Summer is almost here!

Ah, sweet summertime! Time for gardening, cookouts, and fun times with family and friends.

If you find yourself stuck inside due to rain, cicadas, or hiding from the heat, consider joining our monthly challenges! They start on the first Saturday of the month. This May we are celebrating fathers, dads, pops, grandfathers, father-figures, and step- and foster-fathers. Next month focuses on cards for tweens and/or teens, and July features Holiday cards! Any child-friendly card can be shared, so grab your supplies, ink up your stamps, and join the fun! Guidelines and instructions to link your card are in the Challenge Rules Tab. Check out our other entries on the Challenge page. Hope to see your card there, too!

Have a safe and happy summer!

 Happy Holidays!

Thank you all for your help, kind words, cards, donations, challenge entries and smiles you have generated this year. I hope to be back in January with some numbers so you can see how many people you have helped us reach. Any guesses? I 

Our new year of card challenge starts the first Saturday of January—I hope you'll play along. Check out the challenge rules tab for details.

Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season and happy new year! 

SAS4Kids

 A Season of Thankfulness

Thanksgiving is a great time to celebrate all the good things in life, so it with a grateful heart I send A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has sent in cards, monetary donations, card-making supplies or kind words to SAS4Kids! We couldn't send as many smiles without everyone's help. 

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 Happy World Card Making Day (WCMD)

Celebrated around the world on the first Saturday of the month, WCMD is a celebration of crafty artisans who create handmade cards. I hope many of you were able to take some time and create a card or two! If you did, consider entering it on our Monthly Challenge! Our theme this month is "Celebration" but we always have an "Anything Goes 4 Kids" theme as well. You don't have to have a blog to link to the party either, so there's really no excuse not to enter. Simply go to the Challenge Rules Tab and scroll down to see how to link your latest creation. Check out our DT's sample cards and other entries on the Challenge Tab page. 

SAS4Kids sends handmade cards to hospitalized kids around the country, and the fall is our busiest time of the year due to the many holidays. However, we send happy mail and encouragement cards year-round, so it's never too late or too early to send on cards. Check the Current Needs Tab to see who needs cards! Addresses are on the Contact page.

Thank you to everyone who has sent in cards and shipping donations. I have sent more than 2,150 smiles this year and more will be sent next month. Other shippers have similar numbers! We couldn't do that without our crafty volunteer card makers and generous donors.