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Challenge Title: Create A Cure
Hostess: Scrapaholic007 (Shannon)
Keyword: HYCCT1527BONUS
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Oh, how I'd love to cure the world of this horrible disease.
Let's do the next best thing! Create and send our friends at MD Anderson Cancer Center a "Cured" Card.
Your challenge is to create a stunning background for your card using the salting technique with watercolors or ink. Through my sample making, I discovered that any type of salt creates a beautiful effect. Regular table salt leaves the paper textured with little hints of shimmer. The large rock salt granules created interesting patterns and the paper is left with a beautiful shimmer to it.
Here's a short video my 10 year old daughter and I made for you to see how easy it is to create these gorgeous backgrounds.
I hope you'll give this challenge a try and enjoy it! Fair Warning, I found it addictive! ;)
Thanks for playing! I can't wait to see what you all create for this challenge.
View the Gorgeous Gallery for This Challenge HERE
View the 2015 HYCCT Gallery HERE
View the Hope You Can Cling To Master Challenge Thread HERE
UPLOADING INSTRUCTIONS:
1. All Hope You Can Cling To Challenge Entries must be uploaded to the Hope You Can Cling To Gallery, with the specific challenge keyword, no later than November 7th, 2015 at 12:00 Noon Central Time to be eligible for our fabulous prizes! Post a link to your entry in this thread.
2. You may not combine challenges, but you are welcome to create multiple cards for each challenge.
3. Please remember to put in the correct keyword when uploading your image. Copying and pasting the challenge keyword is recommended to avoid typos.
4. Please package all challenge entries with an envelope, protected with a clear plastic bag and mail them to our partner at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center to benefit patients being treated for breast cancer and their family. We would like for them to receive cards throughout the month of October, but we understand if you'd like to mail all your cards at once.
5. Since these cards will be used by visitors for patients, most should be blank inside, but feel free to send cards with messages of hope for the patients in addition to your challenge cards!
The Department of Volunteer Services – Unit 115
Attn: Maggi Suttles
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Boulevard
Houston, TX 77030
I am so excited for this day! I deeply believe the cards we create and send to MD Anderson make an enormous impact. Not only on the patients and their families, but on the staff and volunteers there as well. These cards carry encouragement, love, compassion, reassurance and validation to those that see them.
Over the years participating in these challenges have been so rewarding to my own soul, I find myself filled with anticipation throughout the year for the next one. When the opportunity arose to host my first HYCCT challenge I jumped at it with excitement and nerves all bundled up together. I'm so proud to be able to inspire the theme for this challenge but mostly I'm proud to be among a plethora of amazingly generous and talented artist. You all are so inspiring and kind! You are all the reason SCS is such an incredible place. Thank you so much for your participation in SCS and in this special card drive!
Much Love and Gratitude to my Amazing sample makers! XOXO
__________________ Shannon
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Nin
Shannon, I really loved using this technique and had fun with the colors I chose. Thank you so much for all your help on these incredible challenges. Here is my card:
I did a card for your challenge, but the gallery is still not showing(1:40PM EDT). Gives us a message that us mere mortals do not have access to this gallery.
I have limited mod powers so I can't tell if this works....
If you go to the main gallery, in the search box on the left hand side if you type in the keyword for this challenge... HYCCT1527bonus .... can you see the gallery that way?
I have been hoping to be able to use a stamp I have for one of these HYCCT challenges, and I finally got to use it on this card. It was challenging to stamp where the salt had been, but I got it. Thanks, Shannon! Heavenly Fire by casep - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
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Lois, I was so excited mine was the "bonus" LOL!
I commented on your happy card and have to add, your embossing folder matches the shapes your salt created, its so cool! Great match up!
__________________ Shannon
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Nin
I can honestly say I don't like "messy" techniques and this is one that seems to show up whenever there are challenges! I tried my best but I've never gotten the "dots" that others do with this technique. Here is my card
I modified the technique a bit to suit my supplies- used water, large paintbrush, sea salt, and ink pads along with a heat gun for my background- dedicated to my DH who had cancer and loves to sail- here's HYCCT1527BONUS Skilled Sailor
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have you looked in the gallery? ((((Sigh)))) Amazing, beautiful backgrounds! I'm over the moon with happiness! These cards are going to bring so much joy to their recipients. I can just imagine, fingers running over the backgrounds and the wonderment they'll have feeling the textures and seeing the colors... "how'd they do that?!"
__________________ Shannon
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Nin