Cards for Soldiers: 9/1/13

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Quick Mid Posting!

Just wanted to share a photo I got of some youngsters doing community service. It always warms my heart to hear that when asked to do service my project gets chosen. These girls from Reed Point Family, Career & Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) made 100 Halloween and Thanksgiving cards and are on to making Veteran’s day cards. If you look at their cards they did a fabulous job. I’ve blurred their faces because I did not have permission to post their photos but they are just beautiful inside and out let me tell you!

Thank you ladies! Fantastic work you’ve done!

Pam

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

August Update Very Late!

I am very behind with everything. Due to being in the hospital I have to go to many doctor appointments and work has been especially busy which just leaves me no time for anything and that is why my website has been neglected, something had to take the backseat and since I had to mail the cards the site was it!

So as I mentioned, I was in the hospital for a few days in June, then on vacation in July, then I had so many cards I had to recruit help when the August mailing came in because although I have no cards scheduled to come in during the June/July months they kept right on coming so I couldn’t do it myself! I called up my good friends Denise and Pam who recruited the Women’s Connection at the First Congregational Church in Manchester, NH to help me out. After church one day we all got together and sorted over 4000 cards! The number is not accurate because with all the help I had (over 15 of us) I couldn’t get the counts exactly because the stacks of cards came faster than I could count and put them in the boxes! Here are some photos from that day…

Thank you so much to Denise and Pam, all the ladies of the Women’s Connection and to everyone who donated cards, envelopes and postage, as I could not have gotten through my August mailing without you all!
Until September, oh wait, it is September! See you soon!
Pam

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.