My Creative Time October 2019 Release Week - Day 1

Happy Monday!!!

Today is the first day of sneaks for this months My Creative Time new releases. We are sneaking a stamp and die set today called "Keep Fighting". 

I made a simple card with a sentiment and die from the set. This is a wonderful set that can be used to tailor any card into what you might need.

Supplies:

MCT Product:

MORE Stitched Rectangular Dies

Keep Fighting (Available 10.18.19)

***Sneak Peek giveaway!***
We will be giving away the sets we are showcasing each day to ONE lucky winner! For example, the set we are showcasing on Wednesday, Emma will announce the winner of that on Thursday & the sets we are showcasing on Thursday, Emma will announce that winner on Friday on my blog! ALL you have to do is leave a comment on each of our blogs! You are NOT required to comment on EVERY SINGLE blog, but the more you comment on, the more chances you have for winning! VERY IMPORTANT, PLEASE leave a way for us to contact you w/your comment just in case "YOU" are the lucky winner! For EXTRA entries, you can spread the word about this release on Facebook, tweet about it OR even instagram it! #mycreativetime! 

If you would like to see more projects made with today's sneak, click here.

I hope you have a great day!!!

World Card making Day & Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Happy Saturday!!!

Today is World Card Making Day and the month of October is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so I thought I would kill two birds with one stone and make a BCA card. It's a shaker card, because shaker cards are always more fun.

I stamped the top layer/Regal Rose paper randomly with the small ribbon stamp from the Race for a Cure Stamp Set. I used VersaMark ink and clear embossing powder. I used both the large and medium rectangles from the Stitched Rectangular Frame Dies & More set, the 4th circle in the Bunch of Fun Circle Dies, and the Stay Focused Stamp for the sentiment. The twine is Timeless Twine's Bubble Gum Pink and the sequins is the fun new Clearly Beautiful Loose Mixed Sequins mix.

Paper: Papertrey Ink (White), Stampin Up! Strawberry Slush & Regal Rose

Ink: Versafine (Onyx Black)
Clear Embossing Powder: Ranger, Clear

My Creative Time Products:

Snips (wire cutters)

Metal Adapter Plate

 Stitched Rectangular Frame Dies & More
Bunch of Fun Circle Dies
Race for a Cure Stamp Set
Stay Focused Stamp
Timeless Twine Products:
Clearly Beautiful Loose Mixed Sequins

Bubble Gum Pink Twine

To see more WMCD inspiration, Click here.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Race for the Cure Hop

Happy Friday!

If you are looking for Peachy Keen's "Let's Face it Firday" post, click here!

Welcome to Emma's Race for the Cure Hop!

 If you have arrived from Kate's blog then you are on the right track! If you want to start at the beginning click here.

I made a card for the hop.

I used a svg file called, Chamomile Friendship Cards, from SVG Cuts.com to create this card.

All of the papers I used are from the Cosmo Cricket collection called, Hey Sugar.

Don't you just LOVE the hat!?! 

The flowers are pretty cool too!

Of course the sentiment stamps are from Emma's fabulous new set, Race For a Cure.

Don't you just love this new set!?! The best part is that, for every Race For a Cure set that is sold, Emma is going to donate $2 to the Susan G. Komen foundation for a cure. 

 

Here is what the set looks like, just in case you haven't seen it yet.

You can purchase it here.

So a hop just isn't a hop with out a prize, right? Well, Emma has a "Pink Grand Prize" that she is giving away! All you have to do is comment on each of the design team members blogs.

 That is 10, yes 10, chances to win!

You next stop along the hop is Shar's blog!

Thanks so much for hopping along with us today!

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Breast Cancer Awareness Challenge

Happy Tuesday morning!

My bestie, The Scrapbooking Queen, is hosting a Breast Cancer Awareness challenge on her blog. She has received a ton of very beautiful cards from some amazingly talented ladies.

I told her that I would make some cards for the cause. In all honesty though, making encouraging cards for women with breast cancer,  has been a lot harder for me to do then I had expected...

This January will be the 9th anniversary of my mom's death, due to complications from Advanced (Metastic) Breast Cancer. I keep thinking about her and all the things that she went through... I keep thinking about how much has changed in the last nine years. It's so strange, how at times it seems like it was a lifetime ago and at other times it seems like it was just yesterday. As I type this, my 7 month old nephew, Zachary, is sitting in the bouncy seat next to me, playing with a toy and making happy sqeeling noises. It makes me so sad when I think about all the things that she has missed. I wish that she was here to rock and sing to him, read him books, smother him with kisses/love on him. It breaks my heart that he will never get the chance to know her and it makes me even more sad to think that I am not the only one who's mother, grandmother, aunts, cousins, and friends have died from this disease.

But... I pulled it together and made a card.

I gave her black hair in honor of my mom... she had the most beautiful black hair. 

I realize that this is not your traditional "encouragement"card. I wanted the card to be fun and since it is almost Halloween, I decided that a pink witch would be perfect.

The witch is a graphic from here that I converted in Make-the-Cut and then cut out on my Cricut. The paper is from the DCWV Black Currant stack and the ribbon and bling are from Michael's. I used the Princess Face Assortment stamps from Peachy Keen, for her face.

I hope that my card will bring a smile to someone's face. 

I know that it would have made my mom smile.