Saturday, December 12, 2015

Caring Hearts Card Drive 2015 Update & Winners List

Hi everyone. I know many of you have been waiting for the update for Caring Hearts Card Drive. here we  go!

First of all, thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support for Caring Hearts Card Drive. Because of your support and generosity, we have another record breaking year!! We collected 21,681 cards & covering 127 nursing homes throughout US, Canada and Australia. 

Jennifer McGuire, Tina Schrof, Linda Langes, Anita Recksiedler, Caroline Bredeson and I are honored that you support our card drive. We are a small team & we do this on volunteer basis and your support means so much to us.

This is truly a community effort. And, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for caring, thank you for sharing our vision of giving & spreading kindness. When I started this, I never thought it would get this big, but I'm glad that it did, because we are doing what I believe Christmas is all about. That it's about caring, sharing & giving joy to others.

I am excited that many more people express interest to add their local nursing homes to our list. As long as we have cards to cover the number of residents, we gladly send cards to the nursing home that was suggested to us. :)

Now, time to celebrate this record breaking year with some fabulous giveaway. Here's the list of all the prize winners. Ladies, I'll be emailing you all. Thank you again to all for your support & caring hearts. We appreciate you so much!

Altenew $30 gc - JK Residential

Avery Elle $30 gce - Terrie Rodrigue

a2zscrapbooking.com $25 gc - Laura Walls

A Jillian Vance Design $20 gc - Kit Amot

Butterfly Reflections $25 gc - Ann Tuck

Clearly Besotted £30 gc -  Lynda Smith

Ellen Hutson $50 gc - Lillian Gates

Hero Arts $50 gc - Darnell Knaus

Janes Doodles  $75 gc -  Harriet Emmertono

Jennifer McGuire Ink 10 stamps -  Jane Reynolds

Just Dandy Studio $25 gc - Therese Dion

Lil Inker Designs $35 gc - Angela Comer

Latina Crafter $40 gc - Pamela Ramada

Lucy's Cards 8 bags of Sparkly Shaker Selection's - Lois Andrews

Mama Elephant $25 gc - Carol Henderson

May Arts (Ribbon Resource) $20 gc - Cheryl Lee

My Favorite Things $50 gc - Ruby Naz

Neat and Tangled $50 gc - Debbie Groff

Newton's Nook $25 gc - Gia Ligato

Online Card Classes 1 class - Jackie Lic

Online Card Classes 1 class - Ileana Rivera

Online Card Classes 1 class - Jennifer Gaull 

Organize More $75 gc - Patty Yates

Paper Smooches $25 gc - Jessica Boehm

Paper Smooches $25 gc - Ria Montefalcon

Pretty Pink Posh $25 gc - Tracy Ross

Pretty Pink Posh $25 gc - Miriam Leech

Reverse Confetti $25 gc - Tracie Pond & Debbie Doud

Richard Garay for Spellbinders Spellbinders package - LeAnne Rykard

Sarah Rigby (Stampin Up) $25 gc + $25 gift pack - Sandra Rice

Simon Says Stamp $50 gc - Gwen Dapper

SugarPea Designs $25 gc - Lon Tomokiyo

Technique Tuesday You're So Sweet Stamp Set - Ann Reisinger

The Ton Stamps $25 gc - Mary Elizabeth Crane

Verve Stamps $30 gc - Sue Harton

Waffle Flower $65 GC - Ashley Gohl

Waltzing Mouse Stamps £25 gc - Elizabeth McInnes

WPlus9 $50 gc - Anna Jackson

Winnie and Walter $50 gc - Leslie Hansen

Tim holtz prize pack $100 value - Gail Silva

Ranger prize pack $50 value Stacy Reynolds

Honey Bee Stamps $25 gc - Stacey Fung Chung

Honey Bee Stamps $25 gc - Diane Herniman

Cutcardstock.com $50 gc - Dana Kirby

Sweet Stamp Shop (1) $25 gc - Yanis Risela Tanjaya

Sweet Stamp Shop (1) $25 gc - Jung AhSang

Mint Owl Studio $25 gc - Jessica Richarson

Taylored Expression $50 gc - Nathalia O'Connel

www.papercrafterscorner.com $75 prize box - Susan Sisk

gina k $100 gc - Theresa French

Lawn Fawn $50 gc - Barb Darling

www.pinkandmain.com $25 gc - Kathy Nelson

Crafter's Companion $25 gc - Ann Benda

Spectrum Noir $25 gc - Donna Hitz

Hallmark Scrapbook & Crafts $50 gc - Carol Coneeny

26 comments:

terrie said...

