SAS4Kids: Holiday Cards 4 Kids

Hi, everyone! Today is the first Saturday in November, which means it's time for a new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids. 

But before we get to this month's challenge, I have the pleasure of announcing the September participant who has been randomly selected to join us as a Guest Designer. This month's lucky number was 4. 

Congratulations, Suzanne! Please be sure to send me an email, including SAS4Kids in the subject line, at cards[dot]by[dot]sybrina[at]gmail[dot]com to schedule your upcoming guest designer appearance. A huge shout-out to all those who played along with us last month. Favorite holiday color combo was a new challenge for us, and it was fun to see some of our card makers' favorite color combos. It looks like a traditional fall palette is a crowd favorite. 

Halloween has come and gone. But, lucky for us, Christmas is right around the corner. Even luckier for our kids because they love getting festive Santa/reindeer/gingerbread people/snowmen/winter critters/fill-in-the-blank! holiday cards. LOVE THEM!

Jen

Celeste

Debi

Mary

Melanie

Sybrina

While we are focusing on holiday cards 4 our kids this month, any kiddie-appropriate card can be linked up for this month's challenge and you have until Friday, December 5 to share your creation. While you aren't required to donate your linked-up card to SAS4Kids, one of our hospitalized patients surely would love it if you did. Card submission information can be found by clicking on the tabs at the top of this page.

    Upcoming Deadlines:

    * Christmas and winter cards: December 5

    * Valentine's Day: January 15

As always, thanks so much for your support of SAS4Kids. Hope to see your works of heart in our Holiday Cards Gallery!

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SAS4Kids: Favorite Holiday Color Combo

Hi, everyone! Happy October! (Is anyone else wondering where September went?) And Happy World Card Making Day!!!

Before we get to this month's challenge, I have the pleasure of announcing the September participant who has been randomly selected to join us as a Guest Designer. The lucky number was 9. 

Congratulations, Tinyworks! Think that's two months in a row. Wow! Talk about luck! Please be sure to send me an email, including SAS4Kids in the subject line, at cards[dot]by[dot]sybrina[at]gmail[dot]com to schedule your upcoming guest designer appearance. A huge shout-out goes to all those who played along with us last month. My shipping days taught me that our card makers love making Halloween cards for our kids. LOVE IT! And we sure had a gallery of cute, cute, cute Halloween cards last month.  

This month, we have a completely new challenge for us. Brand spanking new! Our challenge is to make a holiday card featuring your favorite holiday color combination. While all our designers have made Christmas/winter-themed cards, any holiday combo can work. 
* Maybe purple, green, and gold for Halloween? 

* Maybe teal, deep red, and golden mustard for Thanksgiving? 

* Maybe red, black, and white for Valentine's? 

* Maybe pink, lilac, and minty green for Mother's Day? 

Your holiday choice, your color combo! Here are our designers' favorite holiday colors.

Celeste

Debi

Mary

Melanie

Sybrina

While we are featuring favorite holiday color combos this month, any kiddie-appropriate card can be linked up for this month's challenge and you have until Friday, October 31 to link up your creation. While you aren't required to donate your card to SAS4Kids in order to play along, one of our hospitalized patients would love it if you did. Card guidelines and shipper information can be found by clicking on the tabs at the top of this page. 

For those working on holiday cards, here are a few upcoming deadlines for getting cards to your favorite shipper(s). Thanksgiving is not a huge holiday for us... but if you are working on any of those cards, please note that deadline.

    Thanksgiving - November 5

    Christmas/Winter - December 5

As always, thank you for joining us here at SAS4Kids. We can't wait to see your creation in our October gallery. 

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SAS4Kids: Cute Fall/Halloween Cards 4 Kids

It's the first Saturday in September... which means it's time for a new challenge here at Send a Smile 4 Kids. Before we get to this month's theme, we have a winner to announce.

I have the pleasure of announcing the August participant who has been randomly selected to join us as a Guest Designer. The lucky number was 4. Congratulations, Tinyworks! Please email me at cards[dot]by[dot]sybrina[at]gmail[dot]com, including SAS4Kids in the subject line, to schedule your upcoming guest appearance. And a huge shout-out to all those who played along with us last month. Looks like there's nothing like an Anything Goes Challenge to get those creative juices flowing.

And, speaking of creative juices, Halloween is a perennial crowd favorite with our SAS4Kids card makers. This is the time of year to cut out some ghosts and ink up some punkins to make cute fall/Halloween cards for our SAS4Kids kiddos. As you can see, the deadline to get fall/Halloween cards to our shippers will be here before we know it. 

    Upcoming deadlines:
    Cute Fall/Halloween - October 5
    Thanksgiving - November 5
    Christmas/Winter Cards - December 5

This month, we are so excited to have two SAS4Kids card makers joining us as Guest Designers. Two! Double the fun!!! Both gals are such loyal SAS4Kids crafters. We cannot thank them enough for all they do for us throughout the year.

We are thrilled to welcome back Arlene, who has a knack for clean, crisp designs and great color combinations. Arlene's adventures in crafting, where she shares a wide range of card-making styles and techniques, can be found at Sundaystamper Papercrafts. 

We are also thrilled to welcome back Donna. Donna writes about her card-making exploits at design by Donna. When you visit her blog, you will find that she loves putting her own spin on challenge sketches and has quite the collection of fun designer paper.

Arlene and Donna, thank you so very much for joining us today! And, thank you for all you do for SAS4Kids!  Appreciate you!!!

 

With no further ado. here are this month's cards!

Arlene

Donna W

Jen

Celeste

Debi

Mary

Melanie

Sybrina

While we are featuring cute fall/Halloween cards this month, any kiddie-appropriate card can be linked up for this month's challenge and you have until Friday, October 3 to link up your creation. While you aren't required to donate your card to SAS4Kids in order to play along, one of our hospitalized patients would love it if you did. Card guidelines and shipper information can be found by clicking on the tabs at the top of this page.

As always, thank you for joining us here at SAS4Kids. We can't wait to see your creation in our September gallery. 

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