BREAST CANCER AWARENESS CARD

I am a member of the Durban Creative Card Guild that meets every month, and one of our activities is a monthly card swap where we make 5 cards, swap 4, and donate one to the "Charity Box"  At the end of the year we donate a box of at least 150 cards to each of 2 or 3 charities.

The theme for this month's swap is "Any Card Technique" and I decided to use stitching on my card, and that my cards will be for Breast Cancer Awareness.  This is one of the five identical cards I made:

To make this card I used a Marianne's Creatables die to cut the oval, and stuck that to the DP which had been matted onto the same pink CS as the diecut.  I used a prick and stick method in a faux spirelli technique using the black thread.

A  large shiny pink gem was attached to the oval diecut as well as a pink satin ribbon bow from which a metal charm of the work HOPE is hanging.

NOTE : In real life the pink satin ribbon is a shade paler than the pink in the DP, but the flash of the camera has changed it's colour so that it looks peach/apricot in colour!  All the other colours are true but I think the shininess of the satin has affected the colours ... SORRY ... I wish it could have shown the true colours.

I would like to add this card to the following challenges:

DUTCH DARE, #179, 'BLING IT ON'

LITTLE MISS MUFFET, #42, 'PINK, PINK, PINK'

JUST INSPIRATIONAL, WEEK 42, (My inspiration was the pinks and the gems)

CRAFTING FOR ALL SEASONS, #34, 'FAUX OR REAL STITCHING'

DIVAS BY DESIGN, #49, 'ANYTHING GOES'

CRAFTROOM CHALLENGE, 'PINS AND/OR CHARMS'

CRAFTY BLOGGERS NETWORK, #2, 'PINK AND BLACK'

UNIQUE CRAFTERS CHALLENGE, #6, 'SPARKLE AND SHINE'

luv'n huggz

Jen leeflang

Durban

South Africa