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 

Thursday - My favourite sets from 2020

 Today being the end of the year 2020 my selection is a bit of a mixture. A few months ago, Stampin' Up! bought out a series of images that could be downloaded as many times as we like. These were for the purpose of encouraging people to take care during this horrible virus and to make cards or notes for those we know who are all still working. For example; medical staff, essential shop workers, refuse collectors, postal workers, bus drivers etc. etc. etc. The list of people who have continued to work is endless! For that and for all of them, I am truly thankful. The PDF is called Share Sunshine PDF and the link is HERE

It may be down at the moment for maintenance but please persevere as it really is a brilliant set of images and messages and once you have purchased the pdf you can print it off as many times as you like. 

 

 

The second set of images are still one of my all time favourite products. They are the beautiful and shiny, Forever Gold Laser Cut Papers. These 2 images are cards designed by Emma Goddard. Emma is an amazing artist and has been one of the Artisan Design Team with Stampin' Up! for the last few years. The design team changes every year to let others show their style but Emma has been on the design team for a few more years than usual. Emma is also in our team of Stampin' Stars too so we are lucky enough to actual know her. Please look for her projects as they are truly amazing.

Now, many people know my hatred for the colour of Crumb Cake. It's the light earthy colour of beige that I just cannot stand! However, the cards that Emma designed are absolutely beautiful, so much so that I made 3 cards using the Crumb Cake card and I showed them to others! I have also sent one of them out as I was so impressed with it. That's a first for me! As Emma showed us, I used the beautiful die cut images in the gold foil. 

Sadly my pictures don't show the actual beauty of them but please trust me they are really gorgeous.

See you all next year. Take care, stay safe and keep on crafting please. 

😍😍 Gill  xxx😍😍