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Happy Wednesday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog. Well today was my recovery day after spending Tuesday with my 3 grandsons(lol).

That's why you have kids when you're young. I was there from &:00 am to 8:00 pm and they just wore me out.
I went to bed at 9:15 and slept right though until 7:00 this morning. Oh well, I was completely rested and I get to go back tomorrow.

For my card for today I followed the Wednesday sketch challenge on splitcoaststampers. This week, Korin from Sweet 'n Sassy stamps was our hostess.

She put together an awesome layout for us to work into a card. I decided I was going to make a patriotic card.

I had this great patterned paper in my stash and I decided to stamp some sentiments right on the paper. The sentiments are from "patriotic cocoa". This is a new stamp set just released by Sweet 'n Sassy stamps this month.

I used 3 of the sentiments on this card-2 in each of the corners and on the center panel. On that panel I also used a spellbinders lacey square die and added some bakers twine.

I punched 3 other stars to add to my striped panel to complete my card. I will send this on July 4th to one of our friends who are military vets. Haven't decided who just yet. Maybe i should make a few more so they all get one.  Our vets are certainly deserving of honor.

Well time to dim the lights in charmed life land for another day. So until next time........ God bless

Some other challenges:
1.  The Paper Shelter blog wants us to use punches & dies.
2.  Make it Monday blog is anything goes. It's a weekly linky party.
3.  Stamps & fun = Creativity blog has a holiday challenge. My holiday is the USA July 4th celebration.