Cards for Soldiers: June Update

Saturday, July 2, 2011

June Update

Another great mailing for June. 2500 cards were sent out this month! Thank you! Thank you to those that sent in postage donations.

A great big thank you to Envelopes.com as well for a donation of envelopes as they saved me big! I was out and they got them to me in time for the shipment! Thank you so much!

A continued supporter (thanks Linda!) to CFS has shared some links to where she gets some military themed supplies so I am sharing with all of you…

www.servicememories.com

www.creatingmilitarymemories.com

They will be a great resource for our Armed Forces and Veteran’s Day mailings!

A few reminders for the next mailing;

Blank handmade cards please – no store bought cards. A small greeting on the inside is OK but please make sure there is plenty of space for the soldier to write notes home inside.
Black and dark cards must be lined with light paper please
NO GLITTER unless you rub it really hard and not one flake comes off on your hand.
Due date is August 1!

Thanks again for your support! Remember I couldn’t do this without YOU!!!

Pam

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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.