Handmade Cards That Make a Difference

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Our Girl Scout troop loves to make hand made cards to donate to the Ronald McDonald house.  The family member of hospitalized children that temporarily live in the Ronald McDonald house love to be able to choose a card from the basket.  They can use the cards to write back home or to thank the nurses.  They might even choose a card to write a note to their child.  These cards are really special because they have stickers in them that were created by the Girl Scouts and made on the Xyron Creative Station.  This way the recipient get a card and a fun sticker to put on something special.  This post is sponsored by Xyron but the ideas and opinions are my own.

To make these cards, you will need the following supplies:

I think it is best to put the supplies out and let the girls decide how they want to design their cards.  If your troop is younger, you might want to create a sample or two for them to follow.  The younger the girls, the simpler you want to keep the project so you might not put out as many supplies.  Stamp the back of the notes first (or write made by Troop @#$%) on the back.  It is hard to do this once embellishments have been put on the fronts.

Decorate the fronts of the cards.  The most common themes that are chosen are ones that have the following themes:

  • Birthday
  • Thank You
  • Friendship
  • Feel Better
  • BLANK

Here are some darling ones that could easily be recreated using my Sweet Shop dies that I designed for Ellison Education and Sizzix.  I LOVE that they all have matching little stickers.

To make your stickers, use the Creative Station.  I explained how it works a few posts back when I shared how to make I AM journals.  After you run your designs through the Creative Station, cut them apart.  Tuck a sticker inside each card.  You can use a little bit of tape from the tape runner to make it stay in place.

If you are a troop that makes lots of stuff, I highly recommend the Xyron Permanent Adhesive Mega Runner.  You can buy refills for them!

Contact your local Ronald McDonald house to find out if they would be willing to put a basket of cards out for their families.  I bet they would be thrilled.

Cheers to Hand Made Cards that Make a Difference,

Laura

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45 thoughts on “Handmade Cards That Make a Difference”

  6. Very cute! Our troop has crafted a LOT of cards over the years for soldiers overseas, nursing home residents, and other service projects.

  8. These are so fun. I really like the idea of making stickers with that machine. Our troop would sticker everything!

  9. Too cute! This is our second year and are trying to do more community service projects this year and this would be wonderful and an easy way to get them started.

  11. As Daisies, we made the “band-aids with googly eyes” get well cards and basic stamp “thank you” cards for the police department. I think these would be perfect for stepping up our game as Brownies! These would be adorable to take to the nursing home residents! ❤️

  12. Thanks for sharing this project. Great idea for a project they can do when they come into the meeting. They would think the stamp is awesome.

  13. We would love a stamp for all of the cards, letters and packages we make and send! Such a great idea! We will add Ronald McDonald House to our list, thank you!!!❤️

  15. We make cards to be delivered with meals on wheels. A troop stamp would be a cute finishing touch. What a great idea.

  27. This is such a great idea. I’m going to bring this idea up at our first GS troop meeting. The girls would love it.

  29. Love it!!!

    I have two troops. I think my “older girls” (Juniors) would get into the idea and we already collect pop tops for Ronald McDonald House.

  31. Wish I was in your troop! Can you adopt a Texas troop?. You are so creative. Wish I had know you when I lived close by. Still miss my craft group that meet at the Chick fil A in Parker. Fun times.

  33. Every Valentine’s Day our troop makes cards for Children’s hospital. A personalized troop stamp is a great idea!

  36. This is awesome! I would love a personalized stamp for our troop! Perfect for so many things. Service projects, outing flyers, postcard exchange and pen pals, and the list goes on and on and on….

  38. These cards are really cute.. . our troop makes cards for those required to spend the holidays in the hospital.. I think we’ll need to up our game after reading this blog. We’ve love a troop stamp to go with them!

  39. This is awesome!! Our multi level Troop would have a blast with this.. We make a lot of cards for the Military, Honor Flight, Firefighters, Police & Nursing home as well as others. This would be super great to have! We are fighting off Hurricane Irma now and later this afternoon, we could make a lot with this and try to uplift people that have lost their homes, etc. Pray for Florida

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