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Challenge Title:Holding It Together
Hostess: Cook22 aka Sabrina
Keyword: HYCCT1404
Date: Saturday, October 4th, 2014
Holding it together...or falling apart.
When someone gets the diagnosis that they really didn�t want and hears that they have cancer, they can feel that their world is falling apart. Sadly many women who hear this news have families, and they have find that inner core of resilience to hold it together for their families.
My challenge to you is to hold it together without your usual resources. No foam dots, no ATG or other tape, no wet glues or Glossy Accents, no glue gun...:shock:
You can use things like brads, eyelets, stitching (machine or hand), staples�
NOTE1:You can�t just make a flat one-layer card. You MUST attach something, even if it�s only a flower with a button stitched through the centre, or a snowflake with a brad to hold it on.
Kudos and bonus points if you make at least at two-layer card.
NOTE 2: Keeping up appearances. Just as a wig or a stylish headscarf helps somebody going through chemo to look good and feel better even when all their hair has fallen out from chemo, we want our cards to look good.
So you ARE allowed make a full card-front (full means the FULL size of the card base) and then attach that to a base with your regular adhesive of choice, to cover up the stitching, brad prongs and whatever else might be showing on the back of your card. But that is the only adhesive you are allowed to use.
:arrow: Stuck ;-) for ideas! Check out the wonderful samples that Fran, Holly, Gail, Joyce, Lori, Barbara, Dina and Patricia have come up with to show you that it CAN be done. And yep, your initial reaction to the challenge is probably exactly the same as theirs was - that it can't be done.
(Thanks to Kiki here in Ireland for the idea some years back, it's not my own original challenge concept).
VIEW THE GALLERY FOR THIS CHALLENGE HERE
View the Hope You Can Cling To 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, 2014 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
Good morning everybody! Please don't collapse with shock at the idea of the challenge - just look at all the amazing samples everybody else who had an initial brain-freeze came up with. Can you imagine how much worse it is to hear you've got cancer!!
For anybody not sure about uploading to the correct HYCCT 2014 gallery, I'm attaching a handy-dandy visual of a screenshot showing which options to choose from the drop-down menus on the first page of the upload process.
I'm a pretty lazy stamper so most of my cards are pretty darn simple! I used a brad to adhere the flower to the card front (which is adhered to the card base with tombo mono adhesive).
Sabrina- awesome challenge. I used staples and brads to attach my elements. I believe in the power of hugs, and that's why I stamped this mama elephant and her baby My card- Here's A Hug
__________________ "You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have." -- Maya Angelou
You know I thought that was so clever. I suppose the edge stitching really was enough to hold the layer down but the stitched clouds look so cool. I'm double impressed at the neatness of your hand stitching.
You know I thought that was so clever. I suppose the edge stitching really was enough to hold the layer down but the stitched clouds look so cool. I'm double impressed at the neatness of your hand stitching.
It was definitely a "labor of love", lol. I used my piercing tool and Tim Holtz ruler to make the holes for the needle, and then I went back with the embroidery floss and did the stitching. (OK, clarification, I used the ruler just for the border around the edges, and not for the clouds.) This card is actually the second attempt because the first time, the ruler slipped as I was piercing around the border and it got horridly wonky.
Crewel embroidery is one of the first crafts I learned, so all the backstitching is old hat to me!
Fun challenge! I had to stretch a bit to figure out how to not use adhesive, but I like how this turned out. Got to use some stuff from my stash as well.
__________________ "You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you" Sarah Ban Breathnach
Thanks Sabrina for this wicked challenge!!! I have to say that you gave me pause when I first read your challenge but you and your designers gave us so many fabulous ideas that it turned out to be one of my easiest cards so far!
I loved this one so much I may have to come back and try it again (if I can keep up...) Here's my first try - and my first ever attempt at inlaid die cuts.
__________________ SilverSnow Lois Malachi 3:10 "See if I will not throw open the floodgates of heavenand pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it"
Here is a link to mine, I shot it laying on its side because the fibers are free flowing on this without the micro glue dots to hold them in place and they swing over the sentiment every time when its standing upright haha...
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HYCCT1404 Holding It Together Chat Thread
HYCCT1404 Here's A Hug
