoolBook cart, MFT large scallop border, CuttleBug, Spellbinders Nestabilities, paper piercer, Prismacolor and Copic markers
• Embellishments: Stickles (gold & tiara), Zig Writer marker, misc. wood button & white twine, misc. cork, Ric-a-rac from above mentioned Taylored Expressions kit, Sakura clear Gelly Roll pen
• Techniques: Faux Stitching, Easel card