December Two Week Challenge

Hi, friends!  Since Christmas is coming and we're all getting busy, we've decided to just have ONE two week challenge here at 52 CCT to end our crafting year!  Our challenge for the next two weeks is ANY PAST 2013 CHALLENGE GOES!  So, choose your favorite and link up with us!  Winners will be announced hopefully before Christmas, but if not, they'll be added to the first post of the New Year!

One more thing before we show you the DT inspiration--we're looking for a few new crafters to join us!  If you are interested in being on our DT, please add "DT" to the end of your name when you enter!  We will let you know if you've been chosen by December 30th, 2013 and your term will start in February of 2014.  GOOD LUCK to all those who enter!

And now some DT inspiration~

Mynnette

Using the "Red, Kraft, White" color scheme

Jacqueline

August 2013- Holly

Ruth

Jan 2013 - Purple, Metallic Silver & White Colour Combo

Sarah

April 2013 - Santa Claus/Father Christmas

Deborah

March 2013 - Christmas Animals

Louise
April 2013 -Santa and October 2013 Bling It Up

Patricia
July 2013 - sketch and October 2013 - colors (no red or green)

Danielle

October 2013 Sketch Challenge. Color and Theme challenges from 2012.

Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52CCT! :)

*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.

*We would love it if you added our button to the side of your blog

*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your blog.

*Please make sure NOT to back link.

*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00pm GMT.

*You are free to enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us...just sayin'. ;)

******************************************************************

November Technique Challenge Top Picks

Guess some of you didn't want to get messy last week! We only had a few entries for the Acrylic Block Print Background, but the standard of those entries was extremely high, making it incredibly difficult to chose an overall winner.  Every DT member had a different choice for the top spot it seemed. As hostess for the month the casting vote came down to me and so our top pick goes to....

Top Honor

Helen

..for these beautiful embossed trees on the chilly sky background.  Well done, Helen, please take the winners' badge from the side bar if you would like it

It only seems fair that the remaining cards, which were all amazing, should also get a mention and so we have 6 Honorable mentions this week. In numerical order we say well done to..

Ellen

Marie

Judy

Daen 'Ys

Fabiola

Viji

Don't forget we have the current challenge still running, where we are asking you to pick a previous theme from our past challenges, and I see that this has inspired quite a lot of you to enter already!

November Pick A Previous Theme Challenge

Since we started the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge blog we have chosen a number of 'themes' as challenges.  As this is the fifth and last Saturday in November we are inviting you to submit your Christmas card featuring any of our

Previous Themes.

There are several to choose from, check out our Themes Archive page.    

Please remember to note in your post which theme you have chosen.  This is my final week as your hostess and I've had a ball, firstly thinking up the challenges, then writing the posts, creating my own sample cards and, not least, visiting all your blogs! Thank you for humouring me in my choices, I really have enjoyed looking at every card you've created.

I will be back on Wednesday to announce the winners of the Technique challenge from last week- thanks to those who support us every (or nearly every) week, those who dip in now and again and those who found us for the first time- we couldn't do it without you!

Without further ado , here are some sample cards from the DT:

Patricia
Christmas Ornaments - June 2013

Ruth
Christmas Ornaments June 2013

Louise
oops! Ornaments too!

Deborah
Holly - August 2013

Jacqueline

July 2012 - Wreaths

Danielle - 

Santa Claus/Father Christmas - April 2013

Mynnette-

Ornaments! ;)

 

Sarah - Christmas Trees

**********************************************

November Recipe Top Picks

Thank you for all your beautiful one layer cards, we love looking at every one and are so pleased that many of you continue to enter our challenges week after week. A recipe for a card is a great idea (it wasn't mine, so I can't take the credit, I first heard of it from my amazingly creative DT buddy Ruth), just like real cooking you take some ingredients and everyone comes out with something slightly different! One or two of you missed out bits of the recipe - might be OK for cooking but for our cards we wanted everything included!
Our top honour for this challenge goes to

Judy

for a stunning use of a hint of colour and a beautiful bow, all on one deliciously embossed one layer!

The following cards also caught the eyes of the DT and deserve a special honourable mention too.



#4 Asha

#6 Christie

#11 Fabiola

#13 Ellen

Please grab the winners button from the side bar if you'd like to. Congratulations to all our to top picks.
Don't forget we still have the technique challenge going this week and there's plenty of time left to enter!

November Technique Challenge

Hope you're enjoying the challenges this month at 52 CCT. Louise here again, for week four - a  technique challenge. This is one of my favourite ways of creating a background- inking up an acrylic block, spritzing with water and printing it onto card- very easy, very effective and quite versatile.  It's not too messy either, if you don't like getting inky fingers (I'm not very keen!).

