A Patriotic Chick

Welcome to my stop on the OWH Memorial Day bloghop. I am excited to be able to participate and honored to make cards for our heroes. I know you have many more stops to make so...

First and Foremost, let us not forget that Memorial Day is a sacred day. It is truly disrespectful to simply treat it as just another vacation day or an opportunity to shop 'til you drop. Far too often, Americans take for granted the freedoms we enjoy. Those freedoms were paid for, with the lives of others, few of us ever knew. They came from large cities, small towns and all walks of life with one thing in common—LOVE OF and LOYALTY TO country. This special bond brought them, and us, through many difficult times.

Wherever you find yourself this weekend I challenge you to remember the meaning of Memorial Day. Explain it to the kids, encourage  family and friends to discuss it. Attend a parade, visit a national cemetery, watch a military documentary. Since 1776, more than 1.5 million Americans have lost their lives while in uniform. Freedom is not free and sacrifice is meaningless without remembrance. By honoring our nation’s war dead, we preserve their memory, their service and their sacrifice in the memories of future generations. It's the least we can do to honor all they have done for us.

I created the Patriotic Chick I used in my card specially for the OWH blog hop. You can download it HERE. Feel free to share it with your friends. The only thing I ask is that you do not sell it in any form.

Creating a card for this blog hop was an absolute pleasure. Red, White & Blue has always been my very favorite color combination and I am a total pushover for anything with an American Flag theme. To help satisfy my obsession I create patriotic card designs on a regular basis and use them to write a few "Any Hero" cards to include in each box of cards I send into OWH.

For those who may be new to OWH, or if you don't already, I urge you to consider stamping the backs of your cards. Details on how and why this is done is HERE at the OWH site. Our dedicated shippers spend a lot of time stamping, fixing, sorting and shipping. I know that they'd love to have the extra time saved by having cards arrive already stamped or labeled, to do some creating of their own.

Before I send you off to your next stop. I am offering the blog candy pictured below as a thank you for stopping by. All you need to do to be included is to click on the EMAIL icon under my pic, type BLOG CANDY  in the subject line and CLICK SEND.  (No need to even write anything in the mail because...hey you have a lot of blogs to see!) I'll draw a random winner on June 2, 2010 and email you back for your address if you're the winner.

If you need to, you can go back to the start of the hop at www.owhstarsandstamps.org

Your next stop on the hop is Sheri at
stampinsher.blogspot.com

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy the hop and May God Bless America!