May Arts Ribbon is proud to support our nation’s deployed heroes through Operation Write Home®! This organization has sent over one million cards overseas so our service members can keep in touch with their loved ones while they’re away. I hope you enjoy all the projects we’re sharing on our blog – and take some time to check out OWH’s blog and all the others participating, starting at the top of the hop. You’ll be inspired!
I am so honored to be able to participate in the Operation Write Home Blog Hop. Our military men and women are far from home without the daily love and support of their loved ones. OWH gives them a way to stay in touch. Thanks OWH and May Arts for giving us a way to be encouragers to our brave men and women in the military.
This hop means something extra special to me this year as my best friend is being deployed on Monday to the middle east. She is a single mom and has to leave her two children behind here in the states. She is a doctor in the Air Force and will be taking care of our soldiers but is also a pilot – which is rare in the military. I have already created some cards for her to send back to her children and I will be adding this one to the bunch so she can send it home. I cannot wait for her safe return.
I support our troops for the simple fact that they support me by dedicating their time, energy, and precious moments to protecting a land where I get to be whatever I want to be. Making a few extra cards here and there gives me the opportunity to help them stay in touch and not be lost.
I don’t take our freedom for granted. Ever. Our troops and their families sacrifice so much so that our country remains strong & free. Donating cards to OWH so that those families can still feel connected is a joy!
Thank you to those who serve, past or present, and their families!
I would love to send my thanks to everyone serving and making the world a better place. Thank You and your families for all you do.
Being the member of a family with a long military heritage I understand the courage and sacrifice of every soldier and the families that support them, many thanks to them all. Click Here for details on this card.
Sometimes a simple card means so much more then the catchy saying written and the picture on the front. A card from a loved one far away is like that warm hug you can’t have, that “I love you” you can’t hear everyday. If one of my cards can help convey that powerful feeling, then I’m more then happy to share it. That is why I support Operation Write Home. Click Here for more details!
A big thank you to all of our troops and their families for serving our great country. God Bless You! Click Here for more details!
It is an honor to give back to these heroes, even through the smallest gesture such as a handmade card. And because they are missed by their loved ones every day, this “I miss you” card will hopefully brighten a heroes day! My gratitude is immeasurable…thank you for your service!
This fun card for Operation Write Home started with the starry background and grew from there! I love how the stitched edge really sets off the dark night sky, and thanks to a little trick, my yellow thread perfectly matches my May Arts bakers twine. Click Here for more details!
I created my card using some subtle patterned paper and let the satin cut out stars do all the talking. I love that you can cut these apart so perfectly. I used sketch #165 as a base design on my card and jazzed it up with May Arts goodness. Click Here for details!
Now for the giveaway! To enter to win:
2 Spools of Ribbon – Winner’s Choice!
All you have to do is post a comment here! Easy, peasy right? I’ll announce a winner right here on Tuesday, May 27th.
Happy Memorial Day, y’all!
If you love ribbon too, then check out our Design Team Call!
Winner!
We have a winner! Congratulations to:
Cheri Weston
I am so moved by the May Arts DT comments and the passion they have each placed in their cards. What a fabulous tribute to Memorial Day and the reason we have it. The cards are each works of art. Love them all.
Cheri, email me at Bethney@mayarts.com with your shipping address to claim your prize!
**all winners have 2 weeks to claim their prize**
**when emailing, please note which giveaway/prize you are claiming**
I know I am late to the party but I wanted to say Thank You for your sopport of OWH. WTG to all the cardmakers…fabby inspiration!
May Arts has the best answer for a ribbon craft or for,… YES….
tying a bow!!!! May Arts is a problem solver and inspiration source!,
These are all such amazing patriotic cards!
Wowsers! What a talented design team, these cards are all fabulous!
I love the Thank you card with the lace!
I love cards with ribbon on them. However, I don’t tend to use it as much as I’d like. It’s always inspring to come to your blog and see how beautiful a little ribbon will do for a project…
So many great cards but I especially like Lalo IK’s thank my lucky stars and Shellye McDaniel’s miss you cards.
Such great ribbony inspiration! Love the puffy stars in the first card! Thank you so much for supporting OWH! Your ribbon is yummy!
I love the rocketship card! So cute!
All these cards are absolutely stunning, but the one by DeeDee Catron just blew me away! It’s so different from anything I would have dreamed up, and I especially love the lace and the twine. They’re all going to my Pinterest board!
Love the textures on the cards–great ideas here!
Just love all the textures on the cards! Fun!
Great cards!
