Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This is Breast Cancer Awareness month!
This is a month in which we honor  those who are Survivors and keep strong in our hearts those that have passed on.

My mom is a double mastectomy survivor and November 2nd marks her 12th yr since she had her surgery.  I am truly blessed to have her with me.

Since 2007, I made a vow to keep alive the memory of those that have passed on and those who have survived this battle.  Back in October 2007, I walked in the National Susan G Komen 3day 60 mile Breast Cancer walk.  I made it a commitment to walk each year for as long as my legs will allow it.  When I became unemployed in 2009, unfortunately, I could not keep my commitment, but made a promise to myself that when I was fully employed again, that I would make the journey happen.
This year, I am proud to say that I am walking in my 3rd 60 mile walk.

Today I have a fundraiser to help me reach my goal.  In order to walk, I have to raise $2300.  I am 78% of the way to my goal as of today.  I walk on November 18 -20, 2011 in San Diego.  I decided to bring back my bowling fundraiser and hope that it is successful.  Given these economic times, my donors have not been able to contribute as much as they have in the past.  Go to my page to learn more about this walk.

I created some glass etched mugs for sale today along with some other things that I hope will bring in some extra funds.

 Hope

 Survivor

 Walk for the Cure

Wear Pink

Breast Cancer Awareness Blog Hop

One of the ladies on the SOC website is participating in a blog hop in honor of one of the scrappers that was recently diagnosed with Breast Cancer.

So, hop on over to Sharon's blogspot and follow along to see the beautiful artwork that each one of the participants has created to honor Sherry Goodloe.

Breast Cancer Awareness ATC's

I also made these up to give to friends to put on their refrigerator doors.
Images by Bugaboo Stamps ... and I just love this image.

Stella

Breast Cancer Awareness Cards

I'm still making and creating all sorts of things to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness.  Every year, I usually send out emails to all of my female friends with reminders to do their monthly breast exams and to also have their yearly mammograms if they haven't already.  This year, I decided to do it differently.  I've created some cards that are going in the mail to put the reminders right in their face.  This way, they just can't delete it... hopefully they will put the reminder where they can actually see it and take action.

I found these cute Breast Cancer Digi images from Bugaboo .  It was  a series of  7 with matching sentiments.  For this set, I colored the skin tones with Copic Markers , but for everything else I used Glitter Puffy Pants.  The patterned paper is from Making Memories Slice Breast Cancer line.

Ruby

Vivian

Meg

Penny

Beth

Twyla

Recipe:

Bugaboo Breast Cancer Digi Stamps and Sentiments

Making Memory Slice Breast Cancer Paper

Bazzill Cardstock

Glitter Fabric Puffy Paint

Copic Markers

Tim Holtz distress ink

Ribbon from my stash

Another Challenge for Breast Cancer Awareness

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, I will be participating in as many things as possible to keep Breast Cancer Research and Awareness in the forefront of everyone's mind.


Another challenge was posted yesterday on the Scraps of Color website to create a layout scrapping Breast Cancer Awareness.  The details are as follows:
Scrapbook a survivor, someone who has gone before us, someone in the struggle or perhaps just a page to encourage your sistahs to get mammograms, do self-exams or just to honor BC Awareness in general. You decide.
Layouts must:

• use the color PINK!
• have a title.
• have at least 2 cardstock and 2 patterned papers.
• Must include journaling.
• Must include ribbon and bling.

Here's my spin on the challenge: