SOME PATRIOTIC CARDS.

As you know, Close to My Heart has this great promotion going on during June and July, 2013. See my post Let's Get Patriotic here. CTMH will donate $3 to $5 for each stamp set purchased, to either the USO or a Canadian military support fund. 

I found some AWESOME and I mean GORGEOUS cards made by K. Aaron Brown over at Booth #32. She is so talented and I asked her if it was OK to share her cards. She said go for it! So here they are. She has given me such great ideas!

This card was "loosely" lifted from a card Aaron found on Pinterest, from Just Give Me Stamps.  I like how Aaron used alot of our Kraft Cardstock on her cards and did background stamping on it.  She may have used our Kraft Die Cut Cards and Envelopes on a couple of her cards. Unfortunately, they are RETIRING at the end of July!  Darn, I love those Kraft Cards. All the other Kraft envelopes are also retiring at the end of July.

My upcoming post on June 27th will talk about the retiring products.

Looks like this card was inspired by a card featured on Peppermint Patty's Papercrafts. It is pinned to Aaron Brown's Pinterest board. This card is using the CTMH Home of the Brave stamp set.

Aaron used our darling Honeycomb stamp set on this card. Love it!

I love how Aaron stamped on white cardstock and then cut out the image. And I love how she cut out the rays and embossed them, and then stamped over the embossing to give a distressed look.

There you go!  Just had to share these cards with you.  It gave me some great ideas and now I need to get busy. I haven't ordered the Patriotic stamp sets yet but I am definitely going to. I have alot of friends who have served in the military.

Plus, by purchasing one of these stamp sets, we are doing a little part to help our military by the donations CTMH is making. 

Happy creating!

 

LET'S GET PATRIOTIC!

Let’s Get Patriotic with donations to USO!

Close to My Heart is having a wonderful June–July 2013 Constant Campaign to show our love and support for our troops!

Celebrate military service and promote patriotism with our new patriotic stamp sets—available only from June 1 to July 31, 2013. Three dollars from each B-size My Acrylix^® Courage stamp set and $5 from each D-size My Acrylix^® Home of the Brave stamp set will be donated to the USO, the leading, most recognized military-support and services organization in the country, or to the Canadian Hero Fund which supports spouses and children of the fallen Canadian military troops by helping provide post-secondary education (depending on which set you purchase). 

Show your support with your own patriotic stamp set!

$3.00 donated by CTMH to the USO for each Courage stamp set purchased at regular price.

$5.00 donated by CTMH to the USO for each Home of the Brave stamp set purchased at regular price.

$5.00 donated by CTMH to a Canadian military support organization for each Canada stamp set purchased at regular price.

If you know someone in Canada, wouldn't they love this set?

Shop HERE for the Courage stamp set.

Shop  HERE for the Home of the Brave stamp set.

Shop  HERE for the Strong and Free stamp set.

Dates: Patriotic stamp sets offer valid June 1–July 31, 2013.

I'll post our Stamp of the Month campaign tomorrow!  We also have another special promotion for June which is awesome and I'll also post that tomorrow!!! Stay tuned!

 

OKLAHOMA TORNADO RELIEF CAMPAIGN

Just a quick post tonight. I have just found out that Close to My Heart has a special campaign going on right now to help the Oklahoma tornado victims and their families. They have been in my prayers so very much.

Here is their email sent out today to the consultants:

"The tornado in Oklahoma has had a devastating effect and Close To My Heart wants to help. To aid relief efforts, Close To My Heart is making a new Autumn/Winter 2013 stamp set, A True Thank You ($2.95 retail), available immediately and will donate 100% of the profits from sales of the set from May 23 through June 30 to the American Red Cross."

 Here's the darling stamp:

By ordering this stamp, you will be doing a little bit to help out the Oklahoma tornado victims and their families.  Go to my online store here to purchase this stamp. The cost is $2.95.  I think this is really admirable that this company is stepping forward to help in this way.  They are so awesome!  This is another reason I'm glad to be part of this great company.