This Specialist said he saw a Captain America pog, pictured, and figured he'd answer it with his card design. Cool! If you want to know more about this "Pog" - see this article, but here's a quick excerpt:
... AAFES [Army Air Force Exchange Services] has been using pogs – 1.5-inch polystyrene discs, for those who don't recall the 90's fad – as currency on military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Putting Marvel super heroes on the pogs in June 2008 simply made the program a little bit cooler.
"We can't print money," said Dr. Jim Skibo, VP of Marketing and Advertising for the AAFES. "[And] we will not ship coinage into the warzone. It costs a small fortune to ship stuff like that, so we use [the pogs] as gift certificates."
This hero was inspired to also make a 2nd card....awesome job!
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93 comments:
What a fantastic card. I love it. Great job! I remember pog..LOL does that make me old?
Happy hopping.
Oh my Oh my OH MY... Those cards are awesome! Thank you for your service and sharing your talent :)
MB - beautiful cards. Thanks for reminding us of pogs -- had forgotten that one, lol.
Love your cards and appreciate you taking the time to make them and send them in for the blog hop.
Both my husband and I appreciate your efforts and sacrifice to keeping America free. God Bless You and your fellow servicemen and women.
Oh these are so awesome. Thank you for taking the time to share them with us. I will proudly use them to send out letters to heroes like yourself.
Thank you for all you have done for me, my family and this country.
Keep yourself safe and come home soon! May God bless you richly.
Dear SPC M.B.,
THANK YOU for you service in keeping this great country safe. My daughter will be deploying to Afghanistan this year as well. Please stay safe!
Your cards are awesome! I especially love the Any Hero card!
What an awesome card! As a former Army wife I couldn't agree more! Thanks for sharing. Lisa
SPC M.B. You and every other member of our military are my heroes! HOO-RAH
such great cards! and a wonderful download! yep, our troops are our best superheroes! :)
These cards are great! And thank you for your service! Stay safe!
What a fantastic card and so true. The ones out there fighting for our freedom are the real super heros. Thank you to all of you who sacrifice for our great nation.
Love SPC M.B.'s card. So cool. Thank you for serving.
WOW these are awesome!! I love the AnyHero card! A sincere and heartfelt Thank you for your service!
It's about darn time the fake heros face were replace with real ones!!!!
Love the cards...Great job!!!!!
Fantastic card, I think we've got a job for you as soon as your back.....Now make sure you write home more often.
Stampin Hugs,
Jeanine in TN
Wow...what a wonderful hop! having so much fun hopin' along! Thanks for the chance to win this sweet goodies!
Karen
maddenmom at gmail dot com
Fantastic cards! Thanks for participating in the Hop - and even more for serving our country! It means the world to us back here in the states.
Love, love, love your cards! And how true they are!!
How totally cool to have our heroes participate in the blog hop. This post really made my day!
what a wonderful meaningful card....
Thank you for creating such a great card for us but also, for the service you are giving our great nation. It is because of people like you that we have the freedoms we enjoy everyday. Thank you!
Thanks so much for your service! These cards are awesome! Made me smile!!
Now those are cool cards! I love the tidbit about pogs. I sure didn't know that. Thanks to our cardmaking hero for sharing his wonderful creations with us!
Thats awesome! Love his cards! TFS
SPC MB- your card is fabulous! I think my male students might really like it- they tend to find the cards I use for Any Hero letters too "frilly" (not the word they use, lol!).
Clever super hero cards!
These cards are awesome! Thank you for all you do!
Love these cards! They're "simple" yet state the message very clearly. Thank you for making and sharing them!
THANK YOU for your service to our country. Your sacrifices are truly appreciated. Please come home safe. God Bless YOU!!
To our hero: thank you so much for creating this card! You are completely correct, the real heroes are the men and women who are serving in our military. :)
Wow!!! I'm impressed!!! This is awesome....thanks for sharing as a freebie....can't wait to use it!!! ;)
And thank you so much to all the brave men and women who serve our great country....we really appreciate you!!!;)
Both cards are absolutely amazing. Thank you to all those who serve, may God hold you in his hands and protect you as you do your duties.
Now that is awesome! I downloaded the card and I will include a few in my next batch sent in to OWH. I really love the "Priceless!" card too! Way to go!!! Thank you for your service!
Hugs,
Lelia
Totally makes me smile that some of our troops are making cards for OWH and playing along in the bloghop! AWESOME cards and SOOOOO true!
Beautiful, fun card.
The cards are very clever. I can't wait to use the Superhero one! It makes me smile thinking of our heroes trying to make cards for us!!!
Thanks for sharing. robinski6 at yahoo dot com
Love it. Pogs as currency...now that's funny money.
Very cool cards and interesting fact about the pogs! Will be back to read more later! Thanks and have a great weekend! ;o)
Dear MB, We card makers love to help out. But to see your BEAUTIFUL cards brought tears to my eyes.
Jennifer
I love the any hero cards that you made! Thanks for the download so we can use them too!
awww, i love the cards you made! and thank you for your service - you are truly my super hero!
I love that the Heros are getting in on the hop today.
SPC MB- you rock! These are totally awesome cards that say it all! Thank you for your cards and your service! (and an education on the use of pogs!)
Great cards. Thank you for your service.
What a great creation! Thanks for your service. You are the real hero. This is great!
Well, shoot. I just threw out the pogs I confiscated from middle schoolers years ago. I could have put them in the hero mail!
SPC M. B., you did a fantastic job on your cards! It's always good to have a fallback career!
Many thanks for your service to our country! Prayers for your safety!
For your designer: Awesome cards. I can't wait to see more from you. Thanks for all you do and give for my freedom. God bless you.
SPC M.B. - great cards! Thank you for your service.
Awesome work! POG...who knew it would be inspiration?
SPC M.B., YOU ROCK! And, you speak truth. . . a super-size thanks from Texas to you and your buddies for your service to our country. Your cards are fantastic!
Love the story about the pogs - did not know that. Your cards are awesome - just LOVE the 'priceless; card - thank you for serving our great country - God Bless.
To SPC M.B.: your cards are so awesome! You definately are very talented and have a great way to support your fellow soldiers with your God given talent!
Thanks to all that have done so much to make this hop possible!! The cards are so unbelievable, the tutorials are wonderful, the freebies are awesome, the blog candy is beyond yummy and the fellowship with other supporters of our troops is the best!
What a wonderful cards! Thank you for sharing the file for the hero card.
Amazing cards!!
Wow, these cards are really awesome! Thanks so much for sharing the story behind them! Thank you for your strengh and courage in serving and protecting our great nation! You are a true HERO!
terrific cards
thanks for sharing
Oh, My, Gosh! Pogs!! I remember those, my kids had zillions of them! Thank you for taking the time and effort to show us Your amazing creations! Be safe!
Great job on the cards! Thanks for sharing them with us!
Oh my goodness! I LOVE the cards that were designed and will definitely be using them!
Oh my gosh pogs! And those big heavy things - what were they called, slammers??? LOL. . . a huge thank you to SPC M.B. - it's so cool to have one of our very own heroes from so far away participating with us!! Fantastic creations - and that second card really IS "priceless!" Huge hugs from very far away!
What a great card and what a thoughtful, terrific response. I'm just learning about OWH and this whole thing makes me proud to be an American stamper.
I salute you SPC M.B. for the job you are working serving your country and for the outstanding job of making this card. What an honor to be able to print it. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. My Daddy, my husband and my oldest son have all served this country and I am so excited about making cards for OWH. To know that I too can do something to make one of you have a special moment, that makes me sparkle inside. I love it.
I have never made a card, but happened on this blog hop and am so excited about making some cards. I have been homebound for a month and was given an additional 2 weeks on Friday. I have been ill with lung issues and chronic asthma, hospitalized for 8 days so needed something that I could do from my recliner. I cannot be outside. You all have given me something to make myself useful. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I am Country Wings and I have signed up to follow your blog. I would love for you to stop by and say hi, and would be so honored if you signed up to follow my blog as well.
I have 2 sons and 4 grandsons (the 4th is on his way) and they all love Super Heroes. I am so thrilled to see that you were able to use Captain America and his buddies. How exciting.
