Sunday 12 September 2010

Important Message!!





This week the Cowgirls are promoting a card drive for Operation Write Home, who package up greetings cards for servicemen/women overseas to send back to their families and friends, and we would love it if as many of you as possible could join us in helping them stock up on Christmas/Holiday cards this week.



We are being sponsored by Whiff of Joy and Whimsy Stamps, and we will be having a 1st and 2nd prize, as well as a Top 6, for this very special challenge.



In addition to the challenge prizes, we are asking people to promote our card drive by posting this badge




on their blog and sidebar, then linking back to the challenge blog. Any one who would like to help us this way will be entered into a draw for a seperate prize, by way of a thank you :D


The image I have used on my card is "Deer" from CJ's collection at Cowgirls-Up Designs . You will notice that I haven't used any glitter on my card. This is because modern glitters are very reflective, which means if a soldier gets any on him/her they are visible with night vision glasses, and therefore a target. Difficult though it may be, please do not use any glitter on your cards!!(more info here) There is an address on the Cowgirls Challenge blog that you can mail your finished cards to(as many as you would like to make, I will certainly be making more!!). They will then be passed on to OWH where they will be packaged to be sent to the overseas troops.
All Politics aside, these people are far from their families, and is a nice feeling to think we can help them keep in touch :)
Thank you for your time, and I hope you can help us to help them XXX
I am entering this card for;

15 comments:

  1. Lovely card, Gina, and for a great cause!

    Jennifer

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  2. U hebt een wonderfull card Gina!!
    Greetings Nicolet

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  3. Great card Gina, love the monochrome scene with the stripy paper. :-) xx

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  4. lovely card and the colors are great. hugs

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  5. Wonderful cause! Love your unique Christmas card! The stripes are terrific with the green inked images! Looks fantastic!

    Thanks so much for playing along with the challenges at Stamping Vacation! This earns you an entry in the Oct 1st drawing for a $25.00 gift certificate at Flourishes!

    We would like to invite you to our Homemade with a HOP blog hop on Sept 25 and 26th. There will be over $300. in prizes given away!

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  6. Hello Gina

    What a lovely card with such vibrant colours.
    I love the colour of the stamped image and that fantastic sentiment - it gave me a chuckle.

    Thank you so much for joining in our latest challange.

    irene
    Bah!Humbug!

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  7. Your card is so nice, love your color choice. And what a great cause!

    Thank you for joining in this weeks Digital Tuesday Challenge.

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  8. wonderful Gina! great image & papers!! thanks so much for sharing with us at digital tuesday!

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  9. A great card for a brilliant cause. I must try to find out if we have anything similar here in England - sure we must have.
    Ann xxx
    Bah! Humbug! DT

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  10. A gorgeous card and very worthwhile cause, although there are more than one layer on this card, but thanks for playing along with us this week at Winter Wonderland
    Hope to see you back on Friday for the next fun challenge
    Hugs Kate xx

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  11. fabulous card, love the image and fun sentiment, many thanks for joining in the CCT challenge, hugs Debx

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  12. I make cards for Operation write home too. Very good cause. Your cards will make our heroes very happy. Thanks for joining us at the Stamping Vacation challenge Blog

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  13. Oh my word Gina this is truly wonderful I am so in love with that image of the stag standing so proud oh I do love this so much thank you for sharing it with us at Stamping Vacation.
    Hugs
    Lorraine x

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  14. Adorable card.
    Thank you for joining Alphabet challenge

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  15. Such a wonderful image and love the paper you have chosen!! Thanks for joining us over at Stamping Vacation!
    -Stacie

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