2012 Card Drive Winners!!!

Ok, now it's time for the winners! :) Thank you all again, for the hard work! 

Here it goes! :)

Every winner will also get 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine. :) ( I will be sending those off on Monday.)

Prize #1-  5 Digi Stamps from Tiffany Doodles & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Julia Goetzinger

Prize #2- 3 Spools of Twine from Whisker Graphics & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Johnna Buntin (Johnna was a real trooper! She sent in 402 cards this year! Thanks, Johnna!) :)

Prize #3- $50.00 Gift Certificate from Lawn Fawn & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Anita Recksiedler 

Prize #4- 2 Stamp Sets (winners choice) from Wplus9 Design Studio & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Jennifer McDermott

Prize #5- A package of assorted stamps ($25.00 value) from Purple Onion Designs & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Alexandra Bischoff

Prize #6- A package of assorted stamps ($25.00 value) from Purple Onion Designs & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Lynnette Kauffman

Prize #7- A package of assorted stamps ($25.00 value) from Purple Onion Designs & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Carla MacLafferty

Prize #8- $40.00 store credit to Artful Delight & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Leslie Hansen

Prize # 9- Subscription to CARDS magazine from Northridge Publishing Co. & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Ngan Le Raskin

Prize # 10- Subscription to Scrapbook Trends magazine from Northridge Publishing Co. & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Dana Clenney

Prize #11- 3 Stamps sets from Paper Smooches & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Mary-Anne Venginickal 

Prize #12- Because of You- Ippity Stamp set from JenMarie & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts magazine- Karen McAlpine

Prize #13- $20.00 Gift Certificate from EAD Designs & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Carol Ann Feltus 

Prize #14- 2 Stamp Sets ($15.00 each) from Blockheads Paper Arts & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts magazine- Darleen Crosgrove

Prize #15- 2 Stamp Sets ($15.00 each) from Blockheads Paper Arts & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts magazine- Diana Gravitt

Prize #16- Stamp Bundle from My Thoughts Exactly & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Lessa Berry

Prize #17- Wishes & Kind Thoughts Set from Avocado Arts & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Renee Lynch

Prize #18- Hello Friend Stamp set from Avocado Arts & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Kristin Anderson

Prize #19- Valentine Twine Bundle ($84.00 value) from the Twinery & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Lorie Manfre

Prize #20- $25.00 Gift Certificate from Gina K. Designs & 2 magazines from Paper Crafts Magazine- Sue Coubrough
I will be emailing all the email addresses of the winners, to the sponsors tonight. So you should hear from them soon. :) And please remember next year, to send your email address with your cards that you send to me. I can't email you about winning a prize if I don't have it. (I do have all the addresses to the winners this year though.) 

Thanks so much to all the sponsors and card makers! I seriously couldn't have done it without you!
God Bless you all!

~Winter

2012 Card Drive TOTALS!

Hey everybody! Sorry this post is late. I've been waiting on a package from one of the sponsors and I wanted to get all the cards sent off. So both of those are done and it's time to share the totals and I will have another post for the winners! :)

First of all...we serve an Awesome God! He laid this project on my heart, 3 years ago and it has grown SO much since then! Although sometimes it was tough and looonngggg hours :), He lead me through it, each step of the way! Thank you, Lord! And Thank you, to each and everyone of you that sent cards and to all the sponsors! I couldn't have done it without you!

The total number of cards sent was 3,000 cards!!!!!!!

How crazy is that number?!! The total was 2,999, so I decided to make 1 more card to round it to 3,000! :)
That is more than both of the previous years combined! WOW! :)

We were able to send it to 13 hospitals, 1 Foster home, and 1 special education class. The other 2 years, we only sent to 3 hospitals. WOW, again! :)

Here are the hospitals:

St. Jude Children's Hospital- TN
Texas Children's Hospital- TX
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital- TN
St. Louis Children's Hopsital- MI
Shands Hospital for Children UF- FL
St. Joseph's Children's Hospital of Tampa- FL
Nationwide Children's Hospital- OH
Shriners Hospital for Children- Houston- TX
Shriners Hospital for Children- Galveston- TX
Shriners Hospital for Children- Boston- MA
Shriners Hospital for Children- Northern CA
Shriners Hospital for Children- Cincinnati- OH
Children's Hospital Colorado- CO
Sinclair Childrens Foster Home- TX
Govalle Elementary- Special Education Class- TX

Thank ya'll so much! I will be right back with a post of the winners! :)
 
~Winter

Finally my card pics!

Hey everybody! I finally had a spare minute to edit some of my card pics! I have been EXTREMELY busy with getting the Card Drive wrapped up! I should be completely finished very soon! I have still been getting packages of cards everyday!!! So if you haven't sent cards yet...then you will have to wait until next year! :) I am done collecting cards this year! I sent many boxes of cards off on Friday, but I have received so many, that I had to order more envelopes and they finally came in on Saturday, so I was able to finish packaging them up on Sunday. I will be shipping the rest off today and I will be sharing all the totals soon and drawing the winners too! :) I'm excited! :)

I wanted to share some of my card pics! I ended up making 100! Valentine Cards are one of my favorite cards to make! And I get SO much inspiration from the cards, you card makers send in! Seriously! You send some pretty cute cards! :)

Here are some of mine.

This one was inspired my Kristina Werener's card. :)

 I got my idea for the fish card from Kara! Thanks for the inspiration Kara! :)

 Here are the stack of cards I made...all 100! :)

Thanks for hanging in there to see all those pics and sorry it took so long to post! :)
I'll be back soon with all the totals! :)
Have a Blessed day!

~Winter

Good News & PLEASE Don't Send Anymore Cards This Year! :)

Look at this.....

I received over 200 cards TODAY!!! PLEASE DON"T SEND ANYMORE CARDS THIS YEAR! I am running out of places to send them! Having a card drive, (where your not sure how many cards you'll get), it's hard to sponsor more hospitals. So I am having to wait until the last minute on some!

We have SO many cards, that I had to add more hospitals and a foster home for children! Two are located in Florida, one in Ohio, and the children's foster home in located in the town, beside where I live. One of the ladies that donated, mention a couple of hospital's, and I emailed them and they accepted! :) I am still waiting to hear from a few more hospitals, about sponsoring them too. I have been on the phone this afternoon, trying to find more hospitals to send the cards too, because honestly....we have more than we needed! Who would have thought?!! :) And Thanks to my sweet friend, Kelley, for trying to find hospitals too!

I am trying to get all the cards packaged up and ready to be shipped off. We have had SO many cards come in, that I had to order more envelopes! So I am waiting for those envelopes to come in, hopefully Friday and they will all be ready for shipping! I am trying to wait on all of the sponsors to get back from CHA, before I draw the winners, so please be patient with me! :)

I still need to post my card pics and some pics of all the cards too. I have been working NONSTOP on the card drive...and my house shows it! Looks like I will be cleaning this weekend and working on my nieces Baby Shower invites! There is no rest for the weary, I tell ya! :)

I'll try to be back tomorrow with a few pics!

Have a Blessed day!,

~Winter