Pretty in Pink

... or perhaps this post should read "Pretty Pink"!

I'm sooooooo sorry - I'd scheduled this post, but naughty Blogger hasn't posted it! "Hanging head in shame here cos it means this post is late :o( Hope this post finds you well. Yesterday was my first day back at work after the Easter break and boy, what a day it was. I came down from my holiday cloud with a bump yesterday morning!

This is my last post as a Guest Designer for Delicious Doodles :o( - very sad face being worn here! The month of April has flown by, and I would like to thank Teri and her Design Teams for having me this month - I have had a blast!!!!!! I hope that the Guest Designers for May have as much fun creating with Teri's images as I have had!


If you read last week's post at Delicious Doodles, you'll know that we're raising Breast Cancer Awareness and this week we'd love to see your creations that are Pink and Girly!


Teri again opened the doors to the Delicious Doodles Shop and allowed me to choose some digis to show you this week, so here goes with my second "pink" card (although I'm not sure it's 100% girly!):

This will be another card for the box of cards I'm making as a raffle prize for the Shades Charity Ball that my friend Karen is organising in October - the proceeds from this will go to MacMillan Cancer Support.

My card recipe is as follows:

• Card base - is Centura Pearl in Snow White Silver which I have cut, scored and folded to make a 16cm square card. 
• Design Papers - are both part of the April "Blog Train" at Pixel Scrapper Digital Scrapbooking. The pink leaves paper is by Whispy Willow Lane, and the white paper with the floral and flourish border is by Designs by Magnolia. As usual, I resized the papers to my requirements using my word processing package, and digitally put a faux mat and layer around them in a rich pink colour.
  
• Image - is by Teri at Delicious Doodles and it is the utterly gorgeous Celtic Fairy and I have brought her to life using my Spectrum Noir Pens in the following colours (click on the pic to supersize it, and check out the sparkly pink hair and wings!):
• Hair - BP2, BP3, BP4, BP5, White Glitter
• Skin - FS2, FS3, PP3, BP2
• Jewellery - Silver Gel Pen
• Dress - BP1, Colourless Blender
• Wings - BP1, Silver Gel Pen, White Glitter
• Outline - BT1
• Sentiment - is by Teri at Delicious Doodles and it is the heart from the Awareness Ribbon Set. The ribbon set is a freebie (thanks to Teri's generosity), so why not treat yourself to another digi as well .... 2 for the price of 1! I imported the heart into my word processing package three times, and lined up a text box over each heart to write the sentiment. I then coloured these using my Spectrum Noir Pens in colours BP1, BP5, BP7 and Colourless Blender, trying to get an ombre effect!
• Ribbon - is recycled from, I think, a toiletries package. It's been lurking around for a while, and I think this is the perfect project for it!
• Buttons - are from  a "grab bag" of mixed bright buttons I picked up at Hobbycraft a few months ago.

I hope you'll come over to the Delicious Doodles Challenge Blog and enjoy the wonderful Pink and Girly creations from Teri's talented Design Team and my fellow guests. Don't forget to then come back and show us your creations - you don't need to use a Delicious Doodles image to enter the challenge but if you do, you get a second entry in the draw to win 5 of Teri's images AND your work may be Spotlighted on the challenge blog! This challenge will end on Thursday 1st May 2014 at 6pm BST (UK time!) 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenge:

• Bingo at Catch the Bug - I've chosen the far middle vertical line of Hot Pink, Players Choice (Glitter and Button) and Recycled Item (Pink Ribbon was part of the wrapping on some toiletries)
• Challenge #208 - Square Cards at Robyn's Fetish
• White + 1 at Papertake Weekly
• Monday Challenge #134 - Shake it On! at My Craft Spot
• Sparkle! at Crafty Boots Challenge
• Favourite Item to Recycle and Why at As You Like It - Oh ladies! I am sooooo with Annette .... ribbons are my favourite item to recycle. You get them in all types (satin, grosgrain, sheer, printed) on various purchases and gifts. The one in this project came from a gift pack of toiletries, but I also save them from clothes, presents (as part of the gift wrap) and even from an enamel jug of flowers (the flowers have died, the jug now holds some fake blooms, and the ribbon's in my stash!!!!)

