all those who are serving our country and have served our country I am participating in a bloghop this Memorial Day weekend. The bloghop is sponsored by cardsforheroes.org. Their mission is To support our nation’s armed forces by sending blank greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them. To date they have sent 140, 875 cards. That is amazing! You can read more about it by going to the website. As for the bloghop you can just keep linking from one blog to the next to see all the cards created and all the wonderful people who are participating. The hop doesn't officially start until around 2pm (CST) so if you are here before then you may want to come back later too! If you start here at my blog but want to go back to the beginning of the hop then CLICK HERE. There are 130 bloggers participating in the hop!!! This is my first card for CFH, but I plan on creating a bunch more. And if you are one of my non-blogging friends stopping by and would like to create cards to send please let me know and I would be happy to send them!
Here is the card I created for the bloghop. The Freedom is from the Graphically Speaking Cricut cart. The stars are a punch. Pattern paper is by Reminisce and it has a nice shimmer to it which you can't see in the picture.
After the hop I plan to send it to cardsforheroes to send to someone as a thank you. I think it's important for our military to know how valuable and appreciated they are. If it weren't for them who knows what our lifestyles might be like.
Your next stop on the bloghop is Christy Sheffield's blog, Addicted to Creating. She created a beautiful card for the hop! And while you are there check out some of Christy's other creations. She does beautiful work!!
Please leave a comment about my card or your thoughts on Memorial Day or whatever you would like. As a gesture of my gratitude for you stopping by I will be randomly picking a name from the comments (Tuesday morning) for a little RAK . A Close to My Heart card making kit! You will receive everyting you need to make some cute cards! Which you can then send to CFH!
Your next stop on the bloghop is Christy Sheffield's blog, Addicted to Creating. She created a beautiful card for the hop! And while you are there check out some of Christy's other creations. She does beautiful work!!
Please leave a comment about my card or your thoughts on Memorial Day or whatever you would like. As a gesture of my gratitude for you stopping by I will be randomly picking a name from the comments (Tuesday morning) for a little RAK . A Close to My Heart card making kit! You will receive everyting you need to make some cute cards! Which you can then send to CFH!
115 comments:
What a great card! I love how you structured "freedom" on the card.
WOW!! This is very lovely!! I love your scrambled wording!! ;)
Beautiful card, what a great idea, I love the way you designed the word freedom....
Beautiful card. Thanks for your participation. It was fun to discover your blog.
Love, love, LOVE the freedom die cut! One of these days I MUST get me a die cut machine!
May I make a suggestion that is not meant to be offensive? Skip the stickles. On the CFH website it talks about glitter as no-no because it can get onto uniforms and be detected by night vision goggles. I was dissappointed when I realized so many cards I had sent had to be donated elsewhere because of glitter. Not I just skip it when making CFH. Either way, your card is truly lovely!
Thanks for the tip Lauren. I did notice the glitter issue on CFH after I posted my card. I edited my post and will not be stickling the words. Thanks for all your kind comments!
Such a beautiful design and I love the way the word is cut.
Wonderful card! TFS!! Love, love it! {{cheers}}
love your "freedom" because that is exactly what our troops do for all of us! Have a wonderful Memorial Weekend! :)
LOVE your card...especially how you did 'freedom'.
Awesome Card.. Thanks for inspiration. Have a Safe and Happy Memorial Weekend ♥
Great card and thanks for the inspiration!
I love your profile pic, and words there..funny stuff!
great card...and it's uber nice of you to offer out a rak!
I LOVE the mixed up freedom at the bottom. A really unique touch!
Cute card, love that word diecut! Happy Memorial Day to you :)
I love your die cut
Love your card! :)
Great card! Love how you laid out FREEDOM on it!
Great card! I love the "freedom"!
Cute card- thanks for being a part of the blog hop!
Great card TFS!!!
Love the colors
Lorianna3344@msn.com
enjoying the hop
Really great card! Love the letters.
Beautiful looking card for a great cause! Keep up the great work =)
Beautiful cards! Thanks for supporting our troops! Have a wonderful holiday weekend!
xoxo
Sara
Hi from the blog before yours on the hop. Loving your blog and your mini-hero Owen! Great job on your CFH card and thanks for supporting the troops.
