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 

Throwback Thursday - Massive Thanks

Hello for another day of Thank You's. As it's throwback Thursday, I remembered some cards that I made several years ago. Unfortunately, I don't have them anymore so I'm unable to show you the ones that I made. This one though is continuing on in the simple effect theme I am into at the moment. I cut the mat to the size I wanted then starting at 1.5cm from the edge, I scored 5 times at every 0.5cm. Then flipped the card around and repeated the scoring. So litrally horizontal and vertical lines. You could extend the process by scoring all around but that would need a much bigger card base. Very simple? It most definitely is. 

The only thing I needed to do was to add an embellishment or two and messages to the card. It really was that simple. I used the new stamp set called Floating and Fluttering. I do really love butterfly stamps, There's something about a card with a butterfly on that makes it look so special. 

For more information on the stamps and dies, please click  HERE It will open a new window so that you don't loose your place on this one.

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!

Technique Tuesday - Massive Thanks

 I made a card for a recent class which was fun and quick to make and although very simple some found it rather fiddly to do. This is another Thank you card that will be sent to the Hug a Hospital Campaign. For more on that please see yesterday's post. In addition to today's card I have included a C6 version of it too which I made last week. My card today is as I said, very simple. It's a DL shaped card, long and thin at 10.5cm by 21cm. It consists of a few strips of red foiled card, 2 different pieces of coloured card, some white mats and a few messages. That's it!

 

 

Below is the C6 version which I embossed the white mat with the Scripty embossing folder before adding the foil strips.

Make it Monday - Massive Thanks

 Hello again and welcome back for a week of thank you's. On Sunday this weekend, we had a virtual get together with lots of our crafting friends and family. The purpose was for 'Hug A Hospital'. Throughout the last year many, many hospitals have been run off of their feet looking after, caring for, making well, fighting to keep us all well etc. etc. 

Cary saw the information as she trawls around websites looking for all sorts of things and saw this. Their information that hooked us all was '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.... Our staff, especially the nurses - are exhausted. Whilst the rest of the world is bored of social distancing, mask wearing and staying indoors. Nurses get up day in day out and carry on around the clock.'  That was it, we were in.  Hug a Hospital's campaign is delivering handmade cards with our own messages of thanks and support inside. So we joined! Obviously!

This week is all about thank you. Thank you to ALL frontline and essential staff, nurses, doctors, cleaning staff, administration staff and everyone else who made their own contribution by working and committing themselves to making the sick and dying comfortable and well and helping to boost the patients morale up too. There are so many people who have had to carry on working throughout this last year and for that, I will be forever thankful for every single one of them whatever their job, I am extremely very, very grateful. 

Here is my very 1st card that will be going off to the Hug a Hospital campaign. A very simple card with some designer series patterned paper on and a simple message on the front and inside. I have used some of my retired stash of papers. This is one from 2 years ago called Petal Promenade. The stamp set is called Massive Thanks. Click HERE for more information in my shop. The link will open up in a new window so that you wont loose this page.

If you would like to get involved too, just make your C6 cards, preferably not too many layers or dimensions and in an unsealed envelope. Please remember to write your personal message of thanks too. They can be sent to us (please contact us by email or message us) or direct to the following address

Hug A Hospital, P O Box 119, Haslemere. Surrey. GU27 9HG ENGLAND

Thank you so much xx

Fun fold Friday Vine Design

 For the final card of the week using the Vine Design stamps and dies I have made a very simple fun fold so simple I made 2 at the same time 😀.  

The bases of the fold is a standard card base, I've made one portrait ( 14 85cm x 21cm scored at 10.5cm) and one landscape ( 10.5cm x 29.7cm sxored at 14.85) Then you make a second card base but this time the card is 1cm shorter in length and width, so for the portrait card use a piece of card measuring 20cm x 14.4cm scored at 20cm. The landscape card one is made from a piece of card measuring 10cm x 28.8cm scored at 14.4cm. 

The larger card base has the fold on the left hand side , as per a standard card. The second card fits inside but with the card opening the opposite way so the fold is on the right . The second card when attatched leave a lovely narrow boarder of the main card base showing. 

And that as they say is that! Decorate as you like, there are lots of areas to decorate which is great fun 🙂

I have used the stunning delicate oval and circle detailed dies from the Flowering Vine dies and layering oval and circle dies to create lace windows on the front of the cards. 

For the first inside panel I created blended focal points the sit behind the lacy windows. I also splattered and spritzed with water, ink and wink of stella.

Then for the inside panel I used the die cut pieces from the card front appatures. I stamped and blended tone on tone then added sentiments.

For the front of the card I went tone on tone stamping so that the white lacy appatures really popped. For the birthday card I added winj of stella on the leaves for some subtl3 sparkle and a few rhinestones just because 😉

Well thats it from me this week Gill will be sharing her creations with us all next week so please pop over and take a look.

Have fun

Cary xx 

Throwback Thursday Vine Design

 Today is a style of card that I admire but find a bit scary.... white on white ! For me colour is what attracts me to projects and a lot of the time colour is what inspires my cards!! So I thought I'd take the dies that coordinate with the Vine Design stamp set. Called Flowering Vine dies they contain dies that cut out the flowers and the cartouche but their main attraction is the 3  beautiful intricate dies. 

So I die cut 3 of the rectangular ones in white and carefully applied wet glue and stuck them together. 

I then embossed a piece of white card. I placed that onto some 3D foam and attached it to a white card base. I then attached the die cut panel ontop and ran a little ribbon around and tied a bow.

Now the hardest part of the card for me is the sentiment. I decided that a black stamped sentiment would be harsh but then what colour to use?? I ended up using a very light blue.  

I also used a little technique to enhance the sentiment strip . I stamped the sentiment then die cut it out. Then I left the sentiment stip in the die. 

I then used a ball tool and ran it around the inside edge . Then when I turned the cartouche over it revels an attractive embossed edge to the die cut . In the picture below the you can see that the top one hasn't had the extra embossing and the bottom one has.

Now her is a close up on the finished card.

So the finished card is 90% white but hey I never said it was easy 🥴