That's it from me today - hope you all have a great weekend!

Hugs, Helen x

Flower Power!

Good morning friends and I'd like to wish you all a Happy Easter weekend. The weather here on the south coast has been fabulous all week- hope you've enjoyed some sunshine too. It may be Good Friday, but as long as the weather stays fine "himself" will be repainting "T' Shed" so the girls and I are off out - they'll swim and I'll hit the treadmill!

This is my third post during my sojourn as a GDT for Delicious Doodles, and again it's time for a new challenge. After some topical challenges, this one will encourage your feminine side, as well as raising awareness for Breast Cancer. So, we'd like to see your creations that are Pink! 

Teri again opened the doors to the Delicious Doodles Shop so that I could help myself to another gorgeous designs. If you're a regular reader, you may be pleased to know that Mr Mojo is still recovering from last week's creation (I'll let you know next week how well it was received by my M-i-L!) so this week's card is back to a more normal style :o)

Regular readers may recall that last year I designed a piece of artwork for Karen, a friend and colleague was organising a Grand Ball entitled 50 Shades of Pink - you can find the post here. Karen is holding another Grand Ball this autumn and I'll make her a box of handmade cards that she can use as a raffle prize ... this is the first card!

My card recipe is as follows:

• Card base - is Centura Pearl in Fresh Pink (from the Pastels multipack at Crafter's Companion) which I have cut, scored and folded to make a 15cm square card. I then embossed the front of the card using my Embossalicious "Floral Stitch" embossing folder. I carefully masked round each raised embossed square (part of the design is "de-bossed") using Post-It notes, and then swept a Versa Color Ink Cube in Silver across the raised "stitches". I'm not sure I've got this swiping quite right,  as there are some traces of silver ink in the squares. Still, when you look at it from the side, it makes the embossing pop!
  
• Images - are both by Teri at Delicious Doodles and they are Floral Elegance - Wild Rose and the butterfly from the Awareness Ribbon Set. The ribbon set is a freebie (thanks to Teri's generosity), so why not treat yourself to another digi as well .... 2 for the price of 1! I printed 2 copies of them both and decoupaged some of the flowers, and also lifted the second butterfly's wings to give more depth to the images. I brought these gorgeous images to life using my Spectrum Noir Pens in the following colours:

• Roses - CT4, PP3, PP4, PP5
• Foliage - CG1, CG2, CG3
• Butterfly - PP1, PP2, PP3, GB8, GB10, Silver Gel Pen
• Outline - BT1
• Sentiment - is by my generous blogging buddy Annette and this is one of her freebies. If you head over there to take a look, please let her know that you came via my blog! I recoloured this using my word processing programme to a shade of green to tone in with the foliage.

I hope you'll come over to the Delicious Doodles Challenge Blog and enjoy the wonderful Pink creations from Teri's talented Design Team and my fellow guests. Don't forget to then come back and show us your creations - you don't need to use a Delicious Doodles image to enter the challenge but if you do, you get a second entry in the draw to win 5 of Teri's images AND your work may be Spotlighted on the challenge blog! This challenge will end on Thursday 24th April 2014 at 6pm BST (UK time!)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Challenge #212 - Flower Power at Fab 'n' Funky Challenges
• Challenge #202 - Embossing (Wet or Dry) at Sentimental Sundays
• Challenge 173 - Use Ice Cream Colours at Penny's Paper Crafty  My favourite ice cream flavours (preferably made by our local ice cream manufacturer!): Pistachio, Strawberry and, not shown here, Ginger, and Toffee Crunch. 
• April Facebook Challenge - Floral at Crafter's Companion Third Entry

I hope that you all have a blessed and joyous Easter and that the Easter Bunny is kind to you and yours!

