SAS4Kids: Favorite Holiday Color Combo

Hi, everyone! Happy October! (Is anyone else wondering where September went?) And Happy World Card Making Day!!!

Before we get to this month's challenge, I have the pleasure of announcing the September participant who has been randomly selected to join us as a Guest Designer. The lucky number was 9. 

Congratulations, Tinyworks! Think that's two months in a row. Wow! Talk about luck! Please be sure to send me an email, including SAS4Kids in the subject line, at cards[dot]by[dot]sybrina[at]gmail[dot]com to schedule your upcoming guest designer appearance. A huge shout-out goes to all those who played along with us last month. My shipping days taught me that our card makers love making Halloween cards for our kids. LOVE IT! And we sure had a gallery of cute, cute, cute Halloween cards last month.  

This month, we have a completely new challenge for us. Brand spanking new! Our challenge is to make a holiday card featuring your favorite holiday color combination. While all our designers have made Christmas/winter-themed cards, any holiday combo can work. 
* Maybe purple, green, and gold for Halloween? 

* Maybe teal, deep red, and golden mustard for Thanksgiving? 

* Maybe red, black, and white for Valentine's? 

* Maybe pink, lilac, and minty green for Mother's Day? 

Your holiday choice, your color combo! Here are our designers' favorite holiday colors.

Celeste

Debi

Mary

Melanie

Sybrina

While we are featuring favorite holiday color combos this month, any kiddie-appropriate card can be linked up for this month's challenge and you have until Friday, October 31 to link up your creation. While you aren't required to donate your card to SAS4Kids in order to play along, one of our hospitalized patients would love it if you did. Card guidelines and shipper information can be found by clicking on the tabs at the top of this page. 

For those working on holiday cards, here are a few upcoming deadlines for getting cards to your favorite shipper(s). Thanksgiving is not a huge holiday for us... but if you are working on any of those cards, please note that deadline.

    Thanksgiving - November 5

    Christmas/Winter - December 5

As always, thank you for joining us here at SAS4Kids. We can't wait to see your creation in our October gallery. 

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SAS4Kids: Cute Fall/Halloween Cards 4 Kids

It's the first Saturday in September... which means it's time for a new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids. Before we get to this month's theme, we have a winner to announce.

I have the pleasure of announcing the August participant who has been randomly selected to join us as a Guest Designer. The lucky number was 4. Congratulations, Tinyworks! Please email me at cards[dot]by[dot]sybrina[at]gmail[dot]com, including SAS4Kids in the subject line, to schedule your upcoming guest appearance. And a huge shout-out to all those who played along with us last month. Looks like there's nothing like an Anything Goes Challenge to get those creative juices flowing.

And, speaking of creative juices, Halloween is a perennial crowd favorite with our SAS4Kids card makers. This is the time of year to cut out some ghosts and ink up some punkins to make cute fall/Halloween cards for our SAS4Kids kiddos. As you can see, the deadline to get fall/Halloween cards to our shippers will be here before we know it. 

    Upcoming deadlines:
    Cute Fall/Halloween - October 5
    Thanksgiving - November 5
    Christmas/Winter Cards - December 5

This month, we are so excited to have two SAS4Kids card makers joining us as Guest Designers. Two! Double the fun!!! Both gals are such loyal SAS4Kids crafters. We cannot thank them enough for all they do for us throughout the year.

We are thrilled to welcome back Arlene, who has a knack for clean, crisp designs and great color combinations. Arlene's adventures in crafting, where she shares a wide range of card-making styles and techniques, can be found at Sundaystamper Papercrafts. 

We are also thrilled to welcome back Donna. Donna writes about her card-making exploits at design by Donna. When you visit her blog, you will find that she loves putting her own spin on challenge sketches and has quite the collection of fun designer paper.

Arlene and Donna, thank you so very much for joining us today! And, thank you for all you do for SAS4Kids!  Appreciate you!!!

 

With no further ado. here are this month's cards!

Arlene

Donna W

Jen

Celeste

Debi

Mary

Melanie

Sybrina

While we are featuring cute fall/Halloween cards this month, any kiddie-appropriate card can be linked up for this month's challenge and you have until Friday, October 3 to link up your creation. While you aren't required to donate your card to SAS4Kids in order to play along, one of our hospitalized patients would love it if you did. Card guidelines and shipper information can be found by clicking on the tabs at the top of this page.

As always, thank you for joining us here at SAS4Kids. We can't wait to see your creation in our September gallery. 

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SAS4Kids: Anything Goes

 Hi, everyone! Happy Saturday! Thank you for stopping by and checking out this month's Send a Smile 4 Kids challenge. 

It's certainly felt like a tropical heat wave for so many folks recently. Hope you have found some ways to stay cool during these hot summer days... like staying indoors and making cards for family, friends and kids.

Before we get to our this month's challenge, I have the pleasure of announcing the July participant who has been randomly selected to join us as a Guest Designer. The lucky number was 12. Congratulations, Nelleke! Please email me at cards[dot]by[dot]sybrina[at]gmail[dot]com, including SAS4Kids in the subject line, to schedule your upcoming guest appearance. Our thanks to everyone who played along with us last month.

We have one more month before we start focusing on fall and winter holidays. We thought this would be a perfect time for an Anything Goes challenge theme. Maybe you want to get an early start on those fall/Halloween or Christmas cards, inking up some jack-o-lanterns or Santas. Or maybe you prefer to make a few generic, non-specific themed cards to send to your favorite shipper(s). 

This month,we have decided to feature birthday cards for the kids. Our shippers are always in need of birthday cards. Year round.   :)

Jen

Celeste

Debi

Mary

Melanie

Sybrina

Like always, any kiddie-appropriate card can be linked up for this month's challenge. You have until Friday, September 5, to link up your creation. While you aren't required to donate your linked-up card to SAS4Kids, one of our hospitalized patients would love it if you did. Card submission information can be found by clicking on the tabs at the top of this page.

If you'd like to get a head start on holiday cards for the kids, here are our upcoming holiday deadlines.

    Cute Fall/Halloween - October 5
    Thanksgiving - November 5
    Christmas/Winter Cards - December 5

As always, thank you sooooo much for your support of SAS4Kids. Hope to see you in our Anything Goes August Card Gallery!

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SAS4Kids: Christmas in July 4 Kids

Happy July! Happy Saturday! For those in The States, Happy Holiday Weekend!   

But before we get to our this month's challenge, I have the pleasure of announcing the June participant who has been randomly selected to join us as a Guest Designer. The lucky number was 1. Congratulations, Jose! Please email me at cards[dot]by[dot]sybrina[at]gmail[dot]com, including SAS4Kids in the subject line, to schedule your upcoming guest appearance. And a huge shout-out to all those who played along with us last month. There were so many cute cards in our June gallery. Sooooo many!!!

This month, we are continuing our annual tradition of celebrating Christmas in July by making Christmas/holiday cards for our kids. I don't know about your neck of the woods, but the last week or two around here have been hot, hot, hot. It was a true pleasure playing with some cute little penguins. From the looks of things, our design team enjoyed pulling out their wintry/holiday stashes.

Here are a few cards that would be perfect for our SAS4Kids kids. 

Jen

Celeste

Debi 

Mary

Melanie 

Sybrina

While we are focusing on Christmas cards this month, any kiddie-appropriate card can be linked up for this month's challenge... and you have until Friday August 1 to link up your creation! While you aren't required to donate your linked-up card to SAS4Kids, one of our hospitalized patients would love it if you did. Card submission information can be found by clicking on the tabs at the top of this page.

As always, thanks for your support of SAS4Kids. Hope to see your work(s) of heart in our July gallery. 

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SAS4Kids: Summer Fun Cards 4 Kids

Hi, everyone! Happy weekend! Hope your summer is off to a great start. Around here, school's out and the neighborhood pool is open. Needless to say, there are a lot of smiling kiddos (and teachers) in these parts.

Yes, this is the first Saturday of a new month, which means it is time for a new Send a Smile 4 Kids challenge. 

But before we get to our new challenge, I have the pleasure of announcing the May challenge participant who was randomly selected to join us as a Guest Designer. The lucky number was 3. Congratulations, Arlene! Please email me at the following address to schedule your upcoming guest appearance, including SAS4Kids in the subject line. 

cards[dot]by[dot]sybrina[at]gmail[dot]com

Now for this month's challenge. We are thrilled to be joined by our Guest Designer Jaydee, who shares her adventures in cardmaking at Stampin! with Jaydee. Jaydee, whose cards have fantastic focal points and such interesting background elements, designs for Paper Players and Addicted to CAS. Thank you soooo very much, Jaydee, for sharing your talent with us!  

This month's theme is to make a kid-friendly card that features summertime fun. Currently, we are between SAS4Kids holiday deadline times. (Whew!) So, we're using this time to focus on more generic summery cards. Nothing says summer like seagulls, seashells, vespas, picnics, birdfeeders, and watermelon.... right?!

Jaydee

Jen

Celeste

Debi

Mary

 Melanie

Sybrina

Please stop by and check out the details for our designers' summer-themed cards. Then stop back by to link up a card of your very own. You have until noon Friday July 4 to play along. Remember that while the cards here have focused on summer-themed cards 4 kids, ANY kiddie-appropriate card can be shared. 

Our heartfelt thanks to all of you who support our SAS4Kids hospitals. We look forward to seeing your wonderful creations in this month's gallery.

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SAS4Kids: Punny Sentiment Cards

 Hi, everyone! Happy weekend!

Yes, this is the first Saturday of a new month, which means it is time for a new Send a Smile 4 Kids challenge. 

But before we get to our new challenge, I have the pleasure of announcing the April challenge participant who was randomly selected to join us as a Guest Designer. The lucky number was 4. Congratulations, Sue! Please email me at the following address to schedule your upcoming guest appearance, including SAS4Kids in the subject line: 

cards[dot]by[dot]sybrina[at]gmail[dot]com

And I also want to thank everyone who played along with our challenge. I apologize for not being able to leave comments for Crystal's and Sue's cards. Your cards were adorable!

Now for this month's challenge. This month we are thrilled to be joined by our Guest Designer  Deanne who shares her adventures in cardmaking at A Little Bit O' Paper. Deanne always makes the cutest kiddie cards and is the queen of Cricut designs. Thank you soooo very much, Deanne, for sharing your talent with us!  

This month's theme is to make a punny sentiment card.... because kids love puns. These can be punny cards to be given to one of our kiddos. Or, it might be a punny card that one of the kids could give to his/her dad, brother, favorite uncle. You will see that all of our designers have made guy/Dad cards because May 15 is the deadline for getting Father's Day cards to your favorite shipper(s).

Deanne

Jen

Celeste

 

Debi

 

Mary

Melanie

Sybrina

Please stop by and check out the details for our designers' sweet cards. Then stop back by to link up a card of your very own. You have until noon Friday June 6 to play along. Remember that while the cards here have focused on punny dad/guy cards, ANY kiddie-appropriate card can be shared. 

Thanks so much for all you do for our SAS4Kids patients. We look forward to seeing your works-of-heart in this month's gallery.

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SAS4Kids: Sketch-Inspired Cards 4 Kids

Hi, everyone! Happy weekend!

Yes, this is the first Saturday of a new month, which means it is time for a new Send a Smile 4 Kids challenge. 

But before we get to our new challenge, I have the pleasure of announcing the March participant who has been randomly selected to join us as a Guest Designer. The lucky number was 18. Congratulations, Deanne! Please email me at cards[dot]by[dot]sybrina[at]gmail[dot]com, including SAS4Kids in the subject line, to schedule your upcoming guest appearance.

Now for this month's challenge. This month's theme is to make a sketch-inspired kiddie card. Any sketch at all. It can be an oldie-but-goldie that has become a tried-and-true favorite or a sketch featured in a current card challenge. 

You will see that all of our designers have made mom cards. Around here, our Easter/spring deadline has passed, and our shippers are now focusing on mom/Mother's Day cards. These are cards that kids can give to the moms or special ladies in their lives. The April 15 deadline for getting these cards to your favorite shipper(s) is fast approaching.

 Jen

Celeste

Debi 

Mary

Melanie

Sybrina

Please stop by and check out the details for our designers' sweet cards. Then stop back by to link up a card of your very own. You have until noon Friday May 2 to play along. Remember that while the cards here have focused on sketch-inspired mom cards, ANY kiddie-appropriate card can be shared. 

Thanks so much for all you do for our SAS4Kids patients. We look forward to seeing your works-of-heart in this month's gallery.

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SAS4Kids: New Guest Designer Opportunities

Hello, everyone! Happy weekend!

If you have stopped by to see featured cards from last month's gallery, we are changing things up a bit. Each month, we will be selecting at random at least one participant to join us as a guest designer for an upcoming challenge. If you linked up a card in February, please check your blog post's comments. 

We'll be back on  April 5 with a new challenge. In the meantime, happy crafting!

SAS4Kids: Animal Cards 4 Kids

Hello, everyone! Happy March!

It's the first Saturday of a new month. So, it's time for a new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids. This month, our theme is Animal Cards 4 Kids. And, since our spring/Easter deadline is right around the corner, you are going to be seeing baby animals on our DT's cards. Nothing says spring like baby bunnies, ducklings, and chicks.

Celeste 

Debi

Mary 

Melanie

Sybrina

You have until Friday, April 4 to play along with us this month. Even though our theme this month is animal cards, you are always welcome to link up any kid-friendly card. Of course you are not required to donate your linked-up card to SAS4Kids, but a hospitalized child would surely love it if you did. And, we're changing things up a bit this month. We are going to randomly choose one card and invite that card's designer to join us a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge.   

Upcoming holiday deadlines are listed below.

• Spring/Easter: March 20
• Mother's Day: April 15
• Father's Day: May 15

As always, thanks for stopping by! We can't wait to see your works of heart in our March gallery.

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