Here's a quick idea for a 4th of July, Independence Day Card. If you don't have the embossing folders, you could cut out stars or stamp stars or something.
Sometimes you want to craft but your mojo is gone and you don't know what to do. Sometimes you just want to add some cards to your stock and need ideas. Here is a video with some sources of inspiration to get you going. You could use some of the ideas for other types of crafts as well.
Here's a quick tip to cleaning your rubber stamps using a painting pad. When the paint pad starts to get dirty, just run it under the faucet to clean the pad.