Hugs, Helen x

50 Shades of Pink

Good morning friends and hope you are well. A rather belated but still a very warm welcome to Robyn who is my newest follower ... sit back and I hope you enjoy the crafting ride!!!!!

I'm a tad late posting with the start of a new challenge at Whoopsi Daisy - I hurt my back over the weekend and it's only just eased up enough to be able to sit for a length of time and craft/blog! Anyway, back to the challenge! Our theme this week is For a Special Lady/Mother's Day. Here in the UK, we've already celebrated Mothering Sunday, so I've gone with the theme of "For a Special Lady".

As usual, our lovely "boss" Linnie is offering our lucky prize winner one sheet of images from the Whoopsi Daisy Store, unless you've used a Whoopsi Daisy Image for your project in which case you can choose two sheets of images. Linnie has also let us all loose in her store again,  and allowed us our choice of image for this challenge.

Before I show you my project for this week, I'd like to explain a little about why I've created this project and why the recipient is so special:

Karen is a colleague at school and a Breast Cancer Survivor. Late last year, Karen underwent surgery and was found to have secondary Breast Cancer. She has been receiving treatment for this and is determined to kick the big C into touch once more. She is fund-raising like mad for several Cancer Charities here in the UK and her biggest project is to hold a "50 Shades of Pink" Grand Ball in the autumn to raise at least £1000 for Breakthrough Breast Cancer UK, to help fund research into a cure for this dreadful disease.

Of course, my brain went into overdrive (I really wish it would sometimes consult me first :o)!!!!!) ... and this is the result, something that Karen can use for tickets, menus, advertising etc.:

My project recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - made from Centura Pearl in Fuschia (mine came in a pack called Brights from Crafter's Companion which doesn't appear to be available at the moment) which I cut to A6 in size (10.6cm x 14.8cm)
• Image - this glamorous girl is from Sheet 448 and is one of Linnie's newer creations ... I call them the "Misses" as the images are of older girls/ladies. As with a number of Linnie's newest sheets, this sheet comes with 2 different images, and both come coloured (great if you need a quick card) or as a line drawing if you want to take time over your project. I brought this Belle of the Ball to to life using my
  
   Spectrum Noir Pens in the following colours:
• Skin - FS2, FS3, BP1
• Hair - GB8, GB10
• Dress -  IG1, BP1, Colourless Blender
• Stole - BP5, BP6, BP7
• Jewellery - Silver Gel Pen
• Outline - BT1
• Sentiment Tickets and Pink Ribbon - are by Debbie from The Crafty Pad Designs (her designs are available from Card Making Downloads) and these were freebies from the challenge blog last year in support of our Crafty Pad teamie Dawn who, at that time, was doing her own fundraisers for Breakthrough BreastCancer. I digitally set out the sentiment tickets around the edge of the card before inserting the rest of the wording, which was computer generated. The ribbon using my Spectrum Noir Pens in shades BP5 and BP6 before being affixed to the card.

Both Linnie and Debbie have very kindly given their generous and full permission for their images to be used on this layout for the fundraising, and I can't thank them enough for their support. 

Ladies - you're truly wonderful ... x x x mwah x x x  

Do come over to Whoopsi Daisy Challenge and have a look at the stunning creations that some of the Divas have made for For a Special Lady/Mother's Day. Then come back and show us your creations - this challenge closes on Sunday 12th May. And don't forget, as usual, if you use a Whoopsi Daisy image then you don't have to follow this week's theme!!!

I would like to enter this project into the following challenges:

• Challenge #66 - A Very Special Occasion at Fairy Tale Challenge
• Girly Girl at Jellypark Challenge - Second Entry
• Support Your Favourite Charity at Sweet Pea Stampers
• Challenge #7 - Monochrome at Lacy Sunshine Challenge
• Challenge #40 - Monotone at Artistic Inspiration
• Challenge #64 - For Mom or Special Lady at Love to Create Challenge
• IIC#108 - Mother's Day / For a Lady at Inky Impressions

Hope you have a great week.

