Cards for Soldiers: 9/6/09

Thursday, September 10, 2009

No Glitter, please

If you're planning to make cards, please leave out the glitter. When our soldiers get glitter on them, it shows up on night vision, and they become glowing targets to the enemy. I know it makes the cards look nice, but we do want all our soldiers to come home safe and sound. So, please leave the glitter at home. TIA!!!

Cards Needed!!!

I've now got two different contacts to send cards to over in Afghanistan! I need to start sending cards immediately! Please see card schedule to the right.

Remember Veteran's Day Cards are not blank, you will write a thank you note to the soldiers. I am hoping to get loads of them so that we can get one to as many soldier's as possible!

Thank you again for your support!!!

Mailing Schedule

2014 Mailing Schedule

ROUND 1: Cards should be received by January 3, 2014

Valentine's Day - SHIPPED

ROUND 2: Cards should be received by February 3, 2014

St. Patrick's Day SHIPPED

ROUND 3: Cards should be received by March 10, 2014

Passover

Easter SHIPPED

ROUND 4: Cards should be received by March 31, 2014

Mother's Day
Armed Forces Day (These cards are not blank inside, please write a thank you note to the soldier inside the cards)

Memorial Day SHIPPED

ROUND 5: Cards should be received by

May 5, 2014

Father's Day &

Independence Day SHIPPED

About this Blog

Cards for Soldiers was started in January 2006 by a group of friends and scrapbookers on a scrapbooking messageboard to support our troops deployed to the Middle East. Now a one woman owned Non-Profit Corporation the mission is to send handmade, blank cards to deployed units for the soldiers to use to write to family and friends. It's been a big hit with the soldiers! Please join me in my program to support the troops! Check out the details, schedule and address below. Thank you for encouraging those who put their lives on the line on a daily basis.

Card Specs

All cards should be 5.5"x4.25" size (cut an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of cardstock in half and then fold that half in half), as those are the cards that fit in the APO boxes we ship the best. PLEASE provide an envelope with your card (A2 - Invitation -4 3/8x 5/3/4). We have not been getting envelopes donated lately and this is a huge expense to purchase them. Please remember to leave the cards BLANK ON THE INSIDE, with a self-stick note from you (or your child) to the soldier if desired. You are also more than welcome to put your signature on the back of the card to let them know who made it. Another idea is to put an address label on the back of the card, many card makers do this and they have gotten nice notes this way!

Cards should not be too bulky as they need to fit inside the envelopes we provide. The most important requirement is NO GLITTER please!! Glitter falls off and can stick to the soldiers and make them shine at night when they are trying not to be seen! Ranger stickles is OK or if you seal your glitter with something so that if you were to rub really hard on the glitter and NOTHING comes off on your fingers, that too is OK.

DIMENSION is OK (buttons, brads, rhinestones, etc) but please make sure the card will fit through a postage meter. The soldiers don't have to pay for their postage the cards are metered so they can't be thicker than that. Thank you!

Dark cards MUST be lined with white on the inside. The soldiers don't have white pens on hand, keep this in mind please!

General Occasion cards are ALWAYS welcome with any of the rounds, including Birthday, Miss You, Thank You, etc.