I was asked to participate in a Blog Hop for- Cards for Heroes. This is their mission:

Our mission is to create blank, handmade greeting cards that our soldiers/military personnel serving in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East can use to write special notes home to their families and friends.  To date, we have sent over 130,000 greeting cards, and we are growing in leaps and bounds.  We are all volunteers in the organization, and it is a true grass roots effort.

 

Our website if you’d like to learn more is www.cardsforheroes.org

 Being that it is after-all Memorial Day weekend I knew I should definitely par-take in the challenge in raising awareness for cards for our troops!

You know I don’t really ever recall making a Patriotic card? YIKES! That’s not good.

I don’t have any family in the military, but my PSF Laura, her husband Stefan, has served MANY years, and many long deployments! I have so much respect for ANYONE in the military and their families for giving up time with their loved ones, to fight for our Country! So if you or someone you know serves in the military-THANK YOU! We appreciate all you are sacrificing for our freedom 😀

If you haven’t started at the beginning please do so —–> here <—–after you complete your visit here!

Now for my first Patriotic card

You are my HERO

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I used the star as the “O”. My husband didn’t “get it”, so I hope everyone else does! LOL! He usually doesn’t get much when it comes to design!

Its pretty clean, and simple.

I wanted to use a star for my “O”! So I did. I can see “it” spells HERO.

I used JustRite Stampers: Brayton Upper Case letters for the “H E R”.

I then used Star Prints (which I totally in love with) and used 2 different stars, with the punch, then cut them to create a fancy sort of Star Flag.

The “you are my” is from Father Knows Best.

I loved the swirl, so I used Fancy Flourishes to lead your eye to the falling star print. I also used Background Basics: Text Style, and the Retro set as well, along with the Let Freedom Ring set

Close up details:

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So that is that.

Now its time for YOU to HOP ALONG—–>to Mou Her blog is called My Life in Collage. She does some FAB scrapbooking-so check it out.

Lots of amazing stops along the way. I hope it inspires you in some way to not only be thankful for our freedom and our troops, but maybe offer to send some cards their way 😀

Thanks again