tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46776020366793528582024-03-14T14:01:09.004+00:00St Luke's Charity Cards ChallengeA monthly cardmaking challenge supporting a Sheffield hospice through the donation of handmade cards to sell.Tara Cardwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323902839923352075noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677602036679352858.post-60298801786047728762012-12-11T16:15:00.002+00:002012-12-11T16:15:32.742+00:00Final WinnersHi All<br />
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Sorry for the delay in announcing our winners but I've been ill so only have the energy today for getting it all sorted. Anne also pointed out that with all that went on last month, I didn't post the winners from our October Simple Christmas challenge either - so - I'll start with that one first.<br />
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Our winner for that challenge who wins the lovely Christmas set from Waltzingmouse stamps is Sarah G with her lovely simple but very cute reindeer card<br />
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And our runners up for that month were 3 Stampin Up Lovlies - Zoe, Vicky and Lindsey with their super CAS creations.<br />
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Now, for our final ever winner for our Traditional Christmas challenge who is the recipient of our tripple prize package of stamps and die is Ruth - do check out her blog to see all the cards she made as there are many more in this style which is just super traditional and very beautiful.<br />
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Our final runners up were Sarah and Mihaela with these lovely cards with traditional flower and bow embellishments, and Vicky with her super CAS and very traditional holly card (well were are a CAS DT at heart!)<br />
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Finally - I just wanted to thank everyone who has played along being for one challenge, all of them, or something in between - you really have made a big difference and I will continue to update on any future sales next year so you can be assured your hard work and generosity will not go to waste. I also wanted to say thank you for all the kind, kind, words you left on the blog - I had NO IDEA we would be missed as a challenge so it was lovely to read how much you all liked playing along. I know the DT and I missed making our cards this month so we miss it too!<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks again and all that is left to say is to wish you all a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and ALL THE BEST FOR A HAPPY AND HEALTHY 2013 :-)</span></span><br />
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Tara Cardwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323902839923352075noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677602036679352858.post-2691815095069167102012-11-21T22:53:00.002+00:002012-11-21T22:53:57.049+00:00A final reminderJust wanted to pop in with a reminder that you have just a few days left to enter this final ever challenge from St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge - all you need is a traditional Christmas card. Here's a final bit of inspiration from me for you - a very simple card, one die, one stamp, an off cut of patterned paper and some metallic ribbon.<br />
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I also wanted to thank you all for the lovely comments you've left about the challenge - I had no idea we'd be missed so much. I will get around to visit you all personally soon, but it's been a difficult month so far and unfortunately my Father in Law passed away in the early hours of Monday so we have a lot to organise ahead of the funeral next week.<br />
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Thanks again for all your support - I do hope you all throw one last entry into the virtual hat so you can try to win our final prize.<br />
<br />Tara Cardwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323902839923352075noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677602036679352858.post-2018633763716150712012-11-01T00:04:00.000+00:002012-11-01T13:11:45.401+00:00A final challenge<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is going to be quite a difficult post to write, but, as you can probably already guess from the title of the post, this is going to be the final challenge from St Luke's charity cards challenge and this one is<b> JUST FOR FUN, we are no longer accepting any new cards to sell on behalf of the hospice.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The idea for this challenge came to me a little under two years ago when I looked at the box full of cards I had made for challenges but had no recipients for and thought that up and down the UK there must be other card makers who were in the same boat. What if we could something useful with these brilliant cards? As my father had died 3 years before in St Luke's hospice of lung cancer, I thought that collecting these cards to sell on their behalf would be a perfect way to give a little back. I thought we would get maybe 20 or 30 cards each month and that it would take a while to build up enough stocks for a sale, but I was so overwhelmed when you lovely, generous and creative people started to send not only your challenge cards but also boxes full of others. I need to do a final count but I estimate that we will have received around 2250 cards in the 18 months we've been running which is not bad for a half baked idea! The problem has been in the selling of the cards - it's been a tough year both due to the bad weather and resulting low fair turnout and cancellations, but also for me personally as my father-in-law now has terminal cancer and my mother is now housebound which means I just haven't had the weekends to give up to attend fairs in the last 6 months. Even though the cards go to the hospice, there isn't anyone there that does anything with them, it's all me and I'm afraid I just don't have the necessary time to commit currently. I have been frantically investigating other methods to sell the cards - I had always hoped when I set up the challenge that the cards could stock the hospice's charity shops across the city, but now I've looked into this a little more the prices they put on cards in the shops just does not match the quality of cards you send us and therefore I just didn't feel comfortable with asking you to donate anymore knowing they wouldn't fetch a fair price. The staff at the hospice were also not able to track cards donated or sold so we would have no information going on the blog about your donations or the money they had raised - again not something I felt comfortable with. Therefore I have no option but to stop the challenge.