Hi Everyone, Its challenge time at ATSM ! For the next two weeks the theme is Make your Mark - that means you must use of anything that can make a mark - Stamping, Write, Markers of any kind, Painting, Chalks, Watercolours, Sponges, Stencils, Masks etc. etc. Not hard, right? I went with stencils for this challenge and since we just had July 4th I went with the American flag theme. I used my beloved iStencils for this card - my favorite Stripes stencil and that cool Star Stream stencil The stripes stencil I have used several times so far ( you can check it out HERE , HERE and HERE ). Again I did somewhat of an ombre fade with the stripes. The stars I made with embossing paste on blue card stock. The wonderful sentiment is from Hero Arts - Year Round Sentiments . Do you know that I am now on the A2Zscrapbooking store - a fabulous Hero Arts store and if you order your stamps from them you can get 15...