October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! At Crazy 4 Challenges this week the theme was to make an awareness, support or hope card. I had a very amazing friend who passed away from breast cancer that metastasized to her brain. I wish I had been making cards back then because she would have been on of the most appreciative people I’ve ever given a card. I think of her often and miss her.
The background was stamped with a text stamp from Taylored Expressions. I used Pink Peony ink from PTI for the stamping. The ‘hope’ sentiment is by a.muse studio which I stamped in Berry Sorbet on ivory paper and cut out by hand. The ‘doily’ is a die cut using multiple Spellbinders’ dies that are made to work together. I cut the outer die then stacked the inner layers together and embossed them. It really makes for a gorgeous die cut. If you cut all the layers instead of embossing them, you get a bunch of circle frames with lots of beautiful details.
This layout is one I use a lot. It’s extremely versatile especially if you like to add lots of small details. But you can replace the whole cluster of flowers etc with a single focal image and it still looks great. The die cut is by Lifestyle Crafts (which was bought out by WRMK I think) which I accented with Copic markers to make it look more like a real ribbon. I could have, and have previously used, actual ribbon but since I already had ribbon on the page, I went with the die cut. The flowers all came from Really Reasonable Ribbon, they have quite the selection now!
To finish the card, I added epoxy dots and a couple of pearls. If you have a moment, pop on over to the C4C blog and see the inspiration the team has for you this week!
Enjoy, Rebecca
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