Holiday Card Project 2005 Wrap Up

deviantART would like to sincerely thank all of the participants who sent in cards for the 2005 Holiday Card Project.  With the help of nearly 600 deviants, we were able to deliver over 1100 holiday cards to patients in the hospital during the holiday season.

Cards were delivered and distributed in person by dA staff members (spyed, spot, Waveswinger, and Heidi) to UCI Medical Center in Orange, California.  The kind patients at UCI always welcomed seeing the smiling faces that passed out the homemade cards.  Each patient enjoyed learning that the cards were sent in by artists from around the globe.  Everyone had a great time and there was even a holiday song or two thrown in for good measure.  (Even though we're no American Idol finalists, the hospital patients and staff clapped anyway.)



Susan Mancia, the Senior Public Information Officer for UCI Medical Center, sent deviantART a note after our visit thanking everyone for their time and efforts.  "Thank you so much for distributing holiday cards at UCI Medical Center. Please let your team know that we value the time and effort they take each year to come see our patients."

In addition to UCI, holiday cards were also given to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, and the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children.  moonbeam13 personally delivered a box of cards to the Toronto Hospital and reported that everyone was touched by the fact that so many people from an online community would think of others during the holidays.



Just like in 2004, the Holiday Card Project again turned out to be a big success.  We look forward to continuing this annual event and hopefully expanding it to even more hospitals in the future.  This project would have never come to fruition if it hadn't been for our caring, artistic, and thoughtful members.


As promised, all participants of the Holiday Card Project were given a one month free subscription to the site.  Those subscriptions have now all been activated.  If for some reason you did not receive you're subscription, please do the following:

Send Heidi a note with the following information:
Your name
The approximate date your card was sent
The location you sent it from

The following users were randomly selected to win the following additional Holiday Card Project prizes:

Three deviantWEAR shirts
glamAme, Leolf, acidsunshineee

Five one-year subscriptions to deviantART
angie4450, Courti, Eponaswings, MissM69, rainbow010101

Fifteen three-month subscriptions to deviantART
aeon66flux, ayandara, bemani247, bluefairy515, Darkborne, DigiZombie-Thing, Eneleh, exceedinglyspherical, isabella02, lexidh, lycanlauren, roseofmalice, sakura13, TMers, truthfulLies