I especially like the card with the flowers
Everyone card are great!! Thanks for sharing them 🙂
Angela
chewiescrappin@hotmail.com
All those amazing cards!! The rocket ship is so cute and the stitching is a perfect match–can’t wait to read about the trick! Thanks for the giveaway!!
What a fabulous array of cards. They are great and what a wonderful friend you are to the your friend — she will enjoy sending these cards and others to her loved ones. A special thanks for all you are doing in support of the troops. AND, ribbon — who doesn’t love ribbon. Thanks for offering the candy. brendah1951 at gmail dot com
Beautiful cards.
May arts gals never disappoint! These are all so amazing and the personal connections are touching. Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win some yummy ribbon.
I can’t decide which of your cards I like best. Love the way you wrapped the ribbon around the heart on the luck stars card. I hope your friend completes her tour safely and many thanks to her and all of the troops serving or have served!
Wow- love all the unique, unusual elements on these cards–what a load of goodness! TFS! RBBRRMQN at YAHOO dot COM Nancy M
Sweet cards!!!
Wow, so much inspiration. Beautiful patriotic cards!
Thank you for your projects and your words for our troops! OWH is such a wonderful organization!
Wow these are all so amazing. GReat shares, very patriotic.
WOW! All of your cards are just beautiful! Thank you for sharing and for the chance to win.
These are all so great—but Jen’s card stopped me in my tracks. Thanks for your support!
Sandy, OWH Exec Director
https://sandyallnock.com
Beautiful cards with so many ideas on how to use ribbon. Thanks for a chance to win. Have a great day and thanks for your support of OWH.
Wow, all of these cards are fabulous! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful fabulous cards! The stars are lovely and I haven’t seen them before. I love the enamel dots and the ribbon banners. Love your ribbon.
Wow, I LOVE that starry ribbon!!!! I HAVE to get some of that. That said, all of these cards are beautiful, as are the comments of the crafters. If I had to pick a favorite, it would be Rhea’s because I love all that ribbon!!!
Beautiful cards for a wonderful cause. Thanks for the chance to win!
-Cher
Love all the cards. Keep up the good work. And best wishes for the safe return of your friend.
Wonderful assortment of cards. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
🙂 Marie
Wonderful assortment of cards. Thank you for the opportunity to win.
🙂 Marie
I am so moved by the May Arts DT comments and the passion they have each placed in their cards. What a fabulous tribute to Memorial Day and the reason we have it. The cards are each works of art. Love them all.
What a fabulous collection of cards from the DT! Thanks so much for all you do for OWH… and for the opportunity to win some blog candy!
All the cards were beautiful! Thank you all for sharing in this hop!
Each card was unique and special and it would be hard to choose just one that I liked above all others. I appreciate all of you participating in the Memorial Day blog hop and making cards for Operation Write Home.
All of these cards are so great I can’t pick just one. I’d love to receive each and every one. Great job ladies! Thanks for participating and supporting the OWH blog hop.
Not sure how it’s possible, but I love every card here! great work!
Wonderful cards, great selection of different styles!
Great cards with such a wide variety! I used the sketch that Shellye used for last year’s blog hop!
What wonderful cards! Dee Dee’s card is very special. I love all of the different textures! Thanks for supporting OWH! ♡
awesome cards! Red, White and Blue is so easy to work with
thanks for your support of Operation Write Home
Nice group of cards!
Thanks for supporting OWH!!!
Ladies what a wonderful job you did on all the cards. Love them all. Thanks for sharing.
First of all, thank you for supporting Operation Write Home. I’m so thankful that you all shared some many inspirational cards with us as well. I’m keeping these for later CASEing!
Wonderful cards and for such a great organization! Thanks for the chance to win!
WOW all of these are gorgeous! Fabulous designs and textures on all! Thanks so much for supporting OWH!
Oh My! These cards with ribbon designs are gorgeous. Thank you for all the inspiration. Thanks for a chance to win! Have a great day and thanks for supporting OWH!
What a fabulous collection of cards! I think ribbon always such a special, tactile touch, and of course, so pretty!
You have been VERY busy! Love each and every one of your creations. My goodness…you are so creative! Thanks for sharing 🙂
oh my gosh what an excellent group of beautiful cards. I love the cut out ribbon hearts and stars!!!
thank you for all of the beautiful, patriotic inspiration using your gorgeous ribbons! 🙂
This is an impressive collection of cards! I can never get enough help in the way of ideas when it comes to using ribbon and always love seeing what the May Arts Ribbon DT does. Thanks to everyone at May Arts for joining in the hop this weekend and supporting OWH!
