Winners Announced for Fall Colors Anything Goes Challenge!

(For the current challenge, please go here.) 

We love Saturdays here at Send a Smile 4 Kids! Today we are announcing the winners of our Fall Colors Anything Goes challenge. Two lucky random winners of our sponsor's prizes and our Top Three! The lucky winner of the $15 Gift Certificate from Prairie Fairy is:  #5 Krafty Karen!   And the winner of the Three Digis from Bee Crafty is:  #10 Sarah!   Way to go ladies! Please grab your winner's blog badge from the side of our blog and contact me at [email protected] so that I can hook you up with our wonderful sponsors to collect your prize!

As always, we had many lovely entries in our challenge and it was tough to choose the Top Three. Thank you to all who entered! Our Top Three as chosen by the design team is:

Donna DMC 

Marianne's Craftroom 

Dreja 

For more inspiration on their blogs or to comment on the winning cards, just click on the names. 

Congratulations Ladies! Please grab your Top Three blog badge from the side of the blog and display it with pride on your blog! Watch for your creation to be added to our slide show and contact me at [email protected] if you would like to be a guest design team member on a future challenge. 

You have plenty of time to enter our current challenge, For the Girls. The deadline for that challenge is Friday November 4th at noon CST. After making a card for a girl, please consider sending it and any other cards you have that are appropriate for a child in a hospital to one of our three addresses now collecting cards for our kids. All the information you need before donating is available under the tabs at the top of our blog. We are currently looking for holiday cards so that all the kids inpatient at our 6 children's hospitals over the holidays can be cheered with a fun holiday card. Thanks for helping us do that!

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

For the Girls Challenge at SAS4Kids

It's time for  new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids and we are challenging you to make and link a card FOR THE GIRLS.  We have chosen this as our theme to bring to your attention that one of the catagories of cards we are most in the need of is cards for teenage girls. We receive lots of cards appropriate for little girls, but not so many for our older patients. Any card appropriate for any girl is OK for this challenge, but please keep our teenage girls in your thoughts when designing cards to send in to SAS4Kids. 

We are also thrilled to announce that SAS4Kids is growing again and has just added THREE MORE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS AND ANOTHER ADDRESS TO MAIL YOUR CARDS INTO! For all the details on our exciting news, please go here.

We have three wonderful sponsors for our For the Girls challenge: Cardmadfairy and their prize is 5 digital images of the winner's choice; Cuddly Buddly and their prize is a 5 pound gift certificate; and Shelley's Images and Shelley's prize is a $9 gift certificate! These prizes are drawn randomly by Mr. Random so everyone has an equal chance at winning, provided you follow the challenge rules and theme. The design team also picks our Top Three cards and those talented stampers receive a blog badge to display with pride on their blogs.

Heather and Amanda from Shelley's Images design team were so kind to share two beautiful cards with us for this challenge using Shelley's lovely Flower Girl digital stamp. To visit their blogs for more inspiration and to leave a comment, just click on their names.

Heather's Card 

Amanda's Card 

TEAM S.A.S., as always, has done a great job with their cards using our sponsor's images and here they are to inspire you. To read more about how the cards were made or get even more ideas, you can click on the names to get right to the designer's blogs.

Karen's #1 Card 

Karen's #2 Card

Karen's #3 Card 

Lucianna's #1 Card

Lucianna's #2 Card 

Hilde's #1 Card 

Hilde's #2 Card 

Danni's Card 

Shelby's Card 

Lisa's Card

Sarah's Card 

You have until November 4th at noon CST to enter our For the Girls challenge. After you do. please consider sending in your girl's card along with any other cards appropriate for children to one of our new locations listed under the tabs above. Thank you for joining our challenge and helping put a smile on a child hospitalized in a Children's Hospital.

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

Announcing Winners for Halloween or Fall Cute for Kids Challenge

(For the current challenge, please go here.)

We are happy to announce three lucky winners of our sponsor's random drawings and our Top Three today from our last challenge. But first, we would like to ask for your help for a young man and his family. Christian Ford, the 17 year old son of Simply Betty (a designer of digital stamps) was recently diagnosed with throat cancer. He and his family could use your thoughts and prayers and a card to cheer Christian. Please read the blog post here and help in any way you can. My dear friends, Sara and Michael of Paper Creations Ink created the blog badge found on Betty's site that you can grab and post on your blog to alert others to this way we can help a fellow stamper and her family.

Now on to our winners! The winner of the $15 gift certificate from Crop Stop is: #47 Peggy R. The winner of the $10 gift certificate from Glitterbabe is:  #12 Marjo.  And the winner of the $15 gift certificate from
Doodle Pantry is #8 Sylvia Blum. Congrats to these lucky ladies! Please send me an email at [email protected] so I can connect you to the sponsors to collect your prizes. And don't forget to grab your winner's blog badge from the side of this blog to display on your blog.

We had many many lovely cards again entered in our challenge. Thank you all for participating. Our Top Three as chosen by our design team are:

#14 Pat  

#25 Amber Joy

#39 Vanessa 

Congratulations to these talented stampers! Please click on their names to go to their blogs and get details on how they created these fantastic cards and leave them some congrats too! Pat, Amber Joy, and Vanessa: please grab your Top Three blog badge on the side and display with pride on your blogs. Watch for your cards to be featured in our slide show and contact me at [email protected] if you would like to be a guest  design team member in a future challenge. You would get the sponsor's images to play with and be featured on a the challenge blog post. 

Our current challenge is Fall Colors Anything Goes for Kids and you have until Friday October 14th at noon CST to enter for a chance at some great prizes. Whether you enter the challenge or not, please consider sending any number of cards appropriate for children into Send a Smile 4 Kids to help cheer a child inpatient in a Children's Hospital. We now have two addresses you can choose from- all the info you need can be found under the tabs at the top. Holiday cards are needed the most right now. Thanks!!

Stamping smiles 4 our kids, Karen 

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