Old Glory

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It's time for the monthly Taylored Expressions Blog Hop again!  woo-hoo!  The theme is "Old Glory".  I had an idea for my card that evolved and then evolved some more and then turned out quite a bit different than I had originally expected.  I originally had planned to have a small flag on the card in the background and then have the TE stamp that I ordered especially for this blog hop "God Bless The USA" in the center with maybe a few shabby stars in the background... well, this is what it grew into:

I still used the same stamp and I made the flag that is in the background... but somehow the flag grew and the fireworks lit up all over the card!  LOL  I saw the blue and "diamond bling at Michaels yesterday and knew it just had to go on my card.

I didn't have room to stamp the whole stamp so I fussed with it (threw a couple of tries away) and finally got the center that I wanted.  I used a red marker to ink the the USA part, stamped it and then cleaned the stamp really well and then with a stamp positioner figured out where I wanted the "God Bless the" part, inked it up with a dark blue marker and stamped it above the "USA".  I then used the nestabilities to cut out the sentiment and the two tags as well.  Popped it up with pop dots and viola'!  An Old Glory that is quite glorious!

I'm thinking it's a little over the top but what the hey... it's very festive.  In fact, due to all the wildfires here in AZ this card might be the only fireworks we get to see this year for the 4th of July.  We're praying for rain and hoping for relief.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you will go to the other blog hoppers to see what they have in store for you today!

Here are the entries from the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past blog hop! Click here for details on how you can join us on the hop next month!

1.	Vicki Fields	19.	Julie Romano
2.	Sharon Harnist	20.	Charmaine Ikach
3.	Nancy Jensen	21.	Kathi Rerek
4.	Taylor VanBruggen	22.	Corinna McGregor
5.	Pattie Goldman	23.	Danielle Lounds
6.	Natalie Houston	24.	Tangii Crain
7.	Tracy Clemente	25.	Niema Bryson
8.	Stacey Schafer	26.	Angela Bear
9.	Bonnie Ratzloff	27.	Lesa Smaligo
10.	Joan Ervin	28.	Kelly Collins
11.	Stephanie Kraft	29.	Cassie Trask
12.	Dawn Barghorn	30.	Lorie Ames
13.	Tina Whitted	31.	Jami Sibley
14.	Candace Pierce	32.	Tami Mayberry
15.	Geeta Suggs	33.	Debbie Carriere
16.	Jodi Collins	34.	Karen Motz
17.	Julia Aston	35.	Lisa Smeaton
18.	Wanda Guess	36.	Sankari Wegman

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My card is being entered into the following challenges:
CC328: Cherry Night Cakes: color challenge: Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake (kraft), Neutrals of choice
 Magazine Monday - color challenge:  Bazzill Red, Sea Water, Lily White and Beetle Black