A Card Done for My Brave Friend Dawn

I have two posts today so please check them both out. This one is all about Breast Cancer Awareness and my brave friend Dawn. Dawn is one of my team mates at Dude Time Doodles, and she is doing the most amazing thing. Her Mom is battling breast cancer and loosing her hair from the chemo treatments. One way Dawn is showing her support is to shave her hair! She is also using this opportunity to raise awareness of the cause and to raise money to help find a cure. I think this is totally amazing!

Dawn is also doing her own card challenge to go along with this big event. Her challenge began on Sept 4th, but there are updates on 9/11, 9/18, 9/25 with the challenge ending on 9/29. I am happy Dawn let me be a "Guest Designer" in today's update. There are a lot of sponsors and prizes for her challenge, and you can find all the details on her blog, Dawn's Crafting.

The charity Dawn and her mom have chosen is Breakthrough Breast Cancer. You can read Dawn's story and find out how to donate through the Just Giving Page Dawn has set up for this. We are hoping everyone considers donating at least $1 to the cause. Breast Cancer Awareness is near and dear to me as my own Mum battled this 5 years ago. She reminded me this last Saturday that she has been cancer free for 5 years now. She giggled when she told me - those giggles were priceless especially considering that there was a time when I thought Breast Cancer might take her from me.

I've used Breast Cancer Awareness Girl, a Bonibleaux Designs image available at Dude Time Doodles, on my card. The store also has some great sentiments and a BCA ribbon available. I colored BCA girl with Copics and used some fun comic book hero dimensional stickers I bought for a challenge 3 years ago.

Be sure to "head" on over to Dawn's blog and help with this worthy cause. Check out today's update as well so you can see how Dawn looks with her head shaved (she looks beautiful) and you can see all the fun cards the other girls helping Dawn with this update.

Hugz to all (special hugz to Dawn and her mother)!

Unopened Mail And My Grocery List

We arrived back from our Las Vegas trip last night so the only thing on my Kitchen Counter is unopened mail and my grocery list. I have looked up the recipes for most the great food we ate (or wish we ate) in Las Vegas including Bacon Waffles and Chicken and Waffles - so my counter top should look awesome tomorrow (or as soon as I get a waffle maker). We had lots of fun in Las Vegas but not as much as Crystal and Joey. If we were still 21 we would have had a blast! No luck with gambling - but I only gained 1 pound which is a miracle!

Christmas Mice

Hello Crafty Friends, Today, I am playing in some fun challenges with this cute card: The current House-Mouse &Friends Monday Challenge HMFMC #461 is Anything Goes with an optional theme of Pastels. I have some pastel paper in my layers. This card was made with ornaments from a SU! set, a cut up sentiment from RedLead Paperworks, and three mice I cut out of the Spellbinders Sew Sweet stamp set. The background was inspired by Jeanne Streiff's MIX challenge on Splitcoaststampers.com last Friday where she asked us to make a background using a die cut as a stencil.

T is For 10 Years of T-Day, Too much food, and The Art (Always the Art)

Hello Friends. Most of today's post is about celebrating 10 years of Elizabeth hosting T-day parties on her blog . If you have visited me before, you know that I regularily participate in T-day where we all post something about a drink of any type (the drink can be anything including water and the post can be a real drink, words, movies, art, etc.) on Tuesday (or Monday lol) and link it to Elizabeth's T-day blog post for the week. This year Elizabeth is asking us to post several things in celebration of the big anniversary. #1. Post a picture of something that makes the number 10. I used 10 art supplies that were near me. I am starting to make more Christmas cards so these were right at hand. #2. Post our regular T-day picture/post. My drink picture today is a lunch we had in Tybee Island last week during our Georgia trip. We ate at Pier 16 . Great food and service. It was our favorite meal during the trip. ...

Anne TempleSeptember 11, 2012 at 5:41 AM
Love the way you colored BCA girl and those comic book hero stickers are absolutely perfect for her.
BenziSeptember 11, 2012 at 6:12 AM
Your card is great and for a super cause, Nancy. Glad you are getting to be a guest designer. How wonderful your Mom survived this horrible disease. Hope this event is very successful.
Holly AKA KopyKatSeptember 11, 2012 at 6:14 AM
This is so fabulous, love this image and the great card design. It does pretty much take a super hero to endure it all, love how this sends this message.
Mary JSeptember 11, 2012 at 7:34 AM
What a fantastic card, honey - so full of energy! Your friend will really appreciate it no end!!
AnonymousSeptember 11, 2012 at 7:55 AM
very glad to hear about your Mom, she is definitely a brave great fighter.. your friend Dawn is a real HERO..I wish this big event a grand success..super cause.. your card is like a burning spirit!!! wonderful card Nancy..
-samir
McCrafty's CardsSeptember 11, 2012 at 2:00 PM
This is fabulous Nancy, a wonderful card for a great cause.
Kevin xx
MarisaSeptember 11, 2012 at 5:59 PM
Wonder Woman is perfect for this!! What a wonderful tribute to those who are fighting and soooo glad to hear your mom has been cancer free for five years!!
cotnobSeptember 12, 2012 at 12:13 AM
Fab card, such a great choice of image and I love the pink and yellow colour combination. I have been having a little nose around your blog - you have some lovely cards here.
Pauline
x
Dawn @ LilyPinkScrapsSeptember 12, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Fantastic tribute, awesome card and such a great cause - so many strong people out there!!

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