Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I wanted to make a card to honour two special ladies who've been cancer warriors against this disease.  I pulled out the Awareness Ribbon and Sentiments set designed by Sheri Ballantyne for Spellbinders.

The stamp & die set is part of the We All Have Baggage collection that came out earlier this year, with four amazing die sets, and a wonderful sentiment set.  Check it out - you can find them at the Papercrafter's Workshop (www.craftersworkshop.com).

I also used the Arch Punch & Pierce Plate for the arches, and some very old paper from my stash.

Cards 4 Cancer Patients

There is a new Facebook group called 'Cards 4 Cancer Patients', for Canadian card makers to create cards that will be given to patients in hospitals.  *I believe there is an American group as well if you search for it.  I've started to prep a package of cards to send off later this summer, or whenever my envelope is full.

I pulled out some (ANCIENT!) papers from my craft room to make up some bright, encouraging cards using the Awareness Ribbon & Sentiments set designed by Sheri Ballantyne for Spellbinders.

This is the perfect set to cheer people on, and comes with a whole bunch of different sentiments.  I have four done so far, and I love being able to use up some pretty older papers.

If you're interested in the die set, you can find it at The Papercrafter's Workshop.

Awareness Ribbon

 My final card from the card set I made using the new We All Have Baggage collection designed by Sheri Ballantyne for Spellbinders, features the Awareness Ribbon and Sentiments set.  

The set includes 3 dies to cut the ribbon, allowing you to use different colours to create some depth, and two inserts with 'Hope' and 'Strength' pressed on the ribbons as options.

Look at all those sentiments!

I used some ancient CTMH paper as my card base, then die cut the citron colour and white cardstock arches using the Essential Arches dies.  The flowers are all from the Delicious Desserts die set.

The collection won't be available on the Spellbinders site until April/May, but it can be purchased immediately on the Papercrafter's Workshop website.