October is, amongst other things,
Breast Cancer Awareness month.
This is a very important "holiday"-- if you will-- not only to me personally; but to all women (and men) everywhere. Yes, men can get breast cancer too. I have a long-standing family history of breast cancer. Every woman on my mom's side of the family back something like 5 generations has had either breast cancer or ovarian cancer--including my mom and my grandmother. I encourage all my girlfriends to do monthly self exams, have regular mammograms, and to consider genetic screening. Although, genetic screening is a good tool for helping determine whether you're at risk to develop breast cancer, it does NOT screen for 100% of the genes responsible for breast cancer--it just screens for the 2 major genes...BRCA1 and BRCA2. Sadly, my mom was negative for both BRCA1 AND BRCA2...and she still got breast cancer; so unfortunately, there are other genes out there that have yet to be identified.
Breast Cancer Awareness month.
This is a very important "holiday"-- if you will-- not only to me personally; but to all women (and men) everywhere. Yes, men can get breast cancer too. I have a long-standing family history of breast cancer. Every woman on my mom's side of the family back something like 5 generations has had either breast cancer or ovarian cancer--including my mom and my grandmother. I encourage all my girlfriends to do monthly self exams, have regular mammograms, and to consider genetic screening. Although, genetic screening is a good tool for helping determine whether you're at risk to develop breast cancer, it does NOT screen for 100% of the genes responsible for breast cancer--it just screens for the 2 major genes...BRCA1 and BRCA2. Sadly, my mom was negative for both BRCA1 AND BRCA2...and she still got breast cancer; so unfortunately, there are other genes out there that have yet to be identified.
Anyway, here is the card I made to commemorate this occasion. The image is from a vintage fairy tale book. I colored it with my Prismacolor Pencils (of course). This card is LOADED with double entendre. Breast cancer is NOT a fairy tale, though many women don't think it could ever happen to them. And YES, it can be a BIG SCARY WOLF with big teeth... IF it's not caught early. Early detection is the key to successful recovery!! My mom is living proof of this. She's JUST FINE and only had to have a lumpectomy to remove both types of cancer they found (thank you, God).
I would like to enter this in the following challenges:
- Craft Your Passion challenge #80-- Double Up With PINK
- Top Tip Tuesday #56--Layer it up
- Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge #42--Circles, Pink and Brown
- Make It Monday Challenge #59-- Anything Goes
Ingredients:
Large Classic Nestability Oval Die - Spellbinders
Picket Fence punch - EK Success for Martha Stewart
organza and satin ribbon - Offray
Prismacolor Pencils
cardstock
GlueGlider Pro adhesive runner - Glue Arts
This is awesome! I love your sentiment, and the image is colored beautifully!:)
ReplyDeleteI love this one - such a great sentimental card in so many ways. Simple but awesome! <3
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning card and I love the sentiment for Breast Cancer Awareness... Popped over from Make-it-Monday for a closer look..Loz
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this card!!!! What a fantastic image/sentiment to get the word out. I've had a scare with this myself- all clear, and self exams ROCK! Thanks so much for sharing this with us this week at Top Tip Tuesday. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat card!
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Leanne xx
What a fantastic design of this card. Love the ribbons and that sentiment to that image is just brill;) The fence underlines the image perfectly. Thanks for playing at Top Tip Tuesday and good luck. Hope to see you back tuesday for a new challenge. Bettina xx
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! Thx for linking it up to the Make It Monday party!
ReplyDeleteMary J xxx