Tribute to Marti -- page 1

I lost a dear and wonderful friend of mine last month to cancer.  And although I am glad she is no longer in pain and has gone on to her final reward I have been grieving her loss.  This week I picked up the new Authentique Genuine collection and when looking through the papers and embellishments I knew it would be perfect for a double page tribute layout that I wanted to create to honor my friend and our friendship.  This is the first page.  I used the February sketch from Authentique:

My title was inspired by the current challenge #26 Remember This over at Scrapbook Circle

Here is the complete 2 page layout together:

I will showcase page 2 in my next blog post.