Hello! Happy February! Since tomorrow is the first Saturday of the month, it will be time for a new challenge over at Send a Smile 4 Kids.

Our challenge for February is Birthday Cards 4 Kids. We thought we'd try to get a stash of birthday cards to our shippers before they start focusing on spring holiday cards. And, speaking of spring holidays, our March 10 deadline for Easter cards is just over a month away.

My Favorite Things Birthday Chicks stamp set and dies
Paper Smooches grass die; ??? baker's b/w twine
Stampin' Up! water color pencils
ink spatters: Distress Ink black soot
SU cardstock

While we are focusing on Birthday Cards 4 Kids this month, any kiddie-appropriate card can be linked up for this month's challenge. You have until Friday, March 6 to share your work of heart. 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 the SAS4Kids Challenge page.   

Thanks for all you do for SAS4Kids! And, as always, thanks for stopping and happy scrappin'!

SAS4Kids: Sports-Themed Cards 4 Kids

Hello and Happy 2026! Hope it's been a wonderful holiday season for you and yours

Our first 2026 Send a Smile 4 Kids Challenge is Sports-Themed Cards 4 Kids. For my card, I went with a fun My Favorite Things stamp set that was gifted to me by a card making friend. As you can see, any sport is fair game. You can go with medial darlings like football and basketball... or more obscure choices... like polar bear fishing!

MFT stamp set
background in Distress Inks
coloring with Stampin, Up! watercolor pencils
??? design paper gifted by another card making friend
masking with GinaK masking paper

While we are focusing on Sports-Themed Cards 4 for our kids at SAS4Kids this month, any kiddie-appropriate card can be linked up for this month's challenge. You have until Friday, February 6 to share your work of heart. 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 the SAS4Kids Challenge page. 

A quick reminder that the SAS4Kids deadline for Valentine's Day cards is January 15. Please reach out to your favorite shipper(s) if you have cards that aren't going to arrive by the 15th.  

Here's to a great year of card making and crafty creativity! Thanks for stopping and happy scrappin'!

SAS4Kids: LOVE You SNOW Much

Hi everyone! Happy December! I know I'm not the only one wondering where the year has gone.

But I am also wondering where the last month went. It is the start of a new challenge over at Send a Smile 4 Kids... and I am card-less.  :(

However, my fellow DTers are not! This month's theme is a brand spankin' new one for us over at SAS4Kids: LOVE You SNOW Much! We are featuring cards with snowflakes... or hearts... or snowflakes AND hearts. Whether you are finishing up holiday cards or getting an early start on Valentine's Day, this is a perfect challenge for you.

• The deadline for Christmas/winter cards was actually yesterday. So if you have some last minute holiday cards for SAS4Kids, please reach out to your favorite shipper(s). 
• The Valentine's Day deadline is January 15... and will be here before we know it!

Hop over to SAS4Kid's challenge for some kiddie holiday inspiration... and then stop back by to link up a card of your very own. 

As always, thanks for stoppin'. Happy Crafting and Happy Holidays!

SAS4Kids: Holiday Cards 4 Kids!

Hello, everyone! Happy November! Happy Saturday! Happy weekend!

Since this is the first Saturday of a new month at Send a Smile 4 Kids, it's time for a new challenge. This month, our theme is holiday cards to be given to our hospitalized SAS4Kids. So it's time to ink up those Santas, reindeers, gingerbread people, snowpeople, and holiday sentiments.

When I purchased these Tim Holtz Christmas Cartoon stamps last year, I had already mailed my 2024 SAS4Kids box of cards. Nonetheless, I envisioned a frame of a black-and-white newspaper comic strip that a little one to color in. Gotta say I am pretty happy with the way this one turned out. And, since I wasn't doing any of the coloring myself, it was perfect for making a set of multiple cards. I think there were eight of these in my 2025 box. Ho, Ho, Ho!

BTW  The deadline for getting holiday/Christmas/winter cards to your favorite shipper(s) is December 5. And the January 15 Valentines' deadline will be here before we know it.

We hope you will stop by Send a Smile 4 Kids to check out our DT's wonderful holiday cards... and then stop back by to link up a kiddie card of your very own. While we are featuring holiday/Christmas cards, any kid-appropriate card can be linked up to play along. 

Thanks for stopping... and, as always, happy crafting!

SAS4Kids: Favorite Holiday Color Combo

Hi, everyone! Happy  World Card Making Day!

It's the first Saturday of the month, which means it's time for a new challenge over at Send a Smile 4 Kids. This month, our challenge is to make a card featuring your favorite holiday color combo. I've used my favorite Christmas color combo, but any holiday combo works for the challenge.

Several years ago, Stampin' Up! featured a collection called Santa's Workshop and I fell in love with the color combo in the dp: basic black, coastal cabana, early espresso, crushed curry, garden green, poppy parade, smoky slate, whisper white. Especially the combination of the bold-faced colors. 

This year, I came across the sweetest 6" x 6" paper and ephemera pack from Doodlebug Designs that gave those poppy parade, garden green, and coastal cabana vibes. Here are four cards that I made using those papers and ephemera.

Taylored Expressions easy strips: maps, dies, sticky sheets

You have until noon on October 31 to play along with us this month. And even though our theme this month is favorite holiday color combo, any kiddie-appropriate card can be linked up. Hope you will stop by SAS4Kids to see our design team's cute, cute, cute cards... and then stop back by and link up a card of your very own.

As always, thanks for stopping... and, as always, happy scrappin'!

SAS4Kids: Cute Fall/Halloween Cards 4 Kids

Hi, everyone! It's the first Saturday of the month... which means it's time for a new SAS4Kids challenge. 

This month our theme is cute fall/Halloween cards 4 our kids. And, this month we have two wonderful Guest Designers joining us!

I went the Halloween route for my card, using a Stampin' Up die  and some SU cardstock and really cute designer papers.

Halloween seems to be a perennial favorite for our card makers. Hope you will stop by SAS4Kids to see the fun cards our guests and design team created for this challenge... and then stop back by to link up a card of your very own. Remember that although we are featuring fall and Halloween cards, you can link up any kiddie appropriate card to play along. And, the deadline for getting fall/Halloween cards to your favorite shipper(s) is October 5.

As always, thanks for stopping. Happy scrappin'!

SAS4KIds: Anything Goes 4 Kids

Hi, everyone! It's the first Saturday of the month, which means it's time for a new challenge over at Send a Smile 4 Kids!

This month's theme is Anything Goes. Our design team is featuring Birthday Cards 4 Kids... because our shippers are always in need of birthday cards.  :)

For my card, I went with an all-time favorite stamp set. And, my layout was inspired by a card shared by card-making friend Anna.

Paper: Stampin Up! Tranquil Tide; stash white, black, and watercolor papers
Tim Holtz Crazy Dogs and accessories stamp sets colored with SU watercolor pencils
Sizzix embossing folder; Nestabilities circle dies

sentiment: a combination of three My Favorite Things stamp sets

Hope you'll stop by SAS4Kids and check out our team's super cute birthday cards. Then stop back by and link up an Anything Goes card of your very own. This month's link is open until noon EDT on Friday, September 5.

As always, thanks for stopping and happy scrappin'!