We are so honored to have Kim Bush of Cutter's Creek online store as a Guest Designer.
We had met a couple of her design team members at Summer CHA 2011. We gave them a couple of stamp sets to give to Kim to try out. Well for some reason they never reached Kim so when I followed up she hadn't received them, so we sent off a couple more sets for her to try and our friendship began. At this time she carries our Ink Pink Pray for A Cure Collections in her online store: www.cutterscreek.com
I am so glad God directs our paths!!!
Introducing Kim Bush . . .
Breast Cancer
Awareness with Kim B.
October
is breast cancer awareness month and as a breast cancer survivor myself, I try
and do anything I can to promote this cause.
If I had been diagnosed twenty, or even ten years ago, who knows where I
would be now or if I would even still be here with my family and also my
friends. So much has changed due to
research and funding through so many foundations and organizations. It is hard to believe that there was a time
when a woman would have her breast(s) removed and if she wanted to “replace”
them, she would have to spend thousands of dollars for plastic surgery. Thank goodness those days have passed and
treatments have gotten better by leaps and bounds. I know, because I am a breast cancer survivor
of six years now. So don’t be one of
those people that just don’t want to know.
Early detection is the key! The
earlier breast cancer is detected and treated, the more your chances go up for
survival. So all you ladies out there,
go have your female health checked regularly and don’t be one of those people
who think it can never happen to you. I
was one of those people. I have no
breast cancer history in my family, however it has to start somewhere and for
my family, it has started with me. So on
with my project for breast cancer awareness month!
For
my project, I decided to make a card for someone who has be recently diagnosed
with breast cancer:
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| Kim @ http://cutterscreekdesignteam.blogspot.com/ |
For
my card I used both stamp sets from the Ink Pink Collection by A Jillian Vance
Design. One of the great things about
these two sets is that there are a lot included (each set includes a 4” by 8”
sheet of stamps in your choice of round or rectangle, a pink acrylic block, 5
pewter charms, 5 pear pins, a sample of wrinkle ribbon, and a free Vera Bradley
Zip ID case) and part of the proceeds will be donated to breast cancer
research. There are a lot of images that
can be used all year around and for any cause (just stamp your ribbons in the
appropriate color). I stamped my black
frame using black ink and then used the “Hope” sentiment to stamp in the center
of the frame and then also stamped the “Think Pink” sentiment. I got out my Cuttlebug and Spellbinder dies
and cut them out and then went a bit further and cut some additional decorative
elements with my Spellbinder dies to mount these too. I then decided I wanted some bling, so I
decided my card base would be POW! glitter paper in charcoal and added some
Kaisercraft rhinestones to the pretty black frame that I stamped. As you can see, Spellbinder dies work
wonderfully with this set. After all my
pieces were assembled, I wanted something else and that is when I spied the
border stamp on the rectangular set! I
used a border punch to have a fancy border and them stamped the ribbon/pray for
a cure border twice across. They matched
end to end perfectly! I glued everything
down and I have just a beautiful card! I
hope you enjoyed my project and please feel free to leave me a comment
regarding the card or the subject.
The
following products used for this card can be purchased at Cutters Creek:
1 comment:
Beautiful card Kim! You ROCK!!!
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