Star Spangled Banner

When in Washington last December we visited the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. In the entrance hall we saw this amazing sculpture representing the flag that inspired the National Anthem.This is for this weekend's challenge on The Bramford's Monthly Scrapbooking Crop Challenge No. 2 - STRIPES (and lots of stars on mine!).

For this layout I used a SVG file designed by Paige Evans called 'Star Wreath', I cut this on the Cricut in red white and blue.

With a sheet of Maja Designs - Life By The Sea - Marina paper I gutted a frame for the layout using the star side uppermost. saving the remaining piece for later.

I mounted a sheet of white Bazzill over the frame, and placed the blue star wreath just left of the centre. I made two photo mats using the spare Marina Paper. I placed on piece star side upper most under the photo and off set the other with the stripes uppermost beneath. These were placed to the bottom right of the layout and wreath.

The I took some of the stars from all three wreaths and placed them randomly around the wreath, some were made dimensional with foam tape. I added Stickles to all the white stars.

From my stash of alphabet stickers I found three different glittery alphas one each in red, white and blue to spell out the title. Finally I added a smattering of clear gems over the page.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x