Hugs, Helen x

Fight Like a Girl!

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Good morning friends and it's Monday again ... now, please own up - who took several days out of last week because I can't believe we're here again!

It's time for a new challenge over at Incy Wincy Designs and today our challenge theme is Girl Power!

Our sponsor this week is wonderful team at KennyK who have provided some lovely images for the DT girls to work with this week.

My card started life following a sketch on a challenge blog, but quickly took on a layout of it's own:

My card recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - made from Centura Pearl in Snow White, cut, scored and folded to make a 15cm square card
• Design Papers - from the Angel Mother set by by Summer at Summertime Designs. They are Pink Dots Paper, Polka Dots Paper, Striped Paper. I've managed to digitally mat and layer these papers, using a broad line in a toning colour, so my card is not so bulky!
• Image - this totally feisty girl is called  Breast Cancer Fighter ( I wish I looked this good in my gym kit ... ah well, a girl has gotta to have some dreams!) and I have brought her to life using my Spectrum Noir Pens in the following colours:
• Skin - FS2, FS3, PP5
• Eyes - TN7
• Plaster - EB2
• Hair - GB1, GB3, GB4, GB5 (still not sure I'm getting hair right!)
• Top - DR1, DR3
• Joggers - GB8, GB10
• Gloves - DR5, DR7
• Trainers - True Black
• Outline - IG1
• Sentiments - by Debbie at (Crafty Pad Designs) and were amongst the Breast Cancer freebies she gave away on The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog in September to help my incredibly brave Crafty Pad Teamie Dawn raise a whole load of money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer
• Twine - from my stash

Do check out the Incy Wincy Designs blog and see the other great cards celebrating Girl Power that have been created by my talented teamies and this week's Guest Designer (and former teamie) Annette. Then come back and show us your projects - you've got until Sunday 18th November 2012 to link your creations up.

Hugs,
Helen x



Give it up for Pink!

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Hi,

I'm back again with another post that is later than it should have been ... sorry! It's time for a new challenge at Lexi's Creations and this time our challenge theme is Pink, as it's Breast Cancer Awareness month. 

Our wonderful sponsor this time is Priyanka from My Heart Pieces. The prize that is up for grabs this week is 3 of Priyanka's lovely digital images. Pop over to her blog to check out her cute digis.


The lovely Lexi has let the DT loose in her on-line store again (thanks Lexi!) and this is the card I have made to show to you today:



I've gone back to a lovely CAS style, and I've used the current sketch at Annabelle Stamps Blog for my inspiration.


My card recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - made from Centura Pearl in Pastel Pink which is cut, scored and folded to around 10.5cm square.
• Image - This beautiful floaty butterfly is called "Fairy Dust Butterfly" and it is just one of the gorgeous images to have come from the pen of  Lexi at Fairy Dust Crafts. I set this image into an off-centre oval and then brought this butterfly to life using my Spectrum Noir Pens in the following colours:
• Butterfly - PP1, PP3, PP4, PP5, IG2
• Outline - IG1
• Butterfly's Abdomen, Wing Ends and "Dust Trail" - Pink Glitter and Silver Gel Pen
• Background - Chalk in Pale Pink
• Sentiment - I used my Silver Gel Pen to write the words 'Faith ... Hope ... Courage' around the top of the oval
• Gems - from my stash

Head on over to Lexi's Creations and see how Pink my talented team-mates and our awesome Guest Designer Mark have gone - don't forget to come back and share your creations with us for this worthy cause! You've got until Saturday 13th October 2012 to link your cards up.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• absc054 Sketch Challenge at Annabelle Stamps
• Challenge 42 - Go Pink at Dream Valley Challenges
• Challenge #136 - Pretty Pastels at Totally Papercrafts
• 2nd Annual Link Up For Pink Party at Link Up For Pink
• Challenge #47 at Word Art Wednesday
• Down in the Garden at Joanna Sheen
• Challenge #130 - Save the Hooters at Craft Your Passion
• Challenge 133 - Butterflies or Buttons at One Stitch at a Time
• Cupcake 212 - Think Pink at Cupcake Craft

