Home of the Free

I hope you are all having a wonderful 4th of July!  Here's a very moving song that reminds me of how blessed we are in this country:  There She Stands

We had our 4th of July celebration yesterday, and I am glad because it has been cloudy and rainy today.  We had a grand time out in the boat and took it up the Mississippi River.  Oh how fun!  Loads of sun, lots of laugh - especially on the way back down the river when we all got drenched from the waves several times over!!  I used a sketch from Let's Scrap to capture some of the memories.  My layout also fit Sharon's Recipe Challenge and Christy's Technique Challenge over at sketches4all and the Frosted Designs challenge.

I kept with the red, white, and blue theme of the layout and used red, white, and blue papers:

The patterned paper is Reminisce and the cardstock is CTMH.  The ribbon, brads, and waxy flax is also CTMH.  The buttons are from Dress it Up, and I used Slice cards (Basics 1 and Holiday Words) to cut the stars and phrase.