Keep Fighting

 

It's that time of year again, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the wonderful folks at Splitcoaststampers is hosting the 3rd annual Hope You Can Cling To. This month long event encourages papercrafters from across the globe to make and send cards to the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. If this sounds like a cause you can get behind click the link to learn how you can help. Most of us know someone who has fought breast cancer, is a survivor or is currently going through a battle with this disease. My aunt is a breast cancer survivor, one of my BFF's lost her mom to breast cancer and I'm currently on a design team with two ladies who are going through their own battles with breast cancer. One being, Jennifer Scull, and I'm sure most of you know who Jen is. :) She's fighting a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer but I'll let her tell her own story. Click the link to see how she has been coping since her diagnoses in February of this year. If you would like to help or learn more about HYCCT then click here for the details including the address to UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. (I highly recommend that you read this first before you begin making your cards.)

I wanted to make a card that would let the person receiving it know how special they are and to keep up the fight. One of the things I learned from my aunt is how discouraged you can get while going through this crises in your life. It is meant as a gentle reminder to keep going, one day at a time. I used two coordinating dp's from Cosmo Cricket's-Tea for Two 6x6 paper pad and Bazzill Basics Paper-Pinkini to create my card. I love the nestie friendly stamps that Claire at Waltzingmouse Stamps created to work with Spellbinders Labels. I used two of the Very Vintage Labels 10 stamps for the front & inside, stamped each one in Memento Angel Pink and die cut each with a Labels 10 die. Both sentiments are from Verve, the quote by Snyder is from One Person and the inside sentiment is from Words of Wisdom, and were stamped in Memento Rosebud. I've kept it simple and sweet by adding pearls to the corners, paper flowers from Recollections, and a strip of decorative ribbon (which we were asked to do) for the Strip Tease challenge at SCS. You can view the gallery for this challenge by clicking here and hopefully it will provide inspiration in creating your own cards. :)

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and thanks for stopping by! Before I go, I'd like to welcome my new followers and thank those of you who leave a sweet comment for me. It means so much!

Hugs,
Lisa