Breast Cancer Awareness "Hope"

Support Breast Cancer Awareness

As you know October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. While most people are aware of breast cancer, many forget to take the steps to have a plan to detect the disease in its early stages and encourage others to do the same. We have made a lot of progress but still have a long way to go and the National Breast Cancer Foundation need your help! 

The inspiration for these two cards came from another demonstrator Brandy Cox. I truly love creating custom backgrounds and I was able to use this technique on these projects. My hope is that you will be inspired to make these special cards to either raise awareness, remind a girlfriend to get a mammogram or celebrate breast cancer survivors.

Checkout my video of how I created these super cute cards.  I hope these projects inspire you. Click here for materials used. 

Measurements:

Base

1. Cut a 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ piece of Polished Pink Cardstock and fold it in half.  This is your base.

2. Cut (2) 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece of Basic White cardstock.  Once to layer inside your card and one to layer on top of your card.

3. Cut (1) 3-3/4″ x 5″ piece of Basic White Cardstock.  This piece is for your Stamped Background.

Tip: The "HOPE" sentiment came from my August 2021 "Hope Box" paper pumpkin kit.

4. Cut a 3-1/4″ x 2-1/2″ piece of Polished Pink Cardstock.  This will be the base layer for the image of your card.

Tip: I used Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop up this Polished Pink piece off the top of your card.

5. Cut a 3″ x 2-1/4″ piece of Basic White Cardstock and layer this piece on top of the Polished Pink cardstock.

Tip: Stamp your sentiment before gluing this piece down.

Stamping

1. Using a Polished Pink Ink Pad and Lovely You Stamp Set to stamp your flowers around your 3-3/4″ x 5″ piece of Cardstock.

Tip: Be sure to put scrap paper under your stamping station so that you can stamp partially on the cardstock and partially off.  This creates a fun unique background.

Tip: I inked up the edge of the custom background layer by lightly taping the ink pad.

2. Glue your designer stamped cardstock to the top of your card.

3. Lastly, using a Polished Pink stamp pad and the same Lovely You flower inside the bottom right-hand corner of your Basic White Cardstock.  Glue this piece inside your card.

4. Create matching envelope by stamping the same images on the flap and the left bottom front of the envelope.

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Happy Crafting to you!

Charmane