 That's it from me for today ... think I'm off to try and catch my tail! Thank goodness tomorrow is a new day, and I might get organised :o)

Hugs, Helen x

Dawn's Special Challenge - Final week

Ooops - I wrote this post late last night and forgot to hit the publish button! So I'm very sorry but this post is landing slightly later than it should be :o)

Good morning friends, and a warm welcome to my newest follower Lindsay!

Today is the final update in Dawn's special challenge. As you may already know, Dawn launched her challenge at the beginning September to coincide with her Charity Headshave for Breakthrough Breast Cancer - you can read the full story on Dawn's blog and also use the link from there to get to Dawn's Just Giving Page where you can make a donation. Every £1/$1 would help boost Dawn's target and help Breakthrough Breast Cancer as they fight to find a cure for this awful disease.

The theme for Dawn's challenge is Breast Cancer Awareness and/or Think PINK

(not just a little bit of pink but a lot of pink!).

And yes, there are some awesome prizes on offer. Just check this list out!

Joanna Sheen - Goody Bag

Saturated Canary - $40 Gift Voucher

The Crafty Pad Designs - 8 images

Mo's Digital Pencil - $5 shop credits x2

Dude Time Doodles - $10 Gift Certificate for the store

Crafty Emblies - £10 Voucher for their shop

Fairy Dust Crafts - 5 digital images from the Online Store

Funky Hand - 1 download from the shop

Iva Nova Chest - Pink Goody Bag

Linda Westcott - Hand Made Crochet Flowers, Lace Edging & Fimo Flowers

Here is my second GDT card to support Dawn's challenge.

My card recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - a pre-made A5 Kraft card
• Design Papers - both from my Strawberry Kisses CD-Rom and colour tweaked using the colouriser function. I used the heart shape embossing plate inbuilt into my Ultimate Pro to shape the 2 hearts, which I then cut out and stuck to my main DP.
• Image - Breast Cancer Ribbon is by Debbie (Crafty Pad Designs) and was one of the freebies she gave away on The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog earlier this month. I used my Spectrum Noir Pens in BP1 and BP2 to colour the ribbon and outlined it in BG1.
• Sentiment - is just one of the talented Lexi's (Fairy Dust Crafts) creations - click the link to head over to Lexi's store and have a look at the other lovely digi images she has there! I thought it was perfect to go with my embossed hearts!!! I tool distressed this (using a dressmaking seam ripper tool!) and colour distressed the edges using Magenta chalk.
• Gems - from my stash

Please hop over to Dawn's blog and see what gorgeous creations the other Guest Designers have made to whet your appetite - don't forget to come back and show us your Breast Cancer Awareness and/or Pink creations. The challenge finishes on Saturday 29th September. And if you can help with a donation, however small, it will be very gratefully received.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Challenge #204 - Distressing at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Second Entry.
• Distressed at Delightful Sketches - Second Entry
• ac 087 - Say it in ... Shades of Pink & White at Annabelle Stamps
• Challenge 28 - Distressing at Bunny Zoe's Crafts
• Monthly Challenge - Sentimental Journey at Great Impressions Stamps
• Distress It at Scrapper's Delights

Hope you have a great week!

Hugs, Helen x

Guest Spot with a very Special Lady!

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Hi,

This is an incredibly special post ... I'm very proud to be a Guest Designer today with Dawn as she launches her own special challenge today.

The theme is Breast Cancer Awareness and/or Think PINK

(not just a little bit of pink but a lot of pink!).

