Winter Fun for Kids Challenge

It's time for a new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids and we are challenging you to make a Winter Fun Card for Kids - snowmen and snowflakes or anything fun for kids that has to do with winter with or without a holiday theme. We have three awesome sponsors for this challenge: Whimsy Stamps who is giving the random winner of their prize 5 digital stamps of the winner's choice! Stamp Fairy is giving their winner a $9 gift certificate, and Sassy Cheryl is giving a $5 gift certificate!

After this challenge and the winner's announcement next week, TEAM S.A.S. is taking a break until the first week of January so everyone on our team can relax and enjoy the holidays with their families and friends minus any design team deadlines or obligations. This means you have until January 6th at noon CST to enter this challenge for a Winter Fun Card for Kids. Lots and lots of time to design a card and enter it for a chance to win a  great sponsor prize or be chosen for our Top Three.

We also wanted to share some really fun news- be on the lookout for the January issue of CardMaker magazine (on stands now) and pick one up if you can. Send a Smile 4 Kids is the featured charity in the Readers Reach Out section! You can read all about it here and there is a link there to the article on line too.

TEAM S.A.S. had a great time playing with some images from the sponsors and here are their winter fun cards to inspire you. As always, you can click on their names (or their pictures on the side) to go to their blogs for all the details and to see many other great cards.

Shelby's Card 

Hilde's Cards

Lisa's Card 

Sarah's Card 

Lucianna's Cards

Karen's Cards 

So remember you have a whole month to make and link a Winter Fun Card for Kids and then please consider sending it in to Send a Smile 4 Kids to help cheer a child who is inpatient in a children's hospital. It is getting almost too late to still send in holiday cards, but if we can, we will get them over to the kids before Christmas or will save for next year. But winter cards and Valentines and everyday cheery cards are great to send in now and anytime. You can read all about the guidelines and anything else you need to know under the tabs above. 

SAS4Kids wishes you all a wonderful holiday season full of smiles and family and fun! 

Stamping smiles 4 kids, Karen 

Winners Announced for Starting Early for Holiday Wishes 4 our Kids!

(For our current challenge, please go here.) 

We love Saturdays here at Send a Smile 4 Kids because it is so fun to make our participants happy by announcing either a new challenge or winners of our sponsor prizes and Top Three honors. And this time our Top Three win a sponsor prize too thanks to the generosity of Designed2Delight!

The winners of our sponsor's prizes as picked by Mr. Random are: Designed2Delight's prize of a $10 voucher was won  by #21 Shelley! The winner of the $15 gift certificate from Stamp Shoppe Creations was #6 Olivia! And the winner of the $9 gift certificate from Shelley's Images is #18 Diane G.!

Congrats ladies! Please email me at khasheck@gmail.com so I can put you in touch with the sponsors to redeem your prizes. And don't forget to take your winners blog badge from the side of the blog.

Our Top Three as chosen by our design team also win a $5 voucher from Designed2Delight in addition to the usual Top Three blog badge (found on the side of our blog) and an invite to be a guest design team member on a future challenge. Unfortunately we cannot add any new cards to our slide show until it is redone, because Slide is shutting down. Here are the Top Three cards in no particular order:

Krafty Karen 

Lisbeth

Bella

Congratulations to our Top Three! Beautiful cards ladies! Please grab your Top Three blog badge from the side of our blog and display it with pride on your blog. And send me an email (khasheck@gmail.com) so I can put you in touch with Designed2Delight for your prize, and let me know if you would like to be a Guest Design Team Member on a future challenge. If you choose to do that, you will be given the sponsor's images to design with and be featured on the challenge blogpost.

(Edited to add- I made a mistake on the picture of Bella's card and it has been corrected, but I do apologize for the error.) 

You have until Friday December 2nd at noon CST to enter our current challenge, Happy Holiday Wishes 4 Kids.  Yup, we are doing the holiday theme again, because there are many many children in our seven children's hospitals over the holidays who would love a card to cheer them and their families. So please pick out a few handmade holiday cards for our kids and send them in right away to one of our 4 addresses listed here.  Our deadline is early December because we have to have time to get them to the hospitals, but if we get them too late, we will hold on to them for next year. And, of course, we are always happy to receive everyday cheer cards as well as any for the holidays coming up, such as Valentines and Easter.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

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