God and Country - Kitchen Sink Stamps

I have been sharpening my skills with the American flag from Stars and Stripes American Flag this week so I have used it to created today's Kitchen Sink Stamps sponsored design. I have mixed the flag with poppies from Poppy Bouquet and Remembrance Poppy to create a Memorial Day design.

I was having trouble perfecting the stars when I was stamping on a cut SVG file. I therefore decided to go old school and stamp the flag on paper and then fussy cut it out. Below is the order I stamped the layers, and I had fabulous success with the help of my MISTI.

I started with the star field and stamped layer 3 first, then layer 2, and finally layer 1. This made it much easier to get the stars perfect so that the five points on the stars are clearly visible

Next I stamped the red stripes in this order: layer 1, layer 2, layer 3.

Last I did the white stripes in this order: layer 1, layer 2, layer 3.

Then I fussy cut the flag and was ready to go.

The flag pole is a two part SVG from Kitchen Sink Stamps. The poppies are also stamped on cut SVG files available for these sets as well.

I stamped the sentiment on dies from Sizzix's Elegant Labels #2.

I have entered this card in the following challenges this week:

Allsorts Challenge - Week 726 - Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - SoSS#233 - F is for Flowers

Daring Cardmakers - A Bunch of ...

Creative Knockouts - #493 - Flower Power

Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge Blog - #105 Anything Goes

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 Kitchensinkstamps' Weblog by Maria Colosimo,

the owner and creator of KSS

Nancy Stamps by Nancy McCabe

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