Positive Friendship

Another month and another new challenge at Path of Positivity. This time our optional theme is Friendship. In a world of social media, instant contact and mass communication how is it that people generally are more isolated and lonely than ever. Some, no doubt will attribute it to the changing nature of society, families live further apart from each other and gone are the times when people stayed in or near their childhood homes. With the removal of the old 'back to back' housing the sense of community has dwindled, we are not so likely to know when or if neighbours are in need and hold back from finding out for fear of invading privacy. Some of these changes are for the better but the effects are not, the housing is better but the community is gone.

More recently I think the upward trend in loneliness has been helped along by social media. At the click of a mouse you can gather hundreds of friends and, lets be honest, most of them you are never likely to enter into a meaningful relationship with yet alone meet them. Now there is no harm in that but if you are lonely it can make you feel more isolated. I like having 'friends' who visit my blog or are 'friends' on Facebook but I do not have to rely on them solely for friendship I also have a lovely group of people whom I know and who know me. At the end of the day it is the friends that we meet up with, phone, skype that mean so much more than a long list of friends on the internet. So this month join with us at Path of Positivity and let us celebrate friendship. Let's tell our friends how much they mean to us.

Materials used:
Bugaboo Stamps - Friends Are Your Umbrella

Decosse's Dynamite Doodles Rainy Days Papers - available from Scribbles Designs 

Express It! card

printer paper

7x5 card blank

decorative rectangle frame die

stitched edge rectangle die

Copic pens:

skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04      R20

hair - E21, E25, E29      E42, E43, E47, E49

jeans - B91, B93, B95, B97

T-shirts - RV63, RV66, RV69, RV99       R81, R83, R85, R56

skirt - G02, G17, G29, G99

shoes - C3, C5, C7, C9      R29, R39, R59, R89

umbrella - YR31, YR21, YR12, YR18, E09

flowers - BV01, BV02, BV13, BV04,     Y06

leaves - G07, G28, G05

umbrella handle - C05, C07, C09, 100

ground - E34, E35, E37

The coloured image and sentiment are cut out with the decorative die and the mats cut from two papers printed from the Rainy Days Papers.

This challenge, our optional twist is a focus on Friendship. If you would like to challenge yourself, create a project designed to convey the warmth of friendship to someone who could use a reminder to let them know they aren't alone. 

In order to be considered eligible for this month's prizes, remember that regular types of projects such as birthday cards, or other general type projects/posts will not qualify for the prizes unless they are also, positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature.

Prizes this month include:
A $12.00 gift certificate from Bugaboo Stamps, our guest sponsor for this month, for a person chosen in a random draw based on all qualifying entrants.
ONE image (value of $5 or less) from Scribbles Designs, for the post or project that the team deems most inspiring of the bunch based on all qualifying entrants.
One digital image from Creative Bug Digital SnapShots for each person chosen as a DT Delight.

I do hope that you will be able to join us this month. The link for entries and all the information along with inspiration from the DT can be found at Path of Positivity Challenge Blog. Hope to see you there.

Thanks for dropping in.

Take care.

Pippa

Entering the following challenges:
Artistic Inspirations #215 - Anything Goes 
Crafting From The Heart #238 - Anything Goes  
PIP Challenge #109 - Anything Goes 
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #101 - Anything Goes 
Dragonfly Dreams - For a Special Female