Thank you to all the ladies who made this happen for such a great cause...also to the sponsors.
It was a pleasure making these cards and hoping it put a smile on someone face for the holidays...
Merry Christmas

Susan R. Opel said...

I'm so proud of you, Vera! <3

KT Fit Kitty said...

That is WONDERFUL! So many cards to bring joy to seniors! Glad I could be part of it! Well done to you and your team!

Judy1223 said...

Wow! That is so wonderful to hear, a record-breaking year! Woo Hoo! Thank you so much, Vera, for all your hard work and dedication to this worthwhile endeavor. As long as I make cards, I will participate! Congrats to the winners and thanks to all the generous sponsors, too. Well done, everyone! Merry Chjristmas!!!

Deb McCleary said...

Brilliant effort Vera! It's an honour to be involved in this wonderful event each year! And I love that one of my friends has won a prize!! Awesome!
Deb.xx

Unknown said...

Wow so many cards! It was my pleasure to participate; I had no idea there was to be prizes. Thank you!

Linda said...

Woohoo! Congrats to the winners and big thanks to everyone who contributed cards. Awesome job Vera! xx

Ann said...

Thank you Vera and team - a super effort to bring cheer to so many older citizens! Thanks also to your many sponsors who have donated prizes - I'm sure we didn't make cards in order to win anything, but it is lovely to have that icing on the cake! Thanks to Vanessa at Butterfly Reflections:)

Shelly said...

So AMAZING, Vera!! Thank you again for everything!! <3
Congrats to all the winners!!

Mary-Anne V said...

Congrats on another super successful year..you have made all us better by sharing our talents to lift people up and made many of our elderly very happy.

lostinpaper said...

What an amazing effort, thanks for organizing such a wonderful event!

Rubeena I. said...

So happy to hear this year was another success!! Thanks to everyone for all the hard work and for the sponsors donating prizes!

Lori Kobular said...

Wow! That is an awesome amount of good cheer to be spreading! Thank you for coming up with this wonderful idea and for keeping it going!!

Jill said...

VERA!!! THAT is an awesome awesome amount of cards my friend! Such an amazing and important undertaking! Truly just so kindhearted. You all should be proud of your accomplishments on sharing and spreading the love. :)

Tracie Pond said...

Thank you to everyone involved in this wonderful card drive. Thank you for making a difference. Thank you for making someone smile.

Winter said...

Congrats on another successful year! Thanks for all your hard work! :)

Debbie said...

What an amazing achievement. I look forward to participating again next year. Great job and thank you to everyone.

Cindy C. said...

Congrats to another successful drive Vera!! And congrats to all the winners!
Merry Christmas!!

Bunny said...

Wow, what a large amount of cards. How wonderful. Congratulations to the winners. I'm glad I got to take part in this and thank you for putting a smile on someone's face. What a nice feeling.

Ruth G said...

Congratulations to the winners! Enjoy your goodies!

Thanks so much, to you, Vera for hosting this wonderful project! I love participating and look forward to sending more cards in 2016!

Jeannine H. said...

So many cards collected and distributed! It is so wonderful that so many people gave their time and talents (including lots by the orgnaizers) to help bring some joy to people in nursing homes. I only learned of this initiative this year so i plan to start earlier in 2016. It is such a wonderful initiative! Many thanks to all for caring.

Helen Gullett said...

WOW Luar Biasa, Vera!!! This is just an awesome cause! So thankful for you and the team who worked really hard to gather the cards, sorted them and sent them all out to the nursing homes! I am so thankful to be able to join last year and hope to make more this year.

You are amazing!

MaggieB1983 said...

Hi Vera ~ Thank YOU and your "team" for doing another awesome job this year with this wonderful, meaningful card drive. This is the first year I've participated and plan on doing so again later this year. Congratulations to all the winners ~ enjoy your well-deserved goodies!!
#sharehandmadekindness

ionabunny said...

Wow, a phenomenal number of cards, Congrats to the lucky winners. Hugz

zehra said...

Wow so many cards, hope it brings peace. Thank u for the drive and congrats to all the winners

Susan King said...

Words can not express the joy and thankfulness I have for all of you ladies who keep this drive going! I know the amount of work that you all do to coordinate this and what an honor it is to make cards for those who deserve a little kindness. My prayers go to each of you ladies for your commitment to continue this drive year after year!

Blessings!
Susan

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