Winners Announced for Happy Holiday Wishes Challenge

(For our current challenge, please click here. ) 

Happy Holidays from Send a Smile 4 Kids! We are going to make the holidays even happier for some lucky and talented stampers today by announcing they are winners here at SAS4Kids! First of all, we will name the three lucky winners of the random sponsor drawings: The winner of the $15 gift certificate from Prairie Fairy is: #28 Purple Crazy! The winner of the 3 sets of digis or cutting files from The Cutting Cafe' is: #11 Elena! And the winner of the 3 images of the winner's choice from Digital Delights is #1 Dawn Lancaster!

Ladies- please grab your winner's blog badge from the side of the blog and email me at khasheck@gmail.com so I can put you in touch with the sponsors to claim your prize. As always, just click on the names of the sponsors to go to their sites and check out everything they have to offer, and on the winner's names to go to their blogs and see the winning cards and other fun stuff on their blogs.

Thank you to everyone who entered this challenge! There were so many awesome cards it was difficult to pick our Top Three. These are the ones the design team voted as our favorites:

#13 Gro Tjeltveit

#26 Christy Beans 

#24 Glenda Atkins

Aren't these cards beautiful?! Please click on their names to go to their blogs and get more inspiration and leave them some congrats too. Ladies- please take your Top Three blog badge from the side of the blog and send me an email if you would like to be a guest design team member in a future challenge. You will be given the sponsor's images to design with and be featured on the blogpost for the challenge you choose.

Our current challenge, Winter Fun for Kids, is going to be open for you to enter until January 6th at noon CST as TEAM S.A.S. takes a break over the holidays. I am sure you are also busy shopping and wrapping and decorating and then enjoying time with friends and family. But if you have time, please do enter a card or two in our challenge for a chance at some great prizes, and then please consider sending it in with any others you have to one of the four addresses listed here. SAS4Kids will deliver them to the kids who are inpatient at seven children's hospitals we are now servicing to help cheer them and their families. Thank you and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from everyone here at Send a Smile 4 Kids!

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

Winter Fun for Kids Challenge

It's time for a new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids and we are challenging you to make a Winter Fun Card for Kids - snowmen and snowflakes or anything fun for kids that has to do with winter with or without a holiday theme. We have three awesome sponsors for this challenge: Whimsy Stamps who is giving the random winner of their prize 5 digital stamps of the winner's choice! Stamp Fairy is giving their winner a $9 gift certificate, and Sassy Cheryl is giving a $5 gift certificate!

After this challenge and the winner's announcement next week, TEAM S.A.S. is taking a break until the first week of January so everyone on our team can relax and enjoy the holidays with their families and friends minus any design team deadlines or obligations. This means you have until January 6th at noon CST to enter this challenge for a Winter Fun Card for Kids. Lots and lots of time to design a card and enter it for a chance to win a  great sponsor prize or be chosen for our Top Three.

We also wanted to share some really fun news- be on the lookout for the January issue of CardMaker magazine (on stands now) and pick one up if you can. Send a Smile 4 Kids is the featured charity in the Readers Reach Out section! You can read all about it here and there is a link there to the article on line too.

TEAM S.A.S. had a great time playing with some images from the sponsors and here are their winter fun cards to inspire you. As always, you can click on their names (or their pictures on the side) to go to their blogs for all the details and to see many other great cards.

Shelby's Card 

Hilde's Cards

Lisa's Card 

Sarah's Card 

Lucianna's Cards

Karen's Cards 

So remember you have a whole month to make and link a Winter Fun Card for Kids and then please consider sending it in to Send a Smile 4 Kids to help cheer a child who is inpatient in a children's hospital. It is getting almost too late to still send in holiday cards, but if we can, we will get them over to the kids before Christmas or will save for next year. But winter cards and Valentines and everyday cheery cards are great to send in now and anytime. You can read all about the guidelines and anything else you need to know under the tabs above. 

SAS4Kids wishes you all a wonderful holiday season full of smiles and family and fun! 

Stamping smiles 4 kids, Karen 

Winners Announced for Starting Early for Holiday Wishes 4 our Kids!

(For our current challenge, please go here.) 

We love Saturdays here at Send a Smile 4 Kids because it is so fun to make our participants happy by announcing either a new challenge or winners of our sponsor prizes and Top Three honors. And this time our Top Three win a sponsor prize too thanks to the generosity of Designed2Delight!

The winners of our sponsor's prizes as picked by Mr. Random are: Designed2Delight's prize of a $10 voucher was won  by #21 Shelley! The winner of the $15 gift certificate from Stamp Shoppe Creations was #6 Olivia! And the winner of the $9 gift certificate from Shelley's Images is #18 Diane G.!

Congrats ladies! Please email me at khasheck@gmail.com so I can put you in touch with the sponsors to redeem your prizes. And don't forget to take your winners blog badge from the side of the blog.

Our Top Three as chosen by our design team also win a $5 voucher from Designed2Delight in addition to the usual Top Three blog badge (found on the side of our blog) and an invite to be a guest design team member on a future challenge. Unfortunately we cannot add any new cards to our slide show until it is redone, because Slide is shutting down. Here are the Top Three cards in no particular order:

Krafty Karen 

Lisbeth

Bella

Congratulations to our Top Three! Beautiful cards ladies! Please grab your Top Three blog badge from the side of our blog and display it with pride on your blog. And send me an email (khasheck@gmail.com) so I can put you in touch with Designed2Delight for your prize, and let me know if you would like to be a Guest Design Team Member on a future challenge. If you choose to do that, you will be given the sponsor's images to design with and be featured on the challenge blogpost.

(Edited to add- I made a mistake on the picture of Bella's card and it has been corrected, but I do apologize for the error.) 

You have until Friday December 2nd at noon CST to enter our current challenge, Happy Holiday Wishes 4 Kids.  Yup, we are doing the holiday theme again, because there are many many children in our seven children's hospitals over the holidays who would love a card to cheer them and their families. So please pick out a few handmade holiday cards for our kids and send them in right away to one of our 4 addresses listed here.  Our deadline is early December because we have to have time to get them to the hospitals, but if we get them too late, we will hold on to them for next year. And, of course, we are always happy to receive everyday cheer cards as well as any for the holidays coming up, such as Valentines and Easter.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

Happy Holiday Wishes (For Kids)

It's time for another new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids and we are challenging you to make some holiday cards for kids and enter them in our challenge for THREE chances at a great prize from our sponsors. After you do, there is still time to send the card into any of our four addresses so we can spread some holiday cheer to our kids who are inpatient in any of the seven children's hospitals we are now donating the cards to.

Our wonderful sponsors for the Happy Holiday Wishes Challenge are: Prairie Fairy, who is offering a $15 gift certificate to a random winner; The Cutting Cafe', who is donating 3 sets of digital stamps or cutting files to one lucky winner; and Digital Delights, and their prize is 3 images of the winner's choice! Please visit these generous sponsors by clicking on their names and check out all the awesome digis and fun stuff they have to offer.

We are happy to have a guest design team member today. A while back, a card by Faith Anderson was chosen as one of our Top Three favorites by our design team. The Top Three get a blog badge and are offered a guest design team spot in a future challenge, and Faith is joining us today. She had so much fun with the sponsor's images, she designed and shared three wonderful cards and here they are:

And now for more inspiration, here are the TEAM S.A.S. cards. To see their blogs and/or to get more details on their cards, just click their names.

Lisa's Card

Hilde's Two Cards

Shelby's Card 

Karen's Two Cards

Lucianna's Two Cards

Sarah's Card 

Great job as always by the design team! Now it is time for you to make and share a holiday card for a child. You have until Friday December 2nd at noon CST to link up your card. Then please consider sending it (along with any other cards you have that are appropriate for a child in a hospital) to Send a Smile 4 Kids. All the details and our addresses are under the tabs above. Thanks so much for helping us cheer our kids and their families!

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

"For the Girls" Winners Announced

(For our current challenge, please go here.) 

We love Saturdays here at Send a Smile 4 Kids because either we are announcing a new challenge OR we can make some stampers very happy! Today we have three sponsor prizes to give away and our Top Three from our "For the Girls" challenge to announce!

The winner of the 5 digis of her choice from Cardmadfairy is: #47 Anne!

The winner of a 5 pound gift certificate from Cuddly Buddly is: #20 Crafting Serenity!

And the winner of a $9 gift certificate from Shelley's Images is: #11 Faye!

Congratulation to the winners! Ladies - email me at khasheck@gmail.com so I can put you in touch with the sponsors to collect your prizes. And don't forget to take your winner's blog badge from the side of our blog to display on your blog.

To visit our sponsors and see all they have to offer, just click on their names above or on the images on the side of the blog. To visit the winner's blogs, just click on their names.

Now on to our Top Three as chosen by the design team. The winning cards and designers are as follows:

#2 Sharon 

#35 Shari

#49 Nerdette

Ladies- your cards are amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us! Watch for your cards to be added to our slide show and be sure to grab your top three blog badge from the side of our blog to display with pride on your blog! And if you would like to be a guest design team member on a future challenge, and get the sponsor's images to design a card with, just send me an email. 

You have until November 18th to enter our current challenge, Starting Early for Holiday Wishes for our Kids. You can also enter that same card in the challenge at Paper Creations Ink, who is currently sponsoring a Card Drive for Send a Smile 4 Kids! Twice the chances of winning a prize! After you enter, please consider sending your holiday card to SAS4Kids to cheer a child who is inpatient over the holidays. Our four addresses and other information you will need is available under the tabs at the top of the blog. Thanks so much for helping put a smile on our kid's faces!

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen

 

Starting Early - Holiday Wishes 4 our Kids And A Card Drive!

Today is another great Saturday at Send a Smile 4 Kids! We are announcing a new challenge today as well as a Card Drive for our kids! Starting Early - Holiday Wishes 4 our Kids is theme of our new challenge. We named it that because it may seem early to make and send holiday cards, but we need to receive the Christmas cards for our kids in children's hospitals early in December so that we have enough time to deliver them to the SEVEN children's hospitals we are now servicing.

Starting Monday November 7th through November 20th, SAS4Kids is thrilled to be partnering with Paper Creations Ink for a CARD DRIVE for our kids! Here at SAS4Kids and at PCI, the themes of our challenges are "Holiday Wishes for Kids", and we are asking all who participate in the challenges to please mail your holiday cards to SAS4Kids to cheer a child who is inpatient in a Children's Hospital over the holidays. You can enter your children's holiday card at both blogs for twice as many chances to win a great prize from our sponsors! Then please mail it (and other other cards you have that are appropriate for children in a hospital) to any of our addresses listed here.

PCI has been a wonderful supporter of SAS4Kids right from the beginning, and we want to thank Sara and Michael and the PCI design team for all they have done and for joining us for this Holiday Card Drive for our kids! Here is a little about our friends at Paper Creations Ink:

Paper Creations Ink is a challenge blog and so much more! In addition to new challenges on the first and third Mondays of each month, Sara and Michael wanted to create a place where you could find a wealth of knowledge, read about current events that are taking place around the crafting community, discover more ways to able able to make a difference by being involved in a special cause, and be able to have FUN while creating. Isn't that one of the main reasons we have all come to love crafting? CREATE...LEARN... AND SHARE! PAPER CREATIONS INK!

We have three generous sponsors for this challenge: Stamp Shoppe Creations is offering one random winner a $15 gift certificate; Shelley's Images is giving a lucky random winner a $9 gift certificate; and Designed 2 Delight is giving a random winner a $10 voucher AND each of the Top Three a $5 voucher! That's right: our Top Three as voted on by our design team wins a sponsor prize this time from Designed 2 Delight as well as a  Blog Badge for your blog and a guest design team opportunity in a future challenge!

We are thrilled to be joined today by three talented members of the PCI design team as guests on the SAS4Kids design team! Here are their cards followed by TEAM SAS's cards, all using our sponsor's images. As always, you can click on any of the names to go to their blogs for more details and inspiration.

