This is primarily for folks who live in or near Ventura County. Please read it and FEEL FREE to donate if you're from outside the area too. If you want to donate and have chances, please just let me know when you send your donation or in the notation to me online. THANKS!!! :>)
Also, PLEASE tell other area folks about this too.
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Dear Crafty Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have an amazing offer to make to you and I'm SO
excited about it!!!
Scrapbook Blessings is a terrific scrapbooking
store in Newbury Park. It's always my store of choice when I need something I
can't buy through my own business for two reasons: 1) They always have
beautiful stuff; and 2) the people there are WONDERFUL! I've been shopping and
scrapping there for years. It's a family owned and run business and they're
both super-friendly and talented. If you need help with something "scrapbooky,"
they're the folks to help you through examples, advice, and
classes.
Really, the next few sentences belong here, please
keep going... It'll make sense.
Some of you know I've lost several people I love to
cancer and am blessed to have a bunch of Cancer Survivors counted among my
family and friends. I'm involved in raising money for the Amercan Cancer
Society (which provides funds for research and support for survivors in
treatment), through Relay for Life this year with a goal of raising $4,000. I
sent out 110 letters this past week to people I hope can donate but, obviously,
I can't send a letter to everyone I'd like to. One of the last I distributed
was to Beth, co-owner, with her husband Leo, of Scrapbook Blessings because I
know that their hearts are always willing to help others.
BETH, of SCRAPBOOK BLESSINGS, BLEW ME
AWAY!
Instead of offering a donation directly from their
family, Beth offered me a FREE CROP DAY!!! Our hope is that this will bring in even more
donations.
Here's what the offer
is:
Scrapbook Blessings will
provide the space for 1 Lucky Winner and 19 of your closest friends (I'm hoping
you'll invite me but you don't have to. :>)) to crop on one Saturday of
your choosing from 10am to 5pm. Basically, you and your friends get to take
over the classroom and crop to your hearts' content! There will be
someone from Scrapbook Blessings there to help you out with whatever you need
and it's SO easy to match colors when you're scrapbooking in the store! If
you're the winner, you just call Beth at the store to set it up and you can
go in and play. This opportunity has a value of up to $300!!! That's 20
people x $15 for a full day's crop.
Please note: The certificate has no cash value and
will effectively be worth $15 x however many people you bring. It must be
redeemed by June 30, 2013.
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Here's what you have to do in order
to have a possibility of getting the certificate.
I will give you one chance for every $5.00 you
donate, through me, to Relay for Life.
$5 = 1 chance $25 = 5 chances $50 = 10 chances $500 = Well, you get the
idea...
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I'll let you all know who gets to go
play at Scrapbook Blessings and donate my own package of Stampin'
Up! goodies on October 15th.
In order to receive your
chances:
To donate by
check, please make your check out to:
“American Cancer Society”.
You can hand it to me or send it to me at:
Marcia Yoshida
5205 Prairieview Street
Camarillo, CA 93012
To donate online,
go to:
·
Choose
,“donate,” from the dropdown menu under, “Get
Involved”
·
Scroll
over, “Donate to a Participant,” enter my name, and follow the directions to
donate by credit card
Donations must be
received by October 14th as the Camarillo Relay for Life
is on October 13th and 14th.
If you have already donated, THANK
YOU and you'll still get your chances. Don't worry!
:>)
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THANK YOU SO MUCH to
Beth and Scrapbook Blessings for making this opportunity available!!! I
struggled a lot with whether or not it was appropriate to send out a donation
request to all of you. To my mind this makes it a GREAT IDEA! :>) I hope
you'll all forward this to others you think might be interested in this
opportunity. It's always good to do something to help others but it's even
better when there's a chance you could have a fun day out as a result. :>)
I always tell new scrapbookers about Scrapbook Blessings because they're
so terrific in general but this and the Charity Auction they do for military
families every December are examples of the heart of Scrapbook Blessings.
Tickets for the December auction are on sale now. They auction off all the
gorgeous layout samples from throughout the year and loads of other goodies.
$10 for dinner, a goodie bag, and "a show" with Leo in Dress Uniform! December
1st. It's a blast! Call the store for more info -- (805) 375-1568.
I told Beth, the other day, she has no idea how much
I appreciate their donation to my fundraising cause. We all have our personal stories of how cancer has
affected us. If you can, please
contribute, in the hope that someday this will no longer be true.
Very Sincerely,
Marcia
Yoshida
Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstator
and Hopeful Cancer Reasearch Fundraiser
(805) 479-8385
STORE INFO:
Scrapbook
Blessings
300 Giant Oak Avenue, Suite
E
Newbury Park, CA
91320
(805)
375-1568