This Is How I Will Remember You

Its time for another reveal at Sketchabilities. Just look at Karan's next amazing sketch....

This is my take on it...

This is a layout of my best friend Denise who lost her battle with lung cancer a year ago at the age of 41.  She died of lung cancer and NEVER smoked! As much as I miss her, I know her husband and kids must miss her more. She was an incredible giving person, donating her time to girl scouts, advocating for autism (her son is autistic), and was always there when a friend was in need. She is the reason why I scrapbook. After dragging me to a scrapbook crop night over 10 years ago, I became hooked. This photo was taken on one of our many girl scout adventures at a local amusement park. I have a hidden journaling card that reads,
"The morning that you died, I woke up to this song on my alarm clock radio, I Can See Clearly Now the Rain is Gone and instead of those words I was thinking, I Can Breathe Clearly Now the Pain is Gone. I still cannot hear that song without crying. So this is how I will remember you, before cancer ravaged your body and made you lose your beautiful hair. Even a year after you are gone I still yearn to be with you. I miss you so much"

I used the Webster's Pages Sunday Picnic collection and added a Prima flower and Prima pearl swirls. The tiny roses in the swirls were grey and I used a Copic marker to add the bright pink color. I love the butterflies I made with trailing strands of floss.

 

The carousel horses were stamped with a rubber stamp from Inkadinkado, colored with Copic markers, and then cut out and mounted with foam tape. I used ribbon as the poles for the horses. Torn music note paper was glimmer misted and applied to the background. I wanted to make it seem as if the horses were moving and the music was playing. The horses had glimmer mist applied as well, but that doesn't show up in the photo very well.

Many tears were shed in the making of this layout and I am sure on the anniversary of her death there will be many more. I wanted to celebrate her life and remember the happier times we shared. 

I am excited to say that I will be back on the Sketchabilities design team for another term with this fabulous new team

Carrie Boissonneault-CANADA

Chitose Nakamae- JAPAN

Debbi Tehrani-USA

Emila Stammler- NETHERLANDS

Fern Riley - USA

Kelly Foster- USA

Linda Eggleton-AUSTRAILIA-returning

Lisa Tottle-CANADA

Lynn Shokoples-CANADA

Marcia Dehn-Nix-USA-returning

Marianne Sjoberg-NORWAY

Nina Stenzel-GERMANY-returning

Sanna Lippert-AUSTRIA

Teresa Horner- USA

Yana Smakula- UKRAINE

 

I hope I have inspired you to play along with us at Sketchabilities. I love reading comments, so please let me know what you think.

Linking up with Burlap and Buttercups - layout not about your kids or grandkids.