Good Luck in Your New Job

Today our boss, Head of Care at chYps had her last day working with us as she moves on to another hospice and promotion next week.

We are out after work tonight to send her off in style! Here is the card I made for the team to sign.

It had to be mostly pink as that is Tracie Pink's favourite colour.
I used:
Patterend Paper - Simple Stories and Doodlebug Designs Inc.
Cardstock - Bazzill
A4 Card Blank - Craft Creations
Cricut - PAisley (car minus the zebra and the glasses), Doodle type (letters) & Create a Friend (Tracie).
Other - Stickles, White gel pen, Chalk Inks, flat backed pearls and gems.
So here she is driving away, waving goodbye in her MG.

Wishing you all the best in your new role at Richard House Tracie.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Daffodil Cards for chYps

Back in September Tracie Dempster, Head of Care at ChYps has asked us if we would like to take part in a card making challenge. Now I'm back with a few of the cards that have been made for us. Many thanks to those who took materials to make cards and those of you who have sent in you finished cards - a great start to the project.

ANN
sent in the following 9 cards

MICHELLE 
made these 2 cards

KAREN

made three cards

more cards from
ANN

Look forward to seeing lots more cards.

The challenge details can be found 

HERE.

ChYps and a Challenge

Tracie Dempster, Head of Care at ChYps has asked us if we would like to take part in a card making challenge.

Together with Scrapology, Tracie has supplied the basic materials for making a daffodil sympathy card. The Chyps Team want to send out a card to families after the death of the child they have cared for. The team would like these cards to have some similarities and so the card blank, envelope, printed insert, some digital cardstock (for stamping) and the daffodil stamp have all been supplied together with Stazon or Memento Ink (for stamping). After that how you colour your image or decorate your card is up to you!

What Chyps would like you to do is take a set of these materials and make a card to donate back to them to use, there will be a prize for the best card too!

The materials will be available at the next few Scrapology Club nights and also at the Cardinal Colours Weekend Crop. You are welcome to make one or more, just ask Lynn.  If you can't get to these events but would still like to take part please just ask, state the type of ink you need your image stamped in and we will send you the necessary materials.

Woodware Stamp

So please have a think about how you would like to do this and join in the fun, helping ChYps at the same time.

Many thanks.
Lynn x

ChYps Raffle at the next Cardinal Colours Crop Weekend

We are busy getting ready for the next weekend crop at Cardinal Colours, on 14th - 15th September.

I want to once again thank all those who attended any of  the previous three weekends for taking part in the raffles we have held for CHYPS (hospice-at-home care for children and young people). You have all been very generous in providing prizes and buying tickets. We have so far raised a total of £543!

  

 A very big thank you also to Jill for providing the main prizes each time. Last year we were lucky enough to have had a Big Shot Starter Kit won by Adele, then a Bind -It-All won by Mel. In spring this year Maureen won an Ultimate Pro Scoreboard.

This year Jill has kindly offered a Cuttlebug as the main prize.

We are busy gathering prizes together again for another go at the crop weekend in September. If you have anything you would like to donate - please bring it along with you, together with some money for raffle tickets.

You can read more about the charity by clicking on the word 'CHYPS'

Thank you

Lynn

chYps, Siblings and Canvases

I am a children's nurse specialist and work for chYps (Children and Young People's Service) We are a hospice at home service for the London Borough of Bexley and West Kent. We are part of the EllenorLions Hospices. We are currently expanding our service further into West Kent.

We were recently granted some Department of Health funding to set up some Sibling weekends, to support and acknowledge what bereaved siblings and siblings of children with life limiting and life threatening conditions go through. Together with Glynis our Play Therapist, and Tracie our Lead Nurse I have been involved in setting up a weekend of activities for these children from 5 to 18 years.  Hopefully these weekends will become a regular feature for our organisation.

This coming weekend Linda and I are running craft workshops at this event and have decided to make memory canvases with the children.  They have been asked to bring along a photo or two of their sibling.  We have been shopping for lots of materials and have raided our own stash too. Lots more memory work has been arranged too.

This weekend I made a few samples for the children to see. I have tried to keep it simple due to time and age range.  We plan to take the Cricut along so they can  cut a character and a name each.

For these three canvases used scraps of Basic Grey Boxer, Archaic and Blush. The Storybook Cartridge was used for the lettering. The Create a Critter Cartridge was used for the dinosaur, the Paisley Cartridge for the owl and toadstool and the Princess Cartridge for the Princess! For the purpose of these samples I used photos of my great nephew and nieces.

I think we will have fun making these next weekend and with the young people's permission hope to share some of the craft work.

We are planning to keep these workshops going on a regular basis. If anyone feels they would like to donate some craft materials to this project please contact me at this email address. Many thanks.