As you know October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. While most people are aware of breast cancer, many forget to take the steps to have a plan to detect the disease in its early stages and encourage others to do the same. We have made a lot of progress but still have a long way to go and the National Breast Cancer Foundation need your help!
What a great gift to make a hand full of these cards for someone whom is fighting breast cancer now and would like a few notes to Thank friends and family for there love and support. Your cards and thoughtfulness will spread joy to others. And remember… there are many, many cancers out there and we need ribbons of all colors. Feel free to change up this card and make this ribbon for someone you love.
Directions
Base
1. Cut a 5-1/2″ x 8-1/2″ piece of Melon Mambo Cardstock and fold it in half. This is your base.
2. Cut (2) 4″ x 5-1/4″ piece of Whisper White cardstock. Once to layer inside your card and one to layer on top of your card.
3. Cut (1) 3-3/4″ x 5″ piece of Whisper White Cardstock. This piece is for your Stamped Background.
4. Cut a 3-1/4″ x 2-1/2″ piece of Melon Mambo Cardstock. This will be the base layer for the image of your card.
Tip: I used Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop up this Melon Mambo piece off the top of your card.
5. Cut a 3″ x 2-1/4″ piece of Whisper White Cardstock and layer this piece on top of the Melon Mambo cardstock.
Tip: Stamp your sentiment before gluing this piece down.
Stamping
1. Using a Melon Mambo Ink Pad and the Hello Darling Stamp Set to stamp your flowers around your 3-3/4″ x 5″ piece of Cardstock.
Tip: Be sure to put scrap paper under your stamping station so that you can stamp partially on the cardstock and partially off. This creates a fun unique background.
2. Clean your stamp and use Pink Pirouette to stamp the same image around your cardstock.
3. Next ink up the little dots in Melon Mambo and stamp it around your image.
Tip: I inked up the dots and stamped them off before stamping them on the cardstock. I liked them to vary in shade.
4. Glue your designer stamped cardstock to the top of your card.
5. Lastly, using a Melon Mambo stamp pad and the same Stampin’ Up! Hello Darling flower inside the bottom right hand corner of your Whisper White Cardstock. Glue this piece inside your card.
Tip: You could stamp the inside piece again with Pink Pirouette if you’d like to further compliment the card design.
Hope
1. Use a Melon Mambo Stampin Write Marker to color the Stampin’ Up! Blooming with Kindness stamp. I just colored “Hope” and stamped it. You could stamp anything you’d like here!
Ribbon
1. Find or Cut a long thin scrap piece of Melon Mambo Cardstock and run it through a crimper.
Tip. This breaks down the paper fibers a bit so its easier to make a pretty ribbon.
2. Cut your ribbon to 1/8″
3. Use a Mini Glue dot to create your ribbon.
Tip: Be sure to trip the bottom of your ribbon so it looks neat.
Envelope
1. Don’t forget to finish your envelope by Stamping the flap the very same way you did the designer portion of your card.
Items Needed Include:
| Hello Darling Clear-Mount Stamp Set | 133994 |
| Price: $18.95 | |
| Blooming With Kindness Clear Stamp Set | 126422 |
| Price: $16.95 | |
| Melon Mambo 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock | 115320 |
| Price: $6.95 | |
| Melon Mambo Classic Stampin’ Pad | 126948 |
| Price: $5.95 | |
| Pink Pirouette Classic Stampin’ Pad | 126956 |
| Price: $5.95 | |
| Brights Stampin’ Write Markers | 131259 |
| Price: $28.95 | |
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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Thanks for such inspiration Brandy. I remembered that November is ALS Caregiver Awareness Month. Since I was a caregiver while my late husband had this devastating disease, I know how bewildering and how invisible I felt. Rightly so, my husband was the one who needed the attention every moment just to breathe. Still, it meant so much to me when medical professionals, family or friends commented on my knowledge and excellent care. It reinforced that I was doing the right thing which gave me some peace. I made 20 cards for the local ALS Association. I’d send a photo to you via facebook or email (let me know). But I also remembered that when we were in the last 6 months of this disease and I was doing such intense caregiving, my husband asked me if we were still married. I think because he felt he wasn’t taking care of me like he used to. It broke my heart, but while making these cards gave me inspiration to begin providing birthday, I love you and valentine cards to the ALS monthly support group sponsored by the MDA-ALS division so that patients can pick a card out, get help filling it out and have it mailed to their spouse/significant other, etc. I think Bob would have liked that. Thanks again Brandy for inspiring me.
