May Theme Challenge

Well we just adored all the gorgeous red and white colored holiday projects last week--thank you to everyone who played along!  This week we've got a super fun theme for you to follow--Holiday Goodies/Treats!!!

Here's some inspiration for you~

And some fabulous DT takes on this week's theme~

Guest Designer - Anita

Mynnette

Ruth

 Louise

Danielle

Sarah

Jacqueline

Deborah

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'. ;)

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May Sketch Winners

Hi, all!  SO sorry to be late with the winners!  I had an insane weekend followed by a crazy beginning of the week.  I know you all understand so I won't bore you with details, but we've got winners to announce!!!

Top Honor for our 

May Sketch Challenge is...

#3 Clare!!!

And our Honorable Mentions are...

(in numerical order)

#1 meg

#4 Crafting Vicky

#5 Daen'Ys

#7 Julie Temple

#8 Rocky

Congratulations to you all!  Take your badges from the tab up top if you are so inclined--we'd love to have you display it on your blog!!!  Please play along with us this week for our fabulous candy cane color challenge going on until Friday! HUGS and merry stamping! :)

May Color Challenge

Hi, friends!  We loved seeing all your fabulous sketchy creations last week and can't wait to see what you do with our challenge this week!  It's a color challenge and it's all about two simple colors--RED AND WHITE.

Here's some color inspiration for you~

Before we see the DT inspirations, we'd like to clarify the rules about our color weeks.  

Rules for Colour Challenges

Christmas cards made for colour challenges should only contain the colours stipulated. 

However, certain 'neutral' colours may be included.
If a colour challenge includes any of the stipulated neutrals that is the only neutral allowed on that occasion. For colour challenges not using a neutral ONE neutral may then be included for example
Red, Green & White - only the neutral white can be used. (Black ink may be used here ONLY for the purposes of stamping an image or printing a digi image).
Red, Green & Blue - ONE neutral can be used on your card.
Our Neutral colours are: Black, White, Cream, Kraft & Gray. A flesh tone can also be added when colouring skin.
Please note that Gold and Silver are here classed as colours.

Hopefully this makes things more clear about what colors to use to be eligible to win an honor and/or prize here at 52CCT. :)

And some gorgeous inspiration from the DT~

Guest Designer - Anita

Mynnette

Louise

Ruth

Deborah

Sarah

Jacqueline

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'. ;)

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April Technique Challenge Winners ......

... Oops I did it again!!! It's Deborah here with you and I'm late with this post - so sorry!  I guess the punch art challenge was exactly that - a real challenge - not so many submissions last week.  But, we all had fun visiting your blogs to see your lovely creations.  You made it so hard to pick a winner - that we actually have a tie!!  The joint winners of the punched art challenge are:

Winners

Patti Corriere and Brenda B

And our Honourable Mentions are:

(in numerical order)

#1 Meg

#2 Suzy B

#4 Susan G

#5 Fabiola

#8 DaenY's

Ladies, don't forget to pick up your badges and display them on your blog.  I had a great time hosting our challenges during April - thanks so much for your support.  And don't forget there is still time to join in this week's challenge to make a card using our fabulous sketch:

Bye, Deborah xx

May Sketch Challenge

Welcome to a new month here at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown!  We hope your stash of holiday cards is growing and that you'll be done in plenty of time for the holidays.  We LOVE seeing all your fabulous creations each week and hope you'll join in the fun this week with our sketch!

Here's this week's sketch~

 

 And some DT inspiration~ we are very pleased to say that this month we have a Guest DT member -

Anita

   

Mynnette

Ruth

Deborah

Sarah

 Louise

Jacqueline

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'. ;)

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April Theme Winner and Honourable Mentions .....

..... oops!  Sorry this is a bit late - just realised that it's Wednesday - where's the week going?

We had lots of wonderful enteries to last week's theme challenge to make a card featuring Santa.  And our overall winner, Vicky, also seemed to have a bit of foresight to this week's challenge :)   You made it really difficult to pick our winners, but here they are:

Top Honour

#16 - Vicky

And our Honourable Mentions are as follwows:

(Numerical Order)

#3 Susan Joyce

#5 Meg

#9 ScrappyMo

#10 Susan B

#13 Anita

Congratulations to our winners and thank you to all those who took part in the challenge - I had a ball checking out all your lovely cards. 

Our challenge this week is to create a card using punch art - Vicky!!!  ;)  There's still plenty of time to join in the fun and build you Christmas stash.

Can't wait to see what you make with the Punch art challenge.

Deborah x

April Technique Challenge

Wow, where has the month gone?  It's Deborah here with you again - I've had such fun this week looking at all the wonderful cards made featuring Santa Claus - you've made it really tough to pick the winners. 

As it's the last week of the month we have a technique/embellishment challenge for you.  We would like you to use punches to make your card/project.

And here are our punched creations:

Deborah

Mynnette

Jacqueline

Danielle

Louise

Sarah

Ruth

Patricia

It's been my pleasure and privilege to host the challenge for April - thanks for your continued support.  And I really am looking forward to seeing your punched delights!

Deborah x

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'. ;)

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April Colour Winners ....

.... Hi, it's Deborah here with you to announce the winners of last week's colour challenge.  These were our colours:

I have to admit that I love non-traditional colours for Christmas cards.  We had a few cards that didn't stick exactly to our colours, but all were lovely.  So without further ado, the unanimous winner of the colour challenge is:

Top Honour

Rocky

We really liked the soft snow scene and the sparkle on the fabulous reindeer!  Don't forget to grab your winner's badge and display it on your blog.  And now for our Honourable Mentions:

Honourable Mentions

Numerical Order

#1 Anita

# 2 Meg

#4 Susan B

#9 Daen'Ys

#10 Patti Corriere

Congratulations to you all - don't forget to pick up your badges and display them on your blogs.

We're well into this week's challenge to make a project featuring the Big Guy - Santa Claus or Father Christmas, whatever you call him, we're looking forward to seeing your creations.

Well, that's all for now - you've still got plenty of time to join in with this week's challenge.  I'll be back again on Saturday with the last challenge of the month!  See you soon.

Deborah x

April Theme Challenge

Hi - Deborah with you again this week.  I had fun checking out your cards with our non-traditional colour scheme last week.  This week we have a theme challenge and we want you to feature the Big Guy - Santa Claus or Father Christmas!  Whatever you call him - we'd like to see your creations:

Here are some jolly creations by the DT to get you started:

Deborah

Mynnette

Jacqueline

Danielle

Louise

Ruth

Patricia

Sarah

I don't know about you, but I'm finding that this year seems to be flying by!  It's already the middle of April and before you know it - we'll be at the end of the year!  Join us and play along - you'll have so lots of cards ready in plenty of time!  Looking forward to seeing your projects!

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'. ;)

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