This is a beautiful card. TFS!
The typography you created is just fantastic on this card! Yowsa!! Thanks for joining in on the fun of the bloghop...I can't believe how inspired I am by all of you!
Oh and an FYI for anyone subscribing to the feed on these comments - stickles are ok, as long as it doesn't flake off. Fabre calls it the "sweater test"---if she rubs her fave old sweater on it with nothing coming off---it's fine :)
My fave shimmer'n'shine to add lately has been adhesive blingggggg! Gotta love Hero Arts for providing me with options for twinkle!
Great cards. Oooh - and love your blog header. Fab!
This is so much fun! So happy to be doing the blog hop for such a good cause with such a great, generous group of talented peeps! *smile*
Awesome card....thanks for the chance to win!
love your sentiment design! TFS!
What a great thing you all are doing!
jenniferlynnhansen at yahoo dot com
Your cards are lovely, thanks so much for supporting the CFH and participating in the blog hop!
Have a great weekend!
I love your cards. Thanks so much for supporting this event. I am the proud Mother of a US soldier!
Thank you for supporting our troops.
Fantastic card. Thanks for supporting the troops.
Love my Cricut too--- knew instantly that you used graphically speaking since it's one of my favorites!!! Thank you for sharing this darling card!
Cool, very cool! Love the word art on your card.
Thanks so much for participating in the CFH blog hop!
I love the graphical "freedom", I need to start trying that more- could even be fun with some of those thousands of letter stickers I have lying around in my stash...hmmm! And thanks to Sandy for revealing my sweater test, lol! My kids always wonder why I "sparkle"! Thanks for joining in on the blog hop this weekend, and for your support of CFH and our heroes!
Love your card, the word scrambled is great! Looks great off the white.
YOu are so creative that's for sure. Thanks for this hop, I really enjoyed your blog. WONDERFUL card, and thanks for RAK.
I love your card! Thanks!
As a military wife, please let me say thank you for what you are doing. It's so good to know that there are others thinking of our loved one's when they're in harms way. What a wonderful way of showing your appreciation!
Great card! Love it!
I love the card that you created. Very fun!!!
Heather, I love love love your card.
Your freedom card is soooo pretty! I am enjoying this hop :)
This is such an exciting event!
Great card, the freedom die cut is absolutely fabulous!
Beautiful card! Love the freedom die cut. I'm definitely going to have to get that cartridge. Thanks for the kind words about my card.
Cute card! I just love that Cricut cartridge.
I love the card - so simple and so stylish. Wonderful.
What a nice, simple card. I love the "freedom" cut out. That's cool!
Very cool card -- love it !
Absolutely adore your typography on this card. Amazing.
What a fantastic card! I would love to win your blog candy, I have never seen anything from Close to My Heart and really would like to see what it is all about.
I love the "freedom" - very nice card. The inspiration I'm getting seeing all this creativity on the bloghop is fantastic!
Isn't this bloghop an amazing event?? I had never heard of CFH before and I'm looking forward to celebrating Memorial Day with my kids as we make cards to send in to CFH. :)
Beautiful card..very creative!
Thanks for supporting our heroes
Proud Marine Mom
great card! Love how you mixed the letters up a little! great idea!
Great card! I love the way you used the cricut dicut
What a great card! I love the paper! And the Freedom!! I need to play more with my cricut! :) Thanks for sharing and for making cards for our troops.
great card, I love it! Freedom, that is what it's all about, isn't it. thanks for sharing and for supporting our troops.
ceashark at aol dot com
Love the fresh clean look of your card. The pattern paper at the top with the flags and blue bars with stars is the perfect balance to freedom and the stars at the bottom.
really eye catching card. Amazing how many different takes there have been on the Red white and Blue...
Can't wait for a little more time to get back and get a little deeper into your blog.
I feel so blessed to live in a country where have such a wonderful military to defend our freedoms.
And although Memorial Day is usually looked at as the start of summer, I like to take a little time aside and Thank God for this country and the soldiers.
