Breast Cancer Awareness Goodie Bags

Hello Friends! Happy Sunday to you. As you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and if you've been following my blog for a while, you'll know that this is a cause that is very close to my heart. Each year, I try to create a project featuring pink things to raise awareness for this disease. to view previous BCA projects, click HERE. I know there are only a few days left in the month and I'm cutting it close, but today, I have a project to share. I created these little goodie bags for my mother's Bible study group.

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I used the Goodie Bag die from Lawn Fawn for the bags. I love the die! It's going to get a lot of use around here. I've seen the bags tied off with ribbon or twine, and I like the look, but when I tried it with these, it didn't look right, so I omitted it. I stamped the ribbon image onto pink card stock, fussy cut them out, then added a bit of glitter. After I stamped the word HOPE onto white card stock, I free hand cut around the word and then sponged on some Distress Ink. The ribbon is adhered flat on the bags and HOPE is adhered with foam tape.

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Not wanting the back of the bags to be left plain, I stamped a sentiment onto white card stock, die cut it and sponged around it while it was still in the die. After the pictures were taken, I added two bitty butterflies to the sentiment piece and that finished it off very nicely.

So for the treat inside, I searched and searched for BCA packaged candy. I can usually find a nice surplus of it. Not this year. Sooo, I used Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate squares with Raspberry filling. Actually, those are my favorite, so it was just fine with me!

That's all I have to share today. Thank you so much for stopping by!


Blessings~


supplies~
stamp set: Hope(Our Daily Bread Designs)
card stock: Chablis(Bazzill)  Neenah Solar White(Simon Says Stamp)
ink: Memento Angel Pink(Tsukineko)  Cotton Candy(Simon Says Stamp)  Spun Sugar Distress Ink(Ranger)
dies: Goodie Bag(Lawn Fawn)  Deckle Edge Rectangles(Nestabilities)