What is St Luke's Hospice?

St Luke's is a hospice which cares for people aged 18 and above throughout Sheffield who have incurable illnesses. Their aim is always to control the patients symptoms, alleviate pain, and give them the best possible quality of life – all free of charge. It costs £6 million per annum to keep St Luke's open, and government funding, via NHS trusts only provides one third of the funds required, which means the Hospice has to raise a staggering £4 million each year to provide this vital end-of-life care.

This challenge was set up by a St Luke's Supporter who has seen first hand, the amazing care given to patients through St Luke's and whilst donations are now closed we would like to thank all our donators for their wonderful contributions.

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Teenage Kicks

It's the first of July, those of us in the may be forgiven for thinking it's October given the weather, but it is still the heart of summer supposedly, and now it's time for a new challenge at St Luke's so if the sun isn't shining on you we have something to keep you occupied...

This month we are looking for cards for teenagers.  It's time to swerve the cute and dig out images with a little "edge" and make something funky and modern for those difficult teenage years.  For boys or girls - the choice is yours - just be sure to channel your inner "Kevin"!!!

We have another fabulous prize for you again this month - the lovely ladies at Ribbon Girl have kindly donated a £10 gift voucher so you can have a little shopping spree and top up on their wonderful stash!   Click the voucher image below to see what they sell if you're not familiar with them.


If you're struggling to think of an idea then our DT have a whole host of eye candy for you this month - check out our inspiration parade and don't forget to click the names to link to our blogs for details of how we made our cards.



Jenny - for a boy
 and again for a girl





Did you find your Kevin yet???  (for those of you not in the UK, or who didn't watch it, this is a reference to a character that Harry Enfield the comedian used to play on TV - he went upstairs aged 12 a nice friendly boy and came down on his 13th birthday a miserable, bad tempered teenager!)   I hope that inspires you to join our challenge - our numbers have been a little low this summer - so I wanted to remind you that you don't HAVE to send your card to play along - by playing and publicising the challenge you're still doing "your bit" to help us so please join us if you have the time.  We look forward to seeing all your fun and funky entries.






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3 comments:

  1. M1 July 2012 at 11:10

    Ooh this is a great challenge.. and I love an excuse to act like a stroppy teenager so will be channelling my inner Kevin lots!!! M x

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  2. Di3 July 2012 at 00:00

    My teenager card is for a very sweet and gentle young lady (although I suspect she can throw a strop behind closed doors!). Di xx

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  3. Sian Ridley3 July 2012 at 18:23

    It really is like October isn't it! I'm looking forward to tackling this challenge and channelling my inner Kevin - any excuse to be stroppy! It's in the name of art don't you know! ;)

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