Alzheimers Fundraiser

Thanks to all who contributed to the Alzheimers Fundraiser cyber crop!

"In Alzheimer's [disease] the mind dies first:
Names, dates, places-the interior scrapbook of an entire life-fade into mists of nonrecognition.
~Matt Clarke"

$6,600 Raised!!

Congratulations to all the Stampin' Out Alzheimers Fundraisers for reaching their $5,000 target and to all PaperCraftCentral.com supporters who helped go 'way beyond the target to raise a $6,600 total in 2009!

Taking part in fundraisers for your favourite charities is a great way to donate to good causes, try out new ideas, see other people's work and in return, you sometimes get free papercraft projects and templates to try. Just such a cyber crop took place in May 2009 where an Alzheimer's Fundraiser was held. Donations were used to help further research about this condition.

This form of Dementia is a heart breaking condition for families and friends with sufferers. I think raising funds for such research is very important.

Once you donated to the research fund, you became a member of the Stampin' Out Alzheimers Fundraiser (SOA) Community and became eligible for many free downloads, free templates and all sorts of fun challenges. The community only existed till the end of the crop week (May 31st 2009 at midnight).

I took part in some of the challenges at SOA and added the finished items here as I completed them. For starters, we received a lovely little cupcake gift box template and I made the sweetest cake from it! I used a pretty multi-coloured ribbon that reminded me of tatting lace and some gold cord to dress up the container.

Well, I like it. See what you think:

If you became a member of SOA and got the free template to make this little cupcake, a hint is to remember to decorate the places you want to while that bit of the cupcake is flat. I used Kindy Glitz and some paint on my 'frosting' and 'cherry' and turned the assembled cake upside down to flatten it out where I needed it to be flat. (You could decorate before you assemble of course).

Here's a picture to show you what I mean:

My cupcake even has its own separate paper wrapper! (You can see a bit of it in the top left corner of the picture below). This makes it stronger and cuter as you can use both shapes as boxes or baskets depending on your reason for making them. You can decorate your cupcakes to suit whatever occasion you have in mind, of course, and use all sorts of bling to dress it up. At SOA, there were lots of examples of cupcakes in the gallery to inspire you!

If you decided to join SOA, do tell me about it and what you made. I love paper crafts and as a blogging friend said, it's wonderful to be able to use our skills for a good cause, too. Let's all do what we can to Stamp Out Alzheimers! Thank you again if you have ever taken part in an Alzheimers Fundraiser.

NEWSFLASH! Kelleigh says I can direct you to her blog to buy a template of her sweet cupcake template! Thank you, Kelleigh. Your new blog looks fantastic too, by the way. I hope people who use your template will leave you a comment and tell you they found out about it here at PaperCraftCentral.com.

My next challenge at the Stampin' Out Alzheimer's fundraiser was to make a card with a texturised flower.

Submit Your Challenge Entry Here

Please do show me your entry for the Challenges, with a picture or two or three, and a few words about how you made your creations.

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