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.

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Simple Christmas

Firstly, I want to apologise for not getting around to comment on many of your wonderful couples cards last months - some of you know but many don't, my FIL is currently suffering from terminal cancer and we are doing a lot of running around to help care for him so we are very time poor at present.  I will get around to look at all your cards to vote in the next few days but please accept my apologies if I don't leave a comment - I will try to keep on top of it this month.

Now to the challenge, it probably comes as no great surprise that we're doing a Christmas challenge this month - the supermarkets seem to have given over half their shelves to cards, wrapping and chocolate already - and we are down to about 11 weeks to go I do believe.  So, here we are with a gentle reminder that you really should start to make your Christmas cards now and if like me, you need to make LOTS of them, then a clean and simple (and therefore quick to repeat) design is definitely the way to go.  So our challenge this month is clean and simple Christmas cards - think clean, graphic and lots of "white" space (open areas of any colour).  Unlike our previously unpopular CAS challenge though - this one does not have to be one layer so you can still layer it up if you like.

We have a gorgeous, and appropriate set from our most regular sponsors this month - Waltzingmouse - with their "Twas the night before Christmas" set which is brilliantly useful for Christmas cards of any style.


Our wonderful DT have come up with some A-MAZ-ING inspirational cards this month which are sure to get your creative juices flowing:

  





 Tara


So now, it's over to you - find our your Christmas stamps and papers and get creating.  We'll be back in a few days to announce last months winner and again mid-month to provide you with some more inspiration.


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7 comments:

  1. Aquarius1 October 2012 at 08:32

    Simple is good when it comes to christmas cards - great ideas from the DT

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  2. Sandra H1 October 2012 at 16:03

    Gosh they are all so wonderful x

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  3. Kelly O5 October 2012 at 14:32

    Beautiful, I would love to send some cards to you guys!!! Every bit helps!

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  4. Hazel7 October 2012 at 18:29

    Linky seems to have disappeared - my card is here x

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  5. Hazel7 October 2012 at 20:22

    Linky is back so I've added my card x

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  6. Di12 October 2012 at 07:25

    Oooer, this was a fun challenge - and I ended up with 12 more Christmas cards, following the one design!! Thanks for kicking me into action girls! Di xx

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  7. Unknown19 January 2013 at 02:23

    The Clare Foundation owns the freehold of the Saunderton building and runs this as a charity 'centre' for local charities based in Thames Valley and Chilterns area. It provides flexible, serviced charity office accommodation at significantly reduced rates utilising the outstanding facilities offered by the 50,000 ft² building and the 12 acre site. The principle is to operate the building on a 'not for profit' basis with the 'centre' tenants and licensees covering the collective running costs. Charity Office Space can help you.

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