A Contest (or two)!

Rebecca at Imagine Stamps & More sent me some wonderful acrylic stamps. These handmade stamps are just perfect for personalizing your cards!  Now before I tell you about the contest I’ll share an image with you of the stamps that Rebecca sent to me.

The first one is a CFS specific stamp. It is a flag that says “Made from the Heart” and “Cards for Soldiers”. I just love it! So perfect for the project cards don’t you think?

The second one is a personalized stamp with my name and three check boxes, which is so fun now I can use it on all sorts of my projects!

Don’t you love them? I bet you want one right? Well there are two ways to win one!

First chance:

Go to www.imaginestamps.com, in the left hand column select ‘subscribe to our mailing list’, follow the steps and you will be signed up for the contest.

5 winners will be selected on September 30, 2011.

Second Chance:

Send in at least 10 Veteran’s Day cards by the mailing deadline (October 10th). Remember these are Thank you cards for the soldiers so they are not blank inside, please write a personalized note of thanks inside each card. For every 10 cards you send your name will be entered to win one of two stamps that Rebecca is donating.  Please be sure to include a note with your email in your cards so that I can contact you if you win.

I’ll select 2 winners after the Veteran’s Day mailing.

Easy peasy right? So what are you waiting for? Go on and head over to Imagine Stamps and then get to work on those cards!

Good Luck!

Pam

10 Years Ago Today

Where you when the world stopped turning…

I was at work at Lucent Technologies and I can still see the look of horror and the tears streaming down my co-worker’s across from me face. She had just seen the Twin Towers hit on CNN.com.  It was so scary, I wanted to leave right then and there to go get my boys and make sure they stayed safe, as did everyone that day. We were all drawn to the cafeteria where there was a TV streaming CNN to see what was going on and it was very hard to concentrate on work. We had no idea what to think. Ten  years later I still don’t know what to think, so many lives lost, our country at war for almost 10 years.

And to think that this tragedy is what really got Cards for Soldiers started when you get right down to it. Carol’s husband felt he needed to serve his country, as friends we wanted to support Carol and Kevin while he deployed to Iraq and this idea is what we came up with. WOW.

September 11th has touched people in so many ways. I know that it’s touched each and every one of you who support this program and I’m sure I don’t have to remind you to take a moment out of your busy day to say a prayer for those we lost and those they left behind and to thank those that serve our country both in the military and our community to keep us safe!

God Bless the USA!

Pam

Awaiting a Hurricane

As hurricane Irene looms near I am watching the news often to see where it is and how bad we will get hit, hoping that no water comes in the basement. Don't worry, I'm putting all the cards I've received up high! :)

It doesn't seem like it will be too bad here and we've got a generator so I'm planning on making some Veteran's Day cards today!

I hope anyone in Irene's path is staying safe and dry.

Veteran’s Day Fast Approaching

The Veteran’s Day mailing is coming up soon! The deadline for cards is October 3rd. Are you making your cards yet? I hope so because we are mailing to 5 different troops so we need a lot of cards!

Remember my goal is to get 1 card into every soldier’s hand. I don’t know how many are at each place I send but I do know that one place I send to there are 300 in one group!

Please let’s show the best support we can by thanking those soldiers personally and sending them a nice note.

Pam

August Mailing Update

It’s hard to believe it’s three quarters through August already and that summer is almost over! Living in New England the summers are definitely too short! I hope all of you have had some great summer vacations. I unfortunately did not get a vacation this year but I sure did enjoy the nice weather and know it will be gone too quickly and I’ll be complaining about cold and snow.

I sent out close to 2500 cards again this mailing! Thank you all!  Each month there are so many boxes to open and so many of them have familiar names on the return addresses! You dedicated contributors are wonderful! I wish I could reward you for your support! And to each new person who has joined on board, you too, thank you for taking that first step to contribute! Without all of you I can’t keep doing this and I want to keep doing this for as long as I can so please keep up the great work!

Thank you to all of you who have donated to the postage fund again this month! Remember I’m a real non-profit organization now so you are making tax deductible donations!

Envelopes are needed badly, if you know someone who wants to help but really isn’t a card maker, ask them to send envelopes please! It still shows their support!

In Memory

I got a very generous donation to the program that is going to help pay for postage for quite some time. That donation was made in memory of a very important person in my life over the last 29 years, my Father-in-law Joseph F. Bumbaca, Jr. aka Pop. He will be missed by many.

December 17, 1941 - July 7 , 2011

Sharing Some Letters

A very dear and dedicated member of CFS got some mail from two soldiers she shared with me. They are very touching and I wanted to share them with you. She gets these often because she puts her address labels on the backs of her cards. They were written on cards she made.

 

So awesome! Thanks for sharing Jan!