Friendship Challenge Card!

....I had a great time today completed this card for this week's submission to the Happy Hello - Blog Hop and Challenge over at the Simon Say Challenge Blog.  For anyone who hasn't heard, I actually was the lucky winner of last week's challenge and you can read more about that in my previous post!  Yippee!

     This week's challenge was fun, because it also included a FUN little Blog Hop and the prizes are fabulous.  If you have time to join in, please do!  You will see some wonderful cards and inspiration on your hop.  I did have to substitute a Tilda image, as I did not have a good image to use for a Friendship card from my collection.

    This is my card and I really like how it turned out.   This is a 'recipe card' and in this recipe we  needed to use three type of embellishments.  I used brads, flowers, ribbon and die cuts.  Another part was to use 2 different patterned papers, which I did with the blue and yellow coordinating papers, as well as the die cut to match in a darker blue card stock.   My image is "Jam Tilda" and she is one of my favorites.  I chose her because she is so adorable and I thought she would work well for this challenge!

  My friends are VERY important to me and I want YOU all to know how much your friendships mean to me.  I am so lucky to be blessed with a world of friends and some of my friends I have had ALL of my life.  That is one special thing that you have from living in the same area, from birth.

   Friends to me, as as important as family and many of my best friends are truly  part of my family.  Sadly, because of terrible losses and heartache, we now have a very tiny family.  And that is why I adore and cherish my friends as part of my family.  They mean to world to mean and that all are very special people in my life!   

   Hugs and LOVE to you all, and I know you ALL know who you are!  

    Lisa