#35 Think Pink!

At I ♥ Promarkers this week we are supporting breast cancer awareness with a Think Pink theme and hope that you will join in with a pink card of your own. My card is somewhat overtly breast cancer themed, though yours doesn’t have to be – just a pink card will do. Our sponsor is Joanna Sheen this week too, so definitely worth winning!

I personally know four people who have battled, or are indeed still fighting, breast cancer so I really wanted to do this theme justice. I then totally threw myself into the challenge, & I mean totally! I drew the image myself, drawing a young woman wearing a pink ‘cancer support’ bangle before turning her into a digi design and printing her out onto card, colouring everything bar the dress, with Promarkers. I then cut out the dress area. (Why do I usually take a difficult route to anything?.....Still, it wouldn’t be me now would it, if I didn’t! LOL)

To create the dress I made my own stripey paper before cutting it into strips so that I could iris fold a ‘target area’, (well, I hope it looks like a target! LOL.) Now I know that this dress is not pure iris folding, but I didn’t want the ‘iris’ part. It would also be rather difficult to create a full dart board-like target without a bit of paper manipulation. It took a bit of construction to get something like the effect I wanted. Having secured the iris folded elements, I then cut out my image and matted it up, but in order to keep the iris folded part unobtrusive, I gutted the mats immediately behind the image so that the bulk would be hidden away.

I made my own flowers, going for a carnation like variety, edging the white one with a Promarker. The leaves though are from a Marianne Creatables die. The rest I am sure is pretty self-explanatory. Right good folk of blog land, I would really love it if you could join in with our ‘Think Pink!’ week, with a timely reminder to please keep yourself safe with a regular check. Why not browse to the other DT members’ blogs to see how they created their cards for this week’s challenge too? Having made your own cards, pop your pretty in pink creations (& don’t forget to use your Promarkers!), onto our challenge blog as I would love to be able to leave a comment on them - as I hope that you would leave one on mine if you like this card.

Take care,

Tine :)

Challenges I am entering this card into:

Crafty Cardmakers – no square cards

Creative Inspirations – get well soon (maybe not just ‘Get well’ here, as ‘Keep Well’ & ‘Keep fighting!’

CRAFT – fancy floral

Polka Doodles – fancy fold

Karber – digital image (drew, then digitised & printed off my own image)

Paper Sundaes – something from your stash (the ribbons & die)

Creative Card Crew - flowers

Creative Craft - glamour puss .