October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I wanted to honor the celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness month. So I went down in the cave for a quick card.









This is an unconventional 6x6 card. I cut two mats, the pink one at 5.75x5.75 and the white at 5.5x5.5. I embossed the white mat using the Divine Swirls cuttle bug folder. I cut the ribbon from Stand and Salute at 5 inches and embossed it with Spots and Dots. I added a pink ribbon and bow to separate and break up the mats. I stamped the sentiment using Just Wordz Everyday Sentiments.

If you know someone who is or has suffered through this terrible disease, celebrate them. Collect pink lids, walk to raise money, offer to cook dinner for their family. There are many, many ways you can help.

Stay crafty!!

Linking this project up at:
madebymomo.blogspot.com
morethanfavors.blogspot.com
celebratetheoccassion.blogspot.com
http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/2011/10/challenge-54-anything-goes.html
http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2011/10/cricut-cardz-challenge-93.html
http://handstampedsentiments.blogspot.com/



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FCCB Challenge Me Monday #50 - Tree Time

Over at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog, this week's challenge was to create something with a tree.

I was looking over my collection of cartridges and wanted to use one that I haven't really used in a while. So that lead me to Pagoda. A little history behind why I purchased this cartridge. I'm totally into Chinese/Japanese things. My dining room is where I've started to incorporate some of these things into my home. I bought this cartridge on the idea that I would use it to decorate my walls...well I haven't made it that far yet. But I'm getting closer.

Anyway on to my project:





This is a standard A2 sized card (4.25 by 5.5). I used a corner rounder on the edges of the card. I wasn't in a square mood. The red cardstock is 4.25 by 4. I used the Fiskars punch on both edges. I will master that punch one day! (That's if you notice the double hole under the tree)

I cut the tree and it's shift image from page 44 at 3 inches. I have another bad habit of putting the pieces together and then going, "Oh I should emboss it". So I ran it through my Divine Swirls cuttlebug folder for detail. Then I tried something new. I inked the edges...yes I know I should have done that first. But can't you tell I'm totally into doing things backwards!

I finished off the card by tying some brown polka dot ribbon to it. I stamped the sentiment from a set that I got on clearance at Micheal's. I hope you like.

Stay Crafty