Jennifer Schaerer
Let the countdown begin – that’s how long we have until the fun and celebration of World Card Making Day is here for 2009! That’s right, mark your calendars for Saturday, October 3rd and start building your plans now.
No idea where to start? Try the World Card Making Day web site. We’ve got plenty of ideas for celebrating in style, plus the 2008 community gallery. We’ll be adding card projects from our product partners (with photos, instructions and supply lists!) in the coming weeks, and invite you to help build the 2009 gallery by uploading your own cards as you make them. We’ll also be launching a blog hop later this summer.
And, as we do every year, we’ll be sponsoring the 2009 World Card Making Day Card Contest. This year’s prize package is worth over $185, and we’ll be awarding four winners in each of five categories. Keep your eye on the web site for more information.
So hop on over and get started today! If you’re already a member of our Scrap and Paper Corner community, you can can login with the same username and password as your Scrap and Paper Corner profile. Otherwise, you’ll need to set yourself up as a new user.
Then, feel free to use the World Card Making Day logo anywhere you’d like – your blog, your online profile, emails, or anywhere else you can spread the word and create yet another paper crafting connection through card making.
Finally, to get you into your crafty space to start making cards, here’s a chance to win a great big boost of inspiration.
For five lucky winners, I’ve got hot-off-the-presses copies of Card Creations, Vol. 7, plus a whole bunch of cheery chipboard accents in a rainbow of colors from GCD Studios.
Leave a comment by this Sunday, June 21 at midnight MDT and let me know how World Card Making Day fits into your life – do you use it to get your paper crafting space organized? Or is it your kick-off to making your holiday cards? Is it a great excuse to get your paper crafting peeps together for some creative fun?
However you do it, just unite and celebrate the connection and creativity that is the heart of card making.
Jennifer
I have not participated in any event on this special day, but I made cards for my own inventory at home. I’m going to try and participate in events this year, possibly a local scrap store.
This will be the first year I’m participating in Card Day! I’m … preparing for it by adding tonnes of things to my stash so on that day I suppose I’ll be trying to make as many cards as I possibly can!
I’ll probably blog hop that day to try to get some inspiration. Then I’m going to use it to push myself to act on the inspiration. I also hope to organize my craft room BEFORE WCMD!
I love World Card Making Day! First off it is so much fun and secondly it gets my mojo going. I can’t wait to participate int the blog hop and contest! Thanks for the chance to win a fabulous prize!
This will be my first year taking part! I think it will be a good point to assess my progress on making Christmas cards, and a day to dedicate to catching up if I’m behind target!
World Cardmaking Day sounds like a great day to me. I will mark my calendar and try and pariticpate this year. Sounds fun!!!!
I’ve never participated before so I am looking forward to creating a new tradition!!
I use it to replenish my stash of cards and hopefully participate in some challenges on some websites.
WCMD is just a great reason to tell DH I need the whole day to craft! lol!
I love all the creative ideas that are shared on World Card Day. I try to replenish my stock and figure out what to do for my holiday cards. Thanks for getting me thinking about it 107 days out!
wow so excited this will be my first world card event. it’s like christmas and all the happy events rolled up into one. can’t wait.
Who knew such a day existed? I guess the only way to celebrate it is by making cards!
It will totally motivate me to get my groove on with card making. I love a good challenge !!!
I’ll be honest…I never even knew that there was a World Card Making Day! (Where have I been??) I looked up the date, and have marked it, though – looks like a great opportunity to get some cards done for my stash! I already have a photo picked out for Xmas too…who knows? Maybe I can even get a headstart on Xmas cards!!
I love WCMD! It just gives me one more excuse to make the cards I love!
This is the day I designate as “making cards for charity” day. My charity is the local nursing home where my aunt resides.
it’s a great time to make birthday cards for the year
I love any excuse to make cards!
This will be the first year I participate in World Card Making day. I hope to gain a lot of inspiration from the site and the amaingly talented papercrafts who submit their work to drool over.
I use WCMD as a good excuse to get together with friends and stamp up a storm!
I think it is a great excuse to get some cardmaking friends together. Unfortunately this year I’ll be on munchkin duty all day, so there won’t be much creating or socialising happening for me!
Sounds like a fun day to hang out in my craft room!
I spend the day making cards with my 6 year old daughter. She love it because it one of the only days she gets to use “mommy’s” tools.
I’m hoping to organize some people to crank out a bunch of cards for “Cards for Heroes”
Its a fun excuse for me to craft all day long
Oh Jennifer! This will be so perfect for my card kit club! I’m getting my whole design team involved! WOOOHOOO!! (I tried to email Cath but no response.) I’m heading over to the site now to check it out! Thanks!
