HELLO EVERYONE!!...
Can you hear my voice?
I am shouting to you from under a huge, and forever growing, heap of boxes..envelopes and packages that are beginning to arrive here for the Card-a-Thon....and have transformed my house into a warehouse of all sorts of card making supplies.
What's the Card-a-Thon you ask?
Well...I'll give you the Reader's Digest condensed version of the story...
This is how it all started..
Last year..I had this desire to create cards for our U.S. Military Heroes...I thought I'd do it on my own..and send them to Operation Write Home..and Operation Quiet Comfort...
Then I thought...hmmm...maybe I'll ask my Workshop ladies if they wanted to join me...
and from there..it too off..and all began to happen....
and so...l after many months of planning...getting donations from a few crating companies....posting threads on Splitcoaststampers.com asking for donations of colored images..and other card making goodies...I found that the response was FANNN-tastic!...
This was turning out to be much more than a handful of ladies getting together to make cards...
and so...last October (2009) I organized and hosted the first Card-a-Thon here in my home town
in hopes of making about 500 cards for our US military heroes...
The cards being made would all be sent to Operation Write Home..and Operation Quiet Comfort
Approximately 40 volunteers of all ages came that day and created cards from 10 a.m. - 6 pm...
and in the end... we didn't make 500 cards... or 1000 cards....
we made 1754 cards!!!
My blog has been VERY quiet lately..(no time to create)...but these are a few photos from last years card-a-thon....
http://mypaperbliss.blogspot.com/2009/10/few-card-thon-pictures.html
The event was such a success..and the people who volunteered told me to count them in if I did another Card-a-Thon..
so...here I am..KNEE DEEP IN CARD-A-THON STUFF!
I started out with this years goal being 2000 cards........but am now thinking that with the donations I've already received..(and with what's YET to come)..we may be able to go beyond that insanely ridiculously huge number of 2000....and hopefully maybe even make it to 23...24...2500!!
The flip side of this is...I have not created a single thing sin ages..other than the featured cards and projects for the monthly workshops and crop that I do...
I am now feeling itchy about getting back to my card making..,,(I really miss my creative time)...so while I won't promise anything...to you..OR myself.....I'll say that I am hoping that by the time mid August rolls around..I'l be sharing some photos with you here..of things I'll be creating...
So..if you'd like to donate colored/matted images to the October 23rd Card-a-Thon..and push us further along to the 2500 number.... ...please email me at LovesStampin@aol.com
And...if you live near by...it'd be wonderful to have you join us on October 23rd for a 12 hour day of card making!
I hope that all of my blogging friends are having a safe and wonderful Summer...and always know..although my own bog has been very quiet...I continue to enjoy making the rounds to YOUR blogs to admire your work....
and sometimes...to steal a bit of inspiration!
