My Best Friend!

PHIL.....

He is my husband, my partner, my lover, the father of my children, my childhood sweetheart, and most of all he is MY BEST FRIEND.

I have known him and loved him for more than 1/2 of my life.  He is the one I can turn to, who will always listen, and give support whenever needed.  Plus  - we have fun together!

So - when I saw a design challenge for the Design Dollies Blog this month "This week's challenge is in honor of Friendship Day, which was August 1st! (Who would've thunk?). Create a project honoring a close friend!" - I knew who would be my subject.   

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This photo was taken when we took a "Cruise to Nowhere" out of NYC, back in Oct of 2006, for our 24th Wedding Anniversary.  Phil truly is...

I had fun doing all kinds of "stuff" to this layout.  I made the frame using a Fiskar's edge punch.  I made the flower using a heart punch and a circle punch. I made a folded pleat on the bottom left. Tearing, rolling inking, and of course masking and Glimmer Misting!

The paper is "foof-a-la Red, Black, Cream" that I got from my favorite scrapbook store, Scrap-a-Doodle-Doo in Ramsey, NJ.  The lace is antique lace that I bought at a weekend we went away down the shore earlier this year.  I added buttons, brads, and the letters were left overs that were a bright shiny silver - so I roughed them up with a sanding tool, and inked them with black Versamark - then added a little silver SMOOCH paint too! Oh - the black card to the right of the photo is the cardboard that Prima flowers come on - I liked the shape - so I sprayed it with a little Glimmery "Elixir of Life" and gave it a new life on my layout! =D

Here is a close up of the card.

Here is a close up of the lace.  See the little piece that I turned red with Red Velvet Glimmer Mist!

Just YUMMY! Oh- and here you can see the pleating and some silver shimmer in the left corner too!

Here is a close up of the flower I made using punched out hearts that I inked on the edges, spritzed with water, then smushed up, and let semi dry.  While they were still a little damp -I put a decorative brad through the ends and did some more smooshing and crinkling until it looked the way I wanted.

Well - I hope you enjoy looking at this layout as much as I had fun making it!

Thanks for looking,

Sherri