DIVAS June Challenge - Patriotic Card

Here is the patriotic card I made for our DIVAS Monthly Challenge for June. Peggy (The Wired Angel) is our hostess this month and she chose for us to do a patriotic theme or something with red, white and blue. I did both. I made this for my dad's birthday. It is for the kids to give him. The fun thing about this card besides the red white and blue is that it is created with digital images from the Stampin Up My Digital Downloads . I discovered their downloadable images last week and indulged in a few digital sets. This set is their July Fourth Set and it includes the patterned stars, the solid smaller stars, three different large fireworks, a firecracker, and a Happy 4th of July sentiment (that obviously I did not use for the birthday card). I used Microsoft Publisher to manipulate all my images and recolored the images based on a SU Real Red and Brilliant Blue. I got the directions to match the colors from an SCS forum a long time ago. The background paper was made using the firecracker images that I sized and changed the colors and then copied and pasted them on a Publisher page and then printed it out and cut it to size. I used my SU star punches and corner rounder punch as well as an EK Success Border punch on the horizontal panel behind the image. The other tool I used was the Cuttlebug Stars Embossing folder. White Metal Dots from Jo-Anne Craft Essentials finishes off the card. Inside I created the sentiment and then took the firecracker image from the SU set and after changing the color selected the washout feature in my program so I could superimpose the sentiment on top of it. I then added a star punch out. I then added more punched out stars to the envelope. This card did not employ any true stamping but I was able to use some stamping techniques to create it.