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the final challenge, but I won't be totally closing the blog will stay active as there is still a job to do with all the stock you have so kindly donated already. Again, the hospice don't really know what to do with them (they suggested storing them in their cellar!) so they will be stored by me at home until next year and will be taken to St Luke's own summer fair (I will continue to man the card stall there for them each year as a volunteer) and if I get a little more time next year I will try and do a few more fairs until I run the stocks down. Any new sales will be updated on the blog from time to time, so if you're a follower you'll get the updates as they happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>All that's left to say is a MASSIVE THANK YOU for all your support and we hope you had a little fun while it lasted</b>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And so to that final challenge - we're leaving you with an easy one - all we want to see is a <b>traditional Christmas card - you can interpret that in any way - traditional colours, religious theme or other traditional Christmas imagery.</b> And here are my wonderful DT members with their final inspirational projects for you - thank you ladies - you've all been a real pleasure to work with and have made this challenge what it is - couldn't have done it without you :-D</span></span><br />
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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.<br />
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We have a gorgeous, and appropriate set from our most regular sponsors this month - Waltzingmouse - with their "<a href="http://www.waltzingmousestamps.com/products/twas-the-night-before-christmas">Twas the night before Christmas</a>" set which is brilliantly useful for Christmas cards of any style.<br />
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Our wonderful DT have come up with some A-MAZ-ING inspirational cards this month which are sure to get your creative juices flowing:<br />
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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.<br />
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Here's a little more inspiration for you - this year I'm going for a Christmas tree theme in a lot of my cards - all quick and simple and easy to replicate. Here are a couple of my designs that I just tweak slightly to make them more interesting to mass produce.<br />
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With just over 10 weeks to Christmas - it really is time to get those fingers inky - so what are you waiting for? We look forward to seeing what you come up with.<br />
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It's time to announce the winner of the lovely set of LOTV stamps from last month's couples challenge.<br />
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Our overall winner was Louise - we really loved your unusual take on the challenge - the lovebirds are gorgeous and the simple one layer layout is fab.<br />
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Our runners up were Di - with her cute penguins, Elinir with this gorgeous easel card, Mary with the cute pairing of dog and owner, and Susan with another fab cosy looking couple.<br />
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Thanks ladies - winners badges are on their way........Tara Cardwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323902839923352075noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677602036679352858.post-10875638790471850672012-09-30T00:11:00.000+01:002012-09-13T11:54:31.985+01:00CouplesIt's time for a new month long challenge again - are you ready to get your stash out and play - we do hope so as our numbers seem to be dwindling. This month we hope you find our challenge easier - we just want to see couples - not necessarily of the romantic kind (although Anniversary and Wedding Cards are amongst our best sellers in the donated cards). As long as you card features a couple in some form - people or animals - it all counts.<br />
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This month we are again being sponsored by one of our regular sponsors - the fabulous Lili of the Valley and we have two super cute boy stamps up for grabs.<br />
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Here's the inspiration parade this month - a whole host of couples from the furry, to the feathered and scaly with even a couple of humans thrown in for good measure - check out the links to our fabby DT's personal blogs for more details:<br />
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You've got until Sunday lunchtime to join in for the chance to win our great prize from Lili of the Valley so go and have a play - it's too wet to go outside anyhow so what are you waiting for?????<br />
<br />Tara Cardwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323902839923352075noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677602036679352858.post-84574391721411281112012-09-09T20:32:00.001+01:002012-09-09T20:32:20.066+01:00Going for Gold WinnersHi everyone - hope you're all having a lovely weekend.<br />
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Sorry we're late announcing last months winner but I've been on holiday for a week so just trying to catch up now. So without further ado, time to announce our winners for last month.....<br />
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We were all really taken with our winning entry last month - it fitted our theme perfectly and showed lots of brilliant crafting and artistic skills as well as a lot of humour with a brilliant sentiment that inspired it's creation:<br />
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We loved your idea Emma and hope you like your gold medal (we've left it blank in case you want to pass it onto your Dad) and hope you find the Waltzingmouse stamp set useful.<br />
