{Sunshine} July Diva Inspiration Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to the July Diva Inspiration Blog Hop!!!

We have a little Verve for you to get your summer started off right! You can start the Hop at the Verve blog.  Continue through and comment on each card/project and you just might win some Vervey goodness of your very own!  :)

Soo if you got here from Sankari's blog then you are right on track!!! If not...you might wanna go back...she's AMAZING.

Oh and here's the full blog hop list...for your convenience:

	1. Betty	8. Amber
	2. Jen d.	9. Andrea
	3. Jen T.	10. Charmaine
	4. Julee	11. Janelle
	5. Sankari	12. Maureen
	6. Sony	13. Teresa
	7. Susan

and then guess what...July is Julee's birthday month!!! (as well as mine ;)

It's Julee's (owner & illustrator of Verve) birth month, so we're having a SALE!

Through July 31, ALL stamps are 20% off!

Now is the perfect time to get those Verve stamps you've been wanting to get!!!!

Okay now that you know about all the stuff that's going on....let me fill you in on my card and give you a brief little update on what's new with me at home and then I send you on your merry way to Susan!!! Orrr if you'd just like to skip all that chitchat then go right ahead...Susan is your next stop!!!

Life has been a little rough and stressful all around lately...my dad's cancer is back and unfortunately it's spread to his lungs and brain, then there's the pressure of this being my last term in school, will I get a job, where will I get a job, and then to top things off my personal life has also gotten a bit complicated... sooo basically everything in my life has a big question mark written all over it and there are times when it gets a bit much and I know you all know how that feels and I finally got to the point where I said 'enough is enough'. I refuse to let all this stuff get me down. It's not like I can do anything about it anyway...I do what I can and the rest is out of my hands and in God's hands...and really that's the best place for them to be so what am I so worried about?! 

lol yes those are the kind of conversations I have with myself sometimes... :)

So long story short...I decided I could use a little sunshine in my life and that made me pull out the set Let It Shine and when I looked at it I came up with the idea of turning the sun into a sunflower, my favorite flower!!! The rest just sort of came together...I was going for a fun, carefree, scrappy look that wasn't all that organized and perfectly layed out so I just kept adding stuff. :) Great fun way to craft because you have no idea what you'll end up with and you don't necessarily care all that much about the result either because you had so much fun making it you know it'll shine through. :)

thank you so much for stopping by today!!! 

Have a wonderful day and say hi for Sus  for me please!!!! :)

Sony :)

Stamps: Let It Shine (Verve)

Paper: Fly a Kite (OA), Dark Chocolate (PTI), Kraft, Aqua Mist (PTI)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Frayed Burlap (Distress Ink)
Accessories: Stickles Glitter, Copics, White Gel Ink Pen, Crystal Effects, Sponges, Cardboard Letter, Ribbon, Buttons, Notebook Style Border Punch, Scalloped Border Punch, Ticket Corner Punch, Seeing Spots Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), White Thread and Sewing Machine