With Independence Day (in the United States) coming in just one month, I wanted to create a kit that I have had on my heart for a very long time. There are wonderful people and organizations all over our nation that are doing whatever they can to make sure our troops overseas know that they are loved, supported and appreciated.
In my own tiny church there is a large group of mostly women that have been doing an incredibly good job at this. The ministry is called "Love our Troops," and they send personal notes in greeting cards, care packages and make handmade cooling scarves to express their love and encourage the young men and women that are serving the Afghani and Iraqi people as well as protecting our nation.
Though our family has sent dozens of cards, because of my schedule I haven’t been able to do as much as my heart desires. I began to think about how I could enlarge the effort and realized that I can create a kit that just might facilitate a lot of other people to make cards and send them!
This kit contains 3 greeting cards, one is blank for your own message and two matching envelopes. It is FREE for personal use or for organizations that will be encouraging the troops. You can download the kit by clicking on the picture at the top of this post and a window will pop up from 4shared.com. When you click on that window it could take a while for the download button to appear at the top left of the page (a couple of minutes if you have slower internet service). All you have to do is click on that download button and select a place to download it to on your hard drive.
For those of you who will send these cards out, bless you!!!!! Oh, and if you believe in the power of prayer, take a moment to pray for the service member that you are sending it to.
The BLOG CONTEST WINNER FOR MAY IS the first commentor on this post: http://www.daisiecompany.com/blogs/audreyjeanne/?p=367
Darn, I was number two! LOL Thank you for the cards I will send some to the men and women in our chruch currently serving our country.
Thanks a bunch for the patriotic kit!
Darn! I wasn’t #1 this time 🙁
AJ…thanks so much for the lovely cards. I’m sure our men and women spirts will be lifted when they receive these card. Thanks again.
AJ…thanks so much for the lovely cards. I’m sure our men and women will have their spirts lifted when they receive these card. Thanks again.
AJ..Thank you so much for the wonderful gift..Your card kit is so lovely..
and will be a wonderful and thoughtful gift for our men and women who
are fighting for our country..
What a wonderful thing for you too. Thank you!
AJ these are just wonderful! Our church does ‘operation lifeline” and sends care packages and cards to the troops- I can hardly to print these out and show them to the ladies on Sunday! I know they will love them! Thank you so much!
Beautiful cards, beautiful spirit to honor our loved ones fighting for our freedom. Thanks AJ!
thanks for the wonderful cards, AJ!
Thanks so much for these cards AJ. Their perfect to send to my nephew whose on his third time over there.
Oh could you please tell me how to get the instructions on how to make the handmade cooling scarves? My bil’s reserve unit gets activated every so often and I would like to get some made up and ready to give them before they leave…there are a lot of people in his unit…so I would need to start soon! Pretty please?!
Thank you for the cards…I will have them ready for the next time they leave or next time someone asks me to send something to the Troops. Thank you. (I’ll ask Sue how they make them and see if I can’t write up a tutorial for it. I’ll post it when I can and I’ll post to Daisie and PC Crafter message boards so you can find it. Thanks! AJ)
Thank you so much!
Thanks A J that is very nice of you to share this with us and I will be sure
and send some out to our troops also
A fantastic idea, AJ. Perfect timing too,
esp with just having had Memorial Day,
Father’s Day & 4th of July coming soon!
Thanks so much for these cards. Last summer our church took cookies to the unmarried Seabees that were coming back to Port Hueneme. It’s always such a big deal for the guys with families waiting but there were a lot who had no one waiting and just came back and went home to the barracks. I made 300 little cards from your Stars and Stripes Forever set with a note of appreciation to go with the cookies. Everyone thought your graphics were incredibly beautiful. I’m so pleased to have these new cards.
oh my gosh, it’s me!!@! I can’t believe I am the winner! I almost didn’t check today. and thank you for the patriotic freebie also!! Kathy
What do I need to do to collect the prize? my email address is kschenckATbresnan.net Kathy
Thanks so much for the cards!!! I will definitely try to get some in in the mail.
Thank you so much for the beautiful cards!
How thoughtful of you, AJ! I will certainly put them to good use and thank you! I’ve been on vacation with my family and have missed reading your blog….good to be back! 🙂 Blessings!
I thank you so much for these and my son is in the Marines. He tells me about some that don’t even get letters so this will be aw so perfect for that!! God Bless and you are so talented. Wish you’d create more for the military–hint hint-LOL