Making a Difference Together

This is amazing to me.   February's Share the Love campaign was an incredible success! With donations from sales of our Share the Love stamp set combined with other donations made during February, we raised more than $68,000 for Operation Smile™—that means that together we donated enough to fund 284 operations to repair cleft lips and palates! Our profoundest thanks go to each of you who helped us make a difference in the lives of so many children and their families. Thank you all for sharing the LOVE!!! Happy Scrappin', Janice

There's only a few days left to get the Stampaganza specials.

Close To My Heart added another option too.  

Hello Paradise Item Number: CC1065  Price $17.95

Hello Paradise SET OF 14 $17.95 CC1065 The exclusive Hello Paradise stamp set is available now through the end of March! Take advantage of this month’s Stampaganza promotion to earn a free stamp set when you buy two at regular price—that means that this beautiful set could be yours for FREE when you choose two other stamp sets! Get your order in now and stamp your way to paradise! 

Place your order here janicewilson.ctmh.com  

Here is another set that will go well with the Hello Paradise posted above.  

Tropical Paradise Item Number: C1531 $13.95  Set of 11

Please let me know if you have any questions.  

I can also help you create a beautiful and complete scrapbook using this stamp set, just ask me how.  

On a personal note, our plan is to go to Hawaii this year to celebrate our 35th anniversary in September, so I am so excited that I can have my scrapbook ready to just add pics when I return.  Hopefully I will remember to post pics too. 

Happy Scrappin',

Janice

It's National Stamping Month!!! And Stampaganza is here!!!

The wait is over! Who is ready for Stampaganza 2016? Buy any two My Acrylix® stamp sets (M-, A-, B-, C-, D-, or E-size) at full retail price and get a third stamp set of equal or lesser value FREE! That is a savings of up to $29.95! This offer is only available during March, so start submitting your stamp orders as soon as possible, and let the Stampaganza begin!

If you have all of the Close To My Heart Cricut Cartridges, 

but don't have all the coordinating stamp sets yet, now is the perfect time to get them.  

Send me an emial and I will send you the list of retiring stamp sets for 2016. jwilson@bctonline.com.

Patriots Penn and Voice Of Democracy Scholarship awards

Veterans Of Foreign Wars (VFW) National Scholarship Programs

PATRIOT'S PEN

Each year more than 125,000 students in grades 6-8 enter the VFW’s Patriot’s Pen youth essay contest. The first-place winner from each state competes for national awards totaling $50,000, with each first-place state winner receiving a minimum of $500 at the national level. The national first-place winner wins $5,000 and an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C.

The essay contest encourages young minds to examine America’s history, along with their own experiences in modern American society, by drafting a 300- to 400-word essay, expressing their views based on a patriotic theme chosen by the VFW Commander-in-Chief.

THE 2016-17 THEME IS: THE AMERICA I BELIEVE IN 
Due October 31, 2016

Go here for more info.

http://www.vfw.org/PatriotsPen/

VOICE OF DEMOCRACY Scholarship for 9-12 grades

Each year, nearly 40,000 high school students from across the country enter to win a share of the $2 million in educational scholarships and incentives awarded through the VFW’s Voice of Democracy audio-essay competition.

THE 2016-17 THEME IS: MY RESPONSIBILITY TO AMERICA 
Due October 31, 2016

Go here for more info.

http://www.vfw.org/VOD/

I hope you will pass this information on to all of your friends and family that have students in the 6-8th grades or the 9-12th grades.  Give them time to think about the themes and really work on some great essays.

Happy Scrappin',

Janice