Christmas in July 4 Kids Challenge

It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time our challenge is Christmas in July 4 Kids!  Create and link any holiday card for a child, and you could win one of our great prizes.

We have chosen this theme to remind everyone it is never too early to start making holiday cards for our kids. We are continuing to grow and we have many children in the hospitals we serve who would love a Christmas card and who can also choose holiday cards for their family and friends as well as their medical staff. Please avoid any religious themes as we never know the religious background of the kids or their families. Any fun holiday or winter cards would be great. Don’t forget Halloween cards (fun not scary) too. Of course you do not need to send in your cards to enter our challenges, but our kids sure love it if you do!

We have three very generous sponsors for this challenge: Dollar Graphics Depot is giving their winner a $15 gift certificate!  A Day for Daisies is giving their randomly picked winner a $12 gift certificate!  And Fred She Said’s winner gets a $10 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.

(July and August challenges will be on the 2^nd and 4^th Saturdays because of the holiday weekend. We will be back to our usual 1^st and 3^rd Saturdays in September.)

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.

Lucianna's Cards 

Kathy's Cards 

Karen's Cards 

Deonna's Cards 

Berni's Cards 

Mary's Cards 

Wonderful cards for kids as always from our awesome design team!  You have until Friday August 7th 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 fourteen 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 Animal Cards 4 Kids Challenge

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It's another fun Saturday at Send a Smile 4 Kids because we get to make 6 lucky and talented participants in our Animal 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.

The lucky winner of the 3 digis from Crackerbox Palace is #7 Indy!  The winner of 2 images of their choice from All Dressed Up is #31 Chris! And the winner of the prize of  a $15 gift certificate from DeeDee’s Digis is #26 Anne!  Congrats to the winners! Please grab your winner’s blog badge from the side of the blog and send me an email via the Contact Form also on the side of the blog, 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 Craftee Donna

Top Three Card by KT Fit Kitty

Top Three Card by Lillian

WOW - What awesome cards for kids! Thanks for sharing your talents with us this week, 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 July 24th 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 14 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 

Bright Colors 4 Kids Challenge

It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time our challenge is Bright Colors 4 Kids!  Create and link any brightly colored card for a child, and you could win one of our great prizes.

We have three very generous sponsors for this challenge: The Cutting Café is giving their winner 3 sets of digis or cutting files of their choice!  Sassy Studios is giving their randomly picked winner 4 digis!  And Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet’s winner gets a $10 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.

Mary's Cards 

Berni's Cards 

Deonna's Cards 

Karen's Cards

Kathy's Cards 

Lucianna's Cards  

Wonderful cards for kids as always from our awesome design team!  You have until Friday July 24th 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 thirteen 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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