Fun Fold Friday - Massive Thanks

For my last post this week, I would like to remind you about why I have made thank you cards all of this week. Cary saw an article for Hug a Hospital campaign. It is about people making C6 cards and personally writing your own message of thanks and your signature to the nursing and medical staff at all of the UK hospitals. Throughout the Covid 19 pandemic, the staff in all hospitals have basically put their lives on hold to care, treat and support everyone. More information at the bottom of this post.

Anyway, here is today's card from me. I made a triple folded card, probably not suitable for the campaign so I will be making some simpler style of cards as this one will cost a little more to post because of the layers. I started with a length of card 29.7cm wide by 14.85cm high. Scored at 10.5, then 2 marks at 5cm from each, 2 x 4cm marks from each one. As the card will only fold up to the second 4cm mark, the little piece of card that is left became a hinge for a 6cm piece which had been scored at 3cm. I lowered the first level of card by 2cm on the 5cm wide strips. on the 4cm wide strips it was a further 1cm lower than before and another 1cm lower on the 3 cm wide piece too. So you can see the stepped layers of each part of the card. I used some of the Free Ombre papers that we got during Saleabration to decorate each layer. I finished off by adding a much smaller white mat onto the main card base and decorated the side panels with more Thank you's and some of the gorgeous Forever Gold Speciality papers. They are AMAZING!! They add such a lovely touch to any project. I added a sunflower from the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set and fussy cut it out. I coloured it in using Bermuda Bay Blends.

Please click HERE for a link to the stamp set, Massive Thanks and all of the other products from Stampin' Up! in my shop. 

It really is that simple. We held a craft day where our crafting friends and family came together and made thank you cards, it was a great success. They can be sent directly to us but also directly to the campaign address which is...

Hug A Hospital 

PO Box 119

Haslemere

Surrey

GU27 9HG 

If you feel that you would like to contribute some cards and thank you's to your hospital, please feel free to do so. It really is important.

 

We are raising the morale of frontline staff in our hospitals everywhere in response to COVID-19, through the giving of virtual and metaphoric hugs from the communities around them. 

“Hug A Hospital has such a vital role to play. We have been fighting this pandemic for almost a year, and our staff - especially the nurses - are exhausted. Whilst the rest of the world is bored of social distancing, mask wearing and staying indoors, our nurses have to get up day in, day out and carry on. Round the clock, they are looking after the sickest of our patients, some of whom will die, feeling very forgotten”

Hug A Hospital does NOT want our nurses to feel forgotten.

Our Hug-in-a-Card campaign needs YOU!

Please can you help us raise the morale of our amazing but exhausted nurses working with Covid-19 patients throughout the UK? Hug A Hospital’s campaign is delivering the public’s unique, handmade cards with their own personal message of thanks and support inside to all these nurses.

A HUG IN A CARD! 

Thank you so much for joining me this week, please stop by next week to see what creations Cary has in store for you. 

Until I return in a few weeks, please take care, stay safe and well and 

KEEP ON CRAFTING 

Thank you again, Gill xxx 

Watercolour Wednesday - Massive Thanks

This week is all about Thank you. Cary and I and our amazing family of friends have all been making Thank you cards for a campaign here in the UK. It's called Hug a Hospital. The purpose is to thank all of the nursing and medical staff for having worked so hard over the last year. So, using new and retired products, we are all busy making as many cards as we can.  Today's card is obviously watercoloured as it's Wednesday. I couldn't for the life of me get the right background that I wanted so I used some Basic White card and coloured that. It was perfect. I have added White die cut sunflowers from the Sunflower set of dies and a little flower stamped on the inside of the card. I did add a little extra with some of the leaves and sprigs die cut from some silver foiled card. A 'little Thank you' and a length of ribbon and it's completed. 

For more information on the Massive Thanks stamp set please click on HERE 

and for the Celebrate Sunflower Bundle, please click HERE 

This will be one of my all time favourites!

Happy New Year and Fun Fold Friday - My favourite sets and cards

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all.

