Pop-Up Cards Organised By Love Kates

May 24, 2016 by: extra smiles

The Extra Smiles Team have been very busy this month working alongside a lovely lady called Kate who manages a wonderful Card and Gift shop company called Love Kate’s. Love Kate’s offers an exceptional range of Greeting, Birthday & Occasion Cards and a full range of Gift, Celebration & Party ideas online. Love Kate’s is one the largest online independent UK card retailers. Love Kate’s are committed to providing a fast, easy and reliable hassle-free shopping experience.

We approached Kate as we really wanted to source some special and unique cards to send to our pals. Kate only needed to read some of the heart warming stories of our pals to realise the special work that we carry out as a charity. The work of Post Pals really struck a chord with Kate as her husband’s grandson very sadly has a life limiting condition so therefore Kate felt very empathetic towards our Post Pal families. Combining two of Kate’s passions in life: one her dedication to the greeting card industry and two the love for her own family meant that Kate very kindly wanted to support Post Pals. It was quite simple, Kate wanted to donate, not sell, 50 pop-up card to Post Pals. Kate began contacting a supplier called Second Nature who publish award winning pop-up cards. Second Nature agreed to go half and half with Kate in order to donate 50 pop-up cards to send to all of our pals. Pop-up cards are a special type of 3D card which literally pop up when you release them from the envelope. Kate very kindly hand selected a variety of different pop-up cards which were appropriate to send to our pals. The designs included: cupcakes, sunflowers, cats, shoes, sporting icons and musical instruments. These card designs were then packaged up and sent directly to our volunteer writer Annette who very kindly wrote and sent all of the pop-up cards to our pals. Needless to say, the cards went down an absolute storm with our pals! It truly made our pals’ day when the postman arrived and they were absolutely delighted to receive a fun and unique type of greeting card that many had not seen before.

Excitingly, there is more to tell you!! This is just the very start of our new connection with Love Kate’s Card and Gift Shop as Kate has now very kindly offered continued support to Post Pals. We were absolutely thrilled to hear of this wonderful news and we are very excited to work alongside Love Kates. We are delighted to inform you of an exclusive discount code which has been honoured by Love Kate’s. The code POSTPALS will automatically entitle our Post Pals supporters to receive a 10% discount off their order along with free UK delivery at www.lovekates.co.uk. This discount code has been authorised by Kate to support our volunteers to send post to our seriously ill children. Orders can be delivered either to the customer’s home address or directly to the pals address. Kate provides a free handwriting service as well so there is even the option for a card to be purchased and written by a member of the team at Love Kate’s and sent directly to a pal, therefore, saving our Post Pal supporters the cost of a stamp.

We would like to say a very big and special ‘Thank You’ to Kate from Love Kate’s Card and Gift Shop. We really do appreciate all of her hard work, effort and generosity in arranging the pop-up cards for our pals. It is special people like Kate who really do make a difference and achieve ‘extra smiles’ for our Post Pal children. Also, please can we say a very big ‘Thank You’ to Annette for kindly writing and sending the pop-up card on behalf of Post Pals.

Please take the time to look at the pictures of the pop-up cards sent to our pals and also visit Love Kate’s Card and Gift Shop website – remember to quote the discount code POSTPALS at the checkout – Thank You!

Kennedy with her pop-up card whilst in hospital.

Owen enjoying his pop-up instrument themed card.

Georgia’s infectious smile from her pop-up card 🙂

Aiden was chuffed to bits when he received his pop-up card!