Christmas in July Winners Announced!

(For our current challenge, please go here.) 

It's another fun Saturday at Send a Smile 4 Kids because we get to make 5 lucky and talented participants in our Christmas in July challenge very happy! We have two lucky winners of our sponsors prizes and we are also announcing our Top Three. First up is the sponsor prizes where the winners are drawn randomly. The lucky winner of seven digis of her choice from Bugaboo is #17 Julia V! And the winner of the three digis of her choice from Crafty Sentiments Design is #24 Cheryl! Congratulations ladies! Please grab your winners blog badge from the side of the blog and send me an email at khasheck@gmail.com and I will put you in touch with the sponsor to claim your prize.

Now for our Top Three as chosen by TEAM S.A.S. in no particular order. Remember to see any of the winner's blogs or our sponsor's websites, just click on their names.

Top Three Card by Donna

Top Three Card by Hazel 

Top Three Card by Chris 

What awesome holiday cards for kids! Thanks for sharing your talents with us this week ladies, and be sure to grab our Top Three blog badge to put on your blog with pride. If you would like to join us as a guest design team member on a future challenge, just send me an email at khasheck@gmail.com. 

Remember you have until Friday August 3rd at noon CST to enter our current challenge, Animal Card for Kids for a chance at some great sponsor prizes and/or the top three. It is not required that you donate your card after entering, but our kids in the seven children's hospitals we currently serve would sure love it if you did. For all the info you need to know before donating your card(s), just click on the tabs at the top of the blog. Thanks!

Stamping smiles 4 Kids, Karen 

Animal Cards 4 Kids Challenge

It's time for another new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids and our theme this time is Animal Cards 4 Kids. Any animal will do- just make a card for a child that includes some kind of animal and enter it in our challenge for a chance at two great sponsor prizes. Delicious Doodles and Stamping Dragon Designs are both awarding their random winners 4 digis of their choice! Just click on their names to check out all the wonderful choices at their websites! We will also be picking a Top Three who win a blog badge and the chance to join our design team for an upcoming challenge.

We are so happy to have a past Top Three winner with us today as a Guest Design Team member. Krafty Karen has been a participant in many of our challenges and also supports our cause by sending in her cards for our kids. We are so grateful to her for that. She received the digis from our sponsor Delicious Doodles to design with, and here is her beautiful card:

And now for more inspiration, here are the awesome animal cards by TEAM S.A.S. (Just click on any of the names to go to their blogs for more details and great cards.)

Lucianna's Cards 

Christy's Card 

Shelby's Card 

Hilde's Cards

Deonna's Cards

Karen's Cards 

Sarah's Card

You have until Friday August 3rd at noon CST to enter your card in our Animal Cards 4 Kids challenge. After you do, please consider sending in your card(s) to Send a Smile 4 Kids to help cheer a child who is inpatient in a children's hospital. It is not required that you donate your card to enter our challenges, but we sure appreciate it when you do! And so do our kids and their families!

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

Bugaboo Card Drive AND Winners Announced!

(For our current challenge, please go here.)

Wow- it is a extra special Saturday here at Send a Smile 4 Kids because we are joining Bugaboo today for the start of their week long Christmas in July celebration AND we are announcing the winners from our Birthday Fun for Kids Challenge! So much fun to share with you!

Bugaboo's Christmas in July Celebration at their challenge blog starts today and their theme today is "Christmas is for Kids". They are encouraging their participants to send in their holiday cards for kids to Send a Smile 4 Kids and we really appreciate their support! So you can enter your card here in our Christmas in July challenge and at the Catch the Bug Challenge blog for twice the chance to win a great prize! Each day they are having a different challenge so check out their blog for all the info! 

Two members of Bugaboo's design team have shared some sweet holiday cards for kids with us today, and we have two more holiday cards from TEAM S.A.S. to inspire you as well. Just click on any of the names to go to their blogs for more awesome cards and inspiration.

Guest DT Card by Becky (Bugaboo DT)

Guest DT Card by Melissa (Bugaboo DT)

TEAM S.A.S. Card by Karen

TEAM S.A.S. Card by Hilde

Aren't all these cards and the Bugaboo images on them just so sweet? Any child would love to receive one of them, especially if they were spending the holidays in a Children's Hospital! So please join us and Bugaboo in making and sharing a holiday card for a child, and send it in if you can. (It is not required to enter either of these challenges to send in your card(s) for one of our kids, we would sure love it if you did- and so would our kids:)

WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR BIRTHDAY FUN FOR KIDS

We had three generous sponsors of the Birthday Fun for Kids challenge, and their random winners are as follows: #19, Kathie is the lucky winner of Stamp Shoppe Creations $15 gift certificate! #38 Olivia is the lucky winner of two digital stamps of her choice from Tickled Pink! And #13 Nancy D. is the winner of a $9 gift certificate from Shelley's Images! Congratulations Ladies! Please send me an email at khasheck at gmail dot com so I can put you in touch with the sponsor to redeem your prize, and take your winners blog badge from the side of the blog!

As always, we had so many talented stampers enter our challenge and picking the Top Three can be a difficult task! But we did it and here is this week's Top Three in no particular order:

Top Three Card by Michaela

Top Three Card by Liesbeth

Top Three Card by Riti 

Beautiful cards Ladies!! Please grab your Top Three Blog Badge from the side of the blog and display it proudly on your blog. If you would like to be a guest design team member on a future challenge and receive the sponsor's images to design a card with, please send me an email at khasheck at gmail dot com.

So remember you have until Friday July 20th at noon CST to enter our current challenge Christmas in July, and don't forget to enter your card at Catch the Bug Challenge too! 

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

Christmas in July Challenge

It's time for our first annual Christmas in July challenge and celebration here at Send a Smile 4 Kids! It's hot, hot, hot out there, so stay inside (hopefully in air conditioning) and make a holiday card for a child and get a start on your own holiday cards too. We decided to join in on the Christmas in July trend as a way to encourage anyone who would like to donate some holiday cards to SAS4Kids to get started early so that all of our kids in the seven children's hospitals we now serve will get a holiday card and maybe even be able to pick some for their family and medical staff too. You can send them in anytime, but our deadline is December 1st so that we have time to mail or deliver them to the hospitals. Of course, you do not have to donate your card to join in our challenges and you can still win one of our sponsor prizes whether you donate or not.

We are celebrating all the way through the next week, because from July 14-21, we are joining in Bugaboo's Christmas in July celebration and they are hosting a card drive for SAS4Kids as part of their celebration! So if you enter your kids holiday card in their challenge too, you are eligible to win prizes there as well! Check out all the fun at the Bugaboo challenge blog here. 

We have two generous sponsors for our Christmas in July challenge - Bugaboo, of course, and their prize is 7 digital stamps of the winner's choice! Our other sponsor is Crafty Sentiments Designs and their prize is 3 digis of the winner's choice! Please click on their names to visit their sites and check out all their fantastic digital stamps and goodies. (You can also click on any of the designer's names to visit their blogs for more inspiration.)

We are so happy to have two guest design team members today who are sharing their talents with all of us. The first is Jenn Zeeb who is a member of the Bugaboo design team and this is her fun card:

Our second guest design team member is Pat K. who won the honor of joining our team by being picked as a Top Three favorite a few weeks back. She received the sponsor images and here is the fun card she designed for us:

And now for more holiday inspiration, here are the TEAM S.A.S. cards:

Deonna's Cards 

Shelby's Card 

Lucianna's Cards

Hilde's Cards 

Christy's Cards 

Karen's Cards 

Sarah's Card

Did all these fantastic holiday cards give you the urge to start your own holiday card making with one that is perfect for a child? We hope so! You have until July 20th at noon CST to enter our Christmas in July challenge with a holiday card suitable for a child. Remember to also enter your card in the Bugaboo challenge from July 14-21st and to check their challenge blog for all the details on their Christmas in July celebration. 

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen