Summer Card Project 2016 Wrap Up
This year, we decided to host our first ever Summer Card Project, and it was a wonderful and warm success! With nearly 2,500 cards from over 1,000 deviants, artists from all over the world brought cheer to various patients who could not enjoy the summer days outdoors.
Shortly after we announced the project, we were flooded by unique and beautiful cards. Most of them were handmade, but some there were also some wonderfully unique digitally designed cards as well! You can see a selection of the beautiful summer themed cards by exploring #SummerCardProject!
With all of the cards that came in, I asked for some assistance in opening the variety of cards! afungshui, makepictures, and danlev all helped a ton with the card opening process (chris also helped, but would only open cards from Canada 
). After they were all open, I took them home to sort them before bringing them to hospitals around LA! We took hundreds of cards each to hospitals around Los Angeles, where they were then handed out both in person by hospital staff and by putting the cards on the meal trays for the patients! While we unfortunately were unable to hand out any cards ourselves, the hospital staffs made sure to tell us just how much the cards would mean to the patients.
We even received a lovely thank you letter from the wonderful people at Huntington Hospital (fun fact—that's where I had jaw surgery in high school!).
). After they were all open, I took them home to sort them before bringing them to hospitals around LA! We took hundreds of cards each to hospitals around Los Angeles, where they were then handed out both in person by hospital staff and by putting the cards on the meal trays for the patients! While we unfortunately were unable to hand out any cards ourselves, the hospital staffs made sure to tell us just how much the cards would mean to the patients. We even received a lovely thank you letter from the wonderful people at Huntington Hospital (fun fact—that's where I had jaw surgery in high school!).
While we weren’t able to send any cards outside of the Los Angeles area for this season’s project, we’re looking to get started early on finding volunteers for this year's Holiday Card Project! If you sent in a note about volunteering for the Summer Card Project, you should have a note from me about volunteering for the Holiday Card Project! If you didn't reach out about the Summer Card Project but would like to volunteer to hand out cards for our 10th annual Holiday Card Project, please send me a note!
Every person who sent in a card with their username on a separate piece of paper should now have a 1-month Core Membership! If you sent in a card and did not receive your Core Membership, don't fret—that doesn't mean that we didn't receive your card! Some cards didn't have usernames in the envelopes with them, and some usernames were hard to record (especially when they have 0's and O's). If you didn't receive your membership and you sent in a card to us through the mail, please send me (madizzlee) a note with your name, a description of your card, and approximately when you sent it in to us!
Thank you to every single deviant who helped make this card project a success! Every single one of you helped make life a little brighter for someone in the hospital.
