From Our Hearts: 133 Cards for our Troops for a Win-Win-Win!!

I'm still alive folks, just spreading myself really thin physically with my pursuit of both power vinyasa and bikram hot yoga the past couple of months. I'm trying to regain some balance by not pushing myself so hard, but I do hate regressing when I take time off. At the same time, I don't think I can survive much more if I keep going 4-6 times per week like I have been doing, lol.

I'm thankful that I had scheduled a crafting day with my niece and her girl scout troop at the end of last year for the end of March because it literally served as a tether to pull me back into the paper crafting world. My niece and her friends earned the "Caring and Sharing" badge for assembling 133 cards for our troops stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq. I'll be forwarding these Father's Day themed cards over to Martie at From Our Hearts as soon as my order of clear cellophane bags comes in from clear bags.

One thing I've learned from scrapping with my now 8 year old niece is to keep it simple and sweet so that they still have fun without making them feel like they were in a labor camp. In the end, I made card kits using up TONS of my stash and a greeting stamp from Verve.


Here's my niece and her baby sister assembling the card kits with her girl scout troop. :)


These girls and my nephew who decided to join his sisters definitely got seriously to work!


Yah!!! All finished!! Time for the Sharing and Caring part of the meeting and on their way to earn their new badge!! Thanks Girls!! You did a GOOD DEED!!


And *FINALLY* these cards were mailed by Auntie Ching on May 6th, hopefully in time for Martie and her volunteers to process and forward to our overseas troops in time for Father's Day.



Nothing but a Win-Win-Win for all involved.

WIN #1 - Chino Hills Girl Scout Troop #5114 - had a fun time earning their Caring and Sharing Badge

WIN #2 - From Our Hearts - receives a contribution of 133 Father's Day Cards

WIN #3 - Me!!I used up

78 sheets of old old OLD 12 x 12 patterned paper from
- Marks Paper
- KI
- SEI Be Bop
- Upsy Daisy

70 sheets of cardstock

35 sheets of white cardstock to line the inside of dark colored cards for card writing purposes
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183 TOTAL sheets of paper!! <-----def was one of my new years' resolution, to use up and not buy!

Now why is my expedit shelf STILL heaving though?

2011 Donations = 399

2010 Donations = 751

I urge you to take a look at From Our Hearts and see if you can donate too....cards, envelopes, clear envelopes or even paypal money to help them send those boxes of greeting cards to our troops. It's a small but heartfelt way to thank our troops for their service to our country.