Fall Colors Anything Goes for Kids Challenge

It's time for another fun challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids and this time we are challenging you to create a card for a child using fall colors- whatever you interpret fall colors to be is fine as long as it is a card appropriate for a child. It can be a Halloween card if you wish, but please nothing scary and avoid images such as tombstones. Even if you do not send your card to SAS4Kids (and we sure hope you do:), the cards entered in our challenge have to be appropriate for our kids.

We have two generous sponsors for this challenge and look what you can win in our random sponsor drawings: Prairie Fairy is offering a $15 gift certificate and Bee Crafty is offering the winner 3 digital stamps of their choice! You could also be picked as one of our Top Three and win a blog badge and a guest design team spot!

You are going to be amazed at all the talent and inspiration we have for you today! We have two guest design team members today and they both had so much fun with our sponsor's images, they created two cards each! First up is Shelley Dureau. Shelley is the driving force behind Feline Playful, the best challenge list blog in blogland, AND our Canadian partner at Send a Smile 4 Kids (Canada). We just announced our expansion to Canada and our partnership in this blogpost Tuesday. We are so excited to welcome Shelley and all of Canada and to be able to help more children who are inpatient in Children's Hospitals. You can visit Shelley's blog here, and here are the cards Shelley shared with us using our sponsors great images:

Our second guest dt member is Melanie Harding. Mel was picked as a Top Three entrant a few challenges back and agreed to come on as guest dt for this challenge. You can visit her blog here and here are her awesome cards:

TEAM S.A.S had fun, too, with our sponsors images and here are their cards for your inspiration. As always, you can click on their names to go to their blogs for all the details on the cards and to leave some well deserved compliments on their creativity.

Lisa's Card 

Hilde's #1 Card 

Hilde's #2 Card 

Sarah's Card 

Shelby's #1 Card 

Shelby's #2 Card 

Karen's #1 Card 

Karen's #2 Card 

Danni's #1 Card 

Danni's #2 Card 

Lucianna's #1 Card 

Lucianna's #2 Card 

Wow- what great cards to share with you this week! Why don't you make a card for a child using fall colors and join us in this fun challenge? You have until October 14th at noon CST to enter this challenge. After you do, please consider sending your card as well as any others appropriate for a child in the hospital (see our guidelines above) to Send a Smile 4 Kids at either of our addresses (see tabs above for all you need to know.) 

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

Winners Announced for Birthday Fun Challenge!

(For our current challenge, please go here.) 

We love Saturdays here at Send a Smile 4 Kids! Either we are announcing a new challenge, or announcing the winners of a challenge! Today we are sharing the winners of our random sponsor drawings and the cards chosen as the Top Three from the Birthday Fun Challenge.

The winner of the $9 gift certificate from Stamp Fairy is #1 Ali (Aqualeiga)! And the winner of the three sets of digital stamps or cutting files from The Cutting Cafe' is #17 Diane Ahlers!  You can click on their names to visit their blogs and see the winning cards, and on the sponsor's names to see their great products too. Ali and Diane- please take your winners blog badges from the side of the blog and also email me at khasheck@gmail.com so that I can get you in contact with the sponsors to redeem your prizes.

We had many fantastic cards entered in this challenge, so as usual it was very hard to pick the Top Three. Here are the three we have chosen:

#12 Michelle S. 

#18 Marianne 

#19 Pat

To get more inspiration from these talented ladies or get details on their winning cards, just click on their names to visit their blogs. Congratulations ladies! Please take your Top Three blog badge from the side and put it on your blog with pride. Watch for your winning cards to be featured in our slide show and send me an email (khasheck@gmail.com) if you would like to join TEAM S.A.S. as a  guest design team member for an upcoming challenge. You will be sent all the sponsor's images to play with and be featured in the blogpost for that challenge.

You still have time to play in our current challenge, Halloween or Fall Cute Cards for Kids- that challenge goes until Friday, September 30th at noon CST.  And if you do make some cute fall or Halloween cards for kids (not scary or anything with tombstones), please consider sending them in to Send a Smile 4 Kids for our children who are inpatient in Children's Hospitals. We would love for all the kids in the hospital especially on holidays like Halloween or Christmas to get a handmade card to cheer them and their families. All the details on how to donate are under the tabs above. 

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

Halloween or Fall Cute Cards for Kids Challenge

It's time for another fun challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids and this time we are challenging you to make a cute fall or Halloween card for a child. No scary tombstones or goblins- just fun and cute Halloween or fall images please. Even if you don't send your card in for our kids in children's hospitals (and we sure hope you consider doing just that!), the cards entered in the challenge should also be appropriate for children, so stay away from the scary aspects of Halloween please. 


We have three generous sponsors for this challenge and as always, please click on their names and visit their sites to see all the fun stamps and stamping supplies they offer. Crop Stop is offering a $15 gift certificate to a random winner; Doodle Pantry is giving a $15 gift certificate; and Glitterbabe is giving a $10 gift certificate. Wouldn't you just love to win one of these three great prizes? All you have to do is enter our challenge and then be a lucky in the random drawing. Of course, TEAM S.A.S will be picking the Top Three as well and they win a lovely blog badge and the chance to be a guest design team member. 


We are so happy to have Pat Pearson as a special guest design team member today. Pat's card was chosen as a Top Three card a few challenges back and we invited her to be a guest dt member and we were thrilled when she accepted. Pat is a team member with me at Paper Creations Ink , and her talent can be seen there and at her own blog here. I shipped Pat the images from our digital sponsors, Glitterbabe and Doodle Pantry and she had so much fun with them, she created three cards to share with us today! Here they are:

TEAM S.A.S had fun with the great images from Doodle Pantry and Glitterbabe too, and here are their cards to inspire you:

Danni's Card

Lucianna's #1 Card 

Lucianna's #2 Card 

Shelby's #1 Card 

Shelby's #2 Card 

Sarah's Card 

Lisa's Card 

Hilde's Card 

Karen's Card #1 Front

Karen's Inside of #1 Card

Karen's #2 Card 

Aren't they all great?! As usual, you can click on the names to visit their blogs for more details on their cards and more inspiration.

You have until September 30th at noon to enter this challenge so have fun making a child's fall or Halloween card and enter it for THREE chances at some great prizes. Then please consider sending it (and any other cards you have for children)into SAS4Kids to help cheer a child in the hospital on Halloween or any of these lovely fall days. All the details you need on how to contribute are under the tabs on the top of the blog.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen