Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July to all my American Friends!

When looking for some inspiration I came

across these images:

so I knew I had to get out my new Tim Holtz coffee cup die

(that my friend brought me from the US, because it is not available her,

lucky me and thank you friend!)

Also I still had Tim Holtz June tag in my mind,

so go there to see his tag.

So I get to work and take my tag and

first used some burlap distress ink to color the tag direct to paper.

Then I made my own stencil, for I do not have any striped stencil.

With a blending tool and red ink I added

the stripes on the left side of the tag.

This is how it looks when i was done

and you can also see the stencil I made.

On top right some blue ink

and with picket fence white acrylig paint

and the star stencil I finished the background.

Does it look like the US flag, or what?!

Sometimes I do mind to cover

a good looking background, don't you?

Now for the coffee cup:

I cut it out of white paper and colored the borders

with distress ink coffee colored.

The cup holder is cut with dotted blue paper.

On top there is a dotted red rosette with a Michael Strong

star on top. The top of the cup is done the 

same way as you can see on Tim Holtz Blog here.

The spoon for the bird I made myself in photoshop

and you are free to safe the template to your computer

for your own use.

Here you see the bird from Tim's Crazy birds stamp set.

It is colored red andd blue. For the spoon I  made

a tiny slit on top and under the wing to slip the spoon through.

To finish of the tag I colored a ribbon red, and blue,

leaving the middle white and made it into a bow on

top of the tag.

Hope you all have a GREAT day!

Thanks for looking.

Have a creative day!