Exploring Cricut - Breast Cancer Awareness

Welcome to another fun challenge at Exploring Cricut!  This rotation we are focusing on Breast Cancer Awareness!  As many of you may know, October marks Breast Cancer Awareness. 

Personally, I have had friends and family members diagnosed with this terrible disease.  And I know we as a nation long for the days when this terrible disease will be eradicated. 

Several years back a woman from my church was diagnosed with cancer.  She was a breast cancer survivor and had reached the coveted 5 year mark before it returned.  I had just started creating cards a few months before.  I asked God for guidance.  What could I do?  I felt so powerless and quite honestly useless.  One morning it came to me.  I could make cards!  So every week for over a year, I sent her a card.  As the days became shorter and her journey home came to a close, her family told me just how much those cards meant.  She kept each and every one in a box and would go through them over and over.  When her eyesight became weak, she would ask her husband to read each and every card to her.  He told me how animated she would become when he told her "a fat envelope" was in the mail.  That gentle soul lost her battle with cancer but her spirit lives on and I know that the angels in heaven have a beautiful new voice!  This one's for you Kathy... because we do have hope...

hugs...

Card Recipe

Cart - Cricut - Stand and Salute (ribbon 4.25 inches)

Papers - Bazzill, Paper Studio, Prima - Romance Novel

Ink - Versafine Black Onyx

Embossing Folder - Provocraft Polka Dots

Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs - Hope

ODBDSLC82 Go Pink...

Happy Saturday to you! It's time for another Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge. This week Chris has challenged us to think pink and encouragement for Breast Cancer Awareness. Your creation does not need to be related to breast cancer but it must be pink and an encouragement card.

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, November 4 at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. If you are not using ODBD stamps, please do not enter more than once. Additional entries without using ODBD stamps will not be commented on or will they qualify for prizes.

While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them.As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, November 4 at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC82. When creating your posts on blogs please include a direct link to the challenge.

Please take a few moments to hop over and see what the other Bread Sticks have created! They have some lovely creations to share!

Chris
Fran
Pat
Silke
Sabrina
Sue


Card Recipe

Paper - Bazzill, My Mind's Eye - Honey Cake; Stamps - ODBD Praying for a Cure; Ink - CTMH Cotton Candy; Dies - Spellbinders Standard Circles Large, Foliage; Paper Punches; Satin Ribbon; Lace, Mulberry Roses, Pearl Flourish Recollections Pink; Stickles - Diamond

Hope You Can Cling To... Breast Cancer Awareness with ODBD

I am so excited to share this wonderful set from Our Daily Bread Designs, called Praying for a Cure. This month is designated as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Our Daily Bread Designs is a sponsor for the Splitcoaststampers second annual Hope You Can Cling To card drive to benefit those affected by breast cancer. Make sure to check out the Hope You Can Cling To Challenge Forums to see other beautiful creations.

Our Daily Bread Designs will be donating a portion of the proceeds from sales of this new
stamp set sold during October to the American Cancer Society. This set will be available for sale at the Our Daily Bread Designs site.

In honor of this release, the team will showcasing this new stamp set!!

The "Breadsticks" listed below have created samples using the new "Praying for a Cure" set. Please visit each of the ladies below, leave a comment for each, and return to this post at the ODBD to let us know that you have visited them all. There will be three commenters selected to win a $20 gift certificate each from Our Daily Bread designs. You have until Thursday, October 27 at 8pm EDT to leave your comments. The winners will be announced Friday morning on the Flashback Friday Favorites post.

Lisa
Lori-You are here
Dawn
Grace
Angie
Connie
Sabrina
Sue
Chris
Patter
ODBD Blog


This set is particularly poignant for me this year as one of my co-workers was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She will be undergoing surgery this week.

It amazes me how much we have learned about breast cancer over the years. My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer in her late thirties. At that time (the 1950's) she was given one option - total mastectomy, radiation and chemotherapy. If you doubt how much progress has been made listen to this... chemo and radiation were HIGHLY experimental at that time. My aunt lost not only her breast but complete and total use of one arm. The radiation was so destructive that the nerves in her shoulder, arm and hand on that side were obliterated. Until the day she left to be with our Lord her arm hung limply at her side... another reminder of the battle she waged...

So let's say we have come a LONG way yet the race goes on... But most importantly ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD.....

Thanks so much for stopping by! Blessings...

Today's card...


Card Design

Paper - Bazzill, Echo Park Victoria Gardens; Stamps - ODBD Praying for a Cure; Ink - Close to My Heart - Cotton Candy; Dies - Spellbinders Postage Stamps, Classic Squares Large, Cheery Lynn Designs - French Pastry; Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug Swiss Dots; Paper Punches; Satin Ribbon; Pearls; Mulberry Roses