February Colour Challenge

Hello, and Happy Valentine's Day!  We here at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown are sharing some love today... our love of all things Christmasy!  :)  We hope you'll join in our challenge by making a Christmas or winter card using the following color scheme:

 

This sounds like a very classic color combination, doesn't it?  Let's see what the Design Team has made with it:

Tanja

Julie

Fabiola

Deborah

April

Louise

Gill

Patricia

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

 Please read the challenge requirements carefully before creating your card.  
We will never delete any submissions that do not follow our challenge rules; 
however, only cards that meet the requirements will be considered by the Design Team
 for our weekly Top Honors and Honorable Mention voting.

We are a Christmas card challenge.  Please only post Christmas or winter related cards.

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

Please make sure to link to your blog post, not to your entire blog.

We would love it if you added our blog button to your blog's sidebar.

Please make sure not to back link.  Your card should not be older than this post.

In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link your card by 
Friday at midnight GMT/7:00 p.m. Eastern time.

You are welcome to combine this challenge with up to 10 other challenges.

We would really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily on your cards!  We realize a lot of you use it for safety reasons.
We do our best to leave comments for each of our challenge participants; 
however, trying to figure out those letters and numbers can be very frustrating!
We strongly suggest using comment moderation as a friendlier alternative.
   

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January Pick a Previous Sketch - Winner

Thank you for playing along with our bonus week
and the Pick a Previous Sketch Challenge.

We loved your creations.

Winner of Pick a Previous Sketch

We actually have joint winners this week - in order of submission they are:

#8 - Valentyna (Flourishtina)

We really like your take on the sketch and the colours are lovely

#11 - Kathy C

A perfectly clean, simple take on this fun sketch!

Honourable Mentions

(in order of submission)

#4 - Meighan

#7 - Meg

It's been a pleasure to be your host for our January challenges.

I've really enjoyed seeing all your wonderful designs.

Congratulations and don't forget to pick up your badge and display it on your blog.

There's still time to take part in the February Sketch Challenge:

Hope you will join us!!
Thanks, Deborah xx

February Sketch Challenge

Hello there!  Welcome to a new month here at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown!  Jacqueline, our site creator, has planned some fun challenges for us this month.  Unfortunately, she needs to take a break from crafting for a bit to take care of some family matters. So Patricia is helping out with the hostess duties during February.

The first Saturday of the month is always our sketch challenge day, and here is what we have this time:

 

You may use any shape for the white areas of the sketch, and you're welcome to add layers and embellishments as you wish.  You may also turn the sketch on its side.  So long as we can recognize the basic elements of the sketch in your card, it's good!

Here is some inspiration from the Design Team:

Patricia

 Tanja

Julie T

April

 
Fabiola

Louise

Gill

Deborah

Danielle

Please make sure to follow these rules when you play along with us here at 52{C}CT  :)

 Please read the challenge requirements carefully before creating your card.  
We will never delete any submissions that do not follow our challenge rules; 
however, only cards that meet the requirements will be considered by the Design Team
 for our weekly Top Honors and Honorable Mention voting.

We are a Christmas card challenge.  Please only post Christmas or winter related cards.

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

Please make sure to link to your blog post, not to your entire blog.

We would love it if you added our blog button to your blog's sidebar.

Please make sure not to back link.  Your card should not be older than this post.

In order to be considered for Top Honor or Honorable Mention, you must link your card by 
Friday at midnight GMT/7:00 p.m. Eastern time.

You are welcome to combine this challenge with up to 10 other challenges.

We would really appreciate it if you'd turn off word verification so that we can comment more easily on your cards!  We realize a lot of you use it for safety reasons.
We do our best to leave comments for each of our challenge participants; 
however, trying to figure out those letters and numbers can be very frustrating!
We strongly suggest using comment moderation as a friendlier alternative.
   

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January - Technique winner

Thank you to all of you who played along with our Inlaid Die Technique challenge.

It was lots of fun.  

Winner of the Technique Challenge

#4 - Mandy (paper panda)

We love the clean, simple layout, the pretty paper

and the touch of bling!  Great work!

Honourable Mentions

(in order of submission)

#7 - Jenni

#8 - Katie Sr

#9 - Chris M

#10 - Kathy

Congratulations ladies.  Don't forget to pick up your badges and display them on your blogs.

There's still time to join in with this week's challenge - which is to Pick a Previous Sketch - any sketch from our archive, just tell us which one you're using.

See you on Saturday for our new challenge!!

January Pick a Previous

Good morning folks, it's Deborah here with you again today.
It's a five week month and that's means a bonus week,
our challenge this week is:

Please make sure you check out our sketches archive above
and do tell us in your post which sketch you have chosen.

Here are some works of art from the design team:

Deborah - July 2014

Jacqueline - April 2014

Tanja - June 2014

Fabiola - July 2014

Louise - February 2012

April - July 2014

Julie - July 2013

Gill - April 2014

Patricia - May 2012

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January - Theme Winners

The bells, the bells!

The thumbnail display was so pretty with all the lovely bell themed cards.

Winner of the Theme Challenge

#8 - Loll - Perfectly clean and simple!

Very cute card with the green jingle bells

and Ruldolf's red sparkly nose too!

Honourable Mentions

(in order of submission)

#2 Stamperamentvoll

#4 Brenda

#9 Chris M

#14 Kathy C

#16 Hellie

Many congratulations ladies - we'd love to see you pick up your badges from the top of the page and display them proudly on your blog.

Our challenge this week is a technique which is very popular in Blogland at the moment - it gives the appearance of lots of layers, but in fact your card remains quite flat and thus easy to post!!

 You've still got plenty of time to join the fun!  Can't wait to see what you make.

January Technique Challenge

Hi, it's Deborah here with you again this week.
It's time for our technique challenge - it's very popular at the moment.
It gives the impression of lots of layers, but in fact your card is quite flat!
And the technique I'd like you to use for your project is

Inlaid Dies.

Here's some inspiration from the Team.

Deborah

Tanja

Fabiola

April

Jacqueline

Julie T

Louise

Gill

Patricia

If you're not sure what the inlaid die technique involves, check out this video by

Betsy Veldman (Papertrey Inc).

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January - colour winners ....

... Hi all!  Sorry I'm running late with this post - time has really run away with me this week!  You seemed to like the Shades of Blue challenge last week.  I really liked the thumbnail display - it was so pretty with all the frosty, cool blues. 

Winner of the Colour Challenge

#11 - Susan B - we really like how you kept to just blues!

Love the embossed snowflakes in the background and on the tag.

Lovely work.

Honourable Mentions

(in order of submission)

#4 - Meg

#10 - Kathy C

#15 -  Ceedee

#16 - Evelyn

Congratulations ladies.  Don't forget to pick up your badge from the tab at the top of the blog and display it on your blog.

There's still time to join in with this week's challenge - my theme for you is BELLS!  Have fun.

Deborah x

January Theme Challenge

Good Morning All!  Can you believe it's already the middle of January?
It's Saturday and time for another challenge here at
52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown.
This week I've got a theme for you - Bells, the Bells!!

Here are some ideas and inspiration from the Design Team:

Deborah

Jacqueline

Tanja

Fabiola

Louise

April

Julie

Patricia

Gill

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