Thank you for sharing. I so look forward to hearing from you. God Bless you on this upcoming Memorial Day. I will be keeping you in my prayers.
Country hugs...Sherry
Absolutely stunning card. My husband is a vietnam veteran and says he wished there had been an OWH program when he was overseas. Thanks for supporting our fellow patriots, and have a great Memorial Day weekend!
I love both cards! Just great, and it is so true...too many people think of there heroes as marvel comics or singers, wrestlers, etc. and all the while forgetting how the true heroes are...The American Soldiers! Thank you!
P.S. I think my brother still has his pogs! lol
~Courtney~
What wonderful cards. TFS
WOW!!! What AWESOME cards! Thanks for sharing them with us.
Awesome cards!!! Thanks for sharing them with us!!!
What a clever first card! It's so true, too!
What a creative card, something only a true hero could come up with. Very nicely done!
Thank you for sharing your great cards! And thank you VERY MUCH for your service to our Nation, wishing you the very best!!
"HOLY COUCH CUSHIONS BATMAN!! those heroes sure are getting creative, we only act tough and drive a funny car.... they are fighters for freedom, protectors of the innocent, re-builders of nation's, PLUS they can make cards??? he's right we aren't real heroes."...quote Robin, as he sulks away.
I LOVE both cards, they are AWESOMESAUCE!!!
Susan
(following right behind you...#78)
Awesome cards and thanks for sharing the download. So cool to have creations from the Frontlines coming home. Very inspiring.
FANTASTIC cards! Thank you so much for your service.
Great cards with a great message! You did a great job putting them together!
SPC M.B. These 2 cards are truly awesome! Thank you so much for joining us and for sharing. Thank you too for your service. We can never thank you enough for all that you do for us.
PRICELESS! thank you for sharing, but more importantly THANK YOU for your service. please be safe, be strong and may God Bless and keep you and all others "in country"
-former AS2 USN
Thank you for your service. Thank you for sharing your talent with us in your cards. I will use them knowing that you gave your time and career to keep us safe. You are a true hero.
Awesome. That second card really is touching. Thank you so much for your service. You are truly a hero (a talented hero !)
Fabulous card! Thanks so much for everything you do! BE SAFE!!
great card!!!
love these cards! he did a great job. thanks for sharing!
Great card, and stay safe.
Thank you for your service to our country!
fantastic card. I have tons of my younger sons pogs that he used to collect & lost interest in. great idea.
I think the card is great! It is so true. Our military are the REAL Super Heroes. WTG!
Great cards! Thank you for your service to our country! Without you we would not be able to have your cards and this Blog Hop. God bless!
Thank you for the download!! I have two nephews serving in Iraq at the moment, they'll love to receive a card with the image!!
Thanks also for the opportunity to win your fabulous blog candy to make more cards!!
Carmen L
cal8007 at aol dot com
Truly awesome cards! I think WE need to recruit this SPC!
SPC M.B. thank you so much for your service in our Armed Forces. We appreciate you more than words can truly express!
Awesome cards--the military are truly the super heroes!
slrdowney at hotmail dot com
what fantastic cards!! My family was raised on superheros. My dad is an avid comic collector (or addict, whichever you prefer :P ) so this card is just amazing my opinion :)
Absolutely amazing cards!! And, I too remember pogs!
Thanks so much for sharing & all that you do!
Happy Memorial Day!
God Bless our Soldiers & their families!
~Ola
okj83 at live dot com
I remember pogs! When I did my student teaching, the kids played with them all the time. . .what a great use for them! And your card is beautiful. Thanks for taking the time to make it and send it along. Fantastic! Lisa :-)
I did a double take when I saw the word "pog" on this blog! I think it's kinda funny that the fad is being kept alive for practical purposes! Wonder how many heroes using those pogs as currency now actually played with pogs as kids! I love that you took time to make these cards, they're wonderful!
Holy batwings, these are great cards. How cool that this HERO is in on the fun of creating cards.
Thank you HERO for all you are doing for all of us. Our freedom and safety are ensured because of your selfless act. God Bless you and here's to a safe return to your loved ones.
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