Birthday Fun for Kids Challenge!

Welcome to a new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids - Birthday Fun for Kids! Every child loves to get fun handmade birthday cards, so make one and link it for a chance at some great sponsor prizes! Our generous sponsors for this challenge are: The Cutting Cafe' with a prize of three sets of digital stamps or cutting files; and Stamp Fairy with a prize of a $9 gift certificate to their online store! And of course we always pick our Top Three favorite entries and you could win the SAS4Kids Blog Badge of honor!

TEAM S.A.S. has had a great time using images and cutting files from our two sponsors, The Cutting Cafe' and Stamp Fairy. (You can click on the names to go to their blogs for details on the cards and to see what else they have been up to.)  Here are their birthday cards for your inspiration:

Karen's #1 Card

Karen's #2 Card

Inside of Karen's #2 Card

Shelby's Card 

Lisa's Card 

Lucianna's #1 Card

Lucianna's #2 Card 

Hilde's #1 Card 

Hilde's #2 Card 

Sarah's Card 

What a talented bunch of Sassy ladies- we are so lucky to have them all on our team, don't you think? Please join us and make a birthday card for a child and link it up for two chances at a great prize. You have until September 16th at noon CST to link your card. After you do, please consider sending your card and any other ones you have that are appropriate for a child to Send a Smile 4 Kids to cheer a child inpatient in a Children's Hospital. We are currently looking for fall and winter holiday cards as well as everyday and birthday cards. Please check out the tabs above for all the details you need. 

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

Anything Goes for Kids Winners!

(For the current challenge, please go here.) 

Saturdays are always fun here at Send a Smile 4 Kids because we are either announcing winners or a new challenge. Today we get to make some lucky ladies very happy by telling them they are winners! We had a great turnout for our Anything Goes for Kids challenge and hope you all come back soon for another fun challenge!

The winners of our random drawings for the sponsor prizes are:  #7 Mel X. who has won Cardmadfairy's prize of 5 digital stamps of her choice; AND #21 Zahreen S. who has won Stamp Fairy's prize of a $9 gift certificate! Ladies, please email me at khasheck@gmail.com so I can put you in touch with the sponsors to claim your prizes. And  don't forget to take your winner's blog badge for your blogs from the side of our blog.

TEAM S.A.S. had a hard time picking the Top Three this week because we had so many great cards entered in this challenge! Thank you to all who entered! We finally decided on these three fantastic cards:

#11 Suzanne

#31 Nerdette (AKA Stephanie)

#66 Mel H. 

You can click on their names to go to their blogs for more inspiration. Congratulations ladies! Your cards will be featured in our slide show and you can claim your Top Three Blog Badge from the side of our blog to place on your blog with pride. And if you would like to be a guest design team member of TEAM S.A.S. for a future challenge, just send me an email and you will receive the free digital stamps from our sponsors and be featured on a future challenge blogpost.

Our current challenge, Punches and Diecuts for Kids is open for you to enter until September 2nd at noon CST, so pull out your punches and/or dies and make a cute card for a child and enter it for THREE chances at some great prizes! And after you do, please consider sending that card and any others you have appropriate for children into Send a Smile 4 Kids so we can put a smile on the faces of children who are inpatient in Children's Hospitals and cheer their families as well. All the information you need is under the tabs above.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen

Punches and Diecuts for Kids Challenge and other Great News!

It's time for another fun challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids and this time we are challenging you to make a card using a punch or a diecut or a mixture of those and enter our challenge for a chance to win a great prize. Did I say A prize? I meant you could win one of THREE great prizes! That's right- we have three great sponsors this time! Our first sponsor is Stamp Shoppe Creations and Heidi, the owner and a dear friend of mine as her shop is within walking distance of my home and so I am in there all the time:) is giving the random winner of her prize a $15 gift certificate to her online shop! Our second sponsor is Sassy Cheryl's Digital Stamps and their prize up for grabs is a $5 gift certificate. And our third sponsor is Crop Stop and their prize is a $15 gift certificate! Our design team used awesome images from Stamp Shoppe Creations and Sassy Cheryl's to create their awesome cards below.

And of course you could also be picked as one of our Top Three and have the honor of joining our slide show and receive a Top Three blog badge for your blog.

We are also introducing a new member today of our design team, now called TEAM S.A.S.(Send a Smile with a bit of Sas!)  We are thrilled to welcome Lucianna Dilsaver to our team! I have followed Lucianna's blog Dilsaver Designs since we both become members of another design team, and was so impressed with her card ideas and professionalism, I asked her to join our team and she said yes! Here is what Lucianna shared about herself as an introduction:

My name is Lucianna Dilsaver of Dilsaver Designs,   I am a work from home mom of 4, ranging from 3 to 10.  I live on the West coast, in Oregon, only an hour away from the beach and love it.   There is always tons and tons of rain but it is always green which is the plus side.  I have an absolute love for card making.  I started out scrapbooking 12 years ago and have always loved anything artsy since I was a wee one.  It kind of got away from me, due to having children J  and I got back into it, but this time with cards and I haven’t stopped.  I just started posting my work on my blog in April of 2010 to document my designs and projects and I have met so many wonderful people. I love that I am able to share my God given abilities with others and I absolutely adore that I continue to learn new mediums and designs through the wonderfully vast blogworld.   I look forward to many more years of new ideas and new friends.

Take a look at the cards Lucianna shared with us today for this challenge and you will see why we are so happy to welcome her to our team! Both cards use images from Sassy Cheryl's. Then please visit her blog and leave a message of congratulations and love for Lucianna.

We also are pleased to share a card from a Guest Design Team Member today! Jackie Randolph has been a part of our Top Three picks in the past and graciously agreed to join us today as a guest member of our team for this challenge. She has a lovely blog here so check it our for inspiration and great cards! Jackie was given the Sassy Cheryl's digitals to play with and this is her awesome card: 

Here are the rest of the awesome cards from TEAM S.A.S. for your inspiration:

Sassy Cheryl's card by Shelby

Sassy Cheryl's #2 by Shelby

Stamp Shoppe Creations Card by Lisa

Stamp Shoppe Creations Card by Sarah

Sassy Cheryl's Card by Sarah

Stamp Shoppe Design Card by Hilde 

Sassy Cheryl's Card by Hilde 

Stamp Shoppe Creations Card by Karen 

Sassy Cheryl's Card by Karen 

So pull out your punches and diecuts and make a card for a child and link it below for a chance at a great prize. You have until noon on September 2nd to enter this challenge. And after you make the card, please consider sending it and any other cards for kids you have to Send a Smile 4 Kids to cheer a child inpatient in a Children's Hospital. All the information you need is under the tabs above.

Stamping smiles 4 Kids, Karen