Memorial Day Card featuring Tim Holtz products with Shari Carroll
Welcome to the Blog everyone! It’s Shari here with a Memorial Day card featuring Tim Holtz products. I’ve pulled dies and papers together to create a representation of the American flag for my card with meaning.
The Harlequin die was a perfect fit to create stripes over red pattern paper. I was surprised at how well everything fit together.
The cloth like look of the blue paper from the Dapper collection, represents the fabric of a uniform. The heart is connected to the uniform with Idea-ology ring fasteners and a swivel clasp. The typed token “Brave” is placed to the right as a medal would be placed on a uniform.
I’ve used some heavy gesso on the heart to give it additional texture, once that was dry, I embellished with mirrored stars.
I’ve left all the metals and stars pristine, un-destressed or painted. I chose all my idea-ology pieces in the same color tone for coordination with the “Brave” token. The final addition to this card is the ever important word for Memorial Day… remember.
I’ve created a video of how to make this card. You can view it below or on our Youtube channel.
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I hope you have a safe and happy holiday tomorrow.
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Great card for a special day.
Perfect card for Memorial Day Weekend!
This is a beautiful card and would be special to receive!
Such a gorgeous work of Art Shari!
TFS
Very pretty! Love the muted colors, which reminds me of a well-worn/distressed flag. Beautiful piece of art.
Thanks for sharing your card!
This is lovely!
Card of the Year if you ask me. Perfect tribute in remembrance.
Wow Shari, Outstanding piece of Art Work. Love all the small details.
Vada
This is beautiful! So much emotion in a single card – love it!
Awesome patriotic card!
Lovely card.
Fabulous Card for the right occasion –God Bless our Troops – thanks for sharing your lovely art work – it all came together fabulous!
Beautiful Memorial card!!
Shari, this is a fabulous card…love everything about it! Your choice of papers, stitching, ephemera, texture, it’s all just perfectly done. Thank you so much for sharing it.
THUD! That’s my jaw hitting the floor! OMG, Shari, this is phenomenal! By far my favorite Memorial project! Love, love, love! Thanks so much for sharing!
A fun card! Have a fun bankholidayweekend!
Seriously amazing project! I still think that paper is cloth no matter how long I look at it. Your representation of our flag is just so cool. Love all the details and fabulous muted colors. Well done!!!
Very symbolic and meaningful.
Gorgeous card! Love the design and all the fabulous texture ♥
WONDERFUL card Shari!!!
THANK YOU so much for sharing your CREATIVE INSPIRATION and the story of each element you have used!!!
… your tip for the threads will come in ever-so-handy too => thanks again for sharing :)
Love how you can see the US flag in this. Really pretty.
I love this card.
Fabulous card, in keeping with the true meaning of the holiday…as opposed to the commercialized sales everywhere else. Thanks for your inspiring card. Love the way you interpreted the flag…absolutely perfect.
love the design of this gorgeous piece of art work:)
Wow what a great job! Thanks!
Beautifully done Shari!
Wonderful card!
What a perfect card to Honor our lost Veterans.
Awesome card for a special day.
What a gorgeous card.
So many great textures…beautiful.
This is just stunning. Love every aspect. I was especially impressed with the though behind every element. Thanks for sharing such wonderful inspiration!
Thanks for the Video Shari
cool I love all the texture on your card
really manly and really stunning
Love love love this Shari
hugs
Monika from Munich
Wow–beautiful & artistic, Shari! This would make a great wall-hanging–love the layout!
What a lovely card Shari. I would have just used plain old red paper and made my stripes the normal way. You really used your dies in a different way, so cool. Thanks for sharing how you put this card together.
Very nice, I love that diamond background.
I love the metal pieces, how you distressed the heart and that cool background. Thank you for the awesome video too.
Holy canoli. This is stunning art.
Very interesting concept for a card
absolutely fabulous card! love the corrugated heart ♥
Thank you to all our veterans and their families today and every day.
This is such a beautiful card! A wonderful design with such a lovely vintage look.
Beautiful card, love your style!
Hugs, Carole Lovill
I like the combination of elements.
Love your card and the awesome distress look so cool.
Sweet card, loaded with a lot of interesting texture!
This is a striking card and the colors are perfect for Memorial Day!
Love the muted tones of red, white & blue – Perfect for Memorial Day.
Very creative with a perfect message!!!