Welcome to my channel, Blessed and OCC Obsessed! My goal is to encourage and inspire you to pack Fun, Full and Personal shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. I hope to share ideas through a shoebox unboxing, shoebox decorating and easy DIY crafts that will make your boxes personal.
National Collection Week is the 3rd week in November.
What is Operation Christmas Child? Operation Christmas Child is a project through Samaritan’s Purse. The mission of Operation Christmas Child is to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way to children all around the world by sending them shoeboxes full of fun toys, school supplies and hygiene items.
Operation Christmas Child began in 1993 with 28k shoeboxes. In 2022 they distributed 209 million shoeboxes to beautiful children all over the world! Oh what JOY!
Jesus said, “ Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations” - Matthew 28:19
Wow, Tiffany! The whole box is a wow gift for sure 😁💙🩷 you found so many wonderful Smurf items, and what you didn’t find, you created! Thanks so much for sharing! I can tell you put some time and love into creating this box!
Ohh what a beautiful shout out!! I’m blessed to come to know so many wonderful people through this ministry. Thank you for your kind words, I’m so glad you were able to put the figures and stickers to use in this amazing box! You are so crafty and just bring your creativity to life in all of your boxes. The personal touch you add to your one of a kind gifts just amazes me. The shirt, tote, and Smurf bag, are some favorites! I love the socks too, I may need a pair for myself 🤣. Thank you for sharing this heartfelt box that will surely bring joy and happiness to this young lady! Btw, I owe you a list!
Looking forward to that list and what we can do together! This ministry has brought some beautiful people into my life even if they are only through our internet connection! We are in this together for the greater purpose!!
@@maydayzee Honestly, less than 4 months. A lot of times when God “LOUDLY” lays a theme on my heart to pack He blesses me quickly with the items to make it Full and Fun with like items.
Thank you so much! I love being able to utilize my love for crafting with my shoebox packing. I don’t think I’ve packed a box yet this year that doesn’t have something I’ve crafted in it.
First of all, I love the colors in this box! The pinks and baby blues are just gorgeous! Second, this my favorite box of yours that I have seen. Jeannie is just the sweetest. How kind of her to send you some things to complete this beautiful box! I love the colored pencil roll up and her shirt is just the sweetest! She will love her socks! I got some too! You have some mad craft skills to personalize your boxes! Just awesome! Thanks for sharing the cutest and only smurfette box I’ve ever seen!
Hee, Hee, the socks are too fun, I might have a pair for myself! I love how this ministry has created a wonderful circle of shoebox packing friends! Grateful for you both!
Such a beautiful box which will bring a lot of joy and smiles! 🩵 What is sublimation? You do such a nice job with your items! Also, I didn't know about your Facebook group, I just requested to join. ☺️🎁
Sublimation is a fusible ink that is used to permanently imprint designs into material. It works best with polyester or polyester blends but can be manipulated to work on cotton and other materials. My mother started this desire of mine. She converted an Epson printer into a sublimation printer for create t’shirts for family and friends. When I saw it I knew I could use it for my boxes LOL. The decorated metal water bottle craze that a lot of people personalize is created with sublimation printers.
@@BLESSEDandOCCobsessed that's really neat! Thank you for explaining the process 🩷 It's a perfect tool for OCC and I love the beautiful bags you've made!
@@afrounicorntv so very thankful that you approve. I love sending boxes packed with these beautiful items. There is nothing about Afro Unicorn that I don’t love. I know in my heart that there is a little girl out there who will love these items and they’ll bring her some joy into her world! Thank you for your kind words!
❤ 🤍 💙 🔴 ⚪️ 🔵 🌟 🌟 🌟 I Pray that you and your family had a wonderful Independence Day.🎉 🎇 🇺🇸 May, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ bless these beautiful children they will feel so loved with all their gifts 🎁 Thank you and God bless you for sharing
@@openmindedopenheartedpurpl3568 Thank you! We had a wonderful week at the Lake. Missed working on my boxes though. Hope you had a blessed holiday as well!
I just loved seeing your whole process, and especially how you organize your items. I am finally getting all of my stuff organized! It has been a jumbled mess for well over a year now, and the timing of your video couldn't be more perfect for me! I am so glad to see that I'm not the only one with a multitude of stuff 😊! I would love to see more videos like this one! And this box is going to be such a blessing to some little boy! When you put all the stuff out on the table, I was thinking, no way is she going to get half of that into the box! Now all I can say is, Great job!!!
