Wishing on a Star

This is another card I created for the "Stencil It!" challenge at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday blog. I decided this time to make a patriotic card to send to Operation Write Home, for a hero overseas to use to write home to a loved one. I used the newest sketch by OWH as the basis for my design:

I started by punching 5 stars from blue cardstock, using Recollections' 15/16" star punch. I used Chipped Sapphire Distress ink to stamp my greeting, from this Hero Arts Stamp set, onto white cardstock, and clear heat embossed it. I die cut that and 5 other circles with a Spellbinders Classic Circles die. For the red circle mats, I didn't have a die just the right size to have an 1/8" mat. So I traced around the outside of the same die 6 times, then cut them out with scissors.

To do the stenciled panel, I taped down the "Mini Star Fall" stencil by The Crafter's Workshop over a piece of white cardstock cut to the size in the sketch. I blended Chipped Sapphire over the stars using my mini ink blending tool.

All that was left to do was assemble the card. I adhered a piece of light blue cardstock to an A2 card base, then adhered my stenciled star panel over that. I glued down the red circles, and glued the white circles and stars in place on those. Finally I glued down the red strip along the left side, and the card was finished.

I'm also entering this card in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp's Monday "Anything Goes"
The June "Linky Party" at a2z Scrapbooking's Blog