Sweet Stamps Patriotic Summer Theme

This week the challenge at Sweet Stamps is : 

Patriotic Summer

Each week we choose a winner from the challenge to win a $20 Shopping Spree at Sweet Stamps towards your purchase of rubber stamps. You can use any stamp for your card but if you use a Sweet stamp you receive two entries in the challenge.

Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, those using Sweet Stamps images will get an extra drawing in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including ours)  You must link back to us in your blog post.

I used the following supplies:

 Tuxedo Black Memento Ink

  Stickles Glitter Glue ICICLE

  COPIC Sketch Marker
 Wild Rose Oval 7030
 Carousel Horse Facing Left 643
 Thank You Curly 903
 Holiday Sweets Set S006P

I started with this set
 

I know it is a Christmas set but it really worked for me to design a background.

Then I could stamp my carousel horse and also my floral frame. Then all I had to do was cut out the images and attach to a base card.

 After fussy cutting I pop dotted and added to an embossed star background I triple matted.
I had some great ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon that is part of the this months ribbon of the month.

Didn't the background work great for this stamped and fussy cut horse design?

I had such a great time finally getting to play this week, convalescing at home has been a hard time for me. Glad I could get down to my craft cave for a short time and make this project.
So won't you play along with us this week?