The One with Bekah's Scrapbook

A super nice and amazing and special lady in our ward, Bekah, was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. I was asked to make a scrapbook of the first annual "Pink Up the Pace" breast cancer awareness 5k that was hosted here on base to give to Bekah to look through for encouragement during treatments. It would be my pleasure! Lots of people purchased "I run for Rebekah" pink t-shirts and sported them throughout the race. So, in honor of the breast cancer signature pink, I went with an all-out PINK theme and picked and sorted through all of my supplies to get as much pink material as possible.

It took about 40 hours total to complete the entire 40-page album. I started by gathering pink supplies (above picture). Then I punched hundreds, if not thousands, of shapes (circles, squares, scalloped circles, hexagons) from about 50 different pink patterned papers. Then I found 40 sheets of a variety of colors of pink cardstock and patterned papers for the base pages. Next I adhered the punched shapes on most of the pages and ran them through my sewing machine to stick them down permanently. Other pages that didn't have punched shapes got spray misted or otherwise embellished. Next I added the photos. It took a long time to print the pictures at a local German shop, trim them down, put them in the right categories, and figure out how many pictures I needed on each page to fill 40 layouts. Then I added captions and finishing embellishments. Phew! Labor of love :)

On the cover I made a breast cancer ribbon logo with pink bling.

All done, ready to be photographed, and placed in page protectors!

You can never have too much pink - or so says my mom :)

For the opening page I used pictures of Bekah in the center surrounded by her loving supporters, trying to get themselves in the ribbon shape. We tried :)

And here are the pages. I tried to put them in chronological order, but then Picasa moved things around so they aren't really. But they are in order in the book and that's what matters!

For the last page I used a triumphant looking picture of Bekah running in the race. 

I hope this book gives Bekah encouragement during hard times.
Fight like a girl!