4th of July Blog Hop!!

Welcome to the Scrapbook News and Review "Oh Say Can You See 4th of July Blog Hop"!! If you just came from Patti Behan's blog you're on the right track. If you didn't, you might want to hop to SNR Card Universe and start at the beginning.

I love using vintage images and have had this one for nearly a year - just waiting for the 4th of July! I used cardstock for the base and chose turquoise blue so that it would match my bling - LOL. I added some beige twill tape and adhered the bling squares to it. I also tucked a piece of red scrap paper, (which I distressed up a bit) behind the image, for an additional accent. Quick, easy and fun to make!!



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Enjoy yourselves as you participate in this blog hop and don't forget to look for the staffers blogs - just keep following the links and good luck!! The next blog on the list is Steph Hughes . Be sure to stop by for a visit.

In closing, I'd like to share the "Preamble of the Constitution" with you. It's still as appropriate today as it was in 1774 - I urge all of you to read these words with a renewed vigor!! "Happy Birthday, America"!!!

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."