How do I celebrate World Card Making Day….frankly, it’s just another day. Or, it has been until this year. You see, I’ve rekindled my passion for stamping and Lord willing I’ll be celebrating with an all day event at my home. In fact, now that you mention it, I think I’ll plan a big broo ha ha! I’ve been toying around with having friends over with a big contest and such. That would be the perfect time for the event! Yeah! And I think I’ll include a big prize. Like maybe a die cut machine of some sort. Hmmm…gotta run. Lots of planning to do for the party! =)
I’ll be using the day to get some more card making done. Maybe it WILL be the beginning of making my holiday cards.
I didn’t know there was such a day…but now that I do….let the creating begin!!
I’ve never heard about World Card Making Day… And now I know about it!!!
I never really take part in this but I think I might have to change that this year. It will be a good excuse to craft all day long!!!
My daughters (ages 11 & 12) and I actually logged in on a load of websites to see all the activities/downloads/blogs — so much inspiration that we lifted some ideas and got a headstart on Christmas cards for 2008. We’re looking forward to the next WCM Day
World Card Making Day is a great excuse for me to get together with my wonderful mom and make cards together! We’re both crafty, but have different craft interests. Cardmaking is the one that we have in common, so it’s a great excuse to get together! Thanks for the logo-I’ve added it to my blog!
This will be the first time I have celebrated World Card Making Day. My friends and I get together every 6 weeks or so to create cards together. I am about to create some “Save the Date” cards for them so that we can spend October 3 creating some of our holiday cards. I have already stocked up on supplies, got them last year after the holidays cheap, cheap, cheap.
Am also hoping to organize some kind of event for the store that I work at…looking for more information on that one.
Thanks for all of the inspiration. Carol
This will be my first time participating and I’m really looking forward to day filled with expressing my creativity. I plan on using the day to feel inspired and filled with new ideas!
This will be my first year participating. I think that I am going to start my Christmas cards!
I use World Cad Making Day as the start of my Christmas Cards.
Thanks for the giveaway
debbie peysen
So this will be my 1st yr celebrating World Card Making Day and I’m super excited.
I’ve put in on the house calendar, so my hubby-to-be knows. I will be home all day doing holiday cards & finishing any project that need to be completed. I also plan on participating in the online events. At the end of the day I will re-organize my lil scrap space.
Can’t Wait October 3rd here I come:) . I wonder if there is an event near my house where I can go to that day?? Oh I have to go start looking for some Christmas die cuts on sale.
it’ll be my kick off to holiday cards & gift sets!
My cardmaking club will be getting together this year and make cards together. I’ll have my laptop up and running to check in with your website and others. What a great thought that all over the world we are making cards for various causes and reasons. My first card will be for my son who works in relief aid in Sudan and sending it off to him!
This is a great Day and I definitely use it to kick off my holiday cards and I send some of my handmade creations to love ones and charity to celebrate the day and say I love you\Thinking of you.
I love the fact that there are such “days” for us creative people and we can use them as good excuses to take the day for ourselves and make cards/scrapbook or shop for those necessities!!! Thanks for the chances to win!
WCMD is the excuse in the middle of the school year for not grading papers!!!! They are exiled to the trunk of the car!!!! And I get inky fingers and usually ink on my face too somehow LOL! What a great giveaway.
I love WCMD!!!! If I’m not having a class of some kind, then you can bet I’m at my stamping desk pounding out lots of fun cards (and hopefully actually send!! GRINS!) for friends and family. Can’t wait to play in the contest again this year!
I get involved with on-line crops for World Making Card Day. I love making cards and this is a fun day and weekend for crops!
I love making cards and I attend on-line crops for WMCD!
As a demonstrator for Stampin’ Up, I will likely have a card-making event to celebrate.
Great giveaway – thanks!
Alison
Making cards is just one of my many crafty passions and I love the little notes I get from people who have received my cards. So to celebrate National Card Day in October is just a wonderful excuse to make some more wonderful cards for family and friends!
This is a great “day” in my book. I made all of my Christmas cards last year and some others as well. While I didn’t post any, it was gratifying to me! I’d love to win this issue for more great inspiration. I have every issue of Paper Crafts from the last 4 years but always love more ideas. Thanks for the great giveaway as well everything else you do for us!!!
Carol M.
I’m going to try to hold some kind of card class, either right before or on that day! Woohoo!