Winners Announced for Birthday Fun Challenge!

(For our current challenge, please go here.) 

We love Saturdays here at Send a Smile 4 Kids! Either we are announcing a new challenge, or announcing the winners of a challenge! Today we are sharing the winners of our random sponsor drawings and the cards chosen as the Top Three from the Birthday Fun Challenge.

The winner of the $9 gift certificate from Stamp Fairy is #1 Ali (Aqualeiga)! And the winner of the three sets of digital stamps or cutting files from The Cutting Cafe' is #17 Diane Ahlers!  You can click on their names to visit their blogs and see the winning cards, and on the sponsor's names to see their great products too. Ali and Diane- please take your winners blog badges from the side of the blog and also email me at khasheck@gmail.com so that I can get you in contact with the sponsors to redeem your prizes.

We had many fantastic cards entered in this challenge, so as usual it was very hard to pick the Top Three. Here are the three we have chosen:

#12 Michelle S. 

#18 Marianne 

#19 Pat

To get more inspiration from these talented ladies or get details on their winning cards, just click on their names to visit their blogs. Congratulations ladies! Please take your Top Three blog badge from the side and put it on your blog with pride. Watch for your winning cards to be featured in our slide show and send me an email (khasheck@gmail.com) if you would like to join TEAM S.A.S. as a  guest design team member for an upcoming challenge. You will be sent all the sponsor's images to play with and be featured in the blogpost for that challenge.

You still have time to play in our current challenge, Halloween or Fall Cute Cards for Kids- that challenge goes until Friday, September 30th at noon CST.  And if you do make some cute fall or Halloween cards for kids (not scary or anything with tombstones), please consider sending them in to Send a Smile 4 Kids for our children who are inpatient in Children's Hospitals. We would love for all the kids in the hospital especially on holidays like Halloween or Christmas to get a handmade card to cheer them and their families. All the details on how to donate are under the tabs above. 

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

Halloween or Fall Cute Cards for Kids Challenge

It's time for another fun challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids and this time we are challenging you to make a cute fall or Halloween card for a child. No scary tombstones or goblins- just fun and cute Halloween or fall images please. Even if you don't send your card in for our kids in children's hospitals (and we sure hope you consider doing just that!), the cards entered in the challenge should also be appropriate for children, so stay away from the scary aspects of Halloween please. 


We have three generous sponsors for this challenge and as always, please click on their names and visit their sites to see all the fun stamps and stamping supplies they offer. Crop Stop is offering a $15 gift certificate to a random winner; Doodle Pantry is giving a $15 gift certificate; and Glitterbabe is giving a $10 gift certificate. Wouldn't you just love to win one of these three great prizes? All you have to do is enter our challenge and then be a lucky in the random drawing. Of course, TEAM S.A.S will be picking the Top Three as well and they win a lovely blog badge and the chance to be a guest design team member. 


We are so happy to have Pat Pearson as a special guest design team member today. Pat's card was chosen as a Top Three card a few challenges back and we invited her to be a guest dt member and we were thrilled when she accepted. Pat is a team member with me at Paper Creations Ink , and her talent can be seen there and at her own blog here. I shipped Pat the images from our digital sponsors, Glitterbabe and Doodle Pantry and she had so much fun with them, she created three cards to share with us today! Here they are:

TEAM S.A.S had fun with the great images from Doodle Pantry and Glitterbabe too, and here are their cards to inspire you:

Danni's Card

Lucianna's #1 Card 

Lucianna's #2 Card 

Shelby's #1 Card 

Shelby's #2 Card 

Sarah's Card 

Lisa's Card 

Hilde's Card 

Karen's Card #1 Front

Karen's Inside of #1 Card

Karen's #2 Card 

Aren't they all great?! As usual, you can click on the names to visit their blogs for more details on their cards and more inspiration.

You have until September 30th at noon to enter this challenge so have fun making a child's fall or Halloween card and enter it for THREE chances at some great prizes. Then please consider sending it (and any other cards you have for children)into SAS4Kids to help cheer a child in the hospital on Halloween or any of these lovely fall days. All the details you need on how to contribute are under the tabs on the top of the blog.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen

Winners and Another Fun Intro at SAS4Kids!

(For our current challenge, please go here.) 

What a fun Saturday here again at Send a Smile 4 Kids! We get to announce our winners of the Punches and Diecuts for Kids Challenge, but first we have some fun news to share. We have added one more talented lady to TEAM S.A.S! Today we are welcoming Danni Bindel to our design team. Danni has sent us some beautiful cards for our kids and promoted our cause on her outstanding blog. Danni has her own challenge blog called Flutter by Wednesday   and they are going to team up with SAS4Kids to do a card drive for our kids early next year. Here is what Danni shared about herself:

I am so excited to be joining the design team here at Send A Smile 4 Kids! My name is Danni Bindel and I am a stay at home mom to Matthew who is 10 and Annabelle who is 6 3/4 and a US Army wife to Sam for 12 years. We are currently stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington. We also have two dogs and a bird to complete our family.