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As our numbers were very low last month, we decided to just select one runner up - so our second favourite card last month was this brilliantly patriotic entry from America (that would be a person and not whole nation just in case you were wondering lol!) We loved the theme and the texture on the flag is brilliant and the image looks great in its star filled frame.<br />
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Thanks everyone for playing - hope you're working on your couples for us for this month too :-D<br />
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Well - with all the Olympic hoo-hah going on in the UK at the moment we couldn't really bring you any other theme than "sports" for this month now could we? So if you didn't get to tickets to the Olympics (well did anyone???) and are watching them on TV like the rest of us then share your joy of all things sporting with a sport themed card. Doesn't have to be an Olympic sport - any sport -popular or rare (tiddlywinks anyone???) will do just fine. Don't just think this is one for the boys either - girls like sports too - I think so far the GIRLS are beating the boys in Team GB in the first few days of the competition so do consider making a girlie sporty card for a little something different.</div>
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So are you ready to go for gold in our Olympic challenge - no prizes for silver and bronze I'm afraid - just a badge for your blog - so get your competitive scissors, glue and stamps and get crafting to Olympic standards ;-) The judges are waiting with our score cards....</div>
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Anything sporting/Olympic/winning related counts and here's a little inspiration from our DT member <a href="http://colledgeangel.blogspot.co.uk/">Sylvie </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You've got until NOON on Friday to play - that's just 3 days so get your supplies out and join in the golden party - we can't wait to see your entries.</span><br />
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Tara Cardwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323902839923352075noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677602036679352858.post-63309910060992145942012-08-14T11:22:00.002+01:002012-08-14T14:21:57.522+01:00Still time to Go for GoldOur player numbers are really low this month - just 9 at the time of writing so I wanted to remind you all that we're still here, we have a great Waltzingmouse Stamp set worth £15 as our prize and to go with our theme - your very own cardmaking gold medal!<br />
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In case you're struggling with the sporting theme - I thought I'd make a few more cards to try and inspire you. For my first, I've gone quite literal with a simple football stamp (Stampin Up) and just used the triple stamping and matting technique to add depth and interest - this one took 6 minutes from start to finish - I timed myself!<br />
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Now, if you don't have ANY sports related stamps/dies/images, then it's time to think outside the box. I'm including a card here I made for Jess Ennis - who like me is a Sheffield girl born and bred and we're all so proud of her and our golden post box! So I made her one of her very own to keep once its returned to Royal Mail red (for those readers outside the UK - the Royal Mail has painted a mail box gold in the home town of every gold medal winner at the Olympics this summer) I made this one with my silhouette cameo die cutting machine and a few stamps which I embossed in gold onto the black panels.<br />
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I am aware that not everyone has fancy die cutting machines though, so wanted to go for something REALLY simple. For this one, I took a totally non-sports related stamp - one of my TV's from Papersmooches and turned it into a card that fits the theme by creating my own background paper (I just typed a load of sports related words in a word document and made them grey, then typed a big bold sentiment in black to stick over the top.<br />
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Hope that acts as a little more inspiration and gives you some ideas to play around with. We look forward to a rush of entrants over the next couple of weeks.<br />
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It took a lot of deliberation this month to come up with our winners but we eventually managed to get to a consensus!<br />
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Our overall winner this month was Mary J who always supports us every month and submits lots of great cards but this one just really nailed the challenge - aren't most teenagers monsters ;-) The sentiment is spot on for a teenager too and the great CAS design which is out of Mary's comfort zone but again works so well in this context. The ribbon girl voucher will be winging its way to you shortly Mary - enjoy :-D <span style="color: #e69138;">[edited - sorry I mixed up last months prize with this - Mary wins the £10 ribbon girl voucher]</span><br />
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Jayne - we loved this funky girl with her over-buckled boots - this would really appeal to teenagers everywhere I'm sure.<br />
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Joyce M created a couple of similar designs but this masculine version really appealed to us - the chevrons are spot on trend too and the colours really work well with this design.<br />
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Louise was our final entrant last month and we really loved how she incorporated an itunes gift card into her card design - this would surely satisfy any fussy teenager!<br />
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Hope you're all enjoying our current sporting theme - if you're not on a sporting bent, then think laterally - but as the whole country seems to be going gold medal crazy then surely it's time for you to go for gold too - there will be a medal as well as the standard prize this month ;-) If you're stuck for ideas, we'll be back next with a little more inspiration for you so on your marks, get set - PRINT!Tara Cardwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323902839923352075noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677602036679352858.post-22712279208930130762012-07-31T00:01:00.000+01:002012-07-11T11:30:26.719+01:00Teenage KicksIt'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...<br />
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<b>This month we are looking for cards for teenagers.</b> 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"!!!<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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<a href="http://stampsandpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/st-lukes-charity-card-challenge.html">Anne</a></div>
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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
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challenge you're still doing "your bit" to help us so please join us if
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Our favourite card last month, and therefore the overall prize winner of the lovely Waltzingmouse Stamps was Louise - No 15 with this gorgeous little row of bunnies in flower pots. Definately fury and definately cute - we really loved how you popped one of the bunnies up to add a little dimension Louise. <br />
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Our three runners up this month all had great fury creatures featured on their cards with great colouring and strong eye catching designs - your winners badges will be winging their way through cyberspace shortly ladies - so congratualtions to Val, Di and Laura.<br />
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You've still got 3 weeks to play along in our new teenage kicks challenge for a chance of another great prize - this month it's a £10 ribbon girl voucher so do get your mojo flowing and join us. We award prizez on merit by a whole DT vote not a random draw so do give us your best work if you want to win ;-)Tara Cardwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323902839923352075noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677602036679352858.post-90540842648045421882012-06-30T00:02:00.000+01:002012-06-06T14:30:00.691+01:00Our Little Furry FriendsHello everyone and welcome to June and a nice long weekend in the UK to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee - there are a number of challenges out there to reflect this asking for red, white and blue or something regal so we thought we'd be different and get you to make cards<u><b> featuring furry animals</b></u> instead! It can be any theme you like and can have as many layers as you like for those of you who found last months one layer too daunting! All we ask is that it features something furry - dogs, cats, monkeys, mice, teddies or even furry monsters if the mood takes you ;-)<br />
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Sorry to disappoint - am looking for some INDOOR fairs as we speak.........<br />
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It's also <a href="http://craftinginthecountry.blogspot.co.uk/">Jenny</a>'s birthday today so if you've time - pop on over and pay her a birthday visit.<br />
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<br />Tara Cardwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323902839923352075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677602036679352858.post-46711336137999673482012-06-11T00:41:00.003+01:002012-06-11T00:41:50.884+01:00Quick UpdateIt's been a pretty long, pretty wet and very windy weekend - so sorry if you've been waiting for an update on yesterday's fair. I'm afraid there wasn't a whole lot to share so I didn't feel like rushing to blog about it this morning.<br />
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As I feared - the weather here was pretty dreadful - no torrential rain (we got that tonight instead!) but lots of short sharp showers and really gusty wind all day. That gave us problems as we couldn't get the gazebo up and couldn't display the cards in the normal way as they would have blown away so lots spent their time in boxes. We ended up outside, at the back of the church where this years fair was, on a market stall next door to the vintage fairground organ (6 hours of tunes like floral dance, delilah and congratulations at about 500 decibels did little to cheer us up!) and unfortunately many of other stalls back there were either moved (food stalls were moved into the cafe within the first hour) or sold out within the first 2 hours of the fair, which meant that few people seemed to find us. We made a pretty paltry<u><b><span style="color: red;"> £96</span></b></u>, which considering we were open for 2 hours longer than last year when we made £125 was quite disappointing - it was just a pity we weren't up front with the rest of the stalls.<br />
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Here's a couple of pics - nothing exciting - but the shot of stall was taken while we were open - we weren't exactly rushed of our feet........... (we had some other "non blog donated" cards on our stall too which were kept separate from our sales- we raised an extra £12 from those but I won't add that to our total)<br />
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This is the delightful fairground organ (it was on the pitch next door to us!) I should have taken video so you could all have shared in the joy of it's music too - one song was great - by song 130 we never want to hear an organ again!!! <br />
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Hopefully the weather will improve for the next fair - and the total with it!<br />
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Thanks again for everyone's support.<br />
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Just a quick update to let you all know where we're at..........<br />
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My hubby and I spent 4 hours last night bagging, pricing and organising all the cards we've received this year ahead of our first fair of 2012 which is tomorrow. I should have taken a picture of the chaos that was our living room but I couldn't get to the camera (honestly it looked like ones of those programmes about hoarders and I swear we almost lost the cat......) <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We have now had a staggering One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty Cards donated since the challenge started last year - yes <span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>1980</b></u> </span>- so give yourselves a well deserved round of applause :-D</span><br />
