Veteran's Day Blog Hop - Operation Write Home

We are excited to participate in a blog hop to publicize Operation Write Home http://operationwritehome.org/ .  This is a wonderful organization that collects homemade cards for servicemen and women to send home to their families. 

For months Laurie Edwards has been encouraging me to look into this program and have a cardmaking event.  This week on Veteran's Day we invited our customers to spend some time with us making Valentines, Birthday and Thinking of You cards.  We had so much fun and the cards were all so creative.  We were thrilled with the turn out and made well over 1,000 cards. 

The Ladies who came were all so creative and worked really  hard on their cards.  We were excited when a Girl Scout Troop showed up to make cards and several people brought sisters or sister in laws, mothers and friends.  We even had a whole family come by.  The work went so fast with all the company and Laurie had everything all ready to go and the paper pre cut.  We can't wait to get started on the next card making event!

Here are some of our favorite photos from our event.
 

Now hop over to Peggy's blog http://thewiredangel.blogspot.com and see what great cardmaking ideas she has.

Comments

[JPScraps]

Great cards and great idea!

[D. Cochran]

I love crafting with the girls too! Thanks for sharing!

[karelj]

How wonderful! The cards are darling!

[Sandy Allnock]

How cool that you guys all got together like that!! Wow!!! Beautiful cards too...thanks so much for sharing them.

Happy hopping!

[Anita]

Cute cards and what a neat event.

[Cathy D]

Awesome cards. Terrific efforts. TFS!

[peggysue]

Great photos and what cute cards, that owl is adorable.

[Peggy M]

Love your idea for an event. Great to see such turnout also. Thanks for being in the blog hop and for helping to spread the word about OWH. (and thanks for the nice intro)

[Shelley]

WOW! And WOW again! Over 1000 cards on ONE day?! You're terrific!

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

[Karen]

It's so heart warming to hear about your card making event for such a good cause!

[Carla]

Awesome cards! What a wonderful crafty and supportive thing we can do for our troops! God bless them, and you!

Keep up the great work!

[Carmen O]

How wonderful to have a group event to make cards for OWH! Love the cards you created. Beautiful work by all!

[Paula]

Wow , what a fantastic turn out for your event. One thousand cards are going to make a big difference to lots of heroes. Thank you for participating, it sounds like everyone had a blast!

[kas]

That looks like you had fun. Thanks!

[debb]

Great job to all the ladies!

[M.E. Driggs]

What a wonderful way to make so many cards.

{hugs}
M.E.

[Erika Polley]

As a military wife I must give a great big thank you for participating and sharing your talents!

[Holly (hollylogic)]

1000 cards--that's terrific! And they're so cute, too--no doubt our heroes are going to love them!

[Loni]

Terrific cards. Thanks for supporting OWH. Hugs, Loni

[Nancy]

There are so many fun things to look at here :) I love your blog! Thank you for sharing!

[Chris]

Thanks for hosting the event and supporting our heroes!

[Michelle Polizzi]

Great gathering and great cards - I am proud to be on the OWH hop with you! ~Michelle :)