 It's my last day for this week and as it's fun fold Friday, I just have to show you some of the fun folds that I love and have made. Now obviously these can be made using any sentiment of images that you have but I'm going to show mine here. My favourite type of card is something that has an extra WOW to it so I guess that's why I love the fun fold cards so much. I hope you do too.

Some of them you may have seen on the blog this year but many you haven't. Here are just a few. 

This first one I have used the lovely stamp set called Beauty Abounds. It has some lovely images and the most amazing phrases too. This card looks like a standard C6 card but it slides open as you can see from the picture below.

Here is another the same style.

This is another simple looking C6 card and although it isn't a fun fold, it can be adapted to be one too. Just by hinging the piece of card on the front, it can be a double or even triple fold card. Once again I have used the gorgeous Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set.

 

The favourite of many of our team members this year has been the scrappy card. One of our team members, Danielle Ehren has made many of this style and shown eveyone on the team how simple they actually are. Just by using the odd bits of card or paper hanging around on the desk, you can make this or many cards like this very quickly and of course very economically! I used the Dinoroar papers for this one. I have used different coloured strips of card, different papers and absolutely all sorts to make cards like this. The cards are all well received too which makes it even more worth while doing.

 

 

This one below was a challenge card by another team member, Elizabeth Bennett. This one can be made into a gift card holder, or just an additional message on the little tab or even attach tickets or all sorts to it. I used Inspiring Iris stamp set for the images and messages. 

The paper of course is Seaside Spray and the Plush Poinsettia Speciality papers. I just love them!

The card below is obviously using the Poppy Papers and Peaceful Moments stamps but the style of the card was shown to us all in another team challenge by Tina Smith. I love the way you can add different pieces of paper, another mat and messages or images to the front of the card. I really do love this fold.

Here is another peak at my special poppies card this year. This is the card I made for my son and daughter in law for their wedding anniversary this year. It's a simple easel card but this time the front of the easel is a shaker card! A little bit extra on this one. I used the Peaceful Moments stamp set. 

The card below is made using the Scalloped Tag Topper punch. Now, I love the dies from Stampin' Up! but I truly love the punches they make too. This was made using a piece of card that had been folded equally into 4, then each section was wriggled into the punch and the top was made. The image inside was all stamped onto one piece of A5 white card, coloured and decorated then cut into 4 equal pieces for the mats. Much easier than it looks too thankfully!

This one has to be my most favourite fold ever. I made this style of card a few years ago as a swap for one of our annual get-togethers here in the UK. I used the gorgeous Gingham Gala papers for that and it went down down extremely well. It still gets made regularly I am really pleased to say too. This one was made for our demonstration with the DDM of Stampin' Up! in the UK as a special. I like to dispel the myths that fun fold cards are difficult and thought this would be the ideal time and it was! PHEW!!! Fortunately, the gasps and comments as that's going to be too difficult were soon dispelled and many of those who watched or took part were able to make it and shocked at how simple it actually was.

Well, that's it from me for this week. Again, I would like to wish you a very Happy New Year and my wishes to everyone to stay safe, keep well but keep on crafting will never change.

Take care everyone and thank you all for your support over the last few years too. Should you be interested in looking at our shop for any of the amazing products I have mentioned over this week, please click HERE and it will take you there via another page so that you don't loose this one!

😍😍😍 Lots of Love Gill xxx 😍😍😍

Wednesday - my favourite sets for 2020

 Today's cards are some more of my favourite stamps for this last year. Today is the chance of the Celebrate Sunflowers stamps and the Sunflower dies. They are so lovely and the words equally as great as the images. I'm sorry that I don't have many samples to show you but the rest have been sent out! This set is so lovely, it can be made in lots of different colours from the obvious yellows to reds, blues, oranges etc. etc. The images look amazing in whatever colour you choose to make them up in. That's got to be a great thing hasn't it?

Here are a few of what I have left. Some of these will be sent out this week as thank you cards after Christmas and birthday cards in January.