Hay all you card makers out there
Check this out and please help out!
You may know
Laurel from Lawnscaping, Sweet Stamp Shop, or just from being an AWESOME card maker. Please help out with this card drive.
Sweet
Laurel’s husband
Christian has left just this week on deployment with the U.S. Navy. We
wanted to do something similar to Operation Write Home, but specifically
for the courageous men and women who work and serve along side
Christian on his ship. Those who have each other’s backs and are keeping
each other safe while they are away from their families.
We would so love for you to get involved.
We are looking for quality, handmade cards FOR OUR TROOPS TO SEND
to their loved ones. Out on the field, many of our soldiers do not have
the opportunity to purchase a card to send for their child’s birthday or
simply to tell their significant other that they love them and are
thinking about them. We want to provide them this service.
For the safety and to meet the desires of our troops, we have a few simple guidelines that we would ask you would adhere to:
- NO STORE BOUGHT CARDS. Cards must be handmade. Use quality products
that won’t fall off in extreme temperatures. A good quality adhesive is a
must. These cards have a long way to travel and once they arrive, they
will likely be cherished and kept and perhaps even saved in scrapbooks
or collections. Send your best, because our troops and their families
deserve nothing less. Make sure that your card will stand the test of
time.
- ABSOLUTELY NO GLITTER! This is a serious one. Glitter that has
flaked off on a soldier’s uniform can become a real threat to their
lives, as it makes them visible to night-vision goggles. And as anyone
who has ever worked with glitter knows, the stuff just gets everywhere.
;o) The last thing we would ever want to do is put one of these brave
men and women in harm’s way. Glitter glues that do not flake off such as
stickles or glitter pens such as Sakura StarDust Jelly Rolls or Copic
Atyou Spicas are acceptable.
- KEEP IT RELATIVELY FLAT. Some dimension is okay, such as lifting
images up with pop dots or adding twine or ribbon, but try to save the
buttons and other large, bulky embellishments for other projects. We
want to make sure these cards make it through the postal system and
arrive at their intended destination in one piece.
- LEAVE THE INSIDE BLANK. We don’t want to use up any space that our
heroes could potentially use to write their own personal message to
their loved ones. In fact, if you use a dark cardstock for your card
base that makes it difficult for someone to write legibly on, we ask
that you would line the inside with a white or light colored cardstock
so that the recipient has no trouble whatsoever discerning their
soldier’s words.
- DO NOT SEAL THE ENVELOPE. We want the troops to be able to open it
right up, personalize it and send it to their loved ones. For this
purpose, please include one blank envelope with each card INSIDE the
envelope you mail them in.
Send cards to:
Laurel Beard
P. O. Box 15198
Jacksonville, FL 32239
Card themes that the troops have expressed a desire to receive:
- Birthday
- Love
- Thank You
- Missing You
- Thinking of You
- Blank (no sentiment)
Undesired themes:
- Wish You Were Here
- Party Invitations
- Baby/Bridal Announcement
- To Mommy/Daddy
- Retirement/other rare themes
We hope that you will all be excited as we are to help out with this incredibly worthy cause. We will begin collecting cards immediately up through the end of July.
Thank you so much! We appreciate your generosity and can’t wait to
watch your beautiful cards start rolling in so we can ship them off to
our well-deserving heroes!
Please spread the word about this drive. Post
this link on
all social networking devices. Grab the badge and post it on your blogs
linking back to this post!!!! WE WOULD SO GREATLY APPRECIATE IT!!!!!!
