Red White and Blue

I've used a colour scheme of red, white and blue - but not for a patriotic card.  Our national flag colours are also red, white and blue but our National Day was back in February.  Traditionally it was called "Waitangi Day" which was a celebration of the anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Waitangi - an agreement between the local maori population and the newer mainly English settlers that were arriving into the country in 1840.  More recently though, it seems to have been re-named "New Zealand Day". 

Anyway, after a bit of New Zealand history - here is my card:

I am entering my card into these challenges:
Fresh Brewed Designs - Red, white and blue
http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/freshly-brewed-challenge-june-challenge_18.html
Bearly Mine Designs - Let's Go Digital (papers and image)
http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/july-2014-challenge-lets-go-digital.html
Open Minded Crafting Fun Challenge - Patriotic Colours
http://open-mindedcraftingfun.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/challenge-13-patriotic-colors.html
Sentimental Sundays - Summer (summer flowers)
http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/challenge-213-summer.html
Sunday Sketch and Stamp - Sketch
http://sundaysketchandstamp.blogspot.co.nz/2014/06/challenge-211-caroles-sketch.html

I kept the background as the plain white cardstock.  I added two papers from Bearly Mine Designs that fitted the colour scheme.  The image is a digital image from Fresh Brewed Designs and has been coloured with copic markers and then I added some stitching lines around the outside of the circle with Distress Markers.  I added a sentiment from Sans Designs and coloured some pearls for two of the corners.

For the layout, I followed the sketch at Sunday, Sketch and Stamp.