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
Fabulous card!
I LOVE the card! Can’t wait to CASE it!!
I love the simplicity! So elegant. Great work!
Oh, I love the simple look… the glittery heart beat line is amazing. Perfect stamp and die sets! What a great card drive.
Your card says it all, great CAS card
What a great way to make the heartbeat stand out! Love what you’ve done with this. Thanks Much!
Wow, stunning CAS card, so beautiful but with so much impact!
Great card :o)
Your style is so clean and impactful!
What a funny and lovely card!
STUNNING!
Super awesome creation!
Lovely CAS card. What a great cause.
Love that awesome die!
Thank you for participating in such an important project that it will be touching the lives of so many. A card is a gift that says someone was thinking about you. As a person ages they lose so many things, but when they move in to a nursing home they have very few things left. A gift of a card becomes a prized possession for them that they can proudly display in their room.
Lovely card. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your CAS card. It’s simple but lovely. I’m loving this wonderful initiative and didn’t realise it was worldwide. Would love to hear who is coordinating things for Australia. Sugarpea Designs have created some great stamps and dies….love those cheeky caring critters and the sentiments. Great initiative by you all and Sugarpea Designs. Happy days and weekend
Love your card. I think I will purchase the Kindness Matters sentiments stamps. You can never have too much kindness!. Looking forward to participating in the card drive for the first time.
Simple but elegant card!
Love your design … I am a new fan of Sugar Pea Designs and would love a stamp set and/or die.
Wonderful card and love the sentiment and it is so true. Thank you for sharing.
I love how it turned out too. I love the clean lines, so classy. Thanks for sharing with us.
I like the CAS design with this heartbeat stamp.
Beautiful design! A great release!
Very nice and clean card. Love it.
I love the sentiments for kindness and your card is striking! So much inspiration in this hop!
Sure like this heartbeat. Very pretty card.
Nice CAS card!
I love your card, it’s very classy. Thanks for showing it!
Your clean design is very pretty! I like this cause and the great stamps created for it.
Simply fabulous, love it
That heartbeat die is so beautiful, definitely a lot better than the ones I have been seeing during my recent hospital stays.
Beautiful card!
Your card is simply elegarnt
Great Clean & Simple card. This is a wonderful reason for a card drive & blog hop.
Beautiful card!! Love it!
Nice card, love the heartbeat! The release and cause are both great!
love the heart beat stamp and the sentiments in these sets. very awesome.
One kind word certainly can change someone’s day. Great card
Such a beautiful card Taheerah. I just love the glitter!
Fabulous inspiration!
The heartbeat on your card is just adorable!
And what a wonderful hop!
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Love how you split the sentiment above and below the image. Great card thanks for sharing and your inspiration for such a great cause.
Your card says it all
Great CAS card. I am loving that heartbeat stamp.
Gorgeous card!!
Great card! I love the striking simplicity of your design.
Love the card and the sentiment!
Really wonderful CAS designs!
Clean and simple and just perfect.
You’ve created a really lovely, simple card!