Before I started crafting, I never knew the 4th of July to be a card-giving holiday. LOL \u00a0Since I started making cards (it’s been a year and a half now!), however, I find that I want to make cards for every occasion and holiday! For my sweet friend, Jamie (YT: ScrappinStampers) I thought I would not make a summer card that was also “subliminally” patriotic. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

<\/a>I used a cute Pure Innocence digi called “Butterfly Catch” that I had gotten for free from Heather Ellis (sorry I can’t seem to find her free digi website any more). \u00a0The little girl’s outfit seemed perfect to kind of mimic the American flag. \u00a0Her shorts were stripped horizontally and her shirt had floating hearts like the stars on the field of blue. \u00a0I used the following Copic colors:
\nHair: C5, C7, C9 and B21
\nSkin: E50, 51, 53 and R30
\nShorts: R22 and 08 with white Gelly Roll pen stripes
\nShirt: B21, 24 and 18
\nHedge: G12, 02, and 05
\nGrass: G05 and 09
\nSky: B00, 01 and 02
\nButterfly: R22 and 08 with white Gelly Roll pen hearts and dot accents<\/p>\n

<\/a>I also punched out some extra butterflies with a Martha Stewart medium Monarch Butterfly punch and the 3-in-1 Butterfly punch. I colored these (including edging them in black) like the butterfly in the digi image so that they would look like a little flutter of butterflies flying by.<\/p>\n

I used the 6th largest oval and scalloped oval from the \u00a0Diemond Dies Oval Nesting Die Set<\/a> and Scalloped Oval Nesting Die Set<\/a> to cut out the colored image and to frame it. \u00a0To add a little sparkle on the frame, I added dots of Tim Holtz Distress Stickles in Broken China on each scallop. For the background layer, I used a thin paper from an old Recollections Brights and Basics stack that had some fun patterned circles in blues and greens in it. I “grounded” the whole thing with a triple wrapping of navy and white bakers twine, a double loop blue seam binding bow that I made with my Craft Dee-BowZ, and a little single loop pale blue and white polka dot grosgrain ribbon bow topped with a dark blue button.<\/p>\n

Inside, I printed out a sentiment that I thought captured the free fun of the little girl trying to touch the butterflies as well as Independence Day: “In the pursuit of HAPPINESS”. \u00a0I also added a flutter of more punched out butterflies inside for good measure. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The following is the video share of this card:<\/p>\n