Honoring John

In late 2006, a very special young friend named John underwent surgery to remove a malignant brain tumor. He was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a very aggressive form of cancer at 23 years of age.
In 2008, I began designing cards, along with another friend, and selling them on the internet under the name "Rycky Creations." Wanting to "do something" not only in John's honor, but also because I had lost my dad to a brain tumor, I designed a card called "Hope." The background of the card is done in gray, which is the color that represents brain cancer. My intent was to donate any commissions earned to cancer research. By the end of 2009, we had sold 356 Hope cards with 100% of the commissions going to the Southeastern Brain Tumor Foundation.

In 2009, I decided to expand our "Hope" card line to include several other "colors" of cancer (see color awareness colors below). Little did I know when I expanded the line that, in March 2010, I'd be sending my own mother the brown "Hope" card...

We now have five different "Hope" cards...

Cancer Awareness Colors:
Gray = brain
Pink = breast and alternate childhood cancer
Brown = colon/colorectal
Blue = prostate, alternate colon , childhood cancer
Purple = pancreatic, testicular, thyroid,
also the color for general cancer awareness