Monday, May 23, 2011

HUGE Card-Making Event for OWH

Question:  How do you celebrate OWH's one millionth card?

Answer:  Host a huge card-making event to kick off the next million!

On May 21, employees of McGraw-Hill joined forces with customers of Scrapbook Art to make nearly 1800 cards for Operation Write Home during a McGraw-Hill Global Volunteer Day Event!



The Morning Shift




The Afternoon Shift
 

Our Final Total: 1775+ Cards
 
Many, many, many thanks to:
  • Scrapbook Art owners Caron and Amy and staff for hosting the event,
  • Scrapbook Art customers Jeri and Denise for designing and prepping gorgeous cards -- for hours and hours on end,
  • McGraw-Hill volunteers and Scrapbook Art customers for assembling cards (on a gorgeous Saturday in May, I must add),
  • McGraw-Hill for its generous support of our event, one of many Global Volunteer Day events occurring in 47 cities, 17 countries.
  


                                
                                        Material Prep Guru Jeri

Design Gurus Sandy and Denise

                  
        
               Store Co-Owner (and Proud Military Mom) Caron with
                   Team Leader Sybrina

It was an AMAZING day -- a day in which a global corporation joined forces with an independently-owned small business to make a difference for our troops and their loved ones.

 




My sincerest and deepest heartfelt thanks to all. You are ROCK STARS and our troops will love sending your cards to their loved ones!

8 comments:

Operation Write Home said...

Wahooooooooo!!!! Way to go ladies! This is crazy awesome!!!!

Dixie Cochran said...

Sybrina, what an amazing event! I know you all had fun, and our Heroes will benefit from all the hard work! Thanks a million!!!

Unknown said...

Wow! That is so cool!! Thanks to all of you!

Paula S. said...

Wow what a fantastic event!! Thanks for posting these pics and for supporting OWH. It looks like you had a blast and talk about productive, that's a lot of cards!

sandybear76 said...

Great photos! Great fun! wonderful day. Can I come again next year??? Thanks for all your hard work!!!!

Cindy O said...

What a great post! thank you for sharing it with all the photos. And wow, 1800 cards for our heroes! Fabulous.

Sybrina K said...

Thanks to all for your kind words. It was indeed a fun day. We were thrilled with creating so many beautiful cards for our heroes -- on Armed Forces Day, no less!

And, Sandy, we would LOVE for you to join us again next year!

Cheryl L. said...

What a great thing to do!!!
Happy New Year!