I started scrapbooking about 14 years ago and swore I'd never stamp. Well, I had a workshop with The Angel Company and the rest is history. I've been stamping now for about 6 years and am a wee bit obsessed. I just love to sit and create. I was so inspired when I found Send A Smile 4 Kids last month as it is a cause that is close to my heart.

 My Annabelle was in the Children’s Hospital in Kansas City, a week after she was born. She was having seizures and after a horrific day at the hospital where she was born and watching them poke my baby 18 times to try and get blood and spinal fluid--with no success--they air-lifted her to the Children’s Hospital. She was in their care for a week and basically her seizures were caused from her thyroid not being fully developed and not producing enough calcium and magnesium.

I will never forget how kind and caring the staff was there. So I can just imagine if you add in receiving handmade cards, it truly would be an extra blessing in a most trying time. I am looking forward to inspiring you all to create lots of cards for Send A Smile 4 Kids and am so thankful for this opportunity.

Here is a card by Danni using Stamp Fairy stamps (this challenge's sponsor.) See why we wanted her on the team:)

Please visit Danni's blog to welcome her and leave some congrats and check out her other inspirational cards.



We also get to announce our winners today for both the random drawings for sponsors prizes and the Top Three as chosen by our design team. We have THREE sponsor winners this week- what fun! The winner of the $15 gift certificate from Stamp Shoppe Creations is #37 Aga! The winner of the $15  gift certificate from Crop Stop is #24 Deonna B.! And the winner of the $5 gift certificate from Sassy Cheryl's is #12 Katherine K.! Congratulations ladies! Be sure to pick up your winner's badge from the side of the blog and send me an email at khasheck@gmail.com so I can get you in touch with the sponsors to redeem your prize.

We had so many outstanding cards submitted for our challenge this time- thank you all so much for entering. The Top Three as voted on by our design team are:

#44 Carola

 #42 Faith A.

                                                                       #78 Sylvia B.

                                     

Outstanding job ladies! Please display your Top Three badge (from the side of the blog) on your blogs with pride and watch for your cards to be featured in our slide show. If you would like to be a guest design team member for an upcoming challenge and get all the free digis from our sponsor to play with, just send me an email.

Remember you still have time to enter our current challenge, Birthday Fun for Kids- it is open until Friday September 16th at noon CST. And after entering the challenge, please consider sending that card and any others you have that are appropriate for children to Send a Smile 4 Kids to help cheer a child inpatient in a Children's Hospital. Of course you don't need to enter a card in our challenge or have a blog to donate cards to SAS4Kids.  All the information you need is under the tabs above.

One more favor to ask: please click on the Cards for Debby picture above or this link to read about our design team member Debby who could use your thoughts and prayers and a card to cheer her after a serious accident. Thanks so much!

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen

Birthday Fun for Kids Challenge!

Welcome to a new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids - Birthday Fun for Kids! Every child loves to get fun handmade birthday cards, so make one and link it for a chance at some great sponsor prizes! Our generous sponsors for this challenge are: The Cutting Cafe' with a prize of three sets of digital stamps or cutting files; and Stamp Fairy with a prize of a $9 gift certificate to their online store! And of course we always pick our Top Three favorite entries and you could win the SAS4Kids Blog Badge of honor!

TEAM S.A.S. has had a great time using images and cutting files from our two sponsors, The Cutting Cafe' and Stamp Fairy. (You can click on the names to go to their blogs for details on the cards and to see what else they have been up to.)  Here are their birthday cards for your inspiration:

Karen's #1 Card

Karen's #2 Card

Inside of Karen's #2 Card

Shelby's Card 

Lisa's Card 

Lucianna's #1 Card

Lucianna's #2 Card 

Hilde's #1 Card 

Hilde's #2 Card 

Sarah's Card 

What a talented bunch of Sassy ladies- we are so lucky to have them all on our team, don't you think? Please join us and make a birthday card for a child and link it up for two chances at a great prize. You have until September 16th at noon CST to link your card. After you do, please consider sending your card and any other ones you have that are appropriate for a child to Send a Smile 4 Kids to cheer a child inpatient in a Children's Hospital. We are currently looking for fall and winter holiday cards as well as everyday and birthday cards. Please check out the tabs above for all the details you need. 

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen