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