If you were with me on Saturday, you may have read my post about Dawn's Mum's battle with cancer. To keep her Mum company, Dawn is having her head shaved on Saturday 8th September 2012. I think Dawn is so incredibly brave doing this - I don't think it's something I could do! 

You can read Dawn's Story at her Just Giving Page and, if you can, please make a donation to Dawn's chosen Charity, Breakthrough Breast Cancer. At the time of writing (Monday evening) Dawn has raised a wonderful £640 for this great charity. She is hoping to raise £1,000, but I'm sure with our help she can exceed this target -- just £1/$1 would help boost the funds and help Breakthrough Breast Cancer as they try to find a cure for this awful disease!

So, Dawn has contacted some well known and maybe less well known 'Crafty Companies', and the following prizes are on offer:

Joanna Sheen - Goody Bag

Saturated Canary - $40 Gift Voucher

The Crafty Pad Designs - 8 images

Mo's Digital Pencil - $5 shop credits x2

Dude Time Doodles - $10 Gift Certificate for the store

Crafty Emblies - £10 Voucher for their shop

Fairy Dust Crafts - 5 digital images from the Online Store

Funky Hand - 1 download from the shop

Iva Nova Chest - Pink Goody Bag

Linda Westcott - Hand Made Crochet Flowers, Lace Edging & Fimo Flowers

That's TEN whopping prizes up for grabs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dawn's challenge starts today (Tuesday 4th September) and runs until Saturday 29th September. There will be updates from some of Dawn's crafty friends and DT-mates each Tuesday.

So, without further ado, here is my very, very, very pink (with one bit of grey!) card using a Digi Image drawn by one of our Sponsors, the very talented Lexi of Fairy Dust Crafts.

My card recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - made from Centura Pearl in Snow White which I cut, scored and folded into a 15cm Square card.
• Design Papers - are from the set  "Awareness" by Summer at Summertime Designs. My main paper is called Dots Paper and I have used Blossom Paper to make 3 strips running down the card.
• Image - this sassy girl is called "Roxi" and she is just one of the talented Lexi's (Fairy Dust Crafts) creations - click the link to head over to Lexi's store and have a look at the other lovely digi images she has there! To bring this lovely girl to life, I paper pieced her top using "Ribbon Paper" (from the "Awareness" Kit as above) and then used my Spectrum Noir Pens in the following colours:
• Skin - FS2, FS3
• Hair - PP3, EB1
• Eyes - TB6
• Lips - PP5
• Trousers - BG2, BG4
• Belt - PP5, True Black
• Background - Chalks in Grey, Light Blue and Pink
• Sentiment - is by Debbie (Crafty Pad Designs) and was one of the freebies she was giving away on The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog on Saturday.
• Gems and Flowers - from my stash

Please hop over to Dawn's Blog and see what gorgeous creations the other Guest Designers have made to whet your appetite - don't forget to come back and show us your Breast Cancer Awareness and/or Pink creations. And if you can help with a donation, however small, it will be very gratefully received.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges, with a little bit of help from the girls at Feline Playful:

• In the Pink at Catered Crop (Second Entry)
• Paper Piecing at Ladybug Crafts Ink
• Challenge #72 - All the Threes at My Mum's Craft Shop (3 strips of DP down the card, 3 gems, 3 flowers)
• PPMC55 - Create a Square Card at Paper Pretties

Hope you have a great week!

Hugs, Helen x

Pink Power!

Good morning!

Today is a very special day over at The Crafty Pad as our lovely boss is letting Dawn set a special month long challenge. Why?

Around eighteen months ago, Dawn's Mum found a lump and shortly afterwards was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. She has had surgery for this, and now is in the middle of a course of Chemotherapy. As a result of this treatment, Dawn's Mum has lost her hair and our wonderful Dawn has decided on a charity fund raiser for Breakthrough Breast Cancer as chosen by her Mum. On Saturday 8th September, Dawn will be having her head shaved and you can read more about her venture on her Just Giving Page. I know crafters are a friendly bunch and will try to help a fellow crafter out, so I hope that if you do pop over there, you can give a small donation to help Dawn. Even a donation of a £1 or $1 will help Dawn not just reach her target of £1000 but smash it!!!!!!!!!!

