Friends For Like Forever

I am so very grateful for my friend, Sandy. She grew up two doors down from me. I moved away my Freshman year in High School and went through some very different experiences than her; but, we managed to stay connected at various stages and times in our lives. We've shared fun, adventures, brokeness, and lots of mending and forgiving. I am so grateful to have a forever friend! We even got to share motherhood dramas together as our youngest are two months apart.

I am connecting this to My Mind's Eye blog as I used Layout Challenge #23 to complete the layout with some items from their Stella and Rose, Gertie line. The ribbon pennant/badge is from Making Memories and is called a Bravissimo.

This was a fairly basic layout, not much technique-y stuff. I did cut the "friends forever" die cut in half and added a couple words in between with a decorative brad with die cut. The words were hand drawn to mimic the style on the letters of "Friends Forever".

I used Stella and Rose trim around a picture for some more visual interest, (and to help distract your eye from the bad flash reflection on the picture....did it help at all?)

Thanks for popping by! Have a great weekend!