SAS4Kids: "Make New Friends..."

Hello, everyone! Happy 2025! Here's hoping your holidays have been fun-filled and heartwarming. 

It's certainly been a while. Quite a long while in card-making circles. I am so very sorry to have been gone for so long and promise to do better this year.  

It's the first Saturday of a new month, which means it's time for a new card-making challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids. In the past, SAS4Kids challenges have corresponded to upcoming holidays.  This year, we have decided to change things up a bit. As the months pass, you will see that we are introducing some non-holiday-related challenges. 

To ring in this new year, our January inspiration is the lyric from an old Girl Scout song. (Any other former Girl Scouts out there? Think I still have my badge sash!) 

Girl Scout Song Lyric: Make new friends, but keep the old.

Our SAS4Kids Take: Use new stamps, but remember the old.

That's right, this month's challenge is to make a card with a new stamp you've been looking forward to inking up... or with an old stamp that you haven't used in a while... or with both old and new stamps. Let's call it a stamp-lovers Anything Goes!

For my card, I used a stamp from the very first sentiment stamp set I ever had. I honestly have no idea who made these stamps. nor how long I have had them. But, they were my go-to sentiments for a long, long time. I also decided to use a box of washi tape that I got from Michael's years and years ago. I can't remember how many times I've come across the box and thought that I really should be using these. And, truth be told, I have no idea why I waited so long to use this washi tape. I'm pretty pleased with the way this birthday card turned out. 

If you are interested in playing along with us this month at SAS4Kids, you can link up any kid-friendly card, even if you're not sure it exactly meets this month's challenge. And, it is not required that you donate your linked-up card to SAS4Kids... but a hospitalized child would surely love it if you did. Finally, the deadline to get Valentine's Day cards to our shippers is January 15.

As always, thanks for stopping! (Hope to see you back here in February.) And Happy Crafting!