If you are interested in donating birthday or encouragement cards, please join me in making Cards for Cubs. You’ll be donating cards to foster kids who deserve to be encouraged, and receiving birthday cards.

You’ll need to register and send your cards by the end of March, 2025.

You do need to register before mailing your cards so they know how many to expect from you. The minimum cards you can donate in either birthday or encouraging cards is 10. And you’ll need to donate in increments of 10 cards. So you can donate 10 birthday and 20 encouraging, or like me, donate 20 encouragement cards.

If you have a big stash of birthday cards, they don’t need to be identical, please consider donating them, I know the kids will be happy.

Website is Cardsforcubs.org

How I made my cards. I used premade card bases I got years ago at Michaels that were 5 1/2″ tall by 4 1/4″ wide. I used color matched designer paper cut to 4″ by 5 1/4″ then took 20 of the card bases and glued the designer papers on top. I bought Angie Girl stamps from Unity Stamps link: https://tinyurl.com/46spmfff and stamped them on white cardstock then colored them with alcohol markers and copied them on my copier on white cardstock so I wouldn’t have to stamp and color them again. It makes it so much easier for me each year, as now I only have to cut them out and glue them to my cards.

I use slim foam strips https://tinyurl.com/4nn8ws9z to glue to the back of the girl images, chose where I wanted to place the girls, attached them, then glued the sentiments on the front as well. I also opened the card and ran a thin row of washi tape link: https://tinyurl.com/54e9zbpd down the right side of the card and added an encouraging sentiment sticker from a roll I bought on Temu, here’s the link:https://tinyurl.com/y2h7cubv

I hope you’ll join me in donating cards to Cards for Cubs.