Pat's Guest DT Card

Miranda's Guest DT Card 

Julia's Guest DT Card 

Hilde's Two Holiday Cards

 Lucianna's Three Holiday Cards 

Sarah's Holiday Card 

Lisa's Holiday Card 

Shelby's Two Holiday Cards

Karen's Three Holiday Cards

Danni's Holiday Card

Lots of cards, I know. But the sponsor's images were just so fun and so many kids in the hospital over the holidays would love a fun card, so we just had to keep on stamping and sharing! Now it's your turn - stamp and blog a fun holiday card for a child, link it here and at Paper Creations Ink, and then please send it to SAS4Kids for our kids in Children's Hospitals. All the information you need is under the tabs at the top of our blog. Our challenge runs from November 5th until noon CST on November 18th. PCI's challenge is from November 7th until November 20th. Thanks for helping us if you can.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

Winners Announced for Fall Colors Anything Goes Challenge!

(For the current challenge, please go here.) 

We love Saturdays here at Send a Smile 4 Kids! Today we are announcing the winners of our Fall Colors Anything Goes challenge. Two lucky random winners of our sponsor's prizes and our Top Three! The lucky winner of the $15 Gift Certificate from Prairie Fairy is:  #5 Krafty Karen!   And the winner of the Three Digis from Bee Crafty is:  #10 Sarah!   Way to go ladies! Please grab your winner's blog badge from the side of our blog and contact me at khasheck@gmail.com so that I can hook you up with our wonderful sponsors to collect your prize!

As always, we had many lovely entries in our challenge and it was tough to choose the Top Three. Thank you to all who entered! Our Top Three as chosen by the design team is:

Donna DMC 

Marianne's Craftroom 

Dreja 

For more inspiration on their blogs or to comment on the winning cards, just click on the names. 

Congratulations Ladies! Please grab your Top Three blog badge from the side of the blog and display it with pride on your blog! Watch for your creation to be added to our slide show and contact me at khasheck@gmail.com if you would like to be a guest design team member on a future challenge. 

You have plenty of time to enter our current challenge, For the Girls. The deadline for that challenge is Friday November 4th at noon CST. After making a card for a girl, please consider sending it and any other cards you have that are appropriate for a child in a hospital to one of our three addresses now collecting cards for our kids. All the information you need before donating is available under the tabs at the top of our blog. We are currently looking for holiday cards so that all the kids inpatient at our 6 children's hospitals over the holidays can be cheered with a fun holiday card. Thanks for helping us do that!

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

For the Girls Challenge at SAS4Kids

It's time for  new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids and we are challenging you to make and link a card FOR THE GIRLS.  We have chosen this as our theme to bring to your attention that one of the catagories of cards we are most in the need of is cards for teenage girls. We receive lots of cards appropriate for little girls, but not so many for our older patients. Any card appropriate for any girl is OK for this challenge, but please keep our teenage girls in your thoughts when designing cards to send in to SAS4Kids. 

We are also thrilled to announce that SAS4Kids is growing again and has just added THREE MORE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS AND ANOTHER ADDRESS TO MAIL YOUR CARDS INTO! For all the details on our exciting news, please go here.

We have three wonderful sponsors for our For the Girls challenge: Cardmadfairy and their prize is 5 digital images of the winner's choice; Cuddly Buddly and their prize is a 5 pound gift certificate; and Shelley's Images and Shelley's prize is a $9 gift certificate! These prizes are drawn randomly by Mr. Random so everyone has an equal chance at winning, provided you follow the challenge rules and theme. The design team also picks our Top Three cards and those talented stampers receive a blog badge to display with pride on their blogs.

Heather and Amanda from Shelley's Images design team were so kind to share two beautiful cards with us for this challenge using Shelley's lovely Flower Girl digital stamp. To visit their blogs for more inspiration and to leave a comment, just click on their names.

Heather's Card 

Amanda's Card 

TEAM S.A.S., as always, has done a great job with their cards using our sponsor's images and here they are to inspire you. To read more about how the cards were made or get even more ideas, you can click on the names to get right to the designer's blogs.

Karen's #1 Card 

Karen's #2 Card

Karen's #3 Card 

Lucianna's #1 Card

Lucianna's #2 Card 

Hilde's #1 Card 

Hilde's #2 Card 

Danni's Card 

Shelby's Card 

Lisa's Card

Sarah's Card 

You have until November 4th at noon CST to enter our For the Girls challenge. After you do. please consider sending in your girl's card along with any other cards appropriate for children to one of our new locations listed under the tabs above. Thank you for joining our challenge and helping put a smile on a child hospitalized in a Children's Hospital.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen