Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Be Inspired #57 Operation Write Home Challenge

Hi Everyone!
We are so excited to be teaming up with Operation Write Home for this wonderful challenge.

Today is Veteran's Day here in the United States, and it's also Remembrance Day in Canada. In tribute to our military heroes, past and present, we are inviting you to remember those who serve, and send cards to today's troops. There is no Hallmark, Wal-Mart, or even PX for them to purchase a birthday, anniversary, or Christmas card to send home to their loved ones. We can help! Please check out Operation Write Home, and let's help them out!

OWH360x159px 










This Challenge is dedicated to our Design Team Member Nathalia Castellon and her Hero Husband as they serve and sacrifice to help preserve our freedom :)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Your Challenge is to create any kind of card that can be used by the troops to be sent back to their family or friends....or one of thanks to them for their service....using this sketch, created for us by Cindy Royal. Your card must be flat, and contain NO GLITTER OF ANY KIND. 
























Our prizes to the top ten entries this week will be the yet-to-be-released images from Digital Delights by LoubyLoo that Cindy has used in her Copics Class! Win them before you can buy them!













Post your creations to Mr. Linky, and be sure that you are a follower of this blog, as we have very exciting things coming up, and you don't want to miss one little bit of news!!!


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Here is what our talented design team has created with Cindy's sketch:






















Cassie Larson





June Houck



















Terrie Bailey





Amber Goble
























Karen Maldonado






Shantaie Fowler



















Jackie Gallagher





Beth Ullman



















Nathalia Castellon





Cindy Royal



















Nathalia Castellon















Jenn Koss


















PS> Don't forget to sign up to be a Follower, we are on a journey to have 2500 followers.
Have a fantastic day and don't forget to send your cards to a Soldier :)

19 comments:

Cindy said...

Wow, ladies! These cards are truly fabulous!

Terrie B x said...

`Gorgeous` cards and projects Ladies:)xxx

Toucan Scraps said...

I wonder if there is anything similar here in the UK?

Windy Hills said...

Way to go ladies, and I love June's reference to "cat hair" which is spoken by a true cat lover!

Beth said...

Well ladies as always beautiful cards and thanks Cindy for such a fun sketch to work with.

June Houck said...

Wonderful sketch, Cindy! I will want to use this one again and again and...

Nathalia Castellon said...

Thank you so much ladies! I'm blessed to have my husband home with me this year AND he has the day off. I'm so grateful to all our gals and guys in uniform who make so many sacrifices with their service.

Great work on all your sketch cards ladies! And a big THANKS to Cindy for sharing her sketch. I had a great time creating with it!

Shantaie said...

What incredible work you all do week after week!
Cindy your sketch went right into my favorite sketches binder, its a keeper!
A big THANK YOU to all of our heroes past and present!

Operation Write Home said...

I just had a doh moment...I posted a link to my blog but didn't do a card with the sketch! Doh! Stay tuned, I'll get one done soon and link up again. (I've been sick, that's my excuse...lol!)

Amber said...

What beautiful creations girls! Happy Veterans Day everyone and Nathalia thanks to your family and so many families just like yours that fights for our freedom!
Hugs
Amber

Sandy said...

So now I made a card with the sketch...it worked perfectly with a piece of paper I had cut out sitting on my desk!

link

:: lindy :: said...

This is my first Cuttlebug challenge. I've been making cards for OWH for since September so it was great to have the 2 go hand in hand!

Donna said...

Thank you for helping us give back to others. I love this challenge and hope by the end of this week to have a big envelope full of cards to send to OWH. I hope we do more things like this. It's always fun to give back to others! And I love using this hobby to do that. Big hugs to you all!

Maggie said...

Great cards, everyone did such a nice job. Thank you for supporting OWH.

The Scrapbook Speedway said...

amazing cards!

Jamilie said...

I made 3 cards but probably only 2 qualify... two have some glitter that came on the stickers... and they are very flat.. I made sure of that, so in that case we don't have a problem....
I will make more if have to! This is a great cause!

Anonymous said...

Very beautiful cards!!!
Kim
smoats01@yahoo.com

Ronnie said...

Beautiful card and a great project!!! My son just left for IRAQ Tues. This was a great idea to help share a little love in a card!

stampin' mom of 4 said...

Fabulous cards, My husband recently returned home from Iraq. The soldiers really do enjoy receiving cards.