So, back to our Crafty Pad Special Challenge ... as requested by Dawn, our theme is

Breast Cancer Awareness and /or Think PINK

not just a little pink but lots of PINK!

Debbie, Crafty Pad Designs, has created a special set of images which you might like to use. These are on the challenge blog. You are very welcome to use these images but please, we do ask that you do not share these images with anyone ... instead, please send your friends over to The Crafty Pad to get them. And if you do use any of these gorgeous designs, please include a link back to The Crafty Pad. Thank you!

Dawn has contacted some of the fantastic regular Sponsors of The Crafty Pad Challenges and they have very kindly donated some whopping prizes for you all to play for!

LR Designs

£12 to spend on downloads from the shop

Crafty Sentiments Designs

A whopping £25 Voucher

MeiFlower

An amazing £30 gift certificate!

Lili Of The Valley

A £ 10 Voucher for their shop!

The Stamping Boutique

3 individual images (No Sets)

Phew! With that many prizes on offer, you've just got to join in!

So here is my card for this special challenge, featuring Debbie's images:

My card recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - made from Centura Pearl in Fuchsia onto which I traced a circle, using one of my cereal bowls! Having cut this shape out, I then cut, scored and folded the card to make a Circular Side Stepper Card. This is only the third one of this style that I've made (I made 2 out of thin card to see if I could follow the instructions and I'll be blogging the third card later this week) but this tutorial at Splitcoast Stampers makes it very easy!
• Design Paper - is called Pink Ribbon Paper from a set by Summer at Summertime Designs called "Awareness". 
• Image - this gorgeous Bra is one of the special images that Debbie has designed especially for this challenge. Go over The Crafty Pad Challenge Blog to see this and the other wonderful designs Debbie has created for this challenge. I have paper-pieced this image onto another of Summer's gorgeous papers from the "Awareness" kit - this time the paper is called Stripes Paper. I have layered the bra onto an embossed small rosette from the "nest" on the Ultimate Pro Embossing Board Springtime Sweets and Cupcake Treats  made from my Fuchsia Centura Pearl Card.
• Sentiment - is another of the special images that Debbie has designed especially for this challenge.
• Posh Pins - are some beads which I've glued onto header pins. The three larger beads came from Hobbycraft whilst the small beads came from a mixed bag I bought from Sanctuary Beads.
• Ribbon - this is some pale pink organdie ribbon from my stash. I've looped this round in the shape of the Breast Cancer Awareness ribbon, and then threaded my "Posh Pins" through the ribbon to fix it.

Please hop over to The Crafty Pad and see what gorgeous creations my very clever and talented DT colleagues have made showcasing Debbie's wonderful images, and don't forget to come back and show us your Pink creations. And if you can help with a donation, however small, it will be very gratefully received.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges, with a little bit of help from the girls at Feline Playful:

•  Challenge 20 - Ribbon for a Cause at Chocolate, Coffee and Cards ... lots of pink and a pink ribbon for Breast Cancer Awareness
• Challenge 148 - 3-2-1 at Crafty Catz (3 embellishments - Ribbon, Pins, Sentiment Ticket; 2 papers - main DP and also paper pieced image; 1 image - Bra image)
• Challenge 170 - Shaped Card at C.R.A.F.T. Challenge (First Entry)
• Challenge #42 - Pink, Pink, Pink at Little Miss Muffet
• Simon Says - Anything Goes! at Simon Says
• PSC47 - Anything Goes with a Sentiment at The Perfect Sentiment
• Pins and/or Charms at Craft-room Challenge
• Challenge #9 - Pretty in Pink at Papelitos Stamps
• Challenge #18 - Anything Goes at LEJ Designs

Hugs, Helen x