breast cancer awareness.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month.   Just the word cancer makes my heart weak.   The disease robbed my Dad of many years I know he would've enjoyed with his family, especially his grandchildren.  

When I first started with Karen Foster Design, I was asked to create projects using their Cancer Survivor collection.  I was stumped at creating a project about such hardship in life.  Don't get me wrong -- I do scrapbook and document the ups and downs, good and bad in my family's everyday life.

I started with a card to get me in the creative mood.   I stamped and heat embossed HOPE onto a felt butterfly, cut from a StampinUp die.   Used a stick pin to create its flight.  Flight of hope.  


hope : Karen Foster Design

Our family friend, Mich, has survived cancer.  This layout documents her and a friend during a local Relay For Life event.  The paper roses were so easy to make, simply cutting a spiral and rolling.

friends : Karen Foster Design

 This layout features Mich again, but with a twist on the collection's stamp set and papers.   The scripted words were perfect in documenting her time of military service overseas, fighting for our country.  Strength. Courage. Hope. Survivor.  A true hero.  

hero : Karen Foster Design

I love looking back through my scrappy archives at projects that have been forgotten by the next or simply filed away.   It is good for the creative juices and the soul.