M.E.
FABULOUS inspiration for CFH!
wonderful!
Great card! Thanks for supporting the troops ;D
Super cool way to use your Cricut! Love that!
Love the way you laid out the work freedom...looks great!
What a great cause! Thanks for introducing it to us. And thanks for the RAK.
Your card is very lovely. Thank you for your support of our military and joining the blog hop. I am a proud mom of a Marine. God Bless our Military
great card! i love the "freedom" cut out!!
Great card! thanks for participating in the bloghop!
Beautiful card.. thanks for make cards for heros.. thanks for the RAK
My thoughts are what an emotional ride this blog hop has been. I've been in tears several times. There are not enough words in the world to thank all of you for participating and supporting our troops. May you all be blessed,
I like the way you placed the letters in the word 'freedom' on your card. TFS
Thanks for helping our troops feel a little closer to home
Happy Memorial Day! Your card is simply beautiful and thank you for your creativity and dedication to this great cause. : ) Sb
Pretty! Thank you for participating!
I just blogged about this too. Alyssa and I are making our cards today :)
What a t'riffic way to spend our Memorial Day weekends! I'm packaging up a bunch of cards to send - hope they're overwhelmed with cards as a result of the blog hop! TFS and thanx for the blog candy opp!
slblondin at netscape dot net
Very nice card. TFS
What a fantastic card! I love the cut freedom sentiment!!
What a great way to use that die cut from the Graphically Speaking cartridge! Love this one and use it ALL THE TIME! TFS and Happy Memorial Day!
Love your card. I don't have that cart-but it gave me an idea to use with my Design Studio. thanks, and thanks for sharing with CFH!
Love that Freedom die cut. The patterned paper is also yummy! Thanks for you support of our troops!
Robbie
Love the scrambled "freedom" in the corner and the clean lines. Thanks for sharing your talent with us and supporting CFH.
WOW! What a wonderful card! Thanks for supporting our troops.
I love that Freedom. It reminds me of the "word clouds" that are popular right now & shown on the CFH for this blog hop. TFS
Great card! Thanks so much for the generous RAK.
Day 3 and I am still hopping- I want to see and comment on every blog in this wonderful event!
So much inspiration! You card is very nice!
Lots of inspiration Thanks for blogging the hop and creating for the military cause. lovely card! hugs,Ina
Nice card. I love the typography.
Love your card - very clever!
heather, your card is AWESOME! i love what you did with the GS cart! hope you have a wonderful memorial day... hugs! :)
Your card is lovely Heather! Imagine my surprise as I was hoping from blog to blog and to come across yours! What a surprise! I think it's great that you are participating in this great initiative.
love your card!!!
A BEAUTIFUL card! I can't tell you how inspired I have been by everyone's blogs and I am truly itching to get out my supplies... guess what I'll be doing tonight? LOL
Beautiful card, I love the simplicity!
Lovely card.. thanks for sharing your creativity and for participating. Enjoy your day! - a Military Mom
love the way you did the letters and great card
Super cute card!
Nice use of your die cut.
thank you for sharing
A very very pretty card. Thanks for sharing and participating in the hop. Happy Memorial Day.
what an awesome card, love the way "freedom" is arranged. A wonderful giveaway as well, I would definitely use it for CFH if I was so lucky to win! TFS and being a fellow participant!
great cards your special
Very cool. Thanks for sharing it.
Wonderful card. The wording is great. And I love the tiny flags. Very eye catching creation.
Great card, love the flags... thank for the generous RAK.
ALSO thanks for sharing and supporting our armed forces....
Bless our troops this special day.
The arrangement of 'freedom' is so unique and an eye catcher.
Thank you for giving your time and talent to CFH.
Love your card Heather, especially the word FREEDOM. Sure gets the point across. Fun hopping onto your blog. :)
~Blythe, Mi Wuk Village, CA
love the funky letter placement and the entire visual appeal of this card. thanks for generously providing materials for more cards for CFH.
This card is GORGEOUS - love your design.
Very cute card! Thank your for supporting CFH!
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