Wow! What great cards – nice job on ALL of them!!!
Thanks for sharing and inspiring the rest of us.
SO many wonderful cards and Ideas. Thank you so much for supporting OWH!
What beautiful cards! And, beautiful ribbons. A card is not complete without ribbon!
What a wonderful design team you have! All of the cards are beautiful and unique. Of course, the ribbons are just fabulous but I love all the little details and sentiments. Great job ladies ~ Thank you for support OWH!!
These cards are gorgeous. Love the use of ribbon for texture and interest. Thank you for supporting OWH.
What gorgeous cards. Love the use of ribbon to add texture and interest! Thanks for supporting OWH!
Thanks to May Arts for it’s support of OWH. All those ribbons add so much interest and texture to the cards. How could anyone pick just 2 ribbons from May Arts???
R/
Love all those beautiful ribbons on all the cards!
Love the diagonal card. I’m going to check out the fabric because I hate not being able to use glitter.
Lee2Newton@hotmail.com
It is so neat to see the different textures of ribbon on the cards.
The cards were all gorgeous, they were all inspirational. Who would of thought that ribbon was so diverse. Awesome job!
Lovely cards with pretty ribbon.
Beautiful cards and love the sentiments all the card makers wrote- love the support for those who serve and the families
I love all these cards. Best wishes to your friend!
Gorgeous cards! Thank you for the chance to win.
Love the beautiful cards. Thanks you for supporting OWH.
Blown away by so many wonderful cards on one blog! Extra prayers for Courtney’s friend 🙂
I love how the ribbons are used on these cards! Thank you for the inspiration and even more importantly, thank you for the men and women serving and protecting our country!
Happy Memorial Day
to all and thanks for
the service to our
Country! Beautiful
cards.
Carla from Utah
These are all wonderful cards. I love the creative uses of the ribbons.
Wow! These are all such amazing cards! Great work by the Ribbonistas! Thanks for the inspiration.
Really pretty cards–anyone would appreciate getting one!
Wonderful bunch of cards – couldn’t pick a fave if I tried! Thanks for the giveaway too!
All the cards are beautiful as is your ribbon!! Something about the whimsical nature of Dee Dee’s card really caught my eye. I’ve been struggling with what to do with doilies and Dee Dee really made all the embellie’s tie together. Thank you!!
I SO love the diagonal card! the ribbon and beading is gorgeous!!! Thank you so much for supporting OWH!!
BobbisTreasure at aol dot com
What a lovely way to support OWH (and our Troops overseas). I Love the great variety of ribbons (red, white, and blue) used, but be very careful with your embellishments used (the silver glitter stars). They cannot accept any cards with sparkly stars or glitter. These cards are dangerous for our Troops, because they give away their positions while in the combat theater. Many of our Soldiers take these cards and place them in their rucksacks and then travel with them. All that glitter shines for the enemy to see and that is extremely dangerous!
Hi Kathleen,
Thanks for your comment
The stars are not glitter, they are fabric and meet the guidelines for OWH since there is nothing that can rub off on clothing or skin. May Arts offers us a way to sparkle without the dangers of glitter.
Wow–Lots of eye candy. Great group of cards!!
I love all these cards and will have to come back again. Thank you for sharing.
What an amazing batch of cards! Love all the ribbon and gorgeous designs.
Wow! If I wasn’t inspired before, I certainly am now. What amazing cards and great designers. Thank you so much for supporting OWH and for sharing so many kind and encouraging words about our servicemen and women. Thank you for an opportunity to win some of your beautiful ribbon.
WOW!!! What an amazing selection of cards from your DT. Lots of beautiful texture and design.
Love all the ribbon – I need to start using more on my cards.
Oh, my gosh. I love all of the cards! those puffy silver stars on the first one…what are they?
Hi Linda,
Thanks for your comment! Those stars are May Arts Satin Cut Outs:
https://mayarts.wpengine.com/ribbons/7-8inch-satin-cutouts/
They offer a safe way to add some glamour to OWH cards.
What a great blog hop today for such a great cause. Loved each and every stop along the way. So many wonderful ideas from such talented ladies. Thanks for sponsoring.
love all of these cards. It’s too hard to choose just one! I add ribbon to many of my cards but it is just a bow or a strip. what ideas for me to use on my next card.
Love the red, white and blue hearts. So eye-catching.
Awesome cards for OWH! Lots of great ribbons to choose from on these pretty cards for the Memorial Day Weekend hop!
I have so enjoyed seeing all these wonderful red, white and blue cards! Terrific design ideas…each made with love, respect and an obvious display of patriotism. Thank you!
