Calling All Sistah's with Laura's Loft and CAS-ual Fridays

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Calling All Sistahs!

1 in 8 women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer in her lifetime.

On August 17th, 2015  an awesome friend of ours became 1 in 8

Calling All Sistahs was started by Michele Gross, owner of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps, shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It is her hope to create awareness for breast cancer beyond just the month of October by reminding you to do your self breast exams on the 17th of each month, and encouraging us all to remind all the great women in our lives to do the same. You can read more about her story HERE 

The Calling All Sistahs Collection was created by Michele with the specific intent of donating 50% of her profits from this collection to Breast Cancer Research and Awareness programs in honor of all who have been affected by breast cancer.

Laura's Loft are thrilled to be one of the first stores in the country to offer this special collection of stamps and dies. It's important to us to be able to remind all of our sistahs to check yourself and we are proud to continue Michele's effort by donating 50% of our own profits from this collection to breast cancer research in VA. 

Join us here on the blog on the 17th of each month for CAS-ual Fridays projects dedicated to the fight against Breast Cancer and in support of our sistahs suffering through it along with a personal reminder to get yourself checked. 

I am so happy to support this cause, I lost a friend a university to breast cancer, and know several woman who have suffered from this horrible disease. Catching it early is a life saver! 

 ***This is your reminder to do your breast self-exam!***

and remind your sistahs too! 

If you're not exactly sure how to do a self exam, you can click here to get the information you need, and then follow up with your doctor at your next appointment.

Don't forget to go for your mammograms!

Saturate a piece of Tim Holtz's Distress Watercolour paper with water and the brush on some Distress Ink in Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick and Victorian Velvet until it blends. Let dry. Spritz lightly with water and blot. Overstamp with the hope stamp from the hope ribbon set in the same colours and the specks from Tim Holtz's cracks and specks set. Rip up some coloured and translucent papers and adhere. Spray with some perfect pearls in pearl white. Apply some Picked Raspberry Distress Paint round the corners and some Judikins Metallic Fuchsia glass beads.
Stamp the ribbon from the set in black and emboss in clear on pink card. Cut using the Ribbon Fri-die. Colour the hearts and pick out some flower centres using gelly roll pens. Then cover the hearts in Ranger's glossy accents. Let dry. Stick onto some white card and fussy cut a slightly larger ribbon. Accent edges with Picked Raspberry pad. Mount to backing card with foam tape, then adhere assemblage to bright pink mount and a baby pink card.

There are no less than 5 amazing prizes to win! Cas-ual Fridays is kindly giving away 3 $25 vouchers to their store. The winners will be pulled randomly from comments on ANY of the blog stops...the more you comment on, the more you might win! Laura's Loft is generously giving away 2 $25 vouchers and all you need to do is comment on ALL the blog hop stops.

For More information on Breast Cancer Awareness just click here. 

Please do your self exams!

I'll be back next month to remind you again :)

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Valentines Project for Coffee and Cat lovers, with Laura's Loft.

A little extra project for you this month, because I love you all.

I am using the same sets I used for the blog hop earlier this month, so that you can how easy it is to achieve some variety in your work using the same materials. 

Cut some hearts from white cardstock using dies or a Silhouette/ Cricut machine. Using Distress Inks in shades of red and pink stamp the brushstroke from My Favourite Things (MFT) Abstract Art set along the side of it. Use a black gelly roll to mark on some faux stitch. 

On a white A2 card, stitch some lines of black cotton thread (or use a stitch stamp, or draw lines as previously). Make them different lengths. Arrange hearts in a pleasing manner and adhere.

Stamp the cat from Newton's Coffee stamp set by Newton's Nook using black Memento Ink. Watercolour as you wish. I used watercolour pencils, but you could use Distress inks, paints or Kuretake Clean brush markers too. Fussy cut. Adhere to card. Stamp sentiment. Draw on some dots using Liquid Pearls in Rouge.