Swimming for Katie – Day Two

Today is Day Two of the Swimming for Katie blog hop and we have another amazing batch of designers lined up for you.

This octopus (as a real stamp and digi), along with several other items are for sale here. 100% of the profits go to Katie’s fund, to help her and her family.

If you're not familiar with her, Katie’s cancer story started just before Christmas last year. This young, beautiful, healthy, vibrant mother of 3 with her infectious smile was suddenly diagnosed with an inoperable cancer, virtually overnight. A few tummy aches and then stage 4 gastric cancer. Her first post about it is here. The idea of “Swimming for Katie” came from her recent post here.

I hope you will join me in supporting Katie through a purchase or donation (donation link on the left sidebar of my blog). If you would like to send Katie a card, her mailing address is:

Katie Renz
PO Box 5913
Bellingham, WA 98227-5913

The following is a list of everyone who has projects posted today. I hope you will be inspired by them and moved to purchase or donate.

Ashley Harris

Clare Buswell


Jessica Diedrich


Lisa Somerville


Charlene Merrick


Eva Dobilas


Judy Rozema


Sharon Doolittle


Tifany DeGough


Windy Robinson


Ashley Cannon Newell


Connie McCotter


Heidi Van Laar


Karen Maldonado


Lori Craig


Melissa Phillips


Tosha Leyendekker


Amy Kolling


Angela Thomas


Angelica Suarez


Angie Blom


Becky Oehlers


Betty Wright


Bev Gerard


Brenda Weaver


Carolyn King


Chari Moss


Charlene Driggs


Claire Brennan


Corinna McGregor


Craft Critique


Karen Hunsaker (Rubbernecker Stamps Designer)


Keely Yowler


Kelly Schirmer


Keri Lee Sereika


Kim Hughes


Kimber McGray


Kittie Caracciolo


Kristin Eberline


Wendy Price

For my card today I paper pieced the octopus (stamped in Memento ink) using some Life of the Party paper. I also used a tiny scrap of Togetherness for the crown and flag. The flag is popped up on dimensional dots and everything is layered on a die-cut using Spellbinders Labels 5.

I’ll be back again tomorrow with the list from the last day. If you’re behind, or just want to see everyone who is posting for Katie, you can visit this static page. It also has the donation button.

Thanks for stopping in today!