Challenge #20 - Christmas Cards for OWH

Welcome to special Sentimental Sunday!

This week is a special one at Sentimental Sundays.  This week, we're celebrating with Operation Write Home for their birthday bash.  First, let's find out the winner for the last challenge:

Here's our random winner of Challenge #19:

#28 Jenny Swords

 Congratulations! As mentioned in the last challenge, The prize is four sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Digital Collection AND a custom watermark/signature set from the Custom Designs Section.  Please email me (Ann) at raindropecho@gmail.com to get details about your prize :)

Now, let me give you some more information as to why this challenge week is special.  We've partnered up with Operation Write Home to celebrate their birthday.  Don't know what OWH is?  Keep reading!

Operation Write Home mission:

Supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them.

Operation Write Home is an organization that sends blank handmade greeting cards for all occasions to deployed service members to write home on. They’ve mailed approximately 500,000 cards so far—and are still going strong! Our challenge to you is to make cards to send to them for our nation’s heroes.

Please read the basic guidelines here.  It’s important to remember that glitter is NOT allowed (it’s a safety hazard to our heroes), handmade cards only, and OWH needs A2 sized cards. “Operation Write Home” needs to be on the backs of your cards—it can be stamped, handwritten, or printed on labels. Please include a packing slip inside your box or envelope, and mail them to any of their shippers listed on the Mailroom page. In your package, you can also include notes written to a deployed service member.

Here are some helpful links:

Website: http://operationwritehome.org

Shipping addresses: http://operationwritehome.org/mailroom

Birthday Bash: http://operationwritehome.org/birthday

Party signup: http://operationwritehome.org/partysignup

Basic guidelines: http://www.owhhomefrontblog.org/p/about-owh.html

Stars & Stamps inspiration blog: http://www.owhstarsandstamps.org

The challenge this week is:
Christmas Cards for OWH

(plus a sentiment)

We would really appreciate if you created some Christmas or holiday cards for the troops.  Please make sure you refer to the Basic Guidelines for the cards.  Our design team has really stepped it up for this challenge! They did such a wonderful creating for a great cause!

Ann V.

Ann E.

Anesha

Annika

Ceal

Cheryl

Sentimental Sundays Weekly Freebie:

Free sentiments are only available for one week.

For more sentiments like this, please visit the Raindrop Echo Designs Sentiments Collection at Whimsy Stamps.

A special thank you to those who link back to the blog when using these sentiments!

The prize for this challenge will be four sentiment sets from the Raindrop Echo Designs Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection AND a custom watermark/signature set from the Custom Designs at Whimsy Stamps.

I also wanted to remind you that the custom rubber stamps section at Whimsy Stamps is now open.  Please visit the CUSTOM RUBBER STAMPS page to get yours today!

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