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Thank you to alllllll of you who have made this whole project possible! We’d love to list all 100+ of you but just consider yourselves massively thanked! These Thursday posts will list items and blessings received for the last 7 days, so if you’re looking for confirmation that your package or monetary donation was received, check in on Thursdays.

Cards, supplies, and help received this week:

1. CHRIS C, Chicago, IL, thank you for the wonderful cards!
2. DEE N, Duluth, thank you for the supply donations for our crafty soldiers, they’re going to LOVE making their own cards!
3. FISKARS and SCENIC ROUTE, thank you for the supply donations!
4. CLAUDIA F, Rice Lake, WI, thanks for all the cards you sent to the troops, as well as sharing the donations you recruited (see #2)!!
5. MARGARET M, Tacoma, WA, thank you for the encouragement cards & valentines, and for your sorting and packing help!
6. As always, all our cardmakers! Photos of the last arrivals of the 1400 mailed on Monday are located here.
7. Shannon’s brother LARRY, thank you for buying her the Base Camp cartridge for her Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter for Christmas! It has several great features that will be perfect for making cards for our troops. Also thanks to Shannon’s sister STACIE for convincing Larry this is what Shannon “needed” for Christmas, for ordering it and wrapping it. (Thanks Sis!) [see Shannon’s cards using this cartridge, below!]
   
   

Vendor deals we are grateful for:

Imagine Stamps: Custom acrylic stamps
Rebecca at Imagine Stamps has the artwork for these cardsforheroes.org stamps shown below! If you’d like to order any for yourself, go to her website and email her to ask for whichever one you’d like, what your name is if you’d like to have the ones with a name, and she’ll email you the cost. It is much more reasonable than you’d imagine!

Agape Gifts: 10% discount on stamps!
Sandy R at Agape Gifts on eBay will give a 10% discount to customers who tell her they’re for cardsforheroes! She carries those awesome military stamps from Paper Inspirations as well as a great selection of all sorts of stamps.

Moulding Frame Supply Liquidators: ATG tape deal
An ebay seller, Moulding Frame Supply Liquidators (also comes through on ebay as Ty Products) has ATG tape at a really reasonable price (six 36ft rolls of 1/2 inch tape for $9.99) — if you purchase more than one box of 6, they give you a great break on shipping, so email the seller from the ebay site to let him know it’s for the cardsforheroes project.

Patriotic fabric swatches
If you’d like some fabric for making patriotic cards, send an email (link at right), and we’ll hook you up with Cheryl who saves the leftover pieces from projects she regularly creates. Fabric is a challenge for cardmaking, but it adds nice texture!

Got thanks to share?
We’d love to pass on the gratitude for donations, discounts, & deals, cardmaking help, hosts of parties/classes—whatever makes it possible for you to do more for our heroes. Email us with your kudos!

Note: if you forget where this post is and want to return to these vendor discount links, you can always search this blog by clicking on the “Categories” at the right when you’re here; posts with these deals will be linked in there.