If you entered the Recipe challenge last week, check back here in Wednesday to see which cards caught our eyes. To help you get started on this week's challenge have a look at the work of my very talented DT colleagues below.

Here's some inspiration from the DT~

Mynnette

Deborah

Louise

Jacqueline

Ruth

Patricia

Sarah

Danielle

Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52CCT! :)

*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.

*We would love it if you added our button to the side of your blog

*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your blog.

*Please make sure NOT to back link.

*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00pm GMT.

*You are free to enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us...just sayin'. ;)

*****************************************************

November Colour Challenge Top Picks

Hello, hope your Wednesday is going well.  Louise here as your hostess for November. Well, I think my monochromatic colour scheme may have stumped one or two, but the entries we did have were all fantastic, thank you. Our overall top pick this week goes to

Cornelia

for this fabulous card, we loved the use of vellum and that gorgeous bow!

Our other top picks, in  numerical order were

#1Meg

#2 Judy

#6Brenda

#13 Daen'Ys

Congratulations, ladies, your cards were all stunning! Please take the badge to display on your blog if you would like to. Don't forget the current challenge- a recipe for a card, you still have plenty of time to enter. See you again on Saturday for the 4th challenge for November.

November Recipe Challenge

Hello and welcome to the third Saturday in November.  How's your Christmas shopping going? You still have 5 more weekends to do it all. I  need to get organised, that is apart from my cards, as you can imagine I have quite a good stock of those!

Pop back here on Wednesday to find out who won a place in our top 5 with the monochromatic colour challenge from last week. Meanwhile why not have a go a this week's challenge, where we have a recipe for a card for you to try.

Here's some inspiration from the DT~

Mynnette

Louise

Ruth

Danielle

Deborah

Patricia

Sarah

Jacqueline

Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52CCT! :)

*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.

*We would love it if you added our button to the side of your blog

*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your blog.

*Please make sure NOT to back link.

*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00pm GMT.

*You are free to enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us...just sayin'. ;)

*****************************************************

November Sketch Challenge Top Picks

Thank you to everyone who entered our sketch challenge.  When I design a sketch it is always amazing to me that all you lovely crafters want to have  a go with it. The best part is seeing what people create and thinking 'I wish I'd thought of that!' We had some fantastic entries, and you always make it difficult to pick an overall winner, but this time there was a clear stand out top pick,

#4 Karen

Who would not smile if you saw this happy chap on your Christmas card? Such sparkle and happy festiveness!

Our other favourites, in numerical order were

#8 Vicky

#10 Sue

#14 Fabiola

#16 Rocky

Well done to you all, don't forget to grab your badges and display them proudly on your blogs!

Don't forget our colour challenge is still open for a few more days and I'd love to see some more entries- colours are black, white and grey only- why not give it a try, if you haven't already.

November Colour Challenge

Thanks for all those fantastic entries for our sketch challenge last week- it is always great to see the different takes on a sketch and you make the job of picking out our favourites very tough!.  Check back on Wednesday to find out who made top picks! Welcome to Saturday and another challenge from us, of course as it's the second Saturday in November, it must be a colour challenge - I am interested to see what you'll make of this very monochrome combo.

A little bit of silver is OK, but mostly the three colours please (what I mean is please don't replace the grey with silver completely).

Here's some inspiration from the DT~

Mynnette

Louise

Deborah

Ruth

Danielle

Patricia

Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52CCT! :)

*Please link back to our blog in your post so that others can join in the fun.

*We would love it if you added our button to the side of your blog

*Please make sure to link to your POST, not your blog.

*Please make sure NOT to back link.

*In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link up by Friday at 6:00pm GMT.

*You are free to enter this challenge and 10 others only.

*We'd really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily! We know a lot of you do this for safety, but it takes a very long time to comment when verification is activated, and you may lose your comments from us...just sayin'. ;)

*****************************************************

October Technique Challenge Winners

Hello!  We saw so many wonderful examples of fancy folds this past week - what great inspiration!  I really loved learning about some folds that I haven't seen before and plan to try some of them.

Going to keep this post short and sweet and get right to announcing the WINNERS of the October Technique Challenge - Fancy Folds.  Here we go....

Our TOP HONOURS this week goes to:

#8 - Kylie

Congrats Kylie - what a fabulous wreath on your gorgeous fancy fold card.  Please grab your winners badge and display it proudly!! 

And our HONOURABLE MENTIONS go to (in numerical order of entry):

#6 Ellen Parker

#7 Judy VanZandt

#11 fabiola

#13 Paula Bee

#16 Heather Mills

Wonderful, wonderful cards from all of you you - congrats!  Please get your badges for your blogs - you definitely earned them :o)

Don't forget that we have a new challenge going on - a great sketch by our November hostess Louise.  It's a great one - I hope you'll check it out!