Hi everyone! Happy Friday!
Tomorrow, 1st October, is World Card Making Day. But it’s also the start of a very special event: the Caring Hearts Card Drive.
Now entering its 7th year, the Caring Hearts Card Drive is headed up by Vera Yates. Vera, along with Jennifer McGuire and a team of volunteers, collect handmade holiday cards sent in by people from all over the world, and then distribute them to elderly people living in care homes. After a couple of years of wanting to get involved with the Drive (but with personal things getting in the way) I’m personally delighted to be heading up the UK/Europe arm of things this year! The Card Drive runs from 1st October – 25th November 2016 inclusive. Tune in to Vera’s blog tomorrow for more details!
In the meantime, we are joining in with SugarPea Designs today, who have a special release especially for the Caring Hearts Drive! Wendy has designed some amazing stamps and dies with a kindness theme in mind! The release is already available on the SugarPea Designs website, and 20% of all proceeds from sales of the Caring Hearts stamp set and dies to the Alzheimers Association too!
I went for a super-CAS design that lets the message of the Drive shine through:
I used the heartbeat image from the Caring Hearts set and heat embossed it with sparkling red embossing powder to make it pop!
The sentiment I used is from the Kindness Matters set and is actually one stamp but I selectively inked it so I could split it between the heartbeat.
Love how it turned out!
So as I mentioned, this is a special hop in honour of the release! There are some *awesome* guests involved and there’ll be inspiration galore – and there are some great prizes too!
Prizes
- SugarPea Designs is giving away the entire Caring Hearts release (3 stamp sets & 3 SugarCuts dies) to one lucky commenter. Readers have until October 7th to comment
- Vera will randomly select from comments left on hop participants to give away a $25 GC to the SugarPea Designs Store
- SugarPea Designs will announce the release winner on their blog on Sunday, October 9th
And here’s the Hop order:
Jennifer McGuire
Debby Hughes
Kathy Racoosin
Laura Bassen
Lynn Reloza
Amy Kolling
Vera Yates
Chaitali Narla
Lisa Lara
Amy Rohl
Brianna Loeffelbein
Taheerah Atchia
Dana Joy
Wendy Ramlakhan (SugarPea Designs)
To be in with a chance of winning those awesome prizes make sure you hop along to all the stops and leave a comment! And do please check out the release on the SugarPea Designs website and get your hands on some new goodies – remember part of the funds go towards a good cause!
Thanks for stopping by – good luck!
Supplies
Love your card. The message says it all.
Lovely card as always. Thanks for your inspiration and it’s been a fun hop.
Just love everything about this card. I think I need that heartbeat stamp and die. Thanks for a chance to win.
Just adorable and super clean and simple. Love it.
Wow what a lovely card. Love that heartbeat stamp and die.
So cute and simple : )
I love your card Taheerah, so CAS but so effective ! Thanks for sharing.
Great. Love the Kindness set. Thanks for sharing.
Elegant. Great stamp set
Love your card. Love the project
Love it!
I love your card! Its simple but it’s not simple. I love how you used the red glitter on your card and that makes it stand out. I am all for the Kindness Campaign because there is not enough Kindness in this world. I was big time bullied as a child and teen and adult. Lucky for me and for everyone else, I am Kind so I didn’t blow up my school or shoot up my classmates. I’m a Catholic and I know God would not be pleased with me if I did ay of it. I try to be Kind to everyone every day. Sometimes I am not but 99% of the time I am. I’ll bet most people can’t even say that. I can’t wait to create cards for this campaign.
FAbulous CAS design!
Avery beautiful card!!! 🙂 love the cause also 🙂
Amazing CAS card!!! Love the simplicity of it yet it is so striking!
Super simple and super awesome!
Clean, simple but WOW 🙂
I love everything glitter! So I really love how you made the heart monitor in glitter! Such a sweet card!
I LOVE this CAS card!
Clean and simple card. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for sharing!
Such a wonderful idea! Sharing kindness.
A clean and lovely card.
Love your CAS card. I struggle with those. Thanks for caring.
Love the card with heartbeat due- so simple but beautiful!
Beautiful card with a wonderful statement
Simple card but to the point.
What a simple yet effective card! I like how you used the heartbeat and your choice of sentiments was right on the mark!
I love love love this card. So simple but the message is so powerful. These new stamps are terrific and so is this cause. This will be my third year participating and I can’t wait to get started.
This is CAS perfection!
The simplicity and color really make this card sing. Your creative use of the stamp with the selective inking is fabulous. TFS
That heartbeat is my fav of this fab release! LOVE it glittered up!!
Great CAS design and sparkly heart beat image.
Wow!!! This is a great cause!!! And your card is lovely!!!
What a great card – simple and powerful!
Oh my goodness… your card is simply AMAAAAZING!
I love the simplicity of your card.
What a great clean cut card design with a little sprinkle to boot. Love your card
Simply sweet card.
Simple and straight to the point! I love it very much! TFS
lovely CAS card and great cause! happy WCMD!
Simple, clean …. amazing! Thanks!
Beautiful card! I love the CAS look to it, and the impactful statement!
Beautiful card. I love the simplicity of it with the great sentiments added.
Your card is awesome, I love the sentiment, it is so true and I think the heartbeat die is fantastic with it!
Thank you so much for participating in this blog hop. I plan to participate in the Caring Hearts card drive mostly because of wonderful people like you.
Simple, clean, thoughtful design. Beautiful.
I love this sentiment so much! The glitter heartbeat is so pretty! Great job!
Awesome cards with great messages.
Simple and elegant, wonderful,