Thank you for supporting OWH, that’s how I found out about your wonderful ribbon.
Te cards are so fantastic. Love every one of them.
These are all fantastic cards and OWH is such a great way to support the troops!!
All of the cards are so great, I don’t know where to start commenting. Thanks for sharing all these cards with us,.
I’m with you, I have 2 family members in the Marines right now, 1 in the Navy and 2 more going in. I can fell the Thanks for there services as well as all the rest. TFS.
Holy-moly, these cards are amazing! I can’t pick a favorite. Thanks for supporting OWH!
Thank you for supporting OWH! May Arts ribbons are the best! Your design team has some fabulous contributions to the hop and their stories have touched my heart.
This is the best selection of cards I have seen so far today! I love the anchor with stars and so many of the others! Wow! What inspiration! Thanks so much for posting so many beautiful ideas. Wow.
Super works of art by all the design team. I really like all the variety and different approaches each took for their cards and projects.
Wonderful cards by the team. They have outdone themselves. Courtney Lee – hoping for a safe journey for your friend.
Wow!! You have been busy. They are all so lovely!
Wow – what great texture your ribbon adds to cards. I don’t use a whole lot of ribbon and I don’t know why when I see cards like these. Thanks for participating in the OWH hop.
Wow!!! So many cards! Great inspirations! Love layering….
So many great ideas and love how several used the twine so cleverly.
What a wonderful bunch of cards – so inspirational and all so perfect for Operation Write Home!! A fabulous thing to be a part of!! Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win!!
What a great collection of cards – all the talent is wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
April
Oh, my goodness. Can’t even find words to comment on these cards – they are sooo fantastic. What gorgeous ribbons and embellishment. Thank you so much for your support of OWH and also for the giveaway. WOW
Wow! YOu have been busy making such beautiful cards! Love all your ribbons and embellishments!
Wow! So many amazing cards and inspiring ideas! Very patriotic!
Such gorgeous projects, love all the inspiration!!!
So, many beautiful cards! You’ve been a very busy cardmaker! LOL
Wonderful cards! I love them all but I think my favorites are the ones with the ribbons and trims on the diagonal with the “thank you” and the Dee Dee Catron one with the doily and side ribbon. Just beautiful, all of them. Thanks for so many inspirations! Hugs, Kristina
so many great cards – i will be returning for inspiration!! I’m loving the blue and white chevron ribbon!
Congratulations to all of the designers who created these beautiful cards! OWH and the service personnel who will receive them should be honored by these cards. Thankful to all who help protect our country!
Wow, great cards! That first card with the puffy stars and chevron ribbon is one of my favorites!
Thank you all for the beautiful cards that you will be sending out and all the hard work that went into each and every card; they are all beautiful!
These cards are beautiful, and so meaningful! Thanks!
So much yummy ribbon! On the cards I mean. Beautiful cards, as always!
Awesome cards…love how the ribbon was used in so many creative ways.
Oh wow…. All of these cards are absolutely stunning and amazing!!!
Wow! These are fabulous cards that will make some lucky people very happy.
Each card is prettier than the next, I cannot pick a favorite! Thank you for the give away and for supporting OWH!
Love the 4th papers and ribbons – the colors are bright and bold. Great to be able to show the love you have for your country and those who have fought to save it. The cards are amazing. I’m designing a 4th card for my stamping group and I was glad to get some inspiration.
Wow, everyone put all their heart and soul into making these gorgeous cards for our troops. What a kind gesture for the folks who put their lives on hold and in jeopardy, so we can all live in a free country. Thank you, Ladies.
I like the texture and dimension of your cards.
I wasn’t expecting to see so many fantastic cards in one stop. Great job ladies.
What a beautiful way to support our troops and celebrate this special holiday! Thank you.
Wow–what wonderful cards using May Arts ribbon!
Those are all very beautiful, i hope everyone has a safe and fun filled weekend!!
beautiful cards. thanks for supporting OWH
Barb Housner
Wonderful cards! thank you to our troops that keep us safe.
stamping sue
https://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
Operations Write Home is an AMAZING organisation that does a WONDERFUL job keeping military families connected and it also allows crafters like us make a difference all year through!!!
LOVE the FABULOUS variety of cards the Ribbonista’s have created and shared – THANK YOU for the inspiration ladies!!!
I love the red, white & blue! Thank you everyone for such beautiful cards!
OH.My.Word!! Can we say GORGEOUS??? Amazing -ly beautiful cards!
Love all the cards and May Arts Ribbon too! Thanks for the giveaway!