Wave the Flag!!! Monday Motivational July 4, 2011

Welcome to our Monday Motivational, and we hope you had a great weekend!  Many are still celebrating today, and are looking forward to a lot of fireworks tonight! 

Our feature today is by HoneyBee Judy, as she shares a very patriotic Red, White and Blue card, and layers on lots of textures.  Show us your COLORS!

Welcome to Betty Bee's Buzz! Happy Fourth of July!This week's Monday Motivational is about our Flag.
Judy Ford
Use a Flag, Banner or Bunting on your project and link it up with us!
it's also a color challenge so show off your best RED, WHITE AND BLUE!!!

For my card I started with my House Mouse Stamp that I colored with my

 Copic markers!!!

I took a great class on copic markers from Betty Brett!!! She showed me how to do shading and perspective and look around me at all the colors and how light plays off different items!!   She rocks!

               I used my SU Keynote Die and then my Cuttlebug Divine Swirls Embossing Folder.

I think it looks like the wind is really swirling by the flag.

Then I used a MS Edge Punch on 4 different patriotic papers for the background!!

This card uses lots of layers, but it goes together quickly and with a lot of pride!!!

Inside is the following computer generated phrase
"The American flag does not fly because the wind moves past it.  The American flag flies from the last breath of each military memberwho has died protecting it.American soldiers don't fight because they hate what is in front of them.  They fight because they love what's behind them!"

Support our Troops!
God Bless the USA!!!

Now it's your turn! Wave the Flag, and/or pick Red, White, and Blue, and show us your project by linking up at Betty Bee's Buzz on Wednesday!

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HoneyBee Showcase - Patriotic Mini Album

Happy Wednesday, and welcome to the hive!  On Monday, HoneyBee June shared her Patriotic Accordion Mini Album with us, and today the rest of the swarm will be sharing their versions.  Above is my 4 inch album for my new granddaughter's first 4th of July!

                                                                          Betty Brett

I have done this type of album as portable brag books before, and they are such a delightful surprise when opened, as they give a lot of surface for photos and journaling.

Here is one side, decorated with a few stamps and embellishments.

And this is a close-up of one section of the other side.  These fun albums can be made as long as you want, allowing for small event presentations, or scrapping a whole summer's worth of fun! 

They are very easy to make, and lots of fun to decorate.  Kids love being involved, too!  Won't you make one this week, and share your holiday celebration with us? 

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                                                                           Judy Ford

This is my version of Honeybee June's Patriotic Mini album over at Betty Bee's Buzz. I did 2 extra "pages". I plan to give it to my oldest grandson, Brock to put pictures from his adventure with his dad on Father's Day to MIS Nascar races! The good news is he can use both sides!!! Great tutorial June!!!                                                                    here it is closed!

                                                                       Judy Ford
I also made a version for grandson Jackson. His I made with the same papers from my stash as for big brother. I used the cardboard shaped mini album that I got quite awhile ago from Michael's.

will plan on putting his Nascar viewing pictures in his!!

Now you've seen mine.... link up here at Betty Bee's Buzz and show us yours!!

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                                                                           Rosemary

Thank you, June, for a simple and cute challenge for this week!!..Unfortunately, today was not such a good day, and after my doctor appointment around noon, I spent most of the rest of the day in bed.  So, it's my fault that I put off until the last minute to do my album.  I did get it done except for the inside embellishments.  Nina will be visiting me in a couple of days and this will be a fun project to finish up with her help.

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Now it's your turn!  Create a patriotic mini album, of this style, or any style you choose, and link it here.  If you don't have a blog, you can email it to BettyBee's Buzz at hotmail.com, and we will be happy to link it for you! 

Have a wonderful and safe holiday to our friends in the USA.  Everyone else, we love to hear from you as well, and please have a great weekend, too!  We'll see you back here on Monday with a  color challenge for next week.... any guesses what it might be???  HA!




    

and the HoneyBees

HoneyBee Showcase- Pinwheels

Happy Wednesday, and welcome to the HoneyBee Showcase!  On Monday our HoneyBee Court gave us a great tutorial on how to make a pinwheel, and they are hot, hot, hot this summer!  The HoneyBees have come up with some delightful creations to share and inspire you!
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June Houck

  Pinwheels are so cool! I followed the tutorial that HoneyBee Courtney posted on Monday.  I cut a 3" square, then attached it with a mini brad.  My papers are Echo Park "a walk in the PARK" and my sentiment is a Punnylicious sentiment by My Pink Stamper.

  Pinwheels are hot right now...right up there with chevron patterns, seam binding, and baker's twine.  I hope you will give this a try.  They make a fun summer card! 

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 Beth Ullman

I love pinwheels and so do my grandkids.........so for mine I used a sketch from Techno Stamper. She has a Monday Lunchtime Sketch every week.  I haven't played for awhile, but this sketch seemed perfect for a PinWheel.......all papers are CTMH, MS punch, and bling from Wal-Mart.

Well that's it for me and I am on time for a change! My life is getting back to normal.......Hope you will join us this week.  We would love to see your pinwheels and leave you some love.

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Rosemary

 

When I found out our theme was going to be 'pinwheel', I knew exactly what I wanted to do!..I am so far behind on my layouts and thought a pinwheel design would give the layout an interesting block look to it. Of course, once I did Nina, I thought why not do Ian too! Using 12x12 doublesided cardstock worked out perfectly!

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Judy

For pinwheels I went back to my quilting roots and dug into my old patterns. I used a bee stamp from Nature Walk set from Stampin UP. and randomly stamped two different background colors. Then I took my 1 1/4" square punch and punched out 8 squares of each color. These squares I cut point to point and reassembled on a background square for my paper pinwheel quilt. I added some freehand "bee fly trails" and some stick pins made with shrinky dink material and a Betty Bee Bow Maker BEEutiful Bow and tada "Just BEE Cuz" card is done!!!

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Betty



I have made quite a few pinwheels for summer decorations, and what is more fun than having festive decorations for the Fourth of July?!  How about a Headband?!

Theses are 2 and 2 1/2 inch pinwheels.  The red and blue ones are Core'dinations paper that have been embossed with a Sizzix stars folder, then sanded to allow the inner core color to shine through.  The center one is edged in Gold Lame' Smooch ink. The medallion is from K and Co.'s Americana collection.  Add star brads, and you have an easy wearable decoration so you can show your colors the holiday



Show us your creations with a pinwheel.  It can be a card, layout, home decor piece, altered item, party piece.... what can you come up with?

 ane the HoneyBees