June Theme Challenge

Hello and Good Morning!  It's time for our Theme challenge here at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown.  Deborah here with you today, hosting the challenge that Danielle picked before she stepped down.  I wanted to host this one as I just love the theme - your Christmas or winter themed card must feature Christmas Elves, and I guess that includes the Chief Elf too. Have fun!!!

Here's what the Design Team has made:

Tanja

Gill

Deborah

Fabiola

Julie T

April

Patricia

Please make sure to read the challenge rules before creating your card.

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Winners - June Sketch Challenge

Thank you to everyone who participated in our June sketch challenge!  Your wonderful cards made our Design Team's honors voting very close... so close, in fact, that once again we have an even tie for our overall winner!  Please join us in congratulating these ladies:

Winners

#5 - Ellen Parker

 

#8 - Rosina

 

We also have a couple of Honorable Mentions:

#2 Sherry H

 

#7 Nancy 

Super job, ladies!  Please feel welcome to copy the appropriate Winners Badge from the tab up top here.  We hope you'll be proud to display it on your blog.

There is still plenty of time to join in our current Color Challenge. 

We'd love to see your take on it!  You have until midnight BST/7:00 p.m. Eastern time Friday, June 19 to link your card to our challenge post.  Be sure to come back again Saturday for another challenge!  Merry crafting!

June Colour Challenge

Hello!  Welcome to another challenge here at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.  It's the second Saturday of the month, which means it's time for a color challenge.  Our former Design Team member Danielle had chosen this scheme for us before she left, and we all agreed it is a good one:

That's right - you get to select a color of your choice to go along with the black and white.  There are lots of possibilities for some gorgeous cards this week!  Here are the Design Team's creations:

Tanja

Patricia

April

Deborah

Fabiola

Gill

Julie

Please make sure to read the challenge rules before sharing your card.  We'd love to have you join in the fun and creativity!  You have until 7:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/midnight British Summer Time Friday, June 19 to submit your card using the linky tool below.

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Winners - May Pick a Previous Challenge

Hello there!  It's Patricia here to wrap up the challenges for the month of May.  It's been a pleasure to be your hostess for the past month.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our May Pick a Previous challenge!  The Design Team really enjoyed seeing how all of you revisited our previous color schemes. 

Our votes for this week have been tabulated, and the result for our top honor was a tie!  So we have two overall winners this week.

Winners

#9 Meg

 

#14 Kim M

 

In order of entry into the challenge, we also have the following Honorable Mentions:

#2 Kim

 

#10 Susan Lankford

#19 Rocky

 

Congratulations to all of our honorees!  We hope you'll collect the appropriate winners' badge from the tab below our blog header and display it proudly on your blog.

There is still time to take part in our June sketch challenge!  You have until midnight BST/7:00 p.m. Eastern time Friday, June 12 to link your Christmas or wintry card.  We hope you'll join in the fun and creativity!

June Sketch Challenge

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. Today, we are starting a Sketch Challenge here at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown:

Feel free to change the orientation of the sketch.

We are looking forward to seeing your Christmas creations. Have fun.

Now let's take a look at the ideas of the Design Team:

Tanja

Fabiola

April

Deborah

Julie T

Patricia

Gill

Please make sure to read the challenge rules before creating your card.

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Winners - May Stash Challenge

Wow!  The Design Team was pleased to see so many entries into our May stash challenge!  Thank you to everyone who shared a lovely card using ribbon.  We're pleased to announce the following as our weekly Winner and Honourable Mentions:

Winner

#12 - Crafty Kiwi Mama

 

We admired the double looped bow, the sweet angel image, and the various textures.

Honourable Mentions

(listed in order of entry into the challenge)

#1 - Meg

#5 - Susan Lankford

#7 - Andrea

#11 - Meighan

#15 - Alison C

Excellently done, ladies!  Our Winners Badges can be found in the Badges tab up top here.  We hope you'll be proud to display the appropriate badge on your blog!

If you haven't yet played along in this week's Pick a Previous Colour challenge, there's still plenty of time to join in.  Just choose one of the colour schemes listed in our Colours Archive and make a card based on it.  Be sure to let us know which challenge you've chosen.  You have until midnight BST/7:00 p.m. Eastern time Friday, June 5 to link your card.  We're looking forward to seeing your creativity!

May Pick a Previous Challenge - Colours

Hello there!  It's Patricia here again, welcoming you to our challenge blog.  We're glad you've stopped by here today, and we hope you'll join in this week's challenge!  Since it's a relatively rare fifth Saturday of the month, our theme is "Pick a Previous Challenge".  This time we'd like you to choose one of our previous Colour Challenges from the Colours Archive tab and use that to inspire your Christmasy or wintry card. When you share your card with us, please let us know which colour combination you've chosen. 

 

Here's some inspiration from the Design Team:

Patricia
(April 2014)

Tanja
(June 2012)

Fabiola
(May 2015)

 Julie

(January 2013)

April
(September 2012)

Deborah
(January 2012)

Gill
(September 2012)

Please read the challenge rules carefully before creating your card.  The rest of the design team and I are looking forward to seeing what you make!  Remember that you have until midnight British Summer Time/7:00 p.m. Eastern time Friday, June 5 to link your card.

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Winners - May Theme Challenge

Once again, for whatever reason, we didn't have very many participants in our "O Little Town" theme challenge.  However, the cards that were entered were all very nice, and didn't make the voting easy for our design team!  We've finally chosen the following two cards for our honors voting, so please join us in congratulating:

Winner

#4 - Laurie

The alcohol ink background Laurie created was amazing!

 Honorable Mention

#2 - Lesley

Laurie and Lesley, we hope you'll copy and paste the appropriate blog badge from our Badges tab and display it proudly on your blog.  

If you haven't yet joined in our current Stash Challenge - Ribbon, we hope you'll make the time to do so!  You have until midnight BST/7:00 p.m. Eastern time Friday, May 15 to link your card to our challenge post.  Happy crafting!