@@annetteh.26 Thank you. I have so much fun decorating the lids and thought, on day, These kids need to be reminded that Jesus loves them so that led to laminating the decor so they could see it daily on their wall!
I love a superhero box for the OCC boys. I know from many videos and photos of recipients that they adore them. Captain America is one of my favorite Avengers. Thanks for sharing another box of joy! 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙
I have no idea what sublimation is but you sure do a great job with it! I love all the red, white and blue! Great find on the Captain America back pack! Love how you packed a stuffy and a large Captain America figure! Lots of fun and personalization! Happy fourth Tiffany! Thanks for sharing! ❤️🤍💙
I think this is a very cool box. I love all the red, white and blue. Captain America is perfect for this box and so many other great things. I love how you do your box lids/wall hanging. Thank you for sharing.
Really nice box, Tiffany! I did a Captain America 10-14 year old box, too! ❤️🤍💙🤗🇺🇲 We can just say it's a collab 😄 I love your items! You fit so many school supplies in his water bottle🎉
This box is so bright and colorful and fun. This young man is sure to love everything! Wow! Your sublimation projects are beautiful. Happy 4th, Tiifany! And thanks for sharing ❤🤍💙
What a fun box for a child in another country! I absolutely adore the dress you found! What an amazing deal for $1. She will look adorable in it wearing her red flip-flops and jewelry you made for her. The American flag Barbie is perfect, as is the star-spangled TY beanie bear. 👍👍❤️🤍💙
This is a fantastic box! I love all of the diys! I’m tech challenged so the cricut and printer wouldn’t be for me but you are amazing at it! Love that you got so many things in the water cup. I had a hard time getting things to fit in there. Very pretty dress too and for the price, you got a steal! TFS!
@@batmansboxes4936 Thank you! You all saw my OCC work room what I didn’t and wont share, LOL is my craft space. I love crafting and use it for gifting, church ministry, personal etc… I still have a lot to learn but that’s part of the fun!
What a gorgeous red, white, and blue box! ♥️💙🤍 So many sweet items and I love how you made the design for the lid and on the bag! What a blessing this box will be to a special young lady. 😍🎁
That dress is so pretty and the tote bag you made is so cute. Thank you for sharing, enjoyed this box and like the idea of doing a red, white and blue box someday.
Thank you Tammy! This is the 4th of July theme I’ve done and I had so much fun that I already have a few started for next year. Thinking I might do 1 box for each age and gender next year.
I have never seen a dress from Target for $1! That’s fabulous! Your crafting skills are so wonderful! It definitely makes for a more personal shoebox! I love her blue and white purse. Great job on making your coloring book! I love Fourth of July boxes! I’ve also heard they love things all USA! Thanks for sharing and Happy 4th of July! ❤💙🤍
@@drogers Happy 4th Denise. It was one of those events where clearance items were an extra 50% off. I think I found the dress and 2 boy shirts. I have been haunting Target for the Dollar Spot items on clearance that you found and no luck here in OK. They are not only stingy but most of their clearance items around our area end up in a Bin store.
This a fun, full and personal shoebox for the Fourth with your crafting techniques, Tiffany. I just got the fun water bottle yesterday at DT and am hoping to get some great sale prices after this Thursday. I was so glad to hear you say that kids like to see our USA colors! Happy Fourth! 🎉
Sometimes I think we over think things when packing our boxes but my time working at the processing center and visiting with others who work for Samaritan’s Purse but have attending multiple distributions helped me to ultimately TRUST God and His plan for my boxes. I truly believe he lays my themed box ideas on my heart for a reason and I just obey and get to have fun packing them. TFW!
I use those boxes sometimes too. I got a lot of positive comments about those particular ones during drop offs. People liked that you can lay a coloring book flat in it but it's not too big. I do wish they had made them more sturdy in the areas where they connect though. I also run a line of duct tape all the way around and reinforce the corners. The other thing I don't like much is that the lid tears easily. People were grabbing boxes by the lid flap to pull them out of my vehicle and the flaps tore sometimes. This year l'm putting an extra rubber band on them going in the other direction. Or else just make sure I pull my own boxes out at drop offs. It's only the IKEA boxes that have done that. The SS box turned out really cute. Love that big Grover plush. BTW my husband grew up near Norman. We are huge Sooner fans. 😊
I think I’m going to start adding box tape every time I use this box. I too love the dimensions of this box for the notebooks, coloring books and when I send soccer balls. Once a Sooner always a Sooner “BOOMER SOONER”!!!! Thanks for watching :)
