June - Theme

Hello!  It's time for our second challenge of the month of June.  This time we're looking for Christmas or wintry cards featuring nutcrackers and/or toy soldiers.  Since many of the nutcrackers one sees around Christmastime are made to look like soldiers, we thought we'd combine the two ideas into one theme challenge.

For inspiration, check out what the CCT design team has made:

Myrna

Fabiola

April



Lucinda

Andreja

Kaja

Patricia

Alison

EK

  

Deborah - back online at last!!!

Now it's your turn!  You have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern time/midnight BST Friday, June 30 to link your card below.  We'd love to have you join in the fun and creativity!

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Winners - May colours challenge

Hello,

We set quite a tricky colours combination in May with yellow, kraft and gold, but you have come up trumps with some wonderful cards. Choosing our favourites was as difficult as ever, but here are our choices for the challenge:

WINNER

#6 Marjeta

We loved the cut out starry wreath, and the yellow touches give this card such a pop!

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

(in order of submission)

#1 Jane Willis

Lots of lovely texture from some innovative materials

#10 Andrea

A joyful card that made the unusual colours so festive

#12 foleysfriend

A clean and simple card, beautifully put together

#13 Majda

A simple design makes the most of the fantastic background card, I want to touch it!

#14 Barbetka

This amazing star really does leap off the card!

Well done to you all.  You may pick up your badges from the tab at the top of the page; we hope you'll be proud to display them on your blogs.

Remember, you can still join in our current stash challenge to use gems, pearls or sequins for a Christmas or wintry card.  All the details can be found here.  We'd love to see what you create.

 

June Stash - You still have time to play

You still have time to join in with our current challenge.
Our challenge is to use:

Here is some more inspiration just in case you need it:

Lucinda

Alison

EK

Andreja

Deborah - made it!!

Find the original post, our inspiration cards and the link-up here. The deadline is midnight (BST) Friday 16th June - that's 7.00pm EST in the States.

June - Stash

Hello! Can you believe it's June already? No, neither can I! It's Deborah here with you today to introduce our new challenge at Christmas Card Throwdown - CCT12. You might notice that the challenge number is off a bit, that's because we'd normally be doing a theme challenge now. For various reasons we've had to switch to our stash challenge. So for the next couple of weeks we want to see you use:

on your Christmas cards. Now, you don't have to use them all on your card - you can pick any of them. However, if you really want to go wild you can use them all!!

Here's some inspirations from the Design Team:

Myrna Sweet

Fabiola

April

Patricia

Alison

Lucinda

EK

Andreja

Deborah - to follow soon

You've got plenty of time to play along with us. Deadline for submission is midnight (BST) Friday 16th June (that's 7.00pm EDT). Have fun, we're really looking forward to seeing your creations.

Deborah

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Winners - May sketch challenge

Hello,

Thank you for all the wonderful entries to our sketch challenge. We had a great variety of layered cards, it was such fun looking through them all. Here are our picks for this challenge:

WINNER

#5 Hali

We love the soft colours and shabby chic feel of this card.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

(in order of submission)

#4 Donna

Wonderful layers and mixed media used for this cheery card

#6 Charmaine

A very traditional Christmas feel, and a beautiful sentiment

#10 Colien

We fell for this adorable owl, and the very pretty colour scheme

#12 Lili

Showing that layers can still be clean and fresh, we liked this stylish card

#15 Robyn

Such a warm, cosy card, with a lovely vintage feel

Well done to you all.  You may pick up your badges from the tab at the top of the page; we hope you'll be proud to display them on your blogs.

Remember, you can still join in our current challenge to use yellow, kraft and gold for a Christmas or wintry card.  All the details can be found here.  We'd love to see what you create.

 

May colours - You still have time to play

You still have time to join in with our current challenge.
We have a colour challenge for you:

Here is some more inspiration just in case you need it:

Alison

EK

Andreja

Lucinda

Find the original post, our inspiration cards and the link-up here. The deadline is midnight (BST) Friday 2nd June - that's 7.00pm EST in the States.

May - Colours

Hello again,

It's time for a colour challenge! I think the colour challenges may be my favourites, they open up so many options. This time we have what I think is quite an unusual combination - yellow, kraft and gold. Not traditional, but there are so many ways to use these together when you start thinking about it. I hope you have lots of fun creating with this trio.

To whet your appetite, we have a wonderful selection of ideas and inspiration from our design team:

Myrna Sweet

Fabiola

Alison

April

Lucinda

EK

Patricia 

Andreja

Deborah 

You have until Friday 2nd June, midnight BST/ 7pm EDT to enter your card to the challenge. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Lucinda

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