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Challenge: Blizzard of Cards!
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas as we deck the halls of Cards for Heroes! Are you ready for the holiday season? CFH has received our very first request for Christmas cards, so we’re ready to put on our santa hats!
Deadline: Oct 31
(Note: Halloween cards due by Sept 20th)
Where to send cards: Any address on our shippers page
An entry for each of these kinds of cards:
If you’re sending in these cards for another challenge (several will be running on blogs and websites over the coming weeks), you will ALSO qualify for this Blizzard Challenge!
- Thanksgiving and fall
- Christmas (religious or secular), Chanukkah, Kwanzaa, happy holidays, etc…child-focused or general.
- Wintery-themed birthday, general (hello, thinking of you), love and miss you.
- Happy New Years (please avoid alcohol references).
- AnyHero thank-you cards and letters. (See footnote)
A Christmas bonus for YOU, our cardmakers!
We have received a GENEROUS donation of 10,000 envelopes by National Envelope!! That means you can send in your cards for this challenge with NO envelopes!* You might send in a smaller envelope to save a little shipping money, or get more cards into a big box. Consider asking your local friends to donate cards along with you to fill one of those flat rate boxes to the brim!
*These are the 4.5″ x 5.75″ sized envelopes; if your cards are not 4.25″ x 5.5″ or less, the shipper may need you to provide envelopes; email the shipper to find out if they have a stash of large ones before packing up your box.
Ten prizes:
These are made up of wonderful donations by cardmakers and companies - we’ll start posting photos next weekend! One prize pack will be awarded to a child or group of kids (scouts, classroom, etc), so get your children involved too!
Plus a GRAND PRIZE:
For every box of 100 or more cards sent in, the cardmaker will be entered into our GRAND PRIZE DRAWING! This will be a flat rate box filled to the brim with wondrous goodies, and you’ll be delighted by all that’s inside!
Christmas shipping costs:
It may easily cost us hundreds of dollars to get these cards sent out to our heroes over the next months. Please consider sponsoring a box of holiday joy! You can include a check made out to the shipper (our boxes cost either $9.80 or $10.95 for a large box), or cash, OR log into your Paypal account and send a gift to donate@cardsforheroes.org. If you’d like to include a message to the hero receiving your box, we’d be glad to do that for you, too. (Ask your friends and family to help out with sponsoring a few boxes too!)
Footnotes and fine print:
About the envelopes:
The envelopes were donated, but the shipping of those envelopes to each of our shippers was paid out of pocket. (over $120) If you’d like to include a small donation to contribute to the costs, please include a few cents per envelope you might have sent in and note that’s what it’s for. Any extra donations received beyond the cost of that shipping will be used for mailing all these Christmas cards to our heroes.
About glitter:
During holiday cardmaking season it’s tough to avoid glitter, but we ask that you save the glitter for your personal cards. (It is possible that glitter can make a hero visible to night-vision goggles if they get it on their uniforms.)
About AnyHero cards:
These can be thanksgiving themed, general thank you, patriotic, or holiday—but with written-out messages inside. Drawings from kids count as well. Consider sending one of your family cards—it could even be your photo card for the year if you’re done early! If you would like to sign it with your name and hometown that’s fine, or you can put your address if you feel comfortable. (No guarantees that anyone will write back.)
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Actually, my deployed husband's happy news of the week is that he found a flush toilet and REAL toilet paper!!! These folks do a lot for us, so lets put away the glitter (Even though it's a little sad!), and get cracking on cranking out those cards!
A big thanks to "Cards for Heroes" regarding the prize I received last week for winning the last contest. It is being converted into more cards and really helped to get those creative juices flowing.
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