While it is nice, if you are on Facebook, to see a whole list of birthday greetings from all your Facebook friends, wouldn’t it be even nicer to go to your mailbox on your birthday and find it filled with a stack of birthday cards (and not bills and credit card applications!)?! Put this #imbringingbirthdaysback Stamp #143573 on your Stampin’ Up! order and be part of the movement to Bring Birthdays Back! Let’s send real cards to our friends and family! Let them have the treat of finding a real birthday card in their mailbox on their birthday! Use this stamp to stamp the back of the card or the envelope to encourage others to participate!
This is how I remember birthdays growing up, when the mailman “knew” it was someone’s birthday because they got a whole bunch of mail! As a child I would often get a dollar or two or three enclosed in each card from family friends and relatives far and wide. Now why do I even remember that? It’s because I remember going out to the mailbox and finding that birthday mail, maybe even talking to the mailman (his name was Ed!), opening all those cards, setting them up on the piano, writing thank you notes when I got a gift, etc. And I might add, seeing the handwritten note in the card and the signature of the person, the real handwritten signature! People these days do not even sign their Christmas cards, they are all printed! Quicker for sure, but I think we are losing the personal touch! Your handwriting is so important! (But that’s a soapbox for another day!) Do you remember all the birthday greetings you got last year on Facebook? Probably not!
Shannon West, from the Stampin’ Up! Home Office and one of our favorite presenters at Stampin’ Up! events, awhile back decided to do something about this and started sending birthday cards to friends and family and received hundreds of requests on her Facebook page for a birthday card in the mail. She actually made a stamp with the hashtag #imbringingbirthdaysback. Sara Douglass, Interim CEO of Stampin’ Up!, asked how Stampin’ Up! could support her effort and ended up making the stamp Shannon had designed. Last week the stamp was released, but it sold out in only four hours! Today it is back in the Online Store and you can put it on your regular Stampin’ Up! order!
#imbringingbirthdaysback Single Wood-Mount Stamp #143573 $12.00
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