DIY Stripes

I've made two cards from the same home-made stamps:

 This one is for 365 Cards, CASual Fridays and CR84FN, details and links further down,

and this one is for OLW103, hosted this week by Karen, to add scoring to your card (you can just make the score lines out above and below the stripes).

I wanted to use stripes for a challenge at 365 Cards Day 180 - Stand-out Stripes.  I don't have any stripy stamps so, following on from my success in making circle and ring stamps from foam, I made my own stripe stamps from foam.

Then I thought I would make it into stripy flag bunting for the CASual Fridays Banners and Flags challenge:

CFC67:  Create a Clean And Simple project that features banners or flags.

using the colour scheme from CR84FN61, which is:

I cut strips of different widths and lined 3 of the strips on one acrylic block and two on another acrylic block, sticking them with Pritt Stick, so that I could ink one set in tan and the other set in aqua, like so:

Then I stamped onto cream card.  I like that grungy, uneven finish.

I then overstamped with the flag stamp (freebie from Craft Stamper Magazine), cut them out and made them into a banner.

I'd trimmed the blue foam stripes because that block was slightly smaller and the foam was overhanging.  So when I came to stamp the OLW card, the tan reached the sides of the card, but the aqua didn't.  But I quite like it!

The Celebrate stamp and the Happy Birthday stamp are both from Fiskars Make a Wish Quotes.