Along with our sister publication Creating Keepsakes, Paper Crafts recognizes the inspiring and healing power that creativity brings into our lives and the lives of others. Embracing the slogan “Creativity Heals”, we encourage our readers to donate their time, creativity and supplies towards improving the lives of others.
Want to know how you can get involved? Click on this post to see how fulfilling (and fun!) giving back can really be. Whether you organize your own benefit crop or simply mail a card to an individual in need, there are countless ways to roll up your sleeves and lend a hand.
Looking for a charity to support? One of our favorites is Operation Write Home. Their mission is to support our nation’s armed forces by sending blank greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them. As of June 27, 1,058,317 cards have been sent to deployed heroes! Click on the link above to learn how to get involved today.
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I have donted to the operation write home project. It is an amazing way to help support our troops and their families. I’m glad to see you guys backing it up! Plus, it’s a great way to clean up your stash…no hoarding!
Merry Christmas!
While I do donate my cards to other organizations, I would love to donate
to Operation Write Home. That is so wonderful that this fantastive
magazine backs this up.
Merry Christmas
I have also donated cards to Operation Write Home. Parishoners of the church I attended, donated cards and I collected them and mailed them out. A local craft store sponsored an afternoon where one could use their supplies and create cards; it was a fun way to spend an afternoon.
I would like to create cards and bookmarks for women diagnosed with breast cancer. A few years ago, I purchased a set of stamps produced by Stampin’ Up. Paper Crafts magazine had an article on using the stamps to create cards and bookmarks. I want to get some friends to make cards and bookmarks and then donate them to a breast cancer center. That is one of my goals for 2010.
Thanks for supporting Operation Write Home. I have donated nearly 500 cards to this organization because I, too, feel that it is so important to remember our Military who serve so far from home.
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Operation Write Home free craft/cardmaker day, May 15th, 10-5 at Pulaski TN. Event will be at the Pulaski Recreation Center with workshops sponsored by Close to My Heart, Creative Memories and Stampin’ Up demonstrators. Everyone welcome!!
I truly beleive that creativity does heal. I found out on March 19th that my 6 month old had brain cancer. What helps me get through this time of recovering from brain surgery and getting chemotherapy is taking lots of pictures and enjoying every moment. When all is said and done, I can go back and make a scrapbook knowing that I made every second count.
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I have donated to operation write home and I just want to thank everyone who has or is going too. It is so important to our men and women. My husband was in the army fro sixteen years and when they deploy it is hard on the entire family but I think mainly the deployee because they are in a faraway lonely usually pretty dangerous place, so god bless all of you and thank you from the bottom of our hearts. gina Kinde email ginak1117@att.net
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You might also want to look into another wonderful organization called chemoangels. Although it doesn’t require hand-made cards, it is a great outlet for those who make their own cards. I have been on both the receiving and sending sides of it, and I can tell you that receiving a card from a total stranger over a period of time is a very healing thing……..here is their website: http://www.chemoangels.net/
Some friends and I get together once or twice a month and make cards for Operation Write Home. Feels good bringing some happiness to others!
I make special anniversary cards to send to my friends who have lost a baby – from miscarriage all the way through the first months of birth. Nothing is so special and important to these Moms as letting them know that even a year or more later, their precious baby is still remembered and not forgotten. Even the tiniest life, no matter how brief, changes our life forever.
Mom to 2 girls here on earth.. & 7 Angels
I have donated cards to Operation Write Home, and it is a faboulous organization! I’ve also participated in their blog hops to honor our heros serving overseas and home as well!
I taught the art of card making and rubber stamping for two years with Girl Scouts and At Risk Teens in middle and high schools throughout my home county, and now volunteer and do projects with the residents at our local Ronald McDonald House.. another wonderful charitable organization!
I am a member of a non profit group that does just that …gives back and heals through creativity….CharitableWings.org and their Club Royalty. EVERYONE should take the time to check out their website and see what awesome things these volunteers do. You wont be sorry.
I recently organized a group at work to donate cards for Kidslink Downrange (heard about on the radio). It’s a program to create cards for military kids to send to their deployed parents. We pledged 20 kits for the last drive, and there’s a new one that just posted at
http://www.kidslinkonline.org/2010/new-project-2010/
check out it . What a rewarding project to help young kids stay connected with mom or dad while deployed.
Hi Kathy
I belong to a scrapbooking, papercrafts and more club, we just started Janurary 2010 we now have almost 100 members we are hoping we get that before Xmas. We live in a 55 and over community here is AZ we have all kind of clubs, but this one is great, there are two of us showing off your magazines, so look out you will be getting more orders, because I can’t lend mine out. I look at them almost daily.
Marlene
I recently lost my husband to cancer and during his illness, I discovered card making as a way to keep my hands busy while he was ill. I now make and sell handmade cards with all the money going to the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life to raise money for cancer research in honor of my husband. I’ve gotten a great response to my handmade cards and will continue my efforts to give back.
Operation Write Home is great.
If you’re all looking for other great opportunities, I’ll shamelessly plug a blog that volunteer write for, Charity Wings.
http://charitywingsnews.blogspot.com/
They organize and inform folks of various causes to craft for causes.
Because of them, I’ve gotten involved with Card Cupids http://www.cardcupids.org/
and Crops of Luv
http://cropsofluv.com
There is a lot of great, create crafting organizations that are giving back to others. Happy crafting!
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I’m a card maker for Operation Write Home and have made close to 8,000 cards since I started. It’s a great organization that welcomes crafters across all skill levels. Thanks to Papercrafts Magazine for supporting OWH!
18 months ago I made 350 cards for our troops…Wow was that a big job, but will worth it. I have a daughter in the military and she mentioned the cards are greatly appreciated by the troops.
I am disabled from Behcets which is a rare autoimmune disorder of the blood vessels that has no cure. Scrapbooking has been very therapeutic too me especially during the times when the pain will not let me sleep. And I love being able to leave “My story” for my boys. I donate cards to Operation Write Home and to the local Domestic Violence program. http://visionsofpaper.blogspot.com/
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I am a card maker for many years now and it helps me get through the tough days with chronic pain. i am very thankful for the card making program your magazine has decided to do for the troops. my son is deployed to the mountains in @&^*$% (secret location understandably) The troops do need encouragement. Thank you.
Thank you for the wonderful magazine also. Love the quality of the card designs. Keep up the good work. I appreciate all you do.
This is one of the best ideas I have read in a long time. I couldn’t agree with it more. I have been going through chemo and dialysis, and the only thing that gets me through those endless days and nights spent in the hospital is my big bag of card/scrapbooking supplies! And I just craft the days and nights away! I usually make cards for all the seniors at the local nursing home. It’s such an amazing feeling when you see a little old lady’s eyes light up when you hand her one of the cards that you have made. And its bitter sweet when you realize that just a simple homemade card can make someones day. I started it when my grandmother was in the nursing home, and I would go visit her every day and feed her lunch, it broke my heart to see how many seniors are left to spend the days alone with no family or friends to come and visit them. So I decided to make each one of them a card, and spend a few minutes visiting with each and every one of them so they wouldn’t feel so forgotten about. What started out as a one time visit and card, has turned into weekly visits and cards. Even though my grandmother has passed on, I still make my weekly visits! Creativity does heal!
I have been searching all over for something like this and I’m overwhelmed to finally have found it. My husband is active military so this truely means a lot to me!