OWH – Veteran’s Day Blog Hop
Happy Saturday!
I was introduced to Operation Write Home after seeing a message from Jennifer at Simple Scrapper; she was looking for sponsors for her Scrappers Give Thanks challenge. Once I read more information about her challenge I knew I wanted to help out. I also knew I wanted to do more.
Coming from a family of veterans and with three cousins currently in the military I’ve always wanted to help but was never quite sure what to do. We do the simple things for our local hero’s around town like donating meals, shaking their hands and telling them thank you but I’ve never known how to support troops overseas.
Operation Write Home is a wonderful place to start for anyone like me who is looking for a way to help. Their mission is “to support our nation’s armed forces by sending blank greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them”. The current number of cards sent to deployed heroes as of 11/9/09 is 246,076 cards.
The card I created for today’s blog hop is a simple digital scrapbooking type of card. I designed this cards as a simple Any Hero card craft for my boys to be able to assemble as a lesson for them to appreciate and be grateful for the men and women that fight for their freedom. We just assembled the cards as is but you can always add additional ribbons, bows, and other embellishments. You can personalize this card any way you want.
For anyone who would like to create this card, below you will find a link to download a ready-to-print card that includes drop shadows, a blank card and a sheet of embellishments. Cards are .jpg format, sized 4.25” by 5.5” and come stamped with the “OWH Made by” stamp ready for you to add your signature.
OWH Any Hero Card 1
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For each comment left, the boys and I will make a card and send it in our next package. One lucky winner who leaves a comment on the day of the hop (Saturday, Nov. 14th, 2009) will win a $10.00 coupon towards any digital products purchase at my ACOT Shoppe.
I hope you are enjoying the Veteran’s Day Blog Hop. The next stop on the hop is Erika at http://bekahjosworld.blogspot.com. Her husband recently returned from a tour in May and I’m sure they would love to hear how much we appreciate their sacrifices, so please be sure to leave them some love.
You’ll also want to be sure and stop by the OWH Home Front Blog if you fall off the hop and for some special incentives.
Happy Card Making!
What a cool digicard – thanks for sharing the file!
And thanks for joining in the hop!!
Love the digi! Hope you get lots of comments to make lots of cards
Love your cards & digis. I finally took the plunge & started working with them! Thanks for being on the hop. Unfortunately, the previous link isn’t working.
what a cute card! great idea!
Go digi! Thanks for sharing — it’s a great design!
Beautiful cards! Thanks for the digis!
Wonderful cards! Love the idea for a card for every comment! I do not know how to produce a digital card YET but someday I am looking forward to learning this!
Love, love, love!
Those colors are so neat! And yes, a card for every comment, I need to get more of my friends ‘hopping’ today too.
Stacy that is really great that you have your kids involved. I’m tempted to leave more than one comment so they can make more than one card for me! LOL My son is also helping me make cards for OWH. It’s a great community service project and teaches so many life lessons !!
Wow what great digi card designs! What a great idea to create a card for each comment.
Thanks for sharing the card design! That’s so great!!!
Great designs.. you are very generous! Thanks for sharing your creativity and talent with us in the hop.
Thanks so much for sharing the digi card and the story about your boys. Finding new blogs is one of the coolest things about this blog hop – I will be back to check yours out!
that is so great that you made a digi kit. thanks for sharing in the good cause
This is such a heartening venture. Here in Canada, the painting guild I belong to also creates and sends cards for our troops. They range from painted, thru to stamped and embossed cards in every style imaginable and are received with great appreciation. It’s such a little thing we can do for our heroes!
~ Shelley
Super cute cards! Thanks for supporting OWH!
What a wonderful experience for your children! The card is such a simple, heartfelt statement. Thanks for sharing the download and your story.
Awesome cards! What a wonderful crafty and supportive thing we can do for our troops! God bless them, and you!
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That’s awesome that you created a digi card and are willing to share it! They look great and definitely makes it easy for card makers, new and old.
That’s great!
These are great! I hope you get lots of comments to make lots of cards!
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Thank you for participating!
thank you for the cool digi card designs.
{hugs}
M.E.
Great Card!!!
Love the digi card especially the colors! tfs
Great DigiCards. Thanks for supporting OWH. Hugs, Loni
Very nice cards. Love the colors. Thank you for sharing the file. Thank you for supporting OWH
Great card! Thanks so much for offering your products, and for making so many cards to share.
Very cool! I like your blog. Thanks so much for sharing
What funky cool designs–the heroes will love ‘em, no doubt!
Great digi card! Thanks for sharing!
Very nice. Your blog is great!!
that is awesome. Thank you for the freebie! I’ll be back to read more of your wonderful blog.
What a cool idea – you are one of my bloghop neighbors! Such a cute idea – love the digi download!!! Have a great day!