SAS4Kids is Growing Again- Now Serving 13 Children's Hospitals!

Karen here, and I have a rare Saturday off here on the challenge side because we have new challenges on the 1^st and 3^rd Saturdays, and announce our winners on the 2^nd and 4^th Saturdays. If there is a 5^th Saturday like this month, I get a day off and you get an extra week to participate in our challenge (scroll down to find the current Anything Goes 4 Kids challenge.) But I am always blogging on my personal blog here, so if you want new card ideas almost daily, come visit and become a follower and/or subscriber if you are not already one.

I just wanted to share with you on this challenge side of our SAS4Kids blog our awesome news:

2015 is going to be a great year at SAS4Kids! I am excited to share with you that we have just added another volunteer who will be collecting your cards for three more children’s hospitals!  That brings the total of hospitals we serve up to 13! The new hospitals are in California and our new volunteer is NanaConnie. Many of you will know the name as she is on many design teams and has been in our top three several times with her gorgeous cards. NanaConnie has graciously volunteered to receive your boxes of cards, sort and label them and bring to three children’s hospitals close to her home in California. 

To see pictures of our wonderful volunteers who accept your cards (besides me), click on over to the home page of this blog. NanaConnie is the cute one in the pix she provided:)

Here is the address to send your cards to: NanaConnie Chapman, P.O. Box 80083, Bakersfield CA 93380.

For the time being, please send all your boxes of cards to Janet Bailey’s address and to NanaConnie’s address so they can build up a supply and start bringing boxes to their kids in the new hospitals. Of course, we will accept boxes at the other locations as well, but the new sites need them more than we do in Wisconsin and Iowa.

I want to get these sites going as quickly as possible, so will be stopping the search for new volunteers at this time. However, if you have been in contact with me already and hear back from the children’s hospital near you that they would like to receive our cards, we will be happy to add you as a volunteer site.

Our current needs are listed in the blog post here, but we accept cards for any holiday or occasion as long as they are appropriate for kids and follow our guidelines under the tab above.

Please join me in welcoming both Janet and NanaConnie and thanking them for helping us cheer more kids and their families. They are waiting for your boxes and cards, so can you make and send some cards to them soon?

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen

Winners Announced and Welcoming a new TEAM S.A.S Member!

(For our current challenge, please scroll down.) 

It's another fun Saturday at Send a Smile 4 Kids because we get to make 6 lucky and talented participants in our Valentines or Love Cards 4 Kids challenge very happy!  We have three lucky winners of our randomly chosen sponsor prizes and we are also announcing our Top Three.

But first, we are thrilled to introduce you to the newest member of TEAM S.A.S.:  Mary Draper, AKA Crafty of Draper’s Creations.  Here is a brief bio Mary shared with us:

“I am a former mathematics teacher who has always been interested in craftwork of one form or another. Since retiring four years ago I started making cards for family, friends (mainly those of my 19 year old daughter!) and neighbors. Eighteen months ago I started my own blog.”

Welcome Mary! Here is a sweet card designed by Mary for one of our kids: 

Now for our winners:

The lucky winner of the $10 gift certificate from Doodle Pantry is #4 Marie F!  The winner of the $10 gift certificate from DRS Designs is #20 Christine G! And the winner of the prize of the $6 gift certificate from Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet is #14 Sheila!  Congratulations to the winners! Please grab your winner’s blog badge from the side of the blog and send me an email at khasheck at gmail dot com and I will put you in touch with the sponsor to claim your prize.  Thanks as always to our wonderful sponsors! To visit their websites easily, just click on their blog badges on the side.

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, just click on their names. 

Top Three Card by Jennifer E. 

 Top Three Card by Emily L. 

Top Three Card by NanaConnie

WOW - What awesome 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 fill in the Contact Form on the side of the blog and I will get back to you with all the details.

You have until Friday February 6th at noon CST to enter our current challenge 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 nine 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 

Anything Goes 4 Kids Challenge

Happy New Year from SAS4Kids!! It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time our challenge is Anything Goes 4 Kids! Create and link any card for a child and you could win one of our great prizes. But it does have to be a card as that is what we are all about.

We have three very generous sponsors for this challenge: Digi Stamps 4 Joy is giving their winner a $10 gift certificate!  Whimsy Stamps is giving their randomly picked winner a $15 gift certificate!  And The Cutting Café’s winner gets 3 sets of digi or cutting files! TEAM S.A.S will also be choosing their favorite cards for our top three and the winners will receive a blog badge and an opportunity to be a guest design team member on a future challenge.

Today is our Ina’s last day as a member of TEAM S.A.S. We wish her nothing but the best in the New Year and beyond. Here are Ina’s cards for this challenge:

 Now for some more great inspiration, here are the cards created by TEAM S.A.S. for this challenge using our generous sponsors’ images. To visit any of their blogs or to go to our sponsor’s websites, just click on any of the names or the pictures at the side of our blog.

 Lucianna's Cards 

Deonna's Cards

Berni's Cards 

Kathy's Cards 

Karen's Cards 

Awesome cards for kids as always from our wonderful design team!  You have until Friday February 6th at noon CST to enter this challenge. After you do, please consider sending in your card(s) to cheer a child who is inpatient in one of our nine children’s hospitals. All the information you need is under the tabs at the top of the blog.

**We have decided to continue a new tradition here at Send a Smile 4 Kids challenge. We all love comments and followers on our blogs, right? So we are suggesting- but not requiring- that all participants in our challenges pick 2-3 (or more) other participants in the challenge, click on their card, visit their blog, leave a positive comment about the card and become a follower of that blog. In your comment, leave a link to your card and blog and hopefully the blogger you visited will come to your blog and become a follower too. **

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

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Winners Announced for Winter Fun 4 Kids!

(For our current challenge, please scroll down.) 

It's another fun Saturday at Send a Smile 4 Kids because we get to make 6 lucky and talented participants in our Winter Fun 4 Kids challenge very happy!  We have three lucky winners of our randomly chosen sponsor prizes and we are also announcing our Top Three.

The lucky winner of the 4 digis from Sassy Studios is #28 Anna!  The winner of the $15 gift certificate from Dollar Graphic Depot is #36 Sharon! And the winner of the prize of the $12 gift certificate from A Day for Daisies is #23 Marlene!  Congratulations to the winners! Please grab your winner’s blog badge from the side of the blog and send me an email at khasheck at gmail dot com and I will put you in touch with the sponsor to claim your prize.  Thanks as always to our wonderful sponsors! To visit their websites easily, just click on their blog badges on the side.

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, just click on their names. 

Top Three Card by Delyana

Top Three Card by Dewi

Top Three Card by Cristina

WOW - What awesome 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 fill in the Contact Form on the side of the blog and I will get back to you with all the details. 

You have until Friday January 16th at noon CST to enter our current challenge 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 nine 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 

Valentines or Love Cards 4 Kids Challenge

Happy New Year from SAS4Kids!! It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time our challenge is Valentines or Love Cards 4 Kids.  Create and link any Valentine or Love card for a child and you could win one of our great prizes.

Little early for Valentines? Not for us at SAS4Kids because we would love it if you mailed in your Valentine or Love card to one of the addresses in the tabs above so a child in one of the children’s hospitals we serve can get a handmade card on February 14^th. In order to get them to the hospitals on time, we need to receive them sometime this month.

We have three very generous sponsors for this challenge: Doodle Pantry is giving their winner a $10 gift certificate!  DRS Designs is giving their randomly picked winner a $10 gift certificate!  And Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet’s winner gets a $6 gift certificate! TEAM S.A.S will also be choosing their favorite cards for our top three and the winners will receive a blog badge and an opportunity to be a guest design team member on a future challenge.

Now for some great inspiration, here are the cards created by TEAM S.A.S. for this challenge using our generous sponsors’ images. To visit any of their blogs or to go to our sponsor’s websites, just click on any of the names or the pictures at the side of our blog.

Karen's Cards 

 Kathy's Cards 

 Deonna's Cards

Ina's Cards 

Berni's Cards 

Lucianna's Cards 

Awesome cards for kids as always from our wonderful design team!  You have until Friday January 16th at noon CST to enter this challenge. After you do, please consider sending in your card(s) to cheer a child who is inpatient in one of our nine children’s hospitals. All the information you need is under the tabs at the top of the blog.

**We have decided to continue a new tradition here at Send a Smile 4 Kids challenge. We all love comments and followers on our blogs, right? So we are suggesting- but not requiring- that all participants in our challenges pick 2-3 (or more) other participants in the challenge, click on their card, visit their blog, leave a positive comment about the card and become a follower of that blog. In your comment, leave a link to your card and blog and hopefully the blogger you visited will come to your blog and become a follower too. **

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

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