Anything Goes (for Kids) Challenge!!

It's time for another great new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids! This time we are going with an easy one - Anything Goes as long as it is For Kids! We have two wonderful sponsors this time so you have twice as much chance at winning a great prize in our random drawing! Cardmadfairy is one of the great sponsors and they are offering a prize of 5 digital stamps of the winner's choice! And Stamp Fairy is the other generous sponsor and they are giving a $9 gift certificate to the winner! You can click on their names to visit their sites and see all the awesome stamps they offer everyday.

We will also be picking our Top Three favorite cards from the entries and featuring them in our slide show.

We are lucky today to have a guest design team member joining us for this challenge. Tammy Louise Cunliffe has been one of our favorite top three winners in the past and has an awesome blog here.
Check out the lovely cards on her blog and also the awesome card she is sharing today using Stamp Fairy's stamps.

Here are the design team cards made with fun digital stamps from Cardmadfairy and Stamp Fairy to inspire you. To see the details on the cards or to visit the design team blogs, just click on their names.

Sarah's Cardmadfairy Card

Sarah's Stamp Fairy Card

Hilde's Stamp Fairy Card

Hilde's Cardmadfairy Card

Lisa's Stamp Fairy Card

Debby's Cardmadfairy Card

Debby's Stamp Fairy Card

                                                               Karen's Cardmadfairy Card

Karen's Stamp Fairy Card

I am so proud of the talented design team we have here at SAS4Kids! Aren't the DT cards awesome?! You have until noon on August 19th to make a card for this Anything Goes For Kids challenge and link it for a chance at a great prize. And then please consider sending that card and any others you have for children to SAS4Kids so we can help cheer our kids who are inpatient in Children's Hospitals. All the details and the address you need is available under the tabs on the top of this blog.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen

Blog Candy Winner Announcement!

(For the current challenge, please go here.)

Today is a very special day! First we are announcing the winner of our Blog Candy Contest! And for me personally, I have to share that 5 years ago today, my grandson Nate was born six weeks pre-mature. I remember the first time I saw him all hooked up to so many tubes and looking so tiny. But he was cared for by wonderful nurses and doctors at the Intensive Care Unit of the Neenah Children's Hospital and is a happy healthy smart wonderful 5 year old boy. Of course Grandma is greatly prejudiced I admit:) We are celebrating his birthday with him this weekend, but sometime during the weekend I am going to deliver 228 handmade cards to Neenah and Milwaukee's Children's Hospitals to help cheer boys and girls and their families when they are inpatient there. Thank you so much to all who have sent in cards and also to our new friends who have promised to send in cards as part of this blog candy contest.

And now, for the announcement you have been waiting for................................................................

The winner of this huge package of stamps, flowers, punches, adhesives, rub-ons, ribbons, tools, etc. is:

Lucky #13  Claudia!!

Here is what Claudia said in her lovely comment:
Hello, I just became a new follower of your great blog, I will surely be sending u some cards, thank u for giving me the chance to help out such a great cause... and also thanks for the chance to win such amazing candy, I have added it to my sidebar with a link back here... 
http://destined2create.blogspot.com
many blessings on u guys, and I hope u gather many cards for all those children... 
Claudia W.

Claudia- I will be notifying you personally after I come back from our birthday celebration. But if you read this and want to contact me with your mailing address, you can email me at khasheck@gmail.com.
Congratulations!!

Thanks to all who put our blog badge on their blogs and helped promote our cause. We look forward to receiving more cards in the mail soon. It's time to start creating fall and winter holiday cards to be sure we have them in time to get them to the children. Let's try real hard to make sure each child who is inpatient during the holidays has a card from us to brighten their day a little bit. All the information you need is available under the tabs above.

With the extra Saturday in July, you have another week to make and link a card for a boy, especially a teenage boy. Read all about our current challenge here.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen

Red White and Blue Winners!

(For our current challenge, please go here.) 

It's always fun here on Saturdays! Either we are announcing a new challenge or more winners! And on Saturday July 30th (which would normally be a day off for us as we are a first and third week of the month challenge), we are announcing the winner of the blog candy giveaway! Still plenty of time to get in on that one- click on the picture on the side for all the details on how to enter.

The winners of the random drawings for our awesome sponsor prizes are:

#1  Gloria M. has won the $9 Gift Certificate from Stamp Fairy!     and

#22  Chris C. has won the 3 sets of digital stamps or cutting files from The Cutting Cafe!

Please email me at khasheck@gmail.com to help you get in touch with the sponsors to get your prizes, and take your "I was a winner" blog badge from the side of this blog for your blog.

Our top three was hard again to choose because we had so many awesome entries. The design team has chosen these three cards as our Top Three:

#23 Angela W.

#12 Pat P.

#11 Janiel

You can click on the names above the cards to go to their awesome blogs and get some more inspiration. Ladies- your cards will be featured in our slide show and you can take our Top Three Blog Badge from the side and put it on your blog with pride. And if you would like to be featured as a Guest Designer on one of our upcoming challenges, just send me an email (khasheck@gmail.com).

Remember to join in the fun at our current challenge: For the Boys (Especially Teenage Boys) - you have until Friday August 5th to enter- a whole extra week to make a fun card for a boy and enter it to win great prizes. Then please consider sending it and any other cards you have for children to Send a Smile 4 kids for our kids in Children's Hospitals. For all the information you need, please click on the tabs above.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen