Proud to be American

Another card for the holiday weekend coming up.

This one shows our support for the wonderful men and women that protect our country each and every day. 

A huge THANK YOU goes out to all the great service men and women for putting their lives on the line every day for us.
There is still plenty of time to get a card done and send to someone and thank them for their courage to protect our country.

 

I literally used small scraps of paper and put them into a pattern on the card background. If you happen to be a quilter, you will notice the pattern is that of a log cabin quilt square. Log cabin squares always start with a square of red in the middle. 

The "Proud to be an American" was another part of a piece of paper from Memory Keepers 6x6 stack that I have been using. Yes, I used more bakers twine. 

 

I will be linking this card up to the following challenges and then getting into the mailbox to a special friend. 

Scrapbookaholic By Abby- Red White and Blue
Sentimental Sundays- Color of your Nations Flag
Scrappy Moms – Stand and Salute Cartridge challenge

Please stop by these challenge blogs to see the inspiration from the Design Team members and perhaps link up a project of your own.  

Here’s how I did it…
Card base is 5.25” square
Paper is scraps from my stash
Paper strips are all 1” wide and then cut to fit around the 1” square in the middle.
Center 1” square- next trip is 1” square, then 1” by 2”, etc keep turning your block a quarter turn when adding a strip
Service people/layers cut at 3” from Stand and Salute cartridge
MS red bakers twine