Happy Fourth of July

Hoping you have a safe holiday. Our county has open to normal living because we have hit the 70% vaccination but because we are not allowed to ask if you are vaccinated or not and since I am high risk and not trusting people to do the right thing and those that are not fully vaccinated will continue to wear mask as they should I will continue to stay home hoping more people will continue to get their vaccines so we can beat this pandemic really soon and we are completely be safe out there! we do have something to celebrate today I guess as things are better

I normally don't do Fourth of July cards other than for Bret if I have time and my health permits but this year I decided to make sure I could make for the heroes in my town. The Algona Police Department that continue to do their job and keep us safe. I got to meet our Chief James Schrimpsher!!  The other heroes are

Sergeant/Detective James McKay

Officer Robert Bonjukian

Officer Héctor Aponte

Officer Thomas Coyne

Officer Ben Brown

Officer Stefka Kling

Specialist Cari Sanford

Reserve Officer Cory Tunnell

Officer Elijah Johnston

Also gave to one of our temporary mail delivery persons, our regular person retired back in January and they have not cover her position as of yet, amazing how long it takes to replace someone. Anyway, this is the card I gave them. I used FourthofJuly2stamp set & die by The Stamps of Life. For my base I used Park Lane 110 lb. smooth 12 x 12 white cardstock because my card is bigger than normal A2 and I didn't want to waste a regular cardstock and well I do my cards regardless of size LOL for the heart I cut all my pieces twice I was going to do more layers but the blue was a pain to get out the of the die and 3 hearts didn't cut off completely and I didn't want them blue so had to cut them with knife so with bad hands couldn't do too many so had to stick with two layers, the 4 of July were 3 layers and the "of star" was mounted on foam also. The of star and July were done with Altenew crisp dye ink lapis lazuli collection azurite and the 4 was done with Altenew crisp dye ink red cosmos collection ruby red. Used Recollections iridescent adhesive rhinestones inside each start hole, all cardstocks used were in my scrap drawer except for the base of course 😀