You Can't Make Old Friends Layout

I love the lyrics of the Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton duet, "You Can't Make Old Friends," especially the lines about "When somebody knocks at the door, someone new walks in, I will smile and shake their hands, but you can't make old friends." This is something I have discovered in the past five years as our old church closed down and we had to start anew at a different place. I am getting to know the ladies there, but there is something missing, the shared experiences that help make old friendships so vibrant. Hopefully someday that will develop, but in the meantime, I am grateful for the ladies pictured here, who were my old friends for so long!

The hidden journaling where I talk about the event and the friendships I have with these lovely ladies is on a tag that pulls out of the green sleeve:

Recipe:
Post Card Travel Series stamp set
Summer Vibes papers
Lemonade, Glacier & Candy Apple cardstock
Sunny Yellow, Glacier, Fern & Black ink
Mars Black fineliner pen (iBayam)
Scrapbook Queen stickers (MAMBI)
Decor Journaling Spot
Red Dot Essentials washi tape (Echo park)
Red baker's twine (from my stash, source unknown)
Heart punch (EK Success)
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: scalloped frame, circle
Cricut Design space: arrow, title using Bradley Hand ITC font (written on the circle) & BFC Night Kiss (cut out)
Pattern: EMS Sketch Challenge #99

Challenges: Paper Rocks Scissors #20 Scissors = I mounted the corner stickers on white cardstock and trimmed around them; Let’s Craft and Create #235 Anything Goes including optional twist: Frame it; Neglected Stuff Challenges my neglected stuff was the MAMBI corner stickers (I searched my blog back to 2015 but couldn't find I had used them anywhere, so they were truly neglected)!

Keep Dreaming Layout for LM #815

It's time for another Lasting Memories challenge, and this month Design Team member Wendy is challenging us to have fun with numbers. This week's challenge is called 2 for Two, and she asked us to use two photos, two hexagons, a two word title, and two embellishments. For the embellishments, I chose to use a die-cut princess, complete with her glittery tiara, and then stamped a rose bloom that I combined with a die-cut for the stem and leaves. Even though there isn't a lot on here, I hope the mix of decorative paper adds interest to the page. Please join us over at Lasting Memories for this or any of the other number-themed challenges this month!

Recipe:
Beautiful You stamp set
Daydream papers
Hollyhock, Black & White cardstock
Creme Brulee, Blush, Hollyhock, Lilac Mist & Sweet Leaf ink
Black marker
Gold Stickles (Ranger)
Cuttlebug D'vine Swirls embossing folder
Scalloped border punch (Fiskars)
Cricut Design Space: princess, tiara stem and leaves, hexagons, title (using Wall Decor & More and Art Philosophy fonts)
Pattern: Rochelle Spears September Sketch

Challenges: Scrap With Stacy - I used the diagonal with journaling + floral + gold.

Can You Handle the Pressure? Used a swirl embossing folder; Love Those Pretty Papers Anything goes as long as you use lots of patterned paper; Time Out Challenges #321 - the movie I chose was Disney's Sleeping Beauty! My sleeping girl and her cousin remind me of Aurora, so I added the princess silhouette and the rose (for the roses that covered the castle).

EMS Sketch Challenge #131 + Walking on Sunshine Layout

It's time for another scrapbook sketch, and this time I used mostly vertical photos with one horizontal. Feel free to use the sketch and post a link here so I can admire it!

I forged ahead and scrapped a couple of layouts out of order from our Kew Gardens visit, so today I went back and started at the beginning with our visit to the towering Treetop Walkway. It was amazing in a kind of scary way! The horizontal picture flips up to reveal another photo and my journaling card, on which I shared my mixed feelings about being that high in the air.

Here's the journaling card with a small photo on it. My hubby took the photo from another part of the walkway, so I added an arrow so you can see me! I knew part of the journaling card would be hidden under my cropped photo, so I used a craft knife to remove the hidden part and used it for my journaling on the main part of my page.

Recipe:
Wild Asparagus papers (MME)
Woodgrain paper
The Flower Emporium Starters papers 8 & 10 (49 and Market)
Olive, Fern, Glacier & Dutch Blue cardstock
Saddle, Fern, Olive & Glacier ink
Coffee marker (Zig)
True Colors Floral Bits (Simple Stories)
Century Type Leather stickers ((All My Memories)
Sweet Rush Collection - Loving This puffy stickers (American Crafts)
Woodgrain washi tape
Natural hemp
Challenges: Heart's Quest Challenge Blog #87 - anything with a heart; One More Page - scrapbook layouts only; Triple B Anything Goes including a bird, a bloom, and/or a butterfly; Unicorn Challenge Blog #124 Not square (used ltos of rectangles and a couple circles, but no squares); Inkspirational #375 Visual prompt: Scrabble tiles (I was inspired to pull out some square letter stickers to use as my sub-title).