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Now it's over to me to sell them - hopefully the weather will be better tomorrow when we're at St Luke's very own Summer Fair (it's very wet and windy currently) and we're outdoors with just a flimsy gazebo for shelter :( I will update the sales total on Sunday once I dry out ;-) The fair is being held at St Mary's Community Centre this year for anyone local and NOT at the hospice.<br />
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We also have another fair on the 23rd June at Heeley City Farm so I will have another update then.<br />
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Thanks again for your continued support.<br />
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The winning card was this gorgeous fruity number by <u><b>Susan Goetter</b></u> - a perfect example of an one layer card with lovely stamp composition and brilliant colouring (don't those strawberries make your mouth water???) Congrats Susan - you win our LOTV stamps :-D<br />
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Linby - we loved your text behind your image which added real depth without layers</div>
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stamp, draw, ink, emboss - whatever technique you fancy - just do it
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started to try, but it does get easier with practice - and you've got a
whole month to play along and get in lots of practice and you may even
end up as the recipient of this months prize. We are being sponsored
again by the lovely people over at <a href="http://www.liliofthevalley.co.uk/">Lili of the Valley</a> and we have a pair of their gorgeous stamps to give away.<br />
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So, we thought we'd offer a little more inspiration to see if we can tempt a few more of you to play along. The easiest technique to use if you want to get lots of pattern but keep to one layer is to use masking which Deborah has done one her vibrant card. Lynne has simply stamped and coloured directly onto her card - it doesn't get much easier than that now does it? Sylvie stamped a gorgeous image in 3 places on her card in black and added a little colour with promarkers. I've taken a modern approach and kept it clean and simple with a masked strip for the sentiment across a block print flower stamp.<br />
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Our overall winner last month was Sian - she definitely met the "bling" brief head on and we loved that she took her inspiration from Jesse J's nails ;-)<br />
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Drop me an email Sian with your postal address and I'll get your bumper prize in the post after the bank holiday :-D<br />
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Gillian - we loved your bling and big fluffy bow<br />
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Loli - your faberge style egg was an amazing creation<br />
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Vicky - just the sweetest get well soon card<br />
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Pauline - the layers of pattern were perfection<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also have a bit of exciting news about some of the Design Team here at St Luke's - we're in print!!! Lynne, Jenny and I (Tara) are all featured in the 100th edition of Papercraft Inspirations and we're all pretty excited about being published for the first time so hope you'll indulge us as we shout it from the rooftops ;-) Here's a link to their beautiful blogs page where you can see a link to our cards that have been featured <a href="http://papercraftinspirations.themakingspot.com/blog/issue-100s-beautiful-blogs">http://papercraftinspirations.themakingspot.com/blog/issue-100s-beautiful-blogs</a> and if you want to see us in paper, the magazine will be in your stores on 9th May.</span><br />
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<br />Tara Cardwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09323902839923352075noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4677602036679352858.post-43027279105916054672012-04-30T00:04:00.000+01:002012-04-09T11:32:30.677+01:00Happy Anniversary to us!It's our anniversary this month - this little fundraising blog has been going for a whole year and I can't quite believe it! You've all been wonderfully generous in this last 12 months and we're growing and gaining lots of lovely blog buddies along the way - thank you all!<br />
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So, what better way to celebrate an anniversary than with a bit of bling? So this month we want you to bring out your inner magpie and some sparkle to your creation with gems, glitter, beads or anything shiny :-) A nice and easy challenge to encourage you all to play along this month - we'd love to celebrate our 1st anniversary by reaching 100 entries.<br />
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We have a bumper prize package this month in celebration of our anniversary worth in excess of £50.<br />
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It was a little hard to photograph to show it all clearly, so in case you can't make it out, here's a list of everything that is included in the bumper prize package:<br />
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A rainbow pack of felt sheets</div>
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A ribbon girl kit (yellow)</div>
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2 packs of antique gold effect embossed stickers</div>
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2 packs of assorted flowers</div>
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2 sheets of unmounted fairy and flower rubber stamps</div>
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a set of Papermania Christmas cling stamps</div>
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a Ladybug Crafts Ink Magnum cling stamp</div>
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4 packs of seed beads</div>
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a bunch of gold pearl sprays</div>
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a bunch of iridescent flower sprays</div>
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a bunch of gold leaf sprays</div>
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If you need a little inspiration to get your mojo working, then just check out the wonderful creations from our super talented design team:<br />
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