I just wanted to say I just found you web site and you tube channel They are both beautiful. You do awesome work and tutorials.
thank you
Beautiful card, even more beautiful intent behind it. Thank you for sharing this idea. I don’t have the Hello Darling set, but I think I will try this with my Everything Eleanor set. Thank you again and again.
Another lovely card TFS
I love this card a lot and already have an idea for it. I am very close to Childhood Cancer so this would make a very nice card for that. However our ribbon is gold and am not sure about the ink colors to use.
I love this card! The idea for the ribbon is so neat…never thought of that. Can’t wait to try it out. TFS
I loved this card and matching envelope so much I had to order the stamp set for myself. I think I’ll figure out a center panel for birthdays.
Beautiful card Brandy. Thank you so very much for sharing your precious talent! Love to open my email and sees I have a video from you.
God bless you and family
Love your card. Inspired me to create some for friends of mine who have or had breast cancer letting me know of thinking of them. Looking forward to seeing your holiday cards. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Brandy Just want you to know how much I love your cards and video they are so much fun to watch and I am not good with ideas on cards so I get all my ideas from the different video that I watch so thank you again. And I hope you keep them coming Dianne
So pleased to see you back online & making your extraordinary videos, sharing your gifts with others.
Love the 10/20 series and as you say no-one is untouched by breast cancer.
Thank you so much
So beautiful and very thoughtful. I love watching your 10 in 20 videos. Thanks for sharing your ideas with us and I can’t wait for your christmas projects.
Brandy, thanks so much for this video. I am a Stage 4 breast cancer fighter with cancer spread to my lungs, liver, bones, and recently brain. Your videos always bring a smile to my face! I liked this stamp set, but not the sentiment, so I hadn’t ordered. But as soon as I saw the card, I had to buy it! Thanks for bringing awareness to an important cause.
Your card was great . You mentioned about using it for Mary Kay Thank you card what would you use for the top? Thanks !
Brandy,Thank you so much for sharing. Two of my friends from childhood were recently diagnosed with Breast cancer, Conner & I plan to order the sets and get busy. The colors are awesome. Thank you again.
Such a beautiful and thoughtful card. I absolutely love the shades of pink that you used. I look forward to all of your videos. Can’t wait to see all your holiday ideas! ????
Brandy, I love, love, love the 10/20 cards. Thank you for sharing this breast cancer awareness card. I’m currently under treatment for breast cancer.
Missed you and your sweet conversations. For the second time in my life, another dear friend has been confronted with the cancer issue…she is 31. I want to be there for her and she loves my cards so the two shall meet in the very way you have demonstrated. Just need the stamp set. The paper ribbon is most creative and consistent with the card color. Thanks for the more than 20 minutes that it takes to produce these videos, too. Glad you survived your fall. 😉
I absolutely LOVE your 10 in 20 videos. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CARD! Well done. Stunning colour combo. Great Inspiration! THANK YOU for all the inspiration you give us card makers all around the world.
Brandy, lovely card, great idea for the ribbon and love how much your shirt matches the cardstock! Thank you for sharing another video with us, missed the 10 in 20 mins. videos!!
Thank you for this card, hello darling stamp set. I can’t wait to case this card for my Mother who is in treatment as I write. I am sure she wil be touched by this card. Your timing of it is perfect. I loved how it turned out and as usual, Thank you so much for sharing it. I have noticed you never press your paper after you use the tombo glue. Does it adhere well, or do you press them after you have done the video?
Thank you Brandy for such a beautiful to support cancer awareness. As you know I loss my only sister to November 2013 to Transitional Cell Carcinoma/Bladder cancer. As you acknowledge many different types of cancers as well as ribbons colors to support them. These beautiful cards can are a wonderful blessings. Thank you once again for sharing such beautiful cards.
Hugs,
Teresa
I just watched this video and just want to say it was beautiful. I am an ovarian cancer survivor as well as a breast cancer survivor and i enjoy making cards to help others and encourage them. God has been so good to me! I want to encourage others through cards! Thank you for sharing your gift with us! You make a difference! I have a really good idea i would love to share with you! I had this idea many years ago but didn’t know who to give the idea to! Just e-mail me! Thanks again!